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Dan Goodman<p>Defending science in public we often talk about 'peer reviewed science'. But could this framing contribute to undermining trust in science and holding us back from improving the scientific process? How about instead we talk about the work that has received the most thorough and transparent scrutiny?</p><p>Peer review goes a step towards this in having a couple of people scrutinise the work, but there are limits on how thorough it can be and in most journals it's not transparent. Switching the framing to transparent scrutiny allows us to experiment with other models with a path to improvement.</p><p>For example, making review open to all, ongoing, and all reviews published improves this. When authors make their raw data and code open, it improves this.</p><p>It also gives us a way to criticise problematic organisations that formally do peer review but add little value (e.g. predatory journals). If their reviews are not open and observably of poor quality, then they are less 'thoroughly transparent'. </p><p>So with this framing the existence of 'peer reviewed' but clearly poor quality work doesn't undermine trust in science as a whole because we don't pin our meaning and value on an exploitable binary measure of 'peer reviewed'.</p><p>It also offers a hopeful way forward because it shows us how we can improve, and every step towards this becomes meaningful. If all we have is binary 'peer reviewed' or not, why spend more effort doing it better?</p><p>In summary, I think this new framing would be better for science, both in terms of the public perception of it, and for us as scientists.</p><p><a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/metascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metascience</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/peerreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>peerreview</span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p>“…the sight of a high-ranking university representative stepping in to save a big tech executive from answering a difficult question was deeply embarrassing (or at least should have been) for all concerned.”<br> <br>And this is the point. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> shielded by academics (a patchy cover at best, though a telling of the power of wealth and its financial control of scientific research). I this case it was about <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a>’s AI products where its representative executive Anna Koivuniemi of Google <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DeepMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepMind</span></a> was shielding that the high-ranking university representative and chair, Geraint Rees, ruled an ‘embarrassing’ question out of order.</p><p>It’s a short, but enlightening, read well worth your time if your interests include the use of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> in scientific <a href="https://aus.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/ResearchIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchIntegrity</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a>&amp;ScientificResearch <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MetaScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MetaScience</span></a> </p><p>Read more: <a href="https://warrenpearce.pika.page/posts/what-is-metascience-issues-inclusion-and-future-public-value" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">warrenpearce.pika.page/posts/w</span><span class="invisible">hat-is-metascience-issues-inclusion-and-future-public-value</span></a></p>
Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪<p>In my own WiP report <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/VAR4LCR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VAR4LCR</span></a>, I presented a mini <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/metascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metascience</span></a> study on "Register and task effects in the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research". The audience proposed extending the study to <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SLA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SLA</span></a> articles, register studies, and/or book (chapter) publications.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/corpuslinguistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>corpuslinguistics</span></a></span></p>
Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪<p>Opening the second day of the First Workshop on <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Replication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Replication</span></a> (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/WoReLa1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WoReLa1</span></a>), we are treated to a keynote about "Research on Bilingualism as Discovery Science" by Anne Beatty-Martínez. Anne has lots of food for thought for us all. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/metascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metascience</span></a></p>
Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪<p>Okay, Ana Rita Sá-Leite's talk <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/WoReLa1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WoReLa1</span></a> genuinely took us (the audience) on an emotional journey: the results of her work point to a meta-analysis highly influenced by a handful of studies from the same with very small sample sizes and very large effects, Type S error, interpreting absence of evidence as evidence of absence, and more... Find out more: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105060" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.20</span><span class="invisible">22.105060</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MetaScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MetaScience</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a></p>
Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪<p>Bernhard Angele is now presenting "Living meta-analyses in Language Sciences" at <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/WoReLa1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WoReLa1</span></a>. Having explaining the need for such living meta-analyses in a very houmous way, Bernhard demonstrated this very cool project. The main output is a <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Shiny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shiny</span></a> app that can perform Bayesian meta-analyses with lots of opportunities to control various parameters AND allows you to upload additional data to an existing meta-analysis. The app can be used as is or the code adapted to your needs: <a href="https://dallbrit.shinyapps.io/Breathing_Life_into_MetaAnalysis/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dallbrit.shinyapps.io/Breathin</span><span class="invisible">g_Life_into_MetaAnalysis/</span></a>. Also check out the associated paper: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.389" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.5334/joc.389</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MetaScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MetaScience</span></a></p>
