“Destroying American Science is Not Patriotic” - my opening remarks for the recent @ucbitss.bsky.social Annual Meeting here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBnl...

In addition to research misconduct, the @i4replication.bsky.social investigation highlights deep power imbalances that I find equally troubling: Bangladeshi colleagues fear being acknowledged for their work!

I especially feel for the students who are left navigating these pressures.

"We decided not to reply to the response."

Your PhD advisor and the institution are not mutually exclusive. But what happens when both fail you and break your trust? What would you do?

This is us. We asked Asad to step aside before we had any results. GDRI was not involved in our data collection (thankfully).

As an addendum, I admit we were surprised to see an email just posted here without a heads up. Perhaps we should have expected it, but still…

#GDRI_rep Update 3: The paper "Improving Hygiene and Sanitation through Parental Skill Training" by Asadul Islam, Umair Khalil and Tabassum Rahman was conditionally accepted at Economic Development and Cultural Change. We requested a replication package. It has now been withdrawn

Today about a thousand folks Stood up for Science at Berkeley, and I was honored to be among them. Great energy — and it’s just the beginning
#SUFS

Here I am talking about yesterday's trade policy on yesterday's evening news. Stay tuned for more exciting twists and turns!

www.wistv.com/video/2025/0...

And lots more! Check out his work
www.robertmgonzalez....

This keeps growing.

Can we quantify the value of a proposed experiment ex ante? cyrussamii.com?p=4044

Thoughts inspired by the recent BITSS conference, on moving past taste-based judgments about the value of proposed studies towards something firmer methodologically and potentially replicable.

Berkeley and east bay folks - we will have a UC Berkeley campus event on Friday as part of this broader day of action — please join us and make your voice heard!

www.standup4scienceberkeley.com

After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. 🧵

lim(t → 13⁻) Excitement(t) = max(Excitement), t ∈ [t₀, 13) AEDT

“You can’t hide the sun, the moon, and the truth for long.” Which is a Buddhist proverb that applies to academia as well.

This is based on our work. We will provide more information on Monday. Stay tuned and thanks Ray and Will for your help!