iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Cylcia Bolibaugh @cbolibaugh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Register for @ukrepro.bsky.social's webinar 'Research data planning and review', Thurs 22 Oct 2026, 13:00-15:00 to hear more from UKRI & UKRN on the future of open research data in UK universities forms.gle/PQ9H7RYZMaug..., hosted by @openresshef.bsky.social

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Open Research: moving from individual recommendations to coordinated action

This 6-part coordinated series of thematic webinars brings together evidence, recommendations, and practical experience from across the research ecosystem to collectively shape the next steps for open...

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 08/10/2026

#BMJInvestigation finds that NHS labs are failing to share data that are vital for the diagnosis and care of rare diseases. Experts and families say this could be prolonging uncertainty and delaying treatment

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Rare diseases: NHS labs fail to share data vital for diagnosis and care, BMJ finds

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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

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Isabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

{renv}, {rix}, rv, uvr, ir... so many new #RStats tools! I wrote up a blog post if you've want to unpack (haha) how they work and how they are different. Inspired by @rpodcast.bsky.social's wonderful Data Science Lab episode (thank you, Eric!). Check out the post here: rworks.dev/posts/r-mana...

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{renv}, {rix}, rv, uvr, ir: An explosion of R package and environment managers – R Works

There has been an explosion of package/environment/platform managers in the R ecosystem recently. Here, we explore {renv}, {rix}, rv, uvr, and ir.

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Matt Parkes @mattyjparkes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Particularly enjoying the names of the different clusters!

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Matt Parkes @mattyjparkes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Introducing new starters to Bluesky and the usefulness of starter packs (blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs), and tripped over this cool thing: bluesky-map.theo.io

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Bluesky Map

Interactive map of 3 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You are not ready for how good this is. Absorb the data first, then horizontal axis, then vertical. Absolute 😗👌

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Matt Parkes @mattyjparkes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Don’t get high quality content like this on LinkedIn, which is why I’m here.

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UoM Research IT @uomresearchit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you lead or manage a group of research technical professionals such as digital archivists, data stewards, digital librarian or archivist or any other dRTP, then a new network has been launched for you! buff.ly/8dCleVc

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COMPASS: Guiding the Future of Digital Research Leadership

Phil Bradbury, Research Software Engineer, and Adrian Harwood, Head of Research Software Engineering, introduce COMPASS. a community supporting digital research technical leaders to share operational…

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Matt Parkes @mattyjparkes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Increasingly feels like 60% of my time is 'logging into systems', and 60% of my inbox is made up of verification codes from logging into systems.

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 28/09/2026

Germany has cancelled funding for the German Cochrane Foundation. Bad news all around. Cochrane’s benefit to cost ratio is huge. @cochrane.org www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/wark...

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Bund streicht renommierter Cochrane-Stiftung die Förderung

Die Cochrane-Stiftung, die seit Jahren die Nutzen medizinischer Therapien untersucht, soll künftig nicht mehr staatlich gefördert werden.

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 25/09/2026

"Systematic reviews are only as credible as the studies they include" INSPECT-SR was published yesterday, giving concrete guidance on how to exclude untrustworthy studies. Cochrane's statement: www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... Article: www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... Guidance: inspect-sr.com

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New tool helps researchers spot problematic trials before they distort evidence | Cochrane

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UCL Innovative Clinical Trials Unit @innovative-ctu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Working in clinical trials and want to understand the meanings of common statistical terms used in clinical trials? Join our 4-day course to learn what’s important and why, and gain an understanding of statistical methods and analyses. 📅 2-5 Nov 2026 🔗 bit.ly/4c7zKyN

Poster, it reads "An introduction to design and analysis of clinical trials: statistics for non-statisticians
2-5 November 2026
9:30-12:45 (UK time)
Online via Zoom
More info/registration - QR code

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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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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🚀Making Replications Count Hackathon🚀 create open source tools that make replication studies impossible to ignore. 📅11th-13th November 2026 Münster, Germany ✈️ Travel & accommodation covered Looking for coders, data wranglers, UX folks & open science enthusiasts Apply: indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco3

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Priscilla Lui @drpriscillalui.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I can attest Zenodo was easy to start and use (frankly more straightforward than what OSF had become); took me 5min to create account and publish project artifacts. I was unable to crack the code on anonymous link in that 5 min. So skip to Amanda’s 11:30 mark before you click that publish button!

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

1/ What is the prevalence of personally identifiable information (PII) in author-collected data publicly shared in the social sciences? We audited 327 replication packages from 11 leading journals in economics, political science, and psychology Answer: surprisingly high 🧵

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

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Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science @bennettoxford.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Don’t forget! ⏰ Be sure to send us your idea for a poster, lightning talk or standard talk for the 2026 Bennett Oxford Symposium on Open Code in Science by 21 September. 🔗https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxZT-6A8mtFwISxllxJxjrcBWH-PnLJCdIWlI6FLNR_Hk9Yg/viewform

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Matt Parkes @mattyjparkes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

That's great, thanks Lisa 😊. I'll take a look. I've managed to cobble something together using a combination of a Codeberg repo (with a Markdown README as a wiki), doing a release, and uploading a .zip of that to Figshare to get a DOI (with a link in the comments back to the repo).

