FORRT’s Director, Dr. Flávio Azevedo, received the prestigious NWO UKB Leo Waaijers Open Science Award 2026 celebrating the work done by FORRT (Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training). This recognition for FORRT’s efforts and activities is wonderful recognition for the community-led effort that FORRT advocates for.
FORRT was well represented at the Big Team Science Conference 2026 hosted by the CONNECT Working Group. Take a look at FORRT’s Zenodo Community to see our conference presentations and see some additional recent publications!
Thank you to everyone who took part in the FORRT AI in Metascience Online Conference (28–30 September 2026). Recordings of 32 talks are now on the FORRT YouTube channel, with one playlist per day: AI in the research pipeline, replications and reproductions, and analyst variability and workshops. The conference page has the full programme, with the abstract and recording of each talk.
Join us online on 28–30 September 2026 for a free conference with 37 talks and workshops on how AI is changing research. Monday explores AI in the research pipeline, including evidence synthesis, research evaluation, and ethical adoption. Tuesday focuses on replications and reproductions, with a hands-on session on agent-assisted reproducibility checks. Wednesday combines workshops on knowledge management, evidence synthesis, and preregistration review with talks on analyst variability. Everyone is welcome: attend the full programme or dip into individual sessions.
We are inviting submissions for a free online conference (28–30 September 2026) exploring how AI and large language models can help us understand and improve how science works. Talks, workshops, and hackathon proposals are welcome from all career stages, with a submission deadline of 31 July 2026.
FORRT has added Peer Community In (PCI) and the Peer Community Journal to its network of partners. PCI offers thematic platforms to review preprints, and PCJ is a multidisciplinary, indexed, diamond open-access journal where validated preprints can be published free of charge for authors.
FORRT’s Glossary of Open Scholarship terms is now available in Chinese, lowering the barrier to understanding and participating in open-science discussions for Chinese-speaking researchers and students. It joins the existing English, German, Arabic, and Turkish versions.
Announces the Replication Hub Showcase (1 July 2026, online) and a ‘CRediTing in BTS’ hackathon at SIPS 2026 in Washington, DC, plus a call for validators for FLoRA, FORRT’s replication database of over 2,000 study pairs. Applications are also open for the LMU Open Science Summer School 2026 (deadline 6 July).
FORRT welcomes Nowhere Lab into our community - a space for anyone without a lab who wants the lab-meeting experience — new faculty, ex-academics, freelancers, and keen undergrads. Their members have also produced a PhD Survival Guide. Check the website, or join their channel on Slack.
JUST-OS, an AI-based chatbot developed by researchers at the University of Groningen and FORRT, is now live on our website. It gives user-friendly, tailored guidance to help researchers find relevant Open Science resources. Try it out and share your feedback.
The Get Involved page has been updated and rebuilt, and we have made it easier to keep the updates coming. So if you are looking for ways to get involved, have a look at the current opportunities now.
Contains a call for contributors to the FLoRA replication library, alongside the new interactive Re-Search Terms app. It also invites responses to the Big Team Science Experience and Tools & Infrastructure surveys (deadline 18 May).
Shares the launch of Round 3 of the Predicting Replicability Challenge (22 April). It also highlights recordings from Love Replications Week and the Zotero Replication Checker, now available in five languages.
Previews Love Replications Week (2–6 March), a Team Credit Hackathon (9 March), and the in-person Making Replications Count Hackathon (4–6 May). It introduces new tools — ARIADNE, the FReD Explorer App, and the FLoRA Annotator — with the FReD database now holding over 1,000 replication findings.
Marks the launch of the Replication Research (R²) journal with its inaugural editorial, and introduces the FORWARD (FORRT for World Development) initiative aligned with UNESCO’s International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development. It also flags upcoming events including Love Replications Week and the Making Replications Count Hackathon.
