Daniel Dunleavy
dunleavy-daniel.bsky.social
Daniel Dunleavy
@dunleavy-daniel.bsky.social
PhD #SocialWork | Advocate for #OpenScience | Interests in meta-research, behavioral health, & scholarly publishing (esp. peer review, research integrity, OA)
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I’ve been thinking about making a public lab notebook. Idea is a sort of working (but publicly saved) preregistration for active projects

Is anyone doing something like this? And recommendations for where to host it?
December 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Hello.

The MEP is hiring an intern (a paid one, not an 'ooh ooh think of the experience' one)

retractionwatch.com/job-opportun...

Feel free to direct this to anyone interested. I think it will fill quickly so pitter patter.
Job opportunities at Retraction Watch
Here are our current open positions: Intern, Medical Evidence Project Editor, Medical Evidence Project Staff reporter, Retraction Watch Learn more about The Center for Scientific Integrity, and abo…
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September 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Come join our team!
📢 WE ARE HIRING! Join PREreview as our new Communication and Engagement Officer!

Are you an adept communicator & care about driving transformational change in scholarly comms? Then consider joining our team! Deadline July 21st.

Learn more and apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/prereview/jo...
Communications and Engagement Officer
Remote
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July 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Hey! If you haven't seen them before, please enjoy these slides from @djnavarro.net (drawing on @jennybryan.bsky.social) on thoughtful file organization/naming - again, something that's vital but often not explicitly taught.

djnavarro.net/slides-proje...
April 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Recently, I've spent time reflecting both on the type of scholarly work I'm pursuing and how I present such work

Below, I muse about how I can better support non-commercial and scholar-led publishers and journals

#OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #DeSci

www.researchhub.com/post/4028/br...
April 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Three Myths About Statistical Power

🔹️ Myth 1: Power is an objective feature

🔹️ Myth 2: With low power comes low credibility

🔹️ Myth 3: High power protects against questionable research practices

BSky author: @clauslamm.bsky.social
Powerful Myths: Common Misconceptions About Statistical Power
Lukas Lengersdorff and Claus Lamm discuss three misconceptions that stand in the way of an informed discussion.
www.psychologicalscience.org
January 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
For #TidyTuesday Week 3 (The History of Himalayan Mountain Expeditions), I chose to make a bar chart for the top 15 countries, based on number of claimed expeditions completed

I found this a good excuse to learn how to add country flags to a chart (as well as learn about the "countrycode" package)
February 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
For #TidyTuesday Week 2 (posit::conf talks) I chose to make word clouds from presentation abstracts for the 2023 and 2024 conferences. To do so, I primarily relied on the Tidytext & Wordcloud2 packages.

Code is available here: github.com/dunldj/Tidy-...

I appreciate any feedback!
#rStats #DataViz
January 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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ERROR is our scientific bug-bounty program.

We pay reviewers and authors of impactful published articles to do a deep dive on results, data, code, etc to check for errors.

Our second report of 2025 (and my first acting as Recommender for the review) is out now!
Excited to announce our second report of 2025! Fernbach et al. (2019) "Extreme opponents of genetically modified foods know the least but think they know the most". Based on the review by R Chris Fraley, we find Minor Errors which do not affect core conclusions. error.reviews/reviews/fern...
Fernbach et al. (2019)
ERROR is a bug bounty program for science to systematically detect and report errors in academic publications
error.reviews
January 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Looking forward to digging into this piece by Bruce Thyer #SocialWork #SocialWorkResearch

"Don't Waste Your Time Doing Social Work Research!"

doi.org/10.1177/1049...
January 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Alright it's here! Where we push back against the exploratory-confirmatory distinction that's become canonized in metascience and talk about what we think exploratory research (including exploratory experimentation and modeling) means and why our view is incompatible with 'unplanned data analyses'.
January 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Is there a stats/methods paper or book that you return to over and over again? I've found myself rereading this blog post by Sam Parsons every few years. It hits just as hard each time

medium.com/@Sam_D_Parso...
Ignoring measurement reliability is a real-life horror story
Why we need a measurement reliability crisis in psychology, now
medium.com
January 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Lot of cool books continuing to come out for those interested in the history and ideas of logical empiricism.

Among them: Alan Richardsons' Logical Empiricism as Scientific Philosophy, Sahotra Sarkar's The Vienna Circle: The Story of Logocal Empiricism, and Adam Tuboly's Otto Neurath in Britain.
January 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
For my first #TidyTuesday of 2025 (Week 1-Bring your own data), I chose to visualize cancer incidence in the U.S. using data from the National Cancer Institute’s SEER Program. I chose the 4 most common cancers and attempted to visualize their incidence by sex, for years 1975-2021.

#RStats #DataViz
January 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM