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Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🌼🐝<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/statstab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#statstab</a> #313 Analyzing Replication StudiesThoughts: Replications and RR are on the rise, but not all are conducted appropriately, and become meaningless.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/replication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#replication</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metascience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#openscience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metaresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaresearch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metaanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaanalysis</a><a href="https://lakens.github.io/statistical_inferences/17-replication.html#analyzing-replication-studies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lakens.github.io/statistical_inferences/17-replication.html#analyzing-replication-studies</a>.

German Reproducibility Network🔬✨ Interested in improving research transparency & reproducibility? Join the Meta-Science Summer School to design & launch a meta-research study! ➡️ Co-organized by the <a href="https://mastodon.world/@GermanRepro" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@GermanRepro</a> 👥 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: <a href="https://www.bihealth.org/en/notices/meta-science-summer-school-designing-and-conducting-studies-to-improve-research" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bihealth.org/en/notices/meta-science-summer-school-designing-and-conducting-studies-to-improve-research</a> 🌐 Language: English 📌 Location: Frankfurt, Germany <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenScience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Reproducibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reproducibility</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MetaResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MetaResearch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GRN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GRN</a> (lmf)

Tom StaffordList of grant winners from first UKRI Metascience call <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/fellowships-launched-to-explore-how-ai-could-change-the-way-scientists-drive-new-discoveries" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/fellowships-launched-to-explore-how-ai-could-change-the-way-scientists-drive-new-discoveries</a>(published 13 feb, but I missed it)Congratulations all<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Metascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Metascience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Metaresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Metaresearch</a>

Dutch Reproducibility NetworkConcerned about the quality, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reproducibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reproducibility</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transparency</a> of research? Interested in learning how to use “research on research” to improve research in your field? Apply for the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MetaResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MetaResearch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SummerSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SummerSchool</a> (June 15-20, near Frankfurt, Germany, deadline March 21) to get hands-on experience, while collaborating with researchers from different fields and countries. <a href="https://www.bihealth.org/en/notices/meta-science-summer-school-designing-and-conducting-studies-to-improve-research" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bihealth.org/en/notices/meta-science-summer-school-designing-and-conducting-studies-to-improve-research</a>

Tom StaffordMEETING2025 Science of Science Funding <a href="https://www.nber.org/conferences/si-2025-science-science-funding" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nber.org/conferences/si-2025-science-science-funding</a> Cambridge, MA. 17-18 July 2025; paper deadline March 20th<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MetaResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MetaResearch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MetaScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MetaScience</a>

Tom StaffordUKRI Metascience AI early career fellowships<a href="https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ukri-metascience-ai-early-career-fellowships/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ukri-metascience-ai-early-career-fellowships/</a>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 <a href="https://indieweb.social/@RoRInstitute" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@RoRInstitute</a> about us supporting your fellowship application<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Metascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Metascience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Metaresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Metaresearch</a>

Tom StaffordPre-announcement: UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowships<a href="https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ukri-metascience-ai-early-career-fellowships/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ukri-metascience-ai-early-career-fellowships/</a>"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, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MetaScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MetaScience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MetaResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MetaResearch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Funding</a>

Tom StaffordPeer Review in the Age of Large Language Models – Call for Abstracts<a href="https://cdt-art-ai.ac.uk/news/events/peer-review-in-the-age-of-large-language-models-call-for-abstracts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cdt-art-ai.ac.uk/news/events/peer-review-in-the-age-of-large-language-models-call-for-abstracts/</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MetaResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MetaResearch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PeerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeerReview</a>

petersuberResearchers planning to do <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SystematicReviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SystematicReviews</a> must now plan to filter out the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/JunkScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JunkScience</a>. That's difficult, time-consuming, error-prone, and demoralizing. It causes some researchers to drop their plans and forces others to move more slowly. <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril</a> (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/paywalled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paywalled</a>) <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academia</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/LiteratureReviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LiteratureReviews</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MetaResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MetaResearch</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MetaScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MetaScience</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScholComm</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@academicchatter</a>

Tom StaffordApplications Open for NIH’s Science of Science Scholars Program Pilot <a href="https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2024/12/05/thats-so-meta-applications-open-for-nihs-science-of-science-scholars-program-pilot/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2024/12/05/thats-so-meta-applications-open-for-nihs-science-of-science-scholars-program-pilot/</a>Deadline: 31st January 2 places available to answer <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/metaresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaresearch</a> questions with access to internal NIH data and staff support

