On 2 July, a science initiative was born in a lecture hall in London. The Metascience Alliance is a coalition of more than 25 funders, academic groups, companies and other institutions that pursue ...

Around the world, long-standing scientific institutions are turning their keen and penetrating gaze inward. With society facing problems such as climate change that urgently require scientific ...

On February 9, AEI’s M. Anthony Mills and James Pethokoukis hosted George Mason University’s Tyler Cowen and the Institute for Progress’s Heidi Williams to discuss innovation, progress, and scientific ...

When America endeavors to tackle an ambitious project, we speak in terms of moonshots or a “Manhattan Project for X.” The assumption is that vast government resources, directed toward some objective, ...

With the launch of a metascience unit late last year, the United Kingdom became one of the first countries to formalize the practice of using scientific methodology to study how research is done. The ...

Metascience 2023 Conference, at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, DC, will take place May 9-10, 2023 as a global in-person gathering to connect the study of science across ...

John Ioannidis, the leader of the metascience discipline that researches the causes of the scientific irreproducibility crisis, recently has been the subject of a series of attacks from one Jonathan ...

The UK government’s metascience unit, launched last year, released its first results on June 30. The findings include a successful trial of so-called distributed peer review. Distributed peer review ...

SSHRC is pleased to announce that it is partnering with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the UK Research and Innovation to support the Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowships. As part of this ...