{"id":57654,"date":"2026-06-22T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/?post_type=podcasts&#038;p=57654"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:01:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:01:56","slug":"ai-and-reproducibility-tim-errington","status":"publish","type":"podcasts","link":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/podcasts\/ai-and-reproducibility-tim-errington\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Predict Bad Science Before Publication? AI and Reproducibility Risk Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question of whether science can truly replicate itself has sparked one of the most important debates in modern research. Is reproducibility in science a systemic challenge or has it been overstated?<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Research and Beyond, host Krishna Kumar speaks with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cos.io\/team\/tim-errington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Timothy Errington<\/a>, Senior Director of Research at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cos.io\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Center for Open Science<\/a>, to examine what large-scale replication studies reveal about reproducibility in research..<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on evidence from the <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/preprints\/socarxiv\/46mnb_v1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SCORE Project<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cos.io\/rpcb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Reproducibility Project<\/a>, Tim grounds the debate in data\u2014moving beyond perception to what replication efforts show in practice.<\/p>\n<p>Together, they explore:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The \u201cexaggerated issue\u201d debate and what replication data actually reveals<\/li>\n<li>What the SCORE Project is uncovering: Can humans or AI reliably predict which studies will replicate?<\/li>\n<li>How reproducibility can be built into research from the start through Registered Reports and transparent protocols<\/li>\n<li>Building reproducibility into research through Registered Reports and transparent protocols<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The role of AI in research evaluation, where it helps, where it falls short, and what risks it introduces<\/li>\n<li>What progress would look like: defining a more reliable and transparent research ecosystem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ERlmQcloB8?si=xfdPjyNAtDTVT8A8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/4ERlmQcloB8?si=ls-ML7s3QXIgamzo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tune in<\/a> for a grounded, evidence-led conversation on how research can become more robust, credible, and trustworthy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":57710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","podcast-category":[1967],"podcasts":[1966],"class_list":["post-57654","podcasts","type-podcasts","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","podcast-category-enago-podcast","podcasts-podcast"],"better_featured_image":{"id":57710,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1080,"height":1080,"file":"2026\/04\/EA_jpg.png","filesize":419249,"sizes":{},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":57654,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/EA_jpg.png"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcasts\/57654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcasts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/podcasts"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"podcast-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast-category?post=57654"},{"taxonomy":"podcasts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcasts?post=57654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}