Ben Marwick
@benmarwick.bsky.social
Archaeologist and #rstats enthusiast
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Using the lead isotope community and neighbouring fields as nucleus, this workshop initiates the development of a toolbox for the archaeological sciences written as R package.
bit.ly/4nah57V @benmarwick.bsky.social
bit.ly/4nah57V @benmarwick.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Using the lead isotope community and neighbouring fields as nucleus, this workshop initiates the development of a toolbox for the archaeological sciences written as R package.
bit.ly/4nah57V @benmarwick.bsky.social
bit.ly/4nah57V @benmarwick.bsky.social
Reposted by Ben Marwick
Why do societies reliably develop strikingly similar traditions like dance songs, hero stories, shamanism & justice institutions?
In a new BBS target article, I propose a theory for such "super-attractors" + cultural evolution more broadly. Now open for commentary: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In a new BBS target article, I propose a theory for such "super-attractors" + cultural evolution more broadly. Now open for commentary: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
August 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Why do societies reliably develop strikingly similar traditions like dance songs, hero stories, shamanism & justice institutions?
In a new BBS target article, I propose a theory for such "super-attractors" + cultural evolution more broadly. Now open for commentary: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In a new BBS target article, I propose a theory for such "super-attractors" + cultural evolution more broadly. Now open for commentary: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Reposted by Ben Marwick
Co-organizing a session at #SAA San Francisco with T. Kovach: "Toward an Integration of Quantitative Approaches in #Lithic Analysis." A few spots still open! Abstracts due Sept. 4.
Email me if you’d like to join the conversation: armando.falcucci@nyu.edu
#Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday 🏺
Email me if you’d like to join the conversation: armando.falcucci@nyu.edu
#Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday 🏺
August 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Co-organizing a session at #SAA San Francisco with T. Kovach: "Toward an Integration of Quantitative Approaches in #Lithic Analysis." A few spots still open! Abstracts due Sept. 4.
Email me if you’d like to join the conversation: armando.falcucci@nyu.edu
#Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday 🏺
Email me if you’d like to join the conversation: armando.falcucci@nyu.edu
#Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday 🏺
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Here's said mascot along with an excellent checklist by @shreyadimri.bsky.social
August 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here's said mascot along with an excellent checklist by @shreyadimri.bsky.social
Reposted by Ben Marwick
🎉New preprint!
"TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing"
tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk
We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA!
Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.
"TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing"
tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk
We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA!
Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.
TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing
ecoevorxiv.org
August 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🎉New preprint!
"TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing"
tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk
We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA!
Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.
"TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing"
tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk
We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA!
Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.
Reposted by Ben Marwick
All data and code available on zenodo (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) and on my GitHub account. #opendata
Thanks @benmarwick.bsky.social for the possibility to learn from reproducing your work and for providing the basis for this replication, which are unfortunately excessively rare in #Archaeology!
Thanks @benmarwick.bsky.social for the possibility to learn from reproducing your work and for providing the basis for this replication, which are unfortunately excessively rare in #Archaeology!
Marwick (2025) "Is archaeology a science?": reproducibility for training and replication with OpenAlex for testing.
The zip file contains the necessary files and folders to reproduce the preprint deposited on SocArXiv and which can also be read in a more interactive way with code chunks and interactive table of con...
doi.org
July 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
All data and code available on zenodo (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) and on my GitHub account. #opendata
Thanks @benmarwick.bsky.social for the possibility to learn from reproducing your work and for providing the basis for this replication, which are unfortunately excessively rare in #Archaeology!
Thanks @benmarwick.bsky.social for the possibility to learn from reproducing your work and for providing the basis for this replication, which are unfortunately excessively rare in #Archaeology!
Reposted by Ben Marwick
New #preprint online: Reproduction and replication of @benmarwick.bsky.social (2025), with data from OpenAlex.
