David Reinstein

Looking forward to this. I hope we can help (1) support open science globally, and (2) unlock innovative, efficient and productive approaches to research, evaluation, and synthesis

daaronr.github.io/music/#v=1&k=C A little tool I built - 18 ways through a 12-bar blues form, with chords maps and a simple backing track that can be adjusted. Let me know if you find it useful. #jazz #blues #musictheory

Foreign aid contributions fell in 2025 amongst almost all of the top 10 donors. In 2025, the amount of foreign aid given by the world’s richest countries fell by almost a quarter. That amounted to a reduction of roughly US$50 billion.

G7 nations must be ashamed of themselves “The humanitarian system has suffered one of its biggest contractions since being formed in the post-second world war era” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

If you are interested in participating online or in-person, sign up using the link below by September 3rd: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/freiburg_g...

The Institute for Replication and University of Freiburg are jointly organizing the Replication Games on Saturday, September 19th. The Games will focus on replicating papers on the causes of political violence.

Starts Friday: the Animal Futures Tournament on Metaculus. Forecast 16 decision-relevant questions on farmed animal welfare, alternative proteins, wild animal welfare, AI, and animal futures. The Unjournal is partnering with Metaculus and Sentient Futures through our Pivotal… http://dlvr.it/TSzF8b

March 16 online workshop: How should funders compare interventions across physical health, mental wellbeing, & poverty in LMICs? WELLBYs, DALYs, etc.: metrics & 'conversion factors' matter to cost-effectiveness comparisons for major funding choices. uj-wellbeing-workshop.netlify.app -->

Bayes theorem made the superbowl ads!

I've heard suggestion that outside of EE/CS/ML, & even in quant. fields like economics, ...academics don't want to use the *terminal* for 'vibe-coding', research-feedback, etc. Yet tools like Claude Code CLI (running in the terminal) are very useful, powerful, & easy What do others think?

I wish 2026 is the year we stop the drain that scientific publishers impose on science. Instead of funding science, increasing shares of shrinking research budgets are funneled to publishers in exchange of.. not much. Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy

We want your feedback – which evaluations merit the top award, and why? Total prize pool: $6600 www.unjournal.org/news/unjourn... Anonymous: coda.io/form/The-Unj...

Evaluation Summary and Metrics: "Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being" (interim eval.)

www.unjournal.org/news/stakeho... coda.io/form/Stakeho...

How long do Unjournal evaluators take to do their evaluations? For our academic stream, about 8 hours on average, with substantial dispersion. (Scatterplot: imputed data from 40 quantifiable responses, not including applied stream nor those who used the PubPub form.)

Musk is on his way to becoming the world’s first trillionaire He could have done so much good… or just paid a fair share of taxes He chose to kill USAID, which has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them kids

Researchers: Has your paper been evaluated by The Unjournal (see unjournal.pubpub.org)? We want your feedback on the experience, the quality of the evaluations, and how this impacted your work. https://bit.ly/4qKtYIZ 1/10 get a $100 prize.

We're inviting academic journals to recognize The Unjournal's public evaluation packages in their editorial process. - Help w/ editorial triage, review quality, & turnaround - Support transparency, open-access. Details: https://bit.ly/3JEee9J Feedback & questions welcome!

Aid cuts are devastating health services in Africa The sudden dismantling of USAID has led to more death and disease www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Congrats to The Netherlands on their flourishing democracy and on being the largest net contributor to @scipost.bsky.social scipost.org/finances/cou... My countries are doing a bit worse: The US "owes" them €229,286 and the UK €5008. Algeria and Egypt each owe €1. :) #physics #openaccess

If you're among the 2000+ authors citing research evaluated by Unjournal.org, go to unjournal.pubpub.org to learn how commissioned experts rated & assessed that research. Top 'citers of unjournal-evaluated research': https://bit.ly/3WRHc8W include Esther Duflo, Julian Jamison, & Berk Özler

I love what #SciPost does & their narrative. Much agrees w/ Unjournal.org practices. Some differences (Us/Them) 1. Quant. ratings vs accept/reject 2. Publish all evaluations vs. only if ‘accepted’ 3. Fields & applied focus 4. We pay evaluators 5. We don’t 'publish' papers, just evaluations

Unjournal.pubpub.org: 50+ detailed packages evaluating research w/ potential for impact. But who funded the *research*? GiveWell @poverty-action.bsky.social, @gatesfoundation.bsky.social, ERC, NIH, @wellcometrust.bsky.social, & ~40 others See our dashboard: tinyurl.com/22k6ashr -->

https://bit.ly/3Vvz4KN Love Brian Nosek's response to my Q on "fear of negative public evaluations" @ Unjournal & Lifecyclejournal "I certainly understand the fear. I shared it myself until I had the experience of realizing that's how people advance their careers." -->

Rethink Priorities 2022 research: “Forecasts estimate limited cultured meat production through 2050“. Unjournal 2025 evaluators: The forecasts and the report were too pessimistic. Manheim: cultured meat is likely to be commercially viable soon. https://bit.ly/4nhyIDX #CellAg #AnimalWelfare -->

At @unjournal.bsky.social we completed open peer reviews of an @nber.org WP with an experiment to counter pro-authoritarian propaganda. In sum: results are 😍, but we need to better understand what it was about the experimental intervention that made it 👌. Link: unjournal.pubpub.org/pub/evalsumd...

A child dies of malnutrition every 15 seconds, as 185,535 boxes of special food for starving children are stacked in a warehouse in Rhode Island, paid for by American taxpayers. After shutting USAID, the Trump administration is just sitting on the boxes. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...