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The Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis in R Conference (ESMARConf) is back! It will be held June 11th to the 13th, 2025.
Recordings of the talks and workshops from previous years can be found here: https://esmarconf.org/recordings/ (and directly on you YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@esmarconf).
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The Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis in R Conference (ESMARConf) is back! It will be held June 11th to the 13th, 2025.
Recordings of the talks and workshops from previous years can be found here: https://esmarconf.org/recordings/ (and directly on you YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@esmarconf).
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The 2023 Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis with R Conference has ended.
https://esmarconf.org/events.html
What an intense week -- so many talks, tutorials, workshops, panels -- my head is still spinning. Thanks to the organizers for putting together such a wonderful conference. And all of the presentations are available completely for free at:
https://www.youtube.com/@esmarconf
Looking forward to ESMARConf2024 :)
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The 2023 Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis with R Conference has ended.
https://esmarconf.org/events.html
What an intense week -- so many talks, tutorials, workshops, panels -- my head is still spinning. Thanks to the organizers for putting together such a wonderful conference. And all of the presentations are available completely for free at:
https://www.youtube.com/@esmarconf
Looking forward to ESMARConf2024 :)
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My #ESMARConf #ESMARConf2023 talk with @meghapsimatrix is up: https://youtu.be/BPfiQkwjqX8?t=1226
Along with an accompanying blog post that has some extra programming details: https://www.jepusto.com/cluster-bootstrap-selection-model/ -
My #ESMARConf #ESMARConf2023 talk with @meghapsimatrix is up: https://youtu.be/BPfiQkwjqX8?t=1226
Along with an accompanying blog post that has some extra programming details: https://www.jepusto.com/cluster-bootstrap-selection-model/ -
Really appreciate Steven Cooke's point that "stakeholder engagement" during research and "knowledge translation" of findings are closely related, in the very interesting #ESMARconf session on stakeholder engagement
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My #ESMARConf talk on the R package #metaBMA which performs #Bayesian model averaging for #MetaAnalysis is now available online:
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My #ESMARConf talk on the R package #metaBMA which performs #Bayesian model averaging for #MetaAnalysis is now available online:
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YouTube has now started giving me ads before *and during* #ESMARconf recordings 💩
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YouTube has now started giving me ads before *and during* #ESMARconf recordings 💩
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Just gave my talk about 'Location-scale models for meta-analysis using the metafor package' as part of the Evidence Synthesis & Meta-Analysis in R Conference. The talk is part of this session:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VBEE9k814I
(my talk starts somewhere around 19:30, but you should watch the entire session - all really interesting talks!). The slides and R code for my presentation are available here: https://www.wvbauer.com/doku.php/presentations
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Just gave my talk about 'Location-scale models for meta-analysis using the metafor package' as part of the Evidence Synthesis & Meta-Analysis in R Conference. The talk is part of this session:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VBEE9k814I
(my talk starts somewhere around 19:30, but you should watch the entire session - all really interesting talks!). The slides and R code for my presentation are available here: https://www.wvbauer.com/doku.php/presentations
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Should I take a shot every time there is an IMO gratuitous reference to ChatGPT at #ESMARconf ?
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Should I take a shot every time there is an IMO gratuitous reference to ChatGPT at #ESMARconf ?
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TBH I am somewhat surprised that #ESMARconf discussion is apparently happening there rather than here. These are by definition people whose interests include open science and open source, but I guess the critical mass hasn't moved yet.
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Back to the workshop: re interrater reliability and PRISMA compliance, I would be super curious about whether librarians and methodologists and domain experts with ES experience and domain experts new to ES tend to code compliance similarly or not. #ESMARconf
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I wonder if we'd get more traction by framing it as [each month we'll do an example of a different review type] or [each month we'll do an example of a SR from a different topic domain]. Thoughts? #ESMARconf
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This is re https://www.youtube.com/live/FsqU2Xg7hqs, the workshop on reporting guidelines. Maybe I'll start doing a monthly version of @mjpages 's workshop as a training for library users where I work.
