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Steve Kambouris

@steve-kambouris.bsky.social
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Senior Research Fellow, Australian Council for Educational Research Psychometrics | Rstats | History and Philosophy of Science | Metaresearch | Reproducibility | Open Science | Simpsons References

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simine vazire @simine.com · 5h
Another special issue at Psych Science! We invite “submissions that advance the field through critical appraisal of articles previously published by Psychological Science” Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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Special Issue Call for Submissions: “Appraising the Foundations of Psychological Science”
Editors: Tom Beckers and Heather UrryOne way a journal can earn its reputation for quality is to take active steps to vet the articles that appear within its pages after publication. To that end, Psyc...
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Stephanie Harkin @saharkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Come chat with me about feminine computer creativity :) Did you make experimental hobbyist games? Did you mod the sims? Did you make Neopets fan sites? Are you Australian and over 18yo?
A participant recruitment flyer for a research project on feminine computer creativity. An image of a Sims house and a Neopets character are included on the poster.

The callout reads:
"I am looking to talk with people who used computers for hobbyist non- commercial feminine creativity relevant to games. All interpretations
of femininity are welcome. This project aims to learn more about feminine tech-competency and feminine game cultures that have
been overlooked in games histories."
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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 18h
🌏 OceaniaR 2026 is fast approaching! 🌏 Join fellow #Rstats nerds in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia and work on meaningful projects. Learn skills, wrangle interesting data and solve problems! 🗓️ Sun 29 Nov 0900 - 1600 📌 Register statsoc.org.au/event-6818002
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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 18h
💡 Are you a current Australian student or recent graduate? 💡 Are you working on an open source software? Consider submitting your software for The Statistical Computing And Visualisation Open Source Statistical Software Award! 🏆 🗓️ Applications closes soon 31 Oct 📌 statsoc.org.au/Statistical-...
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Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨Exciting project alert!!🚨 Are you interested in data and code sharing in Ecology and Evolution? @eivimeycook.bsky.social and I are running a hackathon to quantify data and code availability and sharing quality across 90 society journals, and looking for people who want to be involved.
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
⏰ Only a week left until this year’s SORTEE conference ✍️ Register today! For all the details, go to sortee.org/upcoming/ See you on Tuesday next week!
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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The impressive list of #NobelPrizes in physics related to neutrinos 🧪⚛️: 1988 - discovery of muon neutrino 🚨 1995 - detection of neutrino 💡 2002 - detection of cosmic neutrinos 🎇 2015 - neutrino oscillations 🌊 2026 - discovery of high-energy cosmic neutrinos 💥
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 06/10/2026
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen for work on neutrinos of astrophysical origin using the Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceCube... #NobelPrize #Astrophysics #ParticlePhysics
Fracis Halzen photo on Nobel Prize website
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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Request: Do you know of any oral history projects with relevance to covid-19? Context: I'm doing a mapping exercise for my new job at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social on covid commemoration. I have a pretty solid list but I know there are more out there! Please share!
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Sajedeh Rasti @sajedehra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We are excited to announce that we are going to broadcast the second day of Meta-Research Symposium 2026 (this Friday on October 9th) for those who were interested but unable to join in person. You can join the meeting using this link: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
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Ana Martinovici @anamartinovici.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hiring a Research Software Engineer for ReproHub! Are you interested in and have the skills to help build tools that make it easier to produce, evaluate, and promote reproducible research? Read the job ad and apply before Oct 14: career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
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Job opening: Research Software Engineer (24587)
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Steve Kambouris @steve-kambouris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Professor Hans Pols will give the 2026 AAHPSSS Dyason Lecture: "Medicine without Physicians: Do-it-Yourself Doctoring in the Dutch East Indies" Mon 2nd November at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney, and also streamed online - register via link below #HPS #STS #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meta-science/methods improvement people: What are your favorite conferences?
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Steve Kambouris @steve-kambouris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I see we are employing terrestrial megafauna to deal with marine megafauna
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Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please share! Participants wanted for an online survey investigating player attitudes towards hybrid boardgames. Scan the QR code/go to go.unimelb.edu.au/t44h to complete the survey & enter the prize draw. Questions? Email hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au University of Melbourne Ethics ID No.: 35781
The stylised image looks like a snakes and ladders board, with the logo of The University of Melbourne at the top left.  The text reads:

Call For Participants
Board Game Research Study
The University of Melbourne Ethics ID Number: 35781

We are conducting a research study that investigates player attitudes towards hybrid board games. We are inviting people who are interested in board games to participate in an online survey.

