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Adrian Barnett
@aidybarnett.bsky.social
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Statistician working in meta-research. Deltiologist.

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Adrian Gerard Barnett is a professor in the faculty of Health in the school of Public Health and Social Work, at Queensland University of Technology and was president of the Statistical Society of Australia from 2018 to 2020. .. more

Environmental science 27%
Public Health 23%
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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 2d
A case study on how an Australian government agency changed the results of a qualitative study. Editing or suppressing research findings is not good policy, can lead to harms, and is awful to experience as a researcher.
Journal: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
OA: eprints.qut.edu.au/262261/
Client Challenge
link.springer.com

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 2d
The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n... via @statnews.com

The complete collapse of the NIH, CDC, and FDA is so tragic and damaging to not only the U.S., but the world...

Dark Age 2.0.
The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left
“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.
www.statnews.com

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 10d
I read this excellent book last year about the US coup in Guatemala. So much death and destruction built on lies.
Book cover: Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 13d
"It might be easy to dismiss the idea of ISO 9001 as just another tool to encourage best practice among publishers. But journal certification would fill a long-standing gap in the chain of external oversight from conduct to translation of research."

@jabyrnesci.bsky.social writes in @nature.com !
Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer
Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to follow suit.
doi.org

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 15d
Swallowtail butterfly in my garden.
Black white and red butterfly resting on a tree.

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 15d
Are peer reviewers influenced by their work being cited?
Coercive citations
Reviewer citation requests can turn peer review into a transaction rather than an objective critique of the article.
buff.ly

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 21d
Cycling in snow is joyous.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 26d
"How can funders avoid crossing the Szilard point?"

The Szilard point is "the threshold at which the total cost of competing for a grant equals (or surpasses) the value of the available funding."
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 28d
Such important work. Thank you both for helping to eradicate fakes from the scientific record.

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 29d
Holiday
Little brown dog on a sandy beach in the wind

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Dec 11
Rather than investing in the energy that "will never kill us or never run out" (Will Self) our state government is pouring money into coal. A sad short-term gamble to win votes.

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Dec 11
Was a preprint, now a paper. Our experiment on researchers preferences for published papers. Disappointingly, the journal impact factor still dominates, and even worse, some authors are willing to sacrifice their results for a higher impact factor. www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Dec 6
100%. If a study is beyond the capabilities of you and your team, then do a different study.

Reposted by Jan R. Boehnke

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Nov 29
Are peer reviewers influenced by their work being cited? Version of record at
@elife.bsky.social. Thorough and useful peer review - who needs and impact factor?!

Links to paper and code/data ⬇️

📄https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/108748
💻https://github.com/agbarnett/cited_reviewers
elifesciences.org

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Nov 27
Bloom
Red poinciana in bloom

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Nov 24
Cracked my car window 😒

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Nov 21
At a repair cafe getting a music stand fixed and it is an absolute joy of positivity and community spirit.
Inside a scout hut with handy people fixing stuff.

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Nov 21
It's been great to be part of something positive and new.

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MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social · Nov 21
🎈 Time flies! Exactly one year ago today @rorinstitute.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social launched MetaROR, a platform to publish metaresearch through the publish-review-curate approach.

Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers.

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MetaROR Turns One - MetaROR
An exciting year of open, community-driven evaluation of metaresearch One [...]
metaror.org

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Nov 21
Bloom!
Big tree in full bloom with flowers scattered all over the ground

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Simon Gandevia @simongandevia.bsky.social · Nov 16
International Research Integrity Conference: it's underway in Sydney. Opening Sunday workshop by James Heathers on Forensic Metascience. Full program available: researchintegrityconf.com Thank you sleuths!
International Research Integrity Conference | 16-18 November 2025, Sydney, Australia
researchintegrityconf.com

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Robin Blythe @rbly.bsky.social · Nov 14
New paper: we validated the Clinical Frailty Scale for predicting 90-day mortality in frail older adults. We show that the scale's predictive utility is low, but argue that mortality risk shouldn't be what catalyses end-of-life care discussions anyway
doi.org/10.1136/bmjo...
#statsky #medsky #episky
Validation of the Clinical Frailty Scale for predicting 90-day mortality in hospitalised older adults screened as at risk of nearing the end of life in Queensland, Australia: a multisite observational...
Background The Clinical Frailty Scale is an ordinal scale from 1 (very fit) to 9 (terminally ill) commonly used to assess frailty in older patients. It is simple for clinicians to apply and can help i...
doi.org

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Nov 10
The Qld police are catching fewer badly behaving motorists, but yet they still find time to fine cyclists for speeding on the bike path. I saw four officers doing this a few months ago. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Police enforcement on Qld roads drops almost 50pc in five years
Queensland Police concedes less time is being spent enforcing road safety than before the COVID pandemic, amid a rising number of traffic tragedies.
www.abc.net.au

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · Nov 7
Oops. Ooooooooooooops.

I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.

arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675

h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · Nov 6
Have increased capacity for this December INSPECT-SR online training workshop following a successful 1st event today. Book here: www.trybooking.com/uk/FKHV
Introduction to INSPECT-SR Training Workshop December
An introductory 2-hour online workshop will introduce participants to the INSPECT-SR tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled...
www.trybooking.com

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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · Nov 4
At the past two AIMOS conferences, we have had a free public lecture for the local community. #AIMOS2025 follows suit! Join us for Ivan Oransky's public lecture: events.humanitix.com/public-talk-... but do so soon, seats are limited!

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Robin Blythe @rbly.bsky.social · Oct 31
Glad to share our full paper on why deployed clinical prediction models should not discard predicted risks in favour of thresholds with @rexwp.bsky.social and @aidybarnett.bsky.social now up on @jclinepi.bsky.social. A brief explainer (1/4):
#statsky #rstats
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m1D83BcJQ...
authors.elsevier.com

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AusHSI @aushsi.bsky.social · Oct 28
🎲 Working in a bingo hall as a boy, #AusHSI Prof @aidybarnett.bsky.social is well-versed in the game of chance. In @significancemag.bsky.social, learn about the #lottery for #researchfunding he now runs for the @britishacademy.bsky.social and how it works.

🔗 bit.ly/3J7689t | 🔓 bit.ly/47HTlDH

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Oct 25
My dog loves sleeping in a pot plant
Brown and white dog curled up sleeping in a pot plant

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Oct 24
Not earlier, but a nice example of data sharing from George Otis Smith (a relative?) writing in Science in 1915 www.jstor.org/stable/1639881
Quote: “Our explorations, surveys and investigations are in the public interest only as results are made public. This policy is as old as the Geological Survey itself, but several things have given a special impetus to the development of this policy. Beginning in August a year ago, a large volume of inquiries from producer and consumer of minerals came pouring into our office, and as never before the Geological Survey became a kind of “central” to the mineral industry. This opportunity for a larger service to the public not only resulted in gratifying relations with a large number of correspondents, but the rendering of such service has proved instructive to the public servants charged with the duty. Many of us on the Survey staff have acquired a keener realization of the need not only of giving the public the facts, but also of making those facts intelligible and useful to the citizen who may lack professional training in geology or engineering.”