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#metascience

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RaymondPierreL3

“…the sight of a high-ranking university representative stepping in to save a big tech executive from answering a difficult question was deeply embarrassing (or at least should have been) for all concerned.”

And this is the point. #BigTech shielded by academics (a patchy cover at best, though a telling of the power of wealth and its financial control of scientific research). I this case it was about #Google’s AI products where its representative executive Anna Koivuniemi of Google #DeepMind was shielding that the high-ranking university representative and chair, Geraint Rees, ruled an ‘embarrassing’ question out of order.

It’s a short, but enlightening, read well worth your time if your interests include the use of #GenAI in scientific #research.

#ResearchIntegrity #GenAI&ScientificResearch #MetaScience

Read more: warrenpearce.pika.page/posts/w

What *is* metascience? Issues, inclusion and future public value - Warren's blog: Publics, politics, science and technology
Warren's blog: Publics, politics, science and technologyWhat *is* metascience? Issues, inclusion and future public value - Warren's blog: Publics, politics, science and technologyThis week, the biennial Metascience Conference came to London’s “Knowledge Quarter” with around 800 participants from a wide range of roles, including researchers, librarians, research funders, publishers, media and corporations. For...
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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T. T. Perry

"Psychology has been operating for too long on the basis of implicit paradigms that are taken for granted and no longer considered explicitly, thereby relying on too many (meanwhile) hidden assumptions that urgently need reappraisal, critical reflection and even radical change and renewal"

#Psychology#MetaScience#Science
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

#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
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
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

#Science#Colonialism#Positivism
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