I can see it being useful not only for ECRs about to write an ES protocol but also for ECRs who have no plans to *write* a review but still need to be able to *read* them (without, of course, implying that reporting guideline compliance is the same as SR quality)
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@mjpages and @wviechtb should do a podcast about review methods and reporting together
"I just want to help!" 😁
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@mjpages and @wviechtb should do a podcast about review methods and reporting together
"I just want to help!" 😁
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My presentation "Key role of citation chasing in the evidence synthesis on the gastrointestinal symptoms prevalence in chronic kidney disease: a case study" from #ESMARConf2023 is available!
You can watch it on #YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcPiS7EICUs&list=PLM4DNOyrM9ABD2YGsbXMVM3l6Clkip_k5
I am excited since my journey in the field of #MetaAnalysis has started with one of the previous editions of this conference 🤩
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"Maybe more work than it's worth [if your goal is research output per se]" - @LajeunesseLab was saying that about undergrads in #ES projects.
The distinction between the goal of efficiently producing high-quality research output and the goal of improving students' science literacy skills (by teaching, practice, and reflection) is 🧠 and IMO also applies to people who say "oh, let's have each grad student do a scoping review for their qualifying exam. How hard could it be?" 😜
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@LajeunesseLab Great talk! I'm halfway through now, and reflecting that so much of your advice for effectively managing a large team of inexperienced researchers still seems very relevant to my work with smaller teams of more-but-maybe-not-much-more experienced grad students
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PS I wonder if the assumption (on my part) that LLMs can generate decent protocols, when properly primed, is actually correct. After all, their training data probably includes more bad/incomplete/good but from before today's best practices had been articulated protocols than it includes high-quality protocols. #ESMARconf
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2/2 Or will this just change the locus of the not-bothering-to-read-it from the JBI Manual or the Cochrane handbook or PRISMA to the LLM-generated protocol? #ESMARconf
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Hmm, Michael Gusenbacher's idea of feeding high-quality guidance into an LLM (priming it) to generate advice - or, he didn't say but I'm sure people are trying it, to generate an #ES protocol....
I can see how, well primed, the LLM will generate pretty good output, especially for formulaic documents. But - will authors (who routinely cite methods guidance without actually reading it) actually follow the pretty-good LLM-generater guideline-compliant protocol? 1/2 #ESMARconf -
Hmm, I have not before heard about what Guido Zuccon mentions - not just ChatGPT hallucinating citations, but also ChatGPT output having a real citation but an inaccurate gloss/summary of what the actual document said. Wouldn't say I'm surprised per se - people make that kind of mistake all the time, and the training data came from people, so it would be more surprising if ChatGPT *didn't* do that.... #ESMARconf
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Hmm, I have not before heard about what Guido Zuccon mentions - not just ChatGPT hallucinating citations, but also ChatGPT output having a real citation but an inaccurate gloss/summary of what the actual document said. Wouldn't say I'm surprised per se - people make that kind of mistake all the time, and the training data came from people, so it would be more surprising if ChatGPT *didn't* do that.... #ESMARconf
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LOL if LLMs are generating spurious citations why would I not expect them to generate spurious controlled vocabulary terms? #ESMARconf
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LOL if LLMs are generating spurious citations why would I not expect them to generate spurious controlled vocabulary terms? #ESMARconf
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Every time I hear Alison Bethel discuss closing the loop and evaluating (at the end) *how* the *relevant* articles were discovered, I think, I have got to put time in to doing that. (And then in real life I never do.)
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Every time I hear Alison Bethel discuss closing the loop and evaluating (at the end) *how* the *relevant* articles were discovered, I think, I have got to put time in to doing that. (And then in real life I never do.)
