Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 04/10/2026open.substack.com/pub/redteamo... #metasciopen.substack.comThrowing spaghetti at the wallA familiar genetic finding makes it into The New York Times 000
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 07/08/2026"Last week, maybe the most prominent blogger to have touched the replication crisis, and author of one of its classics, Scott Alexander, wrote a piece that surprised some of his audience..." open.substack.com/pub/redteamo...open.substack.comPsychology is not mostly fineAstral Codex endorses justice delayed on the replication crisis 000
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 17/03/2026A poll finds that priming research might be bad enough to save science. #metasci www.redteamofscience.com/p/the-missin...redteamofscience.comThe missing linkA poll finds that priming research might be bad enough to save science 001
Reposted by Red Team of ScienceWorld Conferences on Research Integrity @wcrifoundation.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Scientific sleuthing: a better evening in than watching Netflix? #ResearchIntegrity #Science #WCRI2026 #WCRI www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/scient...timeshighereducation.comScientific sleuthing: a better evening in than watching Netflix?The £2 million recently awarded to a whistleblower by a US court is a rare reward for the volunteers who trawl the scientific literature for error and fraud. Yet their numbers continue to grow. So wha... 011
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Koroshetz was adamant about improving science but his project to get schools to teach rigor has had mixed results. www.redteamofscience.com/p/nih-encour... www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgFiring of neuroscience institute chief adds to NIH’s leadership vacuumTrump administration declines to renew appointment of Walter Koroshetz, against NIH director’s wishes 000
Reposted by Red Team of ScienceCharles Piller @charlespiller.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Misconduct sleuth wins $2.63 million from major cancer institute in $15 million settlement | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgMisconduct sleuth wins $2.63 million from major cancer institute in $15 million settlementData detectives see validation in deal with U.S. government that penalizes Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for misrepresenting data in NIH grant applications 073
Reposted by Red Team of ScienceThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 08/12/2025Rachel Aviv reviewed four decades’ worth of Oliver Sack’s journals—many of which had never been read before. What she found reveals how the neurologist’s own stories shaped the ones he told about his patients.newyorker.comOliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality. 28024
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 08/12/2025At least @physicsworld.bsky.social admits to using nonsense from the literature. YouTube "warriors for science" don't need to. #metasci www.redteamofscience.com/p/one-of-the...redteamofscience.comOne of the most dangerous ideas in science was a misunderstandingIt's only getting more popular 000
Reposted by Red Team of SciencePeer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025In case you have missed Simine Vazire's excellent webinar yesterday, here is the link to watch it online: youtu.be/_vb1CNwC3CM Thanks again @simine.com for staying up so late and thanks to the audience for the great questions!youtu.bePCI Webinar series #13 - Simine Vazire - Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis 14830
Reposted by Red Team of ScienceERROR @error.reviews · 24/11/2025Congratulations to @simine.com for winning the Einstein Foundation Individual Award! 🎉 A well-deserved recognition for her seminal efforts to improve scientific rigor, which includes instituting detailed checks for errors and computational reproducibility at Psychological Science. 0216
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 24/11/2025New data: Most psychologists believe crisis persists despite significant progress. Yet evidence suggests there's still an advantage to bending the rules. #metasci www.redteamofscience.com/p/psychologi...redteamofscience.comPsychologists think there's a crisis in psychologyResults from a new poll 020
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Among the references: Bik: The dark side of post-publication peer review. Ioannidis: A new era of hyper-skepticism in science. A former COPE council member apparently thought these were 1. not suspicious and 2. didn't click the links. 000
Reposted by Red Team of ScienceErik van Zwet @erik-van-zwet.bsky.social · 14/11/2025I wrote something about publication bias at statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/14/t... 12810
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 12/11/2025An outsider opened a box and broke the intentionality taboo in metascience. Revision is long overdue. www.redteamofscience.com/p/cognitive-...redteamofscience.comCognitive dissonance and a truly impossible assumptionThe many unopened boxes of psychology 120
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 06/11/2025"The project also stands out for its innovative approach, which is pioneering in cosmology. RedH0T introduces the red-teaming method, inspired by cybersecurity." 010
