deevybee

deevybee, 10 days ago to Pubtips

Just out: Excellent and v readable article on the recent history of the big scientific publishers Mills, D. (2024). One index, two publishers and the global research economy. Oxford Review of Education, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2024.2348448
#publishing #science #metrics

deevybee, 1 month ago to random

brilliant video by Sabine Hossenfelder about her personal experiences in science - should be required viewing by all science funders
https://www.youtube.com/embed/LKiBlGDfRU8
#WomenInScience #autobiography #ScienceCareers #ScienceFunding

deevybee, 1 month ago to random

good piece on academic mental health, as UK unis run out of money
https://voicesofacademia.com/2024/04/05/its-not-your-fault-that-academic-life-is-getting-harder-by-glen-ohara/

deevybee, 1 month ago to random

thoroughly recommend the movie Perfect Days.
never been to Tokyo, but now want to go - in part to see the amazing toilets!

deevybee, 1 month ago to Pubtips

My thoughts on eLife's publishing model, one year on.
http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/03/some-thoughts-on-elifes-new-model-one.html
#publishing #academic #journals #peerReview #preprints

deevybee, 1 month ago to random

shocking evidence of epidemic of #fraud in #biomedical science
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.13.580196v1.full
#researchintegrity #systematicReview

deevybee, 2 months ago to random

shocking piece on failure of research integrity at Swiss Center for Proton Therapy.
What is euphemistically termed ‘guest authorship’ was, in this case, more like ‘extorted authorship’
https://forbetterscience.com/2024/03/25/the-paul-scherrer-rules/
#integrity #authorship #protontherapy

deevybee, 2 months ago to Futurology

A small rant about zombie ideas and the tendency to keep looking for modifications of study methods to avoid concluding that a null result is really null. http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/03/just-make-it-stop-when-will-we-say-that.html
#research #nullresults #laterality #handedness #publicationbias

deevybee, 2 months ago to random

I recommend this blogpost by Eiko Fried to anyone who is trying to fight the good fight in improving science and getting demoralised
https://eiko-fried.com/antidotes-to-cynicism-creep/
#OpenScience #Reproducibility #integrity

deevybee, 2 months ago to random

Another shout out for our new preprint,
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/vzg3e
which we think is interesting for 3 reasons:
a) Acts as a tutorial to introduce DeclareDesign, an excellent #simulation package in R
b) Uses it to compare 2 competing analyses of a RCT run by EEF on GraphoGame
c) Argues for simulation as way forward in the 'multiple analysts' problem

#Rlanguage #RCT

mrundkvist, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to history

I'm looking for a good #history of #autism and #ADHD before medicalisation. I want to know how people with these symptoms were described, conceptualised and classified in the centuries prior to WW1, when they were simply seen as lazy or eccentric or a little funny, not recognised as having developmental disorders. No history of 20th century psychiatry needed.

deevybee, 2 months ago to random

New! preprint coauthored with Charles Hulme: "When alternative analyses of the same data come to different conclusions: A tutorial using DeclareDesign with a worked real-world example".
We use DeclareDesign to compare 2 analyses of a RCT of Graphogame intervention that came to different conclusions
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/vzg3e
#intervention #analysis #simulation #literacy

deevybee, 2 months ago to Pubtips

Remember that paper on Strain on Scientific Publishing, which showed that some publishers are encouraging an exponential growth in publications via special issues? Well it seems to have touched a nerve with Frontiers, who are now trying to diss the authors.
Not a wise move, I think. Authors response is here https://the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/posts/response_to_frontiers/
#publishing #Frontiers #papermills #science

deevybee, 2 months ago to science

Science runs story with a comprehensive account of ethical violations at Didier Raoult's institute
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ztk2xhz
#integrity #science #ethics #covıd19 #raoult

deevybee, 3 months ago to random

Well, this is a novelty. A case where tortured phrases have been substituted in the names of journals in the reference lists, so instead of "international journal of..." we have "global diary of ..." !
https://pubpeer.com/publications/7FE8E045835CC3D412E2EA141EEB7D#2
Funny, but disturbing that IEEE is still accepting AI Gobbledegook in conference abstracts.
#papermills #misconduct #journals

deevybee, 3 months ago to random

You may remember this case of identity theft involving Prime Scholars
http://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2023/08/how-i-tried-to-get-paper-that-i-own.html
It seems virtually impossible to get this corrected, but I'm advised that best approach is if affected individuals join forces. Please contact me if you'd like to be included.

deevybee, 3 months ago to science

Loving the Lost Women of Science podcast. Latest episode on radio-astronomer Ruby Payne-Scott is a gem. https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/#LatestEpisode
#science #podcast #radioastronomy #feminism

deevybee, 3 months ago to Pubtips

Latest blogpost
http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-world-of-poor-things-at-mdpi.html
In which I look at one paper in #MDPI and another, and another....
#fraud #publishing #misconduct

deevybee, 3 months ago to science

why editors abandoned Neuroimage to start their own journal
https://www.statnews.com/2024/02/01/scientific-publishing-neuroimage-editorial-board-resignation-imaging-neuroscience-open-access/
#science #publishing #elsevier #neuroscience

deevybee, 3 months ago to Pubtips

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/review-mills-identified-as-a-new-form-of-peer-review-fraud/4018888.article
evidence of fake peer review at MDPI.
No doubt they are bot the only publisher to have this, but it’s hard to see how they could meet their target of v short decision times with an uncorrupted peer review process
#publishing #science #PeerReview #misconduct #fraud

deevybee, 3 months ago to academia

new online tool from the DORA people
https://sfdora.org/2024/01/30/announcing-reformscape/
aiming to make hiring, promotion etc fairer, more robust, more diverse

#academia #careers #promotion

neuralreckoning, 3 months ago to random

Is offering to add random people as authors on a paper - in order to share and thus reduce publication costs - fraud or a valid response to excessive publication costs and broken performance metrics?

(Not planning to do this myself btw, I'm fortunate enough not to need to, but not everyone is so lucky.)

Cc @deevybee