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Differences in psychologists’ cognitive traits are associated with scientific divides

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02153-1

New in NHB

Scientific research is often characterized by schools of thought. We investigate whether these divisions are associated with differences in researchers’ cognitive traits such as tolerance for ambiguity. These differences may guide researchers to prefer different problems, tackle identical problems in different ways, and even reach different conclusions when studying the same problems in the same way. We surveyed 7,973 researchers in psychological sciences and investigated links between what they research, their stances on open questions in the field, and their cognitive traits and dispositions. Our results show that researchers’ stances on scientific questions are associated with what they research and with their cognitive traits. Further, these associations are detectable in their publication histories. These findings support the idea that divisions in scientific fields reflect differences in the researchers themselves, hinting that some divisions may be more difficult to bridge than suggested by a traditional view of data-driven scientific consensus.

🔦 Super happy to highlight a great event by the French Reproducible Research Network! 🎥 Recordings, 🖥️ slides & 📝 notes of the 2025 meeting are now online (in French)! 🔗 www.canal-u.tv/chaines/rfrr... #Reproducibility #OpenScience #MetaResearch #RestoRes

#statstab #313 Analyzing Replication Studies

Thoughts: Replications and RR are on the rise, but not all are conducted appropriately, and become meaningless.

#stats #replication #metascience #openscience #metaresearch #metaanalysis

https://lakens.github.io/statistical_inferences/17-replication.html#analyzing-replication-studies.

🔬✨ Interested in improving research transparency & reproducibility? Join the Meta-Science Summer School to design & launch a meta-research study!
➡️ Co-organized by the @GermanRepro
👥 Participants will learn about meta-research by designing and collecting data for a meta-research study in a small team
📅 Date: 15 - 20 June 2025; Apply by March 21, 2025!
🔗 More info: https://www.bihealth.org/en/notices/meta-science-summer-school-designing-and-conducting-studies-to-improve-research
🌐 Language: English
📌 Location: Frankfurt, Germany
#OpenScience #Reproducibility #MetaResearch #GRN (lmf)

Invitation to the Meta-Science Summer School and logos of affiliated and organizing institutions: Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), the German Reproducibility Network (GRN), the META REP Priority Program, iRise and the University of Coimbra EXCELScIOR project ERA chair.

Leydesdorff: bibliometric analysis and mapping of his scientific production

This is an interesting bibliometric study of the life's work of a prominent researcher.

https://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/article/view/87543/63573

Interactive demo of "MAPPING OF LOET LEYDESDORFF'S PUBLICATION" (made with free Cosma software mentioned in https://tools.kausalflow.com/tools/ ):

https://metroteach.com/Leydesdorff/index.html#380

#bibliometrics #metaresearch #Cosma

Screenshot of an interactive bibliometric visualization of the life's work of researcher Loet Leydesdorff.

Tools for Academic Research

I like the feature where in the detail view of a particular tool, it shows related or similar tools in the lower right side of the screen (see image on the right side below).

https://tools.kausalflow.com/tools/

RSS feed:
https://tools.kausalflow.com/tools/

#research #tools #metaresearch
#AItools

Screenshot of website for Tools for Academic Research showing many tiles with one software package or app per tile.

Lower right side of this detail screen for the Enago Read tool shows a list of related tools that are similar in some ways to Enago Read.

List of grant winners from first UKRI Metascience call

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/fellowships-launched-to-explore-how-ai-could-change-the-way-scientists-drive-new-discoveries

(published 13 feb, but I missed it)

Congratulations all

#Metascience #Metaresearch

Concerned about the quality, #reproducibility and #transparency of research? Interested in learning how to use “research on research” to improve research in your field?
Apply for the #MetaResearch #SummerSchool (June 15-20, near Frankfurt, Germany, deadline March 21) to get hands-on experience, while collaborating with researchers from different fields and countries.

https://www.bihealth.org/en/notices/meta-science-summer-school-designing-and-conducting-studies-to-improve-research

