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The broader implication: SciSci can help us empirically test widely used research heuristics and build an evidence base for better biomedical research design.

For more details: doi.org/10.1162/QSS....

#ScienceOfScience #Genetics

9/9
The strength of weird ties: positive genetic interactions have greater scientific impact but are under-represented in the literature
Abstract. Genetic interactions, where mutating two genes together affects a trait differently than expected from their individual effects, often reveal how genes work together. When the trait is cell ...
doi.org
November 10, 2026 at 9:34 PM
nnkennard.bsky.social
📢 AI use in peer review! 📢

Now that I have your attention, here’s a thread on our AIES paper about AI support for area chairs (the CS conference equivalent of a journal editor):

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#peerreview #scienceofscience #ai4science
nnkennard.bsky.social Neha Kennard @nnkennard.bsky.social · 17d
Can the work of an area chair or scientific editor be automated? We interviewed 27 area chairs at a machine learning conference (ICLR) to find out what they *really* do and how (if?) AI can help. Findings and design implications from our #AIES2026 paper below!
October 25, 2026 at 2:42 AM
gradientbrief.bsky.social
An arXiv paper finds that 25 large language models outperformed 13 senior researchers and 60 doctoral scholars individually on theory-building tasks in gender and race inequality research, though human theories…

#AIResearch #LLMs #ScienceOfScience #TheoryBuilding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.32562
September 29, 2026 at 8:01 AM
amahury.bsky.social
Barcelona Supercomputing Center | Postdoctoral Researcher for Semantic and Citation Networks

Applications open on a rolling basis

#Postdoc #Job #Research #NetworkScience #ScienceOfScience #Interdisciplinary ./6

www.complexitycat.org/posts/postdo...
Barcelona Supercomputing Center Postdoctoral Researcher for Semantic and Citation Networks
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher for performing research on Semantic and Citation Networks. Applications are open on a rolling basis.
www.complexitycat.org
September 28, 2026 at 1:15 PM
leidenforce.bsky.social
The peer-review system can itself be studied with data.

An analysis of 110,303 submissions to Science and Science Advances finds strong links between publication success, institutional prestige, research topic and author location.

🔗 phys.org/news/2026-07...

#ScienceOfScience #PeerReview #Research
Sweeping analysis shows prestige, topic and location matter most to get research published
Scientists from prestigious universities and large research groups are significantly more likely to have their research published in general-interest, top-tier scientific journals. Meanwhile, authors ...
phys.org
September 7, 2026 at 11:49 AM
serhiinazarovets.bsky.social
Oh! I finally got to see a comic in #Scientometrics! 😄 The authors took the famous #xkcd joke about the "hierarchy of sciences" and decided to test whether sciences can really be arranged so neatly in a single line: doi.org/10.1007/s111... #ScienceOfScience #ScholarlyCommunication #Research
Watson, D., Krug, M. & Carbon, CC. From a one-dimensional hierarchy to a multidimensional space of scientific english: the relationship between a discipline’s place in the hierarchy of the sciences and its use of grammatical structures. Scientometrics (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05780-1
September 5, 2026 at 9:31 AM
dkochetkov.bsky.social
Fascinating new paper: how a 1971 Systran machine translation made for the U.S. Air Force shaped the Western reception of Naukometriya, the book that named our field - scientometrics. doi.org/10.1007/s111...

#scientometrics #Nalimov #Naukometriya #SovietScience #HistoryOfScience #ScienceOfScience
doi.org
September 4, 2026 at 2:54 PM
icssi.org
📣 Call for abstracts at #ICSSI2026
⛰️ in Boulder, CO, USA - June 29 to July 1

📥 Submit here: www.icssi.org/guidelines
⏳ Deadline: March 30th

On any topic relevant to #SciSci #Innovation #ScienceofScience #Metascience #STS

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The Program Committee welcomes submissions on all topics in the science of science and innovation, broadly defined. We invite contributions from researchers and practitioners across all disciplines, sectors, and world regions, with a particular encouragement for early-career scholars. Major conference themes include, but are not limited to: AI, agentic science, and new epistemic practices in scientific discovery Global knowledge dynamics and the evolution of scientific fields Government-industry-academia partnerships and innovation systems Societal impacts and public value of science and innovation Science funding in an interconnected, multi-sectoral, and global environment Social stratification, bias, and ethical issues in scientific production and reward Open science, transparency, and reproducibility in research The scientific workforce, precarity, and the trajectory of research careers Theoretical, historical, and conceptual perspectives on science and innovation Causal inference and methodological advances in the science of science and innovation Science communication, public trust, and the governance of emerging technologies Intellectual property, patents, and the geography of technological change
February 26, 2026 at 2:59 PM
icssi.org
📣 Call for abstracts at #ICSSI2025! #CFP

