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RECENT UPDATES:

Current projects:

"Bureaucracy of institutional racism at NIH" (drafted). 

"The Role of Disagreement in Scientific Conservatism" with Davide Bavato, Charles Ayoubi, Marc Gruber, and NiCole Buchanan.  This project will study reviewer and editor agreement/disagreement for manuscripts submitted to ~1,723 Elsevier journals across fields in 2018-2021.  Protocol accepted by the Peer Review Workbench at Elsevier.

Paper on rubric use at NIH with Fan Xia, Kwun C. G. Chan, Sheridan Grant, Thomas Richardson, and Elena Erosheva (fully drafted).

Funding:

Society of Scholars Research Fellowship (Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington): two course releases (2022-2023).

National Science Foundation’s Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Grant #2019901. “Improving panel decision making: Understanding methods for aggregating reviewer opinions.” 05/01/2021–04/30/2024: $419,995, Faculty Associate.

Talks/Workshops:

Invited speaker, Title TBD, Philosophy of Science: Past, Present, and Future, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (October 17-19, 2024).

Keynote, "Retooling Peer Review," Workshop on Prefiguring Peer Review, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (December 9, 2023).

Keynote, "Certified Amplification," Workshop on the Epistemology of Science Communication: New Directions, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (September 22-23, 2023).

Speaker, “Institutional Racism in Science: Black-white Scoring Disparities in NIH Grant Review” at the Annual Lecture Series at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh, PA (March 25, 2022) and at the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine (February 10, 2023).

Invited contributor, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Metascience Workshop, Rosslyn, VA (November 8-9, 2022).

Invited contributor, Catalyzing Communities of Research Rigor Champions, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) / National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD (May 23-24, 2022).

Speaker, “What is Metascience? Part 2: Institutions, Networks and Future Priorities,” Metascience 2021 Conference, online (September 16-18, 23-25, 2021).

Speaker, “NIH Peer Review: Criterion Scores Completely Account for Racial Disparities in Overall Impact Scores,” Diversity Working Group Meeting, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD (June 19, 2020).