Metascience at FSV UK: Workshops with world experts Gilad Feldman and František Bartoš

On Tuesday, 29 September, two workshops focused on metascience and open science practices will take place at FSV UK (Voršilská 1, room 508). Metascience examines how science works: how reliable published findings are, what distorts them, and how research processes can be improved. Open science is a set of practices that make research more transparent and verifiable. These include making data, analytical code, and research materials publicly available, preregistration (publishing a study plan before data collection), and an emphasis on freely accessible research outputs. The aim is to make it easy for others to check and replicate findings and build on them.

Starting at 9:30, Gilad Feldman (University of Innsbruck) will demonstrate how AI tools and automation can be used to check and improve scientific research. Starting at 13:30, František Bartoš (University of Amsterdam) will lead a practical workshop on publication bias adjusted meta-analysis in JASP.

The workshops are free of charge, will be held in English, and are open to students and colleagues from all social science disciplines. Places are limited; non-binding registration is available via this form.

The workshops are part of the international meeting Metascience of Behavior Change, organized by Marek Vranka (Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, FSV UK) with the support of the faculty’s BRAINSTORM project. The meeting brings together researchers from Innsbruck, Amsterdam, Budapest, Copenhagen, and Prague and aims to lay the foundations for long-term collaboration in metascience at FSV UK.

Gilad Feldman (University of Innsbruck) is one of the most prominent figures in the movement toward replicable science. His CORE team has involved more than 70 early-career researchers from around the world and more than 400 students and, since 2018, has conducted more than 150 preregistered replications and extensions of classic studies in social psychology and behavioral economics. He is currently developing tools that use artificial intelligence to check statistics, effect sizes, and the consistency of articles with their preregistrations. At the workshop, he will demonstrate these tools in practice – with no programming knowledge required.

František Bartoš (University of Amsterdam) is one of the most talented young methodologists and statisticians. He is an Ig Nobel Prize laureate for a large-scale experiment involving more than 350,000 coin tosses. Among many other projects, he develops methods for robust Bayesian meta-analysis (the RoBMA R-package) and contributes to the development of the free statistical software JASP. At the workshop, he will demonstrate how publication bias can change the conclusions of entire fields of science – and how to correct for it.

More information can be found here.

Contact: Marek Vranka, marek.vranka@fsv.cuni.cz