Mozilla Science Lab Week in Review, June 8-14

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The Week in Review is our weekly roundup of what’s new in open science from the past week. If you have news or announcements you’d like passed on to the community, be sure to share on Twitter with @mozillascience and @billdoesphysics, or join our mailing list and get in touch there.

Blogs & Papers

  • Krawczyk & Reuben published a paper examining the proportion of authors of economics papers who promised to provide supplementary data or information about their paper who actually followed through with that committment: 44%.
  • Pablo Barberá has released the code and data along with usage guidelines necessary to reproduce his upcoming publication on online political communication.
  • Joanna Carpenter blogged on a collection of current efforts to improve reproducibility in research, summarizing a number of journal policies, badging initiatives, prizes and platforms designed to push research towards greater reproducibility.

Tools & Projects

  • Emil Kirkegaard has built a series of shiny apps that interactively illustrate concepts in statistics relevant to data analysis, like correlation biasing, tail effects and regression.

Meetings & Policy

  • The US National Library of Medicine working group of the NIH has recently agreed a set of policy recommendations for its future growth which make specific commitments to reproducibility, open science and data science. Most notably, they state that “[the] NLM should lead efforts to support and catalyze open science, data sharing, and research reproducibility, striving to promote the concept that biomedical information and its transparent analysis are public goods.”

Talks & Events

  • .astronomy 7 has been announced for November 3-6 in Sydney, Australia. The unconference will focus on astronomy online, and include talks, open sessions and hacking; interested parties are requested to register interest by June 26.
  • The Science Lab’s own Kaitlin Thaney gave a keynote at Open Repositories 2015 on leveraging the web for science; the 10th anniversary of the Open Repositories conference looked back on the impact of open scholarship over the past decade, and considered its evolving role; see the conference website here.
  • Peter Kraker and Joseph McArthur recently delivered a seminar on getting recognition for your open science work, now available on YouTube.

#mozsprint Blogs

The Science Lab’s second annual Global Sprint ran June 4-5; see the storify of the twitter activity, and some data on the event. A number of participants also wrote blog posts reflecting on their experience; thanks to all who came out & blogged!