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Mart Roben @martroben.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

These classic texts are a good place to start: - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... - doi.org/10.1371/jour... For a deeper dive, see "Better Code, Better Science" by @russpoldrack.org: bettercodebetterscience.github.io/book/index.h...

bettercodebetterscience.github.io

Better Code, Better Science - Better Code, Better Science

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Mart Roben @martroben.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Too bad Web of Science & co wasn't tested. If they failed, this would put the "paid-access sci metrics are better quality than open"-argument to rest. If they didn't fail (i.e. knew about it) and didn't tell... well that's just evil.

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Mart Roben @martroben.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I might end up with something like this. 🙂

ASCII representation of repository structure

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Mart Roben @martroben.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Use it & love it. 1k+ pages of notes in the first year alone. The excalidraw plugin lets you create sketches & schematics with LaTeX formulas. The paid version seamlessly syncs your notes across all your devices and is well worth it.

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Mart Roben @martroben.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Community Improvement Advocates. It would need to be shortened of course. As in the CIA is here, they're asking about your data!

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Mart Roben @martroben.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

5/5 ARTICLES OF INTEREST s03 - AMERICAN IVY The third season of this podcast tells the story of the origins of preppy clothing style. Information I didn't know I needed, but enjoyed thoroughly. open.spotify.com/episode/5qRZ...

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American Ivy: Chapter 1

Articles of Interest · Episode

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Mart Roben @martroben.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

4/ QUANTITUDE Imagine a universe where Beavis and Butthead got tenured as quantitative psychologists and made a stats podcast. That's Quantitude. Quantitative methods are also at the roots of science, so it's the yang to Nullius in Verba's yin. quantitudepod.org

quantitudepod.org

QuantitudePod – A podcast dedicated to all things quantitative, ranging from the relevant to the highly irrelevant.

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Mart Roben @martroben.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

2/ METASCIENCE SINCE 2012: A PERSONAL HISTORY A blog post that could be a small book. A memoir by Stuart Buck about the coming of age of open science. The most inspiring text I read last year. goodscience.substack.com/p/metascienc...

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Metascience Since 2012: A Personal History

This essay is a personal history of the $60+ million I allocated to metascience starting in 2012 while working for the Arnold Foundation (now Arnold Ventures).

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Mart Roben @martroben.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Top books/blogs/podcasts from 2024. 1/ DESIGNING DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS - MARTIN KLEPPMANN A book about database technology that is the rare combination of highly readable and deeply technical. Think Feynman explaining physics, but for databases. www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Data is at the center of many challenges in system desi…

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Mart Roben @martroben.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

According to the cited source, it's 22%, not 45%. (Still too high of course!) 54.3 h work week -> 27 h spent on research -> 12 h (45% of research time) spent on research-related admin. thefdp.org/wp-content/u... p18

thefdp.org

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Mart Roben @martroben.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Was R deliberate or happenstance? Is there a universe where tidyverse happened in python (or rust or elixir) instead? Also, thank you for revealing the rhythm, logic and beauty in data wrangling. In pyspark, polars, base R etc. I feel like a mechanic. In tidyverse, I feel like a poet.

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Mart Roben @martroben.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Suppose you record a transaction every time you share your data. You then get scooped (someone leaked your data without recording it). The scoopers say that they're the owner and you're the thief, using blockchain to legitimize your steal. Below ~70% global adoption, they'd likely get away with it?

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Mart Roben @martroben.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Interested, but ignorant. Is there a tl;dr about what blockchain could do for science?

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