I gave a workshop on preregistration to honours students last Friday and mentioned that preregistration provides evidence that you created your hypothesis in advance of seeing the data. The student…| Alex Holcombe's blog
Much has been said about how expensive academic journals are. Large companies like Elsevier, Sage, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley publish most of the major journals, and their sha…| Alex Holcombe's blog
Don’t allow your writing to be tied to one platform – register your science-related blog with Rogue Scholar, the free blog indexing service helping bring science blogs into scholarly da…| Alex Holcombe's blog
I confess that I am an experiment chauvinist – I look down on studies that are purely observational, studies that don’t manipulate anything. Where does my prejudice come from? One factor is t…| Alex Holcombe's blog
originally published by The Chronicle of Higher Education as “How to Stop Academic Fraudsters” (I didn’t choose that title) “Hi Alex, this is not credible.” I’ll never forget that email. It was 2016, and I had been helping psychology researchers design studies that, I hoped, would replicate important and previously published findings. As part of […]| Alex Holcombe's blog
Today the Gates Foundation announced that they will “cease support for individual article publishing fees, known as APCs, and mandate the use of preprints while advocating for their review”. …| Alex Holcombe's blog
To evaluate and build on previous findings, a researcher sometimes needs to know exactly what was done before. Computational reproducibility is the ability to take the raw data from a study an…| Alex Holcombe's blog
Many of the practices associated with modern science emerged in the early days of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, which was founded in 1660. Today, it is usually referr…| Alex Holcombe's blog
In a clever bit of rhetoric, Professor Dorothy Bishop came up with “the four horsemen of irreproducibility”: publication bias, low statistical power, p-hacking, and HARKing. In an attem…| Alex Holcombe's blog
Blogged about this web app we created to help researchers document who did what in their journal articles, posted over at Medium for a change.| Alex Holcombe's blog
