Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterLukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Very interesting discussions are happening at @forrt.bsky.social's AI in meta-science conference. For example: You can now produce a paper every hour. Will the literature be entirely unusable without another layer of AI or will there be a bifurcation for low- vs high-effort papers? Can PRC work? 121
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026💡 We’re asking the wrong question about AI in research 100
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026INSPECT-SR: a tool for assessing the trustworthiness of randomized controlled trials. 👉https://www.cochrane.org/about-us/news/new-tool-helps-researchers-spot-problematic-trials-they-distort-evidence 010
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026💡 Trust in data: reproducibility packages do not guarantee validity 100
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026💡 AI saves scientists seven hours a week, Google paper finds. 🤔 But study also highlights extra time spent verifying AI-generated results and push towards “safer” projects 👉 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl... 000
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterNick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I make this point all the time. Open science isn't for vanity. We never know who will need/want what until it is needed/wanted! And when that time comes, we'll all be happy it's there. 0113
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Spilling the ReproducibiliTea 25 September 2026 An online conference on reproducibility in research: open discussions, fresh perspectives, and community building with researchers worldwide. 👉https://reproducibilitea.org/conference2026 020
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026💡 “Buying a scientific study that never actually existed”: German YouTubers “went undercover to contact so-called ‘paper mills.’” 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub2e...youtube.comDieses Experiment hat (leider) funktioniert … | Studio QYouTube video by Quarks 001
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026💡 The “synthetic validity” problem in AI-generated science "Large language models may at first blush provide convincing results. But does AI-generated content genuinely embody the concept it is meant to represent?" 👉 www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... 000
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026 💡 Three-quarters of researchers unsure what use of AI to disclose 👉 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl... 000
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Interested in how AI is changing science and metascience? 🤖🔬 Join the FORRT AI in Metascience Online Conference, 28–30 September 2026, for talks & workshops on AI, evidence synthesis, research evaluation, replication, reproducibility, and open science. 🆓 Free & online 👉 forrt.org/ai-metascien...forrt.orgFORRT AI in Metascience Online Conference | FORRTRegister for the FORRT AI in Metascience Online Conference, 28–30 September 2026. Online and free to attend. 010
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026 💡 ❤️ Diamond Review Pledge Peer review is a finite resource, and every review invitation presents a choice about where our time goes. 110
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026 💡 Women make up less than one-fifth of last authorships in influential journals "The analysis showed how gender gaps in first and last authorship have barely shifted over the past decade..." 👉 www.nature.com/nature-index... 010
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterRandy Ellis @randalljellis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Here's my conversation with @bethclarke.bsky.social, incoming Junior Professor of Psychological Metascience at the Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hak... We discussed direct replications, how study limitations are ignored, and p-curving social and personality psychology.youtube.comDirect replications, P-curves, and Acknowledging Limitations | Beth ClarkeYouTube video by Metascience Matters 1199
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterDaniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The number of people doing science opportunistically is great. In 2010, these people p-hacked. In 2026, they do crap preregistrations. Just like we figured out ways to prevent p-hacking, we are finding ways to prevent opportunistic preregistration. The solution is always the same: transparancy. 1277
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterBrian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026For the Replicability Project: Health Behavior we need some editors and reviewers of analysis plans for secondary data replications, especially for complex designs including multilevel, weighting, clustering, missing data. Earns coauthorship on the summary paper. Interested? replications@cos.io 01514
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026💡 Peer Review at Capacity: An editor's view "The problem is not simply that science has too few potential reviewers. It is that reviewing labor is unevenly distributed, weakly recognized, and organized through a publication architecture built for a smaller system." 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2608.29774arxiv.orgPeer Review at Capacity: An editor's viewFrom the editor's desk, the pressure on peer review is no longer an abstract concern. It appears in the growing number of invitations needed to secure an appropriate report, the repeated reliance on a... 000
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026💡 Editorial Conflicts of Interest in Elite Peer Review "...widespread, patterned conflicts of interest (COI)... 49.7% of links involve at least one definitive COI and a further 11.6% are possibly conflicted, with prevalence increasing over time" 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1... 000
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“The academic record is being quietly haunted” by researchers with names like Elena Vasquez and Marcus Chen. 👉https://www.404media.co/the-ai-ghosts-contaminating-academic-publishing/ 000
