Reproducibility studies are costly in time, reagents, and possibly irreplaceable primary samples. I usually would prefer a different study looking at similar mechanisms using different methods than a reproduction of the original methods, although there’s an important place for direct replication studies like this as well. We can also benefit from data sleuths uncovering fraud, better whistleblower systems, and more ability for graduate students to transfer out of toxic labs and into better ones with their funding, reputation and research progress intact.

Scientists have informal trust networks that I’d like to see made explicit. For example, I’d like to see a social media network for scientists where they can PRIVATELY specify trust levels in each other and in specific papers, and subscribe to each others’ trust networks, to get an aggregated private view of how their personal trusted community views specific labs and papers.