David Mellor

Registration now open for this big meta-science unconference in Berlin, hosted by the QUEST Center for Responsible Research!

Take your pick from 10 projects to collaboratively work on a tangible output that will make science better: rr-in-action2025.org/programme/

#metascience2025

Saying such words with a smile on your face is so dystopian. It's difficult to comprehend.

Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Support NIH Staff Now!

I urge everyone to read & sign the NIH's Bethesda Declaration. There are many chilling aspects of the draconian, shortsighted, and illegal cuts, but the worst are the cancelled trials that have left patients without care in the midst of treatments www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

We are no longer updating it as the time and resources to do so became too high and we were no longer seeing impact of TOP Factor replacing other metrics. We're investigating ways to continue toward that goal and will post about it soon. Meantime... feel free to use data as you wish!

Musk’s ‘Doge’ guts nearly $1bn in US education department’s research office Cuts in effect wipe out Institute of Education Sciences, one of the country’s largest funders of education research

One of many gutted programs, the IES conducts critical education research www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's live now!

It is thrilling to announce that Lifecycle Journal is open for submissions. Come and try out this reimagining of scholarly communication that meets researchers' needs in the current system and opens the door to an innovative, values-aligned, community-led system for the future.

1. Here are some of my thoughts on the news by Erin Reed that some hospitals are denying new minor patients for gender affirming care:

Hospitals that obey in advance to illegal executive orders can and should be targeted for protest actions by trans activists groups.

bsky.app/profile/erin...

It's tomorrow! Make sure you're registered and join us for this great discussion! #SciPub #JournalEditors #OpenAccess

By far the most fun I've had running 26.2 #rundisney

A picture of a trophy. The real award looks much cooler.

Do you know any early career researchers in the UK who have contributed something special to improve research practices?

The call for the 2025 Dorothy Bishop award is open now! Nominations close on 26 January 2025.

www.ukrn.org/2024/12/12/t...

'Open science in agricultural economics'

New paper in Q Open with Arne Henningsen, Julia Höhler,
Robert Huber, Jens Rommel and Carola Grebitus.

Open Access: doi.org/10.1093/qope...

Half of them so far, no misses yet.

I just tried this for the first time and it seems very helpful so far. Take a look.

a man is standing in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america ' ALT: a man is standing in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america '

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Amazing talk on wrongful convictions by @barbobrien.bsky.social last night! Love learning from different fields.

This slide got me, the majority of exonerations occur due to perjury/false accusations (orange) or official misconduct (purple).

@aimosinc.bsky.social #AIMOS2024

I was glad to present on "Good News from Metascience" at #AIMOS2024 where I pointed out several positive trends or improvements that metascientific research has enabled in science and policy. Slides here osf.io/swfqk

Even if/when courts rule against him, we will clearly pull a Jackson and ignore it.

Pure contentment

We just found the release of the new Moana end credit song and the consensus in my household is that it's going to be great.

The pollinator action outside the library gave me an taste of joy recently.

Thank you to everyone who joined us today to talk about updates to TOP, leb by @seangrant.bsky.social @katiecorker.bsky.social and Suzanne Stewart slides are here: osf.io/8fawk and details here osf.io/preprints/me...

I fully expect him to be "acting AG" for as long as he remains on Putin's nice list, at which point acting AG Trump Jr will take his place.

New from @katiecorker.bsky.social at @cos.io, an update to the TOP Guidelines. Hey sociology journals: Good time to fire up a new transparency and openness policy? www.cos.io/blog/new-pre...

The purpose of the field is to increase awareness of how many total pubs are made from any given dataset. It is possible that reviewers will follow the links (they may feel they need to know how much prior analysis has been done), in which case they would be obligated to let editor know

That's a good question. I'd recommend: This prereg will be shared anonymously, I am disclosing the following pubs in the interest of complete transparency, in order to maintain annymty do not follow while if participating in double blind review. DOI, DOI, DOI.

Yeah I think that would be really neat- preregs are definitely the right opportunity to get that feedback

Ahah found out- that comment section is an archive of any comments made on the live project but there is no current feature that allows commenting on a registered OSF project. Here's info on comments: help.osf.io/article/204-...

let me take a look but last I heard was that those are definitely not used often