Metaventory — the meta-science community
A comprehensive community of the people building meta-science and the tools they make — psychology and economics first, growing science-wide.
Metascience 2027
A global gathering for knowledge sharing, community building, and opportunities to define a roadmap of research and intervention priorities to improve science.
Meta-Research Symposium, 2026
Register for NYU's second annual Meta-Research Symposium, “Meta-Research in Action: Implementing Better Science"
Metascience for whom? A question as old as science.
Before we fix science, we need to ask who built it!
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At Meta, research permeates everything we do. We believe the most interesting research questions are derived from real world problems.
A Vision of Metascience
How does the culture of science change and improve? Many people have identified shortcomings in core social processes of science, such as peer review, how grants are awarded, how people are selected to become scientists, and so on. Yet despite often compelling criticisms, strong barriers inhibit widespread change in such social processes. The result is near stasis, and apathy about the prospects for improvement. People sometimes start new research institutions intended to do things differently; unfortunately such institutions are often changed more by the existing ecosystem than they change it. In this essay we sketch a vision of how the social processes of science may be rapidly improved. In this vision, metascience plays a key role: it deepens our understanding of which social processes best support discovery; that understanding can then help drive change. We introduce the notion of a metascience entrepreneur, a person seeking to achieve a scalable improvement in the social processes of science. We argue that: (1) metascience is an imaginative design practice, exploring an enormous design space for social processes; (2) that exploration aims to find new social processes which unlock latent potential for discovery; (3) decentralized change must be possible, so outsiders with superior ideas can't be blocked by established power centers; (4) ideally, change would align with what is best for science and for humanity, not merely what is fashionable, politically popular, or media-friendly; (5) the net result would be a far more structurally diverse set of environments for doing science; and (6) this would enable crucial types of work difficult or impossible within existing environments. For this vision to succeed metascience must develop and intertwine three elements: an imaginative design practice, an entrepreneurial discipline, and a research field. Overall, it is a vision in which metascience is an engine of improvement for the social processes and ultimately the culture of science.
No. 027: AGMAI advisory group, Millennium Problems for biology, autonomous research pipelines - The Hallway Track
The Hallway Track No. 027 - How AI is affecting the practice of science
No. 013: Provenance vocabulary, Wikipedia contamination, OpenAI rare-disease diagnoses, ARA paper format - The Hallway Track
The Hallway Track No. 013 - How AI is affecting the practice of science
Fulcrum - Leverage for Discovery
We place AI engineers with research labs working on hard scientific problems.
No. 004: HAI AI Index, virtual cell automation, MCP for scientific literature - The Hallway Track
The Hallway Track No. 004 - How AI is affecting the practice of science
No. 025: Navier-Stokes provenance dispute, Fields Medalists declaration, AI peer review - The Hallway Track
The Hallway Track No. 025 - How AI is affecting the practice of science
Guest post: If you’re going to critique science, be scientific about it
Loren K. Mell Editor’s note: This post responds to a Feb. 13 article in The Atlantic, “The Scientific Literature Can’t Save Us Now,” written by Retraction Watch cofounders Adam Marcus and Ivan Oran…
How it works
How Explore Science reviews a manuscript: a mixture of frontier models, an in-house science stack and scientific agents, in a five-phase autonomous pipeline.
⚡ Metaventory: building better science ⚡ Had many discussions about the need for mapping out all that's meta-science: people, tools, events, jobs, simulations, etc. in one place. Metaventory aims to help connect those interested in meta-science & improving science. metaventory.vercel.app
Research tools 🔬
Interesting tools that assist with the research process.
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Introducing the Elicit API - Elicit
