Great to speak with Bob Wells on Undercurrent Stories about my book Beyond Belief. Love that he named the episode 'The Rest is Evidence' 🧪 and asked about HIPPOs: following the 'Highest Paid Person's Opinion' is a common non-evidence-based way of making decisions www.undercurrentstories.com

The first hard copies of 'Beyond Belief' have arrived! I can confirm it's strange to hold an actual book after writing and re-re-writing for years. Out April 28th! Preorders really help 🙏 Why read it? Because it reminds us why #evidence matters. @princetonupress.bsky.social

Guidance for the Responsible use of AI in Evidence Synthesis (RAISE) has been updated! With many thanks to all the feedback we've received and all the contributions from authors Please see OSF for the latest draft: osf.io/fwaud/overview

I enjoyed it too. And agreed with it 100%.

Alice Cann@alicecann.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I enjoyed this blog post.

Happy to say that we've just updated the RAISE guidance for responsible use of AI in evidence synthesis. Many thanks to very many authors who worked really hard on this update! You can read it in full on osf: osf.io/fwaud/

CEE is excited to see the recent launch of METIUS (Mobilising Evidence Through AI and User-Informed Synthesis). METIUS will use cutting-edge AI to give decision-makers stronger, more timely evidence to tackle urgent social and environmental challenges. 👇 More below #EvidenceSynthesis #AI #SciPol

Is research really worth it? Come and hear what I think about why we do what we do. www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Is research really worth it? with Professor Kathryn Oliver | LSHTM

Research is something we spend a lot of money and time on — as individuals, organisations, and states. But is it worth it? Do we get bang for our buck? Who really benefits? And does research actually

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A very significant day for us as our new birth cohort study is announced, the first for quarter of a century. Big congratulations to colleagues in our @clscohorts.bsky.social for all their hard work in getting this off the ground!

News from UK Research and Innovation@news.ukri.org · 11mo ago

UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years #ESRC #AcademicSky

We've extended the deadline for Campbell Award nominations to Sept 12th! These annual awards celebrate researchers who have made significant contributions to evidence synthesis. Learn about eligibility criteria and how to nominate a candidate here: www.campbellcollaboration.org/get-involved...

About all these out of office replies telling me to resend emails after a given date My view is that I've sent the email and it's up to the recipient from then on. It's not reasonable to expect me to keep track of everyone's holiday dates and resend emails accordingly Happy holidays! :)

Really useful, nuanced work from Ai2

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In our new paper, “Contextualized Evaluations: Judging Language Model Responses to Underspecified Queries,” we find that adding just a bit of missing context can reorder model leaderboards—and surface hidden biases. 🧵👇

@ellaflem.bsky.social‬ describes how we all have a role to play in developing and using responsible AI in #Evidence synthesis. Excited to see how the work of the Joint AI methods group evolves! #ESMARConf2025 buff.ly/2fmgpAr

ESMARConf2025: Presentation - Introducing RAISE... - Ella Flemyng

Full Title: Introducing RAISE (Responsible AI use in evidence SynthEsis)Presenter: Ella FlemyngAbstract:This presentation will introduce the RAISE recommenda...

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Odd: the RAISE guidance for responsible use of AI in evidence synthesis had become a private project I don't think any of us asked for it to be private - maybe it was an OSF quirk. It's now public again. Sorry if you tried to access the site when it wasn't available! osf.io/fwaud/

Responsible AI in Evidence Synthesis (RAISE): guidance and recommendations

The RAISE guidance is currently written in three documents. The first document, ‘RAISE 1’, provides tailored recommendations for eight of the distinct roles in the evidence synthesis ecosystem: eviden...

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Ella Flemyng@ellaflem.bsky.social · last yr.

‼️HOT OFF THE PRESS‼️ ⭐Updated Responsible AI use in Evidence Synthesis (RAISE) 3-paper collection on OSF: osf.io/fwaud/files/... ⭐ Now includes: 1️⃣Recommendations for practice for the main roles in the ecosystem 2️⃣ Guidance on building & evaluating AI tools 3️⃣Guidance on selecting & using AI tools

Just a reminder that #ESMARConf2025 is starting tomorrow! This is a free online conference about evidence synthesis and meta-analysis using #Rstats. Further details can be found here: esmarconf.org/2025/

2025 - ESMARConf

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‼️HOT OFF THE PRESS‼️ ⭐Updated Responsible AI use in Evidence Synthesis (RAISE) 3-paper collection on OSF: osf.io/fwaud/files/... ⭐ Now includes: 1️⃣Recommendations for practice for the main roles in the ecosystem 2️⃣ Guidance on building & evaluating AI tools 3️⃣Guidance on selecting & using AI tools

Bridging disciplinary silos with an open methods resource. 🚀 Sallie Barnes, @annetteboaz.bsky.social & @oliver-kathryn.bsky.social introduce the #URE Methods Repository, re-launching summer 2025. transforming-evidence.org/blog/bridgin...

How ‘correct’ should #evidencesynthesis be? How does this change if we add #AI? Help inform new tool dev and best practice guidance! forms.office.com/e/ZwdicYQpjv Open until 2 Jul, ~35 mins. Part of @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded DESTinY @campbellreviews.bsky.social @ellaflem.bsky.social

Just published - updated guidance and recommendations for the responsible use of AI in evidence synthesis (RAISE): osf.io/fwaud/ We're doing a webinar on this in about an hour! training.cochrane.org/recommendati...

Responsible AI in Evidence Synthesis (RAISE): guidance and recommendations

The RAISE guidance is currently written in three documents. The first document, ‘RAISE 1’, provides tailored recommendations for eight of the distinct roles in the evidence synthesis ecosystem: eviden...

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Cochrane is now hosting a Crowd task to identify literature on climate and health (for Wellcome-funded DESTINY tinyurl.com/54wack7p) If you'd like to help: 1. Head to Cochrane Crowd crowd.cochrane.org 2. Login or create an account 3. Click "Task" on the dashboard 4. Select "Climate Quest – Part 1”

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Become a Cochrane citizen scientist. Anyone can join our collaborative volunteer effort to help categorise and summarise healthcare evidence so that we can make better healthcare decisions.

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Join Us for the First DEST Hackathon on Living Evidence Synthesis — co-organized by the International Collaboration for the Automation of Systematic Reviews (ICASR) and the DESTINY consortium funded by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social 🔗 Learn more and sign up: shorturl.at/g6xc4

2025-07-10 | DEST Hackathon (Potsdam, Germany) | What Works Climate Solutions

🌍 Join Us for the First DEST Hackathon on Living Evidence Synthesis! 🌐 📍 Location: Telegrafenberg campus, PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam  📅 Date: July 10–11, 2025 We’...

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ICASR and DESTINY are holding a meeting in July! If you're interested in automation in evidence synthesis then do take a look - in person and online options available :) www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Happy Friday! If you're interested in #embeddedresearcher posts in local government, take a look at our briefings to help commissioning/designing embedded researcher posts: eppi.ioe.ac.uk/CMS/Portals/.... More resources also on the @eppicentre.bsky.social website here: eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default....

🚀 THE PEOPLE'S REVIEW IS OPEN NOW 🚀 We are excited to launch Stage 1 of #ThePeoplesReview ✅Open to people worldwide ✅Everything takes place online ✅Make a difference in health research ✅Learn about systematic reviews Join now ➡️ buff.ly/WAnKUYa

📣 Just published in Campbell Systematic Reviews, an Evidence and Gap Map of interventions that create or enhance support from friends, family, neighbours or colleagues for victim‐survivors of domestic violence and abuse: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Interventions for Improving Informal Social Support for Victim‐Survivors of Domestic Violence and Abuse: An Evidence and Gap Map

Background Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA) is a significant global problem that warrants a robust, multi-sectoral response. The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted that informal and social networks play...

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🔊 New in Social Science & Medicine - 'Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions' Available here (£0): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Summary 🧵 follows 👇 #BehSci #Nudge

Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions

Changing behaviour across populations is key to improving population health and achieving net zero by 2050, including changing diets. We examine the e…

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Our Update 2025 report is now available and Evidence Commission co-lead @lavisjn.bsky.social shared some key reflections youtu.be/Mm-55r1v4BE

Global Evidence Commission Update 2025

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🤖 We've launched a new joint AI Methods Group 🤖 Cochrane, The Campbell Collaboration, JBI & Collaboration for Environmental Evidence have joined forces to spearhead adoption across these four leading evidence synthesis organizations www.cochrane.org/news/new-ai-...

The NIH NIEHS Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal seems to be gone. Does anyone know whether this is just planned downtime, or...?

1/n For "Safe and Responsible Use of AI" (Working Group 3), we are interested in all you have to say (!), but specifically ... 1. What important considerations for the Safe and Responsible use of AI Tools do you think we have omitted?

The first consultation for the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative is now live. If you're interested in the future shape of global evidence synthesis do take a look and have your say! evidencesynthesis.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/...