Symposium: Critical Perspectives on the Metascience Reform Movement
Channel: Center for Open Science
Date: 2024-03-14

Metascience is often defined as the scientific investigation of science itself with the aim to improve science. This ‘improving’ part of metascience has been called a reform movement. While the intention to improve science is generally laudable, metascience and the associated movement(s) are not without their critics. The metascience reform movement has for instance been characterized as among other things, neoliberal, positivistic, atheoretical, technological, moralizing, bureaucratic, homogenizing, mechanistic, quantitative, psychological (psychologizing), social, civilizing, bullying, exclusive, coercive, activist, and normative. In this symposium some of those critical perspectives will be presented and discussed.

0:00 - Intro: Tim Errington, Center for Open Science
3:01 - Shamed Into Good Science: Bart Penders, RWTH Aachen University
34:59 - The Invisible Workload of Open Research: Thomas Hostler, Manchester Metropolitan University
1:01:23 - Why Replication Is Underrated: Stephan Guttinger, University of Exeter
1:24:52 - Communities of Practice in the Science Reform Movement - Recognizing and Mobilizing Diverse Contributions to Science Reform: Sarahanne Field, University of Groningen
1:49:12 - The Decline of Scientific Individualism?: Nicole C. Nelson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2:14:36 - Meta Makeover: Ditching Dogmas and Raising Standards of Evidence: Berna Devezer, University of Idaho
2:40:45 - Panel Q&A