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Meet C4R, the Community for Rigor! 👋
Scientific rigor is a skill we can build. We create free lessons, activities, and teaching resources for researchers, students, and educators.
Follow for practical research tips and scientific discussion. c4r.io
Scientific rigor is a skill we can build. We create free lessons, activities, and teaching resources for researchers, students, and educators.
Follow for practical research tips and scientific discussion. c4r.io
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Data sharing is increasingly part of funder requirements. How can data sharing benefit your career?
Sharing well-documented data can help advance scientific knowledge, create opportunities for collaboration and support validation of findings. It may even lead to more citations! pecially personal: helping future you!
Ever returned to a dataset 6 months later and thought, "What was I thinking ?"
Clear metadata, organized files, and readable code make it easier to pick up where you left off.
Planning for data sharing encourages these habits from the start and can even make your research more efficient.
What benefits of data sharing have you experienced?
#DataSharing
Sharing well-documented data can help advance scientific knowledge, create opportunities for collaboration and support validation of findings. It may even lead to more citations! pecially personal: helping future you!
Ever returned to a dataset 6 months later and thought, "What was I thinking ?"
Clear metadata, organized files, and readable code make it easier to pick up where you left off.
Planning for data sharing encourages these habits from the start and can even make your research more efficient.
What benefits of data sharing have you experienced?
#DataSharing
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Is p<0.05 enough?
Chapin Lenthall-Cleary of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, argues p<0.05 isn't enough to claim statistical significance. A much stricter standard, he says, makes it "much harder to do nefarious stuff like p-hacking."
Our Rigor Takes series sharesopinions on rigor.
Watch the full clip to see how Dr. Konrad Kording, C4R P.I. and Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, replies.
Where do you set your threshold and why?
Follow along for more Rigor Takes from leading researchers and educators.
#RIgorTakes #Statistics
Chapin Lenthall-Cleary of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, argues p<0.05 isn't enough to claim statistical significance. A much stricter standard, he says, makes it "much harder to do nefarious stuff like p-hacking."
Our Rigor Takes series sharesopinions on rigor.
Watch the full clip to see how Dr. Konrad Kording, C4R P.I. and Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, replies.
Where do you set your threshold and why?
Follow along for more Rigor Takes from leading researchers and educators.
#RIgorTakes #Statistics
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How did data sharing help save a life?
As a medical student, David Fajgenbaum (@DavidFajgenbaum) was diagnosed with a rare immune disease that had no approved treatments.
Or maybe the right treatment just hadn’t been found yet...
#OpenScience #AcademicSky
As a medical student, David Fajgenbaum (@DavidFajgenbaum) was diagnosed with a rare immune disease that had no approved treatments.
Or maybe the right treatment just hadn’t been found yet...
#OpenScience #AcademicSky
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@DavidFajgenbaum @CureCastleman Finally, he found a clue: mTOR was overactive in his blood.
mTOR is a protein that helps control cell growth, including immune cell activation.
With his doctors, he started taking sirolimus, a drug already approved to prevent kidney transplant rejection.
mTOR is a protein that helps control cell growth, including immune cell activation.
With his doctors, he started taking sirolimus, a drug already approved to prevent kidney transplant rejection.
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@DavidFajgenbaum @CureCastleman Through data sharing and determination, he found a treatment. He’s been in remission for more than a decade!
“Data sharing can open the door to opportunities or outcomes that you may have never considered.”
Explore the free Data Sharing unit at c4r.io/units.
“Data sharing can open the door to opportunities or outcomes that you may have never considered.”
Explore the free Data Sharing unit at c4r.io/units.
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We'll be at #SfN2026, will you?
We'll be co-hosting a happy hour with @neuromatch on November 16.
Or come visit our booth (#2524) to talk about scientific rigor!
Looking for more details? airtable.com/appWO8lu7xm3VS…
We'll be co-hosting a happy hour with @neuromatch on November 16.
Or come visit our booth (#2524) to talk about scientific rigor!
Looking for more details? airtable.com/appWO8lu7xm3VS…
Going to #SfN2026?
Find Neuromatch at booth #2638 in the nonprofit section.
We’re also co-hosting a happy hour with @comm4rigor on Monday 16 Nov.
Let us know you’re coming to SfN and we’ll send you the details! airtable.com/appWO8lu7xm3VS…
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A warm welcome to Kaela S. Singleton, PhD, (@kss_phd) our new Curriculum Team Manager! 🎉
We're thrilled to have her experience and perspectives on the C4R team as we continue building a community committed to rigorous research.
We're thrilled to have her experience and perspectives on the C4R team as we continue building a community committed to rigorous research.
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How can you share your data more effectively?
Over the next 4 weeks we'll be discussing our free online unit, Data Sharing: Quality data, open access. We'll be sharing researcher's perspectives, short lessons, and activities from the unit.
We hope you'll join the conversation!
#DataSharing
Over the next 4 weeks we'll be discussing our free online unit, Data Sharing: Quality data, open access. We'll be sharing researcher's perspectives, short lessons, and activities from the unit.
We hope you'll join the conversation!
#DataSharing
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The unit includes 9 sessions and 9 interactive activities in 3 different formats, self-paced book, 1-hr meeting deck, 3-hr classroom deck. Free to use and integrate into your lab or classroom!
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Learning formats include:
📖 Learn independently with self-paced Books
🥼 Bring a Meeting deck to your next lab meeting
🎓 Teach with our ready-to-use Class decks
Pick what fits your learning or teaching goals.
📖 Learn independently with self-paced Books
🥼 Bring a Meeting deck to your next lab meeting
🎓 Teach with our ready-to-use Class decks
Pick what fits your learning or teaching goals.
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C4R materials are developed with scientists and educators from universities across the U.S., including Harvard Medical School, Smith College, Johns Hopkins University, Virginia Tech, and many more. Supported by NIH/NINDS.
Explore the free resources: c4r.io
#ResearchMethods
Explore the free resources: c4r.io
#ResearchMethods
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"Transparency is a fetish"
In our new segment, #RigorTakes, Dr. Zac Parker discusses scientific transparency with C4R founder Konrad Kording, professor at University of Pennsylvania.
Agree, disagree, or somewhere in between?
In our new segment, #RigorTakes, Dr. Zac Parker discusses scientific transparency with C4R founder Konrad Kording, professor at University of Pennsylvania.
Agree, disagree, or somewhere in between?
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What can well designed controls tell us about an experiment?
From guarding against false positives to strengthening confidence in results, thoughtful control design is a pillar of rigorous research.
#ExperimentalDesign
From guarding against false positives to strengthening confidence in results, thoughtful control design is a pillar of rigorous research.
#ExperimentalDesign
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We spent the last few weeks discussing controls. Next up, our Data Sharing Unit!
You can see the full curriculum at c4r.io/units
You can see the full curriculum at c4r.io/units
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