Tom Stafford<p>JOB : Join RoRI as a Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in Metascience</p><p><a href="https://researchonresearch.org/join-rori-as-a-research-fellow-senior-research-fellow-in-metascience/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">researchonresearch.org/join-ro</span><span class="invisible">ri-as-a-research-fellow-senior-research-fellow-in-metascience/</span></a></p><p>Closing 9th of July, based in London/hybrid. Full time, fixed term until 31/12/2027</p><p>(apologies for late notice, full disclosure: I am a <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@RoRInstitute" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>RoRInstitute</span></a></span> research fellow)</p><p>--&gt; please boost for reach &lt;--</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Metascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Metascience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Metascience2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Metascience2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Metaresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Metaresearch</span></a></p>
Vanessa Fairhurst<p>Are you at <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Metascience2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Metascience2025</span></a>? Come and chat with me during lunch and the poster session this evening about all things open, preprint peer review! </p><p>You can also find my poster on Zenodo here: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15776238" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1577623</span><span class="invisible">8</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@prereview" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>prereview</span></a></span> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/peerreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>peerreview</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/metascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metascience</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/inclusivityinpeerreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inclusivityinpeerreview</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/traininginpeerreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>traininginpeerreview</span></a></p>
Andrea Kis<p>Extra excited for <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Metascience2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Metascience2025</span></a> - 2023 was amazing (photo for reference) and it's my first large conf since finishing the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhD</span></a> and joining <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@TUEindhoven" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>TUEindhoven</span></a></span> as the prpject lead for our Recognition and Rewards <a href="https://mas.to/tags/openscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openscience</span></a> project.</p><p>If you're attending or around London in the coming days, feel free to reach out - I'd love to meet!</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/MetaScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MetaScience</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SciencePolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciencePolicy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/conference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conference</span></a></p>
Ingo Rohlfing<p>Could a novelty indicator improve science?<br><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01882-7" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-025</span><span class="invisible">-01882-7</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MetaScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MetaScience</span></a> I have mixed feelings about this. The competition for machine-based indicators that align well with human assessments is well-designed, and I agree that researching the role of novelty is interesting. 1/ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/openscience" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>openscience</span></a></span></p>
Anna Leung<p>Welcome to join our virtual symposium at <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Metascience2025" target="_blank">#Metascience2025</a> and debate if and how <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23metascience" target="_blank">#metascience</a> helps us do interdisciplinary work! It's a public forum. ECRs are especially welcome to join! Date: June 27 (Fri), 14:00 (BST) Register here to get the Zoom link: <a href="https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/metascience2025/p/16480" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">nomadit.co.uk/conference/m...</a></p>
Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪<p>You are all warmly invited to our <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/metascience2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metascience2025</span></a> virtual symposium on Friday 27 June 15:00–16:30 CEST on doing <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/metascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metascience</span></a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/interdisciplinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>interdisciplinary</span></a> research as an early-career researcher. </p><p>Convenor: Anna Leung (psycholinguist and language teacher; University Hospital, LMU, Germany)</p><p>Discussants:<br>- Shawn Hemelstrand (psychologist and methodologist; The Chinese University of Hong Kong)<br>- Daniel Kristanto (engineer turned neuroscientist; Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)<br>- Elen Le Foll (corpus linguist and language teaching; University of Cologne)</p><p>Abstract: <a href="https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/metascience2025/p/16480" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nomadit.co.uk/conference/metas</span><span class="invisible">cience2025/p/16480</span></a>.</p><p>Registration is free: <a href="https://cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B5N34T4_S8qwj7t_jhfwKA#/registration" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/registe</span><span class="invisible">r/WN_B5N34T4_S8qwj7t_jhfwKA#/registration</span></a>. </p><p>We look forward to discussing these important topics with you! <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ECR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ECR</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhD</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PostDoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PostDoc</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a></p><p>🔄 🄱🄾🄾🅂🅃🄸🄽🄶 🅃🄷🄸🅂 🅃🄾🄾🅃 = 1% 🄼🄾🅁🄴 🄴🄲🅁 🄴🄼🄿🄾🅆🄴🅁🄼🄴🄽🅃! 🔄</p>
