1) people don't want to read large docs, so get AI to summarize them 2) people don't want to write large docs, so get AI to expand their summaries 3) We're very close to having AIs writing documents just for each other to read 4) AI #1 to AI #2: "WTF we doing here, man?"

People often rush to submit an article to a special issue related to their work? Why? What difference does it make if your article is in a themed issue? Do people think it increased chance of acceptance?

And it makes the papers more visible overall: Someone reading one of them and interested in the topic may also browse the whole special issue. The special issue was also “advertised” as a whole, e.g. at the CEN23 conference through the special session by Sarah Friedrich.

About this same special issue: it certainly increased the chance of acceptance for authors because they were sure not to get an AE who does not like - and systematically rejects - meta scientific papers or neutral comparison studies…

For the one I was involved with, it’s now an easy-to-remember place containing a lot of good & relevant papers. I’ll remember the issue where I might not remember every individual paper. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Special Collection: “Neutral Comparison Studies in Methodological Research”: Biometrical Journal

The Biometrical Journal publishes papers on statistical methods and their applications to life sciences, encompassing medicine, environmental sciences & agriculture.

"Why Student Ratings of Faculty Are Unethical" Food for thought (curious what others think). #AcademicSkylink.springer.com/article/10.1...

Why Student Ratings of Faculty Are Unethical - Journal of Academic Ethics

For decades, student ratings of university faculty have been used by administrators in high stakes faculty employment decisions such as tenure, promotion, contract renewal and reappointment, and merit...

PREPRINT: "On the handling of method failure in comparison studies", by M. Wünsch with @timpmorris.bsky.socialarxiv.org/abs/2408.11594

On the handling of method failure in comparison studies

Comparison studies in methodological research are intended to compare methods in an evidence-based manner, offering guidance to data analysts to select a suitable method for their application. To...

NEW PAPER published in BMC Med Res Meth, by Maximilian Mandl, with S. Hoffmann et al. on the connection between multiple testing adjustment and p-hacking/researchers' degrees of freedom: bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Addressing researcher degrees of freedom through minP adjustment - BMC Medical Research Methodology

When different researchers study the same research question using the same dataset they may obtain different and potentially even conflicting results. This is because there is often substantial flexib...

New role for a Project Coordinator at COS. Perfect for an early career researcher passionate about open scholarship and looking to gain research experience, whether to then go to grad school or stay in industry. jobs.lever.co/cos/ce551e5d...

New preprint! "Prevalence of transparent research practices in psychology: A cross-sectional study of empirical articles published in 2022" osf.io/preprints/ps... After > decade of new infrastructure, advocacy, & policy, how often are transparent research practices used in empirical psychology?