Open Science

Analyzing Education Data with Open Science Best Practices, R, and OSF

This workshop demonstrates how using R can advance open science practices in education. We focus on R and RStudio because it is an increasingly widely-used programming language and software environment for data analysis with a large supportive …

Applied Open Science Talk GSA 2020

Applied Open Science Talk GSA 2020

Are We Wasting a Good Crisis? The Availability of Psychological Research Data after the Storm

To study the availability of psychological research data, we requested data from 394 papers, published in all issues of four APA journals in 2012. We found that 38% of the researchers sent their data immediately or after reminders. These findings are …

Authorship practices must evolve to support collaboration and open science

Journal authorship practices have not sufficiently evolved to reflect the way research is now done. Improvements to support teams, collaboration, and open science are urgently needed.

Bad Science blog on the Guardian webpages

Articles about Bad Science

Badges to Acknowledge Open Practices: A Simple, Low-Cost, Effective Method for Increasing Transparency

Beginning January 2014, Psychological Science gave authors the opportunity to signal open data and materials if they qualified for badges that accompanied published articles. Before badges, less than 3% of Psychological Science articles reported open …

Benefits of Open and High-Powered Research Outweigh Costs

Several researchers recently outlined unacknowledged costs of open science practices, arguing these costs may outweigh benefits and stifle discovery of novel findings. We scrutinize these researchers’ (a) statistical concern that heightened …

Best practices in data analysis and sharing in neuroimaging using MRI

Given concerns about the reproducibility of scientific findings, neuroimaging must define best practices for data analysis, results reporting, and algorithm and data sharing to promote transparency, reliability and collaboration. We describe insights …

Best research practices in psychology: Illustrating epistemological and pragmatic considerations with the case of relationship science.

In recent years, a robust movement has emerged within psychology to increase the evidentiary value of our science. This movement, which has analogs throughout the empirical sciences, is broad and diverse, but its primary emphasis has been on the …

Biden-⁠Harris Administration Marks the Anniversary of OSTP’s Year of Open Science

One year ago, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) launched a Year of Open Science, announcing actions across the federal government to advance open, equitable, and secure research. Throughout 2023, federal agencies engaged …