Fallon Mody
@fallonmody.bsky.social
Lecturer in History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne (Australia), & MetaMelb research group. Interested in and works on History & Philosophy of Science / Metascience #metasci, current board member of AIMOS
After a break, The HPS Podcast is back for Season 6! 🎙️ In our first episode, I'm joined by Dr. Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief of Nature, for a conversation about trust in science, transparent peer review, COVID-19's legacy, & the inequities that continue to shape who gets published.
S6 E1 - Magdalena Skipper on Scientific Publishing
Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 30 July · 39min
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Do metascience's assumptions hold up? Join us August 13 at 4pm (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra time / GMT + 10) for a talk from @markrubin.bsky.social events.humanitix.com/questioning-...
Questioning Some Metascience Assumptions, with Mark Rubin
Do the assumptions of metascience hold up to close scrutiny?
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This just in from AIMOS: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... - must Australian researchers defy their employers in order to share their data?
Australian researchers are being forbidden to comply with their contractual and ethical obligations to share data | Association for Interdisciplinary Metaresearch and Open Science (AIMOS)
New bans against foreign collaboration seem to forbid Australian researchers from meeting their ethical and contractual obligations to share data.
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We would like to thank the ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review Leads for their incredible work! Jay Patel, @fallonmody.bsky.social, @grinschglsandra.bsky.social, @debrajmanna27.bsky.social, Emmanuel Odame, and Joseph P. Biggane lead the Crowds that collaboratively and openly review preprints!
Crowd Preprint Review – ASAPbio
Join ASAPbio's community of preprint reviewers to provide valuable feedback on life science research and help advance open science.
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AIMOS is so glad to see all of Simine's well-earned successes! (come see her give a plenary talk at our 2026 conference in Wellington ... 😉)
Einstein Foundation Berlin@einsteinberlin.bsky.social · 5mo ago🏆 @simine.com, psychologist at @psychunimelb.bsky.social / @unimelb.bsky.social and Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science (@psychscience.bsky.social) is a leading voice in the reform movement in psychology - and is now being honored with the €150K Individual Award. Huge congratulations! 🎉
We finally have a Linkedin page! Follow there for longer form updates about AIMOS and other news. www.linkedin.com/company/asso... Thanks!
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Association for Interdisciplinary Metaresearch and Open Science (AIMOS) | 14 followers on LinkedIn. AIMOS seeks to improve research by studying it and seeking to make it more transparent
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📅 Mark your calendars for #SIPS2027! The 2027 SIPS conference, organized in collaboration with the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science @aimosinc.bsky.social, will be held in November at the University of Melbourne, Australia. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
New in Proceedings B, led by Jaspreet Singh: "Comparing expert assessments of research quality between the Global North and East Africa" royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article... We found that Kenyan assessors were more optimistic about the quality of 80 papers than were Global North assessors 1/
"This Issue stems from the Cultural Evolution Society Transformation Fund, designed to bridge the social & natural sciences, promote equity, diversity & inclusion & support work with policy relevance. This diversification of the CE field strengthens its capacity to positively shape global futures"
Rachel Kendal@rachkendal.bsky.social · 8mo agoToday sees the publication of the Theme Issue featuring the CES Transformation Fund grant scheme. Enjoy! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3... @durhamdcerc.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
Sri Lanka is my original home, and it is so beautiful. We were just there a few months ago. If you have any spare dollars, consider donating to the cyclone response!. It has been devastating for a country already in a huge cost of living crisis: 1.6 million people displaced, 356 still missing.
Following up from @drjbeaudry.bsky.social's wonderful recap email yesterday, here is the group photo from #AIMOS2025. If you couldn't make this this year, we hope to see you next year in beautiful Wellington!
It has been an honour to partner with @rorinstitute.bsky.social in our mission to make peer review and curation of metascience more robust, transparent, and equitable.
MetaROR@metaror.bsky.social · 9mo ago🎈 Time flies! Exactly one year ago today @rorinstitute.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social launched MetaROR, a platform to publish metaresearch through the publish-review-curate approach. Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers. [1/3]
Can metadata curation count as experimental practice? We answer in this new paper on data reanalysis in #plant #spacebiology, a major outcome of #PHIL_OS & Paola Castaño‘s collaboration w NASA’s open data team! #philsci, #data, #experimentation, #modelling, #ISS. OA version: doi.org/10.1016/j.sh...
