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