Thread by @chrisdc77

A key moment in history as we see publication of the 1st two completed Registered Reports by a Nature journal

Both studies disconfirmed their hypotheses, as @RegReports often do

Congrats to the authors & to editors @KoustaStavroula & @marike_cogneuro
nature.com/articles/s4156…

@RegReports @KoustaStavroula @marike_cogneuro See also this fascinating insight into life as a @RegReports editor at @NatureHumBehav by @marike_cogneuro socialsciences.nature.com/users/174171-m…

Marike is v modest but she is a brilliant editor & proof that you don't need to stay in academia to have a tremendous positive impact on science

@RegReports @KoustaStavroula @marike_cogneuro @NatureHumBehav The gauntlet is now down for everyone - authors, journals, funders.

If you're a journal editor & you don't yet offer @RegReports to your community, ask yourself why not? What are you afraid of?

@RegReports @KoustaStavroula @marike_cogneuro @NatureHumBehav If you're an author & you really want to know if your hypothesis is supported or not - but you don't want the ANSWER to determine whether your paper is published - then @RegReports are for you.

@RegReports @KoustaStavroula @marike_cogneuro @NatureHumBehav And if you're a funder then you have perhaps the greatest potential influence of any stakeholder to bring about positive change.

You - and you alone - can encourage or require that the confirmatory, hypothesis-driven research you fund is published via a @RegReports route.