FORRT Newsletter, June 2025

Event Highlights

FORRT at SIPS 2025 – Budapest Highlights

FORRT hosted a series of impactful talks, unconferences, and a hackathon at SIPS 2025! Highlights included:

POSTEdu: A Positive, Inclusive and Participatory program for educators – Leticia Micheli

Making Replications Mainstream – Flavio Azevedo

Building a Shared Resource for Open Science Education: The FORRT Summary Project – Shubham Pandey & Leticia Micheli

Enhancing the Role of Replications in Science Through the FORRT's Replication Hub – Flavio Azevedo

A Collection of Practical Guides for Adopting Open Science Practices in Resource-Limited Settings – Chuan-Peng, Zhiqi Xu & Flavio Azevedo

Big thanks to all who joined us! 💡🌍

Metascience Presentations – Highlights

FORRT and collaborators shared a series of insightful presentations advancing the future of replication and research culture reform. Highlights included:

POSTEdu: A Positive, Inclusive and Participatory Program for Educators – Madeleine Pownall

Transforming Research Culture: FORRT’s Mission to Reward and Normalize Replication – Flavio Azevedo

Why Do Replications Struggle to Make an Impact? Addressing Their Limited Influence on Belief in Original Claims – Josefina Weinerova

Enhancing the Discoverability of Replications – Lukas Wallrich

Metascience Won't Solve the Replication Crisis: Replications Across the Pyramid of Culture Change – Lukas Röseler

Building R2: Creating an Inclusive, Rigorous Platform for Replication Research – Lukas Röseler

A huge thank you to all presenters and attendees working together to shape a more rigorous, inclusive science! 🔍🌱

Project Updates

Open Social Psychology Textbook: post-SIPS Summer Update!

Social psychology needs teaching tools that reflect the field’s shift toward open science. Because of that, we are building an open, evolving textbook that highlights both classic findings and what replications and meta-analyses reveal today.

Here’s what’s new:
✨ Two new chapters in progress (Obedience & Minimal Group Effect)
📝 Two chapters need revising (False Consensus Effect & Self-fulfilling Prophecies) — Want to help?
🥂 16 chapters already revised — thank you, FORRT teams!
📚 Several bibliographies are ready to go!
Coming up this summer:
📬 Reaching out to student authors about their updated chapters
✍️ Final edits, typesetting & glossary building

🙏 Join the project here!

Reminder: 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

Coming Soon: Advertising FORRT Opportunities (Roles/Tasks)!

We’re launching a centralized system to share all volunteer & paid roles across FORRT — making it easier than ever to get involved! 🌟

✅ Opportunity board with filters for time, skill level, and more
📌 Standard templates
📣 Promoted via Slack, newsletter & a dedicated noticeboard
🌱 Beginner-friendly tasks to welcome new members

We're in early setup and we’re looking for 1–2 co-leads and a PM!

📬 Curious or have questions?
Reach out to: Hakile.resulbegoviq@gmail.com

Open Science in the Developing World: A Collection of Practical Guides for Researchers in Developing Countries

Team Open Science in Developing Countries at FORRT recently had their paper accepted in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS).

The paper maps the opportunities and barriers facing Global South researchers, and proposes a four-level guide to support gradual engagement with open science in developing countries. You can read the preprint of the paper here.

Coming Soon: Self-Guided POSTEdu Modules!

Interested in teaching open research with a positive, participatory, and inclusive approach? The new POSTEdu self-paced modules are launching mid-July 2025!

👉 Sign up to get early access
📚 Learn more

We’d love your feedback once you’ve tried them!

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.

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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