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Guidelines on how to be a scientific sleuth released

https://osf.io/2kdez/wiki/home/
40•crescit_eundo•5h ago

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crescit_eundo•5h ago
From the project’s introduction:

"Anyone can do post-publication peer review. Anyone can be a steward of the scientific literature. Anyone can do forensic metascience. Anyone can sleuth. However, investigating the integrity of the published scientific literature often requires domain-specific knowledge that not everyone will have. This open source project is a collection of guides written and maintained by publication integrity experts to distribute this domain-specific knowledge so that others can participate in post-publication peer review."

btilly•4h ago
I consider this an extremely important project.

One of the most reliable cognitive biases that we have is that cognitive dissonance prevents us from taking feedback on that which is important to us. Instead we convince ourselves that we've become good at that which we care about, and reject all evidence that we need to improve. The more we care about it, the more we fall into this trap.

There are ways to reduce how often we fall into this trap. For example https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-ten-commandments-of-egoles... is a set of rules that many good programmers follow to avoid developing an ego about being a good programmer. This allows them to accept feedback from reality, and become better programmers over time. By contrast, programmers who think that they are good usually top out pretty quickly, and are usually pretty bad.

Unfortunately we always have a pull to believing that what we've done is valuable, and then falling into this trap. This causes entire fields of study, including scientific fields, to frequently fall into a self-reinforcing overconfidence in what they believe that they have shown. Which consistently results in missing their own errors, and rejecting contrary evidence.

Post-publication peer review by itself does not fix the problem. But it is a necessary feedback loop that is required for any meaningful fix. And the existence of post-publication peer review helps those not in the field to learn which fields should be trusted, and which not.

Therefore there is a lot of value in having more, and more effective, post-publication peer review. Even though we'll still have entire fields of science who are overconfident of their bad research.

The Grug Brained Developer (2022)

https://grugbrain.dev/
240•smartmic•1h ago•63 comments

Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket

https://global.honda/en/topics/2025/c_2025-06-17ceng.html
688•LorenDB•7h ago•223 comments

Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers

https://kianbradley.com/2025/06/15/resurrecting-a-dead-tracker.html
269•k-ian•4h ago•88 comments

Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust

https://trifectatech.org/blog/bzip2-crate-switches-from-c-to-rust/
56•Bogdanp•2h ago•5 comments

Building Effective AI Agents

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents
169•Anon84•4h ago•33 comments

AMD's CDNA 4 Architecture Announcement

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-cdna-4-architecture-announcement
80•rbanffy•4h ago•17 comments

Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-2-5-model-family-expands/
241•meetpateltech•6h ago•147 comments

LLMs pose an interesting problem for DSL designers

https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-lang-design-llms.html
65•gopiandcode•3h ago•53 comments

Foundry (YC F24) Hiring Early Engineer to Build Web Agent Infrastructure

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/foundry/jobs/azAgJbN-foundry-software-engineer-new-grad-to-mid-level
1•lakabimanil•1h ago

Time Series Forecasting with Graph Transformers

https://kumo.ai/research/time-series-forecasting/
53•turntable_pride•4h ago•17 comments

What Google Translate Can Tell Us About Vibecoding

https://ingrids.space/posts/what-google-translate-can-tell-us-about-vibecoding/
47•todsacerdoti•2h ago•12 comments

Should we design for iffy internet?

https://bytes.zone/posts/should-we-design-for-iffy-internet/
152•surprisetalk•9h ago•134 comments

Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-history
107•purpleko•7h ago•195 comments

Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices

https://apnews.com/article/iran-whatsapp-meta-israel-d9e6fe43280123c9963802e6f10ac8d1
118•rdrd•3h ago•115 comments

Tetrachromatic Vision

https://www.bookofjoe.com/2025/05/my-entry-32.html
15•surprisetalk•3d ago•6 comments

After millions of years, why are carnivorous plants still so small?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/articles/carnivorous-plants-have-been-trapping-animals-for-millions-of-years-so-why-have-they-never-grown-larger-180986708/
26•gmays•4d ago•14 comments

From SDR to 'Fake HDR': Mario Kart World on Switch 2

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23•ibobev•3h ago•12 comments

Now might be the best time to learn software development

https://substack.com/home/post/p-165655726
82•nathanfig•7h ago•55 comments

The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable?

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/hamburger-menu-icon-recognizability/
57•thm•8h ago•116 comments

Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court

https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/brad-lander-arrest-ice-immigration-court/
164•sjsdaiuasgdia•4h ago•91 comments

A Rural Public Transit Odyssey

https://shagbark.substack.com/p/a-rural-public-transit-odyssey
11•herbertl•3d ago•1 comments

AMD's Pre-Zen Interconnect: Testing Trinity's Northbridge

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-pre-zen-interconnect-testing
95•zdw•3d ago•17 comments

The magic of through running

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-magic-of-through-running
154•ortegaygasset•13h ago•99 comments

Bots are overwhelming websites with their hunger for AI data

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/17/bot_overwhelming_websites_report/
18•Bender•51m ago•8 comments

Real-time action chunking with large models

https://www.pi.website/research/real_time_chunking
30•pr337h4m•2h ago•1 comments

Voyager: Real-Time Splatting City-Scale 3D Gaussians on Your Phone

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02774
40•PaulHoule•9h ago•14 comments

O3 Turns Pro

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/o3-turns-pro
143•jsnider3•7h ago•102 comments

US Streetlights Are Turning Purple

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/streetlights-are-mysteriously-turning-purple-heres-why/
41•surprisetalk•4d ago•49 comments

Fujifilm X half: Is it the perfect family camera?

https://arslan.io/2025/06/14/fujifilm-x-half-is-it-the-perfect-family-camera/
31•farslan•3d ago•55 comments

CPU-Based Layout Design for Picker-to-Parts Pallet Warehouses

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04266
16•PaulHoule•6h ago•4 comments