Open Science, Open Source and R

Your Weekly Newsletter [view in browser »]( [Chart]( Open Science, Open Source and R Andy Wills - February 19, 2019 Free software will save psychology from the Replication Crisis. "Study reveals that a lot of psychology research really is just 'psycho-babble'".—[The Independent.]( [Psychology changed forever on the August 27, 2015. For the previous four years, the 270 psychologists of the]([Open Science Collaboration]( had been quietly re-running 100 published psychology experiments. Now, finally, they were ready to share their findings. The results were shocking. Less than half of the re-run experiments had worked. When someone tries to re-run an experiment, and it doesn't work, we call this a failure to replicate. Scientists had known about failures to replicate for a while, but it was only quite recently that the extent of the problem became apparent. Now, an almost existential crisis loomed. That crisis even gained a name: the [Replication Crisis](. Soon, people started asking the same questions about other areas of science. Often, they got similar answers. Only half of results in [economics]( replicated. In pre-clinical [cancer studies](, it was worse; only 11% replicated. Open Science Clearly, something had to be done. One option would have been to conclude that psychology, economics and parts of medicine could not be studied scientifically. Perhaps those parts of the universe were not lawful in any meaningful way? If so, you shouldn't be surprised if two researchers did the same thing and got different results. [read article]( [Cat on Laptop]( Cat-Proofing Your Screen Locker with Bash Mitch Frazier - February 20, 2019 I have a computer in my bedroom. I also have cats. Unfortunately, cats and screen lockers don't mix well, particularly at night. To be accurate, it's more a problem with the display power management than the actual screen locking. [read article]( [Universe]( Modeling the Entire Universe Joey Bernard - February 14, 2019 For this article, I want to look at the largest thing possible, the whole universe. [read article]( [Bash]( Converting Decimals to Roman Numerals with Bash Dave Taylor - February 18, 2019 Decimals to Roman numerals—here we hit all the limitations of Bash shell scripting. [read article]( in case you missed [Security] Writing Secure Shell Scripts Dave Taylor - February 5, 2019 Don't expose your system with sloppy scripts! [Read article »]( [Bash] Disk Encryption for Low-End Hardware Zack Brown - February 07, 2019 Eric Biggers and Paul Crowley were unhappy with the disk encryption options available for Android on low-end phones and watches. [Read article »]( upcoming events [SCALE 17X]( March 07, 2019 - March 10, 2019 Pasadena, CA USA [SUSECON 2019]( April 01, 2019 - April 05, 2019 Nashville, TN USA [LinuxFest Northwest]( April 26, 2019 - April 28, 2019 Bellingham, WA USA [Userland]( [Pulseway]( Subscribe to Linux Journal for only $2.88 an issue! [Get access today »]( You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive newsletters from Linux Journal. You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe]( from this list. Copyright © 2019 Linux Journal LLC, All rights reserved. Mailing address: 9597 Jones Rd, #331 Houston, TX 77065