After 3 years of reflection, I feel much more comfortable with what I see coming: a massive acceleration towards big team science. After 3 years, I also have a realization: I can continue to steer the community in a positive direction through my tendency for anxious reflection.
Now my directorship is over. The Psychological Science Accelerator is now in the hands of two new co-directors: E. Buchanan and S. Lewis. It feels like a dream. I can't think of any two people who are better positioned to lead one of the most exciting communities in psychology
My Stanford colleagues deserve a shout out too @mcxfrank.bsky.social@hbaum.bsky.social@russpoldrack.bsky.social and M. Mathur) SO much to be done. But their work makes me optimistic.
The Psychological Science Accelerator’s Board of Directors deserve their own shout out. They dedicate a substantial amount of their time – for free – to building a culture of collaboration in psychology. Their values, collegiality, and generosity never ceased to inspire me.
The past 3 years have been an absolute thrill. I loved supporting the @psysciacc.bsky.social community. And I learned a lot from its amazing Board of Directors: E. Buchanan, L. DeBruine, J. Protzko, M. Silan, and K. Schmidt!
While this was happening, the director of @manybabies.orgbigteamscienceconference.github.io
The second annual Big Team Science Conference was held virtually via Zoom October 23-25, 2023 (10:00 - 21:00 UTC). The goal of this three-day virtual conference was to bring together a multidisciplina...
The third barrier: disagreements Consensus is hard to achieve with even two co-authors. What about dozens or hundreds? My colleagues and I have a forthcoming paper on this issue. Spoiler alert: it's titled "Team scientists should feel free to disagree" Stay tuned!
The second barrier was lack of best practices Once again, a panel of leaders from big team science initiatives came together We combined our knowledge into a “how-to guide” that I hope others will find helpful as they seek to build up big team science royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
My work from that point focused on tackling barriers The first? Authorship Big team science challenges conventional notions of authorship. I convened leaders from multiple big team science initiatives to describe the issue — as well as potential reform www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In a follow-up paper with leaders from multiple big team science initiatives, we highlighted that the aforementioned benefits and barriers to big team science were not mere speculations. In actuality, they seemed spot on. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Researchers are creating grass-roots collaborative networks to tackle difficult questions in primate studies and more, but they need funding and other support. Researchers are creating grass-roots col...