Community for Rigor
@comm4rigor.bsky.social
UPenn-based, NIH and NINDS-funded initiative creating a free, online curriculum to learn, practice, and promote scientific rigor. For Better Science, Every Day! Join us at c4r.io
We built an app to help you plan your research, guide every step, and make your science more rigorous in the process.
Join our live webinar on March 11 @ 12 pm ET to learn more!
RSVP today @ bit.ly/3ZpQbzp
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Join our live webinar on March 11 @ 12 pm ET to learn more!
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February 19, 2026 at 2:00 PM
We built an app to help you plan your research, guide every step, and make your science more rigorous in the process.
Join our live webinar on March 11 @ 12 pm ET to learn more!
RSVP today @ bit.ly/3ZpQbzp
@kordinglab.bsky.social
@gunnarblohm.bsky.social
@jordan.matelsky.com
Join our live webinar on March 11 @ 12 pm ET to learn more!
RSVP today @ bit.ly/3ZpQbzp
@kordinglab.bsky.social
@gunnarblohm.bsky.social
@jordan.matelsky.com
🤯 Doing good science can be hard, even overwhelming. Planning your study helps. Our P.I., @kordinglab.bsky.social created an app to help you get started with your study and guide you through the process.
🕛️ Join our webinar on Wednesday, March 11 @ 12 pm ET to learn more!
RSVP @ buff.ly/una620W
🕛️ Join our webinar on Wednesday, March 11 @ 12 pm ET to learn more!
RSVP @ buff.ly/una620W
February 17, 2026 at 1:01 PM
🤯 Doing good science can be hard, even overwhelming. Planning your study helps. Our P.I., @kordinglab.bsky.social created an app to help you get started with your study and guide you through the process.
🕛️ Join our webinar on Wednesday, March 11 @ 12 pm ET to learn more!
RSVP @ buff.ly/una620W
🕛️ Join our webinar on Wednesday, March 11 @ 12 pm ET to learn more!
RSVP @ buff.ly/una620W
Let’s talk more about our mistakes — science will be better for it. Huge props to our PI, @kordinglab.bsky.social, for truly walking the talk.
How I contributed to rejecting one of my favorite papers of all time
I believe we should talk about the mistakes we make.
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February 6, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Let’s talk more about our mistakes — science will be better for it. Huge props to our PI, @kordinglab.bsky.social, for truly walking the talk.
AI coding tools can help with speed and routine tasks — but they don’t make your work rigorous. Rigor still depends on clear problem framing, human oversight, thoughtful testing, and careful inference.
How can AI strengthen—not shortcut—our reasoning? @thetransmitter.bsky.social
How can AI strengthen—not shortcut—our reasoning? @thetransmitter.bsky.social
AI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain scientific rigor
These guidelines can help researchers ensure the integrity of their work while accelerating progress on important scientific questions.
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February 4, 2026 at 1:01 PM
AI coding tools can help with speed and routine tasks — but they don’t make your work rigorous. Rigor still depends on clear problem framing, human oversight, thoughtful testing, and careful inference.
How can AI strengthen—not shortcut—our reasoning? @thetransmitter.bsky.social
How can AI strengthen—not shortcut—our reasoning? @thetransmitter.bsky.social
Reproducibility and open science are great, but they don't necessarily equate to rigor. You can perfectly share a study and still draw weak conclusions. True rigor lives in the questions we ask, the designs we choose, and the inferences we make.
February 2, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Reproducibility and open science are great, but they don't necessarily equate to rigor. You can perfectly share a study and still draw weak conclusions. True rigor lives in the questions we ask, the designs we choose, and the inferences we make.
🚨 Webinar alert! PlanYourScience.com - Less Rushing = Better Science.
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 @ 12 pm ET
RSVP at c4r.io/events
#ScientificRigor #PhDLife #PlanYourScience #Communityforrigor
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 @ 12 pm ET
RSVP at c4r.io/events
#ScientificRigor #PhDLife #PlanYourScience #Communityforrigor
January 29, 2026 at 1:01 PM
🚨 Webinar alert! PlanYourScience.com - Less Rushing = Better Science.
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 @ 12 pm ET
RSVP at c4r.io/events
#ScientificRigor #PhDLife #PlanYourScience #Communityforrigor
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 @ 12 pm ET
RSVP at c4r.io/events
#ScientificRigor #PhDLife #PlanYourScience #Communityforrigor
We're Hiring! Social Media Part-Time Associate – Must live in Philadelphia, PA
Do you have proven experience in social media strategic growth and science communication? This hybrid, part-time position may be the right fit for you!
