The first hard copies of 'Beyond Belief' have arrived!

I can confirm it's strange to hold an actual book after writing and re-re-writing for years.

Out April 28th! Preorders really help 🙏

Why read it? Because it reminds us why #evidence matters.
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Also the use of the Responsible Handover framework that Sense About Science has created. Many thanks to @senseaboutsci.bsky.social for their work and feedback on our implementation of their tool.

New highlights include a detailed section on metrics in RAISE 2, and much clearer guidance about the capabilities of different tools and technologies in RAISE 3

Guidance for the Responsible use of AI in Evidence Synthesis (RAISE) has been updated!

With many thanks to all the feedback we've received and all the contributions from authors

Please see OSF for the latest draft:

osf.io/fwaud/overview

I enjoyed it too. And agreed with it 100%.

Don't Stop Me Now, `Cause I'm Having a Good Time Screening: Evaluation of Stopping Methods for Safe Use of Priority Screening in Systematic Reviews Introduction Priority screening has the potential to reduce the number of records that need to be annotated in systematic literature reviews. So-called technology-assisted reviews (TAR) use machine-...

If you want to be really confident (95%??), then the workload savings are smaller than if you're prepared to relax the confidence level.

We looked at a good range of these algorithms in this paper, which I do think has the best title :)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I was looking at this only yesterday too. It's definitely the best of the algorithms for stopping and it's the only one that makes explicit the decision that you have to make: how confident do you need to be that the prediction from the stopping algorithm is correct? (1/2)

Happy to say that we've just updated the RAISE guidance for responsible use of AI in evidence synthesis. Many thanks to very many authors who worked really hard on this update!

You can read it in full on osf: osf.io/fwaud/

CEE is excited to see the recent launch of METIUS (Mobilising Evidence Through AI and User-Informed Synthesis). METIUS will use cutting-edge AI to give decision-makers stronger, more timely evidence to tackle urgent social and environmental challenges.
👇 More below #EvidenceSynthesis #AI #SciPol

Is research really worth it? with Professor Kathryn Oliver | LSHTM Research is something we spend a lot of money and time on — as individuals, organisations, and states. But is it worth it? Do we get bang for our buck? Who really benefits? And does research actually

Is research really worth it? Come and hear what I think about why we do what we do.

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Which agents stuff are you finding problematic? We’re just taking a look at agents in a project

(I like the way that Ai2 is trying to lift the lid a bit with PaperFinder)

A very significant day for us as our new birth cohort study is announced, the first for quarter of a century. Big congratulations to colleagues in our @clscohorts.bsky.social for all their hard work in getting this off the ground!

We've extended the deadline for Campbell Award nominations to Sept 12th!

These annual awards celebrate researchers who have made significant contributions to evidence synthesis.

Learn about eligibility criteria and how to nominate a candidate here: www.campbellcollaboration.org/get-involved...

About all these out of office replies telling me to resend emails after a given date

My view is that I've sent the email and it's up to the recipient from then on. It's not reasonable to expect me to keep track of everyone's holiday dates and resend emails accordingly

Happy holidays! :)

Really useful, nuanced work from Ai2

ESMARConf2025: Presentation - Introducing RAISE... - Ella Flemyng Full Title: Introducing RAISE (Responsible AI use in evidence SynthEsis)Presenter: Ella FlemyngAbstract:This presentation will introduce the RAISE recommenda...

@ellaflem.bsky.social‬ describes how we all have a role to play in developing and using responsible AI in #Evidence synthesis. Excited to see how the work of the Joint AI methods group evolves! #ESMARConf2025
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Odd: the RAISE guidance for responsible use of AI in evidence synthesis had become a private project

I don't think any of us asked for it to be private - maybe it was an OSF quirk.

It's now public again. Sorry if you tried to access the site when it wasn't available!

osf.io/fwaud/

I don't know what to do with a paper like this. I'd love to dig into the detail and understand what they did, but there's nothing I can work with - it's completely opaque, and I can't verify anything it says. In that sense, is it even doing the job of what a scientific paper is supposed to do??

