The field of psychological science is in a pandemonium. With failures to replicate well-established effects, evidence for a skewed picture of science in the published literature, and a media hype a...
Read ItThis is the shorted version of an article I published on 28.04.2016 on my site, For Better Science. Open Science is these days largely about mandatory publishing in Open Access (OA), regardless of...
Read ItWhen I entered graduate school, I was excited to actually start working on a project that I felt was not only meaningful but also aligned with my long-term career interests. However, as I've gotte...
Read ItTS Eliot predicted the current corruption of science by pervasive dishonesty of motive and communication when he described characteristic modern Men: They constantly try to escape/ From the darkne...
Read ItIn this essay the requirements for a perfectly replicable study are described as well as the active initiatives which promote the open practices for data and materials availability
Read ItReproducibility is the cornerstone of scientific research. A lack of reproduced data causes knowledge gaps, skepticism towards scientific research and an inability to subject hypotheses to changing...
Read ItAn ancient martial arts dogma states that one should not envy those who practice 10.000 punches once, but respect those that practice one punch 10.000 times. It is in a way not different in science...
Read ItThe ‘reproducibility crisis’ in science appears to be a widespread problem that may have its roots in the ‘publish or perish’ culture of the contemporary academy. Facilitated by a well-developed cu...
Read ItBiomedical science is recovering from an existential crisis. Recent reports have highlighted major problems with the reproducibility and reliability of a diverse range of scientific fields, includi...
Read ItTo err is human. Scientists being human, they make mistakes. Many if not most of the rules for doing science are designed to weed out mistakes. Reproducibility and replicability are recogniz...
Read ItIf science were perfect, there would be nothing left to explore or critique. So, irreproducible science serves two functions: to scientists, it represents an opportunity to improve or discover new ...
Read ItThe Same Thing Over and Over Again When scientists fail to reproduce the results of multiple experiments the support previously provided for theories breaks down. This is a modern phenomenon in sc...
Read ItPicture the following scenario; an undergraduate research course, in which a group of students are tasked with setting up and running an experiment based on a paper from the research literature. Th...
Read ItDespite science being a beacon of innovation, invention and new ideas, the process of scientific publication has remained relatively unchanged for the past 250 years (Spier, 2002). Since 1752, the...
Read It‘There ain’t no rules around here! We’re trying to accomplish something!’ Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931), American Inventor It is without any doubt that the scientific progress of continued inno...
Read ItIt is commonly accepted that there is a crisis of reproducibility in science [1]. But how can this trend be reversed when bibliometrics such as the h-index tend to encourage quantity and increment...
Read ItPart of the reason we do science badly is that it's hard to do it well. Not "math is hard" hard, but filling an intro section with references we haven't read and pretending to be open-minded in a d...
Read ItMany scientific disciplines find themselves in the midst of a “crisis of confidence,” where key empirical findings turn out to reproduce at an alarmingly low rate [e.g., 1,2,3,4]. The causes for th...
Read ItThe following is a short, possibly humorous essay providing two concrete ideas to increase reproducibility in science research. The two ideas are united under the notion of a “culture of reproduc...
Read ItThere is a fundamental problem of imprecise theories in many scientific disciplines. Trying to follow the gravitational wave detection recently reported by the LIGO consortium, it appears that in p...
Read ItWe’ve come a long way when it comes to sharing and reviewing newly published research in the past few years. The advent of services such as Altmetric (Altmetric.com, 2016a) has opened up a new wind...
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