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Association for Interdisciplinary Metaresearch & Open Science. Our mission is to improve the quality of scientific research. aimos.community #metasci #openscience #aimos

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Beth Clarke @bethclarke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Come work on a PhD in Metascience with me! There’s just a little over one week left to apply!
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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.
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Contact Research @contactresearch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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...
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FORRT AI in Metascience Online Conference | FORRT
Register for the FORRT AI in Metascience Online Conference, 28–30 September 2026. Online and free to attend.
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ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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!
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Fiona Fidler @fidlerfm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Sounds like a job for metascientists! @aimosinc.bsky.social
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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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
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AIMOS_2026 | Metascience Conference – Register Today
Join the AIMOS 2026 Conference n Wellington, New Zealand, for three days of interdisciplinary meta-research, keynote speakers, workshops, and networking to improve research practices.
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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Wendy Higgins' excellent talk about problems and solutions for measuring constructs in psychology is now up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni4N...
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Rethinking measurement validity | Wendy Higgins | 2026 AIMOS Metascience Seminar
YouTube video by AIMOS Inc
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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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
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AI has captured a third of research discovery. Study sets out actions required for publishers to make content visible via new channels.
Understanding how AI changes discovery is no longer optional. This report gives scholarly publishers and platforms insights, actionable recommendations and a strategic roadmap.
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 16/07/2026
🧪 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...
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Australia's research integrity system is weak and inconsistent. How can we fix it?
A recent study presents small tweaks that could strengthen an ailing research integrity system.
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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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).
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/07/2026
‘Social media bans are likely to make things worse’: psychologist Candice Odgers on kids, tech and mental health
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‘Social media bans are likely to make things worse’: psychologist Candice Odgers on kids, tech and mental health
She has studied adolescent mental health for 25 years and fears the debate obscures some of the biggest issues facing teenagers – from the impact of Covid to the health of their adult caregivers
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🎉 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
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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This just in from AIMOS: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... - must Australian researchers defy their employers in order to share their data?
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Australian researchers are being forbidden to comply with their contractual and ethical obligations to share data | Association for Interdisciplinary Metaresearch and Open Science (AIMOS)
New bans against foreign collaboration seem to forbid Australian researchers from meeting their ethical and contractual obligations to share data.
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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
retractionwatch.com/2026/07/09/t... Well done editors!
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‘The exploitation still remains’: Stats journal associate editors resign over $3,000 publishing charge
Eighteen associate editors of the journal Statistics and Computing have announced they will resign after Springer Nature announced the journal would require a fee to publish.  In a July 8 stat…
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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...
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The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 24/06/2026
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.
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Major citation index put surgery journals on hold following Retraction Watch investigation
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, follo…
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Olmo van den Akker @denolmo.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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/
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Check Research Outputs for Best Practices
A modular, extendable system for checking research outputs for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.
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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Thank you for warming it up for us Jenny.
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The Cochrane Collaboration @cochrane.org · 10/06/2026
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
Magnifying glass on a stack of paper. Text reads: "Cochrane strengthens systems to manage retracted publications in its published reviews"
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Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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.
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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
AIMOS is glad to submit our response to @stmassoc.bsky.social's discussion paper re: AI in research. osf.io/ghq2r/files/...
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MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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
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Restructuring scientific papers for human and AI readers - MetaROR
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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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-...
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Questioning Some Metascience Assumptions, with Mark Rubin
Do the assumptions of metascience hold up to close scrutiny?
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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The submission portal for #AIMOS2026 is now open. Submit your lightning talks, discussion groups hackathons, and workshops now. www.aimos2026.org/submit
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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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/...
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No, 1 in 6 People Do Not Have Long COVID
The ongoing story of bizarre overestimates of Long COVID rates
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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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/...
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Anne Scheel @annemscheel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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.
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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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".
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Accountability in Research: Ethics, Integrity, and Policy @accountabilityair.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
📝 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
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Editorial expressions of concern are infrequent even for researchers with multiple retracted publications – An observational study
Early notification of journal readers of the existence of publication integrity concerns by an editorial expression of concern (EoC) can mitigate the adverse effects of unreliable research.We extra...
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
New article on regulation of research misconduct in Australia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New evidence of weakness and inconsistency in the regulation of research misconduct in Australia
Public trust in research depends in part on the capacity of the system to detect and correct errors in the research record. In Australia, this task is largely entrusted to research institutions thr...
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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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-...
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Day 8 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Aidan Tan is this year's vice president. A practicing paediatric doctor and metaresearcher with a deep interest in systematic review methods, Aidan also…...
