Brian Nosek 2026-11-05
Brian Nosek studies research practices and scientific reproducibility. He co-founded the Center for Open Science with Jeff Spies in 2013, linking infrastructure such as the Open Science Framework to efforts to make scientific work easier to inspect and repeat.[ref]
His account of a prospective replication project describes an explicit question: must promising results weaken when tested again? Large samples, shared materials and preregistration helped separate proposed methodological causes from an inevitable decline. The broader contribution is to treat the reliability of scientific practice itself as an empirical research problem.[ref]
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Portrait of Brian Nosek
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Jeff Spies 2026-11-05
Jeff Spies co-founded the Center for Open Science with Brian Nosek in 2013. Their work connected research practice with shared infrastructure, including the Open Science Framework, for making study materials, data and analysis more inspectable.[ref]
The scientific contribution concerns the conditions for checking a claim: an accessible analysis script lets another researcher inspect how observations became a reported result. Infrastructure can support computational reproducibility, while a fresh experiment remains a separate test of whether a finding recurs.[ref]