Brian Nosek

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OSF Changes: A Note to Users
OSF Changes: A Note to Users
August 11th, 2026
The Center for Open Science (COS) has announced a significant change for the Open Science Framework (OSF). This post assumes that you are already familiar with the changes coming...
Tags: Strategy, OSF, Lifecycle Open Science
COS Mission and Strategy Evolution
July 13th, 2026
When we opened the Center for Open Science (COS) 13 years ago, science was steady and the open science movement was tenuous. Today, it feels like the opposite in some regions. ...
Tags: Strategy, OSF, Lifecycle Open Science
Increasing Precision of Terms Related to Reproducibility and Replicability
Increasing Precision of Terms Related to Reproducibility and Replicability
December 3rd, 2025
Search OpenAlex for reproducibility studies and you will find many papers. Search for replicability studies. Same. Search for robustness studies. Same. A lot of research has been...
Tags: Reproducibility, metascience, SCORE, Replicability
The Decline Effect: Perceptions Versus Evidence
November 28th, 2023
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
Text: Catalyst for Change: 2022 Impact Report
2022 Impact Report: Catalyst for Change
April 26th, 2023
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
Image of Brian Nosek with quote: Science is humanity’s most important long-term investment. It is worth constant effort to improve science as a social system to accelerate discovery of knowledge, solutions, and treatments.
The Values, and Practice, of Science
November 29th, 2022
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
May 17th, 2022
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
May 9th, 2022
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
April 25th, 2022
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.
November 19th, 2020
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...

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