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Very good news for the research-on-research community! #STS #philsci #metascience #sociologyofscience

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Review of string theory book from 2004 brings up interesting questions regarding age-period-cohort effects in the #SociologyOfScience https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/02/08/review-of-string-theory-book-from-2004/

Workshop: Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy & Sociology of Science
April 2–4, 2025
TU Berlin, Germany & Online
Exploring how LLMs can address challenges in HPSS research
Keynotes by Iryna Gurevych, Nina Tahmasebi & Pierluigi Cassotti
16 contributed talks on LLM use cases & implications

Free and open to the public—registration encouraged! More info: https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/workshop-llms-for-hpss](https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/workshop-llms-for-hpss
#AI #HistoryOfScience #PhilosophyOfScience #SociologyOfScience #LLMs

Finally, my dissertation follow up paper about the public appearence of #socioloy , #economics , and #culturalanthropology is published.
https://doi.org/10.7146/serendipities.v9i1.139666
#sociology #sciencecommunication #sociologyofscience #socialsciences #socialsciencereporting

1/3📄🚨 Our new preprint on #ScienceMapping is out on @SocArXivBot: "Mapping Knowledge Topic Analysis of Science Locates Researchers in Disciplinary Landscape". We decompose disciplinary classification into three principles of epistemological distinction - Culture-Nature, Life-Non-life, and Materials-Methods - and replace the categorical system of disciplines with a continuous measure of topic orientations of individual researchers. #ScienceOfScience #SociologyOfScience
🔗 https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/94jd5

To make science work, scientists must trust each other. How does this change with Open Science?

Submit an abstract to our Panel “A.2 Trust within (open) science” at STS Graz until 02.02.2024!
https://stsconf.tugraz.at/calls/sessions-in-open-science/

#OpenScience #TrustinScience #STS #SociologyOfScience

Happy to see that the article “Institutional Arrangements in the Absence of Disciplinary Definitions: Digital Humanities in Switzerland” is out now!

https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2023-0025

Written in collaboration with @maxkemman for the Swiss Journal of Sociology’s special issue on “Digital Academia.”

#DigitalHumanities #SociologyOfScience

New article from me:

“The replication crisis is less of a ‘crisis’ in the Lakatosian approach than it is in the Popperian and naïve methodological falsificationism approaches”

Substack: https://markrubin.substack.com/p/popper-lakatos-and-the-replication-crisis

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/2dz9s

#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#ReplicationCrisis
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#STS
@stsing
#PhilosophyOfScience
#PhilSci
@philosophyofscience

#BrianKeating - What Would Multiple #Universes Mean?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlQQXpjVCEU&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Sociology #SociologyOfScience #PhilosophyOfCosmology #Science #Cosmology #Astrophysics #Multiverse #MultipleUniverses #Inflation #ScalarField #InflatonField #Theories #Models #QM #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #Theology #AnthropicPrinciple #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

How does the science reform movement align with broader changes in the academic landscape? Tom Hostler tackles this question in a new article on “Scientific reform, post-academic research, and academic identity”: https://markrubin.substack.com/p/scientific-reform-post-academic-research
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@stsing

"Discretion in research practice should perhaps not be seen as a weakness or a fault in the scientific method, but rather an integral part of it."

New preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/7dh3t/

#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#ReplicationCrisis
#SociologyofScience
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@stsing

Metascience News:

@tomstafford provides a round up of the latest metascience news, workshops, conferences, talks, and listservs!

https://open.substack.com/pub/tomstafford/p/anyone-for-metascience

#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#STS
@stsing

New proposal for scientists to sign NDA’s to facilitate reproducibility: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-simple-replication-agreement-could-improve-trust-in-science/

#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#ReplicationCrisis
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#STS
@stsing

“Instead of focusing purely on replicability, we should strive to maximize transparency, rigor, and quality in all aspects of research.”

New review summarises the structural, procedural, and community changes following the replication crisis.

Preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/r6cvx/

#Science
#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#ReplicationCrisis
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#STS

Preregistration:

Interesting new article in the Journal of Trial and Error proposes that we establish core preregistration criteria (i.e., a minimum amount of information required to consider a preregistration complete) and only award preregistered badges only to articles that meet those criteria.

🦣 Author: @drcpennington

Open access: https://doi.org/10.36850/mr6

#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#ReplicationCrisis
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#Preregistration

Selfish Scientists

Researchers who thought of themselves as “scientists” saw themselves as less warm, fair, cooperative, likeable.

“The reminder of being a member of the scientific community that incentivizes individual gain might make researchers less willing to share their knowledge with peers.”

Altenmüller et al. (2023). https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.10011

#Science
#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#STS

Selfish Scientists

Researchers who thought of themselves as “scientists” saw themselves as less warm, fair, cooperative, likeable.

“The reminder of being a member of the scientific community that incentivizes individual gain might make researchers less willing to share their knowledge with peers.”

Altenmüller et al. (2023). Among us: Fear of exploitation, suspiciousness, and social identity predict knowledge hiding among researchers. Social Psychological Bulletin, 18, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.10011

#Science
#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#STS

New paper argues insights from qualitative research can help to improve open science.

