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Kaitlyn Hair

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Wellcome Early Career fellow @ UCL | dementia, evidence synthesis, automation, research integrity 🧠👩🏻‍💻

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Kaitlyn Hair @kaitlynhair.bsky.social · Nov 29

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
Our take on how a more interconnected evidence ecosystem can improve the efficiency and impact of #evidencesynthesis and drive progress in #neuroscience research.

Connecting the dots in neuroscience research: The future of evidence synthesis

Making progress in neuroscience research involves learning from existing data. In this perspective piece, we explore the potential of a data-driven ev…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Kaitlyn Hair @kaitlynhair.bsky.social · 19d

📢 New preprint: osf.io/preprints/me...

We outline a sample characteristics table for metaresearch studies + our vision for an automated workflow to make it easier to see who & what is represented in study samples, supporting generalisability & #EDI

To be continued at #RRiA2025 next week! 🚀

Diagram contrasting how research reports typically describe participant/sample metadata (e.g. age, gender, geography, ethnicity) but metaresearch studies often omit metadata about the publications they include (e.g. author career stage, gender, institution, language, open access). The central message: to assess equity and representation, we must look beyond participants to the people and contexts shaping our research samples.

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · Aug 12

Metascience 2025 recordings are now available! #Metascience25 gathered researchers, funders, policymakers & more to explore how the research process can improve. The program included preconference symposia & plenary sessions on topics from policy change to AI in research.

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Cassyni | Science starts with a seminar

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Joris Frese @fresejoris.bsky.social · Jul 21

🇨🇭🇪🇺 Just Published in Royal Society Open Science!

A scoping review on metrics to quantify reproducibility:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Ever conducted a replication and pondered when/how to conclude if it was (un)successful?
We have just the paper for you (led by Rachel Heyard)! 1/14

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · Jul 1

Shape research culture + practices! Join the Responsible Research in Action Unconference 2025, Sept 22–24, Berlin, to collaborate on innovative solutions – from reproducibility checks to researcher-driven funding models.
rr-in-action2025.org
@dfg.de @ucoimbra.bsky.social @berlinualliance.bsky.social

Responsible Research | In Action -

An Unconference exploring the world of responsible research with Responsible Research in Action. Learn about ethical practices, principles, and innovations in impactful science

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Kaitlyn Hair @kaitlynhair.bsky.social · Jul 1

We’ve heard lots about improving #reproducibility at #MetaScience2025 - but how do we stay on top of the evidence for what works? Don’t miss Sean Smith’s talk today (T4.5, 2pm) on building a living, curated, interactive summary of interventions to improve reproducibility @irise-eu.bsky.social

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iRISE @irise-eu.bsky.social · Jun 30

iRISE is at Metascience 2025! The Opening Plenary was an engaging session, featuring diverse perspectives on how metascience can power policymaking.

For those attending, don't miss Sean Smith presenting iRISE’s innovative work tomorrow at 2pm in Session 4, T4.5.

#Metascience2025 #Reproducibility

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iRISE @irise-eu.bsky.social · Jun 18

The inaugural entry of our iRISE Reproducibility Discussion Series features Dr. Rachel Heyard, who will delve into the complex yet critical topic of "Defining reproducibility: challenges and opportunites of a shared vocabulary": irise-project.eu/news/#!/Deta...

Let us know your thoughts!

An image showing research papers with a title "Reproducibility or Replicability?"

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iRISE @irise-eu.bsky.social · Jun 9

There is still time to register for our Train-the-Trainer session on Reproducibility!

#Reproducibility #Metascience2025

iRISE @irise-eu.bsky.social · Apr 28

Join us in London, following the Metascience 2025 Conference, for a Train-the-Trainer Session on Reproducibility!

Thursday 3 July 2025| 10:00-4:30pm
Free| In-person workshop

Where: UCL, Chandler House, London.

Find out more & register: irise-project.eu/news/#!/Deta...

Illustration showing a path to reproducible research with open data, tools, code and results. The Turing Way project illustration by Scriberia. Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: The Turing Way Community & Scriberia (2024).

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James Thomas @jm-thomas.bsky.social · Jun 3

Just published - updated guidance and recommendations for the responsible use of AI in evidence synthesis (RAISE): osf.io/fwaud/

We're doing a webinar on this in about an hour!

training.cochrane.org/recommendati...

Responsible AI in Evidence Synthesis (RAISE): guidance and recommendations

The RAISE guidance is currently written in three documents. The first document, ‘RAISE 1’, provides tailored recommendations for eight of the distinct roles in the evidence synthesis ecosystem: eviden...