Accessible as interactive html version: aqueff.github.io/replication_...
and more traditional manuscript with doi here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Is archaeology a hard or soft science? 🏺🧪
Accessible as interactive html version: aqueff.github.io/replication_...
and more traditional manuscript with doi here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Is archaeology a hard or soft science? 🏺🧪
July 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
New #preprint online: Reproduction and replication of @benmarwick.bsky.social (2025), with data from OpenAlex.
Accessible as interactive html version: aqueff.github.io/replication_...
and more traditional manuscript with doi here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Is archaeology a hard or soft science? 🏺🧪
Accessible as interactive html version: aqueff.github.io/replication_...
and more traditional manuscript with doi here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Is archaeology a hard or soft science? 🏺🧪
Here is my checklist summarising a small set of some of the simplest tasks you can do that have high potential to improve the reproducibility of your analysis code.
This is based on my year of reproducibility reviews for the J. of Archaeological Science:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM... 🧪🏺
This is based on my year of reproducibility reviews for the J. of Archaeological Science:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM... 🧪🏺
July 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Here is my checklist summarising a small set of some of the simplest tasks you can do that have high potential to improve the reproducibility of your analysis code.
This is based on my year of reproducibility reviews for the J. of Archaeological Science:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM... 🧪🏺
This is based on my year of reproducibility reviews for the J. of Archaeological Science:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM... 🧪🏺
Reposted by Ben Marwick
I'm happy to share this review article, where I attempt to ponder about missed opportunities in archaeological statistical modelling.
Statistical modelling in archaeology: some recent trends and future perspectives
This paper reviews the application of statistical models in archaeology in the last decade, focusing in particular on multilevel models, statistical t…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I'm happy to share this review article, where I attempt to ponder about missed opportunities in archaeological statistical modelling.
Is archaeology a science? 🧪
Here's my new paper that has a go at answering this question by analysing 10,000 journal articles:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM...
Here's my new paper that has a go at answering this question by analysing 10,000 journal articles:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM...
June 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Is archaeology a science? 🧪
Here's my new paper that has a go at answering this question by analysing 10,000 journal articles:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM...
Here's my new paper that has a go at answering this question by analysing 10,000 journal articles:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM...
Reposted by Ben Marwick
🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨
The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing!
And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search
Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets
R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg
The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing!
And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search
Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets
R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg
June 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨
The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing!
And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search
Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets
R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg
The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing!
And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search
Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets
R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg
Reposted by Ben Marwick
It's CES election time! We have FOUR positions that have come up for renewal, so please consider nominating yourself or your colleagues. Nominations close June 20th, with voting from June 30th -July 4th.
June 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It's CES election time! We have FOUR positions that have come up for renewal, so please consider nominating yourself or your colleagues. Nominations close June 20th, with voting from June 30th -July 4th.
Reposted by Ben Marwick
Very excited to be working with Angie Reed + the Tribal Exchange Network (www.tribalexchangenetwork.org) on a revival of {redoc}, an #rstats pkg enabling collaboration on reproducible reports. Thanks to the R Consortium and congrats to the other grant winners! r-consortium.org/posts/r-cons...
R Consortium Awards First Round of 2025 ISC Grants – R Consortium
The R Consortium’s Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) is proud to announce the first round of 2025 grant recipients. These seven projects are receiving support to enhance and expand the capabilit...
r-consortium.org
May 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Very excited to be working with Angie Reed + the Tribal Exchange Network (www.tribalexchangenetwork.org) on a revival of {redoc}, an #rstats pkg enabling collaboration on reproducible reports. Thanks to the R Consortium and congrats to the other grant winners! r-consortium.org/posts/r-cons...
