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February 2024
Hello there,
Welcome to FORRT's February 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
New Open Collective page
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Project Updates
'Replications & Reversals' and 'Replication Database' join forces!
FORRT Reversals and Replication Database (ReD) are joining forces to bring you the most comprehensive replication database to date! Together with 146 researchers, the team has aggregated and coded numerous replication findings. You can browse these findings in the database here. The project is co-led by Helena Hartmann and Lukas Röseler.
Call for collaborators for Glossary translations!
We are looking for enthusiastic contributors to join our team for translating the Glossary of Open Scholarship Terms from English to the languages around the world! If you are interested in sharing your knowledge and expertise, please read the call for collaborators.
Interested in science communication? Good with Instagram?
Then this may be the perfect role for you!
Team Outreach lead on running FORRT's social media platforms. The Team are looking for help running their Instagram account. If you have experience in, or want to acquire experience in, creative content development for social media, then please get in touch with Team Outreach or Kelly Lloyd on FORRT Slack!
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Events and Meetings
Past events
On the 8th February, we presented FORRT, its mission, initiatives, and future projects at the Netherlands Research Integrity Network's (NRIN) Happy Hour webinar. Catch the recording of the session here.
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Get Involved
Regular meetings - everyone welcome!
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 February newsletter, we wanted to put the spotlight several past publications from 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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