Brian Nosek

I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join the SPARC (Social Psychology of Activism, Resistance, & Change) Lab at @UVAPsyc in Fall 2026! You can find more info about my research on my website (ericshuman.com), and the program here (psychology.as.virginia.edu/social-psych...).

"all universities have to do now is do nothing—no accepting the compact, no counter-offers, nothing—and the government will be left with no more power to coerce and control the First Amendment-protected activities of major American universities than it has today." balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

With this level of productivity, I'll be appointed supreme commander of science for sure. Heck, go ahead and sign me up for 30 articles in 6 months.

Eat my dust suckers!

We no longer have a physical office!

YouTube video by Center for Open Science What's New on OSF: Live Demo of the Refreshed Design

My colleague Mark recently ran through some of the changes coming to @cos.io this weekend. Check it out, if you have some time!

Libraries and Open Science: Overlaps and Gaps with the Research Community on Oct 7, 1:00 PM ET. Panelists from UAB, VCU, Yale Med, and Zucker Med discussing library engagement in open access & data management, challenges of defining "open science" boundaries, and more!

Reg: cos-io.zoom.us/webin...

Two open positions on COS's research team!

Project Coordinator: Undergraduate degree in research, or equivalent experience ats.rippling.com/cos-careers/...

Program Manager: 10 yrs of project management experience or 2+ program management ats.rippling.com/cos-careers/...

Please share w/colleagues

Member Spotlight: Collaboration & Stewardship Across the Research Lifecycle at VU Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is advancing open science by building coordinated support for their research community through an integrated model that connects infrastructure, training, and policy development.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam advances open science with an integrated approach to connecting infrastructure, training, & policy. Their model brings together librarians, data stewards, & systems managers to support researchers & help meet complex regulatory requirements.

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@cos.io can help to confirm.

Rethinking Researcher Assessment and Incentives at U.S. Academic Institutions: A Workshop Register for this event from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Free to attend virtually: a NASEM event "Rethinking researcher assessment and incentives at U.S. academic institutions: A workshop"

October 28-29, 2025

Agenda: www.nationalacademies.org/event/45044_...

Registration: events.nationalacademies.org/45044_10-202...

The @ucirvine.bsky.social School of Social Ecology's Dept. of Psychology presents a lecture by Center for Open Science co-founder & Executive Director Brian Nosek on Thursday, Oct. 23, 3:30-5pm at the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering. Info/RSVP: ow.ly/fjH550X0Amh

Excellent retrospective approach to a timely prospective question.

New research by Pierre Azoulay, Danielle Li, Bhaven Sampat and me.

Earlier this year, the President’s budget proposed a 40% cut to the budget of the NIH. This motivated us to ask: what if the NIH had been 40% smaller?

We have just concluded the all-team retreat for COS. As a fully remote team, this opportunity to connect and strengthen relationships is the most important event of the year. It was an amazing week with an amazing team.

I am getting a lot out of this exchange about p-curve -- both on the substance of the debate, and on different approaches to thinking about it. Thanks to Uri and Richard for such an interesting back-and-forth.

No link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism or ADHD in children In the largest epidemiologic study to date of the risk of giving birth to a child with autism, ADHD or intellectual disability following acetaminophen use during pregnancy, researchers found no associ...

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol

2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy.

news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

Zombie movie idea. Infection symptoms are highly heterogeneous: from becoming mildly irritable to going full zombie and from lasting a few days to persisting. Little clarity about time course for any given case. Psychological drama.

This post brought to you by news distraction coping strategy #72.

Am I the only person who forgot that academia.edu existed until it came up in several posts during the last few days about its updated terms and conditions?

Want a preview tour of the new OSF design? Join Mark Call on September 25th at noon ET.

Sign-up: cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Important! The new OSF design is coming on Saturday, October 4th. OSF will be down for several hours that day to deploy it.

More information: www.cos.io/blog/coming-...

Want a preview tour of the new OSF design? Join Mark Call on September 25th at noon ET.

Sign-up: cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Important! The new OSF design is coming on Saturday, October 4th. OSF will be down for several hours that day to deploy it.

More information: www.cos.io/blog/coming-...

Trump called for ‘gold-standard science’: how the NIH, NSF and others are answering Some researchers say that US-agency policies provide opportunities for political interference.

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

Nice profile of John Arnold. John and Laura, his spouse, made a big bet on us in 2013 by providing funding to launch the Center for Open Science. Their philanthropy is impacting a variety of sectors with a deep commitment to pursuing evidence of effectiveness.

www.bizjournals.com/houston/news...

Collaborative Registered Replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010): Can Pro-environmental Behavior Be Promoted by Priming Status Motivation?

a #CREP project
with 24 student teams, 6 countries, N~4,000

is now out in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1525/coll...

#OpenScience #Metascience

‘Gold Standard Science’ Plans Emphasize Existing Agency Efforts Agency plans to implement Trump’s “gold standard science” order explain how long-standing initiatives align with its tenets.

www.aip.org/fyi/gold-sta...

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

The research question in that case was about what occurs when designed are standardized (with domain expert recommendations) versus unstandardized and left to replication authors' own judgment.

The model enables active evaluation of the factors that you suggest it ignores and eliminates.