AIMOS
@aimosinc.bsky.social
Association for Interdisciplinary Metaresearch & Open Science. Our mission is to improve the quality of scientific research.
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link.springer.com/article/10.1... - Big team science comes to fishes!
ManyFishes: a big team science collaboration on fish comparative cognition - Animal Cognition
Fishes are among the oldest and most diverse groups of vertebrates, encompassing a vast array of species that differ in morphology, ecology, and behavior. While such diversity can pose challenges to c...
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December 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
link.springer.com/article/10.1... - Big team science comes to fishes!
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The U.S. Department of Justice has reached a $15 million NIH grant fraud settlement with Dana-Farber Cancer Center. This resolves a False Claims Act qui tam complaint that I filed on behalf of @sholtodavid.bsky.social in April 2024, with Gregg Shapiro as my co-counsel.
News & Publications
Eugenie Reich & Gregg Shapiro Announce $15 Million NIH Grant Fraud Settlement (December 2025) Complaint Settlement Agreement Scientific Fraud in the 21st Century (Video Lecture) Sandia Nationa…
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December 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The U.S. Department of Justice has reached a $15 million NIH grant fraud settlement with Dana-Farber Cancer Center. This resolves a False Claims Act qui tam complaint that I filed on behalf of @sholtodavid.bsky.social in April 2024, with Gregg Shapiro as my co-counsel.
Jennifer Byrne, @jasonchin.bsky.social, and others weigh on on whether Australia's approach to regulating research misconduct needs reform.
theconversation.com/should-austr...
theconversation.com/should-austr...
Should Australia establish an independent body to investigate scientific misconduct? We asked 5 experts
Scientific misconduct can waste public funds and harm human health. But views differ about the best way to tackle it.
theconversation.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Jennifer Byrne, @jasonchin.bsky.social, and others weigh on on whether Australia's approach to regulating research misconduct needs reform.
theconversation.com/should-austr...
theconversation.com/should-austr...
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🗣️ New ORCID Feature for Journal Editors: Editorial Service
This new activity allows publishers, including journals or other research publication organizations, to add #TrustMarkers to #ORCID records via the validated #EditorialService data. More on the blog: https://wp.me/pcE4o3-9kO
#Researchsky
This new activity allows publishers, including journals or other research publication organizations, to add #TrustMarkers to #ORCID records via the validated #EditorialService data. More on the blog: https://wp.me/pcE4o3-9kO
#Researchsky
December 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
🗣️ New ORCID Feature for Journal Editors: Editorial Service
This new activity allows publishers, including journals or other research publication organizations, to add #TrustMarkers to #ORCID records via the validated #EditorialService data. More on the blog: https://wp.me/pcE4o3-9kO
#Researchsky
This new activity allows publishers, including journals or other research publication organizations, to add #TrustMarkers to #ORCID records via the validated #EditorialService data. More on the blog: https://wp.me/pcE4o3-9kO
#Researchsky
Following up from @drjbeaudry.bsky.social's wonderful recap email yesterday, here is the group photo from #AIMOS2025. If you couldn't make this this year, we hope to see you next year in beautiful Wellington!
December 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Following up from @drjbeaudry.bsky.social's wonderful recap email yesterday, here is the group photo from #AIMOS2025. If you couldn't make this this year, we hope to see you next year in beautiful Wellington!
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Job opportunity — Junior Professorship in Psychological Metascience @zpid.bsky.social leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 h/t @bethclarke.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Job opportunity — Junior Professorship in Psychological Metascience @zpid.bsky.social leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 h/t @bethclarke.bsky.social
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Last week, #AusHSI PhD student @alexdgibson.bsky.social presented at #AIMOS2025, highlighting a new global issue of unreliable data within #clinicalprediction model research and clinical practice, which has potential to influence patient outcomes and evidence-based decisions. @aimosinc.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Last week, #AusHSI PhD student @alexdgibson.bsky.social presented at #AIMOS2025, highlighting a new global issue of unreliable data within #clinicalprediction model research and clinical practice, which has potential to influence patient outcomes and evidence-based decisions. @aimosinc.bsky.social
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Hey folks! We're running a big repliCATS workshop in Melbourne on 16 Dec, evaluating of replicability of published papers.
🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome
💰 AU$200
🎫 + travel subsidies
ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY...
