Hello there,
We hope this email finds you well. This is FORRT's third newsletter and the first one for the year 2023. With this newsletter, 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 couple months. 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.
We hope you had happy holidays, a well-deserved break and a good start to 2023!
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Newsletter Highlight
The glossary project launched Phase 2 at the Big Team Science Conference last October! The goals for Phase 2 are: glossary will (a) improve existing terminologies; (b) more than double the number of defined entries; and (c) include translations in several languages to increase accessibility and inclusion.
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Slack Roundup
- Our community has grown to 650+ folks! Welcome to all new members - we are so glad to have you all with us!
- team-outreach and team-pedagogies are looking for new people to join their efforts. Interested in joining? Check their introductory calls on twitter (Outreach & Pedagogies) to learn more about what they do and how to join!
- team-outreach keeps highlighting and elevating the amazing members of FORRT! Did you miss any introductions? You can catch up here and also find them on FORRT's community website.
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Upcoming Meetings & Events
Replications & Reversals Hackathon: #team-reversals is doing a hackathon on Thursday 26th of January from 12.00-18.00 pm CET. After a short introduction session, there will be a hackathon for the rest of the day to jointly work on the resource. The focus of this hackathon will be on finishing as many entries as possible to move towards a solid version 1 for our planned output piece. You can register here to receive the Zoom link and a reminder before the event!
Regular meetings
- 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).
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Project Updates
- Team Neurodiversity are really happy to announce that their piece "Navigating Academia as Neurodivergent Researchers: Promoting Neurodiversity Within Open Scholarship" was published in the Association for Psychological Science Observer. Check out the article here, spread the word and keep an eye out for upcoming publications!
- Team Literature Landscape's preregistration is now finalised, the protocol was updated and they're currently in the process of screening the base literature. Their core team is also expanding - four new project managers recently joined.
- Team Glossary's phase 2 is now live and was launched at the Big Team Science Conference in October 2022. Check the project's page for more updates. Twelve teams of translators have gathered to translate the glossary into languages other than English.
- Team Reversals & Replications just updated its resource list, which now counts a fantastic number of 360+ entries across several disciplines, 250+ of which are completed. Join their hackathon on January 26th to help finish more entries!
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Ongoing Conversations
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.
These FORRT's projects are looking for new members:
- The #team-literature-landscape - contact Meng Liu on Slack or via email: ml858@cantab.ac.uk.
- The #team-reversals - contact Helena Hartmann on Slack or via email: helena.hartmann@uk-essen.de.
- The #team-outreach is (as always) planning loads of new content for you on social media! If you're as enthusiastic as we are about communicating our work online, contact the FORRT community managers Helena Hartmann or Leticia Micheli.
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Featured Resources
Team Pedagogies is back with another Pedagogy! In this Pedagogy, we highlight the inspiring educational work that Gilad Feldman does in the field of Open Science! You can find a link to the resources and the interview here. Check out our Twitter thread here and the Mastodon announcement here.
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Get Involved
- We are, as many of you, now also represented on Mastodon - come and follow us over there!
- You are new and want to get involved with FORRT's projects? Check out this page!
- 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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