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Critical Science@CriticalScience
3 Sep 2019
Use your computer's spare power to help scientists solve the world's biggest problems in health and sustainability: bit.ly/wcgscience
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Nature welcomes Registered Reports nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Nature welcomes Registered Reports

Nature - From this week, Nature will be publishing an additional type of research paper — designed to encourage rigour and replication.

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Psychology needs to get tired of winning royalsocietypublishing.org/d…

Psychology needs to get tired of winning

Abstract. Psychological science is on an extraordinary winning streak. A review of the published literature shows that nearly all study hypotheses are supp

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Journals endorse new checklist to clean up sloppy animal research sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/…
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Covid-19 Changed How the World Does Science, Together nytimes.com/2020/04/01/world…

Covid-19 Changed How the World Does Science, Together (Published 2020)

Never before, scientists say, have so many of the world’s researchers focused so urgently on a single topic. Nearly all other research has ground to a halt.

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How Universities Cover Up Scientific Fraud areomagazine.com/2020/02/20/…
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No raw data, no science: another possible source of the reproducibility crisis doi.org/10.1186/s13041-020-0… #openscience #opendata #datasharing #reproducibility
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The psychology of scientists – The role of cognitive biases in sustaining bad science metascience2019.org/presenta…
Still from video of Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee) talking about 'The role of cognitive biases in sustaining bad science'

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Should research misconduct be criminalized? doi.org/10.1177/174701611989…

Should research misconduct be criminalized? - Rafael Dal-Ré, Lex M Bouter, Pim Cuijpers, Christian...

For more than 25 years, research misconduct (research fraud) is defined as fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism (FFP)—although other research misbehaviors ...

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3 Sep 2019
Use your computer's spare power to help scientists solve the world's biggest problems in health and sustainability: bit.ly/wcgscience
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Open science, pre-registration and striving for better research practices apa.org/science/about/psa/20…
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Why Can't We Agree About Scientific Facts? The Psychology of Differing World Views youtube.com/watch?v=77cMoR6W…

Why Can't We Agree About Scientific Facts? The Psychology of Differ...

Our age is marked by the proliferation of information, and yet we c...

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Research budget, by @tomgauld
Cartoon showing two scientists walking in a futuristic building - one is saying: "We can't actually do any research because we spent our entire budget on sci-fi corridors and octagonal power-doors, but everyone agrees that it's the coolest lab on campus."

ALT Cartoon showing two scientists walking in a futuristic building - one is saying: "We can't actually do any research because we spent our entire budget on sci-fi corridors and octagonal power-doors, but everyone agrees that it's the coolest lab on campus."
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How Academic Science Gave Its Soul to the Publishing Industry issues.org/how-academic-scie…
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Software searches out reproducibility issues in scientific papers nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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From symbiont to parasite: the evolution of for-profit science publishing doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E19-03-0… #academicpublishing #science #scientificpublishing #openaccess
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The Great Science Publishing Scandal bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csy6c…

BBC World Service - Discovery, The Great Science Publishing Scandal

Matthew Cobb asks who owns research. Scientists, publishers or the public?

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The war to free science: How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world's academic research from paywalls vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6…
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Psychology's Replication Crisis Has Made The Field Better fivethirtyeight.com/features…

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First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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