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From Kyle Grice: I just wanted to share something that I am doing the summer. A researcher at the University of South Carolina (USC, but not the USC you first think of if you are from the west coast...), Ben Meekins, has a twitch stream they call "Open Science Presentations" where anyone can email them to present and then its live presented freely on twitch, and recorded and posted on Youtube.

You can see the previous open science presentation on his Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@BenMeekins/videos)

I gave two talks in the past that he has posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T5w6ux1IX0 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AefNuutGgos&t=2700s

On august 29th at 11am, I am giving another talk on his twitch (www.twitch.tv/open_science) entitled "We all make mistakes - correcting mistakes in the chemistry literature", where I'll talk about some errors out there that folks (including me) have tried to correct.

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From Kyle:

Here's the talk I gave on mistakes in chemistry at Open Science Presentations, which relates to the reproducibility crisis.

Dr. Kyle Grice: "We all make mistakes!" - YouTube

The first 15 min/up through slide 13 are generally applicable to all science, and then after that it's chemistry-specific case studies.

I mention it in my OSP talk, here's Retraction Watch, a great website:

Retraction Watch – Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process

I saw that this book was published in March of this year, about the challenges with reproducibility. I don't know anything about the book or author, but I might see if I can get a copy and check it out:

Unreliable | Columbia University Press

Here's that guy who created the list of predatory journals that was mentioned in the discussion on Friday. The Wikipedia page outlines the history and what happened to the list. Jeffrey Beall - Wikipedia

Someone has continued the effort anonymously online it looks like: Predatory Journals - Predatory Journals List 2025

In my field (Chemistry), there's a couple interesting things about open science and reproducibility I wanted to share. One is this journal with articles focused on synthesizing one thing, and it has another group check that the reaction works as stated during the process of peer review, which I love! I haven't published here yet, but want to.

Organic Syntheses - ACS Division of Organic Chemistry

Second thing in my field I wanted to mention: For a while there was a Blog called "Blog Syn", that looked at papers they thought were interesting, and wanted to see how reproducible it was. It was really neat, but it was pretty much done without funding by some grad students/young career researchers and they only looked at 3 different papers before it ran out of steam.

Here's their blog/the final post about what happened:

Blog Syn

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Kimberly: https://forrt.org/

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