New in Proceedings B, led by Jaspreet Singh: "Comparing expert assessments of research quality between the Global North and East Africa" royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article... We found that Kenyan assessors were more optimistic about the quality of 80 papers than were Global North assessors 1/

"This Issue stems from the Cultural Evolution Society Transformation Fund, designed to bridge the social & natural sciences, promote equity, diversity & inclusion & support work with policy relevance. This diversification of the CE field strengthens its capacity to positively shape global futures"

Sri Lanka is my original home, and it is so beautiful. We were just there a few months ago. If you have any spare dollars, consider donating to the cyclone response!. It has been devastating for a country already in a huge cost of living crisis: 1.6 million people displaced, 356 still missing.

Following up from @drjbeaudry.bsky.social's wonderful recap email yesterday, here is the group photo from #AIMOS2025. If you couldn't make this this year, we hope to see you next year in beautiful Wellington!

It has been an honour to partner with @rorinstitute.bsky.social in our mission to make peer review and curation of metascience more robust, transparent, and equitable.

Can metadata curation count as experimental practice? We answer in this new paper on data reanalysis in #plant #spacebiology, a major outcome of #PHIL_OS & Paola Castaño‘s collaboration w NASA’s open data team! #philsci, #data, #experimentation, #modelling, #ISS. OA version: doi.org/10.1016/j.sh...

Job opportunity — Junior Professorship in Psychological Metascience @zpid.bsky.social leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 h/t @bethclarke.bsky.social

🏆 Individual: @simine.com, psychologist at @unimelb.bsky.social & editor-in-chief of Psychological Science, is recognized for pioneering methodological rigor, reproducibility & collaborative research, driving initiatives such as @improvingpsych.org & the journal Collabra @ucpress.bsky.social. (2/5)

A HUGE congratulations to @simine.com! Everyone in the MetaMelb team @unimelb.bsky.social are so proud.

ARC says they’ll announce DECRA and LIEF outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 25th Nov). In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).

Hey folks! We're running a big repliCATS workshop in Melbourne on 16 Dec, evaluating of replicability of published papers. 🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome 💰 AU$200 🎫 + travel subsidies ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY... Re-posts appreciated 🌈

MetaROR, a platform for reviews of research on research, is a success! We have published 24 sets of reviews and have 16 submissions in process. MetaROR now has 9 partners - these are journals that agree to use our reviews when authors submit to them. metaror.org #metascience #openaccess

I am very excited to be working on this project! Can’t wait to get started :)

Exciting new metascience project just funded, led by AIMOS founder @fidlerfm.bsky.social, Kate Williams, and James Wilsdon.

Back in aus, in time for PAX!

Ger Post presenting on his PhD research, on using repliCATS to teach critical thinking to first semester intro psych undergraduate students (in a class of 1800 students!) #SIPS2025

MetaMelb lab at #SIPS2025! @fidlerfm.bsky.social @juliabottesini.com @tomhardwicke.bsky.social @cjcontarino.bsky.social @bethclarke.bsky.social @wchiggins.bsky.social @fallonmody.bsky.social

Hey SIPS folks, we want to run a small repliCATS pilot on Day 0 (24 June) in Budapest to get feedback on our latest project! Join @fidlerfm.bsky.social & @fallonmody.bsky.social for a 2-hour session, with catered lunch + 50 euro visa card. More details here: forms.gle/Z7p7PqA5vqpC...

"Gold standard science" is becoming a ubiquitous Trump administration catchphrase. Many scientists say the administration is flipping the script -- using the language of improving science to damage it. @briannosek.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social Gift link: wapo.st/43VGY52

I am really looking forward to SIPS, and I hope many original repliCATS participants have a few hours on Day 0 for us to pick your brains about our next repliCATS project & give us feedback on our new platform. Deets below 👇

I'm glad to be speaking at this meeting about research integrity, which will flow nicely into the @aimosinc.bsky.social conference later that week, with a broader remit into metascience, openness, and transparency!

🔜 Metascience 2025, hosted by UCL and RoRI from June 30 to July 2, will unite 650 participants to discuss innovations, institutions, and alliances in metascience, with proposals due by February 7, 2025. ⏳ 🗨️ More details: opusproject.eu/openscience-... #OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenResearch

This is just so scary. Turmeric is a daily staple for pretty much all South Asian and South Asian migrant families... I want names, brands, something I can tell my Sri Lankan family in Colombo!!!! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This essay is going straight into the reading list for 'A History of Nature'. The idea that Wheat may/may not have agency led to some of the most robust discussions in class. This essay is going to be excellent scaffolding, especially for science students taking a history subject for the first time

Adding a second starter pack here since we ran out of capacity with the first one: go.bsky.app/NeZvnb5

Here is the starter pack for folks in science of science, meta science, STS, philosophy of science, history of science, economics of science, science policy, AI+science, and so on. Feel free to nominate and self-nominate! #SciSci #STS #MetaScience #SciPol #AI4Science #ScAISci go.bsky.app/2R1E4TD

Excited to be in Canberra for AIMOS 24 agbarnett.github.io/aimos.confer... I gave a talk this morning on ‘where next for metascience?’ — slides online here: rori.figshare.com/articles/pre... Thanks to Adrian Barnett & all at @aimosinc.bsky.social for the opportunity to join you 🙏🏻

The post-pub correction session @aimosinc.bsky.social is fascinating! Kicked off with @jabyrnesci.bsky.social exploring the research literature as an unsafe workplace -- if lab equipment is faulty, we tag it. So should we flag questionable/bad papers. Full paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Undergraduates need touch points with metaresearch from day 1”, Joan Leach, director of ANU’s centre for public awareness of science giving today’s plenary for AIMOS2024. We agree!