Day 8 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Aidan Tan is this year's vice president. A practicing paediatric doctor and metaresearcher with a deep interest in systematic review methods, Aidan also brin...
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Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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! 💜
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Ulrike Pannasch @up8.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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.
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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...
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Meta-analysis preregistration is intended to promote transparency and reduce research waste.
However, it is largely unknown whether preregistration records accurately reflect the actual state
of research, and how many preregistered meta-analyses are ultimately published in the field of
psychology. We searched PROSPERO for preregistrations of psychology meta-analyses
registered between 2011 and 2021 (n = 1137), verified publication status through systematic
search, and contacted corresponding authors of unpublished registrations (n = 358) to obtain
information on reasons for delays and discontinuations. We found that PROSPERO status labels
were systematically inaccurate: 57% of records labelled "ongoing" were already published, and
publication rates varied by registration status (Completed: 94%; Ongoing: 59%; Discontinued:
9%). Among 80 survey respondents, resource limitations were the primary reasons for project
discontinuation (lack of time: 47%; lack of personnel: 11%; lack of funding: 7%) and
preregistration quality showed no association with publication likelihood. Altogether, these
findings suggest that PROSPERO registrations in psychology frequently fail to reflect the true
status of a meta-analysis, undermining their value as a transparency tool, and that resource
limitations frequently lead to meta-analysis abandonment. We recommend that journals and
funders require registration updates at publication to reduce the accumulation of inaccurate and
abandoned records.Figure 1. Overview of PROSPERO preregistrations of meta-analyses in psychology. (a) Number
of psychology meta-analysis registrations per year (2011–2025); the dashed line marks the onset of the
COVID-19 pandemic. (b) Publication status by year of registration (2011–2021). (c) Publication
outcomes by PROSPERO registration status (Dark yellow = unpublished; Blue = published).
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Tracy Creagh @creaght.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
💡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...
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So much research is already free to read in Australia – but it’s not getting the support it needs
‘Diamond open access’ means research is free to read, free to publish. It’s a public good – but it relies on volunteer labour.
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 18/04/2026
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...
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PhD Student in Meta-Science and Clinical Psychology - Universität Bern
Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student in Meta-Science and Clinical Psychology
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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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...
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Day 7 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Today we have the redoubtable Patrick Forscher, Director of the CREME meta-research team at Busara, a research and advisory nonprofit headquartered in… | Ass...
Day 7 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Today we have the redoubtable Patrick Forscher, Director of the CREME meta-research team at Busara, a research and advisory nonprofit headquartered in Nairob...
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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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/...
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Day 6 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Today we have the great Kylie Hunter, who studies the cutting edge of systematic review methods. Kylie is longtime advocate for open data to improve public… ...
Day 6 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Today we have the great Kylie Hunter, who studies the cutting edge of systematic review methods. Kylie is longtime advocate for open data to improve public h...
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Nature @nature.com · 06/04/2026
Nature research paper: Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioural sciences go.nature.com/3OhvkfP
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Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioural sciences - Nature
A study of reproducibility in a stratified random sample of 600 papers published from 2009 to 2018 in 62 journals spanning the social and behavioural sciences finds higher reproducibility among more recent papers and papers from journals that require data sharing.
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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
But peer review is a great signal of credibility!
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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Is the current political crisis also revealing cracks in the move to open science in many countries? It's a fertile topic and also the focus of @metaror.bsky.social's current call for papers.
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
🔊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...
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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Day 5 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board. Thank you @ginagrimshaw.bsky.social for joining the board and leading the 2026 conference! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Team — AIMOS | Association for Interdisciplinary Metaresearch and Open Science (AIMOS)
Day 5 of introducing our 2026 AIMOS board is the redoubtable Gina Grimshaw, who is also expertly leading the 2026 AIMOS conference, the first one outside of Australia! Thank you Gina. https://lnkd.in/...
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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Imposter participants?? Very glad to co-host this webinar with the NSW Health Statewide Biobank and @jabyrnesci.bsky.social. Find it at: teams.microsoft.com/meet/4182560... Meeting ID: 418 256 007 984 26 Passcode: gp9pp7aT
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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Our friends at EPIC have an important talk scheduled in about a week and a half, about the relevance of foreign decisions for drug approvals: uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85895443588
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Sadly, I think the CRediT taxonomy is being misused. Anyone can just make stuff up about paper contributions. Here we have an article where 5 authors were credited with "visualisation" in a paper with no figures. pubpeer.com/publications...
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PubPeer - Associations Between Body Mass Index, Movement Behaviors, Mo...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Associations Between Body Mass Index, Movement Behaviors, Motor Skills, Inhibition and Visuospatial Working Memory in Preschool Children: A Cross-Section...
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