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Gordon Pattie
@gwpattie.bsky.social

Excellent. There should be awards for all the mundane results the confirm or deny previous work. I'm not bitter for having my only publishable results scooped by some journal in Siberia 50 years ago weeks after I verified them but hadn't submitted. Same environment & study subjects, same results. 😬😂

Obscure Archaeologist
@calamitycowboy.bsky.social

Semi-related, in archaeology we always report our negative results. Most archaeo (here in the US at least) is for preservation compliance, so it's important to report regardless of +/-. While technically "gray literature" (confidential reports) it's worth at least 1/2 credit, even if not peer-review

Obscure Archaeologist
@calamitycowboy.bsky.social

These reports are available to federal, state, local, and tribal government agencies, as well as other certified archaeologists in the region. Also always reviewed by regulators, and often cited by subsequent studies in the immediate area, as well as used for predictive modeling (geographically)