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British Neuroscience Association @britishneuro.bsky.social · Jan 23

The BNA Credibility Prizes🎉 Nomination Categories include the Student Researcher Prize, the Individual Researcher Prize, and the Team Prize. 🗓️Deadline: 28th Feb. bnacredibility.org.uk/prizes
#BeInCredible #CredibleNeuroscience #Reproducibility #ResearchExcellence #NeuroscienceAwards

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EPPI Reviewer @eppi-reviewer.bsky.social · Feb 13

Doing evidence synthesis and grappling with the ever-widening range of promises about using new Large Language Models to speed up the process?
Perhaps you’re worried about how such tools may be misused?
Yeah, we (the #EPPI-Reviewer team) feel the same.
A thread on our journey so far.
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Tracey Weissgerber @tweissgerber.bsky.social · Jan 16

Do you have an idea to improve research culture and practice? Submit a proposal to lead a project during the Responsible Research in Action Unconference (September 22-24, Berlin) by January 26: rr-in-action2025.org/info-for-app.... 20 person teams will collaborate on selected projects.

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James Thomas @jm-thomas.bsky.social · Jan 9

✨Research positions for the new Wellcome-Trust DESTINY project in automating evidence synthesis! (destiny-evidence.github.io/website/) 🌍✨

🔬Two at EPPI-Centre, UCL: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Kaitlyn Hair @kaitlynhair.bsky.social · Jan 6

So excited to get started today in London @eppicentre.bsky.social but I couldn’t quite leave #CAMARADES behind 🥲

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · Dec 12

What's the moment of luck that's had the biggest impact for your academic career? For me, it was how I wouldn't have gotten a PhD fellowship if it wasn't for the 1st-ranked person declining, which meant that I was awarded the fellowship as 2nd-ranked applicant. That was my last shot at a PhD.

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Kaitlyn Hair @kaitlynhair.bsky.social · Dec 3

Thanks to the >800 people who have tried out the #ASySD shiny app this year! 🎉 It's been great to connect with many of you and use your feedback to make continuous improvements! 🙌

Kaitlyn Hair @kaitlynhair.bsky.social · Dec 3

And for those less R-inclined... don't forget #ASySD is also available via a shiny app! camarades.shinyapps.io/ASySD/

Kaitlyn Hair @kaitlynhair.bsky.social · Dec 3

🚀 New feature in the #ASySD R package: a Shiny pop-up to speed up manual deduplication. Huge thanks to the brilliant @lukaswallrich.bsky.social for adding this to the package! Latest version available at github.com/camaradesuk/... #EvidenceSynthesis #SystematicReviews

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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · Dec 1

Happy Advent! I created a special Advent calendar designed to highlight problems and inconsistencies in academic papers and scientific journals. Each day, a new case will be published, and your task is to spot the problem.
Day 1. Enjoy!
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Advent Calendar 2024

Add some interesting details about your company

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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · Nov 29

A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril

Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say

www.science.org

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Kaitlyn Hair @kaitlynhair.bsky.social · Nov 29

w/ @skmccann.bsky.social @profemilysena.bsky.social @chariswong.bsky.social @ftinsdeall.bsky.social @torstenrackoll.bsky.social & others not on BlueSky yet!

Kaitlyn Hair @kaitlynhair.bsky.social · Nov 29

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
Our take on how a more interconnected evidence ecosystem can improve the efficiency and impact of #evidencesynthesis and drive progress in #neuroscience research.

Connecting the dots in neuroscience research: The future of evidence synthesis

Making progress in neuroscience research involves learning from existing data. In this perspective piece, we explore the potential of a data-driven ev…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Nov 27

For those who missed it: Elon Musk, the Royal Society, and me
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

Why I have resigned from the Royal Society

The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...

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Charis Wong @chariswong.bsky.social · Nov 25

Funded #PhD Opportunity

Develop systematic, evidence based approaches to identify and tailor treatments in ICH.

@neshika.bsky.social
@maclomaclee.bsky.social
@edinunineuro.bsky.social

Apply by 20.12.24

#Neuroscience #stroke #ich #drugrepurposing #evidencesynthesis #datascience

VIDA DTC: Systematic evidence-based approach to identifying and tailoring inflammation modulating treatments to improve clinical outcomes including cognition for patients with intracerebral haemorrhag...

PhD Project - VIDA DTC: Systematic evidence-based approach to identifying and tailoring inflammation modulating treatments to improve clinical outcomes including cognition for patients with intracereb...

www.findaphd.com

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Kaitlyn Hair @kaitlynhair.bsky.social · Nov 26

Cool! Very interested to see how this works…

Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · Jul 23

Introducing RegCheck: a tool which uses Large Language Models to automatically compare preregistered protocols with their corresponding published papers and highlights deviations.

@malte.the100.ci @ianhussey.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci @bjoernhommel.bsky.social

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RegCheck.app

RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.

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