Apply today at bit.ly/3NxOXQf
Do you have proven experience in social media strategic growth and science communication? This hybrid, part-time position may be the right fit for you!
Apply today at bit.ly/3NxOXQf
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January 28, 2026 at 1:01 PM
We're Hiring! Social Media Part-Time Associate – Must live in Philadelphia, PA
Do you have proven experience in social media strategic growth and science communication? This hybrid, part-time position may be the right fit for you!
Apply today at bit.ly/3NxOXQf
Do you have proven experience in social media strategic growth and science communication? This hybrid, part-time position may be the right fit for you!
Apply today at bit.ly/3NxOXQf
We have FREE educational materials for your intro to research and experimental design courses. Email us at carogar@seas.upenn.edu if you're interested in testing them with your class or lab.
Currently available for testing:
Confirmation Bias
Randomization
Controls
Currently available for testing:
Confirmation Bias
Randomization
Controls
January 21, 2026 at 2:54 PM
We have FREE educational materials for your intro to research and experimental design courses. Email us at carogar@seas.upenn.edu if you're interested in testing them with your class or lab.
Currently available for testing:
Confirmation Bias
Randomization
Controls
Currently available for testing:
Confirmation Bias
Randomization
Controls
The Community for Rigor is a not-for-profit initiative to create a FREE, online curriculum to teach, learn, and practice scientific rigor.
Join us at c4r.io/join and let us help you acquire the knowledge and skills you need to do better, more rigorous science.
#ExperimentalDesign #Rigor #PhDLife
Join us at c4r.io/join and let us help you acquire the knowledge and skills you need to do better, more rigorous science.
#ExperimentalDesign #Rigor #PhDLife
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Join the Community for Rigor to get regular updates about our work, early access to materials, and participate in events that bring together researchers passionate about making better science every…
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January 12, 2026 at 1:35 PM
The Community for Rigor is a not-for-profit initiative to create a FREE, online curriculum to teach, learn, and practice scientific rigor.
Join us at c4r.io/join and let us help you acquire the knowledge and skills you need to do better, more rigorous science.
#ExperimentalDesign #Rigor #PhDLife
Join us at c4r.io/join and let us help you acquire the knowledge and skills you need to do better, more rigorous science.
#ExperimentalDesign #Rigor #PhDLife
The best way to future-proof your research is to do rigorous science.
#ScientificRigor #Rigor #BetterScience #C4R #CommunityforRigor
#ScientificRigor #Rigor #BetterScience #C4R #CommunityforRigor
🚨 Important piece. Agree!
How Culture, Incentives, & AI Challenge Scientific Integrity ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... via @nejm.org
Need to fix: "deeper cultural pressures in science that reward speed & novelty over care & verification."
Let's value "replication, transparency, & rigor..."
How Culture, Incentives, & AI Challenge Scientific Integrity ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... via @nejm.org
Need to fix: "deeper cultural pressures in science that reward speed & novelty over care & verification."
Let's value "replication, transparency, & rigor..."
The H-Index of Suspicion: How Culture, Incentives, and AI Challenge Scientific Integrity
Generative AI is making it astonishingly easy to create scientific fakery that looks real: convincing data, tidy plots, even entire studies that slip past automated checks and human reviewers. In t...
ai.nejm.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:15 PM
The best way to future-proof your research is to do rigorous science.
#ScientificRigor #Rigor #BetterScience #C4R #CommunityforRigor
#ScientificRigor #Rigor #BetterScience #C4R #CommunityforRigor
Welcome back to class, grad students ✨ New semester, new experiments, new impact 🧪
We’re so glad to be part of your rigorous journey this semester. Join us at c4r.io/join
#GradStudentLife #PhDLife #CommunityforRigor
We’re so glad to be part of your rigorous journey this semester. Join us at c4r.io/join
#GradStudentLife #PhDLife #CommunityforRigor
January 6, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Welcome back to class, grad students ✨ New semester, new experiments, new impact 🧪
We’re so glad to be part of your rigorous journey this semester. Join us at c4r.io/join
#GradStudentLife #PhDLife #CommunityforRigor
We’re so glad to be part of your rigorous journey this semester. Join us at c4r.io/join
#GradStudentLife #PhDLife #CommunityforRigor
Happy Holidays from chilly Philadelphia! It's been a challenging year for many of us, but we also have plenty to celebrate here at C4R.
New quality control standards, our educational content being tested throughout the country, and thousands of new member around the globe. We couldn't ask for more.
New quality control standards, our educational content being tested throughout the country, and thousands of new member around the globe. We couldn't ask for more.
