"Many of the loudest Open Science advocates are deeply embedded in the very systems they critique such as traditional publishing, prestige-driven academia and grant-dependent research cultures. They speak the language of reform while continuing to “play the game” remarkably well. Researchers who sit on advisory boards talk about preprints but then celebrate publishing their latest Nature paper"

https://www.themodernpeer.com/people-the-problem-in-open-science/

#OpenScience #OpenData #ScienceReform #Metascience #ResearchEvaluation #UniversityRankings #PublishOrPerish

Neurosurgery on...Saturn?!

Academic publishing continues to have some dodgy failure modes 🫠

#Academia #Science #Metascience #ScienceReform #Research #ResearchIntegrity

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210261224009209

I enjoyed the "Open Science and its enemies" episodes of The Error Bar (https://theerrorbar.com?e=40). The description of certain parts of the open science/reform movement as "populist" is IMHO spot on. It is also funny how "read the fu&$ing paper" is actually a radical thing to do when evaluating research.

#OpenScience #academia #podcast #ScienceReform

How do we improve peer review?

David Stuart at Research Information spoke to Chris Graf of Springer Nature and Coromoto Power Febres of Emerald, who is one of our volunteer advisers.

https://www.researchinformation.info/feature/how-do-we-improve-peer-review

#PeerReview #ScienceReform #ResearchInformation

New blog post! There's a version of this on Psychology Today, but I got some weird edits, so I wanted to have a "version of record" here.

This one is about how the President of Stanford allegedly falsified Alzheimer's research, has been called out on it for over 2 decades, and continues to "fail up."

Comments here are welcome.

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@cognition
@neuroscience

https://danvers.substack.com/p/failing-up-in-research

#ScienceReform #Alzheimers #ResearchFraud #Stanford

https://www.cos.io/unconference

Excited to submit a proposal to the #OpenScience virtual #unconference !!!!

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@socialwork
#ScienceReform
#OER #OpenEdication

Holy absolute crap.

I have never before encountered this in all of my research career. Here is an article from a *freelance journalist* that appeared in the British medical journal under "external peer review". She has a number of articles in that journal. They contain COVID misinformation. This profoundly unethical practice led to students sharing COVID misinformation in class.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://scholar.archive.org/work/mah52fcwzfa3xjlgwa23spmoky/access/wayback/https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/373/bmj.n1397.full.pdf&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bbOLY_jNEY70mgG3m7KgDQ&scisig=AAGBfm2zj5w1f0lhKAomhUcPlsxJr2VurA&oi=scholarr

#researchethics
#openscience
#sciencereform

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