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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · Sep 5

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

INSPECT-SR: A tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled trials.

INSPECT-SR: a tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled trials

The integrity of evidence synthesis is threatened by problematic randomised controlled trials (RCTs). These are RCTs where there are serious concerns about the trustworthiness of the data or findings....

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AusRN @ausrepro.bsky.social · Aug 6

Care about #reproducibility in research & publishing? Join this webinar on Aug 27th, jointly organised by @aimosinc.bsky.social & @ausrepro.bsky.social on statistical reproducibility with @michelenuijten.bsky.social & @tomhardwicke.bsky.social Free - register here qut.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · Aug 12

The best way to protect the scientific record is to prevent stats errors from entering it in the first place! Two weeks 'til our webinar featuring @tomhardwicke.bsky.social & @michelenuijten.bsky.social. Register here: qut.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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AusRN @ausrepro.bsky.social · Jul 27

Register now for the next joint @aimosinc.bsky.social @ausrepro.bsky.social webinar "Preventing statistical errors before publication" with Dr Michèle Nuijten and Dr Tom Hardwicke on Wed 27 Aug (4:00pm AEST).
@michelenuijten.bsky.social @tomhardwicke.bsky.social
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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · Jul 24

If you're interested in watching me gibber about papercheck for an hour, I'm giving a local seminar tomorrow at 15:00 UK time. DM me before 14:30 and I'll send you the Zoom link.

scienceverse.github.io/talks/2025-p...

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Michèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · Jul 22

sorry if I missed it, but is this Shiny app already online somewhere? would love to browse through an open science blog archive! :)

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Michèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · Jul 18

Super happy that I can finally move statcheck to another server! Thanks @seanrife.bsky.social for helping me out with this :)

While I'm setting everything up, there might be some hiccups at statcheck.io. You can still visit the stable michelenuijten.shinyapps.io/statcheck-web/ in the meantime.

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AusRN @ausrepro.bsky.social · Jul 2

If you loved all the discussions at #Metascience2025, this webinar from @ausrepro.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social will be just the thing. Register below ⬇️

AusRN @ausrepro.bsky.social · Jun 12

Join @aimosinc.bsky.social and @ausrepro.bsky.social for our next webinar
▶️ Preventing statistical errors before publication
⏰ 4-5 PM AEST 27th August
🗣️ Dr Michèle Nuijten & Dr Tom Hardwicke
🎟️ Free - register here qut.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@michelenuijten.bsky.social @tomhardwicke.bsky.social

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Anouk Bouma @anoukbouma.bsky.social · Jun 27

I'll be presenting at the Metascience conference next week, who will I see there? 🙋‍♀️

Platform for Young Meta-Scientists (PYMS) @youngmetascience.bsky.social · Jun 27

We are looking forward to Metascience 2025 in London next week!

Especially to the panel where we will discuss PYMS! Come discuss career paths with us Monday 14:00 - 15:30:

Session 2, Panel T2.3; Snakes and ladders: mapping research careers

Screenshot of the content of the Snakes and Ladders Metascience panel

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Olmo van den Akker @denolmo.bsky.social · Jun 27

PYMS has a new board and it is booming! Don't miss this session in London if you are an early career meta-scientist (or are interested in meta-science careers)!

Platform for Young Meta-Scientists (PYMS) @youngmetascience.bsky.social · Jun 27

We are looking forward to Metascience 2025 in London next week!

Especially to the panel where we will discuss PYMS! Come discuss career paths with us Monday 14:00 - 15:30:

Session 2, Panel T2.3; Snakes and ladders: mapping research careers

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Platform for Young Meta-Scientists (PYMS) @youngmetascience.bsky.social · Jun 27

We are looking forward to Metascience 2025 in London next week!

Especially to the panel where we will discuss PYMS! Come discuss career paths with us Monday 14:00 - 15:30:

Session 2, Panel T2.3; Snakes and ladders: mapping research careers

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Raphael Merz @raphaelmerz.bsky.social · Jun 27

At Metascience 2025? Then come to our panel where wonderful @anoukbouma.bsky.social will talk about our work and vision at PYMS! 🚀

Platform for Young Meta-Scientists (PYMS) @youngmetascience.bsky.social · Jun 27

We are looking forward to Metascience 2025 in London next week!

Especially to the panel where we will discuss PYMS! Come discuss career paths with us Monday 14:00 - 15:30:

Session 2, Panel T2.3; Snakes and ladders: mapping research careers

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Michèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · Jun 24

Tagging @cas-goos.bsky.social here!

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Caspar van Lissa 🟥 @cjvanlissa.bsky.social · Jun 24

To be FAIR: Theory specification needs an update! Theories that others can reuse and update help navigate the "theory crisis". The theorytools R-package now has tutorials showing how to make theories FAIR and use them to select covariates, simulate data, etc

osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

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Michèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · Jun 23

What if you want to deviate from you preregistration but keep the label "confirmatory"? Cas Goos introduces multi-stage registration as a solution.

Read all about it in the semi-new (I somehow missed a month of blogging?) blog post from the Meta-Research Center:

metaresearch.nl/blog/2025/5/...

Multi-Stage Registration: A Better* Way to Pre-Register — Meta-Research Center

This blogpost was written by Cas Goos. Cas his PhD project focuses on studying and enhancing various interventions for improving scientific robustness at journal level, supervised by Michèle Nuijten a...

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Michèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · Jun 23

Fantastic, thanks!

Michèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · Jun 20

Already having terrible FOMO about the Metascience conference :(

I registered for a couple of virtual symposia, but missed the one about using AI in detecting errors. Does anyone know if the session is available online?

@jamiecummins.bsky.social @ansgarscherp.bsky.social?

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Michèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · Jun 19

Check out the preprint for the full results (also combinations of p-hacking strategies) and the accompanying Shiny app, where you can check out your favorite p-hacking combinations ;)

emaassen.shinyapps.io/phacking/

<div style="font-size:20px; margin-bottom:5px;">Estimating Effect Size and Heterogeneity in Meta-Analysis in the Presence of Publication Bias and p-hacking</div>

emaassen.shinyapps.io

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Michèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · Jun 19

📣New Preprint Alert!

Esther Maassen meticulously simulated the effect of p-hacking and publication bias on effect size & heterogeneity estimates.

💡bad: selective outcome reporting & optional dropping
💡bad: publication bias
💡not so bad: optional stopping/outlier removal

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Michèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · Jun 16

Fantastic blogpost for our Meta-Research Center: @anoukbouma.bsky.social argues that meta-scientists - especially tool builders - could learn a lot from marketing. Taking a user-perspective when designing a tool can be a crucial missing step that can help us increase take-up of proposed solutions.

Anouk Bouma @anoukbouma.bsky.social · Jun 16

I wrote a blogpost on something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: how metascientists could (and should) think more about their users when designing tools and reforms.

Would love to hear any thoughts on this topic!

#metascience #usercentered

When Good Tools Fail: The Missing Step in Scientific Reform — Meta-Research Center

This blogpost was written by Anouk Bouma. Anouk her PhD project focuses on studying and enhancing various interventions for improving scientific robustness at journal level, supervised by Marcel van A...

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Michèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · Jun 13

🚨Summer School Alert!🚨
Join the FREE Open Research Summer School (in-person or online) to learn about good quality science.

I'll be talking about a practical four-step robustness check to assess and improve quality of findings. Check out the full program for many more fantastic speakers!

Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · Jun 11

Join @michelenuijten.bsky.social for “A Four-Step Robustness Check” at the King’s Open Research Summer School on Tues 22nd July for a practical guide to assessing how solid your findings really are.

Register: tinyurl.com/yt8udeyk

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Michèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · Jun 13

Very excited to team up with @tomhardwicke.bsky.social and talk about error prevention in publications! I'll talk a bit about developments in statcheck - a spellchecker for statistics - and Tom will share insights as head of the STAR (reproducibility) team at Psych Science.

AusRN @ausrepro.bsky.social · Jun 12

Join @aimosinc.bsky.social and @ausrepro.bsky.social for our next webinar
▶️ Preventing statistical errors before publication
⏰ 4-5 PM AEST 27th August
🗣️ Dr Michèle Nuijten & Dr Tom Hardwicke
🎟️ Free - register here qut.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@michelenuijten.bsky.social @tomhardwicke.bsky.social

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · Apr 28

An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology

openletter.earth/against-lang...

Against Language Barriers: A Call to Protect International Education in Dutch Academia

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Apr 25

Join us for #SIPS2025 Online to explore the historical development of #OpenScience, key milestones, and ongoing challenges with @katiecorker.bsky.social @juliafstrand.bsky.social @michelenuijten.bsky.social @aurelienallard.bsky.social, Zoltan Dienes, and @kaileylawson.bsky.social

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Platform for Young Meta-Scientists (PYMS) @youngmetascience.bsky.social · Apr 22

🚨 1 week left to sign up for the PYMS Summer Symposium (June 5 in Tilburg, the Netherlands)!

Join fellow early-career meta-scientists for talks, a hackathon, and free lunch(!!) Travel reimbursements available!

Sign up here 👉 forms.gle/2F8p1Q1AeRhR...

#metascience #ECR

PYMS Meeting (Summer 2025)

June 5, 2025 09:30 - 17:00 Tilburg University, Academia building, AZ17 https://youngmetascientists.github.io/

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