Academic Life and Culture

Promotion & Tenure: Aligning incentives with institutional values and open science

This repository provides resources for faculty and academic units to re-imagine faculty rewards and incentives, and in particular how faculty are evaluated for promotion and tenure, with the goal of maximizing inclusivity in science by changing how …

Publication bias in clinical research

In a retrospective survey, 487 research projects approved by the Central Oxford Research Ethics Committee between 1984 and 1987, were studied for evidence of publication bias. As of May, 1990, 285 of the studies had been analysed by the …

Race to the Bottom: Competition and Quality in Science

This paper investigates how competition to publish first and thereby establish priority impacts the quality of scientific research. We begin by developing a model where scientists decide whether and how long to work on a given project. When deciding …

Reimagining peer review: the emergence of peer community in registered reports system

The traditional peer review process in medicine faces a crisis marked by publication delays, potential bias, and a lack of transparency. These issues hinder scientific progress and undermine the credibility of published medical findings, which inform …

Research Integrity and Responsible Scholarship

Manual for a mandatory course for PhD candidates enrolled in the Graduate School for Social Sciences and Master students in the Social Sciences for a Digital Society program at VU Amsterdam. The course seeks to contribute to a reflection and …

Research practices for a robust psychological science of adult development and aging

This first issue of 2022 marks the transition of Psychology and Aging in adopting a transparency and openness promotion (TOP) framework. The journal has always had high standards for theoretically meaningful research conducted with methodological and …

Rethinking Research Assessment:Addressing Institutional Biases in Review, Promotion, and Tenure Decision-Making (part IV)

In our final installment we get into how incumbent processes and perceptions have the advantage.

Rethinking transparency and rigor from a qualitative open science perspective

Discussions around transparency in open science focus primarily on sharing data, materials, and coding schemes, especially as these practices relate to reproducibility. This fairly quantitative perspective of transparency does not align with all …

Rigorous & Reproducible Research Practices

How do you know whether the quantitative research you’re consuming and producing is rigorous and reproducible? This course will draw on contemporary perspectives to help you answer this question. We'll discuss the whys and hows of statistical …

Social Identity and morality lab teaching

I believe that higher education should be focused on developing passionate, critical, independent and creative thought, and the transmission of knowledge should be in the service of developing these skills. In the classroom, I try to communicate the …