Preregistration Distinguishes Between Exploratory and Confirmatory Research? Previous justifications for preregistration have focused on the distinction between “exploratory” and “confirmatory” research. However, as I discuss in this recent presentation, this distinction faces unresolved questions.
I am a member of the Society for Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) – have been since 2017. I joined their yearly conferences every other year starting in 2017, but I will not be joining the 2025 conference in Budapest, Hungary. For me, the big selling point of SIPS are the people – the location choice for 2025 (unintentionally) signals that some people are less important.
Anfang Juni berichtete Nature über das Anliegen des japanischen Wissenschaftsministeriums, 10 Milliarden Yen in den Ausbau von institutionellen Open-Access-Repositorien zu investieren (Singh Chawla, 2024). Diese Initiative bietet einen guten Anlass, um auf dem 112. BiblioCon über die Zukunft von institutionellen Open-Access-Repositorien zu sprechen.
Zu den wichtigsten Anforderungen an wissenschaftliches Publizieren – auch in digitaler Form – gehört, dass die Veröffentlichungen integer im Sinne von unverletzlich, datenstabil und konsistent sind.
In July, I got notified one of my passwords was available in a dark web data dump, alongside my email. I was able to pinpoint the breached service because I use unique passwords for each account. That service is Pensoft.
Over the past decade, a growing number of bibliometric analyses of varying quality have been published in the peer-reviewed literature. Despite this growth, surprisingly few published articles provide guidance on how a bibliometric analysis ought to be reported. Moreover, to our knowledge, these articles have been written based on the opinions/experiences of different researchers, as opposed to best evidence-informed practices.
Persistente Identifier in Forschungsinformationssystemen Forschungsinformationssysteme (FIS) sind zentrale Instrumente für die Verwaltung und Analyse von Forschungsaktivitäten an Hochschulen. Eine wesentliche Komponente dieser Systeme sind Identifier, die eine eindeutige Identifikation von Informationsobjekten ermöglichen.
Today Janneke Adema and I published a new article in the journal New Formations entitled ‘‘Just One Day of Unstructured Autonomous Time’: Supporting Editorial Labour for Ethical Publishing within the University’. The article will be available in our repositories but is also currently freely accessible via the New Formations site: https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformations/vol-2023-issue-110/abstract-9909/ (although I’m not
In the run up to the European elections, I received a moderation report for a post that contained misleading polling information on the Mastodon server I am responsible for. As a result, AkademieNL now has a new server rule, as formulated above. This blog post dives a bit into the need for this rule and how I came to it. The reported post contained misleading election information.
In this opinion piece Isabella Hermann reflects on AI and how the general perception of it is shaped by pop-culturel archetypes, represented for example in movies.