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January 2024
Hello there,
Happy new year and welcome to FORRT's January newsletter!
With this newsletter, we hope to inform the larger community about FORRT's activities in the last month, and plans in the upcoming months. This digest is intended to help you cut through the noise and stay involved. If you missed our last newsletter, you can find it here.
We'd love to hear your feedback, email info@forrt.org if you have thoughts or questions.
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Newsletter Highlights
Several new funding awards to FORRT
Two groups of FORRT members were recently awarded funding by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) Open Science Fund for two new projects:
1) Promoting Open Science Teaching: A Positive, Inclusive and Participatory Program for Educators (POST-Edu). Team: Leticia Micheli, Madeleine Pownall, Helena Hartmann, Thomas Rhys Evans, & Karen Matvienko-Sikar.
2) JUST-OS for all: An AI-based chatbot for navigating Open Science resources. Team: Rink Hoekstra, Nina Schwarzbach, Vera Heiniga, Flavio Azevedo, Michiel van der Ree.
Find out more about these projects and NWO funding scheme here.
FORRT was also one of the eight recipients of funding from the Open Infrastructure Fund. The project "Improving accessibility and usability of FORRT’s Open Educational Resources" aims to improve the usability and accessibility of the FORRT website and open educational resources to make it easier for people to utilize and benefit from the rich trove of community-developed resources.
Well done everyone for all your hard work on these projects!
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Featured Resource
New syllabus on Credibility Revolution/Replication Crisis
We are thrilled to present our new syllabus and lecture slides (with script) on the Credibility Revolution/Replication Crisis based on our previous article.
The course aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the challenges and transformative changes brought about by the replication crisis in psychological science. The course includes critical topics such as the replication crisis, the credibility revolution, embedding open science into the curriculum, and the role of incentives for researchers, journals, and funders. Check out the new syllabus here.
If you are interested in teaching this course, please see here for lecture slides (and a script) which you can use.
FORRT welcomes any feedback you have on this new syllabus and lecture slides! Get in touch here. Have you got any ideas for a new syllabus and/or lecture slides? We want to hear from you!
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Project Updates
FORRT's Team Summaries under new leadership
From January 2024, FORRT's Team Summaries will be co-led by the amazing Yu-Fang Fang, Aleksandrina Skvortsova and Giorgia Andreolli. We are very enthusiastic for this new phase of Team Summaries and thankful to the co-leads who accepted to lead this project! Stay tuned for more news about Team Summaries and for calls for collaborators!
Call for Collaborators
Team Outreach is looking for collaborators who have experience and like to create and edit videos. If this is you, get in touch with Kelly Lloyd via Slack. We look forward to hearing from you!
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Events and Meetings
- On 17th January, John Shaw represented Team Neurodiversity by presenting the team's work at the ReproducibiliTea journal club at the University of Portsmouth.
- The title of the talk was 'Navigating Academia as Neurodivergent Researchers: Promoting Neurodiversity with Open Scholarship.'
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News from our partner organizations
Help the Center for Open Science by participating in brief informal interviews
The Center for Open Science (COS) has received an award from NSF’s Pathways to Open Source Ecosystem (POSE) to develop with research communities tools that support open scholarship practices through maturing the Open Science Framework’s (OSF) open-source ecosystem.
COS is looking for people interested in participating in brief interviews to help them understand how to create the most rewarding mutually beneficial developer community possible.
Are you a leader or participant in an Open Source Developer community? Or have you used COS's API to create integrations into the OSF? If you are available to offer insight, click here to access the calendar to schedule a time for the interview.
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Get Involved
Regular meetings - everyone welcome!
Funding FORRT
- We are currently raising funds for a paid Community Manager, with the aim to accelerate FORRT's impact and ensure its sustainability as a volunteer organisation. The more we raise, the more we can sustainably run our community. All donations large and small welcome!
- We are also seeking broader funding to support this work. If you know of a funding opportunity which might be relevant to FORRT, please contact Bethan Iley on Slack or via email (bethan@we-are-ols.org).
Code of conduct
- We have a code of conduct to reflect an open, welcoming, diverse, and inclusive community mission. We ask everyone at FORRT to read our CoC and abide by it in all FORRT-related interactions and spaces.
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In case you missed it
In this section, we'll highlight several different past achievements from FORRT team members to showcase again the amazing work accomplished.
For the January newsletter, we wanted to put the spotlight on some of these past publications from team FORRT. If you haven't read these already, check them out:
- Pownall, M., Azevedo, F., König, L. M., Slack, H. R., Evans, T. R., Flack, Z., ... & FORRT (2023). Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: a critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes. Royal Society Open Science, 10(5), Article 221255.
- Korbmacher, M., Azevedo, F., Pennington, C. R., Hartmann, H., Pownall, M., Schmidt, K., ... & Evans, T. (2023). The replication crisis has led to positive structural, procedural, and community changes. Communications Psychology, 1, 3.
- Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Kalandadze, T., Yeung, S., Azevedo, F., Iley, B. J., Phan, J. M., ... & Elsherif, M. M. (2023). Opening up understanding of neurodiversity: A call for applying participatory and open scholarship practices. The Cognitive Psychology Bulletin, 8, 23-27.
- Parsons, S., Azevedo, F., Elsherif, M. M., Guay, S., Shahim, O. N., Govaart, ... & Aczel, B. (2022). A Community-Sourced Glossary of Open Scholarship Terms. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(3), 312-318. Please see here for the open access version.
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