#academicNoir memes

When #AcademicNoir trended on Twitter, I had fun making a few memes about science publishing and the Registered Replication Reports that we started at Perspectives on Psychological Science.

"Who's shaking you down?" I asked.

"Elsevier," whispered the librarian.

I showed her the door.  I still have to work in this town. 

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Any one of you go it alone, he'll say you messed up. But if we first get him to approve the protocol, and then all run the replication together…

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Well, Mr. P. Hacker, your luck is about to run out.

Down at the journals, they're running a new game. They call it 'preregistration'.

 https://twitter.com/ceptional/status/663850868396044288

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“How about we just delete these two data points?”

She looked shocked.

“Listen- you want to get this published, or not?” #AcademicNoir

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They called him “Big Pharma”. Really shady character. Really knew how to make a data set go missing. #AcademicNoir #AllTrials

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We know you’re in there. We’ve got your lab surrounded.

OK, I’ll come out.

Don’t move! Just email us the data. The *raw* data. #AcademicNoir

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“What happened to him, anyway? He always had great results.”
“ORI got him,” I said. We all laughed. #Noir @HHS_ORI

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He had a good run, for a while. But then he got an email from @uri_sohn. Asking for the raw data. His time was up. #AcademicNoir

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“But you haven’t even seen my numbers yet!” she said.

“Just give Dr. Hacker a little time alone with them,” I told her. #AcademicNoir