Recordings from Metascience 2025 Plenary Sessions now available

From 30 June to 2 July 2025, the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) and the Center for Open Science (COS) welcomed over 800 researchers, funders, policymakers, and innovators from 65 countries in London to explore the future of science and research systems.

Across three days, leading voices in research, funding, publishing, policy, and technology explored how to build more effective, inclusive, and innovative research systems.

You can now revisit these conversations through our plenary session recordings on Cassyni.

Plenary Sessions

• Opening Plenary: Metascience-powered policymaking (Lord Patrick Vallance, Magdalena Skipper, Kelvin Mubiana Katukula, Takahiro Ueyama and Peter Gluckman)
• Frontiers of funding: evidence, experiments & reforming assessment (John-Arne Røttingen, Matt Clancy, Hanna Denecke, Claire Forsyth, Theodore Hodapp and Ilan Gur)
• Taking stock of the science of science (Cassidy Sugimoto, Fiona Fidler, John Ioannidis, Andy Stirling and Lin Zhang)
• AI in science: accelerating discovery? (Anna Koivuniemi, Parashkev Nachev, Moumita Kouley, Sabina Leonelli and Dashun Wang)
• Forging new institutions & alliances (Anastasia Gamick, Emmanuel Boakye, Sarah Main, Geoff Mulgan and Tracey Weissgerber)
• Diverse knowledge & open infrastructures (Maria Leptin, Alison Bourgon, Marin Dacos, Ana Persic and Ludo Waltman)

Conference sessions

Watch the main sessions from Metascience 2025

See the full story of Metascience 2025 on our Wakelet, featuring photos, media coverage, and highlights from the conference.