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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 9h

Want to know more about FORRT? Want to join a FORRT project but don't know where to start? ❓

Then please join our second Onboarding meeting!! 📢

These new regular sessions will be 30-minute open meetings where anyone can join to find out more about FORRT from a current member. 🗣️ 👇

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Tom Hardwicke @tomhardwicke.bsky.social · 20d

Great to see this out! Only ~23% of psychology journals have a post-publication critique format (e.g., letter to the editor). Some impose strict limits (e.g., 400 words & 4 weeks to submit). Critiques are rarely published — in two random samples of 101 empirical articles we found only 1 critique.

Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social · 20d

Excited to finally have my first paper officially published! "How Do Psychology Journals Handle Postpublication Critique?" is now online with AMPPS. Huge thanks to my supervisors @tomhardwicke.bsky.social and @simine.com and co-authors @bethclarke.bsky.social, N Moodie, S Schiavone, and R Thibault ☺️

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 27d

🗳️ SIPS Executive Committee Elections are now open!🗳️
If you are a SIPS member, you should now have received your ballot to vote for the 3 new Executive Committee members.
If you are a member and haven't received it yet, check your spam folder!

📅 Voting ends on September 21, 2025

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Lisa Spitzer @lspitzer.bsky.social · 26d

I enjoyed the OSPARK workshop a lot, thank you so much for organizing it!✨ #OpenScience @zpid.bsky.social

Digital Research Academy @digiresacademy.bsky.social · 27d

✨ “Outreach isn’t something on the side—it deserves space.”
That was @lspitzer.bsky.social 's big takeaway from the OSPARK workshop. They left ready to boost their Open Science initiatives with new ideas, social media plans, and even a future collaboration!
#OpenScience #SciComm

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Digital Research Academy @digiresacademy.bsky.social · Aug 28

Looking for GitHub alternatives?

New free online training announced: "Collaborative git without GitHub" by @petrichor.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy 🧑‍💻

📅 3 September 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 CEST

More info and sign up:
events.digital-research.academy/event/110/

#git #VersionControl

Collaborative git without GitHub

Although git was created as a decentralised way to collaborate, the practical needs of day-to-day work have pushed most of us to use it through a centralised platform (generically called a “forge”), o...

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Lisa Spitzer @lspitzer.bsky.social · Aug 21

I'm looking forward to giving a keynote at the PMGS Meta Research Symposium 2025, where I will talk about my meta-scientific work on preregistration and and my experiences of being part of the open science movement as an early career researcher!✨ #OpenScience @zpid.bsky.social

Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 20

The full program for the PMGS Meta Research Symposium 2025 is online: docs.google.com/document/d/1... If you are interested in causal inference, systematic review, hypothesis testing, and preregistration, join is October 17th in Eindhoven! Attendance is free!

Meta Research Symposium 2025 PMGS

PMGS Meta Research Symposium 2025 16-17 October 2025, TU/e Eindhoven Conference website: https://paulmeehlschool.github.io/workshops/ Program Day 1 - Pre-Symposium Mini-Workshop Time Activity…

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Digital Research Academy @digiresacademy.bsky.social · Aug 21

Many research support teams offer great services but struggle to get noticed.
That’s what the OSPARK workshop is all about: making Open Science initiatives visible & valuable.
📅 29 Aug | RWTH Aachen
🔗 buff.ly/Ue1zN21
#OpenScience #ResearchSupport #OSPARK

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Lena Hahn @lenahahn.bsky.social · Aug 18

How complete are preregistrations?

Short answer: 53% include all 6 procedural specifications

Medium answer: 🧵

Long answer: check out my publication with A. Glöckner @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social J. Hellmann, J. Lange, S. Schindler & @kaisassenberg.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1177/2515...

A Cross-Sectional Study of the Completeness of Preregistrations by Psychological Authors From German-Speaking Institutions - Lena Hahn, Andreas Glöckner, Mario Gollwitzer, Jens Hellmann, Jens Lange, S...

Preregistering confirmatory research aims at reducing researchers’ degrees of freedom and increasing transparency to ultimately increase replicability. Yet the ...

