Experience cards

Spaghetti code

https://blog.esciencecenter.nl/researchers-are-not-born-engineers-why-are-they-expected-to-know-how-to-code-1eeb5c3d03c0

Science done wrong

https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-leaderboard/top-10-most-highly-cited-retracted-papers

Flawless replication

https://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2025/06/20/computational-reproducibility.html

Coding with my crush

A standout researcher with 200+ retractions

https://retractionwatch.com/category/joachim-boldt-retractions/

10k stars on GitHub

https://book.the-turing-way.org/collaboration/github-novice/github-novice-features/#using-github-features-to-foster-collaboration

Second author

Retraction watch leaderboard

https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-leaderboard/

Science done right

Data privacy audits

PhD-level AI

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-just-happened

Citeable code

https://www.esciencecenter.nl/news/code-citation-was-made-possible-by-research-software-engineers-in-germany-and-the-netherlands/

Restrictive university guidelines

EU-wide bans

Shadow IT

Failing ethically

0 hour contracts

Open Science Games

https://ghostcollective.github.io/games.html

Amateur scientists

Open Science badges

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002456

Supplementary materials

Interoperable caffeine pills

Sensitive data on shady cloud services

P-hacking

Coding Café

https://code-cafes-nl.github.io/cafe_playbook/

Publishing null results

https://blog.ssrn.com/2023/10/26/being-positive-about-the-negative

Installation instructions

https://www.makeareadme.com/

Paywalled journals

Publishing raw data

Data as the most important research output

APC waiver

Open, but broke

Buy this article

Gatekeeping

Dear Esteemed Professor/Respected Researcher/Dr. …

Tutorials developed by the community

https://book.the-turing-way.org/

Journal flipping

Profit over science

Diamond Open Access is my hobby

Citation gap

Publisher prestige

Supervisor ghosting

Code version history

https://book.the-turing-way.org/reproducible-research/vcs/

Lost in translation

‘It’s the incentives, stupid’

https://doi.org/10.7557/5.7153

final_rev18_v2_withoutComments.pdf

Code that only works on my computer

A variable named ‘temp’

European AI

Yelling at ChatGPT

LLMs hallucinating references

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN9wnPvU0

Power analysis

https://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2017/05/how-power-analysis-implicitly-reveals.html

Impostor Syndrome

Expensive proprietary software

Asking volunteers to count birds

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/counting-birds-over-a-cen_b_12487152

Verifiable results

Sloppy peer-review

A crashed hard drive

Cherry-picking results

Public WiFi

Citing Wikipedia

Pseudoscience influencers

https://www.jmir.org/2024/1/e38786

My supervisor said so