Re-posts appreciated 🌈
🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome
💰 AU$200
🎫 + travel subsidies
ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY...
Re-posts appreciated 🌈
October 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Hey folks! We're running a big repliCATS workshop in Melbourne on 16 Dec, evaluating of replicability of published papers.
🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome
💰 AU$200
🎫 + travel subsidies
ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY...
Re-posts appreciated 🌈
🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome
💰 AU$200
🎫 + travel subsidies
ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY...
Re-posts appreciated 🌈
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...many leaders in the field are still seeking prestige from a few for-profit, rent-seeking journals.
He then pointed us to better publication practices:
- @peercommunityin.bsky.social
- @unjournal.bsky.social
- @metaror.bsky.social
Post credits: @alexh.bsky.social, @jwastrachan.bsky.social
He then pointed us to better publication practices:
- @peercommunityin.bsky.social
- @unjournal.bsky.social
- @metaror.bsky.social
Post credits: @alexh.bsky.social, @jwastrachan.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
...many leaders in the field are still seeking prestige from a few for-profit, rent-seeking journals.
He then pointed us to better publication practices:
- @peercommunityin.bsky.social
- @unjournal.bsky.social
- @metaror.bsky.social
Post credits: @alexh.bsky.social, @jwastrachan.bsky.social
He then pointed us to better publication practices:
- @peercommunityin.bsky.social
- @unjournal.bsky.social
- @metaror.bsky.social
Post credits: @alexh.bsky.social, @jwastrachan.bsky.social
It has been an honour to partner with @rorinstitute.bsky.social in our mission to make peer review and curation of metascience more robust, transparent, and equitable.
🎈 Time flies! Exactly one year ago today @rorinstitute.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social launched MetaROR, a platform to publish metaresearch through the publish-review-curate approach.
Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers.
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Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers.
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MetaROR Turns One - MetaROR
An exciting year of open, community-driven evaluation of metaresearch One [...]
metaror.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
It has been an honour to partner with @rorinstitute.bsky.social in our mission to make peer review and curation of metascience more robust, transparent, and equitable.
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More people need to know about MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social! If you are doing meta-research, then you get that the for-profit publishing system is a headache – you can help sideline journals by having your preprints handled by the MetaROR team for the peer review process. #AIMOS2025
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
More people need to know about MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social! If you are doing meta-research, then you get that the for-profit publishing system is a headache – you can help sideline journals by having your preprints handled by the MetaROR team for the peer review process. #AIMOS2025
That's a wrap on another AIMOS conference! See you all in Wellington next year.
Thank you for the wonderful live-blogging @elisabethbik.bsky.social - you made my job very easy :)
Thank you for the wonderful live-blogging @elisabethbik.bsky.social - you made my job very easy :)
Dr. Jen Beaudry @drjbeaudry.bsky.social is closing the #AIMOS2025 conference, pointing out new and existing fellowship and funding opportunities for meta-research projects. "We are having a Meta Moment of $6.5 million dollars!"
We end with a very meta photo of the conference chairs!
Thank you!
We end with a very meta photo of the conference chairs!
Thank you!
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
That's a wrap on another AIMOS conference! See you all in Wellington next year.
Thank you for the wonderful live-blogging @elisabethbik.bsky.social - you made my job very easy :)
Thank you for the wonderful live-blogging @elisabethbik.bsky.social - you made my job very easy :)
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NC: EPA released a draft review that looks great! Systematic review! But it is very flawed. They only included papers older<2019, excluded 100s of relevant studies, it was cherry picking data.
www.epa.gov/assessing-an...
We did a systematic review: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#AIMOS2025
www.epa.gov/assessing-an...
We did a systematic review: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#AIMOS2025
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
NC: EPA released a draft review that looks great! Systematic review! But it is very flawed. They only included papers older<2019, excluded 100s of relevant studies, it was cherry picking data.
www.epa.gov/assessing-an...
We did a systematic review: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#AIMOS2025
www.epa.gov/assessing-an...
We did a systematic review: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#AIMOS2025
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NC: Another systematic review came to very different conclusions, but ... it was funded by the American Chemistry Council.
We need more actual systematic reviews that do not have those conflicts of interest -
LInks:
prheucsf.blog/category/op-...
