Brian Nosek

Recent Posts

The Decline Effect: Perceptions Versus Evidence
My first experience attending a conference with Extrasensory Perception (ESP) researchers was in October 2012. Unexpectedly, we had something in common. I was interested in how...
Tags: Reproducibility, Open Science
2022 Impact Report: Catalyst for Change
Over the past decade, the Center for Open Science (COS) has been committed to reforming how scientific research is conducted, incentivized, and evaluated by elevating and enabling...
Tags: Open Science
The Values, and Practice, of Science
Beyond my role with COS and my career as a social psychologist, I find that science often surfaces in my life in interesting and unexpected ways. These situations can offer some...
Tags: Community, Open Science
Measuring Research Transparency
Measuring the transparency and credibility of research is fundamental to our mission. By having measures of transparency and credibility we can learn about the current state of...
Tags: Transparency, Community, TOP Guidelines, Open Science
Continued Growth in OSF Usage: Catalyzing Change in Open Practices
Since COS was founded in 2013, we have had non-linear growth on our key performance indicators. For example, the average number of new Open Science Framework (OSF) users per day...
Tags: OSF, Community, Open Science
Our 2021 Impact Report: Accelerating Open Science Together
We are pleased to share our 2021 Impact Report, “Accelerating Open Science Together.” Amid continuing global challenges due to the pandemic, 2021 was another noteworthy year not...
Tags: Collaboration, Community, Open Science
You can help open science become the norm.
Our collective vision to change the research culture is becoming a reality. For example, you may be noticing that: Funders are rethinking their policies to promote greater...
A Year of Open Science
"Show me" not "trust me": Science doesn't ask for trust, it earns trust with transparency. The credibility of science has center stage in 2020. A raging pandemic. Partisan...
250K OSF users: celebrating a global open science community
The research culture is shifting toward open science. Today we celebrate a milestone close to home: 250,000 registered users for OSF. The value proposition for open science is...
Tags: OSF
Strategy for Culture Change
Behavior change is hard. Whatever its faults, the status quo is familiar and the warts are known. The status quo is also easy to maintain. Just do nothing, inertia takes care of...
Tags: Reproducibility, Open Science, Culture Change, Behavior Change