MEETING

2025 Science of Science Funding https://www.nber.org/conferences/si-2025-science-science-funding

Cambridge, MA. 17-18 July 2025; paper deadline March 20th

#MetaResearch #MetaScience

UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowships

https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ukri-metascience-ai-early-career-fellowships/

Call Open today, closes 10 April 2025 4:00pm UK time

If you have the AI/ML skills and want to bolster the scale and impact of your research by plugging into the most exciting metascience team in the world, please get in touch with @RoRInstitute about us supporting your fellowship application

#Metascience #Metaresearch

The UK Metascience Unit will fund a cohort of early career fellows to build our understanding of how the growing adoption of AI is changing the research landscape, including what epistemic, metascientific, ethical and socioeconomic questions this raises, and how governments, industry, and funding organisations should respond. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.

Fellowships can be up to two years duration, with full economic cost (FEC) up to £260,000.

Is anyone doing research on how hierarchies in different fields impact the research (quality)?

My hypothesis is that the more hierarchical a field the more difficult the collaboration and the lower the quality.

#metaresearch

Pre-announcement: UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowships

https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ukri-metascience-ai-early-career-fellowships/

"The UK Metascience Unit will fund a cohort of early career fellows to build our understanding of:
- how the growing adoption of AI is changing the research landscape, including what metascientific, ethical, epistemic, and socioeconomic questions this raises
- how governments, industry, and funding organisations should respond"

Closes 10 April,

#MetaScience #MetaResearch #Funding

Peer Review in the Age of Large Language Models – Call for Abstracts

https://cdt-art-ai.ac.uk/news/events/peer-review-in-the-age-of-large-language-models-call-for-abstracts/

#MetaResearch #PeerReview

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.
https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril
(#paywalled)

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

Applications Open for NIH’s Science of Science Scholars Program Pilot

https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2024/12/05/thats-so-meta-applications-open-for-nihs-science-of-science-scholars-program-pilot/

Deadline: 31st January

2 places available to answer #metaresearch questions with access to internal NIH data and staff support

TODAY: At the British Academy for "Using partial randomisation to award research funding – a day of discussion"

Story on the BA's use of Partial Randomisation https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/news-comment-the-british-academy-is-trialling-a-new-fairer-method-of-selecting-its-small-research-grants-heres-why/

Slides for my talk here https://tomstafford.github.io/talks.html

#MetaResearch

Meta-science 2025 UCL June 30-July 2 Proposals due Feb 7 I am thinking of sending something. See you there? #hps #metaresearch #metascience metascience.info/call-for-pro...

Call for Proposals - Metascien...

In this Correspondence article in European Science Editing, Joshua Wang discusses how retractions do not just correct the scientific record, but serve as crucial datapoints that inform meta-research and research education.

Read it in the journal now: https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2024.e140235

#Retractions #MetaResearch #EuropeanScienceEditing #JournalEditing #PublicationEthics

Correspondence

The insights lost from ambiguous retraction notices

Joshua Wang

"With this correspondence, I aim to supplement the largely conceptual and quantitative body of work underpinning recommendations on retraction notices, with an illustrative example of how vague statements limit research progress."

doi.org/10.3897/ese.2024.e140235

ease publications

ese / European Science Editing

Thought provoking articles on #UnansweredQuestionsInResearchAssessment - particularly taken by the call to be 'open about experiments that don't work’ and for approaches to be ‘as aligned as possible, but as diverse as necessary’.

Also a need to acknowledge the trade-off between extra time spent on assessment that increases nuance and accuracy and other uses for that time. Everyone is pretty busy so that time could otherwise be used for more research.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/recent-posts/?category=Unanswered-Questions-in-Research-Assessment

#MetaResearch

Would love to hear anything people want to share about the Journal of Scientific Practice and Integrity, a diamond OA journal published by Hamilton Publishing, Inc, a non-profit whose source of funds I do not know.
#OpenScience #metaresearch

#MetaResearch

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