Call for Media

The International YouTube Channel on Failed Experiments*

1. Channel Details

Objectives and theme of the channel:

We understand that research is messy, tedious, and nonlinear. A polished peer-reviewed journal article doesn’t quite reflect that messiness. We take it as our mission to change that false image and create a safe space where researchers get to talk about the experiments that didn’t work, the research that didn’t exactly go as planned (without violating IRB of course), and all of the work that never gets published because it didn’t meet publications requirements. Our main goal it to highlight the importance of learning from our mistakes and ‘failures’. Also, by highlighting failed experiments we inform other researchers about what didn’t work, so they avoid repeating the same experiments.

List of topics accepted:

• Codes that crash when you run them

• Statistical results that aren’t statistically significant

• Null results from experiments

Location:

The internet server

2. Submission Guidelines

Deadline for submissions: Whenever you feel like it (but sometime this decade)

Accepted Submission Formats:

• Videos (maximum 10 minutes)

• A podcast session (maximum 20 minutes)

• Interpretive dance (a recorded video of the dance to be submitted)

All submitted media files should be in .mp4 or .wmv formats and maximum of 1 GB

Notification of Acceptance:

All authors will be notified via email within a month of their submission. If the submission is accepted, authors will be contacted for further details on copyrights and legal compliance.

3. Contact Details

For any inquiries regarding submissions, please contact:

conferences_are_boring@gmail.com

For all general inquiries, please contact:

failed_experiments_deserveachance@gmail.com

We look forward to stream your videos at our channel!

*This is completely a joke. The channel doesn't exist.