Thu, February 28, 2019 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CHEMICAL & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING BUILDING. Free but RSVP required. Join UBC’s Department of Psychology and Office of the Provost for an evening of stimulating discussion on the rewards of open science featuring Brian Nosek, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Open Science.
LOCATION: Room 101, Chemical and Biological Engineering Building, 2360 East Mall, Vancouver, BC
RSVP: https://psych.ubc.ca/talk-with-brian-nosek-rsvp
This event is available on UBC’s Okanagan Campus through a video conference in Reichwald Health Sciences Centre (RHS), Room 257. (RSVP: https://psych.ubc.ca/videoconference-brian-nosek/)
Can’t make it? This event will be streamed live via webcast at this link: http://ow.ly/9njK30nRoH6 and available to watch later.
ABOUT THE TALK:
Title: Shifting incentives from getting it published to getting it right
Abstract: The currency of academic science is publishing. Producing novel, positive, and clean results maximizes the likelihood of publishing success because those are the best kind of results. There are multiple ways to produce such results: (1) be a genius, (2) be lucky, (3) be patient, or (4) employ flexible analytic and selective reporting practices to manufacture beauty. In a competitive marketplace with minimal accountability, it is hard to avoid (4). But, there is a way. With results, beauty is contingent on what is known about their origin. With methodology, if it looks beautiful, it is beautiful. The only way to be rewarded for something other than the results is to make transparent how they were obtained. With openness, I won’t stop aiming for beautiful papers, but when I get them, it will be clear that I earned them.
This event is co-hosted by UBC’s Department of Psychology and Office of the Provost.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Brian Nosek is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Open Science (COS) that operates the Open Science Framework. COS is enabling open and reproducible research practices worldwide.