Thread by @Ayjchan

“Altos is luring university professors by offering sports-star salaries of $1 million a year or more, plus equity, as well as freedom from the hassle of applying for grants.”

This is a dream scenario for many scientists. technologyreview.com/2021/09/04/103…

If there’s this much money, please set up a department to reproduce key works in the aging field.

If you quickly show which research are reproducible, you will move the whole field forward by decades. That’s a guaranteed way to save scientists from wasting time chasing deadends.

Non-scientists have no idea how much 🧠⏳💸 (100s of mil) are wasted, redundantly, by scientists worldwide each trying to reproduce top publications.

I can’t think of a surer way to accelerate science than to rapidly reveal which studies are reproducible.
vox.com/future-perfect…

(1) This will quickly eliminate pathways that lead nowhere #WaysToWasteEveryonesTime

(2) It will incentivize scientists and journal editors to make sure the work is reproducible (all methods and data available at time of publication) to avoid bad press #GetWhatYouPaidFor

I know that “reproducing research” sounds insanely boring.

But know that it will send shockwaves through each field where a reproducibility score can be calculated for each lab and journal.

The field will be disrupted and revolutionized.