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jbakcoleman.bsky.social
#metascience of AI these days
November 7, 2026 at 12:43 AM
jbenmenachem.com
I think the centrality of frequentism in metascience is maybe under theorized
f2harrell.bsky.social Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social · 1d
It would be beneficial in my view to generalize this beyond a frequentist-only view based on Type I assertion probabilities by, for example, including Bayesian operating characteristics such as P(decisions are correct) or referring to width of uncertainty intervals in a general sense.
November 9, 2026 at 5:30 PM
stephenjwild.bsky.social
MAKE METASCIENCE GREAT AGAIN
November 7, 2026 at 3:45 PM
markrubin.bsky.social
Thanks Rob. For a broader selection of critical work in this area, you might be interested in this collection...
Mark Rubin - List of Critical Metascience Articles
What is Critical Metascience? Metascience uses a scientific approach to try to improve science. Critical metascience takes a step back to question some of metascience's common assumptions, approaches,...
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November 7, 2026 at 2:41 PM
fwf-at.bsky.social
Die bislang umfangreichste Vergleichsstudie zum Thema #Metascience liegt vor: Das Konsortium Research on Research Institute #RoRI hat mit Partnern aus 18 Ländern – darunter der FWF – dieses junge Forschungsfeld unter die Lupe genommen. 👉

www.fwf.ac.at/aktuelles/de...
Metascience-Studie 2026: Globale Analyse zeigt Entwicklung der Wissenschaftsforschung, FWF, RoRI
Die bisher umfassendste Metascience-Studie des Research on Research Institute (RoRI) analysiert globale Trends in 18 Ländern – darunter Österreich mit FWF-Beteiligung. Entdecke Erkenntnisse zu Forschu...
www.fwf.ac.at
November 9, 2026 at 10:10 AM
costasamaras.com
metascience good now
November 5, 2026 at 5:37 AM
fedeadolfi.bsky.social
Metascience often fixates on categories of research misconduct that are largely unambiguous across fields and communities (eg we all hate data fabrication). I find it much more impactful to reflect on the many forms of misconduct that certain research cultures have normalized as part of the game
November 7, 2026 at 2:02 PM
reproducibilitea.org
🔗 Register here: award.einsteinfoundation.de/events/meet-...

#OpenScience #Reproducibility #MetaScience #ReproducibiliTea
Meet the Finalists Live - Early Career Award 2026 – Einstein Foundation Award
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November 9, 2026 at 9:27 AM
5tuartreeves.bsky.social
"metascience" feels conceptually suspect
November 3, 2026 at 3:17 PM
gesistraining.bsky.social
See also the interview with Cassie & Nate on Metascience.
👀 ➡️ t1p.de/Training-NL-...
November 6, 2026 at 7:25 AM
wildcalifornia.bsky.social
Hey #science folks: thoughts about the metascience movement in the US? FAS is advocating for it and NSF created an internal meta science unit, but it is also featured prominently by the anti-academia crowd, including the Trump admin "Golden Age of Science" report. sciencebusiness.net/news/interna...
Is metascience being co-opted?
In July, the White House released a report that argued academia is deeply dysfunctional and in need of radical reform.
sciencebusiness.net
November 10, 2026 at 12:43 AM
devezer.bsky.social
Our research is also not using typical metascience instruments. In fact, mathematical modeling and theory have largely been ignored by metascience in general. So the sentence reads very odd to me. Idk what it's supposed to mean.
November 3, 2026 at 4:13 PM
markrubin.bsky.social
"Rubin (2026b), for instance, distinguishes: ‘activist’; ‘forensic’; ‘theoretical’; ‘institutional’; and ‘developmental’ politics."
Contained Experiments, Reproducibility Crisis?, Six Types of Metascience, and Personal Predictions
Critical Metascience
markrubin.substack.com
November 3, 2026 at 9:40 AM
aufdroeseler.bsky.social
Another exciting talk between @randalljellis.bsky.social and
Chris Chambers on changing publication culture, reviews as contributions, the role of commercial publishers, and storytelling versus truth telling: youtube.com/watch?v=PgZjgZlxsYw
Registered reports | Chris Chambers
YouTube video by Metascience Matters
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2026 at 3:01 PM
markrubin.bsky.social
"This report represents the fullest attempt so far to describe metascience as it actually exists...It is not a single movement with a single agenda."

figshare.com/articles/rep...
November 3, 2026 at 9:40 AM
jameswilsdon.bsky.social
Seize the Meta-Moment: how metascience is evolving worldwide

Excited to be launching this new report from @rorinstitute.bsky.social + 18 country working papers & a new data site

researchonresearch.org/seize-the-me...

More on Substack here: researchonresearchinstitute.substack.com/p/eighteen-w...
Seize the Meta-Moment
In the biggest project RoRI has ever undertaken, a new 18-nation study maps the high-stakes rise and fragility of metascience
researchonresearch.org
November 3, 2026 at 11:07 AM
devezer.bsky.social
I also strongly disapprove of broader metascience taking any credit for my work ("see we also self-critique!" smh) while conveniently ignoring its conclusions at every turn.
November 4, 2026 at 2:08 AM
mamsmandrill.bsky.social
Working with @mbneff.bsky.social and everyone has been a great experience! Wish had this insight during the PhD about the piloting process. We need every step to be transparent.

