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March 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
New FORRT publication in the Royal Society Open Science
Several FORRT members have co-authored a new paper, published in the Royal Society Open Science! Led by Magda Skubera from Aston University, this systematic mapping review explores international initiatives aimed at increasing awareness and adoption of open research practices in psychology.
The study identifies 187 procedural, structural, and community-based initiatives, highlighting the rapid progress of open research and the collaborative efforts of individuals, institutions, publishers, and funders in reforming research culture. Well done team! Read the full paper here.
New exciting leadership opportunity in science communication!
Are you passionate about science communication? Looking to develop leadership experience? Here's your chance! We're searching for a creative and motivated volunteer to help lead and elevate FORRT’s monthly newsletter! You get the chance to (1) redesign & develop new sections of the newsletter, (2) curate the latest news from our project leads, and (3) make an impact through science communication. Ready to take the lead? Reach out to Kelly Lloyd on email (k.e.lloyd@leeds.ac.uk) or on Slack for more details!
Guest blog on the Replication Network
The Replication Hub team has contributed a guest blog to the Replication Network, which aims to further the practice of replication in economics. Discussed were the upcoming Replication Research Symposium (May 14–16, 2025) and the launch of Replication Research, a diamond open-access journal, scheduled for late 2025. Read the blog here.
FORRT: An open science initiative
ZBW interviewed FORRT to find out more about the initiative, and how FORRT can help support integration of open science principles in business and economics. ZMB – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics is a leading research information infrastructure for economics. Read the interview here.
Help us build FORRT’s Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page!
As our community grows, so do the questions from new and prospective members. We’re creating a comprehensive FAQ page to support them — and we’d love your input!
💡 Share your thoughts in our short form.
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Events and Meetings
Join the FORRT Summaries hackathon – April 8th!
We would like to invite you to join us for the upcoming FORRT Summaries Hackathon on 8th of April (Online, 4-6pm CEST / 2-4pm UTC)! This event will focus on the FORRT Summaries project. Help summarize key papers in open science and support educators who may have limited time or access. No experience needed—just join, learn, and contribute! Co-leads will guide you throughout. Sign up by April 4th.
Contributors will be acknowledged on the website and those who fulfil the requirements (i.e., reviewing 10 summaries) will be invited to co-author any resulting manuscripts.
Help shape new replication discovery tools!
We’re inviting researchers and educators to join us for two informal, interactive focus groups where we’ll explore two new tools developed as part of the FORRT Replication Database (FReD) project. This is a chance to get a sneak peek, test the features, and share your ideas for future improvements.
FReD Annotator Focus Group
📅 Date: Thursday, April 10
🕞 Time: 3:30–5:00pm CEST
📍 Location: Online
FReD Annotator helps users identify replication attempts in their own reading lists, providing summaries of outcomes and links to relevant studies. It's designed to enhance the accessibility and usability of replication data for research and teaching.
Register here for FReD Annotator
FReD Explorer Focus Group
📅 Date: Friday, April 11
🕛 Time: 12:00–1:30pm CEST
📍 Location: Online
FReD Explorer is an interactive tool designed to help users navigate and discover replication studies. You can filter by key criteria, spot trends and gaps in the field, and easily access key information on past replications.
Register here for FReD Explorer
We’d love to hear from you! These sessions are informal and open to anyone interested in replication research. Your feedback will directly shape the next phase of development. Questions? Reach out to Lukas Wallrich (l.wallrich@bbk.ac.uk) or Lukas Röseler (lukas.roeseler@uni-muenster.de) by email or Slack.
Advancing Open Science Together
The Replication Research Symposium, organized by FORRT and the Münster Center for Open Science, will take place May 14–16, 2025. This dynamic event brings together researchers from across disciplines to explore the power of replications and reproductions in advancing science.
You can expect expert-led discussions on the latest in replication research, exciting opportunities to contribute to a groundbreaking open-access replication journal, and a Replication Showcase featuring talks and posters from 12+ fields, including neuroscience, economics, and animal behavior—all designed to advance open and reproducible science. Check out the program details.
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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
Selection of previous FORRT publications you might have missed:
- 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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