The Metascience 2025 Conference is taking place in London from 30 June to 2 July 2025. The event will convene 650 participants aiming to advance metascience by fostering a culture of continuous experimentation and learning. The conference will unite researchers, policymakers, and practitioners from diverse fields to share evidence, ideas, and methodologies. 

They are exploring a broad range of metascience topics, but the conference also has three headline themes, which reflect points of change and opportunity: institutions; innovations; and alliances.

• Institutions – How are governments, funding agencies, foundations and universities supporting and strengthening metascience? Where do we see effective approaches in the public, private and third sectors to building metascientific capacity, and connecting this to decision-making? What metascientific possibilities are being created by new types of research institutions? How can metascience help us to understand and improve institutionalised research cultures?
• Innovations – How are technological and methodological advances – particularly using AI – expanding the possibilities of metascience? How can these and other innovations help us to navigate and shape change in research systems (e.g. in support of new modes of publishing and peer review; high-risk research; or transdisciplinarity)? What can we learn and scale up from the latest advances in metascience?
• Alliances – How can we build better long-term infrastructures for metascience that complement broader moves towards open data infrastructures? What role could a new Metascience Alliance play (alongside other collaborative networks) in support of community building, career pathways, matchmaking and experimentation?