Metascience Digest
Metascience Digest is a weekly (or semi-weekly) email newsletter run by Dave Sbarra.
Each week, Dave curates a bunch of interesting science-related articles, some cool new papers or preprints, clips from YouTube or podcast episodes, and a bunch of news-related content germane to doing science or public affairs more generally. There’s occasionally some humor, and, hopefully, there’s something for everyone. Metascience Digest includes ~ 5 or so content links with light commentary. It’ll arrive in your inbox on Fridays.
Week Ending June 12, 2026
Another Jim Coan banger, this one about grade inflation. Great points!
PODCAST: Harry Reis on Speaking of Psychology-- “How to feel more loved”
arXIV bans researchers for hallucinating citations. Check all DOIs! (Here’s the Reddit thread on this if you’re into reading comments.)
On the miracle of life (it’s not what you think).
Week Ending June 5, 2026
New paper on face aging and cancer prediction. Cause, correlate, confound, or proxy variable?
Time to brush up on some best practices in missing data analysis? Here you go.
Week Ending May 29, 2026
Some interesting and brief videos on science communication and the life of a scientist.
PODCAST: Can AI make people feel less lonely? From The Daily
PODCAST: Dan Ariely on his relationship with Epstein. From College Matters. Do you believe him? (BONUS: From 2024-- “Is Dan Ariely telling the truth?”)
Weeks Ending May 8 and May 15, 2026
Kennedy is playing fast and loose with the USPSTF, which plays a key role shaping public health. (UA faculty member John Ruiz is the first and only psychologist on the USPSTF!)
New series of papers in Nature about open science practices. Here’s one of them on reproducibility... look below for others. Here’s a nice commentary on the set.
Interesting paper on case studies of passively-detected language on adolescents’ smartphones prior to suicidal crises.
Amazing story about the dramatic progress treating pancreatic cancer... after decades of false starts.