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Ger Post presenting on his PhD research, on using repliCATS to teach critical thinking to first semester intro psych undergraduate students (in a class of 1800 students!)
#SIPS2025

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MetaMelb lab at #SIPS2025!
@fidlerfm.bsky.social @juliabottesini.com @tomhardwicke.bsky.social @cjcontarino.bsky.social @bethclarke.bsky.social @wchiggins.bsky.social @fallonmody.bsky.social

Hey SIPS folks, we want to run a small repliCATS pilot on Day 0 (24 June) in Budapest to get feedback on our latest project! Join @fidlerfm.bsky.social & @fallonmody.bsky.social for a 2-hour session, with catered lunch + 50 euro visa card. More details here: forms.gle/Z7p7PqA5vqpC...

Why Trump’s push for ‘gold-standard science’ has researchers alarmed Many scientists fear the Trump administration’s new standard means putting political appointees in charge, which could undercut independent research.

"Gold standard science" is becoming a ubiquitous Trump administration catchphrase. Many scientists say the administration is flipping the script -- using the language of improving science to damage it. @briannosek.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social

Gift link:
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Last week of class for Science, Philosophy & Society, where we've been exploring what counts as "gold standard evidence", replication crisis, uncertainty, and the limits of epistemic ideals in practice. I'm going to use this thread for discussion in class - thanks Nicole :)

I am really looking forward to SIPS, and I hope many original repliCATS participants have a few hours on Day 0 for us to pick your brains about our next repliCATS project & give us feedback on our new platform. Deets below 👇

I'm glad to be speaking at this meeting about research integrity, which will flow nicely into the @aimosinc.bsky.social conference later that week, with a broader remit into metascience, openness, and transparency!

🔜 Metascience 2025, hosted by UCL and RoRI from June 30 to July 2, will unite 650 participants to discuss innovations, institutions, and alliances in metascience, with proposals due by February 7, 2025. ⏳

🗨️ More details: opusproject.eu/openscience-...

#OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenResearch

Evidence of turmeric adulteration with lead chromate across South Asia Food adulteration with toxic chemicals is a global public health threat. Lead chromate adulterated spices have been linked with lead poisoning in many…

This is just so scary. Turmeric is a daily staple for pretty much all South Asian and South Asian migrant families... I want names, brands, something I can tell my Sri Lankan family in Colombo!!!! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This essay is going straight into the reading list for 'A History of Nature'. The idea that Wheat may/may not have agency led to some of the most robust discussions in class. This essay is going to be excellent scaffolding, especially for science students taking a history subject for the first time

Adding a second starter pack here since we ran out of capacity with the first one: go.bsky.app/NeZvnb5

Here is the starter pack for folks in science of science, meta science, STS, philosophy of science, history of science, economics of science, science policy, AI+science, and so on.

Feel free to nominate and self-nominate!

#SciSci #STS #MetaScience #SciPol #AI4Science #ScAISci

go.bsky.app/2R1E4TD

Would love to be added. And also @replicats.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social please :)

Can we add @replicats.bsky.social to this list?

Excited to be in Canberra for AIMOS 24 agbarnett.github.io/aimos.confer...

I gave a talk this morning on ‘where next for metascience?’ — slides online here: rori.figshare.com/articles/pre...

Thanks to Adrian Barnett & all at @aimosinc.bsky.social for the opportunity to join you 🙏🏻

The research literature is an unsafe workplace Research is conducted in workplaces that can present safety hazards. Where researchers work in laboratories, safety hazards can arise through the need to operate complex equipment that can become u...

The post-pub correction session @aimosinc.bsky.social is fascinating! Kicked off with @jabyrnesci.bsky.social exploring the research literature as an unsafe workplace -- if lab equipment is faulty, we tag it. So should we flag questionable/bad papers. Full paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Undergraduates need touch points with metaresearch from day 1”, Joan Leach, director of ANU’s centre for public awareness of science giving today’s plenary for AIMOS2024. We agree!

We have an open call for an early-career researcher (<10 yrs since PhD) to join the Center for Open Science's Board of Directors.

