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ICSSI @icssi.org · 29/06/2026

“When we write grants, we aim to create suspense. When we write papers, surprise.” Kevin Gross at #ICSSI2026

ICSSI @icssi.org · 28/05/2026

Students are critical to a vibrant ICSSI community. Today, thanks to support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the NSF, we're thrilled to announce: FREE ICSSI 2026 registration for ALL trainees! Registration reopened: icssi.org/register/ Already registered? Look for a refund soon!

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 14/05/2026

Just a few days left to register for the International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation #ICSSI2026 icssi.org/register

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 06/05/2026

🔬 #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight 7: Ryan Hill Our final invited speaker is Prof @ryanreedhill.bsky.social from Northwestern Kellogg whose work spans the topic "pivot penalty", the impact of AlphaFold2 on science, the factors shaping occupation choice, and more! 7/7 — fantastic ICSSI Boulder lineup!

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 05/05/2026

🔬 #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight 6: Lingfei Wu How do we measure innovation? How do ideas spread, and how is innovation produced? Prof @lingfeiwu.bsky.social addresses these questions and more in his group at Pitt's School of Computing & Information. See you in Boulder this June & July! icssi.org

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 04/05/2026

🔬 #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight 5: Kevin Gross A statistician at NC State, Prof. Gross's game-theoretic work reveals how funding competitions shape risk-taking, how peer review steers discovery, and why the social structure of science matters. LAST DAY for speakers to register! icssi.org

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 01/05/2026

🔬 #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight 4: Chaoqun Ni Co-Director of the Metascience Research Lab at Wisconsin, Prof Ni studies how science is produced, evaluated, and rewarded, with key recent work on AI-assisted writing and miscitation detection. Learn more about Ni and our entire lineup at icssi.org !

Co-Director of the Metascience Research Lab at Wisconsin, Prof Ni studies how science is produced, evaluated, and rewarded, with key recent work on AI-assisted writing and miscitation detection.

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 30/04/2026

🔬 #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight 3: Charles Gomez How does geopolitics shape AI research? Who shapes global scientific knowledge? Who gets left out? Sociology Prof @charlesgomez.bsky.social studies this, and more, leading the Global Knowledge Lab and Observatory at Arizona. Register at icssi.org !

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 29/04/2026

🔬 Next #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight: Melinda Baldwin A historian of science at UMD, @mbaldwin.bsky.social literally wrote the book on the history of the journal Nature. Her work is a fascinating dive into peer review, publishing, and the institutions shaping science. See you in Boulder! icssi.org

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 28/04/2026

With 2 months to go, let's meet our #ICSSI2026 invited speakers! 🔬 Speaker Spotlight: Donna Ginther The KU/NBER economist who uncovered the "Ginther Gap" of disparities in NIH funding. Her work on who gets funded (and who doesn't) is essential science of science. Registration is open → icssi.org

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 07/04/2026

WOW! Over 200 abstracts submitted to this year's ICSSI conference in Boulder, CO! It's going to be a great conference. Next steps? → Conference & Hackathon Registration icssi.org/register/ → Conference Attendance Support info icssi.org/travelsupport/ Hotel info coming soon!

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 29/03/2026

The abstract submission window for ICSSI has been extended by a week to April 6, 2026 @ 11:59 PM AoE! Find guidelines, templates, and submission link here: icssi.org/guidelines/ See you in Boulder June 29 - July 1, or come on June 28 for the hackathon!

Boulder, CO — The Location of ICSSI 2026

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 26/02/2026

📣 Call for abstracts at #ICSSI2026 ⛰️ in Boulder, CO, USA - June 29 to July 1 📥 Submit here: www.icssi.org/guidelines ⏳ Deadline: March 30th On any topic relevant to #SciSci #Innovation #ScienceofScience #Metascience #STS Please repost and share!

The Program Committee welcomes submissions on all topics in the science of science and innovation, broadly defined. We invite contributions from researchers and practitioners across all disciplines, sectors, and world regions, with a particular encouragement for early-career scholars.

Major conference themes include, but are not limited to:

AI, agentic science, and new epistemic practices in scientific discovery

Global knowledge dynamics and the evolution of scientific fields

Government-industry-academia partnerships and innovation systems

Societal impacts and public value of science and innovation

Science funding in an interconnected, multi-sectoral, and global environment

Social stratification, bias, and ethical issues in scientific production and reward

Open science, transparency, and reproducibility in research

The scientific workforce, precarity, and the trajectory of research careers

Theoretical, historical, and conceptual perspectives on science and innovation

Causal inference and methodological advances in the science of science and innovation

Science communication, public trust, and the governance of emerging technologies

Intellectual property, patents, and the geography of technological change

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 26/02/2026

The International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation #ICSSI2026 will be in beautiful Boulder, CO, USA! ☀️ June 29 - July 1 ☀️ & Open Data Hackathon, June 28 🧑‍💻 We welcome submissions on all topics in the science of science and innovation, broadly defined. Learn more at 👉 icssi.org 👈

An image of beautiful Boulder, CO, USA, with the iconic flatiron rock formations and red roofed campus.

