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One advantage of open peer review is that research users can tell that one of the reviews was plainly performed by AI (and not even well). wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-26. Under the closed model, we have no idea how rigorous the review process was.

Towards cumulative forensic science: a commentary on ‘Methodological problems in every black-box study of forensic firearm comparisons’ Abstract. Cuellar et al. recently found that methodological flaws in black-box studies of forensic firearms analysis mean that validity cannot be determine

In late 2024, Cuellar et al published a review of all the studies purporting to validate firearms analysis (eg techniques associating a found bullet to a particular gun). They found 'fatal' errors in each one. Surprisingly, we disagree: doi.org/10.1093/lpr/...

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.

@sjmelchor.bsky.social writes for @nature.com about how to spot dubious papers, interviewing @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @abalkina.bsky.social, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, myself and and my fellow @cosig.net maintainers @solalpirelli.bsky.social and Yagmur Ozturk!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Two days ago, the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) released a joint statement about promoting research integrity. Let's hold them to it! www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub...

Designing observational studies for safer inferences: Harrison Hansford How can we better design observational studies to make the inferences we seek?

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Join us for our first metascience seminar of the year, featuring Harrison Hansford and a discussion about the inferences we can safely draw from observational studies.

Team — AIMOS

Day 2 of introducing the 2026 AIMOS Board (aimos.community/team) is Dr Xanthi Coskinas. Xanthi is our brilliant treasurer. She is also Program Manager for Clinical Research at the University of Sydney, where she has more than two decades of experience managing clinical trials.

Team — AIMOS

Day 1 of introducing our 2026 AIMOS Board (aimos.community/team) is @drjbeaudry.bsky.social. Jen is the 2025 AIMOS president and a long time champion of open and rigorous research methods.
www.flinders.edu.au/people/jen.b...

Join meeting on Teams | Association for Interdisciplinary Metaresearch and Open Science (AIMOS) Very cool talk from James Evans coming up at the NSW Biobank speaker series on Wed 18 Feb 2026 at 12-1 pm AEDT about AI use in science. Quoting them: We're very pleased to welcome Professor James Eva...

Upcoming talk about AI use among scientists:

www.linkedin.com/posts/associ...

a man with a beard is wearing a watch and holding a bottle . ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a watch and holding a bottle .

ARC Future Fellow assessments are now up. Best wishes to all that celebrate.

Association for Interdisciplinary Metaresearch and Open Science (AIMOS) | LinkedIn Association for Interdisciplinary Metaresearch and Open Science (AIMOS) | 14 followers on LinkedIn. AIMOS seeks to improve research by studying it and seeking to make it more transparent

We finally have a Linkedin page! Follow there for longer form updates about AIMOS and other news. www.linkedin.com/company/asso...

Thanks!

Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - MetaROR’s approach - Crossref A couple of months ago, Ludo Waltman and André Brasil raised some questions about good practices for Crossref DOI registration, asking for input from the scholarly communication community. In this pos...

@metaror.bsky.social has made some major decisions about its deployment of DOIs:We will mint separate DOIs for peer-reviewed preprints using the 'article' reference type. @ludowaltman.bsky.social and André Brasil lay out our reasoning here: www.crossref.org/blog/innovat...

We are now a partner journal of @metaror.bsky.social, @jcre.bsky.social, and The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing). Read the full announcement here: www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/in...

Introducing the EEG and ERP Methods Template: Q&A with Gisela Govaart and Antonio Schettino Interview with Gisela Govaart and Antonio Schettino, developers of the new ERP preregistration template on the Open Science Framework (OSF).

Now available on the OSF as part of a growing collection of preregistration resources, the new EEG & ERP Methods template guides researchers through every stage of ERP study planning. In our Q&A, two of its creators share how the template can help researchers at all stages:

AIMOS is very glad to partner up with @improvingpsych.org for our 2027 conference!

Stay strong everyone fighting for their dignity.

Replication efforts suggest 'smoking gun' evidence isn't enough to prove quantum computing claims A group of scientists, including Sergey Frolov, professor of physics at the University of Pittsburgh, and co-authors from Minnesota and Grenoble have undertaken several replication studies centered ar...

Replications and data sharing help make more precise claims in physics too! phys.org/news/2026-01...

