diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 4854e87d..9bad3b7b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -397,7 +397,16 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run validated-statistics tests first
         env:
           R_LIBS_SITE: /usr/local/lib/R/site-library:/usr/lib/R/site-library:/usr/lib/R/library
-        run: julia --project=. -t2 --compiled-modules=no test/runtests.jl numeric_policy exact_summaries high_precision derived_analyses validated_statistics
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          set +e
+          julia --project=. -t2 --compiled-modules=no test/runtests.jl numeric_policy exact_summaries high_precision derived_analyses validated_statistics 2>&1 | tee /tmp/validated-statistics-tests.log
+          status="${PIPESTATUS[0]}"
+          if [ "$status" -ne 0 ]; then
+            enc() { head -c 3500 | sed -e 's/%/%25/g' -e 's/\r/%0D/g' | awk '{printf "%s%%0A", $0}'; }
+            echo "::error title=Validated-statistics tests failed::$(tail -n 120 /tmp/validated-statistics-tests.log | enc)"
+          fi
+          exit "$status"
 
       - name: Run tests
         env:
diff --git a/scripts/check-julia-syntax.jl b/scripts/check-julia-syntax.jl
index 5b70d0a9..bc8a9d60 100644
--- a/scripts/check-julia-syntax.jl
+++ b/scripts/check-julia-syntax.jl
@@ -2,16 +2,35 @@
 # Parse every tracked Julia source with the pinned runtime before CI spends time
 # installing scientific/frontend dependencies. This checks syntax only; package
 # loading and behavior remain covered by the test suite.
+#
+# Meta.parseall does not throw for every parser failure: an unterminated block
+# can be returned as Expr(:incomplete), which a bare try/catch would accept.
+# Parse each expression explicitly and reject both error and incomplete results.
 files = sort(filter(f -> endswith(f, ".jl"),
                     split(read(`git ls-files -z`, String), '\0')))
 failed = false
 for file in files
+    issue = nothing
     try
-        Meta.parseall(read(file, String))
+        source = read(file, String)
+        position = 1
+        while position <= ncodeunits(source)
+            ex, next_position = Meta.parse(source, position; filename=file)
+            if Meta.isexpr(ex, :error) || Meta.isexpr(ex, :incomplete)
+                issue = ex
+                break
+            end
+            next_position > position ||
+                error("Julia parser made no progress at code unit $position")
+            position = next_position
+        end
     catch err
+        issue = err
+    end
+    if !isnothing(issue)
         failed = true
         println(stderr, "Julia parse failed in $file:")
-        println(stderr, sprint(showerror, err))
+        println(stderr, sprint(showerror, issue))
     end
 end
 failed && exit(1)
diff --git a/src/core/doi.jl b/src/core/doi.jl
index 86efc408..f5b0bd95 100644
--- a/src/core/doi.jl
+++ b/src/core/doi.jl
@@ -680,4 +680,4 @@ function publish_study(config::DOIConfig, study::AbstractString, run::AbstractSt
     return receipt
 end
 
-end
+end # module DOI