#OpenScience #QualitativeResearch #AcademicSky #PhDlife #ResearchMethods #MetaScience
mbneff.bsky.social Mary Beth Neff ("Mary-Beth") @mbneff.bsky.social · 5d
1/ Very excited to see our perspective piece out in AMPPS, where we make the case for more transparent preliminary research phases! Pilots are rarely acknowledged, and we discuss the implications of this and offer near-term solutions for reporting them. doi.org/10.1177/2515...
Screenshot of the title and abstract of the open access article “A Call for Greater Transparency in Piloting” by Isaac J. Handley-Miner, Agata Bochynska, Mary Beth Neff, and 11 others, published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
November 4, 2026 at 4:55 PM
caixaresearch.bsky.social
4/ Want to know more about Seize the Meta-Moment? Read the full report and explore the open-access atlas, with 18 country case studies and nearly 500,000 publications mapped.

📄 Report: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.33455029
🗺️ Atlas:
Meta-Moment
Meta-Moment maps how metascience is organised across 18 countries: country case studies, a 131-topic atlas of the metascience literature, and collaboration analyses.
meta-moment.researchonresearch.org
November 6, 2026 at 8:17 AM
icta-uab.bsky.social
Don't miss tomorrow's seminar "Metascience Morning" at ICTA-UAB with James Wilsdon & Ludo Waltman on the future of research funding & peer review! 🧠✨

📍 All details & info in the poster below. See you there!

🚨And don't forget to register!

www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...
November 5, 2026 at 1:00 PM
csmarcum.bsky.social
"If private sector companies are receiving hundreds of billions of dollars in tax expenditures, then it strikes me that those subsidies deserve at least as much scrutiny from the #metascience community as that which is directed at much smaller government grants."
November 4, 2026 at 2:10 PM
markrubin.bsky.social
"Critical voices, and whether they are heard"

"The more productive development is that critical scholars are now inside the tent, funded by the [UK Metascience] Unit's first grants cohort to do avowedly 'critical metascience'."
4.4 Critical voices, and whether they are heard Critical perspectives on UK metascience come from at least three directions, and their reception varies. From STS, the charge of 'Columbusing' — rediscovering, without acknowledgement or structural analysis, terrain mapped for decades — remains live; the widely-shared response to the Unit's launch ('someone convince me that metascience is anything other than STS stripped of any kind of structural or critical analysis') still frames departmental common-room debate. The rejoinder, that dismissing genuine advances by pointing to an earlier trail of related findings is Merton's fallacy of adumbrationism, is also well rehearsed; the more productive development is that critical scholars are now inside the tent, funded by the Unit's first grants cohort to do avowedly 'critical metascience', including on public values in AI. From within the reform community itself comes a second critique: that metascience risks being wholly tarred as an activist project. Ben Steyn's plea at the roundtable — for a metascience that behaves like a discipline into which values are inputs rather than one that campaigns on its own account, drawing on fifty years of philosophy of science rather than reinventing normative theory — was a striking instance of the field's official leadership policing its own boundary against its most energetic wing. The third critique is blunter: that on the problems everyone already agrees about, notably the incentive structure of commercial publishing, more research is beside the point and the field has 'achieved almost nothing'. Are these voices listened to? On the evidence of who is funded, seconded and quoted: more than in most national
November 3, 2026 at 1:42 PM
dkmunro.bsky.social
Report from @rorinstitute.bsky.social examines trends & issues in global “metascience.”

“Metascience cannot be reduced to a single institutional model or purpose. At its best, global metascience keeps alternative pathways, values and democratic choices open.”

researchonresearch.org/seize-the-me...
Seize the Meta-Moment
In the biggest project RoRI has ever undertaken, a new 18-nation study maps the high-stakes rise and fragility of metascience
researchonresearch.org
November 3, 2026 at 11:59 AM
scurry.bsky.social
Good, tough questions from @devezer.bsky.social about plans for the new NSF Office for Metascience: www.the-scientist.com/holding-scie...
Holding Science to a Gold Standard Will Hold It Back | The Scientist
A metascientist pushes back against the unified and idealized vision of science embodied in NSF’s new Office of Metascience.
www.the-scientist.com
November 2, 2026 at 12:16 PM
ufeest.bsky.social
In your work you have argued that HARKING can be confirmatory. While I find your argument plausible, I'd ultimately go further and say that th distinction btween exploratory and confirmatory research as distinct categories should be scrutinized:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Toward a More Accurate Notion of Exploratory Research (And Why It Matters)
The chapter analyzes the notion of exploration that can be found in the distinction between exploratory and confirmatory research, which is sometimes appealed to in the metascience literature. We argu...
link.springer.com
November 8, 2026 at 10:59 AM