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/home/
#AIMOS2025
We need more actual systematic reviews that do not have those conflicts of interest -
LInks:
prheucsf.blog/category/op-...
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/home/
#AIMOS2025
Op-ed Archives
prheucsf.blog
November 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
NC: Another systematic review came to very different conclusions, but ... it was funded by the American Chemistry Council.
We need more actual systematic reviews that do not have those conflicts of interest -
LInks:
prheucsf.blog/category/op-...
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/home/
#AIMOS2025
We need more actual systematic reviews that do not have those conflicts of interest -
LInks:
prheucsf.blog/category/op-...
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/home/
#AIMOS2025
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NC: TSCA: primary federal law regulation production/use of non-pesticide chemicals. But after Obama admin, industry people were put in power and chemical lobby were fighting regulation.
EPA has failed to rely on science for their evaluation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_S...
#AIMOS2025
EPA has failed to rely on science for their evaluation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_S...
#AIMOS2025
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
NC: TSCA: primary federal law regulation production/use of non-pesticide chemicals. But after Obama admin, industry people were put in power and chemical lobby were fighting regulation.
EPA has failed to rely on science for their evaluation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_S...
#AIMOS2025
EPA has failed to rely on science for their evaluation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_S...
#AIMOS2025
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NC: We are more and more exposed to plastic - oil companies love to produce more as we move away from fossil fuels.
We all have exposure signals in our blood. Pollution kills more people than drugs, alcohol, or smoking.
Low-income people more exposed.
#AIMOS2025
We all have exposure signals in our blood. Pollution kills more people than drugs, alcohol, or smoking.
Low-income people more exposed.
#AIMOS2025
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
NC: We are more and more exposed to plastic - oil companies love to produce more as we move away from fossil fuels.
We all have exposure signals in our blood. Pollution kills more people than drugs, alcohol, or smoking.
Low-income people more exposed.
#AIMOS2025
We all have exposure signals in our blood. Pollution kills more people than drugs, alcohol, or smoking.
Low-income people more exposed.
#AIMOS2025
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NC: Industry-funded papers underestimate the risk.
We scientists need to shape the public narrative around the harms of their products - we should get out of our echo chambers. There is wide partisan support to have chemicals regulated by government. We need to move the needle.
#AIMOS2025
We scientists need to shape the public narrative around the harms of their products - we should get out of our echo chambers. There is wide partisan support to have chemicals regulated by government. We need to move the needle.
#AIMOS2025
November 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
NC: Industry-funded papers underestimate the risk.
We scientists need to shape the public narrative around the harms of their products - we should get out of our echo chambers. There is wide partisan support to have chemicals regulated by government. We need to move the needle.
#AIMOS2025
We scientists need to shape the public narrative around the harms of their products - we should get out of our echo chambers. There is wide partisan support to have chemicals regulated by government. We need to move the needle.
#AIMOS2025
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NC: We know this is true, we have preclinical/animal data, but we are told to prove this through RCTs.
US EPA released reports but Australian government still claims PFAS are not proven to be bad.
We are exposed to 1000s of chemicals, yet we still evaluate one chemical at the time.
#AIMOS2025
US EPA released reports but Australian government still claims PFAS are not proven to be bad.
We are exposed to 1000s of chemicals, yet we still evaluate one chemical at the time.
#AIMOS2025
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
NC: We know this is true, we have preclinical/animal data, but we are told to prove this through RCTs.
US EPA released reports but Australian government still claims PFAS are not proven to be bad.
We are exposed to 1000s of chemicals, yet we still evaluate one chemical at the time.
#AIMOS2025
US EPA released reports but Australian government still claims PFAS are not proven to be bad.
We are exposed to 1000s of chemicals, yet we still evaluate one chemical at the time.
#AIMOS2025
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The talk starts with a video about PFAS (toxic chemicals) leakage from a chemical plant near Jervis Bay.
More background: www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02...
Leading organizations did not use a lot of systematic reviews about environmental hazards.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AIMOS2025
More background: www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02...
Leading organizations did not use a lot of systematic reviews about environmental hazards.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AIMOS2025
A review of methods used for hazard identification and risk assessment of environmental hazards
Approximately one quarter of all deaths globally are attributed to living or working in an unhealthy environment, with household and ambient air pollu…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The talk starts with a video about PFAS (toxic chemicals) leakage from a chemical plant near Jervis Bay.
