Social Psychologist, CPsychol AFBPsS, FHEA, doing psychosocial research in cancer at the University of Surrey. Open Research champion. Health inequalities. Risk communication. Qualitative methods. Co-production.
Dr Afrodita Marcu 🇷🇴🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The French have a lot of common sense:
“Our students are very lucky when you look at what happens in other countries.”
“It’s not just a question of making life easier for those at university, but also a question of social and public health."
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
RoRI’s @jameswilsdon.bsky.social joins @andytattersall.bsky.social’s Under Review podcast to discuss how generative AI could transform research funding, challenge traditional grant systems, and force a rethink of how excellence is assessed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWbp...
It what other profession are highly qualified individuals expected to provide their expertise to for-profit companies for free, getting only the ‘honour’ of having helped and perhaps their name mentioned in a back cover once a year, which no one will read nor care about?
Tools such as ChatGPT and Claude have made everyone’s cover letters and résumés look better—and look the same, @annielowrey.bsky.social writes. She reports on how AI is contorting the labor market:
Join us for this online seminar, 'Tools for data FAIRification', organised by our Research Data Steward @qsaikia.bsky.social - link to the sign up form below 👇
Psst: I’ve got an alternative suggestion for how to reduce late-stage cancer diagnoses: STRENGTHEN PRIMARY CARE.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.
As it happens, it's my favourite French cheese, which I got to know thanks to my French father-in-law. Shame it's not available in the UK.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
👀ICYMI |"Uncertainty is inherent to scientific knowledge; it is not a defect to be eliminated but a feature to work with"
#OpenScience #SocialScience
It’s a thumbs up from the country’s 3 million students, who can now buy cheap meals up to twice a day
Cancoillotte is low in fat, high in protein and – until recently – little known outside of a village in eastern France
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Three papers in Nature find that around half of social science studies hold up under replication, reproducibility, and robustness tests. Is this a bad thing
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...
You are welcome to join us for an online seminar, 'Tools for Data FAIRification - overcoming barriers in data discoverability and reuse' on Tuesday, 23rd June, 13:00 - 15:00 (BST).
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