2025 - ESMARConf

Just a reminder that #ESMARConf2025 is starting tomorrow! This is a free online conference about evidence synthesis and meta-analysis using #Rstats. Further details can be found here: esmarconf.org/2025/

‼️HOT OFF THE PRESS‼️

⭐Updated Responsible AI use in Evidence Synthesis (RAISE) 3-paper collection on OSF: osf.io/fwaud/files/... ⭐

Now includes:
1️⃣Recommendations for practice for the main roles in the ecosystem
2️⃣ Guidance on building & evaluating AI tools
3️⃣Guidance on selecting & using AI tools

Bridging disciplinary silos with an open methods resource.

🚀 Sallie Barnes, @annetteboaz.bsky.social &
@oliver-kathryn.bsky.social introduce the #URE Methods Repository, re-launching summer 2025.

transforming-evidence.org/blog/bridgin...

How ‘correct’ should #evidencesynthesis be? How does this change if we add #AI?

Help inform new tool dev and best practice guidance! forms.office.com/e/ZwdicYQpjv

Open until 2 Jul, ~35 mins. Part of @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded DESTinY @campbellreviews.bsky.social @ellaflem.bsky.social

Responsible AI in Evidence Synthesis (RAISE): guidance and recommendations The RAISE guidance is currently written in three documents. The first document, ‘RAISE 1’, provides tailored recommendations for eight of the distinct roles in the evidence synthesis ecosystem: eviden...

Just published - updated guidance and recommendations for the responsible use of AI in evidence synthesis (RAISE): osf.io/fwaud/

We're doing a webinar on this in about an hour!

training.cochrane.org/recommendati...

Cochrane Crowd Become a Cochrane citizen scientist. Anyone can join our collaborative volunteer effort to help categorise and summarise healthcare evidence so that we can make better healthcare decisions.

Cochrane is now hosting a Crowd task to identify literature on climate and health (for Wellcome-funded DESTINY tinyurl.com/54wack7p)

If you'd like to help:

1. Head to Cochrane Crowd crowd.cochrane.org
2. Login or create an account
3. Click "Task" on the dashboard
4. Select "Climate Quest – Part 1”

2025-07-10 | DEST Hackathon (Potsdam, Germany) | What Works Climate Solutions 🌍 Join Us for the First DEST Hackathon on Living Evidence Synthesis! 🌐 📍 Location: Telegrafenberg campus, PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam  📅 Date: July 10–11, 2025 We’...

Join Us for the First DEST Hackathon on Living Evidence Synthesis — co-organized by the International Collaboration for the Automation of Systematic Reviews (ICASR) and the DESTINY consortium funded by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social

🔗 Learn more and sign up: shorturl.at/g6xc4

ICASR and DESTINY are holding a meeting in July! If you're interested in automation in evidence synthesis then do take a look - in person and online options available :)

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Happy Friday! If you're interested in #embeddedresearcher posts in local government, take a look at our briefings to help commissioning/designing embedded researcher posts: eppi.ioe.ac.uk/CMS/Portals/.... More resources also on the @eppicentre.bsky.social website here: eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default....

Because of course peer reviewed articles are never flawed 😉

🚀 THE PEOPLE'S REVIEW IS OPEN NOW 🚀
We are excited to launch Stage 1 of #ThePeoplesReview

✅Open to people worldwide
✅Everything takes place online
✅Make a difference in health research
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Interventions for Improving Informal Social Support for Victim‐Survivors of Domestic Violence and Abuse: An Evidence and Gap Map Background Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA) is a significant global problem that warrants a robust, multi-sectoral response. The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted that informal and social networks play...

📣 Just published in Campbell Systematic Reviews, an Evidence and Gap Map of interventions that create or enhance support from friends, family, neighbours or colleagues for victim‐survivors of domestic violence and abuse:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...