Over the years metascience and the associated Open Science reform movement have garnered extensive criticism. Sometimes such criticism is known as critical metascience (meta-metascience). Moderated by Sven Ulpts (psychology/science studies) and Sheena Bartscherer (social sciences/science studies), in this pre-conference event we would like to provide an open forum for these critical metascience voices by hosting key representatives: Mark Rubin (psychology) will introduce the area of critical metascience and its importance, while Carlos Santana (philosophy of science) will talk about the perils of designing Open Science infrastructures for machine availability and highlight how that can trade off with human epistemic needs. Furthermore, Joseph Bak-Coleman (computational social sciences) will tell us about issues he sees with the replication crisis narrative and Lisa Malich (history of science/ psychology) will talk about the dangers of Metascience's tendencies to homogenize research as well as present potential alternatives. To keep the session dynamic, the audience will be invited to give feedback after each talk. Following this segment we will transition into an open roundtable discussion, to reflect on the kinds of reactions and feedback our panellists have received during the event, but also in the past from the wider metascience community. We will close the event by asking whether these fundamental critiques have had an impact on the culture surrounding metascience, especially concerning reflexivity and how the community engages with criticism. We intend to foster an inclusive discourse culture and to provide an intellectual playground for critical and thought-provoking exchange.
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