New on Cultures of Trial and Error:

Open Science isn’t just a set of reforms, but also a story about science in crisis, heroes, urgency, and repair. In this post, Sheena Bartscherer looks at the narrative side of (Open) Science, and why these stories matter

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Desk rejections are common and cost much time. Bert Bakker and Jakob Kasper therefore argue for a staged submission: skip the cover letters, forms, formatting and checklists until an article is actually accepted for review. This prevents unnecessary work.

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New on the Cultures of Trial and Error blog:

“Field-specific barriers to performing replications”

Why replication is straightforward in some fields and nearly impossible in others-from psychology and cancer biology to nanoscience and astronomy.

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Science grows through failure as much as success. In our first Trial & Error Symposium we explored how to make openness, uncertainty, and null results part of research culture.

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Science is said to ‘self-correct’. But who is this ‘self’?

As Sergio Sismondo shows, correction isn’t neat - it’s shaped by pharma interests, politics, and media. Read the new Cultures of Trial and Error post here: blog.trialanderror.org/self-correct...

When science goes wrong, who fixes it?
Melpomeni Antonakaki traces Japan’s bioscience scandals (2006–2014) to show how “engines of science correction” can lead to bold reform and increase accountability - or grind to a halt.

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When science goes wrong, who fixes it?

Melpomeni Antonakaki traces Japan’s bioscience scandals (2006–2014) to show how “engines of science correction” can lead to bold reform and increase accountability - or grind to a halt. Read more: blog.trialanderror.org/engines_of_s...

Science is said to be self-correcting, but in practice it takes many forms

Our Cultures of Trial and Error series has explored replication crises, the metascience movement, radical openness, and even hoaxes, each revealing a different path to correction

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