As an editorial in Nature put it, “On 2 July, a science initiative was born in a lecture hall in London.” That morning, the Metascience Alliance, a collaboration of dozens of organizations in the metascience community, was announced onstage at the Metascience 2025 conference.We were honored to be invited to join the coalition at its launch and to speak at the conference, which brought together 830 participants from around 65 countries.Thanks for reading Essential Technology! Subscribe to get not...