We would like to thank the ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review Leads for their incredible work!
Jay Patel, @fallonmody.bsky.social, @grinschglsandra.bsky.social, @debrajmanna27.bsky.social, Emmanuel Odame, and Joseph P. Biggane lead the Crowds that collaboratively and openly review preprints!
AIMOS is so glad to see all of Simine's well-earned successes! (come see her give a plenary talk at our 2026 conference in Wellington ... 😉)
We finally have a Linkedin page! Follow there for longer form updates about AIMOS and other news. www.linkedin.com/company/asso...
Thanks!
📅 Mark your calendars for #SIPS2027!
The 2027 SIPS conference, organized in collaboration with the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science @aimosinc.bsky.social, will be held in November at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
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.
Screenshot of tweet from the ARC saying they’ll announce DECRA and LIEF outcomes on Tuesday 25th Nov.
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 standing in front of the title slide of his presentation
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
A group of people sitting at a table at a restaurant
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:
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Last week of class for Science, Philosophy & Society, where we've been exploring what counts as "gold standard evidence", replication crisis, uncertainty, and the limits of epistemic ideals in practice. I'm going to use this thread for discussion in class - thanks Nicole :)
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