Paying peer reviewers works.
Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social:
• 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews
• ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript
• no reduction in editor-assessed review quality
• similar acceptance rates
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The Bennett Institute is a special place that blends research with scientific infrastructure development in a way that we all aspire to but rarely achieve. Consider applying to work there!
📣 We’re hiring!
⚙️ Head of Engineering (closes 8 June)
👩💻 Senior Developer (closes 24 June)
💻 Staff Developer (closes 24 June)
If you'd like to use your software skills to improve healthcare and medical research, the Bennett Institute might be the place for you!
🔗 www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/
🧠📑 The Bernese tool #RegCheck uses AI to systematically compare clinical trial registrations with published articles. This makes #OutcomeSwitching and #HARKing visible and strengthens the evidence base for reliable systematic reviews 👇
▶️ sohub.io/gl4r
@jamiecummins.bsky.social
And some words of warning by @jamiecummins.bsky.social
Did someone say “explanatory fiction”?
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
We launched our beta version 0.0.1 of Metacheck today! After our second year of work on the tool, we now have validated modules, hugely expanded functionality, optional (or local) LLM use, checks inside code files, and much more! Try it out in R now: www.scienceverse.org/metacheck/
My PhD Sajedeh Rasti has published a World View piece in Nature today: "Don’t compete, collaborate: why collective funding applications are the future" www.nature.com/articles/d41... She discusses how she successfully brought together a team of meta-scientists to collaboratively apply for funding.
Guys, how do you invent a vaccine? Or even wilder, how do you invent a vaccine during your PhD?!
In a new episode of Hard Drugs, we talked to someone who did just that: @kat-a-collins.bsky.social!
Plus:
• Why did the first malaria vaccine take so long?
• Could we make better vaccines today?
Daniel Gorelick
Jamie Cummins
Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
Scientists with disparate expertise writing grants together can identify knowledge gaps and drive progress — but systems must change to incentivize them.
📣 We’re hiring!
⚙️ Head of Engineering (closes 8 June)
👩💻 Senior Developer (closes 24 June)
💻 Staff Developer (closes 24 June)
If you'd like to use your software skills to improve healthcare and medical research, the Bennett Institute might be the place for you!
🔗 www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/
Olmo van den Akker
Ian Hussey
Celestial Mediation
Daniel Lakens
Daniel Lakens
Saloni
Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
"Nobody needs convincing that a science of the Meaning of Life is the wrong project. I will argue that a science of
phenomenal consciousness is wrong for exactly the same reason: neither is amenable to the third-person perspective science requires." by @profdata.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.00226
Science is constitutively third-personal: its findings are in principle reproducible by any observer, independent of perspective, and answerable to measurement. This is the source of its power and als...