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Lisa Spitzer @lspitzer.bsky.social · Aug 15

Congratulations! ✨

Digital Research Academy @digiresacademy.bsky.social · Aug 15

🎉 A year older and even more passionate about Open Science! 🎂
The Digital Research Academy is 1 today 🚀
Empowering researchers
Sharing skills & tools
Building a global Open Science community
Here’s to more learning, sharing, and opening science together.
#OpenScience #ReproducibleResearch

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Digital Research Academy @digiresacademy.bsky.social · Jul 23

📣 Boost your Open Science visibility!
Join the OSPARK Workshop 🧠
🗓️ Aug 29 | 10–13 CEST
📍 RWTH Aachen IT Center
Hands-on tips for OS communication.
Register now → buff.ly/89HxJsV
#OpenScience #OSPARK #SciComm

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Digital Research Academy @digiresacademy.bsky.social · Jul 22

🚨 Deadline extended!
Apply to become an Open Science trainer in Aachen — new deadline: 25 July!

If you care about open, inclusive, collaborative research, this one’s for you.

Apply here 👉 buff.ly/v4W8vkX

#TTT #TrainTheTrainer #FAIRscience #SciComm #OpenResearch #DRA

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Jul 23

Funding opportunity for SIPS members!

The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science and Peer Community In Registered Reports invite researchers to submit research projects for consideration for research funding from SIPS and a recommendation decision from PCI-RR.
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Jul 16

Interested in the latest metascience? Come to Eindhoven October 17th to listen to Dr. Duygu Uygun-Tunç (University of Chicago) and Dr. Lisa Spitzer (Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie) as keynote speakers, and Dr. Aaron Peikert for a workshop collaboration through Git! All free!

Sajedeh Rasti @sajedehra.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚨 Registration is now open for the PMGS Meta-Research Symposium 2025!
📝 Abstract submissions are still welcome—deadline: July 31.

Plus: join our mini-workshop on coordination using GitHub on the afternoon of October 16.

Find all the details & sign up here:
paulmeehlschool.github.io/2025-07-16-s...

Registration Now Open: Meta-Research Symposium 2025 & Pre-Symposium Mini-Workshop | Paul Meehl Graduate School

We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the second round of the Paul Meehl Graduate School’s...

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Lisa Spitzer @lspitzer.bsky.social · Jul 18

The last session of today is another panel discussion that compares #OpenScience across disciplines, with Naska Goagoses, @jovo9065.bsky.social, Volker Thiemann & Julia Pauquet, moderated by Sumbul Jafri.✨

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Digital Research Academy @digiresacademy.bsky.social · Jul 18

🎯Got great tools or services, but no one knows about them?

📣 Time to change that.

Join the OSPARK Workshop on Aug 29 at RWTH Aachen and learn how to promote your Open Science initiative or support service, connect with peers & get your work seen.

🔗 buff.ly/Yp0lIAz

#OpenScience #OSPARK #SciComm

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Lisa Spitzer @lspitzer.bsky.social · Jul 18

Karel López Vilaret is talking about the importance of metadata: "Data without context is just random numbers." #OpenScience

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Lisa Spitzer @lspitzer.bsky.social · Jul 18

Julius Welzel is presenting @bidsstandard.bsky.social. It's great to see that it's already available for a lot of different methodologies! #OpenScience

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Lisa Spitzer @lspitzer.bsky.social · Jul 18

Have you heard about @datatrain.bsky.social? I'm super amazed by their workshop series, which provides very elaborate data literacy trainings for ECRs! 🤩 #OpenScience

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Lisa Spitzer @lspitzer.bsky.social · Jul 18

Doing replication studies shows that you care about science. ✨

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Lisa Spitzer @lspitzer.bsky.social · Jul 18

Some benefits of replication studies for science in general, and also direct advantages for Early Career Researchers! @aufdroeseler.bsky.social

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Lisa Spitzer @lspitzer.bsky.social · Jul 18

Now, @aufdroeseler.bsky.social is giving the next keynote on how to build your research on solid ground by conducting replication studies! #OpenScience

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Lisa Spitzer @lspitzer.bsky.social · Jul 18

Thank you to all the panelists for the great discussion @epizyklen.bsky.social , Andrea Hildebrandt, Dilan Barisan, and our moderator Cassie Short!

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Lisa Spitzer @lspitzer.bsky.social · Jul 18

I really enjoyed being part of the panel discussion on "Handling the Time Challenges of Open Science Practices for Early Career Researchers"! Thank you so much for the invitation!✨ #OpenScience @zpid.bsky.social

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Lisa Spitzer @lspitzer.bsky.social · Jul 18

@brittawestner.bsky.social is talking about #OpenSource software in academia. There's not enough room for people focusing on this, which is a problem for the development of new software, but also their maintaining (which is especially problematic when others build on your software...)! #OpenScience

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Lisa Spitzer @lspitzer.bsky.social · Jul 18

Very good preprint, available at osf.io/kruhn_v1 @epizyklen.bsky.social

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