Who Can Take Part?
·        Board game players comfortable participating in an online survey
·        Be at least 18 years of age

What Will You Do?
·        Take part in an online survey which takes about 20 minutes to complete
·        Optionally, enter a draw to win a digital gift card equivalent to AUD$200.

What’s In It For You?
·        A chance to contribute to research shaping the future of board games
·        A chance to win a digital gift card equivalent to AUD$200.

Where/When?
·        Online, at a time that suits you!

How Do You Sign Up?
·        Scan the QR code or go to https://go.unimelb.edu.au/t44h to complete the survey and enter the prize draw!
·        Any questions? Email us: hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
To support @womenjournos.bsky.social, please bid on these two vases for our online auction, which happen to be created by mother! Starting bid is at $25 (which is lower than she sells them at craft fairs). Vase 1: givebutter.com/c/jaws-camp-... Vase 2: givebutter.com/c/jaws-camp-...
A white vase with a floral design on it.A blue and light blue design on a vase
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 28/09/2026
🗓️ Reminder: The first OSF Projects transition deadline is 7 weeks away. Starting November 16, 2026, you will no longer be able to create new OSF Projects or add new components to existing projects. (🧵1/3)
OSF projects changes chart
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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Musk lorikeet Trichoglossus concinnus in a grass tree Xanthorrhoea australis, Inverell, NSW photo by Ash Falconer
Musk lorikeet Trichoglossus concinnus in a grass tree Xanthorrhoea australis, Inverell, NSW photo by Ash Falconer
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AAHPSSS @aahpsss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Join us for the 2026 AAHPSSS Dyason Lecture. Professor Hans Pols will speak on do-it-yourself doctoring in the Dutch East Indies. Monday 2 November, 5 pm, Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney, or online. For full details, see: aahpsss.net.au/2026-dyason-... Register: events.humanitix.com/2026-aahpsss...
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2026 AAHPSSS Dyason Lecture: Medicine without Physicians
Professor Hans Pols delivers the 2026 Dyason Lecture on do-it-yourself doctoring in the Dutch East Indies. Join us in person at the Chau Chak Wing Museum or onl
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ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unboxing day! Over a decade in the making, NECESSARY INVENTIONS: ROGER BACON, THE MIDDLE AGES, AND THE MAKING OF MODERN SCIENCE (PENN Press) is a material object. Thank you to everyone who helped along the way. For sale on October 20. @pennpress.bsky.social
Photo of a box filled with multiple copies of the book. The cover is ochre, and has different images of Bacon, from manuscripts and printed books.
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#MusicBrownlow @musicbrownlow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Voting is open in the #AdamSimpsonMedal. We want to know your three favourite songs from The Simpsons. Give us your 3-2-1.
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The harder part was often reconstructing the upstream pipeline: cleaning data, applying exclusions, constructing variables, and deriving the analytic sample. Materials showed a similar pattern: final datasets were fully available for 74.6% of articles, but raw data for only 46.3%.
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reproducibility depends heavily on where you start. From authors' final analysis data: ✅: 58.2% fully reproducible 🟡: 32.8% partially reproducible ❌: 9.0% not reproducible From raw data: ✅: 28.4% fully reproducible 🟡: 34.3% partially reproducible ❌: 37.3% not reproducible
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Over the past two years, I4R partnered with Psychological Science (@psychscience.bsky.social) on a large reproducibility project. 67 independent teams reproduced 64 articles published in 2024–2025, about 44% of eligible papers. Paper: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... Here's what we learned 🧵
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today is World Cassowary Day! The 12yo likes specificity so of the 3 species he’s declaring a Southern Cassowary Appreciation Day. Personally I appreciate that they are terrifying. Endangered in Australia there remains a healthy population in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
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World Cassowary Day 2026: Celebrating the Rainforest's Keystone Gardener 🎥
Every 26 September, conservationists, schools, zoos and nature lovers mark World Cassowary Day — a chance to celebrate one of the planet's most extraordinary birds and spread the word about why it mat...
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Steve Kambouris @steve-kambouris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not to be confused with the Thucidydes Trap, which is when you commit to writing out an unfamiliar word without checking how to spell it first
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Do you have a painting or drawing by Lawrence Bragg? The Nobel Prize-winning scientist appears in the 1927 Solvay photo alongside Einstein and Marie Curie; he was also a keen painter. I’m planning an exhibition about his life and times in 2027, the centenary of this picture.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/
Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses. 

