Brian Nosek

Recent Posts

The Rise of Open Science in Psychology, A Preliminary Report
June 3rd, 2019
Open science is on the rise. Across disciplines, there are increasing rates of sharing data, making available underlying materials and protocols, and preregistering studies and...
Tags: Psychology, OSF, Academic Rank, Open Science
Why are we working so hard to open up science? A personal story.
December 8th, 2017
In the Fall of 2011, Sarah Mackenzie, the maid of honor at my wedding, was diagnosed with a rare form of ovarian cancer. Sarah and her family were motivated to learn as much as...
Are reproducibility and open science starting to matter in tenure and promotion review?
July 14th, 2017
Tenure and promotion season is underway. Promotion committees, in the U.S. at least, use the summer to send portfolios to 3 to 10 scholars at other institutions for independent...
Tags: Reproducibility, Openscience
Some Examples of Publishing the Research That Actually Happened
July 3rd, 2017
A discussion about a grad student’s dilemma on The Black Goat “It’s So Complicated” podcast caught my attention last week (June 28, 2017). The student wrote about a situation in...
Tags: Replication, publishing, Reproducibility, Research
The Center for Open Science is a Culture Change Technology Company
May 19th, 2017
Last night, the Center for Open Science received the “Startup of the Year” award at the CBIC awards gala, an annual showcase of technology innovation in our home town of...
Tags: Technology, Research, Culture
How can we improve diversity and inclusion in the open science movement?
May 5th, 2017
Two items this past week point to challenges for diversity and inclusion in open science. First, a WIRED story reported evidence that gender diversity in open source software is...
Tags: Openscience
Building a Central Service for Preprints
April 30th, 2017
Preprints are hot. The week before last, we described our status and plans for providing open infrastructure to support the growing preprint ecosystem. Last week, we learned that...
Public Goods Infrastructure for Preprints and Innovation in Scholarly Communication
April 19th, 2017
Judy Luther offered an insightful birds-eye view of the burgeoning preprints landscape at Scholarly Kitchen yesterday. As she mentioned, the Center for Open Science is...
Tags: publishing, preprints, Research, Infrastructure
3 Things Societies Can Do to Promote Research Integrity
March 1st, 2017
The Wiley Exchanges program does a great job promoting scientific best practices by interviewing subject matter experts on timely topics in research. In this episode, our own...
Tags: publishing, Reproducibility, Research

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