This is a great opportunity to gain board experience with an amazing group of colleagues, and to help COS meet its mission. Apply!

www.cos.io/call-for-ecr...

You know how older, grizzled characters in sci fi and fantasy novels always take first watch, or don't sleep, just stare into the fire all night and keep going the next day, and the young hero/ine is all impressed by their toughness?

Maybe they were all middle aged and had insomnia. Just saying.

Our in person #SIPS2024 conference in Narobi is going fantastically well.

But a reminder that the separate online conference is coming right up too (June 19-20). $10 for students, $20 for faculty. Registration deadline is TOMORROW (June 12). sips.wildapricot.org/event-5511216.

New preprint! "Prevalence of transparent research practices in psychology: A cross-sectional study of empirical articles published in 2022" osf.io/preprints/ps...
After > decade of new infrastructure, advocacy, & policy, how often are transparent research practices used in empirical psychology?

Come study with us! 3 scholarships available for PhD candidates in the following research groups:
- Medical Humanities
- MetaMelb with @fidlerfm.bsky.social
- Death Technology

International & local students welcome.
More information via our website.
www.hpsunimelb.org

#hps #sts #metascience

When your 2-year-old has very strong feelings about what the repliCATS groups for SIPS2024 should be! Very much looking forward to our workshop — we’ll be packing aussie animals and the requisite tim tams! @improvingpsych.bsky.social

Express interest in repliCATS workshops The repliCATS project will run a series of workshops in 2024 as part of the SMART: Preprints project in collaboration with the Center for Open Science. The goal of repliCATS (Collaborative Assessment...

Hey everyone, we have 5 spots left for our in-person repliCATS workshop in Nairobi! If you are going to SIPS2024 @improvingpsych.bsky.social we will be running a workshop on day 2, with US$250 travel grant for all participants. Express interest: forms.gle/WcbH6Ufizobb... [re-skeets welcome].

7th Perspectives on Scientific Error conference Save the date: PSE7 will take place on February 5-7, 2025 in Bern, Switzerland.

Save the date! The 7th Perspectives on Scientific Error conference will take place on February 5-7, 2025 at
@unibern.bsky.social, Switzerland. If you're interested in errors, fraud, negligence, or hype in science, please join us! errorsin.science

Hey folks, it is time to save 19-21 November for the next AIMOS conference in Canberra. Here is a sneak peak at our three amazing plenary speakers. For more details, visit: shorturl.at/awHK8

SMART Prototyping The Center for Open Science (COS), along with its collaborators, is building on the work completed during the DARPA-funded SCORE program, which demonstrated the potential of using algorithms to effici...

Would you like to contribute to the development of new approaches to evaluating research credibility? Submit a recent paper to receive novel AI and human assessments of your research!

Visit cos.io/smart-prototyping to learn more or to enroll now.

The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science Listen to The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science on Spotify. Leading scholars in History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (HPS) introduce conte...

A friendly reminder that you can find our podcast across SO MANY platforms, including

*Spotify*
open.spotify.com/show/19Dj8H8...

*Apple Podcasts*
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

For a full list check out

thehpspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2180146

🧪 #histSTM #histsci #philsci #sts #metascience

S3 Ep 1 - Lorraine Daston & Peter Harrison on 'Scientists and History' - The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science Today's episode is dedicated to the often complex, sometimes fraught relationship between practicing scientists and the history of science. To discuss this topic, we are joined by two of the most dist...

It's here!
So excited to launch Season 3 with Lorraine Daston and Peter Harrison discussing the (sometimes) fraught relationship between scientists and historians.
Listening to two such esteemed scholars discuss a topic close to their hearts is a real treat.

#hps #sts #histSTM #philsci 🧪

What use is the history of science — or philosophy or sociology of science, for that matter—to scientists? Let this *fabulous* episode of @hpspodcast.bsky.social answer your questions with
Lorraine Daston & Peter Harrison. Brilliantly illustrated with egs from bio, evo, astronomy, cog sci