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“…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...
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Bernhard Angele is now presenting "Living meta-analyses in Language Sciences" at #WoReLa1. Having explaining the need for such living meta-analyses in a very houmous way, Bernhard demonstrated this very cool project. The main output is a #Shiny app that can perform Bayesian meta-analyses with lots of opportunities to control various parameters AND allows you to upload additional data to an existing meta-analysis. The app can be used as is or the code adapted to your needs: dallbrit.shinyapps.io/Breathin. Also check out the associated paper: doi.org/10.5334/joc.389 #MetaScience

Could a novelty indicator improve science?
nature.com/articles/d41586-025 #MetaScience I have mixed feelings about this. The competition for machine-based indicators that align well with human assessments is well-designed, and I agree that researching the role of novelty is interesting. 1/ @openscience

www.nature.comCould a novelty indicator improve science?A competition to develop computational approaches to detect ‘novelty’ in published papers will help metascientists to study how out-of-the-box research changes the scientific landscape.

You are all warmly invited to our #metascience2025 virtual symposium on Friday 27 June 15:00–16:30 CEST on doing #metascience and #interdisciplinary research as an early-career researcher.

Convenor: Anna Leung (psycholinguist and language teacher; University Hospital, LMU, Germany)

Discussants:
- Shawn Hemelstrand (psychologist and methodologist; The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- Daniel Kristanto (engineer turned neuroscientist; Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)
- Elen Le Foll (corpus linguist and language teaching; University of Cologne)

Abstract: nomadit.co.uk/conference/metas.

Registration is free: cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/registe.

We look forward to discussing these important topics with you! #ECR #PhD #PostDoc #Academia #OpenScience

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"As we report below, even well-meaning scientists provided with identical data and freed from pressures to distort results may not reliably converge in their findings because of the complexity and ambiguity inherent to the process of scientific analysis."
#metascience