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Project TIER Offers Free Workshop on Teaching Reproducibility (Nov. 18 & 19)
[FROM THE PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT] “This workshop is intended for faculty who are interested in incorporating principles of transparent and reproducible research in their teaching and/or research advising. The workshop will emphasize research methods in the social sciences, but participation is…
Read MoreReproducible Workflow: The Movie
This is a great little You Tube video on reproducibility. 1 minute and 44 seconds. Money back guarantee if you aren’t glad you checked it out. To see it, click here.
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Washington Post (August 25, 2016)
The Washington Post has a story today about “Results-Free Reviewing” (RFR). What is RFR? When journals review a manuscript without knowing what the results are. Manuscripts are reviewed purely on whether the question is interesting and whether the experimental design…
Read MoreGetting the Publishers Into the Act
At a recent Wiley Executive Seminar, participants from the academic research and publishing community discussed how open science can reduce research bias. Two trends are particularly noteworthy. The first is that the TOP guidelines (Transparency and Openness Promotion) are gaining prominence….
Read MoreBITSS Announces Call for Papers, Nominations for Leamer-Rosenthal Prize
The annual meeting of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) will be held December 15-16 at Berkeley. BITSS is currently calling for papers. The deadline to submit is October 7th. But wait! There’s more! BITSS is…
Read MoreConfused by “Replicability” Versus “Reproducibility”? You’re Not Alone
“Replication” means a lot of things to a lot of people. But not necessarily the same thing. Earlier this year, the National Academy of Sciences published a report on “Reproducibility” that fleshed out some of the subtleties of this concept….
Read MoreThe Journal Comparative Political Studies Tries “Results-Free” Submissions
The website Retraction Watch has an interesting interview with MICHAEL FINDLEY about an experiment undertaken at Comparative Political Studies last year. The journal sponsored a special issue for which they solicited submissions where results were not reported. Submissions were of two types: (i) planned…
Read MoreIs Most Published Research Wrong? The You Tube
This You Tube video, from the channel Veritasium, is a compendium of studies, anecdotes, and initiatives addressing key problems in scientific research. It includes a compact summary of John Ioannides’ famous paper, “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False“, studies…
Read MorePodcast on “The Replication Crisis”
On August 6th at a conference held at Berkeley (Effective Altruism Global 2016), four panellists discussed “The Replication Crisis”: Brian Nosek, Stuart Buck, Ivan Oransky, and Stephanie Wykstra (moderator = Julia Galef). Some of the questions addressed were: — Is failure…
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