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026🤔 What if publication bias isn’t that? At least not always? 👉 dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/08/24/w...dynamicecology.wordpress.comWhat if publication bias isn’t that? At least not always?“Publication bias”, aka the “file drawer problem,” refers to results of scientific studies going unpublished non-randomly with respect to some study feature(s). Many discuss… 000
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Disclosure is not documentation A gap between AI-use disclosure as a publication requirement and AI-use documentation as an open science practice. 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1... 000
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Almost every biomedical paper now uses AI. Almost none of us were taught how Adoption hit 89% in three years. The literacy to use these tools safely didn't come with it gustavonewsletter.substack.com/p/almost-eve...gustavonewsletter.substack.comAlmost every biomedical paper now uses AI. Almost none of us were taught howAdoption hit 89% in three years. The literacy to use these tools safely didn't come with it 000
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Retractions of psychiatry and psychology papers indexed in Web of Science are due to scientific misconduct more than half the time, researchers say. 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comRetractions in Psychology and Psychiatry in Web of Science - Journal of Bioethical InquiryA steadfast commitment to scientific integrity should be a fundamental quality of all researchers and is central to their pursuit of knowledge for societal benefit. Failure to uphold this integrity ca... 000
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026"Today’s challenge is no longer confined to flawed individual studies. It concerns the integrity of the knowledge system built upon them." 👉 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/17/g... 000
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterJosh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · 11/08/2026With the upcoming changes to OSF, DataPipe (pipe.jspsych.org) is migrating to a multi-backend model. We're currently developing support for Zenodo, Dataverse, and Google Drive. If there are other providers that you'd like to see as options please get in touch.pipe.jspsych.orgDataPipe 23017
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterSteve Kambouris @steve-kambouris.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Further to this: the news about OSF is the perfect time to recommend @re3data.bsky.social, the Registry of Research Data Repositories - you can search for potential repositories for your data, and filter the results by a vast number of repo features (e.g., does the repo offer versioning or not)re3data.orgHome | re3data.org 02316
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterAleksandra Lazić, PhD @alelazic.bsky.social · 11/08/2026OSF is changing... Had to sit with this one for a bit. Wrote up some reflections over on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/alelaz... #OpenSciencelinkedin.comOSF Changes: A Note to Users | Aleksandra Lazić, PhDThis came as quite a shock at first. A platform built to preserve, changing this much, feels almost contradictory. But data storage is not the only function of OSF, and I applaud the bold decision to ... 195
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterSociety for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 11/08/2026The Center for Open Science recently announced its decision to phase out OSF Projects. We want to share how those changes will affect PsyArXiv, a psychology preprint server run and maintained by SIPS volunteers but hosted on the OSF platform. improvingpsych.org/2026/08/11/w...improvingpsych.orgWhat Researchers Need to Know about PsyArXiv Given Upcoming Changes to OSF ProjectsIn just a few short days (August 15th, 2026), PsyArXiv – the community preprint server for psychology – turns 10! 🥳 Over the past decade, our community has published over 58,000 preprin… 02628
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterBrian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.cos.ioOSF Changes | Center for Open ScienceWe are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif... 10120113
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterProtzko @protzko.bsky.social · 11/08/2026What do researchers believe the replication rate of their field is? What do they think is an acceptable %? Lots of debate but not a lot of data; so we asked! 1,826 researchers in 11 fields said they thought ≈56% of studies in their field are replicable, <≈ 60% is a problem. osf.io/preprints/ps... 093
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kantersimine vazire @simine.com · 10/08/2026Special issue at Psych Science on psychological science in the real world! Send us your best work looking at whether effects from the lab (or from theories) hold up in ecologically valid settings. Submission deadline: 15 January 2027 www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...psychologicalscience.orgSpecial Issue Call for Submissions: “From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World”Editors: Roni Porat and Vishnu SreekumarPsychological Science invites submissions presenting innovative research that brings psychological science “into the wild,” whether to strengthen its ecological... 28158
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 11/08/2026"The lack of response to invitations and the rejection of invitations (by reviewers) creates a crisis in peer review." 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comEstuaries and Coasts Data Explains Why Peer Review is Slow and There is a Reviewing Crisis - Estuaries and CoastsThere is a lot of anecdotal evidence that peer review takes too long, and that it is now taking longer than in the past. But what does the data say? To answer this question, an anonymized version of t... 000
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Do we actually need to write research papers at all? by Mark Hahnel 🤔 👇 hahnel.substack.com/p/do-we-actu... 000
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Review mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle? By Katarina Zimmer www.nature.com/immersive/d4...nature.com‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review warsReview mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle? 000