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Job opportunity — Junior Professorship in Psychological Metascience @zpid.bsky.social leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 h/t @bethclarke.bsky.social
🏆 Individual: @simine.com, psychologist at @unimelb.bsky.social & editor-in-chief of Psychological Science, is recognized for pioneering methodological rigor, reproducibility & collaborative research, driving initiatives such as @improvingpsych.org & the journal Collabra @ucpress.bsky.social. (2/5)
A HUGE congratulations to @simine.com! Everyone in the MetaMelb team @unimelb.bsky.social are so proud.
Einstein Foundation Berlin@einsteinberlin.bsky.social · 8mo ago🏆 Individual: @simine.com, psychologist at @unimelb.bsky.social & editor-in-chief of Psychological Science, is recognized for pioneering methodological rigor, reproducibility & collaborative research, driving initiatives such as @improvingpsych.org & the journal Collabra @ucpress.bsky.social. (2/5)
ARC says they’ll announce DECRA and LIEF outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 25th Nov). In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).
Hey folks! We're running a big repliCATS workshop in Melbourne on 16 Dec, evaluating of replicability of published papers. 🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome 💰 AU$200 🎫 + travel subsidies ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY... Re-posts appreciated 🌈
MetaROR, a platform for reviews of research on research, is a success! We have published 24 sets of reviews and have 16 submissions in process. MetaROR now has 9 partners - these are journals that agree to use our reviews when authors submit to them. metaror.org #metascience #openaccess
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MetaResearch Open Review MetaResearch Open Review MetaResearch Open Review A new platform designed to transform how we review and share metaresearch A new platform designed to transform
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I am very excited to be working on this project! Can’t wait to get started :)
AIMOS@aimosinc.bsky.social · 9mo agoExciting new metascience project just funded, led by AIMOS founder @fidlerfm.bsky.social, Kate Williams, and James Wilsdon.
Exciting new metascience project just funded, led by AIMOS founder @fidlerfm.bsky.social, Kate Williams, and James Wilsdon.
Ger Post presenting on his PhD research, on using repliCATS to teach critical thinking to first semester intro psych undergraduate students (in a class of 1800 students!) #SIPS2025
Hey SIPS folks, we want to run a small repliCATS pilot on Day 0 (24 June) in Budapest to get feedback on our latest project! Join @fidlerfm.bsky.social & @fallonmody.bsky.social for a 2-hour session, with catered lunch + 50 euro visa card. More details here: forms.gle/Z7p7PqA5vqpC...
Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)@improvingpsych.org · last yr.Join us for the exciting workshops during #SIPS2025 in Budapest on June 25-27! Check out the full schedule (buff.ly/oe9xbHp) or the abbreviated list below 👇 And don't forget to register! buff.ly/WUIXiqK
"Gold standard science" is becoming a ubiquitous Trump administration catchphrase. Many scientists say the administration is flipping the script -- using the language of improving science to damage it. @briannosek.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social Gift link: wapo.st/43VGY52
Why Trump’s push for ‘gold-standard science’ has researchers alarmed
Many scientists fear the Trump administration’s new standard means putting political appointees in charge, which could undercut independent research.
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I am really looking forward to SIPS, and I hope many original repliCATS participants have a few hours on Day 0 for us to pick your brains about our next repliCATS project & give us feedback on our new platform. Deets below 👇
The repliCATS project@replicats.bsky.social · last yr.Hey SIPS folks, we want to run a small repliCATS pilot on Day 0 (24 June) in Budapest to get feedback on our latest project! Join @fidlerfm.bsky.social & @fallonmody.bsky.social for a 2-hour session, with catered lunch + 50 euro visa card. More details here: forms.gle/Z7p7PqA5vqpC...
I'm glad to be speaking at this meeting about research integrity, which will flow nicely into the @aimosinc.bsky.social conference later that week, with a broader remit into metascience, openness, and transparency!
Jennifer Byrne@jabyrnesci.bsky.social · last yr.International #ResearchIntegrity conference taking place in beautiful Sydney Australia on 16-18 November 2025 🐨 🌏 Great speakers including @elisabethbik.bsky.social @jdwilko.bsky.social @jasonchin.bsky.social For more info contact @simongandevia.bsky.social 🧪
