On the 13th of December our PhD candidate Hilde Augusteijn will defend her dissertation named: “Debiasing the social sciences: Contribution to alleviating bias in meta-analyses and assessments of scientific manuscripts”.
We are excited to announce that the upcoming Platform for Young Meta-Scientists (PYMS) meeting is scheduled to take place at the Meta-Research Center, Tilburg University on 31st May 2024.
The meeting mainly targets master’s students, PhD candidates and post-doctoral researchers (including assistant/associate professors, who have completed their PhD within the last five years) working or interested in meta-science.
The goal of the meeting is to bring early-career meta-scientists together to build connections, facilitating collaboration and the exchange of innovative ideas. The meeting will be a great opportunity for participants to introduce their projects to the community, gain awareness of other research groups working on related meta-scientific projects, and form a support group to which they can reach out to discuss open science and common struggles of junior researchers in meta-science.
Moreover, this event aims to gather insights and feedback from Young Meta Scientists like you on what you envision for the PYMS's future. With this meeting, we are trying to revitalize PYMS and its community. It will be a great opportunity for you to share your thoughts, express your needs, and contribute to shaping the direction of PYMS. For instance, we aim to organize another meeting/conference in a large scale in Automn, but its organization and format still need to be discussed in the incoming meeting.
The program will feature talks by participants showing their research and/or PhD projects, and informal networking opportunities. However, the exact program of the day is still pending depending on the number of speakers in the meeting.
During the meeting, some time will be set aside to discuss how these PYMS meetings should look like going forward, what PYMS participants want from these meetings, and how to ensure that they will occur regularly.
If you would like to know more about the PYMS meeting, if you are keen to attend and/or present your work, please fill out the following form (https://forms.office.com/e/J6RXre1g7J?origin=lprLink), no registration fees apply. Any update will be communicated via your email address and announced on this website.
If you have any questions regarding the meeting, please send an email to T.K.Wong_1@tilburguniversity.edu.
Organizers:
Cas Goos
Franziska Rüffer
Tamarinde Haven
Tsz Keung Wong
The future of science is more than just reproducibility or access. At the Sustainable Science Symposium, we aim to go beyond these recurrent topics.
We are interested in the prevalence of power and privilege in research, and their interaction with open science and access. We aim to provide a space to discuss important but often disregarded topics such as intellectual property and copyright of research output, scholarly communication, infrastructural governance, and how to venture beyond the traditional sphere to connect to marginalized communities.
Join us in a day of radical and uncompromising thought about the sustainability of science in all its shapes and forms! Read more on Sustainable Science Symposium.
The Meta-Research Center at Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is excited to announce the Tilburg Meta-Research Day on Friday November 22, 2019!
The goal of this day is to bring together those who are interested in studying or discussing the current state of academic research. To that end, we would like to welcome meta-researchers, researchers from other fields, but also people who are not primarily engaged in research like journal editors, science journalists, and scientific policymakers.
The day will consist of plenary talks by Sarah de Rijcke, Ana Marušić, and John Ioannidis, and we will host parallel sessions where people can come together to discuss, plan, or work on a specific meta-research project.
If you would like to lead one of these sessions, please send us an e-mail (metaresearch@tilburguniversity.edu) with a short description of the research topic you would like to discuss.
If you would like to register for the Tilburg Meta-Research Day, please do so before October 31st on the website.
For more information: https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about/schools/socialsciences/organization/departments/methodology-statistics/colloquia/meta-research-day
You can find many people from the meta-research center at the annual SIPS conference, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Michèle will be one of the panel members at the KennisCafé, where she will talk about problems in science (and their solutions) for a laymen’s audience.
Several members of the Meta-Research Center will present their research at the International Convention of Psychological Science, in Paris.
At this International Winter School in Padua, Italy, Michèle will give two talks about flexibility in data analysis and statistical inconsistencies.
At the 28th IOPS Winter Conference, Esther Maassen will present a poster on her work on the reproducibility of effect sizes.
Esther Maassen, Anton Olsson Collentine, and Michèle Nuijten will give presentations at the EPP symposium on meta-analysis.
Thursday 14.40 – 15.40: Esther Maassen – Effect-size selection and extraction
Friday 09.00 – 10.00: Anton Olsson Collentine – Heterogeneity and publication bias
Friday 13.30 – 14.30: Michèle Nuijten – How meta-analysis can always prove you right (even when you are wrong)
Olmo will give a talk at Skeptics in the Pub, Amsterdam, titled "Statistical errors in science: What are their consequences and how can we avoid them?"
Olmo will present his work “How do researchers interpret the outcomes of multiple studies?” at the second workshop on Perspectives on Scientific Error, in Groningen, the Netherlands.
ZonMw’s Network Useful research for policy and practice organises a meeting with the theme Open Science.
Michèle will give a workshop about "Open Source and Open Science Software" at the EASP Solid Science Training in Bordeaux.
Marjan will give a talk at the Kickoff Workshop for the Center of Reproducible Science (CRS) at the University of Zurich.
Jelte Wicherts, Robbie van Aert, and Esther Maassen will present at IMPS, the annual meeting of the Psychometric Society, in New York. In their symposium, they will discuss novel approaches to dealing with heterogeneity in meta-analyses.
On the 10th of July, Michèle will present her work on statcheck on the 10th International Conference on Teaching Statistics in Kyoto.
Olmo will give a talk at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference, held at the Free University, Amsterdam, titled "Sex differences in trust and trustworthiness: A meta-analysis of the trust game and the gift-exchange game".
The annual meeting of the Society for the Improving of Psychological Science. Of our group, you will find Andrea Stoevenbelt, Marcel van Assen, Marjan Bakker, Michèle Nuijten, and Olmo van den Akker there.
The bi-annual conference of IOPS (the Interuniversity Graduate School of Psychometrics and Sociometrics). Olmo will present a poster about his recent work, titled "What heuristics do researchers use when assessing the outcomes of multiple studies?".
Michèle will give a talk at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin, titled: Using “statcheck” to detect misreported statistics in the scientific literature, and other ways to improve science.
On Wednesday May 30, Michèle Nuijten will defend her theses "Research on research: a meta-scientific study of problems and solutions in psychological science".
