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📅 Mark your calendars for SIPS 2027! 📅 The SIPS 2026 in-person conference will take place in Melbourne, Australia, on November 29-30, 2027. In 2027, SIPS is partnering with @aimosinc.bsky.social, to hold back-to-back meetings with an exciting "joint program day" in the middle!

Come work on a PhD in Metascience with me! There’s just a little over one week left to apply!

If this makes you mad, submit your cognitive science research to @openmindjournal.bsky.social No APCs, no subscription fees. It's funded by university libraries, at low cost.

AI in science: slop, tool, or unlock? At the FORRT AI in Metascience conference, we'll spend three days discussing the evidence and enabling skill building. 35 talks and workshops, 28-30 Sep, online and free. Register at forrt.org/ai-metascien...

ASAPbio is excited to co-lead this initiative with @coar-repositories.bsky.social We recommend following the page to learn more about Publish-Review-Curate model of scholarly publishing and the PRC Alliance!

Sounds like a job for metascientists! @aimosinc.bsky.social

The submission deadline for AIMOS 2026 has been extended to 23 August. Registrations are open now, with discounted early birds until 1 October! We have a limited number of travel grants that will cover registration plus a travel subsidy for ECRs. www.aimos2026.org

Wendy Higgins' excellent talk about problems and solutions for measuring constructs in psychology is now up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni4N...

INSIGHTS: blog.growkudos.com/news/ai-disc... 1/3 researchers are starting their information seeking with AI. One in ten researchers turn directly to AI tools as the starting point for their information seeking; a further 25% start in general search engines where AI-generated answers are now embedded

🧪 NEW: Australia's regulation of research integrity is not meeting the mark -- universities have no real obligation to tell the public about serious breaches, nor correct the scientific record. That seems pretty bad for science, and for trust! nobreakthroughs.com/australias-r...

What is somewhat lost in this is that Odgers has spent her career studying developmental psych and Haidt is a moral psychologist and philosopher who has taken this on as a side interest (not that this is in any way dispositive).

‘Social media bans are likely to make things worse’: psychologist Candice Odgers on kids, tech and mental health

🎉 SORTEE members, join us for a special Virtual Social with our first President, Tim Parker! 🗓️ July 29, 17:00 UTC Let's celebrate 5 years of SORTEE! Zoom link available in our Slack channel and Google Calendar

This just in from AIMOS: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... - must Australian researchers defy their employers in order to share their data?

retractionwatch.com/2026/07/09/t... Well done editors!

Great to see more and more ecology and evolution journals recruiting Data Editors! If you're wondering what a Data Editor is and what they actually do, you may want to check out: The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

Clarivate’s influential Web of Science database of abstracts and citations has paused coverage of new content from a collection of surgery journals, including a top-ranked title in the field, following a Retraction Watch investigation from March.

Big news at the META/e conference: metacheck, a promising tool for automatically extracting information from scientific manuscripts is beta-launched today. Has the potential to massively increase the efficiency of meta-science projects. www.scienceverse.org/metacheck/

Thank you for warming it up for us Jenny.

As part of our commitment to the highest standards of evidence, Cochrane is strengthening how we identify and manages retracted publications associated with studies included in published or identified in ongoing Cochrane reviews. Read more: www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... #ResearchIntegrity

A few thoughts on the launch of JROR, especially because the editors are actively soliciting comment: 1: So much time & energy go into running journals (above & beyond the editorial labor), so kudos for this group for resigning from Publications & then successfully starting another journal.

AIMOS is glad to submit our response to @stmassoc.bsky.social's discussion paper re: AI in research. osf.io/ghq2r/files/...

This article proposes restructuring scientific papers, with front-loaded narratives for humans as well as machine-readable appendices. Reviewers found the idea worthwhile & timely, while suggesting engagement with previous work & needing an update on the AI processing. 👇 Full assessment on MetaROR

Do metascience's assumptions hold up? Join us August 13 at 4pm (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra time / GMT + 10) for a talk from @markrubin.bsky.social events.humanitix.com/questioning-...

The submission portal for #AIMOS2026 is now open. Submit your lightning talks, discussion groups hackathons, and workshops now. www.aimos2026.org/submit

My new piece looks at recent bizarre overestimates of Long COVID rates. Also, how we can be fairly certain that the true rate of Long COVID is now very low in 2026. open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...

A brief reflection about metascience in Australia from us (AIMOS) at today's 'Meta Moment' workshop at the University of Melbourne. osf.io/ghq2r/files/...

What riles me up about “people tried to shut down PP research” is that Cuddy’s own coauthor-turned-critic Carney guest-edited a whole special issue of Registered Reports on Power Posing (incl a meta-analysis), which shows strong evidence against PP even though most authors clearly weren’t sceptics.

Amongst all the rubbish that I have seen in peer reviewed papers, this data is the worst. There are sketches, images of children (with no mention of ethics) and multiple celebrities, whilst the paper states: "A smart camera located in patient rooms has been used to collect images".

📝 Latest Article Alert! 📝 "Editorial expressions of concern are infrequent even for researchers with multiple retracted publications – An observational study" Andrew Grey, Alison Avenell & Mark Bolland → doi.org/10.1080/0898... #ResearchIntegrity #Retraction #AcademicPublishing

New article on regulation of research misconduct in Australia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our penultimate board member introduction is to our vice president, Aidan Tan. He somehow finds time to serve as VP, practice medicine, and work on a PhD in metascience. www.linkedin.com/posts/day-8-...

Well, #WCRI2026 was an amazing conference! Spent 5 days mingling with #ResearchIntegrity enthusiasts from all disciplines! Inspiring to hear all the efforts going towards battling #papermills Huge thanks to @jabyrnesci.bsky.social for organising this sleuth get together. Too many legends to tag! 💜

What a moment! 🌟 @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @brandonstell.bsky.social, @pubpeer.com, and Tim Errington @cos.io on stage at #WCRI2026 For our 5-year-old #EinsteinFoundationAward, there's no better birthday present than seeing our winners on the world's premier stage for research integrity.

Next, Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social, @pubpeer.com, with "Elevating Scientific Standards: Community-Driven Assessment on PubPeer" Set up as online journal club - to share information or concerns with other readers of certain papers - it serves as a global evaluation of papers. #WCRI2026

New preprint: Preregistration is supposed to make research more transparent. But if registry records aren't kept up to date, the transparency benefit erodes. We checked 1,137 psych meta-analyses on PROSPERO and found the records are systematically out of sync with reality osf.io/preprints/ps...

💡So much research is already free to read in Australia – but it’s not getting the support it needs #DiamondOA theconversation.com/so-much-rese...

I’m hiring a PhD student! The candidate will work alongside @zefreeman.bsky.social, who is joining our research group as postdoc. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

Day 7 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Today is Patrick Forscher, Director of the CREME meta-research team at Busara, a research and advisory nonprofit headquartered in Nairobi that does behavioral science in service of alleviating poverty. www.linkedin.com/posts/associ...

Day 6 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Today we have returning board member Kylie Hunter, of the NHMRC Clinical Trial Centre: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Nature research paper: Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioural sciences go.nature.com/3OhvkfP

But peer review is a great signal of credibility!

🔊SAVE THE DATE for our 6th SORTEE conference: 13-14th Oct 2026! Registration & content submission (unconferences, hackathons, workshops) will open soon. Keep an👁️on sortee.org/upcoming/ #SORTEE2026 To join the mailing list for conference updates, click: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...