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…6 min read·Jul 13, 2020--3--3
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.1 min read·Jul 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…12 min read·Oct 27, 2022--1--1
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…3 min read·Feb 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…1 min read·Oct 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…8 min read·Jul 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…4 min read·May 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…5 min read·Feb 10, 2021----
Alex HolcombeConventional journal rankings — fight them!TL,DR: Don’t contribute to the perverse perpetuation of invalid journal rankings.3 min read·Sep 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…1 min read·Apr 23, 2020----