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Calling All Graduate Students, Post-Docs, Researchers, and Faculty: Would You Fill Out a Short Survey on Preprints?
[From the Center for Open Science] The Center for Open Science is seeking graduate students, post docs, researchers and academic faculty to participate in a survey to investigate the factors that affect the perceived credibility and use of preprints. Participation…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Wired (February 15, 2019)
[From the article “DARPA Wants to Solve Science’s Reproducibility Crisis With AI” by Adam Rogers, published in Wired] “A Darpa program called Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence—yes, SCORE—aims to assign a “credibility score” … to research findings in the…
Read MoreJOB AD: Center for Open Science Looking for Someone With Economics Background
[From a Twitter post by Center for Open Science] “COS [Center for Open Science] has been awarded a 3-year grant for an upcoming replication project, and we are seeking someone with an economics background for our Project Coordinator position. Perfect…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: The Atlantic (November 19, 2018)
[From the article, “Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Running Out of Excuses” By Ed Yong, published in The Atlantic] “The Many Labs 2 project was specifically designed to address these criticisms. With 15,305 participants in total, the new experiments had, on…
Read MoreAre Badges the New Normal?
[From the blog “Psychology’s New Normal” by Stephen Lindsay, posted at the Center for Open Science’s website] “As one means of encouraging these transparent science practices, the Center for Open Science developed the idea of awarding badges to articles that met…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Science (July 31, 2018)
[From the article, “Plan to replicate 50 high-impact cancer papers shrinks to just 18” by Jocelyn Kaiser, published in Science magazine] “An ambitious project that set out nearly 5 years ago to replicate experiments from 50 high-impact cancer biology papers, but gradually shrank…
Read MorePre-register. Make a $1000. Really?
[From the Center for Open Science webpage.] “If you have a project that is entering the planning or data collection phase, we’d like you to try out a preregistration. Through our $1 Million Preregistration Challenge, we’re giving away $1,000 to 1,000…
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