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Bennett

I and may amazing advisor @nicole_c_nelson and our brilliant collaborator Kelsey preprinted! 🖨️

"Adverserial" reanalyses of regulatory data pose a deep problem for existing methods of adjudicating which science our regulations should be based on

This is, unfortunately, a continually-relevant story about what #openscience and #opendata mean for how we make regulations and come to consensus as a society

#sts #metascience

osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/jfb

MetaArXiv Preprint title: Adversarial reanalysis and the challenge of open data in regulatory science By Bennett Mcintosh, Nicole Nelson, and Kelsey Ichikawa
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Jordi Cabot

A #Metascience Study of the #LowCode #Scientific #Field 📊📊

We aimed to:
☑️ Analyze the composition and growth (e.g., size, diversity, venues, and topics) of the emerging #LowCode #community; and
☑️ Explore how these aspects differ from those of the “classical” #modeldriven community.

This covers #ResearchQuestions such as:

❓Are Low-Code #publications affecting the number of traditional #Modeling publications?
❓How many Modeling conferences and workshops aim to explicitly attract Low-Code publications?
❓How are authors distributed across Low-Code and traditional Modeling publications?
❓ How many Low-Code open-source platforms and tools explicitly relate to traditional Modeling techniques?

Lots of interesting insights 🤯🤯🤯

Read the post for the full details ⬇️⬇️⬇️ and/or meet me at the next #STAF #ECMFA conference in #Koblenz next month

modeling-languages.com/metasci

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petersuber

Researchers planning to do #SystematicReviews must now plan to filter out the #JunkScience. That's difficult, time-consuming, error-prone, and demoralizing. It causes some researchers to drop their plans and forces others to move more slowly.
science.org/content/article/sy
(#paywalled)

#Academia #LiteratureReviews #MetaResearch #MetaScience #ScholComm
@academicchatter

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T. T. Perry

Operationalization Bias: A Suboptimal Research Practice in Psychology
Nagireddy Reddy, PsyArXiv Preprint (2022)

"This article discusses a suboptimal research practice, the operationalization bias, i.e., the practice of operationalizing a construct or phenomenon selectively, through the exclusive employment of one or very few variables and, in turn, neglecting to employ alternative operationalizations."

osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/prqy

osf.ioOSF
#Psychology#PsyArXiv#MetaScience
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T. T. Perry

Making sense of charges of scientism in psychology and beyond: Logical and epistemological implications.
Held, B. S. 2022, Theory & Psychology.

"If mainstream psychology is a bad science to the point of reflecting the relentless incorrigibility of its practitioners, why would theoretical psychologists who assert mainstream psychology’s scientism even consider working within any of its frameworks?"

researchgate.net/profile/Barba

And so we have arrived at a stalemate. Because more than half a century of critiques have not made a dent, I suggest that theorists who are so moved put their prescriptions to work in conceptually enlightened empirical projects that reflect their dual (theoretical/ empirical) talents.13 This would not only be a way to practice the nonscientistic psychol- ogy that is preached, but would also constitute another venue in which to broaden and build a psychological science that explicitly investigates lived experience, with prefera- ble methods—along with phenomena that have been shortchanged. Build a better, scient- ism-free psychological science, by intertwining (meta)theoretical 14 practice and empirical practice tightly and directly. Then others just might come.
#science#metaScience#psychology
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Ross Gayler

@ct_bergstrom

Nice work.

Don Braben (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_B) was making a related argument (minus the modelling) in the 1980s (doi.org/10.1038/316401a0).

He argued that revolutionary research (e.g. Planck, Einstein) would not get funded under 1980s state funding arrangements (and it's arguably worse now). He identified funding by committee and peer review as the culprits (so, systemic incentive mechanisms - as you investigated).

For a while he ran a research funding scheme that attempted to fund revolutionary research. It was bankrolled by BP as an act of philanthropy before the "shareholder value" crowd caught on to what was happening.

There is a snapshot of Braben's old website on the Internet Archive: web.archive.org/web/2006042104

His BRAVERI index is amusing in a gallows-humour way: doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4371(02)

en.wikipedia.orgDonald Braben - Wikipedia
#MetaScience#ResearchFunding
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T. T. Perry

Aspiring to greater intellectual humility in science
Rink Hoekstra & Simine Vazire, 2021

"We provide a set of recommendations on how to increase intellectual humility in research articles and highlight the central role peer reviewers can play in incentivizing authors to foreground the flaws and uncertainty in their work, thus enabling full and transparent evaluation of the validity of research."

PDF: pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfiles/por

#Science#MetaScience#Humility
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T. T. Perry

Making the circumcision controversy controversial: Going meta and taking aim at the messenger(s): Reply to Wamai et al.,
de Camargo Jr et al., 2015, Global Public Health

"For those of us who study the use of rhetoric in science, their commentary offers a fascinating example of many of the well-documented observations made by authors working in Science and Technology Studies."

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

When the commentators state that ‘if endorsement of a scientifically proven approach to alleviate a serious global infectious disease is cast in such a light then all international interventions, including alleviation of poverty and rollout of vaccination programs, should also be questioned’ (Wamai et al., 2015, para 21), we would say, after duly questioning the expression ‘scientifically proven,’ by all means, yes. The commentators are apparently unaware of the disastrous consequences of many scientifically based programmes for ‘alleviating poverty’ in Africa (Castells, Citation2011, pp. 136–150) and elsewhere (Farmer, Citation2006). We would like to invoke here the sombre warning issued by Jacques Pepin in his reconstruction of the iatrogenic contribution to the dissemination of HIV: ‘This tragedy was facilitated (or even caused) by human interventions: colonisation, urbanisation and probably well-intentioned public health campaigns. Hopefully, we can gain collective wisdom and humility that might help avoid provoking another such disaster in the coming decades’ (Pepin, 2011, p. 24).
#Science#Colonialism#Positivism
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Warrick Ball

An interesting development: UKRI has "pre-announced" a round of #metascience research grants that "will support projects using scientific methods to deepen our understanding of how different structures, incentives, and funding practices within the Research and Development (R&D) system shape scientific research outputs and career outcomes".

ukri.org/opportunity/ukri-meta

www.ukri.orgPre-announcement: UKRI Metascience research grantsThe Metascience Grants Programme supports cutting-edge research into more effective ways of supporting and funding Research and Development (R&D). Projects must have the potential to inform science policy, R&D funding practices, or practice within research-performing institutions.
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Dan Goodman

I'm on the latest episode of Brain Inspired talking about #Neuroscience, #SpikingNeuralNetworks, #MachineLearning and #Metascience! Thanks Paul Middlebrooks (not on Mastodon I think) for the invite and the extremely fun conversation. For the explanation of why this picture you'll have to listen to the episode. 😉

braininspired.co/podcast/183/

Also, if you're not yet listening to Brain Inspired you should be - and support Paul on Patreon. He provides this free for the community with no adverts. What a hero!

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