The Good Science Project
This newsletter covers no fewer than four exciting metascience developments, with huge potential for improving science and medicine at NIH and elsewhere.
NIH recently released a notice that it is seeking research ideas on a ton of metascience issues (hat tip to Caleb Watney).
While NIH is not providing any funding for this (???), it is interested in collaborating with researchers as to data access and the like. The possible research questions include:
What approaches can be used to capture successful/impactful scientific strategies and new tools and methods, and are these approaches scalable?
What measures can NIH use to capture both incremental knowledge gains and failures that ultimately contribute to scientific success?
What approaches can NIH use to measure impact of different categories of science (e.g., basic, translation, clinical) and the technology and operations used to support the science?
Are there methods that NIH can use to better predict and identify scientific opportunities (e.g., the emergence of gene editing technology)?
