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April 2024
Hello there,
Welcome to FORRT's April 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
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New FORRT project alert!
Helena Hartmann and Julian Packheiser want to create a new FORRT project to help kids and adolescents understand open science and its related concepts. They have created a landing page where you can leave feedback as well as your name and contact details at the bottom to stay updated. You can also join the new FORRT Slack channel #team-youth.
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Project Updates
Team Landscape looking for data analysts!
FORRT's Landscape team is pleased to announce that they have finished screening the open scholarship literature dataset and are now looking for data analysts to join their team to conduct a comprehensive analysis (focused on keywords and themes). Please see here for further details on the open call for data analysts.
Everyone is welcome to join! If you are interested, please indicate your interest here by 15th May. Please don't hesitate to reach out to Team Landscape on Slack or email ml858@cantab.ac.uk for any questions.
New preprint from Team Reversals
The preprint paper discusses the Replication Database project, which aims to collate replication effects across psychological research. The database is a novel platform hosting over 1,200 original findings paired with replication findings. The paper provides an overview of the project, with a thorough documentation of the database, its structure, where the findings come from, and some preliminary results. Read the preprint here.
Congrats to the Reversals team, and to the core team members: Helena Hartmann, Lukas Röseler, Lukas Wallrich, Flavio Azevedo!
FReD re-applying for the Einstein Award 2024
The FORRT Replication Database (FReD) Project is re-applying for the Einstein Award 2024. The Einstein Award for Promoting Quality in Research honors researchers around the globe whose work aims to advance the quality, transparency, and reproducibility of research.
Good luck to Helena Hartmann, Lukas Röseler, Lukas Wallrich, Flavio Azevedo, Leticia Micheli!
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News from our partner organizations
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Events and Meetings
Past events
The Replications and Reversals team presented twice at the Center for Open Science (COS) Conference (March 21st to 22nd). The talks focused on the Replication Database and the Replication Hub. Catch the recording of the talks 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.
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 this 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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