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.
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Wikimedia Australia @wmau.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Congratulations to Pru Mitchell! Wikimedia Australia is pleased to announce that Pru Mitchell is the winner of the 2026 Craig Franklin Award. This award recognises an individual or organisation that has made a positive impact on the Wikimedia movement in Australia. wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Craig_F...
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Craig Franklin Award 2026
Congratulations to Pru Mitchell
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Richard Easther @rjme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Folks -- anyone keen to put their hand up on this; email in the alt text and my contact details are easy to find?
The New Zealand Institute of Physics is developing a campaign to convey information about I build support for physics (news items, career information, study opportunities etc) to a ariety of audiences (young people, teachers, physics professionals, policy makers etc. 

Part of is work includes the design and development of a communications strategy (along with a website and potentially associated printed materials) and we are seeking expressions of interest to help build this.

president@nzip.org.nz
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Steve Kambouris @steve-kambouris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It seems remarkable now to think that in Melbourne in the 1980s, one would (regularly!) hear Italian and Greek language spoken on mainstream commercial TV, in the ad for Franco Cozzo's furniture stores. But now, the important question: do they also sell the plastic covering to put over the couch??
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Swamp @sirswampthing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
1st game missed by last 10 players standing from #AFLW 2017 R01 2022 s7 R8 Elise O'Dea 2023 R2 Paxy Paxman R8 Jess Dal Pos 2024 R2 Emily Bates R4 Ellie Blackburn 2025 R4 Nicola Stevens R4 Jasmine Garner 2026 R1 Ally Anderson R6 Libby Birch EBONY MARINOFF still hasn't missed
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵
Two-panel figure. Panel a is a flow diagram tracking 1,611 empirical psychology articles from publication year (545 in 2015, 552 in 2020, 514 in 2025) to repository-link type: 785 link an OSF project, 85 link another platform, and 741 link no repository. Of those with an OSF link, download counts were retrieved for 670 and not retrieved for 115. Panel b is a line chart of the share of empirical papers linking OSF across 2015, 2020 and 2025. The overall rate, shown as a dashed black line, rises from 9% to 57% to 82%. All four journals rise steeply and end close together: Psychological Science 92%, JESP 89%, JML 83%, Cognition 76%, with Psychological Science highest throughout.Three-panel figure. Panel a: ridgeline plot of downloads per file by material type on a log scale, with the percentage never downloaded labelled for each — archive 16% of 545 files, documents 20% of 2,970, code 12% of 3,471, other 17% of 1,646, data 21% of 10,051, media 35% of 2,120, images 35% of 4,102. Most files cluster between 1 and 10 downloads, with long right tails past 100. Panel b: ridgeline plot of downloads per paper by journal, log scale, with dashed median lines; Psychological Science is highest, then JESP, JML and Cognition. Panel c: stacked bars showing, for documents, data and code separately, the share of papers by download band (0, 1–10, 11–100, more than 100) in 2015, 2020 and 2025. The share exceeding 100 downloads falls sharply over time in all three types, from roughly two-thirds in 2015 to a quarter or less in 2025, as the 1–10 band grows.Four-panel figure. Panel a: statistical languages detected among 333 papers with retrievable code — R 88%, SPSS 12%, Stata 4%, SAS 1%. Panel b: code red flags among those 333 papers — 34% hard-code an absolute path, 40% reference a missing file — above documentation among 672 OSF-linked papers — 21% have a README, 30% are documented by README, description or wiki. Panel c: among 562 Elsevier papers with no repository link, 44% (245) host at least one journal supplementary file but only 14% (77) host data, code or an archive. Panel d: composition of those 448 hosted files — documents 52%, data 21%, media 9%, other 7%, archive 6%, code 3%, images 1%. The code panels are green, the journal-supplement panels blue.Coefficient plot (download predictors)

