Hello there,
We hope this email finds you well. This is FORRT's second newsletter and with it, we hope to inform the larger community about our activities since we understand that many of you are extremely busy and may not be able to keep up with ongoing projects and conversations on Slack. This digest is intended to help you cut through the noise and stay involved. We intend to send one digest every 4 to 8 weeks. If you missed our first 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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A highlight of the quarter
We are delighted to announce that our Neurodiversity position statement was released as a preprint! A big thank you to the 40+ FORRT members who keep contributing to this project! Check out the preprint here and keep an eye out for more Neurodiversity projects in the coming months!
See our Twitter thread and help us spread the word!
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Slack Roundup
- We hosted our first ever ★ FORRT Open Day ★ on the 4th of May 2022, with eight fantastic presentations showcasing each of our exciting ongoing projects, ending with a Q&A with project leads. Missed it? Catch a ↬ recording ↫ of the event and all slides here.
- Our community has grown to 470+ folks! Welcome to all new members - we are so glad to have you here!
- team-outreach and team-pedagogies are looking for new people to join their efforts. Interested in joining? Check their calls on twitter (Outreach & Pedagogies) to learn more about what they do and how to join!
- team-outreach just started a new initiative aiming to highlight and elevate the amazing members of FORRT! Stay tuned to get to know those working behind the scenes at FORRT!
- In June, FORRT members ran several highly successful hackathons at SIPS 2022, with events run by Teams Lesson Plans; Landscapes; Reversals; Summaries; and Neurodiversity. Find out more about the hackathons that took place at SIPS here.
- We submitted an application for the Einstein's Award. Keep your fingers crossed for us! If you know about Open Science/Scholarship awards that we should be applying for, let us know!
- FORRT projects were presented at RIOT's Teaching and Mentoring conference, OpenAire's Community of Practice, Open Scholarship in Applied Linguistics, Nowhere Lab, COS's Open Science Knowledge Base, Edinburgh Open Research Conference, and Northumbria's Open Research Week.
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Upcoming Meetings & Events
- The #team-neurodiversity is meeting every other week, it meets every other Monday, either from 12.00 to 13:30 (11:00 UK, 7:00 AM EST) or from 17:00 to 18:30 CET (16:00 UK, 12:00 AM EST).
- The #team-outreach also has a jour fixe, it meets every other Tuesday, from 17:00 to 18:00 CET (16:00 UK, 12:00 AM EST).
- The #team-reversals is meeting every Wednesday, from 16:00 to 17:00 CEST (15:00 UK, 10:00 AM EST) to jointly work on the project.
- The #team-pedagogies is meeting every other Wednesday, from 17:00 to 18:00 CEST (16:00 UK, 11:00 AM EST).
- Check out all these dates at our online FORRT Calendar.
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Project Updates
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Ongoing Conversations
- The #team-literature-landscape just completed a great SIPS hackathon and is currently working on next steps towards mapping the Open Scholarship landscape - both in terms of a database and a literature review.
- The #team-outreach is (as always) planning loads of new content for you on social media!
- We have updated our 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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Featured Resources
- Check out Replications & Reversals which is a project aimed at crowdsourcing replications across social sciences. The resource (currently already including over 240 effects!) aims to be a “living,” freely available, and community-driven collection of either successful replications, unsuccessful replications with null findings, or unsuccessful replications with reversals. Scholars from varied backgrounds and areas of social science are invited to contribute with prevalent effects in their respective fields. Want to contribute? Check out our instructions here!
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Get Involved
- Do you want to get involved with FORRT's projects? Check this page out!
- Join our Slack community and learn how to join our efforts toward advancing research transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics through pedagogical reform.
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Join the Discussion
The majority of FORRT’s operations go through our Slack channel. We use it to keep everyone up-to-date, coordinate teams, and provide a platform for ongoing discussions on our projects. You can join us here. If you want to keep it more low-key for now, follow us on one (or all) or our other platforms below!
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