Program - Metascience 2019 Symposium

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PRE-CONFERENCE: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

4:00 – 6:00 PM: Audio/visual equipment test and rehearsals, as needed (Cubberley Auditorium)
For speakers and panelist

6:00 – 8:00 PM: Welcome Reception (Poolside, Sheraton Palo Alto)
For hosted attendees only, registration required

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

6:30 – 7:30 AM: Breakfast (Reception Room, Sheraton Palo Alto)
For hosted attendees only, registration required
7:00 – 8:00 AM: Registration (Cubberley Auditorium)
8:00 – 8:30 AM: Welcome, Purpose & Logistics
Jan Walleczek, Brian Nosek, Jonathan Schooler; TOPIC 1: How Do Scientists Generate Ideas?
8:30 – 10:45 AM: Dean Keith Simonton University of California, Davis
Scientific Creativity: Discovery and Invention as Combinatorial; Roberta Sinatra IT University of Copenhagen
Quantifying the evolution of scientific careers; Melissa Schilling New York University
Where do breakthrough ideas come from?
10:45 – 11:00 AM: Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 PM: Jacob Foster University of California, Los Angeles
Made to Know: Science as the Social Production of Knowledge (and its Limits); Carole Lee University of Washington
Gender-based homophily in collaborations across a heterogeneous scholarly landscape
12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch
1:30 – 2:15 PM: Marta Sales Pardo Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Collaboration patterns in science; TOPIC 2: What is Replication and Its Impact and Its Value?
2:20 – 3:05 PM: Tim Errington Center for Open Science
Barriers to conducting replications – challenges or opportunities?
3:05 – 3:20 PM: Coffee Break
3:20 – 5:35 PM: Shirley Wang Harvard Medical School
What does replicable ‘real world’ evidence from ‘real world’ data look like?; Jonathan Schooler University of California, Santa Barbara
How replicable can psychological science be?: A highly powered multi-site investigation of the robustness of newly discovered findings; Daniele Fanelli London School of Economics and Political Science
Low reproducibility as divergent information: A K-theory analysis of reproducibility studies
6:00 – 8:00PM: Dinner & Poster Session for all attendees (Centennial Lawn)

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

6:30 – 7:30 AM: Breakfast (Reception Room, Sheraton Palo Alto)
For hosted attendees only, registration required; TOPIC 2: What is Replication, and Its Impact and Its Value?
**Continued from Day 1**
8:00 – 9:30 AM: Annette Brown Family Health International (FHI 360)
Is replication research the study of research or of researchers?; Adam Russell Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Fomenting (Reproducible) Revolutions: DARPA, Replication, and High-Risk, High-Payoff Research; TOPIC 3: How Are Our Statistics, Methods, & Measurement Practices Affecting Our Capacity to Identify Robust Findings? Does the distinction between exploratory (hypothesis generating) and confirmatory (hypothesis testing) research matter?
9:30 – 10:15 AM: Bernhard Voekl University of Bern
Biological variation is more than random noise
10:15 – 10:30 AM: Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00 PM: Michele Nuijten Tilburg University
Checking Robustness in 4 Steps; Steve Goodman Stanford University
Statistical methods as social technologies versus analytic tools: Implications for metascience and research reform

12:00 – 1:00 PM: Lunch (Centennial Lawn)
1:05 – 3:20 PM: Andrew Gelman Columbia University
Embracing Variation and Accepting Uncertainty: Implications for Science and Metascience; Zoltán Kekecs Eötvös Loránd University
How to produce credible research on anything; Jan Walleczek Phenoscience Laboratories, Berlin
Counterfactual Meta-Experimentation and the Limits of Science: 100 Years of Parapsychology as a Control Group
3:20 – 3:35 PM: Coffee Break
3:35 – 4:20 PM: Edward Miguel University of California at Berkeley
Innovations in Pre-registration in Economics; TOPIC 4: How do Scientists Interpret and Treat Evidence?
4:25 – 5:55 PM: Carl Bergstrom University of Washington
The inherent inefficiency of grant proposal competitions and the possible benefits of lotteries in allocating research funding; James Evans University of Chicago
The social limits of scientific certainty
Evening
6:45 – 10:00 PM: Private dinner by invitation only, vehicles depart from Sheraton Palo Alto; Dinner on own for general attendees

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

6:30 – 7:30 AM: Breakfast (Reception Room, Sheraton Palo Alto)
For hosted attendees only, registration required; TOPIC 4: How do Scientists Interpret and Treat Evidence?
**Continued from Day 3**
8:00 – 10:15 AM: Yang Yang Northwestern University
The Replicability of Scientific Findings Using Human and Machine Intelligence; Fiona Fidler University of Melbourne
Misinterpretations of evidence, and worse misinterpretations of evidence; Cailin O’Connor University of California, Irvine
Scientific Polarization
10:15 – 10:30 AM: Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:15 AM: Daniel Kahneman Princeton University
The Psychology of Scientific Overconfidence: The Case of Psychology; TOPIC 5: What Are the Cultures and Norms of Science?
11:15 – 12:00 PM: Paula Stephan Georgia State University
Practices and Attitudes Regarding Risky Research
12:20 – 1:00 PM: Lunch (Centennial Lawn)
1:05 – 2:35 PM: Staša Milojević Indiana University, Bloomington
The Changing Landscape of Knowledge Production; Dorothy Bishop University of Oxford
The psychology of scientists: The role of cognitive biases in sustaining bad science
2:35 – 2:50 PM: Coffee Break
2:50 – 4:20 PM: Jevin West University of Washington
Echo Chambers in Science?; Simine Vazire University of California at Davis
Towards a More Self-Correcting Science
4:30 – 5:30 PM: Open Discussion
7:00 PM: Dinner on own this evening for general attendees; Private dinner by invitation only; Transportation will depart from Sheraton Hotel for invited guests