Our PostDoc attended the British Academy Postdoctoral Conference 2025, calling it an inspiring chance to connect with peers across the UK and discuss interdisciplinarity and leadership.

A brief recap of Prof. Fanelli’s talk in Groningen introducing K—a metric of information compression—to model and measure scientific knowledge, outlining its derivation and early results, and inviting philosophers’ views on whether “K-theory” counts as a metascientific theory; part of the “Statistical Models, Measurement, and Scientific Knowledge” symposium (organizer: Wesley Bonifay), which also featured our project testing whether K predicts models’ fitting propensity.

Read the full blog post here: https://www.temet.science/prof-fanelli-at-the-european-philosophy-of-science-association-conference/

A recap of the Metascience Symposium morning session, featuring psychologist Ioana Alina Cristea’s talk “Issues Lost in the Fight Against Bad Science and Research Misconduct,” which examined disengagement, strawman arguments, and the silencing of critique as obstacles to addressing systemic problems in science.

Read the full blog post here:
https://www.temet.science/post-4-issues-lost-in-the-fight-against-bad-science-and-research-misconduct/

Our lab published a recap of the Metascience Symposium, featuring computational social scientist Joe Bak-Coleman’s talk “Milling Mainstream Metascience,” which explored the importance of context in evaluating scientific progress.

Read the full blog post here:
https://www.temet.science/milling-mainstream-metascience-joe-bak-coleman/

TEMET Director Prof. Daniele Fanelli has been invited to deliver a keynote titled “Research Integrity and Academic Freedom: A Semi-Autobiographical Take” at the International Seminar on Scientific Freedom, hosted by the University of Chile on 29 July 2025 in Santiago.

Read the full blog post here:
https://www.temet.science/prof-fanelli-to-give-keynote-at-international-seminar-on-scientific-freedom/

Dr. Assemgul Kozhabek joins TEMET Lab as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, bringing her expertise in complex networks to our reproducibility research, following the publication of her latest paper in Applied Network Science on the robustness of urban road networks.

Check our latest blog on it: https://www.temet.science/blogs/ 📖Read the paper: https://appliednetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10.1007/s41109-025-00707-w 

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For: SoSS Research Staff and Post graduate students

Date: Thurs 26 Jun 09.00 Panmure House or online

The symposium brings together prominent international metascientists to discuss why and how we can build a true “science of science”.

This is the line-up of speakers.

09:00:00    Welcome/intro
09:15:00    Mark Rubin, Durham University
09:45:00    Joe B. Bak-Coleman, University of Konstanz
10:15:00    Annayah MB Prosser, University of Bath
10:45:00    break
11:00:00    Ioana Cristea, University of Padova
11:30:00    Berna Devezer, University of Idaho
12:00:00    Seppo E. Iso-Ahola,  University of Maryland
12:30:00    lunch
13:15:00    David Peterson, Purdue University
13:45:00    Tom Hostler, Manchester Metropolitan University
14:15:00    Erkan Buzbas, University of Idaho
14:45:00    break
15:00:00    David Trafimow, New Mexico State University
15:30:00    Klaus ­ Fiedler, University of Heidelberg
16:00:00    Mario Gollwitzer, Ludwig Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
16:30:00    Daniele Fanelli, Heriot-Watt University

Dr. Assemgul Kozhabek – Postdoctoral Research Associate at TEMET Lab, specializing in network science and complex systems. Assemgul holds a PhD in Computer Science, with research on urban road networks. Her interests include transport modelling, metascience, and data-driven decision-making, supported by interdisciplinary experience across academia and industry.

Ha Anh Tran – Research Associate at TEMET Lab, Ha Anh holds an MSc in Speech and Language Processing from the University of Edinburgh. Her background spans speech technologies, NLP, and linguistics, with earlier degrees in Education and Applied Linguistics. She previously lectured in English for Academic Purposes at Hanoi University.