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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · Jul 23

Never-before-seen footage of me and @jamesheathers.bsky.social working on GRIM, unearthed by @samwestwood.bsky.social

John Cleese and John Goodman looking like scientists

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Charmaine Ng @charmaineng.bsky.social · Jul 24

Hands down my favourite slide and biggest takeaway from @steamtraen.eu's talk, made possible by @samwestwood.bsky.social and Nick's 2-hour sacrifice albeit on holiday.

#grim #sprite on #rstats

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Petra Kis-Herczegh @kameleonjournal.com · Jul 28

Super stoked to have delivered a workshop on automation and scalability in research reviews at the Open Research Summer School @kingsioppn.bsky.social

My GitHub repository is available if you want to give it a go
github.com/kameleonjour...

me presenting my title slide saying; Open Science, Open Source

Presenting the steps to work with the GitHub repository at the workshop

Presenting the Jupyter Notebook that helps automate API queries to download csvs from databases for literature reviews

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Petra Kis-Herczegh @kameleonjournal.com · Jul 28

Massive shoutout to @samwestwood.bsky.social for organising such a valuable event year after year! 🙌

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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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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · Jul 22

Very much looking forward to talking about RegCheck at the KCL Open Research Summer School on Thursday.

Not so much looking forward to the current task at hand: preparing the presentation and workshop on a 20 hour journey from Tokyo to London 🥲

Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · Jun 12

Ever wondered how closely a paper matches its preregistration?

Join @jamiecummins.bsky.social for an intro to RegCheck, a practical tool for better transparency in deviations from pre-registered protocols

Registere for free: tinyurl.com/4un95jwp

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Jun 20

If you'd like to chat about Papercheck with some of our team members, @debruine.bsky.social will be at the Metascience conference, @crist14n.bsky.social will be at the open research summer school by @samwestwood.bsky.social , and @raphaelmerz.bsky.social will be at SIPS!

Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Jun 20

New blog post: Checking Data and Code in Repositories with Papercheck daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/chec... We show how our Papercheck tool can automatically check and list files in data repositories linked to in a scientific manuscript.

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Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · Jun 12

Ever wondered how closely a paper matches its preregistration?

Join @jamiecummins.bsky.social for an intro to RegCheck, a practical tool for better transparency in deviations from pre-registered protocols

Registere for free: tinyurl.com/4un95jwp

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Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · Jun 12

Can we normalise error detection in science?

Join @ianhussey.mmmdata.io as he explores how we assess trustworthiness and challenge misconduct in academic work.

Register free here tinyurl.com/4un95jwp

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Dr Ashleigh Johnstone @ajohnstone.bsky.social · Jun 11

I really enjoyed joining this online last year! Learnt a lot from some fab people 😊
Signed up again and ready for this year!

Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · Jun 11

We're back, with a fresh new lineup of talks and workshops!

Get your place while you still can to learn about how to make your research more robust and how to deal with scientific fraud!

This event is free and open to all: tinyurl.com/3ewaduvm

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Angelika Stefan @ephemeralidea.bsky.social · Jun 11

Looking forward to presenting at the King's Open Research Summer School and meeting the London Open Science crowd! Thanks @samwestwood.bsky.social for the invitation!

Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · Jun 11

Excited to welcome @ephemeralidea.bsky.social to King’s Open Research Summer School on Mon 21st July.

She’ll be sharing new reflections since Big Little Lies, a standout in the growing movement to detect and challenge questionable research practices misconduct.

🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/j7y9962r

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Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · Jun 11

try this one - sorry www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-resea...

Open Research Summer School

Join us at the Open Research Summer School for a deep dive into the world of research - see you there on 21 to 25 July 2025 at 8:30 AM!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · Jun 11

Can you publish a non-significant result and say something meaningful?

Find out with @mzloteanu.bsky.social, in his talk and workshop on "Publishing Non-Significant Results: An Intro to Equivalence Tests"

Register here: tinyurl.com/ORSS2025

#OpenScience #EquivalenceTesting

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UK Reproducibility Network @ukrepro.bsky.social · Jun 11

Thanks @samwestwood.bsky.social for your words:

"The LNL network isn’t about perfection. It’s about persistence, creativity, and community. This year’s retreat more than ever proved that when those ingredients come together, positive change doesn’t just feel possible – it feels certain."

2025 UKRN Local Network Leads Retreat – London School of Economics | UK Reproducibility Network

www.ukrn.org

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Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · Jun 11

We're back, with a fresh new lineup of talks and workshops!

Get your place while you still can to learn about how to make your research more robust and how to deal with scientific fraud!

This event is free and open to all: tinyurl.com/3ewaduvm

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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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Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · Jun 11

Excited to welcome @ephemeralidea.bsky.social to King’s Open Research Summer School on Mon 21st July.

She’ll be sharing new reflections since Big Little Lies, a standout in the growing movement to detect and challenge questionable research practices misconduct.

🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/j7y9962r

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Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · Dec 12

Neurofeedback has been touted as a promising non-pharmaceutical treatment for ADHD, but does it actually work?

No.

Current forms of NF did not significantly improve blinded reports of symptoms or performance on task based measures of cognition.

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/neurofe...

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Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · Dec 12

Neurofeedback has been touted as a promising non-pharmaceutical treatment for ADHD, but does it actually work?

No.

Current forms of NF did not significantly improve blinded reports of symptoms or performance on task based measures of cognition.

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/neurofe...

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Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · Nov 30

It’s because the UK has a poorly functioning health service, government, and legal system meaning that no amount of safeguards will prevent unnecessary loss of life.

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Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · Nov 15

What are you favourite PubPeer comments/exchanges?

I'm planning on writing a companion (or "Hitchhiker's") guide for academics, one section will be on how to evaluate papers.

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Nov 14

www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
excellent overview of Gino case from start to finish

It's Over - Gino vs Harvard Fake Data Scandal

YouTube video by Pete Judo

www.youtube.com

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Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · Nov 15

What are you favourite PubPeer comments/exchanges?

I'm planning on writing a companion (or "Hitchhiker's") guide for academics, one section will be on how to evaluate papers.

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · Nov 13

Remarkable sleuthing.

Authors reply to state that the reported results do differ and were from separate samples. Sleuth extracts vector graphics from pdf and makes this a to show they are definitely the same data (see pubpeer comment for moving gif)

Don’t double down!

pubpeer.com/publications...

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Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · Nov 13

For a second there I thought @hertzpodcast.bsky.social were hiring!

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