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Insights from the British Academy Postdoctoral Conference 2025
Assemgul attended the British Academy Postdoctoral Conference 2025, describing it as a real pleasure and an inspiring opportunity to connect with peers from across the UK while engaging in discussions on interdisciplinarity in research and leadership.
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Prof. Fanelli at the European Philosophy of Science Association Conference
Prof. Fanelli presented yesterday at the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) Conference 2025 in Groningen, Netherlands. His talk, “A metric of information compression to model and measure (scientific) knowledge?”, introduced the idea of K, outlined how it was derived, and shared the empirical results it has generated so far. The goal was to hear…
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Issues Lost in the Fight Against Bad Science and Research Misconduct
Metascience Symposium Recap At a recent symposium on research integrity, Ioana Alina Cristea, from the Department of General Psychology at the University of Padova, delivered a talk highlighting the often-overlooked obstacles in addressing problematic science. Rather than focusing solely on high-profile cases of fraud — fabricated data, falsified results, or misconduct causing direct harm —…
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Milling Mainstream Metascience — Joe Bak-Coleman
Metascience Symposium Recap Joe Bak-Coleman, a computational social scientist, studies how groups make decisions under uncertainty, with a special focus on how digital technologies shape collective behaviour. Speaking at the Metascience Symposium, he explained that his career began with research on swarming insects and schooling fish, but his curiosity about collective dynamics eventually led him…
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Prof. Fanelli to Give Keynote at International Seminar on Scientific Freedom
We are pleased to announce that Prof. Daniele Fanelli, Director of the TEMET research group, will deliver a keynote address at the International Seminar on Scientific Freedom, hosted by the University of Chile on July 29, 2025, in Santiago. His talk, titled “Research Integrity and Academic Freedom: A Semi-Autobiographical Take,” will explore the balance between…
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From Urban Networks to Research Networks: A New Paper and a New Chapter at TEMET Lab
We’re excited to share a new publication by Dr. Assemgul Kozhabek, who recently joined TEMET Lab as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Her paper, titled “Robustness Assessment of Urban Road Networks in Densely Populated Cities,” has just been published—and it marks both a conclusion and a new beginning. This research, developed during her PhD at Bournemouth…
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The Importance of Context in Metascience: Insights from Prof. Berna Devezer
At the Metascience Symposium, Professor Berna Devezer from the University of Idaho shared her ideas about replication, reproducibility, and meta-science. She stressed that meta-science reforms need to consider the context of each scientific field to be effective. Prof. Devezer explained how she became skeptical of many studies in behavioral sciences and wanted to understand why…
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Rethinking Metascience: Prof. Mark Rubin’s Fresh Perspective
In the first talk of the Metascience Symposium, Professor Mark Rubin from Durham University shared his ideas on the replication crisis and science reforms. He argued that failed replications are not a crisis but can lead to new discoveries. Rubin pointed out that replication rates can vary across different fields, so the “crisis” idea might…