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Lisa DeBruine
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#rstats #PsyTeachR #PsySciAcc #OpenResearch #CodingClub #ManyFaces (overwhelmed by social media) 🏳️‍🌈 she/they
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debruine.bsky.social
I absolutely love myself a unique identifier, but why oh why, DOI, do you allow formats like this?!

10.1002/(SICI)1099-1611(200001/02)9:1<11::AID-PON424>3.0.CO;2-Z

(Also why does the CrossRef API deal with parentheses so weird? You can't URL-encode them in queries)
January 5, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Reposted by Lisa DeBruine
rmcelreath.bsky.social
The Max Planck Society has begun an exploratory round table for open science. We are drafting some recommendations to leadership. Still a long way to go! But here are my notes on the most recent draft, just so you all know how I am trying to steer things.
Richard McElreath: It must not be overlooked that junior researchers DO NOT TRUST US. We, the directors, are a big part of the problem. We made this system, we remake it every year, and we benefit from it. What can we do to credibly signal our commitment to reform a corrupt research culture? My conversations with junior scientists in the society has taught me that directors are too often either indifferent or hostile to science reform. We cannot hope to convince our prize winning colleagues. Their egos are immune. But we can replace retirements with researchers who care more about integrity than their own prestige. This is important both for earning the trust of the junior researchers who really do the research in the MPG and for attracting excellent future directors and starting to earn the trust of the public. So I suggest two strong signals to our junior researchers (and the public): (1) we will reform recruitment and promotion at all levels to eliminate proxies like citation counts and journal brands in favor of reliability and sustainability; (2) we will make open science skills a core part of scientific training, through the graduate schools at a minimum, as conditions for the central funding. The most ambitious thing we could do, as hinted at in item 5 above, is to meaningfully invest in metascientific research. As the largest basic research organization in the world, the MPG is uniquely suited to studying research and its products from a broad perspective that includes the humanities, the sciences, and policy. Governments are already involved in science reform. Someone should study it in an organized and sustained way.
December 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Reposted by Lisa DeBruine
improvingpsych.org
Metadata matters!
If you submit a preprint to PsyArXiv, to ensure smooth acceptance, don't forget to fill out the metadata correctly.

Below you will find a few tips, but detailed guidelines are at 👉 buff.ly/M3cRBW2
October 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Reposted by Lisa DeBruine
jemarnold.bsky.social
{ggview} can print plots to Viewer (Rstudio or Positron) with true scaling. Adjust plot settings and see the final proportions immediately.

Save the plot once 👌

e.g.:
ggplot(...) +
ggview::canvas(width = 220, height = 220*2/3, units = "mm", dpi = 300)

per @nrennie.bsky.social #datavis #rstats
December 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Reposted by Lisa DeBruine
ianhussey.mmmdata.io
Keeping this at hand in case I need to point to it and tap
December 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Reposted by Lisa DeBruine
mekline.bsky.social
This is a fundraising post!

An anonymous donor is matching contributions to Children Helping Science up to 100K through the end of the year - if it's in your giving budget, please consider supporting open science infrastructure!

giving.mit.edu/search/node/...

Details below...
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giving.mit.edu
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
debruine.bsky.social
Metadata!!!
verokiermer.bsky.social Veronique Kiermer @verokiermer.bsky.social · Nov 29
10 years since CRediT was introduced, >20% adoption (of full text in Dimensions). Now, we need to build on this to comprehensively integrate CRediT in metadata and make sure the taxonomy evolves to remain fit for purpose. doi.org/10.1038/d415...
W/ @sjcporter.bsky.social Liz Allen Ruth Whitman
A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do
Information about the roles of each author of a paper can help to build trust, integrity and responsible research assessment. Coordinated efforts are needed to consolidate progress.
doi.org
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 AM
debruine.bsky.social
I’m not sure how Scientific Reports can ever mend its reputation now.
deevybee.bsky.social Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Nov 29
More nonsense from Scientific Reports
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This article may be many things, but scientific it ain’t
www.nature.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:56 AM
debruine.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen

Tori Amos (first gig 1993)
Melt Banana / The Sun Ra Arkestra
Pussy Riot
Boygenius
Young Fathers (5 times, but the 2015 Art School gig was stunning)

(I saw the pixies in Paris for my 40th birthday, but I don’t want to repeat the quoted poster ;)
soashworth.bsky.social Scott Ashworth @soashworth.bsky.social · Nov 28
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen

Pixies
Breeders & Nirvana
Bikini Kill
Sonic Youth
Shonen Knife
gelbach.bsky.social gelbach @gelbach.bsky.social · Nov 27
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen

Ozzy & Metallica

SRV & Joe Cocker

Iron Maiden & Yngwie

Jazzfest

U2
November 29, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Reposted by Lisa DeBruine
carnage4life.bsky.social
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
debruine.bsky.social
“&runctitional features” 😩
smutclyde.bsky.social Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · Nov 26
Rate your score on Factor Fexcectorn.

