#metascience — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #metascience, aggregated by home.social.
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New post by me on “Theory aversion, methodolatry, and scientism in psychology and metascience: Comment on Cornejo and Rojas (2026)”
https://markrubin.substack.com/p/theory-aversion-methodolatry-and
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Summary of some new and old #metascience on:
🔸Null Results and File Drawers
🔸The Cooptation of Science Reform
🔸The Weaponization of Transparency
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New paper: "The Falsifiability Crisis in Contemporary Physics: LCDM, the Standard Model, and the Measurement-Exercise Trap." Diagnoses 5 structural patterns that make fundamental physics de-facto unfalsifiable. Proposes independent consilience + Bayesian delta-log-odds gate. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21791300 #physics #metascience
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Just submitted my first ever proper preprint to MetaArXiv! Now awaiting the moderator's approval... 🤞
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Summary of a forthcoming special issue on feminist metascience and feminist open science
https://markrubin.substack.com/p/feminist-metascience-and-feminist
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(Re)Conceptualizing Open Science's "Openness"
A discussion of Sabina Leonelli’s recent work
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New and old #metascience work on:
🔸 Epistemic Disadvantage in Open Science
🔸 Metascience’s Directionality
🔸 Women as the First Open Scientists
🔸 Confirmatory vs Exploratory Researchhttps://markrubin.substack.com/p/epistemic-disadvantage-in-open-science
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Adding this to my To Read list. Unfortunately, even just the abstract will teach you more than most people know.
Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History
by Dr Madeleine Pownall
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Some recent #metascience work and opportunities:
🔸 Preregistration and the Hindsight Bias
🔸 Postdoc Position
🔸 Open Science's Marginalization of Qualitative Work
🔸 Replication Failures are Good for
Sciencehttps://markrubin.substack.com/p/preregistration-and-the-hindsight
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In a new preprint with Max Littel, Stephanie Koolen-Maas, PhD, Dr Hoda Fahimpour, Arthur Gautier and Wahideh Achbari, we're revisiting the eight mechanisms in charitable giving that Pamala Wiepking and I summarized in 2007. While replications and retractions are rare in the field of research on giving, we show how science can be self-correcting through replications. #metascience #replication #fundraising #philanthropy
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We are very pleased to officially announce today that @[email protected] will be our tenure-track assistant professor in 💥Psychological Metascience 💥 starting in November 2026!
@[email protected] #metascience #psychology #leibniz -
Wir freuen uns sehr, heute offiziell bekannt zu geben, dass @[email protected] ab November 2026 unsere Juniorprofessorin mit Tenure Track für 💥Psychological Metascience 💥 sein wird!
@[email protected] #metascience #psychologie #leibniz
Beth Clarke (@bethclarke.bsky.... -
Collaborative funding models suggest that science could progress faster when evaluation prioritizes team strength and shared goals rather than isolated proposals.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01815-y
#Metascience #OpenScience #Collaboration #FundingReform #research
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@romanistikde We are excited to have received our first abstract to WoReLa 2 AND to find out it's about a Romance language!! 🎉
If you're interested in #reproducibility, #replication, #OpenScience and #metascience in the context of #linguistics, do consider submitting an abstract, too!
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@ElenLeFoll/116752603384068706
Very excited to have received our first abstract AND to find out it's about a Romance language!! 🎉
If you're interested in #reproducibility, #replication, #OpenScience and #metascience in the context of #linguistics, do consider submitting an abstract, too!
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Roundup of some recent (and not so recent) #metascience news:
Contained Experiments, Reproducibility Crisis?, Six Types of Metascience, and Personal Predictions
https://open.substack.com/pub/markrubin/p/contained-experiments-reproducibility
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Right, enough complaining about academia, let's make things better! A small step, but my colleagues and I are organising the Second Workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences (WoReLa 2) in July 2027 in Cologne: https://sites.google.com/view/worela2.
The call for abstract is now open (deadline 15 August). Linguists of all walks of life, we hope that many of you will want to join us for a two-day gathering of interesting people with fresh ideas on #replication, #reproducibility, #OpenScience, #metascience, and much more in all subdisciplines of #linguistics!
Fellow linguists, please boost and tell your friends, colleagues, and students! 🔃
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👀 Seminar: Questioning Some Metascience Assumptions, with Mark Rubin
https://events.humanitix.com/questioning-some-metascience-assumptions-with-mark-rubin
August 14th at 4pm (GMT + 10). A very reasonable 7am in the UK
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I submitted a poster abstract to the #ICAME47 because I thought this would be the most low-key format to present work-in-progress, but then there were only four posters and we each got a four minutes after today‘s plenary in the large auditorium 😱Definitely more attention than I had envisaged, but I think it went well. I was done at 3‘59! ⏱️ Lots of encouraging feedback and interesting follow-up ideas! ☺️
Poster and abstract: https://linktr.ee/elefoll.
#CorpusLinguistics #linguistics #metascience
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On 17 June, Sheena Bartscherer will be reporting online on her new project, “Reforming Science”.
The project is looking to investigate the different actors who are currently, but also historically advocating for science reforms, how they discuss these matters publicly, how critiques are interacted with, and how they organise themselves.Further information and registration details can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/metascience-research-seminar-dr-sheena-f-bartscherer-tickets-1989914011375
#Metascience #ScienceReform #NetworkAnalysis #SocualMediaAnalysis #LIS -
1/ If you're following the debacle on the Democratic National Committee autopsy on the 2024 election, here's my #metascience take on the problem.
Why Kamala Harris lost in 2024 is an empirical question. It's a complicated empirical question with dozens, hundreds, or thousands of relevant factors. It's made even more complicated by the presence of background preferences and wishful thinking.
If we're not careful, it's a tangled mix of descriptive empirical questions (why did some previous Dem voters shift to the right) and normative questions (what should we do next time to prevent that). Here I'll bracket the normative questions and focus on the empirical ones.
When scientists address complicated empirical questions, we don't expect one researcher or team to identify all the relevant factors in one publication. We don't even expect the entire field to identify all relevant factors in one generation. We expect incremental advances. We expect many researchers to identify many factors over time, tussle over the empirical evidence for and against them, give different factors different weights, differ on which factors are most salient, and differ in how to take the most salient factors into account. And we do all that in public.
#Democrats #DNC #Metaresearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Feminist Metascience, Risk-Averse Peer Review, & Can Systems Change Theory Strengthen Metascience?
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New preprint: "A Framework for Reproducible AI-Assisted Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences"
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/xdtqh_v1
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#ScholComm and #metascience folks beware that there's now a second #FAIR acronym. The first was Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability. The new one is Fairness, Accountability, Integrity, and Responsibility. It's an "ethically-guided hybrid #peerreview system" mixing #AI and human expertise.
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/jpm-2025-0285/html -
Some recent #metascience work and news…
• Average replicability rates
• Theories don’t die!
• Is the replication crisis overblown?
• Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Partial replications
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Under the banner "The winding road to better science", we are joining forces with our metaresearch centre and are offering ourselves as hosts for potential MSCA postdoctoral fellows. If you are interested in developing a project on or across the boundaries of #metascience and #STS, reach out! 1/