News & Announcements

We are inviting submissions for a free online conference (28–30 September 2026) exploring how AI and large language models can help us understand and improve how science works. Talks, workshops, and hackathon proposals are welcome from all career stages, with a submission deadline of 31 July 2026.

FORRT has added Peer Community In (PCI) and the Peer Community Journal to its network of partners. PCI offers thematic platforms to review preprints, and PCJ is a multidisciplinary, indexed, diamond open-access journal where validated preprints can be published free of charge for authors.

FORRT’s Glossary of Open Scholarship terms is now available in Chinese, lowering the barrier to understanding and participating in open-science discussions for Chinese-speaking researchers and students. It joins the existing English, German, and Arabic versions.

Announces the Replication Hub Showcase (1 July 2026, online) and a ‘CRediTing in BTS’ hackathon at SIPS 2026 in Washington, DC, plus a call for validators for FLoRA, FORRT’s replication database of over 2,000 study pairs. Applications are also open for the LMU Open Science Summer School 2026 (deadline 6 July).

JUST-OS, an AI-based chatbot developed by researchers at the University of Groningen and FORRT, is now live on our website. It gives user-friendly, tailored guidance to help researchers find relevant Open Science resources. Try it out and share your feedback.

The Get Involved page has been updated and rebuilt, and we have made it easier to keep the updates coming. So if you are looking for ways to get involved, have a look at the current opportunities now.

Contains a call for contributors to the FLoRA replication library, alongside the new interactive Re-Search Terms app. It also invites responses to the Big Team Science Experience and Tools & Infrastructure surveys (deadline 18 May).

Shares the launch of Round 3 of the Predicting Replicability Challenge (22 April). It also highlights recordings from Love Replications Week and the Zotero Replication Checker, now available in five languages.

Previews Love Replications Week (2–6 March), a Team Credit Hackathon (9 March), and the in-person Making Replications Count Hackathon (4–6 May). It introduces new tools — ARIADNE, the FReD Explorer App, and the FLoRA Annotator — with the FReD database now holding over 1,000 replication findings.

Marks the launch of the Replication Research (R²) journal with its inaugural editorial, and introduces the FORWARD (FORRT for World Development) initiative aligned with UNESCO’s International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development. It also flags upcoming events including Love Replications Week and the Making Replications Count Hackathon.