December 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Happy Holidays from chilly Philadelphia! It's been a challenging year for many of us, but we also have plenty to celebrate here at C4R.
New quality control standards, our educational content being tested throughout the country, and thousands of new member around the globe. We couldn't ask for more.
New quality control standards, our educational content being tested throughout the country, and thousands of new member around the globe. We couldn't ask for more.
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New #NIH prize competition to identify areas of biomedical science that can benefit from replication and to recognize past replication efforts to further promote the importance of research replication:
www.challenge.gov?challenge=re...
Submission deadline is in one month!
www.challenge.gov?challenge=re...
Submission deadline is in one month!
Challenge.gov
Challenge.gov is the official government website supporting prize challenges and prize competitions that are sponsored by the US federal government. Here federal agencies provide prize awards to publi...
www.challenge.gov
December 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
🫶By joining our team, you won’t just design curriculum — you’ll shape how thousands of scientists learn to do rigorous, trustworthy research. Imagine seeing a student halfway across the world use materials you created to strengthen their science. That kind of impact lasts.
Apply at: buff.ly/nJxjaKd
Apply at: buff.ly/nJxjaKd
December 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🫶By joining our team, you won’t just design curriculum — you’ll shape how thousands of scientists learn to do rigorous, trustworthy research. Imagine seeing a student halfway across the world use materials you created to strengthen their science. That kind of impact lasts.
Apply at: buff.ly/nJxjaKd
Apply at: buff.ly/nJxjaKd
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Join us on Tuesday, 12/9 at 12pm to see Deans' Distinguished Visiting Professor, Eva Dyer of @pennengineering.bsky.social, present her seminar at the Computational Neuroscience Initiative! #PSOMDDVP tinyurl.com/2ewyww87
December 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Join us on Tuesday, 12/9 at 12pm to see Deans' Distinguished Visiting Professor, Eva Dyer of @pennengineering.bsky.social, present her seminar at the Computational Neuroscience Initiative! #PSOMDDVP tinyurl.com/2ewyww87
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💡 The state of peer review today / with Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social
youtu.be/pHPNuYAZ7U8?...
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Mario Malički - The state of peer review today
YouTube video by ReproducibiliTea Global
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December 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
💡 The state of peer review today / with Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social
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😍 Big thanks to everyone who joined our abstract-writing workshop yesterday, and to our P.I., @kordinglab.bsky.social for another great session!
Stay tuned for our next event in early 2026!
#AbstractWriting #sciencewriting #C4R #Communityforrigor #PlanYourScience #KonradKording
Stay tuned for our next event in early 2026!
#AbstractWriting #sciencewriting #C4R #Communityforrigor #PlanYourScience #KonradKording
December 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
😍 Big thanks to everyone who joined our abstract-writing workshop yesterday, and to our P.I., @kordinglab.bsky.social for another great session!
Stay tuned for our next event in early 2026!
#AbstractWriting #sciencewriting #C4R #Communityforrigor #PlanYourScience #KonradKording
Stay tuned for our next event in early 2026!
#AbstractWriting #sciencewriting #C4R #Communityforrigor #PlanYourScience #KonradKording
We're back after a wonderful #SFN2025 🔥 Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth and engaged with us over rigor topics. Hope you're enjoying your new socks! 🧦 😜
#ScientificRigor #NINDS #BetterScience #C4R
#ScientificRigor #NINDS #BetterScience #C4R
December 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We're back after a wonderful #SFN2025 🔥 Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth and engaged with us over rigor topics. Hope you're enjoying your new socks! 🧦 😜
#ScientificRigor #NINDS #BetterScience #C4R
#ScientificRigor #NINDS #BetterScience #C4R
PlanYourScience.com is live! 🔥
Professors: Running a class with research projects? You and your TAs will never have enough time to carefully guide every student through gap, hypotheses, experiment, data analysis, etc. I think every larger course running research projects should use this.
I think almost all scientific projects should be planned carefully. And I think an app can dramatically improve that. So I wrote an app for that (free for now, if you can fund this let me know). I tested it quite a bit (>8000 users in beta so far). try it: planyourscience.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
PlanYourScience.com is live! 🔥
Working on an abstract and could use some help? Join us on Tuesday, December 2 for a virtual abstract-writing workshop led by our P.I. Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social
Register for free at
Register for free at
Rigorous and Glamorous in 100 Words or Less 2.0 - An abstract-writing workshop with Konrad Kording
It’s hard to write an abstract. It’s harder to write a glamorous one that tells your story without overselling your results.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Working on an abstract and could use some help? Join us on Tuesday, December 2 for a virtual abstract-writing workshop led by our P.I. Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social
Register for free at
Register for free at
Are you in the process of writing an abstract and could use some help? Join us on December 2 for a virtual workshop with our P.I., Konrad Kording
@kordinglab.bsky.social
🎟️ RSVP at buff.ly/4IJ0Xwu
✨ You can submit an abstract in progress for a chance to have it workshopped live!
