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Adrian Barnett
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Statistician working in meta-research. Deltiologist.

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Adrian Gerard Barnett is a professor in the faculty of Health in the school of Public Health and Social Work, at Queensland University of Technology and was president of the Statistical Society of Australia from 2018 to 2020. .. more

Environmental science 27%
Public Health 23%
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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 1d
The Qld police are catching fewer badly behaving motorists, but yet they still find time to fine cyclists for speeding on the bike path. I saw four officers doing this a few months ago. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Police enforcement on Qld roads drops almost 50pc in five years
Queensland Police concedes less time is being spent enforcing road safety than before the COVID pandemic, amid a rising number of traffic tragedies.
www.abc.net.au

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 3d
Oops. Ooooooooooooops.

I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.

arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675

h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 4d
Have increased capacity for this December INSPECT-SR online training workshop following a successful 1st event today. Book here: www.trybooking.com/uk/FKHV
Introduction to INSPECT-SR Training Workshop December
An introductory 2-hour online workshop will introduce participants to the INSPECT-SR tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled...
www.trybooking.com

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Robin Blythe @rbly.bsky.social · 10d
Glad to share our full paper on why deployed clinical prediction models should not discard predicted risks in favour of thresholds with @rexwp.bsky.social and @aidybarnett.bsky.social now up on @jclinepi.bsky.social. A brief explainer (1/4):
#statsky #rstats
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m1D83BcJQ...
authors.elsevier.com

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AusHSI @aushsi.bsky.social · 13d
🎲 Working in a bingo hall as a boy, #AusHSI Prof @aidybarnett.bsky.social is well-versed in the game of chance. In @significancemag.bsky.social, learn about the #lottery for #researchfunding he now runs for the @britishacademy.bsky.social and how it works.

🔗 bit.ly/3J7689t | 🔓 bit.ly/47HTlDH

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 16d
My dog loves sleeping in a pot plant
Brown and white dog curled up sleeping in a pot plant

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 17d
Not earlier, but a nice example of data sharing from George Otis Smith (a relative?) writing in Science in 1915 www.jstor.org/stable/1639881
Quote: “Our explorations, surveys and investigations are in the public interest only as results are made public. This policy is as old as the Geological Survey itself, but several things have given a special impetus to the development of this policy. Beginning in August a year ago, a large volume of inquiries from producer and consumer of minerals came pouring into our office, and as never before the Geological Survey became a kind of “central” to the mineral industry. This opportunity for a larger service to the public not only resulted in gratifying relations with a large number of correspondents, but the rendering of such service has proved instructive to the public servants charged with the duty. Many of us on the Survey staff have acquired a keener realization of the need not only of giving the public the facts, but also of making those facts intelligible and useful to the citizen who may lack professional training in geology or engineering.”

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18d
The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com
Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
https://ubadah.substack.com/p/beware-giving-this-site-your-unpublished\

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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 19d
With only about 10 spots left, #AIMOS2025 will almost surely sell out this year. Register now to make sure you don't miss out! aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...
AIMOS2025 Conference
AIMOS conference 2025
aimos-inc.github.io

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 19d
personally, that's my favourite give away

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 19d
Some real fake news! Paper mills are creating fake authors who can then serve as fake reviewers. The illustration of the fake reviewer sitting at their desk is excellent. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to spot fake scientists and stop them from publishing papers
Journals are considering doing identity checks to expose fake authors — but there are downsides.
www.nature.com

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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · 23d
👉Also Sorbonne bsky.app/profile/sorb... pulled out of 'THE' University Ranking 👇

Important step in times of massive, systematic gaming by Universities, being a main incentive for Hyperprolific Publishing, Citation Cartels, Paper Mills & Junk Science!

#researchintegrity, #Chemsky, #CompChemSky
Why Sorbonne pulled out of university ranking
France’s Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings, adding its name to a growing number of universities rejecting lists that play one institution off against another...
sciencebusiness.net

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Nature @nature.com · 25d
Is it fair for grant reviewers — who are often our colleagues — to judge the legitimacy of career breaks due to personal circumstances?

go.nature.com/48yaJvF
Parenting, illnesses and medical commitments: the private details grant reviewers shouldn’t need to know
Is it fair for grant reviewers — who are often our colleagues — to judge the legitimacy of career breaks due to personal circumstances?
go.nature.com

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 28d
A good argument for preprinting everything here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Client Challenge
www.nature.com

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 29d
I once worked in a bingo hall and saw the joy of people winning money at random. Now I randomise academics in the serious business of who wins research funding. With funding lotteries growing in popularity, I reflect on how to run them and the lessons from bingo. academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic...
How to run a lottery
Abstract. Adrian Barnett worked in a bingo hall as a boy, and now runs a lottery for research funding. Here he explains how it works and how it might be be
academic.oup.com

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 29d
Access via your organisation

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Oct 11
Genuinely once read "SSPS". Another reason to switch to R and you can't misspell that.

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Oct 11
I think a lot about the general lack of statistical competence. Misspelling the great John Tukey's name as Turkey may seem harmless, but I can't think of how anyone whose is serious about statistics would do this.
Screen shot of a statistical method's section from a scientific paper with Tukey misspelt as Turkey.

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · Oct 10
Lotteries may be fair in theory, but new research shows people prefer expert committees to decide who gets scarce medical treatment.
Should we decide by lottery who gets a medical treatment first?
Lotteries may be fair in theory, but new research shows people prefer expert committees to decide who gets scarce medical treatment.
tcnv.link

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · Oct 10
2025. (not just cancer lit....) Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them? A large language model scans abstracts and titles for signs that an article was produced by a 'paper-mill' company. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them?
A large language model scans abstracts and titles for signs that an article was produced by a 'paper-mill' company.
www.nature.com

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JAMES HEATHERS @jamesheathers.bsky.social · Oct 9
Free data resources in science are having the shit mined out of them to produce X,000's of bullshit papers.

What should we do?

(Warning: I sat on this draft for too long, and publishers are already doing some of it. That's what I get for engaging with the news.)

open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...
How To Stop The Next 10,000 Bullshit Papers
Some remarkably un-radical proposals
open.substack.com

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Sep 30
It's a needlepoint.

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Sep 30
I think the authors would have been better off taking a walk than creating this diagram.

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Sep 30
R beats Python because R has dedicated quilts, for example: www.reddit.com/r/rstats/com.... Once you've lost the quilting war, you've lost everything.
From the rstats community on Reddit: My mother liked my laptop stickers and did this "tidy" phone/hdd patchwork bag 😍
Explore this post and more from the rstats community
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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Sep 30
At last, a simple diagram that explains random forests. Go forth and make random diagrams, I mean random forests. From www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejo...
Stick figure surrounded by tree-like structures with speech bubbles about sepsis.

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Sep 20
It's 2025.723 and scientists are still putting too many decimal places in their results.

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Sep 3
When the zombie apocalypse starts in Weipa
Map of Queensland showing clear disease outbreak in the north

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Sep 2
When the zombie apocalypse starts in Brisbane

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla @dalmeet.bsky.social · Aug 26
Peer reviewers are more likely to recommend accepting papers that cite their work — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social:

cen.acs.org/policy/publi...

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Peer reviewers like papers that cite them
New report finds that referees are more likely to recommend studies that refer to their own work
cen.acs.org

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · Aug 26
“I still yearn for the good old days…”

From the latest Private Eye, out now.