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A strategic kick-off workshop on Reproducibility and Replication with the goal to define the optimal set-up of the activities of the newly opened Center for Reproducible Science (CRS) at the University of Zurich.
Celebrating Science Booster - Switzerland's only platform for science crowdfunding.
Journalists covering crime or education are not typically expected to have a degree in those subjects. But science journalism is often considered a more technical and knowledge-heavy beat. This article examines advantages and drawbacks of becoming a science reporter from a variety of backgrounds.
This publication provides an overview of some practical tools and strategies that researchers can implement in their own workflow to increase replicability and the overall quality of psychology research.
Many efforts are underway to promote data sharing in psychology, however it is currently unclear if the in-principle benefits of data availability are being realized in practice. In a recent study, we found that a mandatory open data policy introduced at the journal Cognition led to a substantial increase in available data, but a considerable portion of this data was not reusable. For data to be reusable, it needs to be clearly structured and well-documented. Open data alone will not be enough to achieve the benefits envisioned by proponents of data sharing.
Study attempts to reproduce values reported in 35 articles published in the journal Cognition revealed analysis pipelines peppered with errors. Elements of a reproducible workflow that may help to mitigate these problems in future research are outlined.
Just like judges and politicians, researchers may overstate their confidence in a claim. To truly assess their confidence, something needs to be on the line.
To keep authorship fair, journals in all fields should list authors based on their contribution rather than in alphabetical order.
Mind the Gap is a role-playing game designed as a structure for dialogues which examine the gender gap.
Information about Blockchain for Science, Research and Knoweldge creation. The decentralized future of science. Blockchain bears the potential to make science more effective, make research continous, free data and fix the reproducibility crisis in science.
When following a link to the official version of a scholarly article, Wikipedia readers are twice as likely to hit a paywall than one they can freely read.
When scientists reach mid-career, they suddenly have to manage people, something they have never done and never really been trained to do.
How the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology became a multimillion dollar organization promoting bullshit science through fake conferences and journals.
Journal rankings are a rigged game. The blacklist of history of economic thought journals isn’t a fluke nor a conspiracy - it exposes how citation rankings really work.
The US military agency is worried the country could lose its edge in semiconductor chips with the end of Moore’s Law.
The benefits and challenges of three approaches to scientific meetings.
The first OpenCon satellite event in Switzerland will take place on September 21-22 at the SNSF in Bern. Registrations are open until the end of August.
After much investigation and active measures, we can state that the DOAJ is effectively under attack from an unknown third party.
The potential of preprints to drive scientific understanding and innovation, and even support good journalism.
In this controversial opinion piece, German science expert Stefan Hornbostel argues that some transparency is good for science - but too much can backfire, reducing the efficiency and quality of research and eroding public trust.
What will it take to make the majority of scholarship open access so anyone can read it without a paywall?
Citizen science: crowdsourcing for systematic reviews looks at how people can contribute their expertise to scientific studies using new online platforms - even if they don’t think of themselves as researchers or scientists.
A fresh, practical look at how diversity impacts on engineering and strategies for change.
The nonprofit's Summer Immersion Program aims to catch girls before their interest in computer science plummets.
In a slightly depressing new paper, researchers describe how they tried to get access to the data behind 111 of the most cited psychology and psychiatry papers published in the past decade. Only 14% of the datasets were made available with no restrictions on who could access them.
