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5 views Just published: “What is critical metascience and why is it important” https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1860740

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0.83 / week

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Mostly text

Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

1.9×

Follows 1K back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

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🔥 Top post Summary of a forthcoming special issue on feminist metascience and feminist open science #metascience https://markrubin.substack.com/p/feminist-metascience-and-feminist ★ 6

(Re)Conceptualizing Open Science's "Openness" A discussion of Sabina Leonelli’s recent work https://markrubin.substack.com/p/reconceptualizing-open-sciences-openness #PhilSci #MetaScience ★ 4 New and old #metascience work on: 🔸 Epistemic Disadvantage in Open Science 🔸 Metascience’s Directionality 🔸 Women as the First Open Scientists 🔸 Confirmatory vs Exploratory Research https://markrubin.substack.com/p/epistemic-disadvantage-i… Some recent #metascience work and opportunities: 🔸 Preregistration and the Hindsight Bias 🔸 Postdoc Position 🔸 Open Science's Marginalization of Qualitative Work 🔸 Replication Failures are Good for Science https://markrubin.substack.com/… ★ 1

Just published: “What is critical metascience and why is it important” https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1860740 ★ 5 Roundup of some recent (and not so recent) #metascience news: Contained Experiments, Reproducibility Crisis?, Six Types of Metascience, and Personal Predictions https://open.substack.com/pub/markrubin/p/contained-experiments-reproducibil… ★ 4 News about Research on Research, Open Infrastructures, Adaptive Preregistration, and Science Reform https://open.substack.com/pub/markrubin/p/research-on-research-open-infrastructures?r=2bqjb7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web ★ 1 “Probability is always conditional… It depends on two arguments: the element whose uncertainty is being described and the knowledge on which that uncertainty is based. The omission of the conditioning argument often leads to confusion” (Li… ★ 1 Feminist Metascience, Risk-Averse Peer Review, & Can Systems Change Theory Strengthen Metascience? #Metascience https://open.substack.com/pub/markrubin/p/feminist-metascience-risk-averse?r=2bqjb7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium… Some recent #metascience work and news… • Average replicability rates • Theories don’t die! • Is the replication crisis overblown? • Postdoctoral Fellowships • Partial replications https://open.substack.com/pub/markrubin/p/critical-metasci… Summary of some recent work in #MetaSci #OpenSci #HistSci 🔹 20:20 hindsight on scientific progress 🔹 Open research in the humanities 🔹 The role of scientific sleuths 🔹 Individual bias and collective criticism https://markrubin.substack.com… Is a 55% replication rate too low, too high, or just right? Some thoughts on Tyner et al.’s (2026) recent study. #Metascience https://markrubin.substack.com/p/is-a-55-replication-rate-too-low ★ 4

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On Mastodon since

Nov 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 3 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.8× per week.

📍Based in United Kingdom.

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Estimated

43/100

Fair Credibility score

73%

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Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
Low engagement (~0.2% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
Established account (3+ years old).

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About

Psychology, metascience, and academic life. Professor at Durham University, UK. He/him. My research: https://sites.google.com/site/markrubinsocialpsychresearch/

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