BOpinion|October 29, 2024
The Center of Trial
and Error
Creating transparent and responsible scholarship.
We are a non-profit organization experimenting with innovative publishing activities. The Center provides a space for independent reflection on academic practice and stimulates students and early career researchers to disrupt existing scholarly infrastructures.
What Do We Do?
Discussing
Discussing
We define “trial and error” as methodological flaws and conceptual errors in research.
The Center facilitates a reflective discussion on these issues with our blog and by encouraging empirical research and cross-disciplinary conceptual work.
Publishing
Publishing
We aim to publicize the lessons of research struggles, publish answers to the question “what went wrong?”, and independently host non-profit pre-press services.
Two branches of the Center, the Journal of Trial and Error and the Publishers of Trial and Error, are dedicated to this mission.
Training
Training
Institutional change results from well-equipped young people, creating a mass from below.
As such, training is one of our most important activities. We focus efforts to educate students on the systemic and organisational structures of science and scholarship to make change a practical reality.
What's New?
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JCommentary
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Wendy RossStuart Firestein
open call|October 25, 2024
Jopen call|October 25, 2024
JCommentary
Ragworms Anecdotes
Samantha CopelandStuart Firestein
reflection|September 12, 2024
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empirical|August 11, 2024
JCognitive Functions, Mood and Sleep Quality after Two Months of Intermittent Fasting
Maja BatorekIvana Hromatko
empirical|August 11, 2024
JCognitive or Emotional Improvement through Intermittent Fasting?
Reflections on Hype and Reality
Stephan Schleim
reflection|August 11, 2024
B Founding JOTE
A Conversation with Stefan Gaillard “I Believe That Positive Publication Bias is Actively Harming Science”
Marcel Hobma
Behind the Scenes|August 04, 2024
BFounding JOTE
A Conversation with Martijn van der Meer “My Interests Became More Political I Wanted to Contribute to a Mission-Driven Model of Scientific Publishing”
Marcel Hobma
Behind the Scenes|July 29, 2024
BFounding JOTE
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Marcel Hobma
Behind the Scenes|July 22, 2024
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empirical|May 24, 2024
JReflections on the Unintended Consequences of the Science Reform Movement
Sarahanne FieldNoah van DongenLeo Tiokhin
editorial|May 24, 2024