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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · Aug 20

🌟 Have you ever thought about helping shape the future of FORRT? 🌟

At our 🏔️ Leadership Summit, we decided to create a 🚀Steering Committee 🚀 to guide our next chapter: now we’re looking for nominations (self- or others) 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ for people who can bring skills, ideas, and energy to running our community.

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · Jul 18

📈 New research from Social Psychological and Personality Science suggests that simply being aware of economic inequality in your society significantly undermines your well-being across happiness, meaning, harmony, and spirituality.

Learn more: ow.ly/PtIa50WrPFp

Red game piece stands on a tall stack of coins while a blue piece stands on a single coin, symbolizing financial disparity.

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Anatolia Batruch @anatoliab.bsky.social · Jul 16

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🚨 New article out!
How robust is the psychology of social class?
Together with Nicolas Sommet and ‪@frederiqueautin.bsky.social‬, we conducted large-scale replications of 35 hypotheses across four countries.
Published in Nature Human Behaviour:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · Jun 29

Headed to #Metascience2025! 🚂🌻

I'll be on a panel about how feminist concerns are related to metascientific concerns & presenting the POSTEdu programme led by @leticiarmicheli.bsky.social.

If anyone wants to chat about: reflexivity, bias, methods, or how metascience can be kinder, let me know! ☕

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Leticia Micheli @leticiarmicheli.bsky.social · Jun 29

It was such a pleasure meeting you ❤️

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · Apr 28

An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology

openletter.earth/against-lang...

Against Language Barriers: A Call to Protect International Education in Dutch Academia

openletter.earth

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · May 19

The landmark Handbook of Social Psychology's sixth edition is now available - and open access for the first time! It features 50 chapters from 50+ scholars.

Learn more + download it today: ow.ly/RPjn50VV8bT

Handbook of Social Psychology Celebrates 90 Years with Groundbreaking Open-Access Sixth Edition

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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · May 17

Join us in democratizing open science education!
📷 Interested? Email: [email protected]

Want to find out more? Please read here for additional information for contributors: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Sign in - Google Accounts

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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · May 17

🎓 Get PAID to co-create open-access teaching materials!

We're launching a funded initiative to make open science education more inclusive and accessible beyond elite institutions and the Global North.

Contribute a set of materials and earn €400. 🧵

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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · Apr 8

Registrations for the Symposium for the Biology of decision making (SBDM) in Lyon 2025 are finally open! sbdm2025.github.io Please spread the message!

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Eleanor Power @eapower.bsky.social · Apr 1

🚨Job alert! Two-year postdoc to join the Rep2SI project at @lsemethodology.bsky.social! We're looking for a modeller to join our team of ethnographers & experimentalists studying the role of reputation and reputational concern in perpetuating social inequality.
Apply by 4 May: tinyurl.com/yjccd3vv

Rep2SI: Reputation & the Reproduction of Social Inequality. A Leverhulme-funded project based at the LSE, combining ethnography, economic games, and modelling. We're looking for a modeller to join our core team as a two-year postdoctoral research officer.

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · Mar 8

Happy International Women’s Day to all the women scientists who broke down the doors so the rest of us could come in.

a poster for international day of women and girls in science with a woman standing in front of a microscope

ALT: a poster for international day of women and girls in science with a woman standing in front of a microscope

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · Mar 5

ATTENTION AI/ML researchers, we are hosting an open competition to predict replicability of published findings. Rewards are cash, glory, and the opportunity to advance research on automated assessment.

Announcement: www.cos.io/about/news/p...

Project webpage: www.cos.io/predicting-r...

Center for Open Science Launches Challenge to Advance Automated Assessment of Research Claims

The Center for Open Science launches a new public challenge to develop automated methods for predicting research replicability, aiming to enhance the credibility and efficiency of scientific evaluatio...

www.cos.io

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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · Feb 6

Call for papers for a Special Issue on Metascience and Psychology Pedagogy in Teaching of Psychology with @richharrisleeds.bsky.social! 2-page abstracts due to me by 1st April please! Always happy to chat through ideas
journals.sagepub.com/page/top/cal...

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paolo @paolopalma.bsky.social · Feb 2

Noticed a few mutuals following the fake Flavio (with two o’s). The real one is @flavioazevedo.bsky.social please report the fake account so bluesky @bsky.app acts

Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · Jan 31

@flavioazevedo.bsky.social there appears to be an account imitating you - not sure if you are aware. I reported, but still there…(need to expand image to see)

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Patrick S. Forscher @psforscher.bsky.social · Jan 30

You may have heard of Questionable Research Practices and "HARKing" as threats to replicability.

