The Institute for Replication (I4R) works to improve the credibility of science by promoting and conducting reproductions and replications.i4replication.orgJoined December 2021
3/ We discuss what better infrastructure could look like:
Who should create these links—journals, publishers, metadata systems, replication databases, or researchers?
And how should we distinguish reproductions, robustness checks, and different types of replications?
1/ Episode 2 from our 1-day I4R workshop is out.
Jan Marcus, Josephina Weinerova & René Bekkers ask:
How can we link publications to replications, so anyone reading a paper can instantly see whether its findings have been retested? 🧵
editors believe is warranted, that is a serious problem for scientific publishing. The scientific record should not depend on who is willing to lawyer up.
Again, our criticism here is NOT directed at the REStat editors. We thank them for pursuing this and ultimately publishing the relevant record. The concern is at the publisher level (MIT Press). If legal pressure can stop or indefinitely derail a retraction that...
Our comment on “Raising Health Awareness in Rural Communities” is finally published in REStat (MIT Press). But the retraction we had been told was coming never happened. Can lawyers derail a retraction? This case raises that uncomfortable question. 🧵
This might be a first in economics: Authors officially request to be removed from a paper published in REStat. The paper itself has not been retracted - and the other authors remain on the paper. direct.mit.edu/rest/article/1…
Some of us are having fun today in Germany at the Freiburg Replication Games!
Meanwhile, others are in Montreal for a workshop on AI and open science that we’re co-organizing.
A busy and entertaining weekend for I4R!
The 2027 BITSS Annual Meeting call for speakers is open until Nov 1! The BITSS AM brings together academic researchers, donors, and policymakers to discuss research transparency, rigor, methods, and ethics.
🗓️ Fri, Feb 26, 2027
📍Berkeley, CA
Apply: cega.submittable.com/submit/367372/…
It only took us 5 years, but I4R finally has a newsletter. 🎉
We’ll use it to share new studies, Replication Games, research, events, podcasts, and other updates from the Institute for Replication.
Subscribe here:
i4replication.org/newsletter
Takeaways? Not sure...
Maybe the replication crisis may not be solved by better code, more data sharing, or better statistical practices alone.
Those things matter enormously, but reproducible analysis still needs theories that generate meaningful and falsifiable predictions.
This summer, I4R invited 12 researchers in the social sciences for a 1-day workshop on the future of replication.
Each researcher chose a topic and led a discussion. We recorded the conversations.
We’ll release each one as a podcast + blog. 🧵
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