Alexander Weber<p>"As we report below, even well-meaning scientists provided with identical data and freed from pressures to distort results may not reliably converge in their findings because of the complexity and ambiguity inherent to the process of scientific analysis."<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metascience</span></a></p>
RMZ HU<p>Next Monday, 23.06, 16:00, our team member Sheena Bartscherer co-organises a Pre-Conference Virtual Symposium on "Critical <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Metascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Metascience</span></a>: Does Metascience Need to Change?" bringing together key voices from a variety of disciplines. Register in the link below to participate:<br><a href="https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/metascience2025/p/16524" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nomadit.co.uk/conference/metas</span><span class="invisible">cience2025/p/16524</span></a> @ibi-hu.bsky.social <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://openbiblio.social/@IBI_HU" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>IBI_HU</span></a></span></p>
tlohde<p>The fruits of following my curiosity yesterday - a little Sunday Study on citations.</p><p><a href="https://tlohde.com/blog/2025/06/becoming-irrelevant/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tlohde.com/blog/2025/06/becomi</span><span class="invisible">ng-irrelevant/</span></a></p><p>Motivated by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sundogplanets</span></a></span> 's post on citing old papers: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/114677909402696290" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@sundogplanets</span><span class="invisible">/114677909402696290</span></a></p><p>I haven't checked, because I wanted to do it anyway, but I'm sure someone out there has done this more thoroughly and properly.</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MetaScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MetaScience</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ResearchAboutResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchAboutResearch</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/citations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>citations</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAlex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAlex</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a></p>
Zack Batist<p>Open scholarly metadata is actually such a huge mess, especially for monographs, edited volumes, grey lit, i.e. anything that isn't an english STEM journal article.</p><p>Which actually explains so much about why the "metascience" scene is how it is....</p><p><a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/metascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metascience</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/metaresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metaresearch</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/bibliometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bibliometrics</span></a></p>
Jeroen Bosman<p>Very nice series of free to attend sessions running up to the Metascience 2025 conference. <a href="https://metascience.info/virtual-symposia-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">metascience.info/virtual-sympo</span><span class="invisible">sia-2/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/metascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metascience</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@RoRInstitute" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>RoRInstitute</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@CenterforOpenScience" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>CenterforOpenScience</span></a></span></p>
Center for Open Science<p>The <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Metascience2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Metascience2025</span></a> conference is hosting a series of ten pre-conference virtual symposia over Zoom in the two weeks leading up to the conference. These sessions are all free to attend! </p><p>⬇️ Register here ⬇️<br><a href="https://metascience.info/virtual-symposia-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">metascience.info/virtual-sympo</span><span class="invisible">sia-2/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Metascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Metascience</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a></p>
Bennett<p>I and may amazing advisor <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nicole_c_nelson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nicole_c_nelson</span></a></span> and our brilliant collaborator Kelsey preprinted! 🖨️ </p><p>"Adverserial" reanalyses of regulatory data pose a deep problem for existing methods of adjudicating which science our regulations should be based on</p><p>This is, unfortunately, a continually-relevant story about what <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/openscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openscience</span></a> and <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/opendata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opendata</span></a> mean for how we make regulations and come to consensus as a society</p><p><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/sts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sts</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/metascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metascience</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/jfbr8_v1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/jfb</span><span class="invisible">r8_v1</span></a></p>
Ulrike Hahn<p>I just saw that <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Metascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Metascience</span></a> 2025 has John Ioannides as a featured speaker and I have to say I‘m surprised by that choice</p><p><a href="https://metascience.info" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">metascience.info</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>