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June 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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Featured Resource
Database of Neurodivergent Researchers
Team Neurodiversity are excited to announce that the long-awaited Database of Neurodivergent Researchers is now live! Submit your entries to the database here.
Contributors to the database do not need to be FORRT project members, published, to work in a particular field, or to have specific attitudes; they only need to be neurodivergent researchers and consent to their inclusion in it.
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Project Updates
POST-Edu
On 18th June and 25th June, FORRT kickstarted their project 'POSTEdu' by hosting two online meetings to understand the challenges and opportunities educators face when incorporating Open Science into teaching and mentoring. The POSTEdu project, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), aims to develop three modules for educators interested in teaching Open Science through a positive, participatory, and inclusive lens.
Thank you to everyone who attended these workshops! These sessions offered the opportunity for attendees to discuss in groups what each of these three modules should cover. The POSTEdu team will next work on developing these three modules, and to develop a plan for implementing these modules into higher education.
If you have any questions on this project, please contact one of the project leads:
- Leticia Micheli
- Madeleine Pownall
- Helena Hartmann
- Thomas Rhys Evans
- Karen Matvienko-Sikar
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News from our partner organizations
Course on Open Science 101
Dive into teaching Open Science to undergraduates! Starting early with the principles of transparency and reproducibility prepares students for future research. See here for the Course on Open Science 101. Topics include study preregistration, replication and ethical research practices.
This content was jointly developed with colleagues at Lancaster University (Dr. Marina Bazhydai, Dr. Sally Linkenauger, Dr. Neil McLatchie), as part of two undergraduate psychology modules.
Busara e-book
The Busara Center for Behavioral Economics has released a book entitled: A better how: notes on developmental meta-research. The first chapter was written by FORRT and ABRIR team members on 'How to improve collaboration across the Global North-South Divide'. The book is now live and available on Busara website for free.
Download your copy today to gain insights from over 50 authors in the fields of meta research and international development. You can also purchase a paperback edition at Nuria Bookstore and Amazon.
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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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