Mary Childs

Mary Childs.

Yes, we did.

And even though it's a little bit sad that that mission did not entail joining the Maple Harvest or, you know, like infiltrating a poutine cartel.

Next time.

Dare I say next time.

It did have much bigger implications for anybody and everybody whose life is impacted by science, which I think is basically all of us.

It's getting exciting now.

How are you feeling?

I'm feeling good.

It's the beginning of the event, so this is the moment I'm full of energy and full of enthusiasm.

In seven hours from now, it's going to be a different conversation.

Abel is going to be tired in seven hours because at a replication game, he is running around between 16 teams of three to five people in a kind of hackathon.

People will work all day to replicate recently published social science papers to reproduce the results and see if the findings hold up.

A lot of people across academia have been trying to fix this so we can trust research, so we can actually know what we know.

And this event, the replication games, it's part of a Bell's attempt to help solve this crisis.

The idea is to change norms through monitoring.

And just giving a small percentage, a small chance that we will monitor can massively change the behavior of everyone.

You know, change the way they behave, change the way they code, change the way they do research.

So that's the goal.

All right, folks, we're gonna get started.