We have an open call for an early-career researcher (<10 yrs since PhD) to join the Center for Open Science's Board of Directors. This is a great opportunity to gain board experience with an amazing group of colleagues, and to help COS meet its mission. Apply! www.cos.io/call-for-ecr...

You know how older, grizzled characters in sci fi and fantasy novels always take first watch, or don't sleep, just stare into the fire all night and keep going the next day, and the young hero/ine is all impressed by their toughness? Maybe they were all middle aged and had insomnia. Just saying.

Our in person #SIPS2024 conference in Narobi is going fantastically well. But a reminder that the separate online conference is coming right up too (June 19-20). $10 for students, $20 for faculty. Registration deadline is TOMORROW (June 12). sips.wildapricot.org/event-5511216.

New preprint! "Prevalence of transparent research practices in psychology: A cross-sectional study of empirical articles published in 2022" osf.io/preprints/ps... After > decade of new infrastructure, advocacy, & policy, how often are transparent research practices used in empirical psychology?

Come study with us! 3 scholarships available for PhD candidates in the following research groups: - Medical Humanities - MetaMelb with @fidlerfm.bsky.social - Death Technology International & local students welcome. More information via our website. www.hpsunimelb.org #hps #sts #metascience

When your 2-year-old has very strong feelings about what the repliCATS groups for SIPS2024 should be! Very much looking forward to our workshop — we’ll be packing aussie animals and the requisite tim tams! @improvingpsych.bsky.social

Hey everyone, we have 5 spots left for our in-person repliCATS workshop in Nairobi! If you are going to SIPS2024 @improvingpsych.bsky.social we will be running a workshop on day 2, with US$250 travel grant for all participants. Express interest: forms.gle/WcbH6Ufizobb... [re-skeets welcome].

Save the date! The 7th Perspectives on Scientific Error conference will take place on February 5-7, 2025 at @unibern.bsky.social, Switzerland. If you're interested in errors, fraud, negligence, or hype in science, please join us! errorsin.science

Hey folks, it is time to save 19-21 November for the next AIMOS conference in Canberra. Here is a sneak peak at our three amazing plenary speakers. For more details, visit: shorturl.at/awHK8

Would you like to contribute to the development of new approaches to evaluating research credibility? Submit a recent paper to receive novel AI and human assessments of your research! Visit cos.io/smart-prototyping to learn more or to enroll now.

A friendly reminder that you can find our podcast across SO MANY platforms, including *Spotify* open.spotify.com/show/19Dj8H8... *Apple Podcasts* podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... For a full list check out thehpspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2180146 🧪 #histSTM #histsci #philsci #sts #metascience

It's here! So excited to launch Season 3 with Lorraine Daston and Peter Harrison discussing the (sometimes) fraught relationship between scientists and historians. Listening to two such esteemed scholars discuss a topic close to their hearts is a real treat. #hps #sts #histSTM #philsci 🧪

What use is the history of science — or philosophy or sociology of science, for that matter—to scientists? Let this *fabulous* episode of @hpspodcast.bsky.social answer your questions with Lorraine Daston & Peter Harrison. Brilliantly illustrated with egs from bio, evo, astronomy, cog sci

Going to #SPSP2024? The repliCATS team will be running a PD workshop to build your peer review skills. You'll use our custom-built rubric to evaluate psychology preprints, and get to calibrate your reviews with your peers! To sign up: spsp.wufoo.com/forms/spsp-2...

A preliminary agenda is available for our meeting on "The promises and pitfalls of preregistration". We've also extended the submission deadline for lightning talks and posters to 29th January. Registration and submission details on the meeting website: royalsociety.org/science-even...

"As philosophers, we like things to be informational. But actually there's all this other stuff that impacts your health policy campaign." Fascinating stories on philosophy & health policy in the African context in our latest ep with Katherine Furman #philsci #scicomm #sts #histSTM 🧪

Finalising marking, after data collection + conference, about to get on a plane. Two words: #academicmum

Stuart Ritchie talking about undead theories & undead studies, hitting home with the how to parent your baby well studies that are pervasive, influential and possibly rubbish!

Where are the self-correcting mechanisms in science? Here they are 😬😬😬 Eugenie Reich argues, in her #AIMOS2023 talk, that most of the effective channels are informal and unrecognized/unrewarded.

Broken record from 5 years of meta-conferences? Kristin Sainani & Andrew Vigotsky touching on many wrt to sports science: 1. _how?!_ shoddy research gets published 2. science isn't really that self-correcting without stupid amounts of effort, and 3. yup, it's systemic. #aimos2023 #metasci