Rene Bernard

Have you registered for #LoveMethods26 yet? Join us from Jan 19-23, 2026 with 19 online workshops and seminars focused on improving method reproducibility and transparency. Check it out: excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods...

👉 Don’t miss out.
It only happens once a year.
Because better methods = better data.
Register now for LOVE Method Week.
excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods...
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🌱 This is your chance to gain practical, applied skills
that help make your science reproducible — not just publishable. (4/5)

#LoveMethods26

📅 Jan 19–23, 2026
🎯 For scientists, students, educators – across preclinical & clinical research (3/5)

💡 From in vivo design to transparent reporting
19 free online sessions will walk you through
how to build more reproducible, robust methods. (2/5)

🧵 Why are so many experiments hard to reproduce?
Spoiler: It's not the data – it's the method.
That’s where LOVE Methods Week comes in. (1/5)

Thrilled that @shreyadimri.bsky.social & I will be part of #LoveMethods26!

We'll present on "How to avoid common problems in #SystematicReviews & #MetaAnalyses"

📅 Jan 19–23, 2026 | FREE | All online

Everyone's invited to join the entire week of workshops!

🔗 excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods...

»Wir leben in einer totalen Reputationsökonomie, in der Karrieren weniger über wissenschaftlichen und damit gesellschaftlichen Impact, sondern über Surrogate wie Zitierhäufigkeit des Publikationsorgans (sprich: Impact Factor), Zahl der Publikationen und eingeworbene Drittmittel gesteuert werden.«

🌟 #MeetOurDataStewards – Highlight Workshop/Publication #4: Vanessa Fuchs
Discover I3D:bio's great OMERO training slides, workshop materials and presentations. Valuable resource – not just for us data stewards at @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social but also for you. Check it out!
gerbi-gmb.de/i3dbio/i3dbi...

Let's get negative about scholarly publishing – a new paper (first in a long time for me!) on proposals to tackle the problem of publication bias that emerged from a NINDS workshop held in May last year.
occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/... [Direct link to paper: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. This Consensus View discusses the problem of such publication...

Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. @scurry.bsky.social &co present a roadmap to a solution that has a role for everyone in the scientific community 🧪 #Academicsky #reproducibility
plos.io/3VwaU2O

Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. This Consensus View discusses the problem of such publication...

Publication bias continues to skew academic literature. In our new @plosbiology.org article, we outline actionable steps for journals, funders & researchers to ensure all results—not only “positive” ones—are valued. A roadmap for more reliable science: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Jetzt verfügbar Leitlinien zur guten Wissenschaftskommunikation. Bundesverband Hochschulkommunikation und Wissenschaft im Dialog. Hintergrund: Checkliste

Die Leitlinien zur guten Wissenschaftskommunikation sind jetzt verfügbar. Sie bieten Wissenschaftskommunikator*innen Orientierung und Unterstützung. Sie benennen Rollen und Verantwortlichkeiten und beinhalten eine Checkliste für die Praxis:
wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/documents/38...
#Wisskomm

Invitation to the Meta-Science Summer School and logos of affiliated and organizing institutions: Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), the German Reproducibility Network (GRN), the META REP Priority Program, iRise and the University of Coimbra EXCELScIOR project ERA chair.

🔬✨ Interested in research transparency & reproducibility? Join the Meta-Science Summer School: design & launch a meta-research study!
➡️ Co-org. @germanrepro.bsky.social
📅 Date: 15-20 June 2025; apply by March 21!
🔗 www.bihealth.org/en/notices/m...
#OpenScience #Reproducibility #MetaResearch (lmf)

@mathplusberlin.bsky.social @scioi.bsky.social @unisyscat.bsky.social @temporal-communities.de

🎉 The Excellent Pub Quiz was amazing! 🧠 First night focused on #Neuroscience with Laura Göschel talking about #Dementia . 🎭
Next event: April 7, theme #Literature 📖! 🎉
✨ Explore Berlin's research highlights, from literature to AI.
More info on our website!
#PubQuiz #Berlin #Research #scicomm

This is unbelievable and sad!

