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March 2024
Hello there,
Welcome to FORRT's March 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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Project Updates
New preprint
New preprint from the FORRT and Ceres Jacobs collaboration! The paper focuses on what Open Science can mean for educational technology research, including the challenges, opportunities, and a call for further research. Read the paper here. Well done to Madeleine Pownall, Sakshi Ghai, Luisa Fassi, and all other authors!
FORRT project contributors
FORRT now has a page where all FORRT contributors are formally recognized for their work. Check this out here, and see if all your contributions are properly credited.
New opportunity
FORRT is now pursuing legal status in Germany (in addition to the UK via Open Collective). If you would like to help us to establish a "Verein" in Germany, please contact Flavio Azevedo on Slack to join the team.
Invest in Open Infrastructure Grant: Could you help?
FORRT has been awarded a grant by Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI), for a project titled “Improving accessibility and usability of FORRT’s Open Educational Resources”. The funding will be used to conduct user research and implement infrastructure improvements. We hope it will result in a website that is easier to navigate, machine translatable, and quicker to load. We will also be creating audio-visual content to make our resources more accessible.
If you have experience in user research, graphic/web design, and/or Hugo website development, we need your help! Please join the #team-website Slack channel and keep an eye out for updates.
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News from our partner organizations
FORRT is joining forces with Metadocencia and Access 2 Perspectives to map open science organizations across the globe. We will soon open opportunities for collaborators. Watch this space!
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Events and Meetings
Past events
- FORRT member, Veronica Allen, was invited to the European Astronomical Society 2023 Annual Meeting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) session to discuss the Academic Wheel of Privilege. Well done Veronica for spreading FORRT's message!
- On Friday 22nd March, Open Life Science (OLS) and FORRT collaborated to host a workshop and survey investigating the intersection between big team science; diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility; and data science. Find out more about the event and survey here.
- We presented FORRT, its mission, initiatives, and future projects at the Open Science Retreat (25th to 29th of March).
- The Replications and Reversals team also presented twice at the Center for Open Science (COS) Conference. The conference took place from March 21st to 22nd. The talks were entitled:
- The Replication Database as a Nexus for Replication Research.
- Tracking and Mainstreaming Replications Across the Social, Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences.
- Well done to Lukas Wallrich, Lukas Röseler, and Helena Hartmann!
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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.
Funding FORRT
- We are currently raising funds 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).
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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 March newsletter, we wanted to put the spotlight several past publications from FORRT. If you haven't read these already, check them out:
- Azevedo, F., Liu, M., Pennington, C. R., Pownall, M., Evans, T. R., Parsons, S., Elsherif, M. M., Micheli, L., Westwood, S., & FORRT. (2021). Towards a culture of open scholarship: The role of pedagogical communities. BMC Research Notes, 15(1), 1-5.
- Pownall, M., Azevedo, F., Aldoh, A., Elsherif, M. M., Vasilev, M. R., Pennington, C. R., … Parsons, S. (2021). Embedding open and reproducible science into teaching: A bank of lesson plans and resources. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology.
- Elsherif, M. M., Middleton, S. L., Phan, J. M., Azevedo, F., Iley, B. J., Grose-Hodge, M., … Dokovova, M. (2022, June 20). Bridging Neurodiversity and Open Scholarship: How Shared Values Can Guide Best Practices for Research Integrity, Social Justice, and Principled Education.
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