$3K mini-grants available from Pew Research Center to prepare papers reusing their data on religion. Deadline to apply (not to write the paper) is March 2. www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/s...
How can research funders ask their grantees to share their work for others to reuse and build upon? Funders interested in exploring an open science policy should check out this @cos.io webinar: cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Funding opportunity: TWCF is requesting proposals for up to $100K to plan a larger empirical project (up to $2.5M, considered separately) on polarization between and within societies and cultures in a global context. Deadline is March 6, 2026. www.templetonworldcharity.org/our-prioriti...
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Fair: "applied custom AI models on it in accordance with the terms of the preprint license" is pretty vague.
I don't know either but rather assume anything with a CC BY license has been scraped. But either way, it seems plausible to me that this lab is using a custom or walled LLM that doesn't involve them giving your preprints to any entity that doesn't already have it.
Would you feel differently if it were "5 research direction ideas generated by scholars from a different discipline to your own / naive high-schoolers / ..." as opposed to by an LLM? That is: is it the ask to participate in metascience (by a grad student from a good lab) or is it the use of gen AI?
reuse with their CC Signals stuff, though I've not wrapped my head around how that works yet. But I guess I'm intrigued by the strength of your reaction here to what seems like a straightforward metascience project. /2
I've not looked to see if there is more info on this study on the knowledgelabs website, but wonder whether you are right about the third-party LLM part of this. Presumably major LLMs have already scraped all preprints anyway? Beyond that I know CC is trying to licensees more options around LLM /1
Funding opportunity for empirical ($250k) or philosophical/theological ($100k) research projects on the "virtues and vices of spiritual yearning". Deadline for LOIs is February 1, 2026. aarweb.org/award/virtue...
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We need a new song: "Not my bag of 'ritos"
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$25K fellowships for early career researchers studying the intersection of psychotherapy and relational virtues (e.g., gratitude, humility, forgiveness). Deadline Dec 15, 2025. mstargsu.substack.com/p/rfp-flouri...
Musical serendipity: quoting Mike Tyson while writing a grant proposal while Charlie Hunter comes up on shuffle... www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5CA...
Grants available for department and institution leaders at U.S. institutions who are willing to reimagine hiring, promotion, and tenure practices in ways that reward open science, team science, and diverse contributions to knowledge. Deadline January 8, 2026. www.ma3challenge.org
If you're a data scientist interested in a full-time or part-time role working with developmental psychologists on cross-cultural data from parents and children, check out this position with the Developing Belief Network. Application review begins October 15, 2025. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
In case anyone else is overdue on deleting your academia.edu account, here's how (and why):
Can you run the reverse, i.e., words that were new in the renewal awards?
I'm concerned about the serious drop off in ocean science content at SheetMusicPlus.com post-2016.
www.tdar.org may have some. Seems I recall there was a lot of 3d scanning at Çatalhöyük at one point too, though not sure where that might’ve been deposited. (Assume you’ve looked for photogrammetry datasets on OpenAlex already?)
We did something radical that shouldn’t feel radical: we stopped funding science built for journals so that we can reimagine scientific publishing. First @arcadiascience.com. Now at @asterainstitute.bsky.social.
Goal is to build up a set of search terms for reproducible meta-analyses or bibliometric/metascientific purposes that also maximize coverage (miss few relevant articles) and minimize noise (avoid false positives). 2/2
What search terms do you use in interdisciplinary literature searches to narrow your scope to (a) empirical work (vs. literature reviews or theory, say) and/or (b) research involving religion? docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Add your terms or comment here. 1 / 2
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The Navigation Fund's open science funding portfolio is now up and running with two RFPs, one for OS meetings and one for OS and AI. (See onward links at the bottom of this call for more.) It's all looking encouragingly nimble, and with a substantial annual payout for OS. os.nav.fund/meeting-fund/
Deadlines are May 30:
