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November 2023
Hello there,
We hope this email finds you well. Welcome to FORRT's November 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
Replications and Reversals
Finalist for the Early Career Einstein Foundation Award
The FORRT project 'Replications and Reversals' was selected as a finalist for the Early Career Einstein Foundation Award for promoting quality in research.
The Reversals team has been recognised for their contribution to improving research by tracking and mainstreaming replications across the Social, Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences.
On the 9th November, all finalists took part in an online event hosted by the Einstein Foundation, where each finalist described their project to the voting jury. While ultimately FORRT did not win the award, being selected as a finalist was a huge honour! The event was also a fantastic place to highlight the project and all its achievements to date.
You can watch the project presentation here & well done to everyone involved!
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Featured Resource
Want to know more about the 'Replications and Reversals' project? We've summarised below what this project sets out to achieve:
Replications of previous scientific work are at the core of the Open Scholarship movement. However, as replication studies become more widespread, it can be challenging to keep up to date with which effects replicate and which do not.
FORRT’s Replications and Reversals project aims to collate the latest replications in social sciences. The project also aims to document any reversals, which refers to effects that have their original direction flipped. This resource aims to be a “living”, freely available, crowd-sourced, and community-driven collection of effects that have either not been replicated or even reversed through empirical research across social sciences.
Interested in helping out?
The project invites scholars from varied backgrounds and across social sciences to contribute on the effects in their respective fields. Please see the Replications and Reversals webpage on FORRT for more information about this project.
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Project Updates
Team Curation - 1,000 curated resources
Team Curation in partnership with the Center for Open Science (Crystal Steltenpohl & Katie Corker) has hit 1000 curated Open Science and Open Education resources.
Check out the curated resources here!
Want to help to curate more resources for the community?
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Events and Meetings
FORRT presentation at NLRN
- On October 27th, FORRT received an invitation to present its various projects aimed at advancing Open Science education during the official launch event of the Netherlands Reproducibility Network (NLRN).
- During the event, FORRT hosted a workshop to discuss how NLRN and FORRT could join forces towards a better future for Open Science Education. The day was full of exciting plans and we hope to see many of them realised in the near future!
- Please see the Netherlands Reproducibility Network (NLRN) website for further information about the organisation.
Replications & Reversals webinar with ReplicationWiki
- On October 25th, ReplicationWiki organised a webinar and Q&A session featuring FORRT Team Replications & Reversals, where Helena Hartmann, Flavio Azevedo, and Bethan Iley delivered presentations on the project. See here for a recording of the video. Keep an eye on FORRT's YouTube channel where we will post the Q&A recording in the near future!
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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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