Tom StaffordTODAY: 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 <a href="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/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">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/</a>Slides for my talk here <a href="https://tomstafford.github.io/talks.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tomstafford.github.io/talks.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MetaResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MetaResearch</a>

Sarah WietenMeta-science 2025 UCL June 30-July 2 Proposals due Feb 7 I am thinking of sending something. See you there? <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/hps" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hps</a> <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/metaresearch" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaresearch</a> <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/metascience" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metascience</a> <a href="https://metascience.info/call-for-proposals/#ipp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">metascience.info/call-for-pro...</a> <a href="https://metascience.info/call-for-proposals/#ipp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Call for Proposals - Metascien...</a>

EASEIn this Correspondence article in European Science Editing, Joshua Wang discusses how retractions do not just correct the scientific record, but serve as crucial datapoints that inform meta-research and research education.Read it in the journal now: <a href="https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2024.e140235" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2024.e140235</a><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Retractions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Retractions</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/MetaResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MetaResearch</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/EuropeanScienceEditing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EuropeanScienceEditing</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/JournalEditing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JournalEditing</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PublicationEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicationEthics</a>

Kate Nyhan is changing serversWould 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. <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenScience</a> <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/metaresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaresearch</a>

Tom StaffordOpen peer review: A randomised controlled trial<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/open-peer-review-a-randomised-controlled-trial/1F81447FC67B3BAFDCCCCE82B6C7A187?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/open-peer-review-a-randomised-controlled-trial/1F81447FC67B3BAFDCCCCE82B6C7A187?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark</a>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."<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PeerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeerReview</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MetaResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MetaResearch</a>

Tom StaffordVillum Experiment: A Grant Scheme with Double-blind Evaluation | AFIRE Funders’ Forum<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBSjqWfPBlE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBSjqWfPBlE</a>Pleased to share this video of Anders Smith presenting at Forum #1. More about our <a href="https://indieweb.social/@RoRInstitute" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@RoRInstitute</a> AFIRE Funders' Forum here, including details of future speakers talking about innovation and evaluation in research funding <a href="https://researchonresearch.org/afire-funders-forum/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://researchonresearch.org/afire-funders-forum/</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ResearchonResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ResearchonResearch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MetaResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MetaResearch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ResearchFunding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ResearchFunding</a>

Tom StaffordCausal Effect of Group Diversity on Redundancy and Coverage in Peer-Reviewing <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.11437" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.11437</a>Strong claim from Goyal et al (2024), who report modelling of 4991 papers x 3637 reviewers from the 2020 International Conference on Machine Learning (observational data)More diverse reviewers covered more aspects of the paper and tended to mention different things in their reviews.I can't interpret their coefficients so I can't comment on how strong these effects are.<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MetaResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MetaResearch</a>

Научно-Технический·LAB-66Большое (72000 человек) метаисследование снаУстановило, что нерегулярное время отхода ко сну на 26% повышает вероятность развития тяжелой формы сердечно-сосудистых заболеваний. Риск серьёзно повышается, даже если люди спят нужные 7-9 часов, но при этом ложатся не в одно и то же время.<a href="https://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2024/10/30/jech-2024-222795" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2024/10/30/jech-2024-222795</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sleep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sleep</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/somnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#somnology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cardiovascular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cardiovascular</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medicine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metaresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaresearch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/heart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sleeping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sleeping</a>

EASEIn this new Correspondence article in European Science Editing, Joshua Wang discusses how retractions do not just correct the scientific record, but serve as crucial datapoints that inform meta-research and research education.Read it in the journal now: <a href="https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2024.e140235" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2024.e140235</a><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Retractions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Retractions</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/MetaResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MetaResearch</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/EuropeanScienceEditing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EuropeanScienceEditing</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/JournalEditing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JournalEditing</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PublicationEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicationEthics</a>

Tom StaffordALSO TODAY: Representing UKRN at the <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/@snsf_ch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@snsf_ch</a> 2024 Research on Research Event <a href="https://www.ukrn.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ukrn.org/</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MetaResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MetaResearch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UKRN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKRN</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bern</a>

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