Summary of some recent work in #MetaSci #OpenSci #HistSci

🔹 20:20 hindsight on scientific progress

🔹 Open research in the humanities

🔹 The role of scientific sleuths

🔹 Individual bias and collective criticism

https://markrubin.substack.com/p/critical-metascience-roundup-a8d

Critical Metascience Roundup

Update #4 - 20:20 hindsight on scientific progress - Open research in the humanities - The role of scientific sleuths - Individual bias and collective criticism

Critical Metascience
These casual methods are unknown to me (except instrumental variables) but how on earth can one disentangle direct causality from sanctions from what causes sanctions and poor outcomes? Are the strong claims actually well supported by the methods? #stats #metasci www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Effects of international sanct...
As if Excel wasn’t the source of enough errors in research already #stats #metasci

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hakzua5btcgcfjye2yujlhos/post/3lwtmkrcqo22r

Our #APC analysis preprint was cited in a Wall Street Journal story today, along with Elsevier's response.

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/scientific-journals-quality-publishers-6399fc95?st=NQ8a7Z

#AcademicPublishing #MetaSci #ScholCommLab

I've co-authored a piece calling on the open science community to lead by example in defending science. We are well positioned to combat the efforts by Trump, Musk & others that are anti-science, anti-evidence and anti-inclusion.

This is also a restatement of the importance of diversity.

Time to practice what we preach!

Read it here: https://upstream.force11.org/open-science-call-to-act/

#academicsky #openscience #metasci #ScholComm

Science is Under Siege: The Open Science Community Must Act and Lead by Example

Worldwide, science is under attack by anti-scientific movements. The new US administration has thrown the entire academy into chaos, threatening global health. This article is a call for the open science community to practice what it preaches and lead by example in defending science.

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