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Matt Parkes @mattyjparkes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'd be keen to get in on this if there's space and interest in more trialsy-flavoured open research/metadata nerds!

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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’m organising a meeting soon with people interested in metadata schema to talk about what research objects need schema and how to make them maximally useful to tool creators. Especially the schema for a research paper, which many tools like metacheck and regcheck need. www.scienceverse.org/schema/

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Matt Parkes @mattyjparkes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Also: Keanu Reeves stars as a former office worker seeking new life on a ship’s crew.

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Matt Parkes @mattyjparkes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Matthew McConaughey joins Anne Hathaway in a search for alternative farming methods in a changing climate.

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Matt Parkes @mattyjparkes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thank you. That's interesting - you're right, perhaps a tad specialised for the specific thing I'm looking for, but good to know - bookmarked!

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Matt Parkes @mattyjparkes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This looks great! Thank you! 😊

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Matt Parkes @mattyjparkes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

GitHub’s probably the nearest thing but not open and no DOIs. Figshare doesn’t allow a wiki, just a crummy description box. Codeberg looks ok but more limited and no DOIs. Octopus.ac looks close but doesn’t fit opinion/methods papers very well. Suggestions/advice welcome!!

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Matt Parkes @mattyjparkes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

OSF getting rid of projects is a right pain. There’s nothing remotely similar as far as I can tell that has: - A DOI for a page - An editable wiki - The ability to uploaded structured files/folders

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 25/08/2026

“…as peer reviewers or question askers at conferences, we must accept that our pet issue is not more important than the other 10 issues and if the analyst has had a good go at handling a bunch of issues, we can’t just pile more and more issues on them to fix. It is impossible.”

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Matt Parkes @mattyjparkes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

New meaning of ‘sceptical priors’ just dropped…

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

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Which Data Repository Should You Use?

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

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Matt Parkes @mattyjparkes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

When it’s publicly funded research, and patients and the public have put themselves at great risk and/expense to give/obtain these data, you could argue that the ethical thing to do is actually to *share* the data for the benefit of everyone, not the other way around… (with everyone’s consent oc)

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 14/08/2026

I’ve been told for years that it’s legally and ethically impossible to share medical RCT data. In 2024, the BMJ made sharing anonymised data mandatory, and now lots* of folk do it. Interesting how the barriers evaporated like that, isn’t it? *not everyone, compliance problems exist.

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Availability of clinical trial individual patient data in the BMJ before and after adoption of a stringent data-sharing policy, compared with recent rates at other major medical journals

Background In 2024, the BMJ updated its data-sharing policy for clinical trials, requiring open deposit of deidentified individual participant data (IPD) before publication. We considered whether data...

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

All four books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - Bayesian Workflow at avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... Links to other three books are in the quoted post 👇 (too many books to fit in one post!)

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Bayesian Workflow book: Website – Bayesian Workflow book

Website for the Bayesian Workflow book by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath, et al. — case studies, code, and exercises in R and Stan.

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 11/08/2026

Many of you will have seen the recent post about changes at OSF. If you'd like to learn more about how to use other services (particularly Zenodo) to share data and code, see my book chapter on resource sharing. bettercode-book.org/book-sharing...

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12 Sharing Research Objects – Better Code, Better Science

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Nice post from @eytan.adar.prof on the cargo cult science of "AI-native" PhD students, who come in super productive because they perform all major parts of research with genAI. No one needs all these quick papers, and they can really hurt students down the road. eytanadar.medium.com/ai-native-ph...

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AI-Native PhD Students

If you’re a student and just want the tl;dr, feel free to jump to the end.

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UK CTU Network @ukctunetwork.org · 10/08/2026

Want to improve your knowledge & practice of clinical trials? #UKCTUNetwork members offer a wide variety of learning & development opportunities covering all aspects of academic clinical research. Find out more here: ukcrc-ctu.org.uk/learning-dev... #ClinicalTrials #Training

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Events across the Network | Registered CTU Network

Find out about some of the upcoming learning and development opportunities taking place across the Network.

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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Are you interested in smartphone interventions?📱 We are too. Specifically we were interested in increasing retention in a digital friction intervention. Let me tell you about our new preprint (1/n) with @dgruning.bsky.social @frederik.riedel.wtf @malte.the100.ci using one sec

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Nathan Yau @flowingdata.com · 03/08/2026

Datatype, a variable font that turns text to charts > franktisellano.github.io/datatype/ Maybe useful for small charts inline with text and tables?

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Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts

An OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts. No JavaScript, no images — just type.

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Matt Parkes @mattyjparkes.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

(And how defensible that assumption is in the context)

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Matt Parkes @mattyjparkes.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Is the facetious answer to this: "Depends on what you're willing to assume?"

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Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🍂 🍃 @mzloteanu.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

#statstab #581 Marginal and conditional summary measures: transportability and compatibility across studies Thought: "Because marginal and conditional summary measures do not generally coincide, their naïve pooling in evidence synthesis can produce bias" #estimands arxiv.org/html/2507.21...

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Marginal and conditional summary measures: transportability and compatibility across studies

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Man in the High Castle destroyed every swastika prop after filming, so nothing could end up as a souvenir or extremist symbol.

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