PinnedAnnouncing TenzingToday we’re releasing tenzing, a web-based app that makes it easier for researchers to indicate who did what in their manuscripts. Tenzing…Jul 13, 2020833Jul 13, 2020833
The Replication Crisis: the Six P’sI put my latest post up at my Wordpress blog, because it looks like people have to be logged into Medium nowadays to read Medium posts.Jul 24, 2023Jul 24, 2023
Collectivism and Big Team ScienceThe first annual Big Team Science conference starts today. In its honor, I want to highlight some possible benefits of big scientific…Oct 27, 2022181Oct 27, 2022181
A journal editor asked me to provide some quick comments on scientific journals, looking back on…About the future of your journal as well as journals generally, the next fifty years is too long to prognosticate about. This is the case…Feb 28, 202211Feb 28, 202211
More on contributorship and tenzingContributorship refers to updating the way we indicate who did what in scholarly articles to better suit today’s more collaborative…Oct 13, 2021Oct 13, 2021
As new venues for peer review flower, will journals catch up?By now, you know about preprints, and I bet you’ve read some, too — perhaps a manuscript posted on PsyArXiv, BioRxiv, or MedRxiv. With the…Jul 11, 20216Jul 11, 20216
Confirmation bias in scienceIt’s easy to get attached to your own ideas, and react defensively when someone challenges them. Four hundred years ago, Francis Bacon…May 21, 202153May 21, 202153
Meta-scientific reactionsRose Gatfield-Jeffries is an honours student in history and philosophy of science at the University of Sydney. During the summer, she…Feb 10, 2021Feb 10, 2021
Conventional journal rankings — fight them!TL,DR: Don’t contribute to the perverse perpetuation of invalid journal rankings.Sep 13, 20204Sep 13, 20204
Semi-log plots and exponential growth, from correlation to causation with COVID19!My cautionary tale and tutorial provides a series of plots of COVID19 data, illustrating linear and log scales, together with the pitfalls…Apr 23, 20203Apr 23, 20203
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