Webinaire LORIER : les écueils statistiques majeurs à éviter pour les chercheurs en recherche clinique et préclinique - Lorier - INSERM Le groupe d’animation scientifique « reproductibilité et méta-recherche » organise un webinaire en français, le 28 février prochain, sur le thème des bonnes pratiques statistiques. L’intervenant, Andr...

♥️ methods week. At 5 PM a webinar in French with Andre Gillibert ♥️ your statistical methods.

Applications are now open! 3-week courses: Comp Neuro and Deep Learning. 2-week courses: NeuroAI and Comp Tools for Climate Science.

🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨

Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses!

Applications are due Sunday, March 23.

Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/

#mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪

Final call! Come and learn everything there is to know about quality in methods!

Today @researchdataall.bsky.social conference in Potsdam. Stefanie Seltmann could not be here but her poster is on the @berlinualliance.bsky.social CARDs project for the Berlin Excellence Clusters.

What if We Can't Rely on PubMed? - Absolutely Maybe PubMed is incredibly reliable. And a lot depends on it. It’s an ecosystem built around MEDLINE, the steady feed of new publications…

Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @plos.org discusses the lines we need to fight to hold – and alternatives we can rely on internationally:

absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...

#medlibs

A figure depicting features of GitHub that are useful for laboratory research and how they compare to software development.

#GitHub, a platform widely used in software development, offers a robust framework for documenting all activities of laboratory research projects. This Community Page highlights the benefits of, and provides guidance for, incorporating the GitHub ecosystem into wet lab workflows. 🧪💻
plos.io/4i1LWkV

🔍☕ No Data Without... Identifiers!

Persistent identifiers (PIDs) ensure data integrity, accessibility & reproducibility. Join Dr. Stefanie Seltmann in this Tuesdays' Coffee Lecture to learn why PIDs matter!

📅 Feb 18, 2025 | ⏰ 2 PM CET | 💻 Online

🔗 More informations & Zoom Link: shorturl.at/POWeC

ACT UP’s Radical Activism Saved Lives During the AIDS Epidemic The movement stood up to the president, pharmaceutical companies, and the CDC.

This is a very heavy day for us.

To those who lost their jobs, we are with you and will work with you again.

To those struggling to see a future for our work, do not give up.

Real change in public health has always been a battle. Now it’s a war.

We will win it.

This is our country. #RISEUP

Our #RDM coffee lecture series organized by 4 Berlin Excellence Clusters is in full swing. Just swing by on Tuesdays at 2 PM CET (online) and learn in 10 min serveral aspects to make your #researchdata excellent. Cool tips to come: www.unisyscat.de/rdm/coffee-l...

This workshop is part of Love Methods Week 2025, hosted by the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH).

A special thanks to Tracey Weissgerber and @renebernard.bsky.social for organizing this amazing event!

🔗 For more details on the full week of lectures and interactive workshops, visit the link.

Adverse childhood experiences accelerate #brain aging & increase #dementia risk. 🧠
Study: Women with severe trauma show:
🔸 More inflammation/#neurodegeneration biomarkers
🔸 Reduced brain volume
🔸 More frequent cognitive problems
#DementiaPrevention #ChildhoodTrauma #BrainHealth
tinyurl.com/mrx39794

#ILoveMethodsWeek25 is happening this year! R4E are hosting a workshop! — R4E Sign up for the R4E workshop here: https://buff.ly/40SG1Jn Check out other events here: https://buff.ly/40Axc5u

Want to increase your scientific rigor?!!!??
Be sure to sign up for our workshop. Check out details here:

And if you don't yet know about Peerspectives, check out our webpage here: iph.charite.de/en/academic_...

YouTube video by ReproducibiliTeach Why should I care and really need to get an ORCID ?

On our ReproducibiliTeach Youtube channel we just uploaded a new video on "why researchers really need an ORCID and should care about @orcid.org" including a few practical tips. Check it out: youtu.be/PX4MZxJyRdY?... @tweissgerber.bsky.social