Reposted by Ben Marwick
Paper alert! Happy to have joined Huan et al. to examine miniaturised lithic diversity across the last 20,000 years in southern China and its potential relation to geographic and climatic variability. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Lithic miniaturization in South China since the terminal Pleistocene: A multivariate analysis of lithic reduction from Fodongdi, Fulin and Xiqiaoshan - Journal of Geographical Sciences
Lithic miniaturization is a key adaptive and technological feature of human populations and one of the key cultural hallmarks in the Late Pleistocene of Eastern Asia. In northern China this form of st...
link.springer.com
May 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Paper alert! Happy to have joined Huan et al. to examine miniaturised lithic diversity across the last 20,000 years in southern China and its potential relation to geographic and climatic variability. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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There are lots of benefits of releasing code alongside scientific publications - when you do, you might want to consider your code's "Reporting, Running, Reliability, Reproducibility, Robustness, Readability, and Release."
new preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/9055
Code used in research is key to the methods and scientific output and we should ensure it’s not just "available" but easy to verify and build on.
We present a practical tool to code review for scientists 🧪
work with @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social
Code used in research is key to the methods and scientific output and we should ensure it’s not just "available" but easy to verify and build on.
We present a practical tool to code review for scientists 🧪
work with @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social
Code review in practice: A checklist for computational reproducibility and collaborative research in ecology and evolution
ecoevorxiv.org
April 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
There are lots of benefits of releasing code alongside scientific publications - when you do, you might want to consider your code's "Reporting, Running, Reliability, Reproducibility, Robustness, Readability, and Release."
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As long as social science journals don’t implement actual code review — not just mechanical reproducibility checks — there’s no good way to ward off such errors or abuse. Not every publication has a shocking result begging for a replication, like the one flagged by @johannarickne.bsky.social.
8/ Shockingly to us, most treatment effects are produced by implementing methods in the code that differ from those described in the paper. This practice seems super problematic because it will mislead reviewers and editors who expect the two to align.
May 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
As long as social science journals don’t implement actual code review — not just mechanical reproducibility checks — there’s no good way to ward off such errors or abuse. Not every publication has a shocking result begging for a replication, like the one flagged by @johannarickne.bsky.social.
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Thank you for your important work! It is crystal clear that code and data publication alongside each manuscript is the only way forward for science. Manuscripts with data analyses that do not publish code and data should not be accepted for publication anymore.
May 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Thank you for your important work! It is crystal clear that code and data publication alongside each manuscript is the only way forward for science. Manuscripts with data analyses that do not publish code and data should not be accepted for publication anymore.
Reposted by Ben Marwick
SAA journal #AmericanAntiquity is advancing #researchtransparency in #publishing. Read how, alongside an introduction to Associate Editor for #Reproducibility, Dr. Alan Farahani.
Approach: ▶️ cup.org/4hFclo5
Editorial: ▶️ cup.org/41AHuDk
#Archaeology #SAA2025Denver
Approach: ▶️ cup.org/4hFclo5
Editorial: ▶️ cup.org/41AHuDk
#Archaeology #SAA2025Denver
April 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
SAA journal #AmericanAntiquity is advancing #researchtransparency in #publishing. Read how, alongside an introduction to Associate Editor for #Reproducibility, Dr. Alan Farahani.
Approach: ▶️ cup.org/4hFclo5
Editorial: ▶️ cup.org/41AHuDk
#Archaeology #SAA2025Denver
Approach: ▶️ cup.org/4hFclo5
Editorial: ▶️ cup.org/41AHuDk
#Archaeology #SAA2025Denver
Reposted by Ben Marwick
Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice
https://go.nature.com/42UuoT3
https://go.nature.com/42UuoT3
Which programming language should I use? A guide for early-career researchers
Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice.
go.nature.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice
https://go.nature.com/42UuoT3
https://go.nature.com/42UuoT3
Reposted by Ben Marwick
New visualization tool alert!
The vayr package version 1.0.0 is now on CRAN.
It contains position adjustments for ggplot2 that help with overplotting in pleasing ways. My favorite is position_sunflower().
- install.packages("vayr")
- alexandercoppock.com/vayr
#rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz
The vayr package version 1.0.0 is now on CRAN.
It contains position adjustments for ggplot2 that help with overplotting in pleasing ways. My favorite is position_sunflower().
- install.packages("vayr")
- alexandercoppock.com/vayr
#rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz
April 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
New visualization tool alert!
