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Mark Kelson @markkelson.bsky.social · Jun 3

Mark Kelson @markkelson.bsky.social · Jun 3

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Mark Kelson @markkelson.bsky.social · Jun 3

It’s blurry photos time! (plus a nice photo of my cat - something for everyone)

Great talks at the AI for a Healthier Future event.

Xujiong Ye
Mike Allen
Gareth Hawkes
Yanda Meng
Beverley Shields
Dr. Cédric Mesnage
Jonathan Phillips
James Davies
Steph Selway
Helen Chapman
Aline Villavicencio

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Mark Kelson @markkelson.bsky.social · Apr 25

Sign up here for a UKRN organised symposium on checks for reproducibility April 30th 13:00-14:30. Would Iove to get feedback on what we’ve done recently at Exeter. I promise i will start my talk with an anecdote of questionable veracity!

www.ukrn.org/event/ukrn-w...

UKRN Webinar: Symposium on Checks for Reproducibility | UK Reproducibility Network

www.ukrn.org

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Mark Kelson @markkelson.bsky.social · Apr 8

Hey everyone! The Institute for Data Science and AI at Exeter is now on BlueSky!

@idsaiexeter.bsky.social

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Mark Kelson @markkelson.bsky.social · Apr 8

My talk on our recent Reproducibility Evaluation at the GW4 Open Research Week is now available! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DroH...
@drgbuckingham.bsky.social

GW4 ORW: Exploring the reproducibility of research publications: A Reproducibility Evaluation Pilot

YouTube video by GW4 Alliance

www.youtube.com

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UK Reproducibility Network @ukrepro.bsky.social · Mar 6

Great to see so many of our Institutional Leads and Local Network Leads together in Cardiff yesterday. Lots of discussion, ideas, plans and bright Welsh sunshine.

Huge thanks to Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture for hosting us.

#collaboration #openscience #reproducibility

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UK Reproducibility Network @ukrepro.bsky.social · Mar 4

Congratulations shortlisted nominees for the 2025 Dorothy Bishop Prize, recognising work of early career researchers promoting robust, rigorous and reproducible UK research:
- Andre Maia Chagas
- Annayah Prosser
- Lewis Jones
- Michael Biddle
- Sacha Beniamine
- Zahra Rahemtulla

#OpenResearch

DB Prize 2025 shortlisted nominees

www.ukrn.org

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Daryl O’Connor @daryloconnor.bsky.social · Mar 5

What a terrific, engaging and fun UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) Institutional Leads Retreat in sunny Cardiff. Lots of exciting sector-leading work going on & lots more to come!

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Mark Kelson @markkelson.bsky.social · Mar 5

A really great institutional leads away day for the UKRN in Cardiff. Lovely to meet so many e-colleagues in person. Great discussions and exciting initiatives planned! Thanks to Cardiff and JOMEC for hosting!

Room sign saying UKRN institutional leads meeting

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Mark Kelson @markkelson.bsky.social · Feb 12

You only have until Friday (14th) to get your proposals in for the Metascience conference 2025 metascience.info/call-for-pro...

Call for Proposals - Metascience

The call for proposals for Metascience 2025 is open with a deadline of 7 February 2025.

metascience.info

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UK Reproducibility Network @ukrepro.bsky.social · Jan 23

The UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize is open for nominations until midnight of Sunday 26 January 2025!

www.ukrn.org/2024/12/12/t...

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Mark Kelson @markkelson.bsky.social · Jan 23

UKRN is on here now everyone! Get following!

UK Reproducibility Network @ukrepro.bsky.social · Jan 23

UK Reproducibility Network has joined BlueSky! #AcademicSky #OpenResearch

Mark Kelson @markkelson.bsky.social · Jan 13

Had fun meeting our new Statistical Data Science MSc students today. Really excited about this programme which is a collaboration between Computer Science, Mathematics & Statistics and the Humanities. Looking forward to seeing what they can do! #SDS #UniversityOfExeter

A regular lecture room with some bright eyed data science students who have yet to become jaded with the world.

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · Jan 7

Ah nothing like sitting down after a hard day looking through badly designed studies and relaxing with a bit of telly. What's this? Eat Smart: Secrets if the Glucose Goddess. Sounds fu-

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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · Jan 2

Floella Benjamin introducing Rik Mayall is very funny, and very touching, and his five mantras for a full life sound pretty anarchistic to me…

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Maarten van Smeden @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social · Dec 23

Let us start 2025 in a positive mood: here are 10 methods things researchers can worry *less* about in 2025

a countdown clock with the number 10 in the center

ALT: a countdown clock with the number 10 in the center

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · Jan 1

My new year's resolution is simple, automated and doable

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Mark Kelson @markkelson.bsky.social · Dec 27

The image this tweet conjures never fails to amuse me. Also, it's my current mood. @mattywin.bsky.social

A tweet response to a tweet asking to say something about your dad. It says "He once opened a party popper directly into the bin to save on cleaning"

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Mark Kelson @markkelson.bsky.social · Dec 12

A great day today. Great atmosphere on campus for graduation, a departmental social with lovely colleagues, and I saw an uprooted tree!

Ain't no party like a maths & stats departmental social in a uniquely ill-suited space

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Mark Kelson @markkelson.bsky.social · Dec 12

As ever, graduation was a joy. Congrats all Apploed Data Science and Statistics students! I'm so proud! #UniversityofExeter #ADSS

Exeter forum filled with people celebrating

Group photo of all the graduates outside the great hall

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Mark Kelson @markkelson.bsky.social · Dec 12

Storm Darragh did a number on this tree on the way into Streatham campus

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Elizabeth Gadd @lizziegadd.bsky.social · Dec 11

I’m sighing a lot today.

Automating the assessment of impact- good bad or ugly’ slide

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · Dec 10

In 2020, we showed that studies published in ecological journals WITH a code-sharing policy showed a 21% reproducibility potential at max (Culina et al 2020, @plosbiology.bsky.social)

We've now investigated journals WITHOUT a code-sharing policy. The results are worrying.

📰 doi.org/10.32942/X21...

Code-sharing policies are associated with increased reproducibility potential of ecological findings

doi.org

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Noah Haber @whaleactually.com · Dec 10

In the later stages of getting to do a dream: a fully replicable manuscript.

Every single number, stat, figure, etc. in the manuscript has a complete, open and pushbutton full pipeline all the way from data collection to seeing the number on the page.

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