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Does using machine learning solve our problem of p-hacking and HARKing or do we have the same problems as with statistical tests and models?

Exciting news: Symplectic, a global leader in research information management systems, has integrated ROR into its flagship platform, Symplectic Elements.

I've been hacking with Sadiq Jaffer (^), Jon Ludlam (^) and Ryan Gibb (^) on various approaches to improving the agentic coding experience for OCaml. We jotted down our notes in a draft paper to keep track of everything going on, including summarising previous experiments with Qwen3 for FoCS. Since then, there's been a flurry of extra activity from others which we need to integrate!

Introduction The EDAM ontology is used to provide conceptual organization of resources in major initiatives like ELIXIR bio.tools and Galaxy. Bioconductor’s methods and data are tagged using an ad hoc terminologic hierarchy called biocViews.

In my PhD research, I investigate how metadata for research data are generated and maintained. I have started by analyzing how metadata records of the DOI registration agency DataCite change over time (Strecker 2024a, 2024b). Recently, I was awarded a grant by the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) - through the BUA Fellowship Program of the Objective 3 - Advancing Research Quality and Value.

Imagine a social worker in Ukraine supporting children affected by the humanitarian crisis. Thousands of kilometers away, a radiation specialist in Japan is trying to find effective ways to communicate with local communities. In Nigeria, a health worker is tackling how to increase immunization coverage in their remote village.

In the PFA Accelerator, practitioners supporting children are teaching each other what works. Every Friday, more than 240 education, social work, and health professionals across Ukraine and Europe file reports on the same question: What happened when you tried to help a child this week?

The title of this post comes from an article published in a special virtual issue on the theme “Physical Organic Chemistry: Never Out of Style” There, Paul Rablen presents the case that the amount of o (ortho) product in electrophilic substitution of a phenyl ring bearing an EWG (electron withdrawing group) is often large enough […]

This Saturday, July 19, the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is hosting Aquilops Day. Before Jurassic World Rebirth was released, I was interviewed by the folks at the SNOMNH about Aquilops.

This post provides an update on some recent new features in Oversight and walks through an investigation. Given the pace of development of Oversight, I might update it in future as things change. The problem is time. It’s time spent on misconduct investigations. Such investigations are often complex and sometimes inconclusive — fraud is intentionally hidden after all.