
Marcus Munafò
@marcusmunafo
Intellectual magpie, academic, psychologist, part-time skeptic, a bit foreign, NUFC
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http://www.bristol.ac.uk/expsych/people/marcus-r-munafo/ 29-02-2012 21:31:30
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Psychology’s algorithmic echo chamber… Ciaran Smith The University of Buckingham on how search engines may be hindering research; with a comment from Marcus Munafò bps.org.uk/psychologist/p…

Predicting replicability… Marcus Munafò on heuristics, statistical literacy, writing style and intuition in research prediction. bps.org.uk/psychologist/p…

The Boston Globe adapted my Substack post yesterday about Charles Piller's Alzheimer's book and the question of how we should treat "trust in science" during Trump 2.0 bostonglobe.com/2025/02/11/opi…

We (TARG Bristol) have over *100* published datasets on Library Research Support! (I've only just noticed we reached this entirely random but exciting threshold) research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/mar…

Had a great day at the UKRN UK Reproducibility Network @ukrepro.bsky.social institutional leads away day in Cardiff, topped off by a fleeting visit to see the fossil dinosaur, Dracoraptor, on display in the Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales for the first time since I worked on it in their labs 10 years ago(!) when it was a fresh find.


Upcoming 2.5 day conference St John's College on research integrity 7-9 April 2025 Great panel of international speakers and an important topic More info and register here: sjcfairsmeeting.com Dorothy Bishop





How much misconduct should there be in research? Marcus Munafò bps.org.uk/psychologist/h…

Opinion: As UK universities desperately seek savings, open science advocates must press both their moral and selfish cases, say Marcus Munafò and Neil Jacobs timeshighereducation.com/opinion/financ…

Love this paean to #OpenScience even in times of austerity from Marcus Munafò & Neil Jacobs. And this para about the value of Transparency to support collaboration (FYI, Deb Mashek) is great. 1/2


My last blog post for the University of Bristol Research Culture Blog - So Long and Thanks for All the Researchfish... 😀 researchculture.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/04/08/so-…

Marcus Munafò University of Bristol Lord G ilet Esq's contributions conspicuously absent in your acknowledgements here 🥲 P.s. all jokes aside, all the best in your new opportunity

'We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons…' 30 years on from Doug Altman saying this, Marcus Munafò considers academics’ responsibilities as publicly funded employees, and when further research is *not* needed. bps.org.uk/psychologist/w…



This is just excellent from Marcus Munafò "The problem, of course, is that publishing is the currency of academia. But publishing merely for the sake of publishing is not doing research for the right reasons" bps.org.uk/psychologist/w…

Really thoughtful article from Marcus Munafò Something we've discussed before. There's a time and place for through research when it adds something of value. bps.org.uk/psychologist/w…

Why aren't we doing more with open research? Marcus Munafò bps.org.uk/psychologist/w…