@kordinglab.bsky.social
🎟️ RSVP at buff.ly/4IJ0Xwu
✨ You can submit an abstract in progress for a chance to have it workshopped live!
Rigorous and Glamorous in 100 Words or Less 2.0 - An abstract-writing workshop with Konrad Kording
It’s hard to write an abstract. It’s harder to write a glamorous one that tells your story without overselling your results.
buff.ly
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Are you in the process of writing an abstract and could use some help? Join us on December 2 for a virtual workshop with our P.I., Konrad Kording
@kordinglab.bsky.social
🎟️ RSVP at buff.ly/4IJ0Xwu
✨ You can submit an abstract in progress for a chance to have it workshopped live!
@kordinglab.bsky.social
🎟️ RSVP at buff.ly/4IJ0Xwu
✨ You can submit an abstract in progress for a chance to have it workshopped live!
✨ It’s hard to write an abstract. It’s harder to write a glamorous one that tells your story without overselling your results.
🛠️ Join us on Tuesday, December 2 @ 12 pm ET for a live abstract-writing workshop led by our P.I., Konrad Kording. RSVP @ c4r.io/events
🛠️ Join us on Tuesday, December 2 @ 12 pm ET for a live abstract-writing workshop led by our P.I., Konrad Kording. RSVP @ c4r.io/events
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
✨ It’s hard to write an abstract. It’s harder to write a glamorous one that tells your story without overselling your results.
🛠️ Join us on Tuesday, December 2 @ 12 pm ET for a live abstract-writing workshop led by our P.I., Konrad Kording. RSVP @ c4r.io/events
🛠️ Join us on Tuesday, December 2 @ 12 pm ET for a live abstract-writing workshop led by our P.I., Konrad Kording. RSVP @ c4r.io/events
The next round of scientific rigor educational units is brewing. Sign up to join our community and get timely updates about our curriculum, events, and more.
Join us at c4r.io/join
#Causality #CleanCoding #LiteratureSearches #DataVisualization #ScientificRigor
Join us at c4r.io/join
#Causality #CleanCoding #LiteratureSearches #DataVisualization #ScientificRigor
October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The next round of scientific rigor educational units is brewing. Sign up to join our community and get timely updates about our curriculum, events, and more.
Join us at c4r.io/join
#Causality #CleanCoding #LiteratureSearches #DataVisualization #ScientificRigor
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#Causality #CleanCoding #LiteratureSearches #DataVisualization #ScientificRigor
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We're looking for panelists for our "Beyond Academia: Careers for PhDs in Behavioral & Brain Sicences" event on Jan 16.
We bring PhDs working in industry/gov/non-profit sector to @upenn.edu to share their experience & jobs.
Early career welcome! DM or email pennmindcoreATsas.upenn.edu
Thanks!
We bring PhDs working in industry/gov/non-profit sector to @upenn.edu to share their experience & jobs.
Early career welcome! DM or email pennmindcoreATsas.upenn.edu
Thanks!
October 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We're looking for panelists for our "Beyond Academia: Careers for PhDs in Behavioral & Brain Sicences" event on Jan 16.
We bring PhDs working in industry/gov/non-profit sector to @upenn.edu to share their experience & jobs.
Early career welcome! DM or email pennmindcoreATsas.upenn.edu
Thanks!
We bring PhDs working in industry/gov/non-profit sector to @upenn.edu to share their experience & jobs.
Early career welcome! DM or email pennmindcoreATsas.upenn.edu
Thanks!
Learn how to strengthen your study design and guard against bias through effective randomization techniques, in this hands-on workshop, led by C4R's Curriculum Development Lead, Dr. Hao Ye @hao-and-y.bsky.social
Watch the full session on our YouTube channel: buff.ly/uRegbqd
Watch the full session on our YouTube channel: buff.ly/uRegbqd
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Learn how to strengthen your study design and guard against bias through effective randomization techniques, in this hands-on workshop, led by C4R's Curriculum Development Lead, Dr. Hao Ye @hao-and-y.bsky.social
Watch the full session on our YouTube channel: buff.ly/uRegbqd
Watch the full session on our YouTube channel: buff.ly/uRegbqd