Alex Byrnes

Metascience | reproducibility | research statistics. Formerly at OpenSecrets, Washington Post, and University of Chicago.

[Alex Byrnes @alexbyrnes]

@RetractionWatch Thorp both reveres peer-reviewed literature and ignores it to suit publisher interests. There are 20 years of papers to contradict his view of the replication crisis. It isn't a small number of actors at fault, and nobody thinks fraud is the main driver. https://t.co/NQNpKgwVjH

[I4R @I4Replication]

A new DP from Alex Byrnes. This is a re-analysis of Sanders et al. published in @NatureHumBehav.

See below links to the report and authors' response.

[Alex Byrnes @alexbyrnes]

@josheidelson And so begins the most interesting day of all time for anyone who has worked in newspaper engineering.

[Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray]

I've just discovered that @alexbyrnes also automated this extraction problem in 2014, using CV techniques and hand-built schemas describing different doc types. Insane work. And additional validated training data! https://t.co/GOv0ITa667

[Alex Byrnes @alexbyrnes]

@jonathanstray No problem. Yes the final output is structured. 2014 is here: https://t.co/eAHBIrUmfv

[Alex Byrnes @alexbyrnes]

@jonathanstray And good luck! Still a good cause.

[simine vazire @siminevazire]

I don't think the cultures are that different - scientists also have v. little incentive & it's also rare @paldhous https://t.co/8l2X8Ae0PX

[Alex Byrnes @alexbyrnes]

Headline irony. Faster programming language wastes everyone's time. #technews https://t.co/M1hVwtvx2p

[Jon Keegan @jonkeegan]

My latest: Liberal Facebook vs. Conservative Facebook: @WSJ’s look at both sides of real, live conversations. https://t.co/VSfNr29g36

[Alex Byrnes @alexbyrnes]

@sLcarothers that was good. why didn't i think of that?

[WAN-IFRA @NewspaperWorld]

"Trust is our greatest challenge, there is no greater one” @PostBaron #futureofjournalism https://t.co/1ETbOZucVy

[Alex Byrnes @alexbyrnes]

https://t.co/MM0IGJrWKe

[Alex Byrnes @alexbyrnes]

"computer science has quite a bit to do with reality." That was my favorite part. https://t.co/aPYEVjL7o8

[Alex Byrnes @alexbyrnes]

@derekwillis thanks derek. didn't think anyone would be finding it yet

[Alex Byrnes @alexbyrnes]

@whichlight @melissasteffan @XimenaWrites @myhlee @gaurbansal ps, team: https://t.co/R8J8PH1ntn

[Alex Byrnes @alexbyrnes]

@whichlight @melissasteffan @XimenaWrites @myhlee @gaurbansal that would be here: https://t.co/mN6PItjKp9

[Olga Pierce @olgapierce]

@SwensonTami Yes, we will be Githubbing our code in the coming weeks. We like making our work transparent. #SurgeonScorecard

[Alex Byrnes @alexbyrnes]

@afwong CC team 7. Best hackathon ever. @gaurbansal @myhlee @ximenawrites @melissasteffan