Data Visualization Tools Drive Interactivity and Reproducibility
New tools for building interactive figures and software make scientific data more accessible, and reproducible.
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The Importance of Being Second
Scientific research can be a cutthroat business, with undue pressure to publish quickly, first, and frequently. PLOS Biology is now formalizing a policy whereby manuscripts that confirm or extend a recently published study are eligible for consideration.
For Better Science, Bring on the Revolutionaries
It’s not true that efforts to reform research may “end up destroying new ideas before they are fully explored.” In defense of the replication movement.
Robust Research Needs Many Lines of Evidence
Replication is not enough. Marcus R. Munafò and George Davey Smith state the case for triangulation.
Online Tool Calculates Reproducibility Scores of PubMed Papers
A new online tool measures the reproducibility of published scientific papers by analyzing data about articles that cite them.
The Rise and Fall of China’s Science Superstar
Han Chunyu retracted disputed ‘breakthrough’ research but still enjoys support from university and local government.
Badges for Sharing Data and Code at Biostatistics
Reproducible research includes sharing data and code. The reproducibility policy at the journal Biostatistics rewards articles with badges for data and code sharing. This study investigates the effect of badges at increasing reproducible research, specifically, data and code sharing, at Biostatistics.
Nearly 100 Scientists Spent 2 Months on Google Docs to Redefine the P-Value
Nearly 100 Scientists Spent 2 Months on Google Docs to Redefine the P-Value
A new paper recommends that the label “statistically significant” be dropped altogether; instead, researchers should describe and justify their decisions about study design and interpretation of the data, including the statistical threshold.
Make Replication Studies a Normal Part of Science
The systematic replication of other researchers’ work should be a normal part of science. That is the main message of an advisory report by the Dutch Academy of Sciences.
Novelty in Science - Real Necessity or Distracting Obsession?
When rewards such as funding of grants or publication in prestigious journals emphasize novelty at the expense of testing previously published results, science risks developing cracks in its foundation.
Scientists Continue to Use Outdated Methods
The use of outdated computational tools is a major offender in science’s reproducibility crisis-and there’s growing momentum to avoid it.
Re-run, Repeat, Reproduce, Reuse, Replicate: Transforming Code into Scientific Contributions
Re-run, Repeat, Reproduce, Reuse, Replicate: Transforming Code into Scientific Contributions
Article enumerating five characteristics that a scientific code in computational science should possess.
Is Reproducibility Really Central to Science?
The Neuroskeptic commentary on a new paper by Chris Drummond about the ‘reproducibility movement’. Assuming that what really matters is the testability of a given hypothesis, how fundamental is reproducibility to science?
Sustainable Computational Science: The ReScience Initiative
ReScience resides on GitHub where each new implementation of a computational study is made available together with comments, explanations, and software tests.
The Misinterpretation of P-Values
We wish to answer this question: If you observe a ‘significant’ p -value after doing a single unbiased experiment, what is the probability that your result is a false positive?
A Failure to Heal
When a clinical trial falters, doctors find themselves sifting through the rubble.
Automatic Error Spotter Gains in Popularity
According to its developers, Statcheck gets it right in more than 95% of cases. Some outsiders still aren’t convinced.
Binder 2.0: Share Your Interactive Research Environment
The Project Jupyter team shares its reboot of Binder, a tool allowing researchers to make their GitHub repositories executable by others.
Five Ways to Fix Statistics
"It is not statistics that is broken, but how it is applied to science." - S. Goodman
Controversial Software Is Proving Surprisingly Accurate at Spotting Errors in Psychology Papers
Controversial Software Is Proving Surprisingly Accurate at Spotting Errors in Psychology Papers
When Dutch researchers developed an open-source algorithm designed to flag statistical errors in psychology papers, it received mixed reaction from the research community.
A Systematic Review of Sample Size and Power in Leading Neuroscience Journals
A Systematic Review of Sample Size and Power in Leading Neuroscience Journals
Adequate sample size is key to reproducible research findings: low statistical power can increase the probability that a statistically significant result is a false positive.
A Few Things that Would Reduce Stress around Reproducibility
Here's a list of more cultural things we can do to reduce the stress/pressure around the reproducibility crisis.
The Research Nexus - Better Research Through Better Metadata
Linking associated research outputs.
Those 3% of Scientific Papers that Deny Climate Change
A review found them all flawed. Scientists who deny climate change are not modern-day Galileos.
Reproducible Research Badges
Imagine succinct, up-to-date information, not for software projects but for modern research publications.
A New ‘Accelerator’ Aims to Bring Big Science to Psychology
Psychology initiative aims to engage dozens of laboratories around the world in large-scale studies, since the “tentative, preliminary results” produced by small studies conducted in relatively isolated laboratories “just aren’t getting the job done."
Science Is Broken
Perverse incentives and the misuse of quantitative metrics have undermined the integrity of scientific research.
The Titans of AI Are Getting Their Work Double-Checked by Students
A challenge investigating reproducibility of empirical results submitted to the 2018 International Conference on Learning Representations.
Learning Networking by Reproducing Research Results
Students taking Stanford’s Advanced Topics in Networking class have to select a networking research paper and reproduce a result from it as part of a three-week pair project.
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