Well done, Scientific Reports. pubpeer.com/publications...
November 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
debruine.bsky.social
🥲
xkcd.com Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Nov 26
Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/
Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Reposted by Lisa DeBruine
bartlettje.bsky.social
We have a new revision on our preprint "Practice what you preach: Designing student assignments that advance open and reproducible science"! We had some of the nicest (but still critical) peer-review comments I've ever received, so that was refreshing.

osf.io/preprints/os...
OSF
osf.io
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Reposted by Lisa DeBruine
rebeccasear.bsky.social
Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
debruine.bsky.social
A few years old, but this is a fascinating article about how a well-debunked method to teach reading may be at the root of American’s poor reading comprehension

www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
debruine.bsky.social
The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time.

scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
Check Research Outputs for Best Practices
A modular, extendable system for automatically checking research outputs for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.
scienceverse.github.io
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Reposted by Lisa DeBruine
rmcelreath.bsky.social
This November, like every November, I am teaching basic research proposal writing to the new phd cohort at my institute. Here is the 2 page template we start with and adapt. Link to LaTeX github.com/rmcelreath/P...
\title[PhD Plan for CANDIDATE]{Department of \mbox{Full Luxury Galactic Metascience}\\PhD Plan for CANDIDATE} % list committee members \author[]{Committee:\\ Prof.~MEMBER1\\ Dr.~MEMBER2\\ Dr.~MEMBER3} \date{\today} \begin{document} \maketitle% this prints the handout title, author, and date \begin{marginfigure}[-5.2cm] \includegraphics[width=3.5cm]{Minerva.pdf} \end{marginfigure} \section{Phenomenon} The subject matter to be addressed. What is the question? Citation for background are useful, but don't do a full lit review (yet).\cite{HenrichMcElreath:2003} Additional references can be included at the end bibliography by using \verb|\nocite|. \nocite{NBGA2005} \section{Theoretical Perspective} The framework for explaining the phenomenon. What are the implications of theory? If more than one theory is relevant, how do the implications differ? What are the current holes in the theory or theories? \section{Approach} Modeling and empirical research approach to address the theory/ies nominated above. Important thing is to \emph{justify} the approach in terms of theory. \section{Specifics of Approach} Outline any special skills, equipment, or techniques that will be required. This includes, in the case of field research, a paragraph on the background of the field location. Data analysis approach needs a sketch. Can use citation\cite{Merowetal2014} for further detail. \section{Expected Products} A list of the (usually 3) articles expected for completion of the PhD. Think of each as a fantasy abstract. \begin{enumerate} \item \emph{The Evolution of Human Uniqueness.} There is wide agreement that humans are unique. But it is rarely asked: Have they always been unique? In this paper, we derive a general uniqueness theorem that states that any unique species must have been less unique at some point in the past. This theorem has implications for the achievement of world peace. \item \emph{Niche Construction, Disease Transmission, and Global Warming: Chaos Deconstructs the Block Chain.} How many buzz words can be combined in a title? In this paper, we find that the natural limit on buzz words in any specific scholarly field is always given by the triangular number $T_n$ where $n$ is one more than the number of tenured faculty in the field. \item \emph{A Bayesian Hierarchical Survival Analysis of Counting Sheep.} Just like all those other models of counting sheep, but this one will be Bayesian. \end{enumerate} \section{Schedule} Outline of the calendar for the work. This is necessarily rough and subject to change. \vspace{1em} \begin{fullwidth} {\centering \begin{longtable}{lll} \toprule \makecell{Date\\(Duration)} & Phase & Comment\\ \midrule \makecell{Jan 2019\\(1 year)} & \makecell{Phase 1} & First wave of being awesome \\ \midrule \makecell{Jan 2020\\(1 year)} & \makecell{Phase 2} & \makecell{Write papers \#1 and \#2} \\ \midrule \makecell{Jan 2021\\(6 months)} & \makecell{Phase 3} & Second wave of awesomeness \\ \midrule \makecell{Jun 2021\\(6 months)} & \makecell{Phase 4} & Write paper \#3 \\ \bottomrule \end{longtable} } \end{fullwidth} \bibliography{bibliography} \bibliographystyle{abbrv}
November 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Reposted by Lisa DeBruine
menotti.bsky.social
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
debruine.bsky.social
I was re-listening to the episode of @ifbookspod.bsky.social on The Anxious Generation, and the bit around 1:15 where they’re incredulous about “solutions” to age verification online has aged hilariously, given the recent UK online safety act changes.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
The Anxious Generation
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 08/08/2024 · 2h
podcasts.apple.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
debruine.bsky.social
The Festival of Data Science and AI is next week #DataAIFest

I'll be speaking in a panel on Using AI Ethically in Research on Monday
www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

And leading a workshop on Papercheck on Tuesday
www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
October 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
debruine.bsky.social
I'm finally writing a proper paper about faux, and have so many naming & default choices I regret (it was my first solo R package). Which is a better strategy:

1. Add new functions that work the way I wish the old ones did, but keep the old ones
2. Create a faux2 package and retire faux eventually
October 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
debruine.bsky.social
Please help us, #MetaScience community!

It's time to decide on a forever name for papercheck (scienceverse.github.io/papercheck/). We don't want it to be confused with papercheck.ai, and we plan to check other research artifacts like repo contents, data, code, and prereg. Any suggestions?
Check Scientific Papers for Best Practices
A modular, extendable system for automatically checking scientific papers for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.
scienceverse.github.io
October 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
debruine.bsky.social
I love the OSF, but I'm going to have to stop using it for student projects if it continues to take 30 seconds every time I load a new page.
October 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Reposted by Lisa DeBruine
lizziegadd.bsky.social
Adding my voice to the chorus battling to retain an increased focus on people, culture, and environment in the next REF... wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ba...
The battle for people, culture and environment
Lizzie Gadd makes the case for embracing People, Culture and Environment and sets out why reverting to REF 2021 would be a mistake
wonkhe.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:25 AM
debruine.bsky.social
I'm having an #rdev problem using data in an r package inside a function when calling the function without loading the package. I made a reprex to demonstrate the problem (code in the next post) but I think it has something to do with lazyloading data.

mydata is a data table
myfunc() returns mydata
October 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM