Meta-Research Symposium, 2026

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Metascience 2027

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

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.

Paul Meehl Graduate School Meta Research Symposium 2026 | Paul Meehl Graduate School

October 8-9, 2026

metaBUS – explore science

Mapping an Ecology of Integrative Approaches to Addressing the Metacrisis

Dear friends, The Institute of Applied Metatheory (IAM) is pleased to announce the release of a new white paper that charts the landscape of leading-edge responses to the global metacrisis. In “Mapping an Ecology of Integrative Approaches to Addressing the Metacrisis”, IAM scholars Brandon Norgaard, Nicholas Hedlund, PhD, and Claudia Meglin provide a sweeping (albeit

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.

The Robyn Dawes Institute for the Improvement of Science

Making research quality visible so everyone can act on reliable evidence.

ReScience organization

Reproducible Science is good. Replicated Science is better. - ReScience organization

A protocol for attributable modular research contribution - Matsuthoughts

I wrote this essay in response to Seemay Chou's call for essays on systemic bottlenecks to science. Structural change in scholarly communication practices i…

Research Synthesis Methods

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AI Review and the Golden Age of Metascience

When I was a Ph.D.

Metascience for whom? A question as old as science.

Before we fix science, we need to ask who built it!

FOURTH REPORT: Former Alpha School students speak out

“A science experiment that’s been framed as a school” - “pretty much a concentration camp” - “cool the first few months and then it just becomes shit”