PinnedAlex HolcombeAnnouncing 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, 20203Jul 13, 20203
Alex HolcombeThe 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
Alex HolcombeCollectivism 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, 20221Oct 27, 20221
Alex HolcombeA 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, 2022Feb 28, 2022
Alex HolcombeMore 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
Alex HolcombeAs 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, 2021Jul 11, 2021
Alex HolcombeConfirmation 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, 2021May 21, 2021
Alex HolcombeMeta-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
Alex HolcombeConventional journal rankings — fight them!TL,DR: Don’t contribute to the perverse perpetuation of invalid journal rankings.Sep 13, 2020Sep 13, 2020
Alex HolcombeSemi-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, 2020Apr 23, 2020