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ROODMAN: Appeal to Me – First Trial of a “Replication Opinion”

[This blog is a repost of a blog that first appeared at davidroodman.com. It is republished here with permission from the author.] My employer, Open Philanthropy, strives to make grants in light of evidence. Of course, many uncertainties in our…

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Leibniz Open Science Day 2024 – Meta Perspectives in Social Sciences

ZBW, WZB, and RWI are pleased to invite submissions to the Leibniz Open Science Day 2024: Meta Perspectives in Social Sciences. With the growing importance of the social sciences in addressing societal challenges, the significance of a meta-scientific perspective is…

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META-SCIENCE GATHERING: November 16-18, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Interested in discussing how to improve scientific practice? Join us at UCMeta’s second Meta-Science Colloquium! The colloquium will take place on Wednesday 16th – Friday 18th of November on the campus of the University of Canterbury (Meremere Building, Room 236)….

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AIMOS 2021 Is Happening. You Can Be a Part of It.

Registration is now open for the 3rd annual Association for Interdisciplinary Metaresearch and Open Science Conference – aimos 2021 to be held Tuesday 30 Nov – Friday 3 Dec 2021!  aimos 2021 will offer the opportunity for researchers from many…

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Debunking Three Common Claims of Scientific Reform

[Excerpts are taken from the article, “The case for formal methodology in scientific reform” by Berna Devezer, Danielle Navarro, Joachim Vandekerckhove, and Erkan Buzbas, posted at bioRxiv] “Methodologists have criticized empirical scientists for: (a) prematurely presenting unverified research results as…

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Looking Back on Metascience 2019

[Excerpts taken from the article, “Metascience: The Science of Doing Science” by Jonathan Schooler, published in Observer magazine, a publication of the Association of Psychological Science. The article appeared in November 2019. TRN apologizes for the belated posting.] “In September,…

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A Major New Initiative in Meta-Science

[Excerpts taken from the article “Research on research gains steam” by Dalmeet Singh Chawla, published in Chemical and Engineering News] “The use of scientific methodology to study science itself is called metascience. The discipline has become mainstream in recent years,…

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Excellent, Cross-Disciplinary Overview of Scientific Reproducibility in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

[From the article “Reproducibility of Scientific Results”, by Fiona Fidler and John Wilcox, published in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy] “This review consists of four distinct parts. First, we look at the term “reproducibility” and related terms like “repeatability” and…

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