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Written by renebekkers on 2025-01-29 at 08:49

Update: revised version of "Let's be clear: Why and how to demonstrate data and methods transparency in nonprofit research" available

[#]transparency #openscience #nonprofit #research

https://osf.io/preprints/osf/gxkv2_v2

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Written by renebekkers on 2025-01-28 at 22:06

Nav het nieuws dat een meerderheid van de Tweede Kamer de ANBI status van Extinction Rebellion wil schrappen https://nos.nl/l/2553608 hier het advies aan de Staatssecretaris over toezicht op algemeen nut:

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/rapporten/2022/06/21/rapport-toezicht-op-algemeen-nut

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Written by renebekkers on 2025-01-27 at 06:35

"The authors revised their paper to include a post-hoc power analysis, despite believing it to be meaningless" 👀

A Statistical Saga at a "Top" Journal - by Stuart Buck

https://goodscience.substack.com/p/a-statistical-saga-at-a-top-journal

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Written by renebekkers on 2025-01-24 at 09:01

Research integrity violations are actions deemed undesirable by the scientific community, codified in guidelines such as the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity. Integrity violations are ordered on a continuum of from minor to grave offenses. Fabrication, falsification and plagiarism are commonly viewed as more serious offenses than questionable research practices and ‘sloppy science’.

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Written by renebekkers on 2025-01-24 at 09:00

What could #metascience learn from #criminology for the prevention of #researchmisconduct and #researchintegrity violations? In a seminar at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), I discussed with researchers in criminology how theories and findings from the field may be applied in the field of meta research.

Blog: https://renebekkers.wordpress.com/2025/01/24/how-can-criminology-help-reduce-research-integrity-violations/

Slides: https://renebekkers.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/how-can-criminology-help-reduce-research-integrity-violations.pptx

[#]peerreview

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Written by renebekkers on 2025-01-21 at 14:37

Not sure what it means, but the Dark House has taken the 2022 OSTP guidance to make federally funded research freely available offline #openscience https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/08/25/ostp-issues-guidance-to-make-federally-funded-research-freely-available-without-delay/

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Written by renebekkers on 2024-12-17 at 14:20

Open question: what do you consider as "data"? How would you define "data"?

[#]data #datascience #rdm #fair

Background: I'm on a national committee developing guidelines for data design, collection, sharing and storage. We want an inclusive definition, capturing the full range of traditions in the social and behavioral sciences, from ethnography to RCT #openscience #transparency

We didn't know a common accepted definition - all suggestions are welcome!

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Written by renebekkers on 2024-12-14 at 13:43

So if you're reviewing research proposals or journal article submissions and could use some help ❌ Detecting Bad Science ❌ or if you could use some advice on how to ✅ Do Better Science ✅ in your own work, check out https://detectingbadscience.wordpress.com/good-science-bingo-2/

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Written by renebekkers on 2024-12-14 at 13:42

...with patience and persistence, some things do happen after all. I'll teach the course in another form next academic year (January 2026) as part of the new Sociology master program at @vuamsterdam

Meanwhile, the materials remain publicly available without restrictions, because I'm committed to open science, also in education. The website describes 35 forms of bias and suboptimal research practices, and provides solutions on how to identify and solve or prevent them. https://detectingbadscience.wordpress.com/good-science-bingo-2/

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Written by renebekkers on 2024-12-14 at 13:41

Not everything works right away... With great enthusiasm I had developed materials for a Winter School "Detecting Bad Science" https://detectingbadscience.wordpress.com/

Despite the encouragements of many of you here, the number of enrolments in the course remained below the minimum break-even point. So I won't be teaching the course in January.

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[#]betterscience #badscience #peerreview #research #openeducation #openscience

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Written by renebekkers on 2024-12-12 at 15:00

Thanks @chrisdc77 for the convincing comparison of corporate control of #peerreview with community-controlled peer review - this is the way to go!

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Written by renebekkers on 2024-12-06 at 09:27

Thanks @caal for the opening statement at the @Dutch_Reproducibility_Network

NLRN24 #NLRN2024 symposium that the open science movement has done more for science than the most recent round of Nobel prizes #opensource #OpenAccess #opendata #openscience

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Written by renebekkers on 2024-11-03 at 17:42

Today in Detecting Bad Science: Replication Failure. When independent researchers repeat a study, the results may be quite different. The hallmark of reliable knowledge is a successful independent replication. If another team of researchers repeat the study and find results in the same direction, with a similar effect size, you can be confident that the original result is a robust and generalizable finding.

https://detectingbadscience.wordpress.com/2024/11/03/replication-failure/

[#]replication #betterscience #reliability #science

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Written by renebekkers on 2024-10-19 at 17:07

For each bad science practice, the website now also formulates a good practice. https://detectingbadscience.wordpress.com/good-science-bingo-2/

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Written by renebekkers on 2024-10-18 at 09:49

Check out https://detectingbadscience.wordpress.com/, a new website I've created to help you identify weaknesses in empirical research reports. For each weakness you'll find suggestions to avoid or repair it, or mitigate its consequences.

https://renebekkers.wordpress.com/2024/10/18/detecting-bad-science-reviewing-and-improving-social-science-research/

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Written by renebekkers on 2024-10-08 at 07:51

De citatietellingen, impactfactoren en beurscompetities zijn fnuikend. Het wordt hoog tijd dat we voor kwaliteit kiezen, en het competitieve systeem achter ons laten.

[#]hogeronderwijs #impact #impactfactor #ranking #openscience Recognition & Rewards Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Science NL

https://advalvas.vu.nl/student-maatschappij/academici-zijn-chronisch-verslaafd/

Cartoon by Bas van der Schot

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Written by renebekkers on 2024-09-25 at 17:50

Looking back at my career thus far, I see four things that helped me advance in academia: freedom, help from others, coincidence, and quirkiness. Plus privilege, health, naive optimism, and openness.

https://renebekkers.wordpress.com/2024/09/25/what-helped-me-advance-in-academia/

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Written by renebekkers on 2024-09-17 at 06:30

Recently I asked for the data and code for a study that a journal invited me to review. Authors provided data, but "No code was used as all analysis were performed with SPSS."🤔

Let's see whether this is an exception to the rule that "It is often impossible to reproduce the results without knowing all the steps followed in the analysis, even when a detailed methodology is provided.", as this article found:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lansea.2024.100472It

[#]peerreview #openscience #spss #reproducibility #verification

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Written by renebekkers on 2024-08-31 at 17:31

Wow..this clock is amazing!

https://vasilis.nl/wowclock/

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Written by renebekkers on 2024-08-20 at 05:52

Update: new version of "Prosocial Values for the Philanthropic Commons", including the finding that compliance with requests for solicitations for charitable contributions in the Netherlands have plummeted since 2002. #philanthropy #charity https://osf.io/d9wte

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