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Judith ter Schure @judithterschure.bsky.social · 2d

Slordige Nieuwsuur items zetten de wetenschap onder druk. @www.sjamadriaan.nl heeft helemaal gelijk: "Zo kun je ook prima redeneren dat juist een podium geven aan Baudet, of andere notoire lariekoekgroottrutters, beperkend werkt voor de academische vrijheid." www.sjamadriaan.nl/p/wetenschap...

Wetenschap is geen mening

Kunnen we het daar op zijn minst over eens zijn?

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 10d

In general I think it's hard to combat scientific misinformation when some of the best research is locked behind an academic paywall, while lots of nonsense gets published free for everyone to read in predatory journals.

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Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · Jul 14

Outstanding tutorial on Game-theoretic Statistics and Sequential Anytime-Valid Inference by Aaditya Ramdas at #icml-2025. Slides at stat.cmu.edu/~aramdas/icm...

Game-theoretic Statistics and Sequential Anytime-Valid Inference

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Erick Turner @eturnermd1.bsky.social · 14d

"Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results"

Paper out today in PLoS Medicine by many of us who would like to see publication bias reduced or eliminated.

Especially happy that Registered Reports got shout-outs.

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results

Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. This Consensus View discusses the problem of such publication...

journals.plos.org

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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 17d

Eens! Net lid geworden. Juist in deze tijd moeten we media steunen die nog wel tegen radicaal-rechts durven in te gaan. Dus hup, abonneer op @ftm.nl, @groene.nl, @oneworld.nl, @vn.nl en/of @decorrespondent.nl (En andere tips welkom.)

MediocreMigrant @seadanourhussen.bsky.social · 18d

We kunnen blijven klagen over verrechtsing v media - maar ze doen wat zij (of de aandeelhouders) willen - of echt onafhankelijke alternatieven steunen. Júist nu. Hebben jullie een (digitaal of papieren) abonnement op OneWorld? Of je in ieder geval geabonneerd op de gratis OneWorld nieuwsbrief?

OneWorld @oneworld.nl · 20d

Abdelkarim en Asma El-Fassi pakken de regie terug | Nog steeds weinig oog voor anti-Aziatisch racisme | OneWorld Movie Night: 2073. Check onze beste verhalen in de nieuwsbrief en abonneer! mailchi.mp/oneworld/abd...

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Hilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social · 18d

Want to be able to start micro-editing on Wikipedia in a few minutes – and know why you could be very glad you did? Then my new post @plos.org is just what you need!

absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/09/21/w...

#Wikipedia

Wikipedia Is Vital: Channeling Energy Into Micro-Edits Is a Win-Win-Win - Absolutely Maybe

Wikipedia is, “without exaggeration, the digital world’s factual foundation,” wrote Josh Dzieza recently. It’s a target because of that, squarely in the…

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 21d

Writing separately, but, I'd like to share a brief honest reflection on the experience of writing our paper on climate change health impact attribution, which is to date probably the hardest and most frustrating project of 100+ I've published in 15 years as a scientist.

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Sajedeh Rasti @sajedehra.bsky.social · 28d

Time is running out to register for our pre-symposium workshop and Meta Research Symposium event at Paul Meehl Graduate School
Check the information and registration links below:

paulmeehlschool.github.io/workshops/

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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · Aug 14

To Prime Minister Netanyahu, an open letter from 23 economists at universities in the US and Europe. We urge you to read it.

drive.google.com/file/d/1D_Sv...

Letter to PM Netanyahu from 23 economists.pdf

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 8

J. D. Bernal in 1939 discussing how graduate students (only a thing from 1917 in the UK) are evaluated based on number and bulk, the publication pressure stifling originality, and filling the literature with useless papers.

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Judith ter Schure @judithterschure.bsky.social · Jul 31

Really nice to visit #GreenKayak during our stay in Bergen, Norway. Quite valuable trash in the Fjord. A great day to paddle and to be useful for cleaner oceans.

Judith ter Schure @judithterschure.bsky.social · Jul 22

“In their analysis, the researchers excluded the last birth of each woman to reduce the influence of parental choice — for instance, some people choose to stop having children once they have both boys and girls.”

Any analysis conditioning on number of children suffers from accumulation bias.

Nature @nature.com · Jul 21

In families with several children of the same sex, the odds of having another baby of that sex are higher than of having one of the opposite sex

go.nature.com/45caBj4

Sex at birth is not always random — mum’s age and genetics can play a part

Families with three or more boys, for example, are more likely to have another boy than a girl as the next child.

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Florian Naudet @floriannaudet.bsky.social · Jul 18

Given the importance of the topic, we might have pursued a journal with greater notoriety—but we prioritized BMC Medicine for its rigorous publication standards, as it is one of the few general medical journals—if not the only one—to offer registered reports.

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Florian Naudet @floriannaudet.bsky.social · Jul 17

Peer review reports of randomized controlled trials in oncology can be short and superficial

To evaluate the quality of open peer review reports published alongside articles of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in oncology.

www.jclinepi.com

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Judith ter Schure @judithterschure.bsky.social · Jul 16

Excellent! Journals should implement and test these tools as soon as possible! (While I don’t mind checking a clinical trial registration when reviewing, I can understand reviewers that do since I get annoyed when asked to check with a reporting guideline (which is boring).)

Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · Jul 23

Introducing RegCheck: a tool which uses Large Language Models to automatically compare preregistered protocols with their corresponding published papers and highlights deviations.

@malte.the100.ci @ianhussey.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci @bjoernhommel.bsky.social

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RegCheck.app

RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.

regcheck.app

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Judith ter Schure @judithterschure.bsky.social · Jul 16

Very interesting! I only recently found out that ‘biostatistician’ and ‘statistician’ mean very different things in practice, with the former expected to be experienced in data analysis while that is ambiguous for the latter. Does ‘mathematical biostatistics’ even exist?

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Jasper Lukkezen @lukkezen.bsky.social · Jul 8

Laten we inderdaad een jubelton invoeren, maar dan net een beetje anders.

1. Iedereen die een huis koopt en er nog geen heeft, krijgt een ton van de overheid.

2. Dat financieren we dan door de overwaarde te belasten van de mensen die hun huis verkopen.

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Judith ter Schure @judithterschure.bsky.social · Jun 24

We also highlight nice collaborative features of the ALL-IN approach, like working bottom-up and preventing filedrawering, in our V2 of the paper:

ter Schure J and Grünwald P. ALL-IN meta-analysis: breathing life into living systematic reviews and prospective meta-analyses doi.org/10.12688/f10...

F1000Research Article: ALL-IN meta-analysis: breathing life into living systematic reviews and prospective meta-analyses.

Read the latest article version by Judith ter Schure, Peter Grünwald, at F1000Research.

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Judith ter Schure @judithterschure.bsky.social · Jun 24

Very happy to have shared this project with the Open Science Community Amsterdam!

Here is the story of why I nominated for OSCAward.

A successful project that looks like a failure. Even with knowledge of how it turned out, I would do everything exactly the same

significanthelp.nl/Blog/Scienti...

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Judith ter Schure @judithterschure.bsky.social · Jun 24

Update of my methodology paper is out! Describing all benefits of ALL-IN meta-analysis for bottom-up collaboration in clinical trial research:

f1000research.com/articles/11-...

F1000Research Article: ALL-IN meta-analysis: breathing life into living systematic reviews and prospective meta-analyses.

Read the latest article version by Judith ter Schure, Peter Grünwald, at F1000Research.

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Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 12

🎯 Does early success in science funding shape the rest of your career?

New RoRI study says yes.

The ‘Matthew effect’ — early winners keep winning — holds across funders & countries.

📄 Read more: researchonresearch.org/largest-stud...

Largest study of its kind shows that the ‘Matthew effect’ in science funding holds true - Research on Research

New RoRI paper shows that researchers who win funding early in their career are more likely to get funded in the future

researchonresearch.org

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Judith ter Schure @judithterschure.bsky.social · Jun 11

while these journals still have very little editorial checks in place to compare reporting to prespecified protocol, let alone take responsibility and implement registered reports format for clinical trials.

Judith ter Schure @judithterschure.bsky.social · Jun 11

Admirable effort by Mark Bolland, Alison Avenell and Andrew Grey to correct the literature.

I would like a website to exist that automatically logs these journal screw-ups to counteract the ‘hearsay prestige’ that medical researchers attribute to jour that respond poorly to correction efforts[1/2]

Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · Jun 11

Concerns raised about an RCT of Vitamin K2 in JAMA Internal Medicine: www.pubpeer.com/publications...

PubPeer - Vitamin K2 in Managing Nocturnal Leg Cramps: A Randomized Cl...

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Vitamin K2 in Managing Nocturnal Leg Cramps: A Randomized Clinical Trial (2024)

www.pubpeer.com

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Judith ter Schure @judithterschure.bsky.social · Jun 6

“What happens if the […] is wrong?”

Why should question change the excitement about the sleuthing initiative?

Insert [closed door peer review] or [university press release]. Many scientists simply accept that. Or try to improve.

Those excited now will probably also help improve in the future.

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Judith ter Schure @judithterschure.bsky.social · Jun 4

This thinking did start an excellent new research field on game-theoretic inference with e-values. I think future developments will probe you wrong ;). Check out section 9 ‘Could Fisher, Jeffreys, and Neyman have agreed on a currency for testing’ of the 2024 Safe testing RSS paper.

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