Interesting idea - Pop Up Journals which run for 5-6 years on a focused research problem and then plan to close. The journal analogue of a FRO
Introduced by Daniel Goroff at #ICSSI2025. The Sloan Foundation is sponsoring a pop up journal on Griliches Question - calculating good values for the ROI for R&D
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.
Which actually explains so much about why the "metascience" scene is how it is....
Differences in psychologists’ cognitive traits are associated with scientific divides
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02153-1
New in NHB
Interested in improving research transparency & reproducibility? Join the Meta-Science Summer School to design & launch a meta-research study!
Co-organized by the @GermanRepro 
Participants will learn about meta-research by designing and collecting data for a meta-research study in a small team
Date: 15 - 20 June 2025; Apply by March 21, 2025!
More info: https://www.bihealth.org/en/notices/meta-science-summer-school-designing-and-conducting-studies-to-improve-research 
Language: English
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
#OpenScience #Reproducibility #MetaResearch #GRN (lmf)
Tools for Academic Research
I like the feature where in the detail view of a particular tool, it shows related or similar tools in the lower right side of the screen (see image on the right side below).
https://tools.kausalflow.com/tools/
RSS feed:
https://tools.kausalflow.com/tools/
List of grant winners from first UKRI Metascience call
(published 13 feb, but I missed it)
Congratulations all
Concerned about the quality, #reproducibility and #transparency of research? Interested in learning how to use “research on research” to improve research in your field?
Apply for the #MetaResearch #SummerSchool (June 15-20, near Frankfurt, Germany, deadline March 21) to get hands-on experience, while collaborating with researchers from different fields and countries.
MEETING
2025 Science of Science Funding https://www.nber.org/conferences/si-2025-science-science-funding
Cambridge, MA. 17-18 July 2025; paper deadline March 20th
UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowships
https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ukri-metascience-ai-early-career-fellowships/
Call Open today, closes 10 April 2025 4:00pm UK time
If you have the AI/ML skills and want to bolster the scale and impact of your research by plugging into the most exciting metascience team in the world, please get in touch with @RoRInstitute about us supporting your fellowship application
Is anyone doing research on how hierarchies in different fields impact the research (quality)?
My hypothesis is that the more hierarchical a field the more difficult the collaboration and the lower the quality.
Pre-announcement: UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowships
https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ukri-metascience-ai-early-career-fellowships/
"The UK Metascience Unit will fund a cohort of early career fellows to build our understanding of:
- how the growing adoption of AI is changing the research landscape, including what metascientific, ethical, epistemic, and socioeconomic questions this raises
- how governments, industry, and funding organisations should respond"
Closes 10 April,
Peer Review in the Age of Large Language Models – Call for Abstracts
Researchers planning to do #SystematicReviews must now plan to filter out the #JunkScience. That's difficult, time-consuming, error-prone, and demoralizing. It causes some researchers to drop their plans and forces others to move more slowly.
https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril
(#paywalled)
#Academia #LiteratureReviews #MetaResearch #MetaScience #ScholComm
@academicchatter
Applications Open for NIH’s Science of Science Scholars Program Pilot
Deadline: 31st January
2 places available to answer #metaresearch questions with access to internal NIH data and staff support
TODAY: At the British Academy for "Using partial randomisation to award research funding – a day of discussion"
Story on the BA's use of Partial Randomisation https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/news-comment-the-british-academy-is-trialling-a-new-fairer-method-of-selecting-its-small-research-grants-heres-why/
Slides for my talk here https://tomstafford.github.io/talks.html
Meta-science 2025
UCL
June 30-July 2
Proposals due Feb 7
I am thinking of sending something. See you there?
#hps #metaresearch #metascience
metascience.info/call-for-pro...
Call for Proposals - Metascien...
Thought provoking articles on #UnansweredQuestionsInResearchAssessment - particularly taken by the call to be 'open about experiments that don't work’ and for approaches to be ‘as aligned as possible, but as diverse as necessary’.
Also a need to acknowledge the trade-off between extra time spent on assessment that increases nuance and accuracy and other uses for that time. Everyone is pretty busy so that time could otherwise be used for more research.
Would love to hear anything people want to share about the Journal of Scientific Practice and Integrity, a diamond OA journal published by Hamilton Publishing, Inc, a non-profit whose source of funds I do not know.
#OpenScience #metaresearch
Open peer review: A randomised controlled trial
Walsh et al (2018), at the British Journal of Psychiatry
"Signed reviews were of higher quality, were more courteous and took longer to complete than unsigned reviews. Reviewers who signed were more likely to recommend publication."
Villum Experiment: A Grant Scheme with Double-blind Evaluation | AFIRE Funders’ Forum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBSjqWfPBlE
Pleased to share this video of Anders Smith presenting at Forum #1.
More about our @RoRInstitute AFIRE Funders' Forum here, including details of future speakers talking about innovation and evaluation in research funding https://researchonresearch.org/afire-funders-forum/
