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📊 Post engagement
3
Avg engagement / post
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Summary of a forthcoming special issue on feminist metascience a · 6 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.83 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.9×
Follows 1K back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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(Re)Conceptualizing Open Science's "Openness"
A discussion of Sabina Leonelli’s recent work
https://markrubin.substack.com/p/reconceptualizing-open-sciences-openness
#PhilSci #MetaScience
New and old #metascience work on:
🔸 Epistemic Disadvantage in Open Science
🔸 Metascience’s Directionality
🔸 Women as the First Open Scientists
🔸 Confirmatory vs Exploratory Research
https://markrubin.substack.com/p/epistemic-disadvantage-i…
Some recent #metascience work and opportunities:
🔸 Preregistration and the Hindsight Bias
🔸 Postdoc Position
🔸 Open Science's Marginalization of Qualitative Work
🔸 Replication Failures are Good for
Science
https://markrubin.substack.com/…
Just published: “What is critical metascience and why is it important”
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1860740
Roundup of some recent (and not so recent) #metascience news:
Contained Experiments, Reproducibility Crisis?, Six Types of Metascience, and Personal Predictions
https://open.substack.com/pub/markrubin/p/contained-experiments-reproducibil…
News about Research on Research, Open Infrastructures, Adaptive Preregistration, and Science Reform
https://open.substack.com/pub/markrubin/p/research-on-research-open-infrastructures?r=2bqjb7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
“Probability is always conditional… It depends on two arguments: the element whose uncertainty is being described and the knowledge on which that uncertainty is based. The omission of the conditioning argument often leads to confusion” (Li…
Feminist Metascience, Risk-Averse Peer Review, & Can Systems Change Theory Strengthen Metascience?
#Metascience
https://open.substack.com/pub/markrubin/p/feminist-metascience-risk-averse?r=2bqjb7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium…
Some recent #metascience work and news…
• Average replicability rates
• Theories don’t die!
• Is the replication crisis overblown?
• Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Partial replications
https://open.substack.com/pub/markrubin/p/critical-metasci…
Summary of some recent work in #MetaSci #OpenSci #HistSci
🔹 20:20 hindsight on scientific progress
🔹 Open research in the humanities
🔹 The role of scientific sleuths
🔹 Individual bias and collective criticism
https://markrubin.substack.com…
Is a 55% replication rate too low, too high, or just right? Some thoughts on Tyner et al.’s (2026) recent study.
#Metascience
https://markrubin.substack.com/p/is-a-55-replication-rate-too-low
Just published: “What is critical metascience and why is it important”
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1860740
Roundup of some recent (and not so recent) #metascience news:
Contained Experiments, Reproducibility Crisis?, Six Types of Metascience, and Personal Predictions
https://open.substack.com/pub/markrubin/p/contained-experiments-reproducibil…
News about Research on Research, Open Infrastructures, Adaptive Preregistration, and Science Reform
https://open.substack.com/pub/markrubin/p/research-on-research-open-infrastructures?r=2bqjb7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
“Probability is always conditional… It depends on two arguments: the element whose uncertainty is being described and the knowledge on which that uncertainty is based. The omission of the conditioning argument often leads to confusion” (Li…
Feminist Metascience, Risk-Averse Peer Review, & Can Systems Change Theory Strengthen Metascience?
#Metascience
https://open.substack.com/pub/markrubin/p/feminist-metascience-risk-averse?r=2bqjb7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium…
Some recent #metascience work and news…
• Average replicability rates
• Theories don’t die!
• Is the replication crisis overblown?
• Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Partial replications
https://open.substack.com/pub/markrubin/p/critical-metasci…
Summary of some recent work in #MetaSci #OpenSci #HistSci
🔹 20:20 hindsight on scientific progress
🔹 Open research in the humanities
🔹 The role of scientific sleuths
🔹 Individual bias and collective criticism
https://markrubin.substack.com…
Is a 55% replication rate too low, too high, or just right? Some thoughts on Tyner et al.’s (2026) recent study.
#Metascience
https://markrubin.substack.com/p/is-a-55-replication-rate-too-low
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
fediscience.org
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.8× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
43/100
Fair
Credibility score
73%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.2% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Psychology, metascience, and academic life. Professor at Durham University, UK. He/him.
My research: https://sites.google.com/site/markrubinsocialpsychresearch/
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