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I appreciate you all! I hope I have given credit where it's due for some good points. Follow up is here: www.redteamofscience.com/p/physics-de...redteamofscience.comPhysics defends itselfThere's not as much math as you'd expect 000
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Response here: www.redteamofscience.com/p/physics-de...redteamofscience.comPhysics defends itselfThere's not as much math as you'd expect 000
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Counting hypotheses changed GWAS. Why not physics? The role of... insults. #metasci www.redteamofscience.com/p/physics-de...redteamofscience.comPhysics defends itselfThere's not as much math as you'd expect 010
Reposted by Red Team of ScienceDorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 27/10/2025New blogpost on @elife.bsky.social's new Replication study type deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/prob.... tldr = I think it's doomed. #Replication #Publishing #Reproducibilitydeevybee.blogspot.comProblems with ELife's new article type: Replication studiesI was interested to receive an email from eLife last week, telling me that "As part of our commitment to open science, scientific rigour ... 43020
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 22/10/2025I think we're arguing about the reputation of physics. On that, the small amount of string theory is a good argument. 030
Reposted by Red Team of ScienceC&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 21/10/2025More than 20% of chemistry researchers have deliberately added information they believe to be incorrect into their manuscripts during the peer review process, in order to get their papers published. cen.acs.org/policy/publi... #chemsky 🧪cen.acs.org1 in 5 chemists have deliberately added errors into their papers during peer review, study findsConclusion is one of many in a report about how chemists handle errors in manuscripts 2167
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 21/10/2025If you are new to it, base rate neglect is like saying that you have a new hypothesis that you're sure is true for the combination to a padlock, and then another and another. Observers are free to count the combinations and critique. 000
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Base rate neglect is one of the most serious issues in science. It applies to physics. This post is a drop in the ocean on the topic. 100
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 21/10/2025I don't mind this at all. I think you're right. I think physics is at least interesting for what it can still get wrong. 000
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Proposing theories is of course costly if there are googols of theories to propose. The other argument would be that the low base rate theories drown out the rest. I would call any literature with a tiny number of likely true results a crisis. 110
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Physics is the bedrock of science and may be the site of its worst case of base rate neglect. www.redteamofscience.com/p/physics-ha...redteamofscience.comPhysics has all the ingredients for scientific crisisIt turns out all you need is money and a googol of hypotheses to write up 721
Reposted by Red Team of SciencearXiv cs.DL Digital Libraries @csdl-bot.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Kazimier Smith, Yucheng Lu, Qiaochu Fan: From Funding to Findings (FIND): An Open Database of NSF Awards and Research Outputs arxiv.org/abs/2510.10336 arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10336 arxiv.org/html/2510.10336 001
Reposted by Red Team of ScienceRetraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 10/10/2025Dr. Oransky warned of consequences for self-governance failure: "If you don't self-police, if you don't correct the record, if you don't sanction people who commit fraud, [...] someone else will come in and do that. And it very well could be a government that you don't like."conexiant.comIs Science Retracting Enough Papers?As paper mills and fraud proliferate, experts warn the retraction rate should reach 2% of published literature—ten times current levels. 04515
Reposted by Red Team of SciencePaperstars @paperstarsorg.bsky.social · 09/10/2025If science had star ratings like Goodreads, what paper in your field would be a 5/5 - and why? 001
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 07/10/2025This is how far scientific critique lags behind science. We're just learning subtraction. www.timeshighereducation.com/world-univer...timeshighereducation.comProtecting the integrity of university rankingsAddressing rare cases of attempted manipulation is built into the DNA of THE’s rankings. But we will go further, says Phil Baty 000
Reposted by Red Team of ScienceCharles Piller @charlespiller.bsky.social · 06/10/2025I’m deeply honored to have been named as the recipient of the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting from the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. It recognizes my work on scientific integrity for Science Magazine over the last five years. 1/7 tinyurl.com/zz54fzyrtinyurl.comCharles Piller wins 2025 Victor Cohn Prize - CASW 3528