To bring in the New Year, here's a proposal for external regulation of academic publishing, through a voluntary system of journal certification to the ISO 9001 quality management standard. 🧪 #ResearchIntegrity (1/2) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Court: University disclosure of researcher’s misconduct did not violate due process Flavia Pichiorri An appellate court has dismissed a legal challenge by a cancer researcher against her former institution, ruling the university’s misconduct investigation and disclosure process di…

Court: University disclosure of researcher’s misconduct did not violate due process

#ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI

retractionwatch.com/2026/01/05/f...

ManyFishes: a big team science collaboration on fish comparative cognition - Animal Cognition Fishes are among the oldest and most diverse groups of vertebrates, encompassing a vast array of species that differ in morphology, ecology, and behavior. While such diversity can pose challenges to c...

link.springer.com/article/10.1... - Big team science comes to fishes!

News & Publications Eugenie Reich & Gregg Shapiro Announce $15 Million NIH Grant Fraud Settlement (December 2025) Complaint Settlement Agreement Scientific Fraud in the 21st Century (Video Lecture) Sandia Nationa…

The U.S. Department of Justice has reached a $15 million NIH grant fraud settlement with Dana-Farber Cancer Center. This resolves a False Claims Act qui tam complaint that I filed on behalf of @sholtodavid.bsky.social in April 2024, with Gregg Shapiro as my co-counsel.

Should Australia establish an independent body to investigate scientific misconduct? We asked 5 experts Scientific misconduct can waste public funds and harm human health. But views differ about the best way to tackle it.

Jennifer Byrne, @jasonchin.bsky.social, and others weigh on on whether Australia's approach to regulating research misconduct needs reform.
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A change to the ORCID record now recognizes Editorial Service and these varying responsibilities.

🗣️ New ORCID Feature for Journal Editors: Editorial Service

This new activity allows publishers, including journals or other research publication organizations, to add #TrustMarkers to #ORCID records via the validated #EditorialService data. More on the blog: https://wp.me/pcE4o3-9kO
#Researchsky

Following up from @drjbeaudry.bsky.social's wonderful recap email yesterday, here is the group photo from #AIMOS2025. If you couldn't make this this year, we hope to see you next year in beautiful Wellington!

Job opportunity — Junior Professorship in Psychological Metascience @zpid.bsky.social leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 h/t @bethclarke.bsky.social

Last week, #AusHSI PhD student @alexdgibson.bsky.social presented at #AIMOS2025, highlighting a new global issue of unreliable data within #clinicalprediction model research and clinical practice, which has potential to influence patient outcomes and evidence-based decisions. @aimosinc.bsky.social

Hey folks! We're running a big repliCATS workshop in Melbourne on 16 Dec, evaluating of replicability of published papers.

🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome
💰 AU$200
🎫 + travel subsidies
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Re-posts appreciated 🌈

James Strachan @jamesstrachan (Twitter) • Dec 21, 2019 US publishers, inc. APS, APA, Elsevier, Wiley: "This would effectively nationalize the valuable American intellectual property that we produce and force us to give it away to the rest of the world for free." Non-US academics: WTF Quote Tweet: Association of American Publishers @American... • Dec 18, 2019 Proud to join 125+ other organizations to oppose a costly proposed Administration policy that would undermine scientific discovery, American jobs, & our global competitiveness. Read the coalition letter: ..e-production-content.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/1508/c…. @americanpublish @AmericanCancer @globallPcenter...

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Don Moore presenting a slide of better cognitive science publication pathways and practices at the 2025 SJDM conference in Denver Colorado.

...many leaders in the field are still seeking prestige from a few for-profit, rent-seeking journals.



He then pointed us to better publication practices:
- @peercommunityin.bsky.social

- @unjournal.bsky.social

- @metaror.bsky.social

Post credits: @alexh.bsky.social, @jwastrachan.bsky.social

It has been an honour to partner with @rorinstitute.bsky.social in our mission to make peer review and curation of metascience more robust, transparent, and equitable.

More people need to know about MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social! If you are doing meta-research, then you get that the for-profit publishing system is a headache – you can help sideline journals by having your preprints handled by the MetaROR team for the peer review process. #AIMOS2025

That's a wrap on another AIMOS conference! See you all in Wellington next year.

Thank you for the wonderful live-blogging @elisabethbik.bsky.social - you made my job very easy :)