📥 Submit here: www.icssi.org/guidelines
⏳ Deadline: March 14th

On any topic relevant to #SciSci #Innovation #ScienceofScience #Metascience #STS
Submissions Are Now Open! The Program Committee welcomes submissions on any topic related to the field of science of science and innovation, broadly defined. We seek abstracts and papers from researchers across many disciplines from academia, government, as well as the private sector, and we especially welcome submissions from early-career scholars and researchers from underrepresented groups. Major conference topics of interest include, but are not limited to: AI applications to science and innovation Societal impacts of science and innovation Funding risky ideas Failures in science and innovation Ethics in scientific production and reward Diversity, equity, and inclusivity in science and innovation Evolution, predictability, and uncertainties of scientific careers Drivers for scientific achievement Idea generation and unpacking the fitness of ideas Replicability and reproducibility Theoretical discussions and conceptualizations of science Causal inference in the science of science and innovation
February 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
icssi.org
Join us at #ICSSI2025 in Copenhagen!
Our website is now updated, the call for abstracts is online:
www.icssi.org

📅 June 16-18, 2025
📍 Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, DK

Stay tuned for keynote speaker announcements! #ScienceofScience #Metascience #STS
International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation
www.icssi.org
January 31, 2025 at 7:57 AM
ceu-dnds.bsky.social
🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Sandeep Chowdhary on earning his PhD summa cum laude! 🏆 His research explores success in careers & teams across academia, sports, and innovation, contributing to the Science of Science. 👏
#PhDDefense #NetworkScience #ScienceOfScience
February 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
qornik.bsky.social
What could be better than a #DataScience #job in open scholarly #metadata with @crossref.bsky.social? Well – two such jobs of course!
Interrogate the data to deliver #scienceofscience work, enhance our understanding of the scholarly ecosystem, apply your insights in our infrastructure and practice.
crossref.org Crossref @crossref.org · Jan 21
Come and join us and help establish a new #datascience team and function at Crossref. All that scholarly metadata just sitting there waiting to be analysed… by you!?
ginsta.bsky.social Ginny Hendricks @ginsta.bsky.social · Jan 18
Heads up if you're into data and passionate about the science of science! @crossref.bsky.social seeks TWO Data Scientists for this new team. You'll collaborate to glean insights from and detect gaps in scholarly metadata and help build the research nexus. Join us! www.crossref.org/jobs/2025-01...
January 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
ronaldomenezes.bsky.social
4) Who else is working on this? We already have research on gender and the science of science. If you’re interested in these areas, get in touch. Let’s make something happen! 4 / 4. #CitationBias #CitationAnalysis #Bibliometrics #Scientometrics #OpenScience #AcademicResearch #ScienceOfScience
January 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
lluisdanus.bsky.social
🚨 Still around for the last parallel session at @ic2s2.bsky.social ?

Don’t miss our talk on formal vs informal collaboration structures in the Science of Science III track!

📍 Vingen 3+4
🕝 14:30

#ic2s2 #ScienceOfScience
July 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
finnluebber.bsky.social
New publication about funding! In this new piece in @natcomms.nature.com we present data from an evaluation of the lottery-first approach to funding: an initial lottery controlling entry, followed by peer review. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#funding #metascience #scienceofscience #peerreview
Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line - Nature Communications
The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
hlageek.bsky.social
How is #novelty in science (mis)recognized?

Join our keynote speakers Erin Leahey & Sotaro Shibayama in Prague for the Novelty and Inequalities in Science symposium.

📆 Oct 8-9, 2026
🔗 Register: stss.flu.cas.cz/novelty2026

#scienceofscience #metascience #sociologyofscience #researchpolicy #sts 🧪
Conference program page featuring two keynote speakers with black-and-white headshots. Keynote: Erin Leahey (University of Arizona) Recognizing, Rewarding, and Promoting Novelty In this talk, I pose three questions and provide answers based on my collaborative work and the work of my former PhD student, Dr. Jina Lee. How do we recognize original contributions to science? Instead of presuming that the recombination of extant ideas generates new ones, and that novelty is unidimensional, we build on the work of qualitative sociologists to distinguish different types of novelty. How do we reward novelty? We reward it by citing it more, but at least in the natural sciences, women are less likely than men to claim novelty, thereby depressing their citation counts. How do we promote novelty? Although targeted, mission-oriented funding opportunities are critical for steering science into high-priority topic areas, they may be less conducive to novelty relative to unsolicited funding opportunities. Keynote: Sotaro Shibayama (University of Tokyo) Heterogeneity and Reproduction of Scientific Novelty Scientific novelty is unevenly distributed across researchers, yet how such heterogeneity emerges remains elusive. Drawing on my previous work on novelty, I examine early-career training as a key arena in which orientations toward novelty are shaped and transmitted across generations. This talk illustrates how early-career researchers acquire practices such as exploration and risk-taking through mentoring and interactions with senior researchers, with lasting consequences for their capacity to pursue novel work.
July 20, 2026 at 2:11 PM
hlageek.bsky.social
Novelty and Inequalities in Science symposium
Prague, Oct. 8–9, 2026
📆Extended deadline: June 30, 2026