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Seeing myself in these informational retrieval experts discuss generating a screening set of manageable size
- refraining from searching the big discipline-agnostic dbs
- designing the searches for dbs 2 ad infinitum *after* the screeners have decided what is useful from the results of db1
- complex relevance ranking tools
- scalable automated screening
And no one is mentioning this option: persuade the PI to ask a narrower, feasible, research Q 😜
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Seeing myself in these informational retrieval experts discuss generating a screening set of manageable size
- refraining from searching the big discipline-agnostic dbs
- designing the searches for dbs 2 ad infinitum *after* the screeners have decided what is useful from the results of db1
- complex relevance ranking tools
- scalable automated screening
And no one is mentioning this option: persuade the PI to ask a narrower, feasible, research Q 😜
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Love Guido Zuccon's point that librarians can contribute by identifying ways of safely increasing specificity of a search strategy that is already sensitive, or by identifying aspects of the search that may introduce bias.
If we want everyone on the team practicing at the top of their scope of practice, then can't the non-librarian researcher do some of the searching work (while still achieving a high standard of quality and reporting)?
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Love Guido Zuccon's point that librarians can contribute by identifying ways of safely increasing specificity of a search strategy that is already sensitive, or by identifying aspects of the search that may introduce bias.
If we want everyone on the team practicing at the top of their scope of practice, then can't the non-librarian researcher do some of the searching work (while still achieving a high standard of quality and reporting)?
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Now watching an #ESMARconf panel on info retrieval with some REALLY insightful people
https://www.youtube.com/live/NilTm91SEIU -
Now watching an #ESMARconf panel on info retrieval with some REALLY insightful people
https://www.youtube.com/live/NilTm91SEIU -
Watching the talk by Shinichi Nakagawa for #ESMARconf. His work comparing #CitizenScience data to traditional meta-analysis is really interesting.
Would love to see citizen science take off for #IAQ the way it has for biodiversity in general / birding in particular -
Watching the talk by Shinichi Nakagawa for #ESMARconf. His work comparing #CitizenScience data to traditional meta-analysis is really interesting.
Would love to see citizen science take off for #IAQ the way it has for biodiversity in general / birding in particular -
The 'Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis with R Conference' has started!
https://esmarconf.org/events.html
A full week jam-packed with talks, tutorials, workshops, and it's all free.
Shinichi Nakagawa is about to give a keynote talk on "The Future of Meta-analysis: An Evolutionary Ecologist’s Perspective (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHCK67Cr6Dk).
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The 'Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis with R Conference' has started!
https://esmarconf.org/events.html
A full week jam-packed with talks, tutorials, workshops, and it's all free.
Shinichi Nakagawa is about to give a keynote talk on "The Future of Meta-analysis: An Evolutionary Ecologist’s Perspective (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHCK67Cr6Dk).
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#ESMARConf is about to begin, and I'm already sad for not being able to see everything I wanted to. The near 24h/day schedule and the timezone difference means I'll be sleeping during a few workshops I'd like to attend. I can see anything later on YouTube, but this is always easier said than done. #ScienceMastodon
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Just a little reminder:
This Friday, starting at 5pm CET, I will give a free 7+ hour workshop on meta-analysis with R and the metafor package, just prior to the Evidence Synthesis & Meta-Analysis in R Conference (https://esmarconf.org) which starts next week.
See here for details: https://www.wvbauer.com/doku.php/workshop_2023_ma_esmarconf
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Registration is now open for the 'Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis with R' conference (ESMARConf), which will run 27th to 31st March, 2023: https://esmarconf.org/events.html Remember that this conference is completely free (but you can make donations to support such activities). Really looking forward to this event!
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OK, I’m really gonna try to get on board with this #mastodon thing. We’ve got some very exciting #ESMARConf2023 announcements coming up, so watch this space.
And sign up to the #ESMARConf mailing list if you want to know it all first!!
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#introduction
I’m Neal, ten years experience in conducting #systematicReviews in environmental science and developing methods for #EvidenceSynthesis. Co-founder of #ESHackathon and #ESMARConf.
#RStats package/ShinyApp developer. Photographer working with photojournalism and documentary photography.
Find out more - www.linktr.ee/nealhaddaway -
For people interested in evidence-synthesis, meta-analysis, and R, mark your calendars for the *free* 'Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis in R Conference' which will take place (online!) March 27-31, 2023.
More info at: https://esmarconf.org
This is the third installment of 'ESMARConf' and the last two have been fantastic. There are also still a few days left to submit an abstract for a presentation of your own!