Reposted by Red Team of ScienceSabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social · 17/09/2025There more I think about this, the more disturbing it becomes www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO5u...youtube.comI can't believe this really happened.YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder 107420
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 30/09/2025How extreme is this limitless advocacy? Enough that this author has gotten away with saying that the "rabbit hole" of Hitler's big lie or Orwellian dystopia is a solution to the paradox they would not "prefer." 000
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 30/09/2025The way to increase trust in science is to stop making rules to benefit scientists. Making self-serving rules is so universal in science that the author calls transparency a paradox because it doesn't always help your reputation. 110
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 29/09/2025The replication crisis started in much the same way, with a relatively normal paper. www.redteamofscience.com/p/tylenol-an... 120
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Tylenol and autism. Why normal papers make history: 100
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 27/09/2025This is a thorough and important paper. No attempts to replicate previous studies were found in a sample of 465 articles in physical therapy. Many fields have never measured these indicators and it takes a small number of authors to do it. 030
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 26/09/2025"Harvard could embed metascience into General Education Courses, ensuring that they reach as many students as possible." Ambika Grover in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...thecrimson.comCan Harvard Cure Science’s Mistrust Epidemic? | Opinion | The Harvard CrimsonHarvard leads the world in science and in philosophizing on how to make the world a better place. It’s time to make metascience a bigger part of the conversation. 021
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Ivan Oransky of @retractionwatch.com on delayed scientific reform. "The problem when you don't self-regulate or self-police... when you don't do those things, other people will come in a do them. Probably in a way you don't like." www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQaZ...youtube.comFuture Proof Your Research With RigorYouTube video by Community 4 Rigor 110
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 25/09/2025"The NIH Common Fund has teamed up with NASA’s Tournament Lab to launch the Replication Prize, a competition to advance scientific research by collecting ideas and strategies to make important lines of biomedical research more replicable." commonfund.nih.gov/replication-...commonfund.nih.govNIH Common Fund Launches Replication Prize | NIH Common FundThe NIH Common Fund has teamed up with NASA’s Tournament Lab to launch the Replication Prize, a competition to advance scientific research by collecting ideas and strategies to make important lines of... 010
Reposted by Red Team of ScienceKatie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 25/09/2025I want this kind of back and forth to be somewhere that everyone can see it and enjoy it, in perpetuity. What if peer review worked more like this, in the open? 1247
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Evolution, and why science doesn't mind portraying itself as a bit shit sometimes. www.redteamofscience.com/p/science-ha...redteamofscience.com"Science has always been a bit shit"It evolved that way 000
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 23/09/2025"The question is not whether the factory’s settings are wrong but whether it should be a paper factory in the first place." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...nytimes.comOpinion | ‘The Power of Science to Solve Problems Is Almost Limitless’ 000
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 22/09/2025The Red Team of Science is on book leave. Subscribe for occasional science reform updates, paper reviews, and lesson plans. Like the site, the book is for professionals in healthcare, investment, journalism, and anyone learning scientific critique. (Taylor & Francis, 2026) 010
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 18/09/2025It's true metascience needs to prune nonsense or end up irrelevant and unscientific. An invitation to debate to three non-positivists in metascience got no reply. (The invitation stands, of course.) www.redteamofscience.com/p/i-believe-...redteamofscience.comA crossroads for metascience and positivismDare to say you believe some things are true 100
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Some excellent points from @stuartbuck.bsky.social including lack of transparency at NIH, dependency on amateur sleuths, and the need to fund post-publication review and replication. www.statnews.com/2025/09/08/n...statnews.comReforming NIH: A blueprint for 21st century medical researchWe all benefit from a well-functioning and well-funded NIH. But it needs reform, writes the Good Science Project’s Stuart Buck. 010
Red Team of Science @redteamofsci.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Giving feedback to a scientific project continues to spiral out of control, and a FOIA mystery is solved thanks to @publiccitizen.bsky.social www.redteamofscience.com/p/watching-t...redteamofscience.comWatching the watchmen at NIHA FOIA mystery is solved 010