👉Submit an abstract on the topics of recognizing and rewarding novelty in science or find more details:
🔗 stss.flu.cas.cz/novelty2026

#scienceofscience #metascience #sociologyofscience
🙏Repost🧪
Call for Abstract for Novelty and Inequalities in Science International Research Symposium on Recognizing and Rewarding Novelty in Science. October 8-9, 2026 Prague, Czech Republic. The text can be read in full at https://stss.flu.cas.cz/all/events/novelty2026
June 22, 2026 at 1:15 PM
hlageek.bsky.social
📣What's new? The Novelty and Inequalities in Science symposium will be held in Prague (Oct. 8–9, 2026)!
Please consider proposing an abstract on the topics of recognizing and rewarding novelty in science. More details: stss.flu.cas.cz/novelty2026
#scienceofscience #metascience #sociologyofscience 🧪
Novelty and Inequalities in Science
stss.flu.cas.cz
May 6, 2026 at 9:38 AM
iphilluh.bsky.social
New journal on the #research-on-research 👇
#ScienceOfScience #Wissenschaftsreflexion
isis-radboud.bsky.social ISiS Radboud @isis-radboud.bsky.social · Jun 8
Very good news for the research-on-research community!

#STS #philsci #metascience #sociologyofscience
roration.bsky.social Research on Research Association @roration.bsky.social · Jun 4
We're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research.

A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated.

Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS
June 10, 2026 at 8:14 AM
iphilluh.bsky.social
Reminder: In June, #ForumWissenschaftsreflexion will open its doors. We are excited to move into our new research building dedicated to the #ScienceOfScience, and want to celebrate with you!
For this purpose, we are hosting our Inaugural Conference from June 17-19.
#PhilSci #HPS #SocSky #STS
Poster advertising the inaugural conference of the Forum Wissenschaftsreflexion: http://go.lu-h.de/wissConf
May 23, 2026 at 9:51 AM
gabbybeans.bsky.social
🙋 2nd post ever and I'm already asking for stuff. All you #metascience or #scienceofscience peeps! If you were to, say, set up a series of six or so seminars on science of science topics - which topics, and which speakers, would they be? I'm thinking hiring, publishing, excellence, collaboration...
November 19, 2024 at 2:04 PM
excelscior-era.bsky.social
🎓 The Meta-Science Summer School 2025 has wrapped!
📍 Near Frankfurt | 📅 June 15–20
28 early career researchers from around the world teamed up to design studies on transparency & reproducibility.
👏 Thanks to all who joined!
#MetaResearch #OpenScience #Reproducibility #ScienceOfScience #SummerSchool
June 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
excelscior-era.bsky.social
🎓 The Meta-Science Summer School is officially underway!

📅 June 15–20, 2025
📍 Near Frankfurt, Germany

Early career researchers are teaming up to design studies on research transparency & reproducibility.
#MetaResearch #OpenScience #Reproducibility #ScienceOfScience #SummerSchool
June 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
csh.ac.at
Come and join @robysinatra.bsky.social this summer in Copenhagen! CSH external faculty member Roberta Sinatra is co-organizing the @icssi.bsky.social and she welcomes abstracts and papers about any topic related to #ScienceOfScience and #innovation.
robysinatra.bsky.social Roberta Sinatra @robysinatra.bsky.social · Feb 4
Join us in Copenhagen in June!
icssi.org ICSSI @icssi.org · Jan 31
Join us at #ICSSI2025 in Copenhagen!
Our website is now updated, the call for abstracts is online:
www.icssi.org

📅 June 16-18, 2025
📍 Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, DK

Stay tuned for keynote speaker announcements! #ScienceofScience #Metascience #STS
February 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
joelchan86.bsky.social
I’m curious if any #scienceofscience folks have seen estimates of the rate/level/pathways of diffusion of methods research into methods practice!

(Secretly also wondering if modular research could improve diffusion)
pwgtennant.bsky.social Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · Jul 14
I cannot believe how many of these RCTs used a change/percent change outcomes.

Because the literature is so clear on the topic I honestly thought this issue was resolved!

@f2harrell.bsky.social @stephensenn.bsky.social
July 15, 2026 at 5:14 PM