Dot-and-whisker plot of three standardised predictors of OSF download volume, each with a 95% confidence interval. Repository size (number of files) has the largest effect at about 0.76, citations about 0.38, and altmetric attention about 0.12. All three intervals sit entirely above zero, so each predicts more downloads, with repository size roughly twice the effect of citations and six times that of attention. X-axis: standardised effect, −0.2 to 1.0.
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Today the 12yo has declared Tilcayo Tiger Cat Awareness Day! Leopardus tilcayo is the first new-to-science (known to Indigenous locals) wildcat in a century (with a description published yesterday). This wee spotted tiger cat lives in the cloud forest of the Bolivian Yungas. Check out its discovery
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New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is slender, spotted and smaller than a house cat. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/
A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you had an AI that could competently check scientific papers for problems, what would you guess is the rate of the following [assume non-scam scientific journals]: 1) outright fraud 2) incorrect use of stats 3) errors that overturn conclusion 4) claiming sources say stuff they don't say
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Steve Kambouris @steve-kambouris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wow, it turns out this is more difficult than I thought it would be.
An Excel spreadsheet with a duck emoji in row 1 of columns A, B, D, E, F, and G, and a duck emoji in row 2 of column C. Despite my best efforts, it appears that I do not in fact have all my ducks in a row.
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Felipe Fontana Vieira @felipefv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Next week I will give a free webinar about how I have been using Nix (by itself) but mainly through {rix} for my current articles. If anyone is intested, my plan for the structure of the webinar (in the comments):
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 11/09/2026
Do any medical/health psychology people here have experience with the scoring properties of the SF-36? 🙏🙏🙏
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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide, edited by the inestimable @phieveigl.bsky.social (and me!), has 27 chapters from super-cool philosophers of science explaining how they do their thing, and is now open access! Our baby is free! #philsci direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
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Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide
A guidebook to methods and methodology, encouraging deeper engagement across the philosophy of science and beyond.The last twenty years have seen multiple
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Ana Martinovici @anamartinovici.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Workshop done 😀 since I anyway put together a list of resources, I'm going to share it in this thread. So here we go, my top recommendations for how to improve computational reproducibility of your work
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@shreyadimri.bsky.social et al. “Meta-analysts must lead by example and embrace all FAIR principles” We assessed meta-analyses in ecology, evolution & environmental sciences for methodological & reporting quality, data/code sharing, and data FAIRness. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X21...
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Meta-analysts must lead by example and embrace all FAIR principles
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Steve Kambouris @steve-kambouris.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Mr-Smithers-is-a-Bond-villain subplot is great in this episode, but I really love this tiny piece of physical comedy, where the descending panel hits Tom Jones in the head, knocking him out - they managed to punch up an already ridiculous scene ("that's it, big smile, everybody's happy")
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The Metascience Observatory @metascienceobs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
AI for metascience data extraction, AI for peer review, AI for forensic auditing, AI for rigor-checking, AI for sleuthing, AI for replication, AI for lit review..... today's AI is making so much possible now! Apply to attend this online conference for free here: 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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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
2026 SORTEE Conference Plenary speakers announced — Dr Lauren Cadwallader (PLOS) & Dr Tatsuya Amano (UQ)! Program & registration now open. New this year: microgrants for conference barriers, apply by Sept 6. Details available here: sortee.org/upcoming/ See you in October!
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Are you passionate about code integrity and accessibility? Do you have skills in R, Python or Julia? Why not apply to be one of our new Code Integrity and Accessibility AEs? Open to any career stage. Details here: apply.workable.com/britishecolo... (sadly not paid, but comes with nice perks)
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Associate Editor (Code Integrity and Accessibility) - British Ecological Society
Volunteer role: Associate Editor (Code Integrity and Accessibility) Organisation: British Ecological Society – Methods in Ecology and Evolution Term: 3 years Closing date: 25th Sept 17.00 BST Location...
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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 26/08/2026
🎉 ReproducibiliTea 2026 Conference | 25 September 2026 “A decade on & decades ahead” ☕ Session 1 | 10:50–11:50 👉 Register for the ReproducibiliTea 2026 Conference and discover the full program, speakers, and session details on our website: 🔗 reproducibilitea.org/conference2026
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 25/08/2026
What are some examples of *non-fraudulent* major errors in scientific papers that had major consequences, perhaps after taking a long time to be corrected?
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Samuel Pawel @samuelpawel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Meta Science for Methods Research is just around the corner! How can we improve research on research methods? 💻 Registration for online attendance is still open! 📅 31 August - 1 September 2026 🔗 crsuzh.pages.uzh.ch/msmr/ #MSMR2026 #MetaScience #MetaResearch
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1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Meta Science for Methods Research – MSMR 2026
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Steve Kambouris @steve-kambouris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
5 Simpsons lines I utter most off the top of my head: 1. ...Maybe a little [powdered sugar]. 2. Now remember, we're in the "Itchy" lot. 3. That's not a question, Professor. 4. [Duffman] says a lot of things! 5. <Smithers' murmur> [square brackets] indicates substitution from the original line
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