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"Estimators based on meta-analysis methods that correct for potential bias in the original study were close to unbiased when synthesizing the original study and replication...meta-analytic estimates were substantially closer to the effect size of the replication compared to the original study."
More #SRCD27 invited speakers: Amy Needham (Vanderbilt) on how children learn with their hands, Charles A. Nelson III (Harvard) on early experiences and brain development, Brian Nosek (UVA) on open science, Stephen Russell (ASU) on LGBTQ+ youth. Explore: https://tinyurl.com/yhdh392t
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What's driving today's research integrity challenges? Respondents to SSP's latest Pulse Check ranked publish-or-perish incentive structures as the most impactful root cause, followed closely by generative AI outpacing policy and detection. Explore the full findings >>
SciShow's new video mentions COS’s Reproducibility Project: Psychology, which brought researchers together to replicate 100 psychology studies. Thanks SciShow for highlighting this work and ongoing efforts to make research more open, rigorous, and trustworthy! 🎥
The Evolving Data Sharing Ecosystem: Revisiting the Role of Generalist Repositories
Nov 18–19, 2026
Join GREI for a workshop that explores the evolving role of generalist repositories. Designed for NIH-funded researchers and the teams who support them.
Register: www.google.com/url?q...
🗓️ Reminder: The first OSF Projects transition deadline is 7 weeks away. Starting November 16, 2026, you will no longer be able to create new OSF Projects or add new components to existing projects. (🧵1/3)
Hi Katherine, you might find some useful information and resources in this help guide: help.osf.io/article/768-...
If work is completed before the end of the scheduled downtime, OSF services will be restored at that time. Check status here: https://status.cos.io
We appreciate your patience as we work to keep the downtime as short as possible and make this investment in a more sustainable foundation for OSF!
⚠️ OSF Planned Downtime OSF will be unavailable from Oct 16 at 9 am EDT through Oct 19 at 9 am EDT for a planned Cloud infrastructure migration. During this time, all services of the OSF platform will be inaccessible via website and API. Please complete any time-sensitive work before the downtime.
SciShow's new video mentions COS’s Reproducibility Project: Psychology, which brought researchers together to replicate 100 psychology studies. Thanks SciShow for highlighting this work and ongoing efforts to make research more open, rigorous, and trustworthy! 🎥
The Evolving Data Sharing Ecosystem: Revisiting the Role of Generalist Repositories
Nov 18–19, 2026
Join GREI for a workshop that explores the evolving role of generalist repositories. Designed for NIH-funded researchers and the teams who support them.
Register: www.google.com/url?q...
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"Help The Unjournal prioritize AI economics and governance research"
#BTSCON2026 starts soon! We can’t wait to celebrate another year of big team science with all of you! 🥰
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📋 Registration Open: BITSS Annual Meeting Share novel research and discuss efforts to improve the credibility of social science by advancing research transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics. BITSS 2027 will be held Feb. 26 in Berkeley, CA. Free to attend. Register:
📣 1 more month to apply to present at the 2027 BITSS Annual Meeting! Our annual conference on research transparency welcomes submissions on metascience, novel research methods, LLMs in science, and other topics related to research rigor.
Apply by Nov 1: cega.submittable.com/submit/36737...
☕️Shape the future of Open Research: Join the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee for 2027! We are thrilled to announce that applications are officially open to join the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee starting in early 2027.
This new study takes a meta-perspective on reproducibility by examining replication projects themselves. The reviewers agree the manuscript addresses an important and worthwhile question but identify fundamental problems that currently prevent confidence in the study results. 👉 Read now on MetaROR
🔴 Live today from #C4R26!
Join us online for today's livestreamed sessions:
🕤️ 9:45 | Adopting C4R Materials at Your Institutions | Elizabeth Sneddon
🕦️ 11:30 | Building Communities for Research Rigor: A Conversation with Dimitris Boufidis
📺️ Watch live: buff.ly/eqQp2KK
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Would you like to learn about the vision for research communication that places openness, transparency, community participation, and scholarly judgment at its core?
Then join us for the PRC Alliance launch event on the 28th October 2026!
Register: publish-review-curate.org/2026/09/07/l...
COS researchers and collaborators have developed and piloted Registered Revisions—an approach designed to reduce uncertainty and publication bias when substantive changes to a study’s analysis are requested during peer review
Noah Haber previews what's in the report: