Mart Roben
martroben.bsky.social
Mart Roben
@martroben.bsky.social
data / stats / open science 🇪🇪
Too bad Web of Science & co wasn't tested. If they failed, this would put the "paid-access sci metrics are better quality than open"-argument to rest. If they didn't fail (i.e. knew about it) and didn't tell... well that's just evil.
November 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I might end up with something like this. 🙂
April 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Use it & love it. 1k+ pages of notes in the first year alone. The excalidraw plugin lets you create sketches & schematics with LaTeX formulas. The paid version seamlessly syncs your notes across all your devices and is well worth it.
April 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Community Improvement Advocates. It would need to be shortened of course. As in the CIA is here, they're asking about your data!
January 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
5/5 ARTICLES OF INTEREST s03 - AMERICAN IVY
The third season of this podcast tells the story of the origins of preppy clothing style. Information I didn't know I needed, but enjoyed thoroughly.
open.spotify.com/episode/5qRZ...
American Ivy: Chapter 1
Articles of Interest · Episode
open.spotify.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
4/ QUANTITUDE
Imagine a universe where Beavis and Butthead got tenured as quantitative psychologists and made a stats podcast. That's Quantitude. Quantitative methods are also at the roots of science, so it's the yang to Nullius in Verba's yin.
quantitudepod.org
QuantitudePod – A podcast dedicated to all things quantitative, ranging from the relevant to the highly irrelevant.
quantitudepod.org
January 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
3/ NULLIUS IN VERBA
Nullius in Verba investigates the roots of scientific ideals and practices. Why are some things called "scientific" and who decided that? (And a lot of Bacon quotes.)
nulliusinverba.podbean.com
Nullius in Verba | Smriti Mehta and Daniël Lakens
Nullius in Verba is a podcast about science—what it is and what it could be. It is hosted by Smriti Mehta from UC Berkeley and Daniël Lakens from Eindhoven University of Technology. We draw inspira...
nulliusinverba.podbean.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
2/ METASCIENCE SINCE 2012: A PERSONAL HISTORY
A blog post that could be a small book. A memoir by Stuart Buck about the coming of age of open science. The most inspiring text I read last year.
goodscience.substack.com/p/metascienc...
Metascience Since 2012: A Personal History
This essay is a personal history of the $60+ million I allocated to metascience starting in 2012 while working for the Arnold Foundation (now Arnold Ventures).
goodscience.substack.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
According to the cited source, it's 22%, not 45%. (Still too high of course!)

54.3 h work week -> 27 h spent on research -> 12 h (45% of research time) spent on research-related admin.

thefdp.org/wp-content/u... p18
thefdp.org
January 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Was R deliberate or happenstance? Is there a universe where tidyverse happened in python (or rust or elixir) instead?

Also, thank you for revealing the rhythm, logic and beauty in data wrangling. In pyspark, polars, base R etc. I feel like a mechanic. In tidyverse, I feel like a poet.
November 25, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Suppose you record a transaction every time you share your data. You then get scooped (someone leaked your data without recording it). The scoopers say that they're the owner and you're the thief, using blockchain to legitimize your steal. Below ~70% global adoption, they'd likely get away with it?
November 24, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Interested, but ignorant. Is there a tl;dr about what blockchain could do for science?
November 24, 2024 at 1:29 PM