As scientists, we are supposed to be objective and disinterested, careful sifters of evidence. The reality is messier. Our training can give us only so much protection from natural tendencies to see ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Troy is an underappreciated film. There are several reasons for this (not least of which is its liberal use of staring dramatically into the distance), but the one I’d like to focus on is its ...

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 ...

Researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds are investigating how research is funded, practiced and evaluated. Through this work, their intention is to improve research systems and culture. Off ...

Troy is an underappreciated film. There are several reasons for this (not least of which is its liberal use of staring dramatically into the distance), but the one I’d like to focus on is its ...