Adrian Barnett
@aidybarnett.bsky.social
Statistician working in meta-research. Deltiologist.
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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
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
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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
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
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
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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...
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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
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Have increased capacity for this December INSPECT-SR online training workshop following a successful 1st event today. Book here: www.trybooking.com/uk/FKHV
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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...
#statsky #rstats
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m1D83BcJQ...
authors.elsevier.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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...
#statsky #rstats
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m1D83BcJQ...
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🎲 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
🔗 bit.ly/3J7689t | 🔓 bit.ly/47HTlDH
October 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
🎲 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
🔗 bit.ly/3J7689t | 🔓 bit.ly/47HTlDH
My dog loves sleeping in a pot plant
October 25, 2025 at 9:35 AM
My dog loves sleeping in a pot plant
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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\
October 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com
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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
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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...
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
October 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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...
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👉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
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
October 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
👉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
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
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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
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
October 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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
go.nature.com/48yaJvF
A good argument for preprinting everything here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Client Challenge
www.nature.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
A good argument for preprinting everything here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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
October 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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...
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.
October 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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.
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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
October 10, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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...
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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
October 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Lotteries may be fair in theory, but new research shows people prefer expert committees to decide who gets scarce medical treatment.
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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...
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
October 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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...
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...
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...
September 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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...
It's 2025.723 and scientists are still putting too many decimal places in their results.
September 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It's 2025.723 and scientists are still putting too many decimal places in their results.
When the zombie apocalypse starts in Brisbane
September 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
When the zombie apocalypse starts in Brisbane
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Peer reviewers are more likely to recommend accepting papers that cite their work — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social:
cen.acs.org/policy/publi...
@aidybarnett.bsky.social
cen.acs.org/policy/publi...
@aidybarnett.bsky.social
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
August 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Peer reviewers are more likely to recommend accepting papers that cite their work — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social:
cen.acs.org/policy/publi...
@aidybarnett.bsky.social
cen.acs.org/policy/publi...
@aidybarnett.bsky.social
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“I still yearn for the good old days…”
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
August 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
“I still yearn for the good old days…”
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
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Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
hannahshelley.neocities.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
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Reviewers are more likely to approve manuscripts if authors agree to cite their work than those who don't get cited.
Thanks to @aidybarnett.bsky.social, @balazsaczel.bsky.social and @econfeld.bsky.social for chatting with me for this story!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Thanks to @aidybarnett.bsky.social, @balazsaczel.bsky.social and @econfeld.bsky.social for chatting with me for this story!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work
Preprint examines how citations can influence the review process.
www.nature.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Reviewers are more likely to approve manuscripts if authors agree to cite their work than those who don't get cited.
Thanks to @aidybarnett.bsky.social, @balazsaczel.bsky.social and @econfeld.bsky.social for chatting with me for this story!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Thanks to @aidybarnett.bsky.social, @balazsaczel.bsky.social and @econfeld.bsky.social for chatting with me for this story!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Submissions for #AIMOS2025 in Sydney close in just under two weeks!
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August 19, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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