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The latest from C4R

Leaving Science in a Better State Than They Found It: How the Campsite Rule Motivates Scientists to Learn About ReproducibilityJuly 7, 2023

Reproducibility of scientific findings leads to faster progress and innovation. In an effort to understand the motivations of scientists that attend reproducibility training events, instructors running these reproducibility workshops through Reproducibility for Everyone conducted a voluntary survey of participants between 2020 and 2022 (n=639). The findings provide insights into the experiences of researchers and highlights … Read more

Writing Methods for ReproducibilityApril 10, 2023

Methods is where we spend the most of our experimental time, but the least of our writing time. Well-written methods are necessary to replicate findings, assess the rigor of an experimental design, and determine the breadth of data interpretation. Detailed methods allow subsequent research to quickly build on your findings and to interpret whether contradictory … Read more

New webpageDecember 2, 2022

We just launched our website! In a collaboration among the Center team, we produced a first version of the webpage. Please let us know what else you want to see on here.

C4R at SFN meetingDecember 2, 2022

Every year, neuroscientists from all over the world congregate on a major US city to learn from one another. This year the meeting happend in San Diego. Community For Rigor was in attendance and represented by Kevin Rusch and Konrad Kording, with many close friends also making an appearance!

Request for materialsNovember 17, 2022

C4R is an open community. Our main process for producing materials is through the planned METER/CENTER mechanisms. However, we want to also collect any materials that can help us further our mission of advancing scientific rigor.

Our mission

Much of research, arguably the majority, across biomedical science falls short on rigor. Our questions have no answers or have been asked before. Our experiments do not really answer questions or are misleading. Our data analysis approaches find effects if there are none in reality. Our processes make it so that all this is not apparent. And our environment is structured so that incentives encourage bad approaches. The goal of Community for Rigor is to teach rigor. We believe that scientists want to do good science and that teaching them the problems that come from violating the principles of rigor will help make science more useful and meaningful. We will thus produce ridiculously awesome flipped classroom materials to teach the principles of rigor. And we will contribute to a community of champions of rigor. We will help center rigor within science.

Today, students in most places learn about rigor from their supervisor. Some are good at that. We want to make learning about rigor fun and useful. We believe in interactive flipped classroom learning. And we believe in building a community around rigor.

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