New article from me:

“The replication crisis is less of a ‘crisis’ in the Lakatosian approach than it is in the Popperian and naïve methodological falsificationism approaches”

Substack: https://markrubin.substack.com/p/popper-lakatos-and-the-replication-crisis

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/2dz9s

“On Friday, Twitter — without notice — suddenly blocked access to the website for anyone who isn’t signed in as a registered user.”

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-blocks-access-not-logged-emergency-measure-musk-1235659611/

Does it replicate?

New review article surveyed replication studies (do it again, see if it works again) published between 2018-2019. The overall replication rate was 53.7%, but this varied markedly between fields:

Cobey et al. (2023): https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78518

Compare and contrast:

Uni Employers Association (UCEA): 50 universities say < 2% of students unable to graduate: https://bbc.com/news/education-65997786

The Guardian: A third of final-year students face grades delay: https://theguardian.com/education/2023/jun/24/uk-final-year-students-university-undergraduates-results-grades-delay

#UCU #UCUStrike #UCURising #SettletheDispute

UK university staff are refusing to mark student work in protest over poor pay and working conditions. In response, uni managers appear to be losing the plot: https://twitter.com/UCUEssex/status/1671840922944905217

#ucurising #ucu #mab

UK Uni Crisis:

Glasgow university vice-chancellor gives students degree certificates without degree classifications at “sham” graduation ceremony and is then played out with Indiana Jones theme music!

https://twitter.com/pietersnep/status/1671575570230984705

“Throughout the afternoon, students were present wearing pink sashes over their gowns in solidarity with the ongoing UCU strikes. A student was seen with a placard around their neck reading 'renegotiate now'”

https://thetab.com/uk/glasgow/2023/06/21/give-me-my-grades-not-fking-indiana-jones-music-inside-glasgow-unis-first-graduations-26953

#UCU #UCUStrike #UCURising

New Critical Metascience blog post:

"What's special about metascience? Comments on Romero (2023)”

https://markrubin.substack.com/p/whats-special-about-metascience

#Science
#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#PhilosophyOfScience
#PhilSci
#CriticalMetascience
#Preregistration
#STS

Our new research:

"Measuring family support in Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, and Turkey: A psychometric investigation"

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JXSUMWCYJBBDWXKEJHZK/full

New Critical Metascience blog post:

"The preregistration prescriptiveness trade-off and unknown unknowns in science: Comments on Van Drimmelen (2023)”

https://markrubin.substack.com/p/the-preregistration-prescriptiveness

#Science
#OpenScience
#MetaScience2023
#CriticalMetascience
#Preregistration

Peer Review and Article Retractions

New study of 260 peer reviews finds that expert and senior reviewers are more likely to identify issues in manuscript submissions that later lead to article retractions.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2023.101423

#Science
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#AcademicChatter

New paper considers the “illusion of generalizability” in large, cross-cultural studies.

Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/avcsp/

#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#CrossCulturalResearch
#ManyLabs

Selfish Scientists

Researchers who thought of themselves as “scientists” saw themselves as less warm, fair, cooperative, likeable.

“The reminder of being a member of the scientific community that incentivizes individual gain might make researchers less willing to share their knowledge with peers.”

Altenmüller et al. (2023). https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.10011

#Science #OpenScience #MetaScience

New paper argues insights from qualitative research can help to improve open science.

Steltenpohl et al. (2023). Rethinking transparency and rigor from a qualitative open science perspective. Journal of Trial & Error. https://doi.org/10.36850/mr7

#Science
#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#STS

Really interesting new preprint argues “there are multiple kinds of theories, each with unique assessment standards.”

Miłkowski (2023). Cognitive metascience: A new approach to the study of theories. https://psyarxiv.com/xvyz3/

#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#CognitiveMetascience
#ReplicationCrisis
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#STS