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Requiem for a Tweet – Is there a future for the academic social capital held on the platform? (blogs.lse.ac.uk)
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U.S. Indicts Two Russians for Running the 'Z-Library' Piracy Ring. Two masterminds have been arrested in Argentina and domains seized. The site is still running in the dark web. (torrentfreak.com)
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Preprint as a Way to Universal Open Access. In eight drawings by Dasapta Erwin Irawan. (upstream.force11.org)
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"More than 2000 journals share price and service data through Plan S’s Journal Comparison Service." Narrator: many large legacy publishers are missing. (www.coalition-s.org)
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The Open Access Tracking Project is now also on Mastodon (fediscience.org)
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Open Access Monograph: "The Predator Effect: Understanding the Past, Present and Future of Deceptive Academic Journals" (www.fulcrum.org)
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Looking for examples of p-hacking in psychology (reddit.com)
 

Hi, I'm currently working on an assignment regarding p-hacking. I want to make the point that p-hacking can have real-life consequences, as the data being put out there could be applied in the wrong way. I already have an example of how p-hacking led to the WHO canceling their distribution of malaria medication.

But, I need a specific example from psychology, and I can't find anything. I find plenty of papers explaining that p-hacking is common and why it's a problem, but no concrete examples of studies where p-hacking was discovered. Does anyone have an example in mind? Or maybe a study whose results have been questioned?

Thank you in advance!

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Analysing Elsevier Journal Metadata with a New Specialized Workbench inside ICSR Lab. #OpenData #PeerReview (papers.ssrn.com)
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"CORE to become an independent Open Access service from August 2023." Public funding for the Open Access search engine will be cut. (blog.core.ac.uk)
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eLife won’t reject papers once they are under review — what researchers think (www.nature.com)
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"Help Shape the Transition to Open." What libraries can do. (commonplace.knowledgefutures.org)
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Science Magazine reports on the stampede: "As Musk reshapes Twitter, academics ponder taking flight. Many researchers are setting up profiles on social media site Mastodon." (www.science.org)
A randomized preregistered field experiment finds that scientists are much more willing to review a paper by a Nobel laureate and to accept it than a paper by an unknown or anonymous author. in c/openscience@lemmy.ml
[–] GrassrootsReview@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is not fair for new authors, but maybe good for science. The Nobel laureate is playing with their own reputation, not the reputation of the journal doing the peer review. Plus reviewers may well see themselves as less qualified, and it thus makes sense to only reject such a paper if you spot an obvious error. What do you think?

Article by French publishers who are proud that they shut down Z-Library, which gives access to 84 million scholarly journal articles, 11 million academic texts and general-interest books. in c/openscience@lemmy.ml
[–] GrassrootsReview@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

The Wikipedia article on Z-Libraries suggests that the main domain is purposefully free of any pirated stuff. The article of the publishers is talking about the importance of also shutting down sites that link to the pirated sites. So it sounds as if only the sites with scholarly content are blocked in France, but not the main page.

Article by French publishers who are proud that they shut down Z-Library, which gives access to 84 million scholarly journal articles, 11 million academic texts and general-interest books. in c/openscience@lemmy.ml
[–] GrassrootsReview@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The article "somehow" does not give much background information on what Z-Library offers. If you do not know the system, do have a look at Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library

Sewing with threads in c/fediversefutures@lemmy.ml
[–] GrassrootsReview@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Next to inviting citations, it would also be nice for everyone to be able to add citations. Make it more of a collaborative effort than someone's time line.

Would it need a way to make clear we are really interested in the citation? I feel that most cases people ask for citations, they mean to say diplomatically that the claim is nonsense.

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