Jack Fitzgerald

jackfitzgerald.bsky.social

16 October 2026 18:07

The article we commented on in PNAS (along w/ many others), which claimed that cognitive scores could be used to detect professional soccer players with 97% accuracy, has now been retracted. Comment: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Retraction notice: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Institute for Replication

i4replication.bsky.social

15 October 2026 19:18

A researcher whose work we were examining asked our chair to investigate concerns about somebody else’s publications at the same university (different field). Our investigation was now generating further allegations from someone already under scrutiny. #CRAVEFiles

Alex Brandsen

alexbrandsen.nl

14 October 2026 18:35

"STOP ELSEVIER CONTRACT" A little bit of activism during the Open Science Festival today, during the opening plenary. Inspired by the session on activism yesterday at the OS Barcamp, awesome to see action being taken directly!

Lisa DeBruine

debruine.bsky.social

13 October 2026 20:39

This post does a great job of articulating why the development and release of metacheck has been pretty slow compared to other tools. One of our core values is validation, which is one of the things that has not been made a lot faster by LLMs. www.scienceverse.org/metacheck/#o...

Institute for Replication

i4replication.bsky.social

13 October 2026 20:38

One of us thought it would be a good idea to check the original authors’ public git history. We found deleted data… 🧵#2 #CRAVEFiles