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📢Nominations are now open for the UFAW Medal for Outstanding Contributions to #AnimalWelfareScience!

Do you know an individual whose research, teaching, service, or advocacy has significantly benefited the welfare of animals? Nominate them here: ow.ly/Bs7b50X3ENT

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Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science
Dates: 20-22 October
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In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night:

Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at?

**pause**

Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

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2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

You’re think *you’re* depressed? Try being at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association right now with 5,000 political scientists presenting their work on the state of democracy, public opinion, and media.

They are also drinking heavily.

Orson Welles would murder every one of you motherfuckers with a hammer.

Giant study finds untrustworthy trials pollute gold-standard medical reviews Two-year collaboration aims to create tools to help counter the tide of flawed research.

IMO the strongest challenge against your view is that the sludge does in fact pollute meta-analyses and systematic reviews (an issue which is likely to grow as evidence synthesis becomes more AI-assisted) Cf e.g. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

when i'm asked to review the revised version

JFC
I don't think my blood pressure can handle me watching that talk.

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The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field?

That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience

A 🧵 1/n

There is no scientific concept of "real world" data or evidence - there is nothing about this terminology that can't be more accurately and honestly conveyed using other accepted methodological terms.

This Delphi is live! Invitations are rolling out. Contact me if you have expertise in trials and would like to participate.

Help me find a paper!

I think it came out 5-10 years ago, and it showed that academic psychologists (or maybe social scientists) had trouble interpreting complex statistical interactions, and couldn't explain a 4-way interaction.

1/2

#openscience #psychology #metascience #statistics

How I blew the whistle on a fellow chemist and colleague Raphaël Lévy talks to Chemistry World about reporting Jolanda Spadavecchia, the backlash he faced and how misconduct should be investigated

I spoke to @raphavisses.bsky.social about how he blew the whistle on a colleague — my latest for @chemistryworld.com: www.chemistryworld.com/news/how-i-b...

It's been a long journey, but our study of (potentially) fraudulent studies in preclinical medicine is finally out as a peer-reviewed paper!

I had a confident streak there for a moment and then I fell apart completely. 5/10 😕

This is the way to go. We should celebrate also our null results! We are not our hypotheses and if we get to anxious about being right all the time, we become worse and more cowardly scientists.

You should have switched doors when you had the chance

Does crying count?

Applicability of the micropipette-guided drug administration (MDA) method for assessing reward-related behaviors in mice Oral gavage is the standard method for acute or chronic per os treatments in laboratory rodents. It can, however, induce significant stress responses …

Freshly published: In this study we show that it is possible to use voluntary intake protocols (e.g. with sweet condensed milk) in reward related behavioural testing #behaviour #mda #refinement

Finally!

Top quality teamwork by @cost-teatime.bsky.social repositories WG to address a key issue in maximising the impact of #Home-cageMonitoring. From the first working group meeting @mrcharwell.bsky.social in Oct’24 to V1 of the preprint in May’25!! Take a sneak peak 👀 here: osf.io/preprints/os...

International Research Integrity Conference. I am arranging this in Sydney in November 16-18th 2025. researchintegrityconf.com Note the excellent speaker list. Contact me!

TIL

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I found the most incredible graph on the other site

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is this a good sign

welp