PERSPECTIVES ON
SCIENTIFIC ERROR

Workshop
February 5-7, 2025   ·   Bern, Switzerland
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Wednesday  ·  Thursday  ·  Friday
Meeting location: Unitobler, Lecture Hall F021, Länggassstrasse 49, Bern

Tuesday, February 4
18:00 Pre-Conference Get Together
at McCarthy's Irish Pub, Aarbergergasse 20, 3011 Bern




Wednesday, February 5
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:30 Welcome and Opening
9:30 - 10:15 What is the value of correcting errors? A philosophy of science perspective
Aurélien Allard
10:15 - 11:00 Insights from replications: What are errors, and when and how do we need to correct them?
Stephanie Meirmans

Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:45 Keynote
When is a paper wrong?
Liam Kofi Bright

Lunch Break
13:45 - 14:30 Random allocation is not random sampling: Logical and statistical pitfalls when making inferences from randomized experiments
Servan Grüninger
14:30 - 15:15 Does psychology have experiments?
Nina Strohminger
15:30 - 17:00 Workshops Session I
 F006 | Errors of omission in conflict of interest statements | Steven Verheyen
 F007 | Automating the extraction of test statistics for replicability estimates at scale using Z-Curve | Julian Quandt
 F011 | Research data guidelines and governances at higher education institutions | Christine Krebs & Olga Churakova
 F014 | Estimation statistics for better science | Robert Calin-Jageman
17:00 - 18:00 Poster Session I
with coffee, snacks, hot chestnuts, drinks
What justifies preregistration? | Hong Hui Choi
 Post-publication quality control: A proposal for journal-solicited registered verification reports | Anna E. van 't Veer, Peder M. Isager, Ze Freeman, Rink Hoekstra, Ana Martinovici, Don van Ravenzwaaij, & Sajedeh Rasti
 Seeking scientific consensus - Using expert surveys to settle replication debates | Martin Buchner, Jörg Ankel-Peters, Julian Rose, Nathan Fiala, Magnus Johannesson, & Mandy Malan
 Methodological flexibility in the Iowa Gambling Task | Annika Külpmann, Ian Hussey, Jan-Paul Ries, Malte Elson
Investigating interactions in linear regression models | Aljoscha Rimpler, Henk Kiers, & Don van Ravenzwaaij
RegCheck: A platform to automate preregistration-paper comparisons | Jamie Cummins, Bence Palfi, Balazs Aczel, Ian Hussey, Malte Elson, Björn Hommel, & Ruben Arslan
Enhanced independence: De-biasing processes in scientific research | Katherine Cheung, Rebecca Ehrenkranz, & David Yaden
Beyond the methodology: The role of power structures in propagating scientific errors | Isabelle Rose I. Alberto, Nicole Rose I. Alberto, Leo Anthony Celi, Beth Israel, & T.H. Chan
19:00 Dinner
at Ragazzi di Berna, Eigerstrasse 73, 3007 Bern




Thursday, February 6
9:00 - 9:10 Introduction to Day 2
9:10 - 9:55 The use of error frameworks for identifying and dealing with potential sources of error in the social and behavioral sciences
Johannes Breuer
9:55 - 10:40 The ERЯOR bug-bounty program one year on: New reviews, new tools, and new challenges
Ian Hussey, Jamie Cummins, Malte Elson, & Ruben Arslan
10:40 - 11:40 Poster Session II
with coffee, snacks
Promoting student authorships: Advocating for fair acknowledgment of academic contributions | Raphael Merz, Bennet Strahmann, & Maximilian Frank
 Assessing the flexibility of PANAS implementation and scoring across disciplines: A meta-methods study | Frances Grace Hart, Patrick Smela, Maximilian Thiel, Beth Clarke, Malte Elson & Ian Hussey
 Addressing scientific error through integrative research approaches in psychotherapy research | Nina Schwarzbach, Rink Hoekstra, & Marieke Pijnenborg
 Transparency in the secondary use of health data: Assessing the status quo of guidance and best practices | Olmo R. van den Akker, Robert T. Thibault, John P. A. Ioannidis, Susanne Schorr, & Daniel Strech
 The fragility of scientific knowledge: A case study on the miscitation of gender stereotypes | Christa Nater & Alice H. Eagly
 Bounding knowledge decay from agnostic temporal generalization | Kevin Munger & Drew Dimmery
 From fragmentation to integration: Identifying research quality leveraging an LLM-RAG-based system | Peter Hilpert, Nicolas Frank, Arthur F. C. Cicic, & Matthew J. Vowels
 Do less statistical errors lead to higher replication rates? | David F. Urschler & Clemens Linder
11:40 - 12:55 Keynote
Inside the investigations: Lessons from two stories of scientific misconduct
Stephanie M. Lee

Lunch Break
13:45 - 15:15 Workshops Session II
 F006 | What's the point of reproducibility when a finding is not replicable – and vice versa | Christine Krebs & Jennifer Morger
F007 | Invisible infrastructures for informal error detection | Jay Patel & Joel Chan
 F011 | Fostering a constructive error culture in science: Scaling up transparency and trust | Sandra Zänkert, Maximilian Frank, Bernhard Miller, & Johannes Voßkuhl
 F014 | Conducting, reporting and assessing reproductions: A framework and checklist | Florian Kohrt, Filip Melinscak, Richard McElreath, & Felix Schönbrodt
15:15 - 16:15 Poster Session III
with coffee, snacks, crêpes
p > .05 = no effect?! – The prevalence of nonsignificance misinterpretations in psychology | Raphael Merz, & Stephen Lee Murphy
 On our best (inductive) behaviour: Subjective Bayesian foundations for Neyman-Pearson hypothesis testing | Eoin Perry
 A précis for precision: Ideas on improving theory sections in psychology | Anand Krishna
 Biasing effects of problematic responding in online convenience samples | Taym Alsalti, Jamie Cummins, & Ruben C. Arslan
 Replicating computational cognitive models: Recommendations for reducing error in programming | Cem Tabakci, Sebastian Hellmann, Michael Zehetleitner, Manuel Rausch
 Mitigating scientific pitfalls in field research: Lessons from Horizon2020 projects | Mona Bielig, Melanie Vogel, Florian Kutzner, & Celina Kacperski
 Budget your α: Managing the accumulation of inferential error in heavily reused datasets | Reid Dale, Mike Baiocchi, Jordan Rodu, & Maria E. Currie
 The struggle to make open science mainstream in PhD theses | Hilmar Brohmer & Masia Fernanda Hoffmann
 Academic discussions on human enhancement meet science: A quantitative analysis | Tomasz Żuradzki, Piotr Bystranowski, & Vilius Dranseika
16:15 - 17:00 Replication, reform, and the Williams Paradox
Aydin Mohseni
19:00 Dinner
at Pusterum Brunnhof, Schwarztorstrasse 102, 3007 Bern




Friday, February 7
9:00 - 9:45 Against models: Insulation from the disorienting effects of complexity
Anastasia Christakou
9:45 - 10:30 Where do scientific errors originate? A wider focus on academic practices in psychology
Ingrid Scharlau

Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:15 Keynote
What do we really know about the world?
Saloni Dattani
12:15 - 12:45 Closing address



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