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New post on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social by RoRI senior researcher Helen Buckley Woods unpacking the complexity of transdisciplinary research 🧩

What do we mean by “transdisciplinary research”? - Impact of Social Sciences Like most complex concepts, there is no one single definition of “transdisciplinary research”. But, Helen Buckley Woods writes, all definitions share three common elements: partnerships, values and…

💥New: What makes research truly #transdisciplinary?

While there’s no single definition of “transdisciplinary research,” Helen Buckley Woods @rorinstitute.bsky.social identifies three core elements: partnerships, values & impact. How these are understood depends on each research community & funder.

Making “Pay Peer Reviewers” More Than a Slogan Is it time to pay peer reviewers?Peer review is crucial to the academic publishing process. However, the system is under strain, with fewer researchers volunteering to review, resulting in delays that...

🆕 Guest blog post on the state of paying for peer review.

Pilot studies are promising, but we need some people to drill down into much more detail about how it might work.

⚠️ Contains me.

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Discussion at #Metascience2025 about transforming research communication, including a talk by @andre-brasil.bsky.social about the @metaror.bsky.social platform.

@rorinstitute.bsky.social @aimosinc.bsky.social @cwts.nl

Narrative CVs are rewriting academic stories and identities - Impact of Social Sciences A new study explores how narrative CVs are reshaping research evaluation and academic representation

How are Narrative CVs reshaping academic values and self-presentation? This new piece draws on findings from RoRI’s NARRATIVES project, exploring how reviewers engage with narrative CVs across funding schemes in the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

"By reducing waste and increasing research impact, metascience benefits society as a whole."

Great to see RoRI’s @jameswilsdon.bsky.social featured in this interview with Agência FAPESP as part of his visit to Brazil this week.

Full interview (in Portuguese): agencia.fapesp.br/ao-evitar-a-...

MetaROR flyer

Very grateful to all colleagues in the metascience community who dropped by at the @metaror.bsky.social stand at the recent #Metascience2025 conference. Glad to see the overwhelming interest in the MetaROR platform!

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Online seminar tomorrow!

Join RoRI's Alex Rushforth and Gunnar Sivertsen for a presentation based on a recent RoRI working paper exploring how national research assessment systems are evolving across 13 countries: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Metascience’s big tent 🏕️

Some reflections from @scurry.bsky.social and @jameswilsdon.bsky.social after hosting #Metascience2025 last week - as we all continue digesting the insights and engaging with the interesting post-conference discussions: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-poli...

Metascience can improve science — but it must be useful to society, too Researchers studying research must avoid the temptation to get too stuck in the academic weeds.

‘Metascience can improve science — but it must be useful to society, too’. Good, thoughtful editorial in @nature.com on #Metascience2025 & the new Alliance

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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How to speed up peer review: make applicants mark one another ‘Distributed peer review’ of grants makes process more than twice as fast — and includes some cheat-prevention measures.

An experimental peer-review system slashes the time taken to review grant applications, according to results reported at #Metascience2025. 'Distributed peer review' requires researchers who apply for funding to review the other applications.

My story for @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In this blog post we make the case for the @metaror.bsky.social publish-review-curate model, arguing it supports better research assessment, as promoted by DORA and others.

@rorinstitute.bsky.social @aimosinc.bsky.social @cwts.nl

Vallance: ‘We must protect and grow basic research funding’ - Research Professional News Metascience 2025: Science minister warns against seeing curiosity-driven research as “easiest thing to cut”

🧵What a fantastic event #Metascience2025 was! A remarkable three days, with more than 800 delegates from 65 countries.

On day 1, science minister Patrick Vallance warned against seeing curiosity-driven research as the “easiest thing to cut”.

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Inspired (partly) by ‪@jontreadway.bsky.social 's tweet thread, I have come up with a highly subjective and tentative map of different strands in metascience.
It is intended as a starter to begin talking about what people (want to) include in metascience.
#metascience2025

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Check out this exciting opportunity to join RoRI as a (senior) Research Fellow in #Metascience. Apply before 9 July 👇

YouTube video by NBC Digital News THE DAILY ROUNDUP WITH NINA | NCRST advances Metascience for better policy - nbc

For me, Kelvin Katukula Mubiana of Namibia’s NCRST was one of the stars of #Metascience2025. Here he is doing an interview about the conference on the NBC (Namibia’s state broadcaster) youtu.be/ZByH9Ni2VJ8?...

There were many attendees, from everywhere! Thanks to everyone for making #metascience2025 a success. It set a high bar for #metascience2027 in Montreal.

Here are some swiftly assembled thoughts on #Metascience2025. Congratulations to the organisers. It was an excellent, full and balanced conference, bringing together many disparate strands. They threaded a complex needle really well.

🎉 That’s a wrap on Metascience 2025!

Three packed days of ideas, debates, and community - and we’re still buzzing from it all.

We’re grateful to all who spoke, chaired, presented, posted, and participated for making #Metascience2025 such a dynamic gathering 🌍

Was very proud to represent MetaROR.org, the new preprint reviewing service for metaresearch (check out the website, we already have several articles with open reviews posted!), with @denolmo.bsky.social (pictured), @ludowaltman.bsky.social, Kathy Zeiler, and André Brasil, all at #metascience2025

#metascience2025 day three @rorinstitute.bsky.social fellow, André Brasil presenting on #MetaRoR as a key step in #PRC (Publish, Review, Curate) - service, portal, PRC initiative and ALSO a research project -- investigating/experimenting and reporting AS they do the work

Geoff Mulgan at Metascience 2025

"How would you build an organisation like a coral?" Typically engaging presentation from Geoff Mulgan at #Metascience2025, who argues persuasively for a less 'conservative' design of institutions with (effectively linked) intelligence at the core.

Had a great, thought-provoking time sitting on the panel about how feminist research and metascience are aligned. Our big argument = metascience IS feminist. It’s asking fundamental questions about knowledge, power, and credibility. We just have never framed it like this explicitly #Metascience2025

Really enjoyed taking part in the panel discussion earlier today on Feminist Metascience at #Metascience2025! In the panel I spoke about epistemic diversity and intellectual humility. We need to be considering voices that are quieter in these discussions- it shouldn’t be a battle to be heard here.

@metaror.bsky.social is a scholar-controlled peer review service for metascience research. Check us out! Metaror.org
#metascience2025 (I am an associate editor at MetaRoR) @ludowaltman.bsky.social @aidybarnett.bsky.social

Photo. Slide says "current us policies strongly reduce our ability to create, recruit and retain a skilled scientific workforce"

Cassidy Sugimoto pulls no punches in diagnosing the science policy effects of the current US administration

#metascience2025

Great news: At #Metascience2025 @wellcometrust.bsky.social just announced its signature of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information!

Wellcome CEO John-Arne Røttingen made the important argument that open research information offers crucial evidence to support metascience.

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Photo A man talking to a slide full of logos

African Open Science Landscape, introduced by Emmanuel Boakye of the African Reproducibilty Network (AREN)

#metascience2025

RoRI is delighted to be part of the founding group of organisations joining forces to build the Metascience Alliance! @cos.io #Metascience2025 #Metascience25

Excited to see the Metascience Alliance going live at #Metascience2025. Tim Errington from @cos.io sets out its vision & the founding group of members (including @rorinstitute.bsky.social!)