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February 2025
Welcome to FORRT's newsletter!
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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Project Updates
Grant success & opportunity to boost the update of replication research as a post-doc or research assistant
Lukas Wallrich and Lukas Röseler, from Team Replication Hub, have just received a UKRI Metascience research grant, for their project: 'Making Replications Count: Identifying Barriers and Enhancing Impact with Innovative Dissemination Tools'.
For the project, they are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to join Lukas W (l.wallrich@bbk.ac.uk) at Birkbeck, University of London. There is an option for visa sponsorship, so any PhD-holder is welcome to apply. They are also advertising for research assistants to work on this project with Lukas R at the Münster Center of Open Science (the applicants for this must be student at a German university).
Check out the UK job description here. Further details on the research assistant posts to follow. If you have any questions on this, please contact Lukas W and Lukas R.
Open Social Psychology textbook
Last month, we launched our new FORRT initiative, which aims to develop an open-access textbook on social psychology summarizing the classical findings and discuss them in light of replication attempts. The project started with 16 draft textbook chapters written by undergraduate students (credited as first authors), which needed to be reviewed and improved upon.
The project launch has been a huge success, with 14 out of 16 chapters adopted for editing, and one new chapter being developed. The project is still looking for people to adopt and edit two chapters though, which focus on:
- Facial Feedback Hypothesis
- Heat Priming of Hostile Perception
Open Science in the Developing World: A Collection of Practical Guides for Researchers in Developing Countries
There is a new preprint from Team Open Science in Developing Countries at FORRT. The open science movement has transformed the research landscape, but its impact has largely been confined to developed countries. Researchers from developing countries have called for a redesign of open science to better align with their unique contexts. Practical actions are warranted though to drive meaningful and inclusive change. The preprint proposes a four-level guide to support gradual engagement with open science in developing countries.
Introducing FORRT’s community managers!
If you are new to FORRT, or have been around FORRT for a while, and have any questions, you can always drop a message on Slack to one of our community managers. We’ve recently expanded our team and just wanted to update you all on the current list of community managers at FORRT:
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John Shaw
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Leticia Micheli
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Kelly Lloyd
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Lukas Wallrich
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Helena Hartmann
If you have any questions, please get in touch with one of the community managers.
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Events and Meetings
Next meetings to discuss the journal Replication Research is March 6th, 18th, 27th, and April 3rd and 9th
FORRT and the Münster Center for Open Science are launching a researcher-led diamond open access journal in late 2025. From February until May, we will be discussing core features, editorial procedures, and the scope of the journal in a series of online discussions. The entire process is open and we invite you to join us on the Road to Replication Research. Join us and register for participation in these meetings here.
After registering, you will receive a Zoom link on the day to join the meeting. Please see below for further details on the meeting dates, times and topics:
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Get Involved
Regular meetings - everyone welcome
- Many FORRT project teams meet regularly, and anyone is welcome to join. Check out all these events and more in our online FORRT Calendar!
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.
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In case you missed it
New paper from Team Neurodiversity:
- Zaneva, M., Coll-Martín, T., Héjja-Brichard, Y., Kalandadze, T., Kis, A., Koperska, A., ... & Zisk, A. H. (2024). An annotated introductory reading list for neurodiversity. eLife, 13, e102467.
Selection of previous FORRT publications you might have missed:
- Pownall, M., Azevedo, F., König, L. M., Slack, H. R., Evans, T. R., Flack, Z., ... & FORRT (2023). Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: a critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes. Royal Society Open Science, 10(5), Article 221255.
- Korbmacher, M., Azevedo, F., Pennington, C. R., Hartmann, H., Pownall, M., Schmidt, K., ... & Evans, T. (2023). The replication crisis has led to positive structural, procedural, and community changes. Communications Psychology, 1, 3.
- Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Kalandadze, T., Yeung, S., Azevedo, F., Iley, B. J., Phan, J. M., ... & Elsherif, M. M. (2023). Opening up understanding of neurodiversity: A call for applying participatory and open scholarship practices. The Cognitive Psychology Bulletin, 8, 23-27.
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