Scientific Epistemology
The core DNA of science lies in how we engage with fundamental questions—how we conceive of the practice of research, and the methods through which we operate in the laboratory. To change science, we must first be willing to rethink how it is done.
Scientific Methodology
The Scientific Method™ has become one of the most powerful myths of modern science. Yet the history of discovery tells a far stranger story. We seek to explore new modes of inquiry, experimentation, and reasoning that preserve scientific rigor while moving beyond the narrow methodological orthodoxy inherited from the twentieth century.
Metascience
Metascience encapsulates much of our practical effort toward examining the preceding areas of inquiry. As a relatively young field, it turns the scientific enterprise back upon itself, placing a magnifying glass over the practices, cultures, and methodologies that shape research within the laboratory. We have a particular interest in examining this substrate upon which modern science rests, beginning with the reproducibility crisis and other related questions as a natural point of departure.
Philosophy of Science
Questions surrounding evidence, explanation, realism, reductionism, emergence, and scientific progress have quietly shaped every experiment ever conducted. Yet philosophical concerns are often neglected in the prevailing culture. We believe the future of science depends upon taking these fundamental questions more seriously.