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 18/06/2025

HC Kongsted @hckongsted.bsky.social and the whole auditorium gives a final applause to our sponsors who made this great conference possible - Thank you! #ICSSI2025

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 18/06/2025

Finally, the award winners were announced in the categories - Best Lightning Talk - Best Parallel Talk - Best Poster Congratulations to the winners! 🎉🥇 #ICSSI2025

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 18/06/2025

The AI Panel explored how AI can augment scientists and is changing science #ICSSI2025

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 18/06/2025

The Editor's Panel is ongoing, featuring important insights from the editor's perspective, representing venues from @natureportfolio.nature.com Nature and Nature Human Behaviour to Science and Science Advances #ICSSI2025

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 18/06/2025

James Wilsdon @jameswilsdon.bsky.social, director of @rorinstitute.bsky.social, announced the Metascience Alliance - exciting times for open science and science of science!

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 18/06/2025

Inspiring talk by Novo Nordisk's @novo-nordisk.bsky.social Thomas Alslev Christensen, on the need for knowledge and data rather than opinions to improve societal impact of research #ICSSI2025

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 18/06/2025

📣 Attention all #ICSSI2025 conference participants: Please cast your vote about the best lightning talk, parallel talk, and poster *before* lunch! You have received a link via email. Thank you.

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 18/06/2025

On our third and last day, we started with a second round of sparkling Lightning Talks.

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 17/06/2025

Social dinner is commencing splendidly at the illustrious Moltkes Palace, while the ever witty dinner speaker Sune Lehmann @sunelehmann.com peppers us with philosophical questions such as "Can we expand the personbyte?" We don't know the answer, but maybe buy more personRAM first? 🤖

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 17/06/2025

Some bustling activities and networking at coffee & cake in the spacious coffee area and outside - we hope you are pleased with the weather that we planned for you! 🌞 Next, enjoy the social dinner! 🍴 #ICSSI2025

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 17/06/2025

The DEI Panel has started! Insightful discussions on diversity, equity, and inclusion ongoing..

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 17/06/2025

Check out the Metascience Novelty Indicators Challenge, presented earlier today: noveltyindicators.challenges.org

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 17/06/2025

Daniel Goroff presented very interesting opportunities supported by the Sloan foundation! In his amazing talk "The Griliches Question and a Pop-Up Journal to Curate Answers":

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 17/06/2025

Today we started with Lightning Talks! ⚡ #ICSSI2025 Here some visual impressions, featuring Orsolya Vásárhelyi

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 16/06/2025

Interesting discussions at our Funders Panel #ICSSI2025

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 16/06/2025

Fariba Karimi continues at #ICSSI2025 with gender-related themes in her phenomenal keynote "Inequalities in science and the impact of networks"

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 16/06/2025

🚨💘🚨 Scientifically proven dating advice for scientists: Get another scientist as partner 💘🚨💘 - by @valentinatartari.bsky.social at #ICSSI2025

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 16/06/2025

The second amazing #ICSSI2025 keynote has started! Valentina Tartari @valentinatartari.bsky.social: Gender and inequality in the scientific system

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 16/06/2025

Our first invited speaker Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social just kicked off the conference with a great talk on: Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment #ICSSI2025

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 16/06/2025

The conference was just opened by @hckongsted.bsky.social. Welcome everyone in Copenhagen, and enjoy the next 3 days at #ICSSI2025!

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 02/05/2025

On our third day, June 18th, we will have 2 excellent invited speakers, so stay till the end! - Juan Mateos-Garcia @jmateosgarcia.bsky.social - Robert Tjarko Lange Stay tuned, more info to follow... #ICSSI2025

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 02/05/2025

On our second day, June 17th, we will have 4 awesome invited speakers: - Bedoor AlShebli - Eamon Duede @eduede.bsky.social - Reinhilde Veugelers - For dinner, a tasty talk by Sune Lehmann @sunelehmann.com

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 02/05/2025

On our first day, June 16th, we will have 3 great invited speakers: - Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social - Valentina Tartari @valentinatartari.bsky.social - Fariba Karimi Stay tuned for their talk titles..

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 13/02/2025

📣 Call for abstracts at #ICSSI2025! #CFP 📥 Submit here: www.icssi.org/guidelines ⏳ Deadline: March 14th On any topic relevant to #SciSci #Innovation #ScienceofScience #Metascience #STS

Submissions Are Now Open!
The Program Committee welcomes submissions on any topic related to the field of science of science and innovation, broadly defined. We seek abstracts and papers from researchers across many disciplines from academia, government, as well as the private sector, and we especially welcome submissions from early-career scholars and researchers from underrepresented groups. Major conference topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

AI applications to science and innovation

Societal impacts of science and innovation

Funding risky ideas

Failures in science and innovation

Ethics in scientific production and reward

Diversity, equity, and inclusivity in science and innovation

Evolution, predictability, and uncertainties of scientific careers

Drivers for scientific achievement

Idea generation and unpacking the fitness of ideas

Replicability and reproducibility

Theoretical discussions and conceptualizations of science

Causal inference in the science of science and innovation

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 31/01/2025

This year's ICSSI is organized by @robysinatra.bsky.social, @hckongsted.bsky.social, @mathiaswullum.bsky.social, James Evans, and Ben Steyn. We will announce more information on this channel, and are all looking forward to a great event in Copenhagen! #ICSSI2025 www.icssi.org

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 23/11/2024

Hello Bluesky! We are ICSSI: The 2025 International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation Save the date! 🗓️ JUNE 16-18, 2025 ✍️ in beautiful Copenhagen, Denmark www.icssi.org

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