Our team

See also: Governance of The Unjournal

The Unjournal was founded by David Reinstein , who maintains this wiki/GitBook and other resources.

Management Committee

( on terminology)

See description under roles.

• David Reinstein, Founder and Co-director

• Gavin Taylor, Interdisciplinary Researcher at IGDORE; Co-director

• Ryan Briggs, Social Scientist and Associate Professor in the Guelph Institute of Development Studies and Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph, Canada

• Kris Gulati, Economics PhD student at the University of California, Merced

• Hansika Kapoor, Research Author at the Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala (India)

• Tanya O'Garra, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Environment & Sustainability, Lee Kuan Yew of School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

• Emmanuel Orkoh, Research Scientist (fellow) at North-West University (South Africa)

• Anirudh Tagat, Research Author at the Department of Economics at Monk Prayogshala (India)

Advisory board

See description under roles.

Sam Abbott, Infectious Disease Researcher, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Jonathan Berman, Associate Professor of Marketing, London Business School

Rosie Bettle, Applied Researcher (Global Health & Development) at Founder's Pledge

Gary Charness, Professor of Economics, UC Santa Barbara

Daniela Cialfi, Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Quantitative Methods and Economic Theory at the University of Chieti (Italy)

Jordan Dworkin, Metascience Program Lead, Federation of American Scientists

Jake Eaton, Managing Editor at Asterisk Mag: writing and research on global health, development, and nutrition

Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics and Political Science at Columbia University (New York)

Anca Hanea, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne (Australia): expert judgment, biosciences, applied probability, uncertainty quantification

Alexander Herwix, Late-Stage PhD Student in Information Systems at the University of Cologne, Germany

Conor Hughes, PhD Student, Applied Economics, University of Minnesota

Jana Lasser, Postdoctoral researcher, Institute for Interactive Systems and Data Science at Graz University of Technology (Austria)

Nicolas Treich, Associate Researcher, INRAE, Member, Toulouse School of Economics (France)

Michael Wiebe, Data Scientist, Economist Consultant; PhD University of British Columbia (Economics)

Field Specialists

The table below shows all the members of our team (including field specialists) taking on a research-monitoring role (see here for a description of this role).

Staff, contractors, and consultants

Julia Bottesini, Research Specialist: Data science, metascience, aggregation of expert judgment

Jordan Pieters, Operations generalist

Kynan Behan, Generalist assistance

Laura Sofia-Castro, Communications (academic research/policy)

Adam Steinberg, Communications and copy-editing

Toby Weed, Communications and consulting

Nesim Sisa, technical software support

Red Bermejo, Mikee Mercado, Jenny Siers – consulting (through Anti-Entropy) on strategy, marketing, and task management tools

We are a member of Knowledge Futures. They are working with us to update PubPub and incorporate new features (editorial management, evaluation tools, etc.) that will be particularly useful to The Unjournal and other members.

Other people and initiatives we are in touch with

Substantial advice, consultation, collaborative discussions

• Abel Brodeur, Founder/chair of the Institute for Replication

• The repliCATS project

• Eva Vivalt, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto

• Other academic and policy economists, such as Julian Jamison, Todd Kaplan, Kate Rockett, David Rhys-Bernard, David Roodman, and Anna Dreber Almenberg

• Cooper Smout, head of https://freeourknowledge.org/

• Brian Nosek, Center for Open Science

• Ted Miguel, Faculty Director, Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS)

• Daniel Saderi, PreReview

• Yonatan Cale, who helped me put this proposal together through asking a range of challenging questions and offering his feedback

• Daniel Lakens, Experimental Psychologist at the Human-Technology Interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), has also completed research with the Open Science Collaboration and the Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative

Some other people we have consulted/communicating, details, other notes

• Cooper Smout, FoK collaboration possibilities: through their pledges, and through an open access journal Cooper is putting together, which the Unjournal could feed into, for researchers needing a ‘journal with an impact factor’

• Participants in the GPI seminar luncheon

• Paolo Crosetto (Experimental Economics, French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment) https://paolocrosetto.wordpress.com/

• Cecilia Tilli, Foundation to Prevent Antibiotics Resistance and EA research advocate

• Sergey Frolov (Physicist), Prof. J.-S. Caux, Physicist and head of https://scipost.org/

• Peter Slattery, Behaviourworks Australia

• Alex Barnes, Business Systems Analyst, https://eahub.org/profile/alex-barnes/

• Paola Masuzzo of IGDORE (biologist and advocate of open science)

• William Sleegers (Psychologist and Data Scientist, Rethink Priorities)

• Nathan Young https://eahub.org/profile/nathan-young/; considering connecting The Unjournal to Metaculus predictions

• Edo Arad https://eahub.org/profile/edo-arad/ (mathematician and EA research advocate)

• Hamish Huggard (Data science, ‘literature maps’)

See also List of people consulted (in ACX grant proposal).

Related: EA/global priorities seminar series

Plan of action