Steltenpohl et al. (2023). Rethinking transparency and rigor from a qualitative open science perspective. Journal of Trial & Error. https://doi.org/10.36850/mr7

#Science
#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#STS
@stsing

Theory Evaluation:

Really interesting new preprint argues “there are multiple kinds of theories, each with unique assessment standards.”

Miłkowski (@MilekPl; 2023). Cognitive metascience: A new approach to the study of theories. https://psyarxiv.com/xvyz3/

#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#CognitiveMetascience
#ReplicationCrisis
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#STS

🔸New Critical Metascience blog post🔸

"Open science and overwork: Comments on Hostler (2023)"

https://open.substack.com/pub/markrubin/p/open-science-and-overwork?r=2bqjb7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#Science
#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#STS
@stsing

Open Science and Academic Workload

New article by Thomas Hostler in the Journal of Trial and Error:

“There is a high chance that without intervention, increased expectations to engage in open research practices may lead to unacceptable increases in demands on academics.”

Open access: https://doi.org/10.36850/mr5

#Science
#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#STS
@stsing
@academicchatter
#AcademicWorkload

🔸New Critical Metascience blog post🔸

"Opening up open science to epistemic pluralism: Comment on Bazzoli (2022) and some additional thoughts"

https://open.substack.com/pub/markrubin/p/opening-up-open-science-to-epistemic?r=2bqjb7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#Science
#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
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#ScienceofScience
#STS

My new article on “Questionable Metascience Practices."

Open access: https://doi.org/10.36850/mr4

Few quotes follow: 🧵👉

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#MetaScience #MetaResearch
#PhilSci
#SociologyofScience
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@stsing

1/9

Rethinking Transparency and Rigor from a Qualitative Open Science Perspective

“The aim of this paper is to challenge the current quantitative-focused mainstream understanding of transparency and rigor within the open science movement and suggest additional considerations relating to these concepts from qualitative research paradigms.”

Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/bpu5f

#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#STS
@stsing
@cnsyoung

Motives for Not Sharing Data:

"We found no robust empirical evidence for the claim that not sharing research data for reanalysis is associated with consistency errors."

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0284243

#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#ReplicationCrisis
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#STS
@stsing

Replications Welcome!

“Replicators seem to believe that their work is seen as hostile (Nosek and Errington 2020; Nosek et al. 2022). In response, they are likely to see the outside world as a source of threats….However, the current results suggest that replicators possibly overestimate the risk of negative reactions to their work.”

https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2023.2198126

#Science
#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#ReplicationCrisis
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#STS
@stsing

A narrow definition of “research quality”

"[Preregistration, computational reproducibility of analyses, and replication studies] are all methodological procedures which have been developed from a narrow perspective of positivist epistemology, quantitative methodology, and a-priori confirmatory hypothesis testing.”

https://psyarxiv.com/2zhwe/

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#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#ReplicationCrisis
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
@stsing
#Preregistration
#ReplicationCrisis

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“Responsible research assessment should prioritize theory development and testing over ticking open science boxes”

New preprint comments on proposals to change hiring and promotion in psychology to become more oriented to open science.

https://psyarxiv.com/ad74m/

Few quotes follow: 🧵👉

#Science
#Psychology
@psychology
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#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
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#ScienceofScience
#STS
@stsing
#PsychJobs
@academicchatter
@academicsunite

New discussion of preregistration argues for “three different categories of accepted papers:

(i) non-preregistered (confirmatory or exploratory) research,

(ii) preregistered, confirmatory research and

(iii) non-preregistered research marked explicitly as exploratory."

Open access: https://danielhers.github.io/preregistration.pdf

Mastodonian authors: @dh

#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#ReplicationCrisis
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@stsing

New blog post about our proclivity to bury our head in the sand about inconvenient scientific results.
https://tritonstation.com/2023/01/30/lets-just-ignore-it/
#astronomy #darkmatter #sociologyofscience

“The ‘positivist’ ideals of value neutrality and objectivity embody the very principles of egalitarianism and democracy [that ‘critical’ theorists] claim to subscribe to.”

van den Berg & Jeong (2022):

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-022-00750-8

https://rdcu.be/c3T9k

#Science
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#STS
@stsing
#PhilosophyOfScience
#PhilSci
@philosophyofscience
#ValueNeutrality
#Positivism
#StandpointTheory
#Epistemology
#Postmodernism

Discourse analysis of Reddit r/science users finds they negatively evaluate social science research, especially psychology, as being pseudoscientific

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https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625221146453

Few quotes follow 🧵👉

#Science
#Psychology
@psychology
#SocialPsychology
#SocialScience
@socialpsych
#MetaScience
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#Reddit
#ClickBait
#PublicUnderstandingOfScience

“Policing Replications”

“The term policing is meant to convey that empirical scientific discovery needs to be controlled systematically to institutionalize incentives that prevent questionable research practices and fraud. We acknowledge that the term might evoke some negative connotations.”

Ankel-Peters et al. (2023): https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/267931

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#ReplicationCrisis
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
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@stsing