More background: www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02...
Leading organizations did not use a lot of systematic reviews about environmental hazards.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AIMOS2025
More background: www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02...
Leading organizations did not use a lot of systematic reviews about environmental hazards.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AIMOS2025
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We will end the @aimosinc.bsky.social conference with a plenary session by Nicholas Chartres, with "Corporate Vectors of Chronic Disease: Using Internal Industry Documents to Safeguard Environmental Health Research Integrity"
#AIMOS2025
#AIMOS2025
November 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
We will end the @aimosinc.bsky.social conference with a plenary session by Nicholas Chartres, with "Corporate Vectors of Chronic Disease: Using Internal Industry Documents to Safeguard Environmental Health Research Integrity"
#AIMOS2025
#AIMOS2025
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Good morning from Sydney, on day 3 of the @aimosinc.bsky.social conference.
This morning I'll attend a workshop by the amazing @anniewham.bsky.social on: "Retrieving Scholarly Metadata with R: Introduction to Crossref and OpenAlex APIs"
#AIMOS2025
This morning I'll attend a workshop by the amazing @anniewham.bsky.social on: "Retrieving Scholarly Metadata with R: Introduction to Crossref and OpenAlex APIs"
#AIMOS2025
November 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Good morning from Sydney, on day 3 of the @aimosinc.bsky.social conference.
This morning I'll attend a workshop by the amazing @anniewham.bsky.social on: "Retrieving Scholarly Metadata with R: Introduction to Crossref and OpenAlex APIs"
#AIMOS2025
This morning I'll attend a workshop by the amazing @anniewham.bsky.social on: "Retrieving Scholarly Metadata with R: Introduction to Crossref and OpenAlex APIs"
#AIMOS2025
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Our current systems for research assessment are narrow and flawed - @ginnybarbour.bsky.social
@aimosinc.bsky.social
#AIMOS2025
@aimosinc.bsky.social
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November 20, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Our current systems for research assessment are narrow and flawed - @ginnybarbour.bsky.social
@aimosinc.bsky.social
#AIMOS2025
@aimosinc.bsky.social
#AIMOS2025
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Discussion about next steps for MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social A partnership between @aimosinc.bsky.social and @rorinstitute.bsky.social
Led by @alexh.bsky.social and @aidybarnett.bsky.social
#AIMOS2025
Led by @alexh.bsky.social and @aidybarnett.bsky.social
#AIMOS2025
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Discussion about next steps for MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social A partnership between @aimosinc.bsky.social and @rorinstitute.bsky.social
Led by @alexh.bsky.social and @aidybarnett.bsky.social
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Led by @alexh.bsky.social and @aidybarnett.bsky.social
#AIMOS2025
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3. Inika Sharma: The landscape of randomised controlled trials in India: A mapping review.
11,932 studies were included, over 7M participants, Changes in guidelines caused dips or increases over time.
#AIMOS2025
11,932 studies were included, over 7M participants, Changes in guidelines caused dips or increases over time.
#AIMOS2025
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 AM
3. Inika Sharma: The landscape of randomised controlled trials in India: A mapping review.
11,932 studies were included, over 7M participants, Changes in guidelines caused dips or increases over time.
#AIMOS2025
11,932 studies were included, over 7M participants, Changes in guidelines caused dips or increases over time.
#AIMOS2025
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2. Gerben ter Riet & Anne de Jong (prerecorded): Four-Year Trends of Adherence to a Checklist for Responsible Research Practices.
Do people adhere to guidelines? We looked at 23 studies, adherence went down over time, in particular those related to open science such as preregistration.
#AIMOS2025
Do people adhere to guidelines? We looked at 23 studies, adherence went down over time, in particular those related to open science such as preregistration.
#AIMOS2025
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
2. Gerben ter Riet & Anne de Jong (prerecorded): Four-Year Trends of Adherence to a Checklist for Responsible Research Practices.
Do people adhere to guidelines? We looked at 23 studies, adherence went down over time, in particular those related to open science such as preregistration.
#AIMOS2025
Do people adhere to guidelines? We looked at 23 studies, adherence went down over time, in particular those related to open science such as preregistration.
#AIMOS2025