We're excited to announce a major update to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines—TOP 2025! These guidelines streamline research practices and provide greater clarity around openness in research. The preprint is now available. Your feedback is welcome! www.cos.io/blog/new-pre...
Taylorism is a management philosophy based on using scientific optimization to maximize labor productivity and economic efficiency. Here's the result of making the false Taylorist assumption that the output of scientific research is scientific papers—the more, faster, and cheaper, the better.
Exciting news: I will be teaching a 4-day summer school on open science this August! The course is for ECRs in the social & behavioural sciences who want to get up to speed with open & reproducible practices and/or learn how to handle specific problems. utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/data...
The Benefits of Preregistration and Registered Reports: http://osf.io/dqap7/
Very pleased to share our new paper "A registered report survey of open research practices in psychology departments in the UK and Ireland" 🎉 doi.org/10.1111/bjop... We examined open research practices and self-reported capability, opportunity, and motivation to engage in open research practices.
“While both replication and theory crises have caused concern for scientists and philosophers alike, the reforms that so far have resulted allow for cautious optimism.” New chapter by Tomos ap Sion & @briandavidearp.bsky.socialwww.researchgate.net/profile/Bria...#MetaSci#PhilSci#Methodology
New blog post! "Preregistration: More Promises than Pitfalls," some thoughts inspired by the recent meeting at the Royal Society. I don't find many pitfalls with preregistration itself, but there are plenty of problems with how we talk about it. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/preregistr...
Or, maybe the real pitfalls are different from what we usually think
New Managing Editor position! COS is conducting a research and development project on a new model of scholarly communication called Lifecycle Journals to evaluate its strengths and weaknesses and suitability for transition into a scalable and sustainable solution. jobs.lever.co/cos/1db59b80...
Very interesting and encouraging pilot at the University of Sussex — hope this can spread to other departments and universities! h/t @deevybee.bsky.socialwww.ukrn.org/2024/01/30/p...
Are you a researcher? Please participate in our global survey (5-10mins) and share it with other researchers in your network - thanks! 🙏 ➡ cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...#AcademicSky#metasci#PhDSky#PsychSkySci#STS 🧪
