Replication in #DigitalHumanities - Thinking beyond the code.
Presentation by Hans van Eyghen, 14 February 2025, 13:15 hrs, Leiden University

In his presentation Hans will outline how #replications and #reproducibility in the #humanities differ from the same efforts in fields like biomedical research. The presentation will leave room to discuss which type of reproducibility efforts work best for the digital humanities, as they are using social science type methods in an interpretative field.

#Replications are an important yet neglected part of ensuring #scientific #progress .🐌
So here is a call for more #love for replications! 🌏 🌎 🌍

Maybe you want to replicate an educational finding or publishing a replication you have in your #FileDrawer ?

Here is the chance: #ZBF #ZeitschriftFürBildungsforschung offers replications as #new type of paper (above and beyond using #RegisteredReport for replications):
https://link.springer.com/journal/35834/submission-guidelines#Instructions%20for%20Authors_Replications

#OpenScience #ScientificJournals

Register for the next NRIN happy hour webinar!
On 10th October, Michiel de Boer, the chair of the NLRN steering group will give a presentation with the title: "Are we in a replication crisis? A perspective from the NLRN"

Find the full program and registration links on this website:

https://nrin.nl/nrin-happy-hour-2/

#ReproducibleResearch #Replications #ResearchIntegrity

I’ll be presenting at the Big Team Science conference Karli Nave’s multi-lab EEG replication project about musical beat perception and steady-state evoked brain potentials (aka frequency tagging) next Monday. Hope to see you there if you're into #music, #openscience, #replications, etc.

Spoiler alert: we actually did replicate Nozaradan et al.'s basic effect of auditory imagery on EEG activity, but the observed effect size was quite a bit smaller than the original study, as tends to happen.

There are lots of other good looking presentations too of course. Registration is free or inexpensive with suggested donation and completely online.

https://bigteamscienceconference.github.io/

#teamscience #openscience #reproducibility #science #neuroscience #psychology #metascience #replicationcrisis

I seriously don't understand why the scientific focus is on #replications so much rn. The problem is not that stuff doesn't replicate. That happens all the time and need not mean a study is bad (cultural reasons may be at play, esp in social sciences, design may be not well explained due to paper length requirements etc.). If you look at studies that do not work if you copy them exactly, the problem is mostly either peer review (giving a pass to bad studies due to novelty bias etc.) or - and this is arguably worse - a collective failure of the specific scientific subsystem in terms of necessary education about methods, design, causality or analysis.

I replicate stuff (at least in part) if I want to use something published as a step stone for additional work. Also I found that replicating studies is a nice exercise for students to pick apart papers and learn about design in the process. Other than that I see no real value in it. I'd much rather see more focus put on methodological and epistemic education of scientists and means to do that. Because if we don't get that done, this replication debate will - and I'm confident saying this - never ever end.

The irony is, that with Midjourney and the like, we are actually thrown back more than moving forward. It’s designed to replicate what we know already.

#AI #MachineLearning #UX #Replications