Alex Holcombe
@alexh.bsky.social
Science-ing, trying to improve science. Cognitive and perceptual psychologist.
Biases include @simine (💍), cats (🚫)
Mastodon: @alexh@fediscience.org
Biases include @simine (💍), cats (🚫)
Mastodon: @alexh@fediscience.org
Let me know if I missed something. Here's one of my old posts about fraud prevention alexholcombe.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/s...
Scientists can’t even prove their data are real
I gave a workshop on preregistration to honours students last Friday and mentioned that preregistration provides evidence that you created your hypothesis in advance of seeing the data. The student…
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November 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Let me know if I missed something. Here's one of my old posts about fraud prevention alexholcombe.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/s...
Open science practices provide part of the records needed for data provenance or chain-of-custody trail. So in my view, open science policy updates need to consider fraud deterrence. Disappointed to see no consideration of the issue in the TOP guidelines update. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Open science practices provide part of the records needed for data provenance or chain-of-custody trail. So in my view, open science policy updates need to consider fraud deterrence. Disappointed to see no consideration of the issue in the TOP guidelines update. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Ad hominem discourse is largely prohibited in scientific journals. Historically, this prohibition restricted the dissemination of ad hominem discussion, but during the last decade, blogs and social m...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
For free. Or you can donate to Martin here Source: Wiley share.google/iA5tv2TAKrrN...
A few of the FB posts I published as the apoendix here share.google/iA5tv2TAKrrN...
<em>British Journal of Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Ad hominem discourse is largely prohibited in scientific journals. Historically, this prohibition restricted the dissemination of ad hominem discussion, but during the last decade, blogs and social m...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A few of the FB posts I published as the apoendix here share.google/iA5tv2TAKrrN...
If someone registers their blog or substack with rogue-scholar.org, all future posts will get a doi, and be archived i believe
November 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
If someone registers their blog or substack with rogue-scholar.org, all future posts will get a doi, and be archived i believe
I think OpenAlex does that.
November 3, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I think OpenAlex does that.
True. They do the same thing with co-authorship.
November 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
True. They do the same thing with co-authorship.
Thanks, yes, and as with a number of metascience topics, it's even more shocking when you discover how few people are working on remedying it.
November 2, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Thanks, yes, and as with a number of metascience topics, it's even more shocking when you discover how few people are working on remedying it.
If you're interested in our Acknowledgments projects (been skeeting about them a bit previously) you can get on our list with this form docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you for your interest in the Acknowledgments project
We are advocating for journals improving the recognition of people listed in Acknowledgments sections, for example by including ORCID numbers, which can eventually result in acknowledgees being indexe...
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November 2, 2025 at 7:24 AM
If you're interested in our Acknowledgments projects (been skeeting about them a bit previously) you can get on our list with this form docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
:) See @ojcollective.bsky.social , launching in earnest soon
November 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
:) See @ojcollective.bsky.social , launching in earnest soon
since their beginning. One such I am involved with is the Wikijournal of Science en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJou...
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November 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
since their beginning. One such I am involved with is the Wikijournal of Science en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJou...
that has been captured by corporations, running a game that our universities continue to support, while neglecting alternatives.
November 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
that has been captured by corporations, running a game that our universities continue to support, while neglecting alternatives.
many died out, some are thriving, and many are struggling to survive. A reason they struggle is that they it's difficult to sustain themselves outside of the journal impact and prestige system
November 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
many died out, some are thriving, and many are struggling to survive. A reason they struggle is that they it's difficult to sustain themselves outside of the journal impact and prestige system
out there, ever since Harnad's "scholarly skywriting" of 1987 and the dawn of the modern open science movement around 2005. Lots of community scientific publishing initiatives such as diamond open access journals and platforms were started,
November 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
out there, ever since Harnad's "scholarly skywriting" of 1987 and the dawn of the modern open science movement around 2005. Lots of community scientific publishing initiatives such as diamond open access journals and platforms were started,
Tenzing will also gently encourage best practices for Acknowledgments sections, by modeling them in its outputs.
We are interested in talking to groups (like statistical consulting units or library professionals) who are frequently not acknowledged appropriately in papers about how this might help.
We are interested in talking to groups (like statistical consulting units or library professionals) who are frequently not acknowledged appropriately in papers about how this might help.
October 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Tenzing will also gently encourage best practices for Acknowledgments sections, by modeling them in its outputs.
We are interested in talking to groups (like statistical consulting units or library professionals) who are frequently not acknowledged appropriately in papers about how this might help.
We are interested in talking to groups (like statistical consulting units or library professionals) who are frequently not acknowledged appropriately in papers about how this might help.
By providing a place to write down information about the people you should acknowledge rather than just your co-authors, you will be less likely, come submisison time, to forget to include them in the acknowledgments. #metascience
October 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
By providing a place to write down information about the people you should acknowledge rather than just your co-authors, you will be less likely, come submisison time, to forget to include them in the acknowledgments. #metascience