Creating transparent and responsible scholarship.
We are a non-profit organization experimenting with innovative publishing activities. The Center provides a space for independent reflection on academic practice and stimulates students and early career researchers to disrupt existing scholarly infrastructures.
Behind the ScenesBy Maura Burke
Relatedly, we spent some time thinking about how GRAIL could best fit into the existing EOSC Node landscape. Maybe it would be best for us to be a part of a larger, national network of Nodes?
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Behind the ScenesBy Maura Burke
If we hope researchers will share rejected grant applications or other unrealized research materials, then greater recognition of their scholarly value will also be necessary.
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Culture of Trial and ErrorBy Declan Kuch
How nanomedicine conjured billions from thin air and what happened when the enchantment failed
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Behind the ScenesBy Muriel Strange
In this post, we explore the practical steps and considerations involved in setting up a Diamond Open Access (OA) journal.
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Culture of Trial and ErrorBy Sheena F. Bartscherer
Heterogenous communities with explicit commitments to science corrections or what this blog series summarises under the descriptor ‘cultures of trial and error’ have existed for the longest time.
ReadRrita Bajraktari & Marcus Munafò
Scientific communication is often assumed to prioritize objectivity, yet persuasive strategies may subtly distort research interpretation. While the spread of errors in research is often attributed to methodological or statistical biases (Świątkowski & Dompnier, 2017), rhetorical strategies are less…
Florian Kohrt, Filip Melinscak, Richard McElreath & Felix Schönbrodt
Reproductions, which we define as “redoing activities” that work with the same collected data (or simulation source code) and aim to keep the computation as similar as possible, enable the verification of a scientific work. We seek to advance the understanding and conduct of reproductions by…
Sidney L. Tamm
A remarkable symbiotic protozoan in the hindgut of termites was accidentally discovered. Its head and body continuously rotated in opposite directions without stopping or reversing directions. Rotations included the plasma membrane of each part of the cell, and the membrane was continuous across the…
Mohammad Ali Nilforooshan
Nowadays, single-step genomic best linear unbiased prediction (ssGBLUP) is the most popular methodology for livestock genetic evaluation. It simultaneously evaluates genotyped and nongenotyped animals using an augmented genotype and pedigree relationship matrix. In most livestock species, a small…
Serge P. J. M. Horbach, Nicki Lisa Cole, Simone Kopeinik, Barbara Leitner, Tony Ross-Hellauer & Joeri Tijdink
Reproducibility of research is a hotly debated topic, including aspects like causes and consequences of low levels of reproducibility. While some research fields have led the way and introduced various reproducibility practices and procedures, the call for efforts to ‘improve’ reproducibility in…
Ayumi Ikeda, Fumiya Yonemitsu, Naoto Yoshimura, Kyoshiro Sasaki & Yuki Yamada
The Open Science Framework (OSF) is a free and open-source platform for managing research projects (Elliott et al., 2021). The OSF is a flagship product of the Center for Open Science, Inc. (COS), whose mission is to increase the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scientific research. It is…
We define “trial and error” as methodological flaws and conceptual errors in research. The Center facilitates a reflective discussion on these issues with our blog and by encouraging empirical research and cross-disciplinary conceptual work.
We aim to publicize the lessons of research struggles, publish answers to the question “what went wrong?”, and independently host non-profit pre-press services. The Journal of Trial and Error is dedicated to this mission.
Institutional change results from well-equipped young people, creating a mass from below. We focus efforts to educate students on the systemic and organisational structures of science and scholarship to make change a practical reality.
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