The vayr package version 1.0.0 is now on CRAN.
It contains position adjustments for ggplot2 that help with overplotting in pleasing ways. My favorite is position_sunflower().
- install.packages("vayr")
- alexandercoppock.com/vayr
#rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz
The vayr package version 1.0.0 is now on CRAN.
It contains position adjustments for ggplot2 that help with overplotting in pleasing ways. My favorite is position_sunflower().
- install.packages("vayr")
- alexandercoppock.com/vayr
#rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz
Reposted by Ben Marwick
Proud to announce our primer on "Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience"
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This primer is for beginners to get started, advanced programmers to improve, and PIs.
#psychology #psychsci #cogsci #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This primer is for beginners to get started, advanced programmers to improve, and PIs.
#psychology #psychsci #cogsci #neuroskyence
Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience - Communications Psychology
Programming is essential for modern research in neuroscience and psychology, but it can quickly become a source of frustration and error. This Primer introduces ten practical principles guiding resear...
www.nature.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Proud to announce our primer on "Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience"
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This primer is for beginners to get started, advanced programmers to improve, and PIs.
#psychology #psychsci #cogsci #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This primer is for beginners to get started, advanced programmers to improve, and PIs.
#psychology #psychsci #cogsci #neuroskyence
Reposted by Ben Marwick
Many processes from industry are not appropriate or overkill for an academic setting, but we can and should be doing better than we currently are.
Our paper tries to give practical advice on how you can improve your scientific workflow, without being a coding guru.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Our paper tries to give practical advice on how you can improve your scientific workflow, without being a coding guru.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience - Communications Psychology
Programming is essential for modern research in neuroscience and psychology, but it can quickly become a source of frustration and error. This Primer introduces ten practical principles guiding resear...
www.nature.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Many processes from industry are not appropriate or overkill for an academic setting, but we can and should be doing better than we currently are.
Our paper tries to give practical advice on how you can improve your scientific workflow, without being a coding guru.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Our paper tries to give practical advice on how you can improve your scientific workflow, without being a coding guru.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Reposted by Ben Marwick
I am thrilled to share my paper on statistical training in archaeology. Thank you to @kjkillackey.bsky.social for the incredible illustration in the graphical abstract. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I am thrilled to share my paper on statistical training in archaeology. Thank you to @kjkillackey.bsky.social for the incredible illustration in the graphical abstract. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Here is an excellent checklist for reproducible research, this is from the Biometrical Journal, but is relevant for computational scientists in all fields:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Lots of best practices and specific tips for increasing the quality, usefulness & impact of papers
🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Lots of best practices and specific tips for increasing the quality, usefulness & impact of papers
🧪
April 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Here is an excellent checklist for reproducible research, this is from the Biometrical Journal, but is relevant for computational scientists in all fields:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Lots of best practices and specific tips for increasing the quality, usefulness & impact of papers
🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Lots of best practices and specific tips for increasing the quality, usefulness & impact of papers
🧪
Reposted by Ben Marwick
Archaeology and the Construction of Artifact Lineages:
From Culture History to Phylogenetics 🏺🧪
Michael O’Brien, @svalver.bsky.social et al
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Agrees with @nilese.bsky.social but documenting of (pre)history is only 1st step facing paleobiologists and archaeologists.
From Culture History to Phylogenetics 🏺🧪
Michael O’Brien, @svalver.bsky.social et al
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Agrees with @nilese.bsky.social but documenting of (pre)history is only 1st step facing paleobiologists and archaeologists.
March 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Archaeology and the Construction of Artifact Lineages:
From Culture History to Phylogenetics 🏺🧪
Michael O’Brien, @svalver.bsky.social et al
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Agrees with @nilese.bsky.social but documenting of (pre)history is only 1st step facing paleobiologists and archaeologists.
From Culture History to Phylogenetics 🏺🧪
Michael O’Brien, @svalver.bsky.social et al
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Agrees with @nilese.bsky.social but documenting of (pre)history is only 1st step facing paleobiologists and archaeologists.