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May 2024
Welcome to FORRT's 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
Vacancy for a Scientific Coordinator & Community Engagement manager!
The LMU Open Science Center in Munich has a vacancy for a Scientific Coordinator & Community Engagement manager (E13 TV-L; 01/2025 to 12/2027, i.e. 3 years).
The task is to implement the Volkswagen Foundation pioneer project “From local to systemic implementation: Embedding open research in institutional practices” which includes an explicit collaboration with FORRT to develop a train-the-trainer program.
At LMU, you will also work with Felix Schönbrodt and Malika Ihle, and will work closely with Team FORRT Curriculum to develop training materials based on an updated version of FORRT Clusters.
Further details on the role can be found here. The application deadline is July 15.
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Project Updates
POSTEdu Launch Events - Register to participate
Last year FORRT received a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to develop a pedagogically-informed, evidence-based, self-guided program for supporting the teaching of Open Science. Our goal is to develop three modules for educators interested in teaching Open Science through a positive, participatory, and inclusive lens.
To kickstart the project (POSTEdu), we are holding two online launch events (18th June and 25th June) where we aim to talk to educators to identify the challenges and opportunities they face when incorporating Open Science into teaching and mentoring, and to get their input and opinion on how best to develop these modules. Your participation and input is greatly appreciated!
Register for one of the two launch events here.
Replications Database highlighted by Science
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News from our partner organizations
Educational Corner - new update!
Please consider joining the movement towards a fairer and more constructive peer review culture with Reviewer Zero.
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Events and Meetings
Previous
On the 4th June, The Norwegian Reproducibility Network (NORRN) hosted their 3rd Annual Conference of Norwegian Reproducibility Network. Helena Hartmann, from Team Replications and Reversals, was part of the panel discussion on big team science. In the session, they discussed their experiences with participation in, and leading of, big team science projects.
Upcoming
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Get Involved
- Are you new and want to get involved with FORRT's projects? Check out the "Get Involved" page on the FORRT website! Here we detail the types of ongoing projects you can get involved with, and where to contact to find out more. Examples include:
- Get in touch with Team Reversals if you would like to contribute to the database of effects.
- Project summaries are looking for people to help with manuscript writing and project management.
- New project Team Youth is also looking for new members. The project will aim to help kids and adolescents understand open science and its related concepts. You can join the new FORRT Slack channel #team-youth.
- We are also always looking for structural support to help us manage our social media, develop our website, and other important work which keeps FORRT moving!
- Join our Slack community and learn how to join our efforts toward advancing research transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics through pedagogical reform.
- Do you have a new idea for a FORRT project? Please add to #team-ideas on Slack!
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., Parsons, S., Micheli, L., Strand, J., Rinke, E., … & FORRT. (2019). Introducing a Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT).
- Röseler, L., Kaiser, L., Doetsch, C. A., Klett, N., Seida, C., Schütz, A., … Zhang, Y., Mr. (2024). The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science.
- Pownall, M., Ghai, S., Fassi, L., Hayes, G., Schaaf, M., Chin, C., … Orben, A. (2024). What does Open Science mean for Educational Technology Research? Challenges, Opportunities, and a Call for Research.
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