[TALK] Possible submission to Metascience 2025 conference

[penyuan]

Date of talk

2025-06-30

Details of the talk

Proposals are now open for the Metascience 2025 conference to be held at University College London in, well, London, United Kingdom:
https://metascience.info/call-for-proposals/

💀 Submission deadline: "23:59 GMT on Friday 7 February 2025"

Event description:

A global gathering for knowledge sharing, community building, and opportunities to define a roadmap of research and intervention priorities to accelerate science.

I think it may be of interest to the Turing Way community to submit a proposal for, according to their website, one of "virtual pre-conference symposia, in-person panel sessions, and talks or posters on any topic related to metascience". Also, many Turing Way community members are in that geographical area!

Two very rough ideas for possible submission(s) to get things going:

1. It seems some folks in the Turing Way community have some useful critiques of the (in)famous model of academic cultural change proposed by the Center for Open Science, culminating in the Turing Way chapter that was recently published. Many (though not all) of the people behind this conference were those who originally postulated said pyramid. So, my thought was that if folks can come up with a coherent/constructive critique that can be delivered in, say, a 15 minute talk or a workshop, then it might make for a good submission.
2. A separate idea is a submission about disciplinary/epistemic diversity in open/meta research communities. Many here helped me develop my lightning talk about it at the 2024 FOSDEM open research devroom. I'm not quite sure where to take it, but I certainly feel that the metaresearch/metascience community is dominated by STEM voices at the exclusion of others!

In addition to this thread, we might try to discuss possible proposal(s) for this conference at the Turing Way collaboration cafe on January 15, 2025.

Input appreciated!!

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