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May 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
Get Paid to Co-Create Open-Access Educational Materials!
FORRT wants to remind you about its funded initiative to co-create open-access, inclusive teaching materials.
Contribute a set of materials and earn €400. Each set should include:
- A set of teaching slides with script and pedagogical notes, editable and aligned with FORRT's Clusters.
- A set of structured lesson plans incorporating student activities, styled according to Pownall et al. (2024).
- All materials are designed to follow Bloom’s Taxonomy and are openly shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
Contributors will be credited on FORRT’s Contributors page and directly on the materials, and may be invited to co-author resulting publications (provided authorship criteria are met). Want to find out more? Please read here for additional information for contributors.
Join us in democratizing open science education!
📩 Interested? Email: team-curriculum@forrt.org
Replication Research Journal
FORRT and the Münster Center for Open Science are launching a researcher-led diamond open access journal in late 2025. After months of community discussions, we're thrilled to announce: 📝 Submissions open October 10, 2025!
🔍 Explore the journal website — join the mailing list, volunteer as a reviewer/editor, or share your thoughts in our upcoming open community call (more information will follow!).
📚 After the Replication Research Symposium in May, held in Münster, Germany, we also published the Book of Abstracts. You can check out the Event Photos here.
📩 Questions? Please send to contact@replicationresearch.org
Thanks for Joining Team Summaries April Hackathon!
Team Summaries aims to summarize key papers in open and reproducible science, helping educators and scholars stay informed and up to date. In April, the team hosted a hackathon, which is like an intense work sprint where attendees worked together to develop summaries for this project. Big thank you again to everyone who attended. The team are already planning the next one — more details coming soon!
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Events and Meetings
Join the FORRT Replication Hub Hackathon!
We're polishing our replication tools for public release — and we need your input!
🧰 What’s happening:
Help improve the FReD package + two Shiny apps:
- FReD Explorer – explore the replication dataset and assess replicability/effect sizes (a perfect gateway tool for meta-science!)
- FReD Annotator – annotates reference lists with replication findings, making it much easier to use replications in teaching and manuscripts, to ensure our claims are evidence-based.
🗓️ June 20 | 10:00–15:30 CEST | 08:00–13:30 UTC | 09:00–14:30 BST
🕙 Join the morning session (10:00 CEST), afternoon session (13:30 CEST), or both!
💻 Confident with R (and ideally Shiny)?
We’ll provide support but this isn’t suitable for beginners.
🤝 All contributions credited
🏆 Chance to become a package contributor if you solve a full issue
📧 Register before June 15 by email: lukas.roeseler@uni-muenster.de
Let’s build better tools for replication research — together! 💡
FORRT at SIPS 2025:
Help Build a Shared Resource for Open Science Education!
FORRT has crafted 200+ accessible summaries of key open and reproducible science papers—and now we’re inviting you to help improve them! Join our interactive hackathon at SIPS 2025 to review and refine these summaries. No prerequisites needed—just bring your curiosity and passion for open science.
Why join?
✅ Get acknowledged on the FORRT website
📚 Contribute to a global open educational resource
✍️ Complete 10+ reviews and earn co-authorship on future manuscripts
Session Details:
🗓️ June 26, 2025
🕚 11:00 AM–12:30 PM (CEST)
📍 Room 214, Second Floor — SIPS 2025, Budapest
🎤 Shubham Pandey & Leticia Micheli
Why it matters:
This session is designed to broaden participation in open science, reduce barriers to entry, and promote diversity and inclusion. By collaboratively improving freely available summaries—many based on paywalled literature—we’re making science education more accessible to all.
Find out more:
🔗 SIPS 2025 OSF Page
🔗 SIPS 2025 Conference Info
Be a part of something meaningful—see you in Budapest!
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Get Involved
Are you new and want to get involved with FORRT's projects?
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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