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September 2024
Welcome to FORRT's newsletter! We're back with our September issue, and hope you had a nice summer break.
With this newsletter, we hope to inform the larger community about FORRT's activities in the last months, 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
Inclusive feedback opportunities
Systemic underrepresentation of marginalised groups in academia persists, with existing feedback mechanisms often reinforcing disparities. Our Leverhulme Trust-funded project, in partnership with FORRT, aims to map inclusive feedback opportunities at all stages of research and create an e-book to support researchers.
We invite academics to share their feedback strategies via this survey. For more information, please visit FORRT's recent Educators' corner describing the project, or contact Dr Thomas Evans, thomas.evans@greenwich.ac.uk.
FORRT is now a registered association in Germany
The "Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training Germany e.V." is now an officially registered association in Germany since the 25th of July 2024!
We invite all FORRT members (no matter whether they speak German or live/work in Germany) to become a member of this Verein - there are no costs involved. For now, please join #forrt-germany-verein on Slack for upcoming updates on the first official meeting and more.
Well done to founding members! Two of them are pictured below after registering the FORRT association.
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Project Updates
Call for Project Managers - Team Website
Are you excited about Open and Reproducible Science? We’re looking for two enthusiastic Project Managers to help us maintain and improve the FORRT website, a hub for Open Science education!
- Non-technical PM: Help assess accessibility, coordinate updates, and engage with the community.
Technical PM: Assist with documentation, review edits, and support automation for accessibility.
Call for Project Managers - Team Summaries
FORRT is seeking Project Managers to support its Team Summaries initiative, which distills key insights from the Open and Reproducible Science literature.
As a Project Manager, you will lead efforts to review and finalize summaries, oversee volunteers, and contribute to a manuscript on the initiative. This role offers a unique opportunity to gain authorship and present your work at Open Science events.
Learn more about the project, responsibilities and how to apply here.
New paper from Team Replications
The paper introduces the Replication Database, a novel platform hosting 1,239 original findings paired with replication findings. The database makes replications easily findable via a graphical user interface. The infrastructure of this database allows researchers as well to submit additional replication findings. Read the paper here. Well done Replications Database team!
Replications Team presentation
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Events and Meetings
POSTEdu is hosting one more launch event to talk to educators!
In the launch event, we will provide an overview of the project and talk to educators to get input on how best to develop a pedagogically-informed, evidence-based, self-guided program for educators interested in teaching Open Research.
Join us online on October 21st from 11.30 to 13.00 (CET). Register for the launch event here.
For more information on the project and how to get involved, see the project page here.
Hackathons for the Glossary project
This autumn, we’re hosting a series of FORRT hackathons designed to advance our glossary of open science terms. We plan to translate this amazing resource into more languages and extend the glossary to include more open science terms. Mark your calendars and join us for these amazing events!
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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.
- 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 FORRT via email (info@forrt.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 outputs from FORRT. If you haven't seen these already, check them out:
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