Ben Meghreblian

Call for Proposals: Metascience 2025 @OSFramework Be part of the biggest Metascience meeting yet! We're inviting proposals for: ✅ Virtual symposia ✅ In-person panels ✅ Talks & posters ⏰ Submit by 7 Feb 2025 🔗 Full details: metascience.info/call-for-propo…

The #RegisteredReports (RR) peer review process avoids publication bias, helping clinicians to judge drug efficacy and safety accurately. In this post, @eturnermd1 and @chrisdc77 propose a way to harmonize RR with the FDA drug approval process. Read at: shorturl.at/ZlA7k

Gino's case against us has been dismissed. Scientists cannot effectively sue other scientists for exposing fraud/errors in their work. Those who work to correct the scientific record can sleep better tonight. Those who don’t want it corrected, well, I don’t care how they sleep.

We're now open to Registered Reports! Check out this editorial for more information! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Ever wondered how Registered Reports differ from the regular literature? Some great work has been done on this (eg by @annemscheel @lakens @cksoderberg) & I'd like to also highlight recent work of @AoifeOMahony15 whose PhD thesis you can download here! orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/1676…

New paper: The benefits of preregistration and Registered Reports, with Cristian Mesquida, @sajedeh_rasti and former lab visitor Max Ditroilo. We provide a state-of-the-art overview of the metascience on preregistration and Registered Reports. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… >

Chapter 5 of my book "A Student's Guide to Open Science: Using the Replication Crisis to Reform Psychology" is now open access via PsyArXiv! This chapter is arguably the most important: a hands-on guide to implementing open science in your workflow! osf.io/preprints/psya…

Tails 6.3 is out: tails.net/news/version_6… It adds back Romanian and Malayalam and fixes a vulnerability in the handling of PDFs by Thunderbird.

📢 Have you authored or reviewed a Registered Report? ✏️ Please give feedback about your experience (takes 5-10mins): registeredreports.cardiff.ac.uk/feedback 📊 So far authors & reviewers have given 367 pieces of feedback across 75 journals - see our dashboards! #OpenScience #PeerReview

Tor Browser 13.0.15 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. It includes important security updates to Firefox. 🔽📰 blog.torproject.org/new-release-to…

EPIDEMIOLOGISTS DATA SCIENTISTS WE ARE HIRING Come work building and using @OpenSAFELY @openprescribing Open code and more bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/04/r…

📢Announcing 2 new PCI RR-friendly journals! The 1st is diamond-OA journal Personality Science, covering all areas in personality research #h_4321377954921712848424528" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">rr.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_rr_f… The 2nd is First Language, which covers research in children's language development #h_1559097414351712848943165" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">rr.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_rr_f…

Online talk I gave to Purdue now online: "Registered Reports and Peer Community in Registered Report are the future of science: Sharing our experience from over 25 Replication and extensions Registered Report submissions" Video: youtube.com/watch?v=XTFGR8…

Tor Browser 13.0.13 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. 🔄 This is an unscheduled emergency release with important security updates to Firefox for Desktop platforms. Android is unaffected. blog.torproject.org/new-release-to…

Tails 6.1 is out: tails.net/news/version_6… It fixes many problems and security vulnerabilities.

New preprint: The Benefits of Preregistration and Registered Reports. This is an opinionated piece summarizing the arguments for preregistration, reviewing the metascientific evidence, and engaging with criticism. doi.org/10.31234/osf.i… >

The Benefits of Preregistration and Registered Reports osf.io/dqap7/

Our new Registered Report assessed the prevalence of Open Research practices in Psychology in UK & Ireland ⬆️for declaring COIs, OA publishing, open materials & data ➡️preprints, prereg', & open analysis code ⬇️research talks, open peer review, prereg'ed code, submitted RRs