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Adrian Gerard Barnett is a professor in the faculty of Health in the school of Public Health and Social Work,… more

H-index: 76
Environmental science 27%
Public Health 23%
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It's a needlepoint.
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I think the authors would have been better off taking a walk than creating this diagram.

by Adrian Barnett

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R beats Python because R has dedicated quilts, for example: www.reddit.com/r/rstats/com.... Once you've lost the quilting war, you've lost everything.
From the rstats community on Reddit: My mother liked my laptop stickers and did this "tidy" phone/hdd patchwork bag 😍
Explore this post and more from the rstats community
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by Adrian Barnett

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At last, a simple diagram that explains random forests. Go forth and make random diagrams, I mean random forests. From www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejo...
Stick figure surrounded by tree-like structures with speech bubbles about sepsis.
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by Adrian Barnett

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It's 2025.723 and scientists are still putting too many decimal places in their results.
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by Adrian Barnett

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When the zombie apocalypse starts in Weipa
Map of Queensland showing clear disease outbreak in the north

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When the zombie apocalypse starts in Brisbane
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Peer reviewers are more likely to recommend accepting papers that cite their work — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social:

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Peer reviewers like papers that cite them
New report finds that referees are more likely to recommend studies that refer to their own work
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“I still yearn for the good old days…”

From the latest Private Eye, out now.
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by Adrian Barnett

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A lot of government contracts in Australia have suppression clauses as a standard - that should definitely end. Media attention like this helps. And then perhaps some better training of bureaucrats to show that the truth is always the best long term solution, that's probably naive of me.
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Reviewers are more likely to approve manuscripts if authors agree to cite their work than those who don't get cited.
Thanks to @aidybarnett.bsky.social, @balazsaczel.bsky.social and @econfeld.bsky.social for chatting with me for this story!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work
Preprint examines how citations can influence the review process.
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Reposted by: Adrian Barnett, Matt N Williams

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Submissions for #AIMOS2025 in Sydney close in just under two weeks!
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Sadly familiar story on the ABC over government interference in scientific results www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08.... I fully support the statistician (Adrian Baddeley) for quitting.
Emails raise new questions about state government's role in scientific report
In May, the WA government released a report from an ongoing study into the impacts of industrial air emissions on ancient rock carvings, but new emails obtained by FOI have raised questions about the ...
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@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy has it. It's growing all the time.
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Interesting stuff, but I don't see anything on peer review in that PDF.
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Reposted by: Adrian Barnett, Joanna Bryson, Marc Lynch , and 28 more

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Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
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by Adrian Barnett

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Fair points. But for the uncited reviewer to be right and withhold their approval it must have been for a serious issue. Wouldn't we hope that the other reviewer (on average) would also have spotted the serious issue and withhold their approval too?
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But by matching on paper the quality issues should become sidelined. We have two or more reviewers looking at identical papers, some good, some bad. If there are consistent patterns in behaviour depending on whether a reviewer is cited, then that's likely independent of the article quality.
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Reposted by: Adrian Barnett, Andy Baker

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Retraction by ‪@mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social‬ of a paper in which a University of West Florida professor appears to have photoshopped his model airplane into a photo of a NASA wind tunnel
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Figure 6 from the paper, showing a model airplane that appears to have been photoshopped into a wind tunnel. The photo of the plane is taken from above, but the wind tunnel is photographed from below.
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by Adrian Barnett

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If there's anyone listening from the Global Burden of Disease, your data is being used for trash studies and your reputation is heading down the toilet.

by Adrian Barnett

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Thanks for sharing. Your proposed solutions made me think of another compromise: Reviewers self-citations are in the paper for people to read, but don't get used in the indexing data. So the reviewer can contribute to scholarly debate, but can't boost their h-indices.
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by Adrian Barnett — Reposted by: Marco Festa‐Bianchet

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A new preprint showing strong evidence of peer reviewers engaging in transactional peer review as some only approved a manuscript after requesting and then getting cited osf.io/preprints/os...
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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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by Adrian Barnett

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The NHMRC has today released a Good Institutional Practice Guide. I'm biased, because I was involved in its development, but I think it's a great document that the Australian research community really needs. www.nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/pub...
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Reposted by: Adrian Barnett, Dorothy Bishop, Brian A. Nosek , and 10 more

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Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.

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A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise
Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”
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by Adrian Barnett

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As a statistician, I am getting very "First they came" vibes here, but this is just rot and bonkers. I remember campaigning for Andreas Georgiou when the Greek government pulled a similar trick. I know the international stats community will rally together again, but will anything change?
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Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · Aug 1
Real North Korea vibes: If I don't like what you're saying then you're gone.

Trump sacks USA's top statistician after official data showed a sharp slowdown in the US jobs market.

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Trump sacks US data chief after terrible jobs numbers
Donald Trump has sacked America’s top statistician after official data showed a sharp slowdown in the US jobs market.
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Real North Korea vibes: If I don't like what you're saying then you're gone.

Trump sacks USA's top statistician after official data showed a sharp slowdown in the US jobs market.

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Trump sacks US data chief after terrible jobs numbers
Donald Trump has sacked America’s top statistician after official data showed a sharp slowdown in the US jobs market.
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Reposted by: Adrian Barnett, Martín Haspelmath, Andy Baker , and 4 more

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Once upon a time, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched.

And now, 15 years and 6,700 posts later, that work seems more important than ever.

Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch.
Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch
Once upon a time, a long time ago, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched, detailing in the first post why retractions matt…
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by Adrian Barnett

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Almost all my bug bears in one paragraph
Text from a statistical analysis section of a published paper including many techniques that I and many others believe should never be used.
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Two thoughtful and rapid reviews, MetaROR is the best place for meta-research.
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MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social · Jul 31
📝 Our latest article is on "a large-scale empirical analysis of spelling errors in scientific titles and abstracts".

The reviews "emphasize the paper's novelty & scope" while suggesting "more refinement of its theoretical framing & methodological rigor"

👇 Read the full evaluation now on MetaROR
Spelling errors in health and medical abstracts: An observational analysis from 2008 to 2024
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