The ‘microbeam’ U-Pb community has been actively working together to address issues of inter-laboratory bias, data reporting and interpretation norms and best practices since 2008. This has largely been under the guise of the PlasmaAge collective:
PlasmaAge LA-ICP-MS dating of Minerals
In terms of applications, the past decade has seen a major effort in the development of ‘petrochronology’…
Petrochronology
http://seattle2017.petrochronology.org/