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterCrystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Issue 55 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ The Rapid Rise of Bayesian Inference and Open Science Practices in Psychology @ejwagenmakers.bsky.social ➡️ data.table, base, dplyr, pandas, and polars @vincentab.bsky.social ➡️ SQLite Query Explainer @simonwillison.net rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...rdmweekly.substack.comRDM Weekly - Issue 055A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources. 0156
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterBrian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 14/07/2026An update from me about how COS is adapting to the destabilized moment for science to continue advancing openness, integrity, and trustworthiness of research. www.cos.io/blog/cos-mis...cos.ioCOS Mission and Strategy EvolutionThe Center for Open Science (COS)'s work has evolved with the maturation of the open science movement. Our strategic priorities focus on supporting the growth of lifecycle open science—making research... 0136
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterDaniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/07/2026We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...tue.nlAssistant Professor in MetasciencePersonal type: Scientific staff 06260
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Join our Many-Analysts Simulation Study—yes, you read that correctly—accepted as Stage 1 Registered Report in (AMPPS) @psychscience.bsky.social. We're trying to find out how researchers' simulation design choices shape methodological conclusions. Further info: osf.io/8vcxh/files/... 25132
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterCenter for Open Science @cos.io · 15/07/2026Jolana Samii’s research focuses on psychological & behavioral factors that influence health & wellbeing, including sleep quality. Her connected research record links a preregistered plan, data, & a preprint so the work can be followed from question to findings. Read our Q&A:cos.ioLifecycle Open Science in Action: Researcher Q&A with Jolana SamiiJolana Samii discusses the value of preregistration; how keeping plans, outputs, and outcomes linked and discoverable strengthens the research record; and benefits of making research publicly accessible. 012
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The reproducibility crisis: is science deceiving us? 🤔 👇 www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/s... 100
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterMark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Establishing-an-effect, theory-of-the-effect, and theoretical framework Three strategies for claiming research progress by Dal et al. (2026): doi.org/10.1002/jcpy... 1175
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterLisa Spitzer @lspitzer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026We just presented the results of our user study & how we will use them to update our info & training platform for #RDM professionals #RDMCompas (rdm-compas.org/en/homepage) at #10KSWD! Thank you to everyone who attended our session! @konsortswd.bsky.social @blask-katarina.bsky.social #OpenScience 041
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterSamantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 15/06/2026New team science initiative just dropped! manyscale.org We're looking for collaborators to lead repositories of self-report measures in their own psychology subfields.manyscale.orgManyScale - A Home for Psychological Measures and ConstructsManyScale will be a network of repositories for self-report measures in psychology. 69338
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterBrian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 02/06/2026"The infrastructure that makes science possible is not separate from science itself. To realize the benefits of research in the modern age, that infrastructure must be supported and sustained for the future." issues.org/open-data-re...issues.orgWho Will Keep Research Data Infrastructure Open and Running? | Real NumbersThe scientific community must consider the longevity of open research infrastructure—why it might fail and how to prevent it. 0186
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterAleksandra Lazić, PhD @alelazic.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I got much better at this once I stopped reading beyond the title. 062
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterBrian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 19/05/2026My interview with APS on SCORE, trustworthiness of research, and trust in science. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...psychologicalscience.orgA More Mature Approach to Credibility Is Needed to Build Trust in ScienceIn this interview, Brian Nosek touches on big takeaways from the SCORE program, how evidence from the program contradicts the 2025 executive order, and his vision for a more trustworthy scientific lan... 1166
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterDirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 20/05/2026🚨 New preprint 🚨 Excited to share a new preprint led by @zakashussain.bsky.social. We review how large language models compare to humans in behavior and representations. Our conclusion: LLM cognition is not simply human-like or non-human-like. It is jagged. 🔗 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... 083
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Hallucinated citations More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone. 🤔 👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41... 000
Pablo Ezequiel Flores Kanter @ezequielfk.bsky.social · 19/05/2026"Survey creation has become too convenient. Too fast. Too frictionless. Too detached from the thinking process... Tell the AI your goal." 👇 kirstenleehill.substack.com/p/one-of-the...kirstenleehill.substack.comOne of the worst things to happen to survey design has been convenience.Yep. 000
Reposted by Pablo Ezequiel Flores KanterDaniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 18/05/2026New interactive simulation in my online textbook illustrating publication bias in meta-analyses, and some techniques to model bias-adjusted effect sizes. None of these work perfectly. We need an unbiased literature to draw valid inferences. lakens.github.io/statistical_... 14014