David Reinstein

If you're among the 2000+ authors citing research evaluated by Unjournal.org, go to unjournal.pubpub.org to learn how commissioned experts rated & assessed that research.

Top 'citers of unjournal-evaluated research': https://bit.ly/3WRHc8W include Esther Duflo, Julian Jamison, & Berk Özler

I love what #SciPost does & their narrative.
Much agrees w/ Unjournal.org practices.

Some differences (Us/Them)
1. Quant. ratings vs accept/reject
2. Publish all evaluations vs. only if ‘accepted’
3. Fields & applied focus
4. We pay evaluators
5. We don’t 'publish' papers, just evaluations

Unjournal.pubpub.org: 50+ detailed packages evaluating research w/ potential for impact.

But who funded the *research*? GiveWell @poverty-action.bsky.social, @gatesfoundation.bsky.social, ERC, NIH, @wellcometrust.bsky.social, & ~40 others

See our dashboard: tinyurl.com/22k6ashr

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Greater representation of views from across the political spectrum.

Brian Nosek, Executive Director of the Center for Open Science, delivered the keynote presentation at the BITSS 2025 Annual Meeting. His… BITSS AM 2025: The Evolution of Research Transparency - Brian Nosek

https://bit.ly/3Vvz4KN

Love Brian Nosek's response to my Q on "fear of negative public evaluations" @ Unjournal & Lifecyclejournal

"I certainly understand the fear. I shared it myself until I had the experience of realizing that's how people advance their careers." -->

I agree, they are trying. You can see this in the hearings. But they have limited tools at their disposal.

Evaluation Summary and Metrics: "Forecasts estimate limited cultured meat production through 2050", Applied Stream Evaluation Summary and Metrics: "Forecasts estimate limited cultured meat production through 2050" for The Unjournal (Applied stream)

Rethink Priorities 2022 research: “Forecasts estimate limited cultured meat production through 2050“.

Unjournal 2025 evaluators: The forecasts and the report were too pessimistic.
Manheim: cultured meat is likely to be commercially viable soon.

https://bit.ly/4nhyIDX

#CellAg #AnimalWelfare

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Yeah, they really brought something good out of Adam Sandler in that one (not sure if he's had any other strong performances like this)

You're welcome!

Pose: By now you should know which one is Pop by the process of elimination. But in case you missed one of the other two, think of how he poses: as ifin a parade. And a 'pose' is like a role (of a drum core leader). Also "Pop" starts with the same letter as "Parade". So Pop is the parade hat guy.

Clothes: That reminds you what the clue is for Crackle. He wears a piece of clothing known as a cap (and a cap is the same first letter as Crackle, by the way, so there's another clue.)

It doesn't tell you directly which one is Snap, Crackle or Pop, but it gives you the _clues you need_.

Sound: Think of the "snapping" sound, and picture a chef snapping his fingers when a dish is ready. Snap is the chef!

Having trouble remembering which one is Snap, Crackle, or Pop? I developed a mneumonic system called "Sound-Clothes-Pose" (SCP).

Prize-winning & commended evaluations

You can also find commended evaluations (similar to top referee reports) at unjournal.pubpub.org/prize-winnin...

Is it equivalent to say “women are rewarded for being solo authors but men are not?”

Evaluation Summary and Metrics: Evaluation Summary and Metrics:

At @unjournal.bsky.social we completed open peer reviews of an @nber.org WP with an experiment to counter pro-authoritarian propaganda.

In sum: results are 😍, but we need to better understand what it was about the experimental intervention that made it 👌.

Link: unjournal.pubpub.org/pub/evalsumd...

That's what it certainly has looked like, but I think that LLMs are certainly making the debugging easier, which in turn makes the data cleaning easier.

I think pie charts get too much hate. Yeah, maybe they have some constraints with the way they're ordered ... but the brain just eats them up nicely.

And a new congress can also revisit the budget and restore funding previously cut.

Exec. Order 14169—'cancelled ~80% percent of USAID’s contracts'/ ~$60 billion. But the allocations must still be spent unless Congress explicitly rescinds it all.

See: Antideficiency Act, Impoundment Control Act

This is NOT a done deal. @thelancet.com's study assumes USAID is cut to 0.

Congress clawed back 9.4 billion; ~50 billion remains that the State Dept. must obligate to line-items Congress specified, such as #PEPFAR.

We should _fight_ for this, not let people die to use as a talking point.

Technically, nearly everything is reversible, I believe. Congress can decide to change it next year if they like, including any tax cuts.

That's why I don't understand when people say ~'this is the biggest thing ever'.

Are you saying we won't and we should give up, or we need to fight to make sure that we do?

The early-August one is marginal though; I'll dig into that 'outlier'

Did Charlie Brown football kick attempts (cartoon strip) occur during the US football season? Yes they did. At least ChatGPT 04 mini high's analysis is pretty clear. I haven't checked the raw data though. 41 attempts, all in-season.

Opinion | ‘The U.S. Cannot Solve All the World’s Problems’

A child dies of malnutrition every 15 seconds, as 185,535 boxes of special food for starving children are stacked in a warehouse in Rhode Island, paid for by American taxpayers. After shutting USAID, the Trump administration is just sitting on the boxes. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...

He's a clown.

He'll kick that football, just you wait and see!

Evaluation Summary and Metrics: "Global potential for natural regeneration in deforested tropical regions" Evaluation Summary and Metrics of "Global potential for natural regeneration in deforested tropical regions" for The Unjournal.

Williams et al (2024, Nature) model the biophysical potential for forest regeneration. Both Unjournal.org evaluators agree: methodological concerns fundamentally challenge the validity/utility of the modeling & the 215 Mha estimate.

Evaluation Summary and Metrics: "Global potential for natural regeneration in deforested tropical regions" Evaluation Summary and Metrics of "Global potential for natural regeneration in deforested tropical regions" for The Unjournal.

Evaluation Summary and Metrics: "Global potential for natural regeneration in deforested tropical regions"