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Culture of Trial and Error

February 02, 2026

Cultures of Trial and Error: The Narrative Side of (Open) Science

Heterogenous communities with explicit commitments to science corrections or what this blog series summarises under the descriptor ‘cultures of trial and error’ have existed for the longest time.

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January 26, 2026

Stop Formatting Before the Desk Reject: A Proposal for Staged Submissions

Many flagship journals reject most manuscripts at the desk-review stage, with rates of 40–80% being common

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Culture of Trial and Error

December 07, 2025

Cultures of Trial and Error: Field-specific Barriers to Performing Replications

In this piece, we call for more comparative research on field-specific replication dynamics.

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Culture of Trial and Error

September 01, 2025

Cultures of Trial and Error: Engines of Science Correction in the Biosciences - And How They Sometimes Run Out of Steam

Scientific correction is often imagined as a clear-cut, procedural, and largely self-contained response to error

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Culture of Trial and Error

June 29, 2025

Cultures of Trial and Error: Hoaxes, Thought Experiments & Science Sleuths: Sniffing Out Ways to Correct the Scientific Record

In August 2024, a peculiar letter to the editor titled “Practice of Neurosurgery on Saturn” was published in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports.

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Culture of Trial and Error

June 02, 2025

Cultures of Trial and Error: Wissenschaftschmerz

Something is rotten in the state of science.

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Culture of Trial and Error

March 25, 2025

Cultures of Trial and Error: Replication in Social Psychology

Cultures of Trial and Error: Replication in Social Psychology (by Maarten Derksen)

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Culture of Trial and Error

February 27, 2025

Cultures of Trial and Error: Identifying and Overcoming Barriers in Science Correction

A JOTE x NanoBubbles blog post series, with guest editors Melpomeni (Melina) Antonakaki, Candida F. Sánchez Burmester, Mady Barbeitas.

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April 01, 2024

JOTE in Conversation: Leo Tiokhin - “Criticism in Science Should be Rewarded”

We present to you the fourth instalment of our “JOTE in conversation” series, where we ask Leo Tiokhin about Red Team Market and his career.

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September 10, 2021

Who Is to Blame When We Fly Too Close to the Sun – Academia or the Individual?

We should beware of using Ariely and others as scapegoats. Rather than dwelling on the moral failings of individual researchers, we might reframe fraud and misconduct as a systemic problem.