Malika Ihle

Which Kind of Science Reform What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

GitHub - lmu-osc/safeguar.de-hackathon Contribute to lmu-osc/safeguar.de-hackathon development by creating an account on GitHub.

​Hackathon: Data Under Threat/Data Rescuing in #München

The LMU OSC runs a hackathon to support the #SciOp #SafeguardingResearch initiative: Rescuing research data that is deleted by the Trump administration.
📅 07/08/25 from 16 – 19 (only in-person)
👉 Details and signup: github.com/lmu-osc/safe...

BTSCON 2025 is now seeking submission proposals for their annual conference. All session submissions are due on July 31st. You can submit on the website https://bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/. We are also excited to say that registration is also now live! BTSCON 2025 is now seeking submission proposals for their annual conference. All session submissions are due on July 31st. You can submit on the website https://bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/. We are also excited to say that registration is also now live!

Session Submission and registration is now open for BTSCON2025!

bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/

@abrir.bsky.social @psysciacc.bsky.social @manybabies.org

We are pleased to be supporting this unconference on responsible research: we love the 'getting things done' focus of it! Register for a project, join a diverse working group, and make things happen!

Two weeks left to apply if you are an:

1️⃣ early career researcher interested in developing efficient and reproducible ways of working, and creating reusable and citable research outputs

or an

2️⃣ open science adopter wanting to learn how to spread your enthusiasm

#OpenScience #OpenResearch

Three weeks left to apply to learn rigorous, reproducible, and transparent research methodology!

Our keynotes presenters: @rmcelreath.bsky.social & Tim Errington from ‪@cos.io‬

#OpenScience

LMU Open Science Center Summer School 2025 programme and application process

📢 We are pleased to announce our 4th open science summer school! #OSSS25

📌 Sept 15-19, Munich & Zoom
🔥 keynotes and outstanding hands-on workshops
2️⃣ dual-track: open science training and instructor training tracks!

➡️ apply before July 14 or register anytime for the public lectures!

A Ph.D. in paper mills? Bank Phrom/Unsplash A university and a publisher are teaming up to combat paper mills in a unique way: By enlisting a Ph.D. candidate. In April, the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS)…

A PhD in paper mills? retractionwatch.com/2025/05/01/p...

This @retractionwatch.com piece is about PhD position we have at @cwtsleiden.bsky.social for project on paper mills.

For more info, see www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/adv....

Deadline for applying is May 13.

@stephenpinfield.bsky.social

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

Research data management in lungfish 😆

PubMed down .... Here's my post on what to do

Seven reasons for keeping Elon Musk as a Fellow of the Royal Society Last November, I wrote a blogpost explaining why I had resigned as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). In brief, over the summer a group ...

Latest blogpost on Musk/Royal Society debacle: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve... I look at the reasons that have been given for inaction, and find them wanting. @royalsociety.org

10 days left: Submit your proposal to improve research culture and practices and join the unconference - Sept 22-24, Berlin! Selection: Batool Almarzouq, Olavo Amaral, Kelly Kobey, @malikaihle.bsky.social, @verokiermer.bsky.social, @kordinglab.bsky.social, @ufangyang.bsky.social
rr-in-action2025.org

Update. As recently as January 2, 2025, #NASA had five modules for teaching #OpenScience on its web site. The #Trump administration has taken them down.
https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/tops/os101/

Here they are in the @internetarchive Wayback Machine […]

Learn to reuse this FAIR data management self-paced tutorial to facilitate self-learning or workshops online, in-person or in a hybrid format. Co-developed for the LMU-MPG Open Science Summer School 2024 amongst other self-paced tutorials. Overview here: github.com/lmu-osc

Call for Proposals - Metascience The call for proposals for Metascience 2025 is open with a deadline of 7 February 2025.

Join us at Metascience 2025 in London, June 30–July 2, 2025! Connect, share knowledge, and shape metascience priorities.

Proposals for virtual pre-conference & in-person sessions are open.

🗓 Submit by Feb 7, 2025.
🔗 Details & submit your proposal today: metascience.info/cal...

#Metascience2025

From promoting open science as a job to needing open access as a patient: @pcmasuzzo.bsky.social’s newsletter is also available in English.

Warm congratulations on beating breast cancer ❤️‍🩹

We're looking for a Junior Researcher (postdoc) in metaresearch to join the EXCELScIOR project ERA-Chair meta-research team at the University of Coimbra (www.euraxess.pt/jobs/299801, apply by Jan 24). Open to researchers from many fields who are working in metaresearch & research improvement.

Do you have an idea to improve research culture and practice? Submit a proposal to lead a project during the Responsible Research in Action Unconference (September 22-24, Berlin) by January 26: rr-in-action2025.org/info-for-app.... 20 person teams will collaborate on selected projects.

Also in collaboration with @rmcelreath.bsky.social !!

Meta-science postdoc position (3yrs):
Agent-based modeling of academia

📍 Munich, Germany (Remote/hybrid options may be available)
🗣️ Felix Schönbrodt @nicebread.bsky.social, director of @lmu-osc.bsky.social
📅 application: 21.01.2025, start: March-July 2025

www.psy.lmu.de/pm/aktuelles...

Welcome @c-bz.bsky.social. You have just been added in the meta-research and open science starting pack (2).
All other interest folks not in the pack 1 nor in the pack 2, say hello 👋.

go.bsky.app/DWo6RbA

The Metascience Movement Needs to be More Self-Critical - Absolutely Maybe Metascience – the study of science and its improvement – isn’t simply a field of science. There’s a movement, too. What’s more…

Useful read to check in if I am /you are humble enough to promote #OpenScience:

““Nothing is as visionary or as blinding as moral indignation”. That always poses a threat to being aware when you’re in the wrong.”

From @hildabast.bsky.social in absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2021/10/31/t...

The Metascience Movement Needs to be More Self-Critical - Absolutely Maybe Metascience – the study of science and its improvement – isn’t simply a field of science. There’s a movement, too. What’s more…

Useful read to check in if I am /you are humble enough to promote #OpenScience:

““Nothing is as visionary or as blinding as moral indignation”. That always poses a threat to being aware when you’re in the wrong.”

From @hildabast.bsky.social in absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2021/10/31/t...

Eleven strategies for making reproducible research and open science training the norm at research institutions Researchers and administrators can integrate reproducible research and open science practices into daily practice at their research institutions by adapting research assessment criteria and program re...

How to make reproducible research and open science training the norm in Universities? The article elifesciences.org/articles/89736 offers actionable steps. At LMU Munich, we have already started to implement each of these 11 strategies. A thread🧵:

Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio

What are systematic reviews and meta-analyses? And why are they essential in ecology and evolution? 🌿📊 Discover it in our course with @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social
& Shreya Dimri "Meta-Analysis in R," Feb. 10-13! Learn to apply & interpret methods in R 🚀
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

The Leipzig discussion session for my course is beginning this week. If you aren't lucky enough to live in Leipzig, you can still access all the lectures free of charge, work at your own pace. github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with th…

Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes

retractionwatch.com/2024/12/27/e...

Vacancy for Research Fellow or Senior Research Fellow, as a permanent, full-time core post. Contribute to our consultancy, training, teaching & research portfolio. Apply by 26 January 2025.

📢 Exciting opportunity for a Research Fellow or Senior Research Fellow to contribute to our consultancy, training, teaching & research portfolio. A permanent, full-time core post working closely with @susanmichie.bsky.social & the rest of the CBC team
👉 Apply by 26 Jan: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...