In a new paper led by @sakshighai.bsky.social, we argue that a similar practices -- Questionable Generalizability Practices and "MASKing" -- undermine generalizability.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · Oct 30

🧵Exploring International Open Research Initiatives in Psychology 🌍🔍

🚀 Let’s dive into how psychology is embracing Open Research to make research more reproducible, transparent, accessible, and inclusive!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
forrt.org/mapping_os/

#OpenScience
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OSF

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Claudia Civai @claudiacivai.bsky.social · Oct 22

Does perceiced scarcity makes us more or less cooperative? Results are not that straightforward! Check out our mini-review where we try to make sense of it, now out OA in Current Opinion in Psychology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Why scarcity can both increase and decrease prosocial behaviour: A review and theoretical framework for the complex relationship between scarcity and prosociality

In recent years, scholars from different fields have studied the effects of scarcity on social behaviour, producing mixed findings. This review synthe…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Carsten De Dreu @dedreu.bsky.social · Oct 20

Solidarity and conflict. Great PhD work by Luuk Snijder

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Prosocial preferences can escalate intergroup conflicts by countering selfish motivations to leave

Nature Communications - When individuals meet hostile groups, they can choose whether to defend themselves or flee and leave others behind. Here, the authors show that pro-social preferences...

www.nature.com

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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · Oct 18

Ever wonder how you can use Open Science and inspire students to use multiple types of evidence?

✨FORRT Team Pedagogies spoke with Dr. Thomas Rhys Evans about the 12-week evidence based practice module he developed.

Check it out here:
forrt.org/pedagogies/0...

From mental-health breakfast interventions to evidence-based practice

In this Pedagogies, Dr. Thomas Rhys Evan discusses how he developed and taught a 12-week module about evidence-based practice, focusing on incorporating Open Science principles with an eye on critical...

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Leticia Micheli @leticiarmicheli.bsky.social · Oct 18

Last days to register to the last online launch event of POSTEdu!

Come talk to us on Monday 21st October (11:30 to 13:00 CET)! We want to hear your experiences and thoughts on open science teaching!

Link to register 👇

Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · Oct 4

The first two launch events of POSTEdu were such a success that we decided to host an additional one to hear from even more educators 😍

Couldn't join one of the online launch events yet?

There is one more chance to participate!
📒 October 21st 11:30 - 13:00 (CET)

Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · Jun 10

✨We are kickstarting the POSTEdu project! ✨

In this project, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), we will develop a pedagogically-informed, evidence-based, self-guided program for educators interested in teaching Open Research. To do this, we want to hear from you 👇

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ABRIR @abrir.bsky.social · Oct 16

🚀 Join our ABRIR Hackathon next week!

We want to hear YOUR ideas on how we can work together to shape the future of diversity, inclusion & justice in #OpenScience and #BigTeamScience for psych researchers within the #GlobalSouth.

Register now at bit.ly/abrir-oct2024 📩

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Leticia Micheli @leticiarmicheli.bsky.social · Oct 4

For those who could not attend previous launch events, POSTEdu is hosting one more on October 21st (11.30 to 13.00 CET).

Join us online and help us think about what a course for educators aiming to teach OS should look like 🤩

Registration link 👇

Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · Oct 4

The first two launch events of POSTEdu were such a success that we decided to host an additional one to hear from even more educators 😍

Couldn't join one of the online launch events yet?

There is one more chance to participate!
📒 October 21st 11:30 - 13:00 (CET)

Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · Jun 10

✨We are kickstarting the POSTEdu project! ✨

In this project, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), we will develop a pedagogically-informed, evidence-based, self-guided program for educators interested in teaching Open Research. To do this, we want to hear from you 👇

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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · Sep 27

Applications for Research Fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) are open 😍: www.iast.fr/research-fel...

If you're considering joining us and have questions, feel free to reach out - I'm happy to provide more info!

Research Fellowships

Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...

www.iast.fr

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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · Sep 25

Exciting news for the #OpenScience community! We’re hosting a FORRT Hackathon this November, and you’re all invited to join us!

📅 Date: November 15, 2024
🕒 Time: 3pm-5pm CET (Online)
⏳ Duration: 2 hours
Two amazing projects need YOUR help👇

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