The repliCATS project

New in Proceedings B, led by Jaspreet Singh: "Comparing expert assessments of research quality between the Global North and East Africa"

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We found that Kenyan assessors were more optimistic about the quality of 80 papers than were Global North assessors 1/

A HUGE congratulations to @simine.com! Everyone in the MetaMelb team @unimelb.bsky.social are so proud.

The speaker with the closing slide showing AIMOS' logo and the dates of the conference

Jen Beaudry in front of a slide with the previous conference chair in front of the previous conference chair. So meta!

Dr. Jen Beaudry @drjbeaudry.bsky.social is closing the #AIMOS2025 conference, pointing out new and existing fellowship and funding opportunities for meta-research projects. "We are having a Meta Moment of $6.5 million dollars!"

We end with a very meta photo of the conference chairs!

Thank you!

At the past two AIMOS conferences, we have had a free public lecture for the local community. #AIMOS2025 follows suit! Join us for Ivan Oransky's public lecture: events.humanitix.com/public-talk-... but do so soon, seats are limited!

Hey folks! We're running a big repliCATS workshop in Melbourne on 16 Dec, evaluating of replicability of published papers.

🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome
💰 AU$200
🎫 + travel subsidies
ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY...

Re-posts appreciated 🌈

AIMOS on the big stage! Fiona Fidler places AIMOS at the centre of metascience developments in Australia. @fidlerfm.bsky.social @aimosinc.bsky.social #metascience2025

Ger standing in front of the title slide of his presentation

Ger Post presenting on his PhD research, on using repliCATS to teach critical thinking to first semester intro psych undergraduate students (in a class of 1800 students!)
#SIPS2025

We've been a bit quiet, but because it's been manic. Wonderful to see @gerpost.bsky.social present his PhD research using repliCATS in the classroom. For two years we've use repliCATS to teach ~1800 first-year psych students how to critically evaluate research! #SIPS2025 #MetaMelb #Metascience

Hey SIPS folks, we want to run a small repliCATS pilot on Day 0 (24 June) in Budapest to get feedback on our latest project! Join @fidlerfm.bsky.social & @fallonmody.bsky.social for a 2-hour session, with catered lunch + 50 euro visa card. More details here: forms.gle/Z7p7PqA5vqpC...

Reminder for those who can't make it to Nairobi (June 10-12) we have an awesome online conference as well (June 19-20). Program is here:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

It's only $10 for students or $20 for faculty to attend. Please register by June 12 at sips.wildapricot.org/event-5511216.

If you’re going to SIPS in Nairobi, please consider registering for our repliCATS workshop. We have 5 spots left. Good peer reviewer training and generous $ participant payment!

If you’re coming to SIPS in Nairobi in two weeks, consider signing up for repliCATS and get $250 to do some in-person peer reviews with other attendees for a few hours!

When your 2-year-old has very strong feelings about what the repliCATS groups for SIPS2024 should be! Very much looking forward to our workshop — we’ll be packing aussie animals and the requisite tim tams! @improvingpsych.bsky.social

Express interest in repliCATS workshops The repliCATS project will run a series of workshops in 2024 as part of the SMART: Preprints project in collaboration with the Center for Open Science. The goal of repliCATS (Collaborative Assessment...

Hey everyone, we have 5 spots left for our in-person repliCATS workshop in Nairobi! If you are going to SIPS2024 @improvingpsych.bsky.social we will be running a workshop on day 2, with US$250 travel grant for all participants. Express interest: forms.gle/WcbH6Ufizobb... [re-skeets welcome].

Just under one hour until this event kicks off! We'll see you there!

Highly suggest going to this!

Suitcase with timtams

If you’re going to SPSP and you want some of these TimTams, come to the repliCATS professional development workshop (Saturday 1-5pm) and do some peer reviews of preprints with us! sign up here: spsp.wufoo/forms/sv9jbr...

@replicats.bsky.social

If you’re going to #SPSP2024 and you’re free on Saturday from 1-5pm, come join us to do some group peer reviews of preprints and get a $120 gift card and some timtams (if you don’t know what timtams are, that’s a good enough reason to come!)
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Going to SPSP2024? The repliCATS team is running a peer review training workshop led by @fidlerfm.bsky.social @simine.com
🗓️ 10 Feb, 1-5pm
❔ Review psych preprints using our structured protocol
👩‍💻 Work in groups
💰 US$120 for all participants + Timtams

To register: spsp.wufoo.com/forms/spsp-2...

Going to #SPSP2024? The repliCATS team will be running a PD workshop to build your peer review skills. You'll use our custom-built rubric to evaluate psychology preprints, and get to calibrate your reviews with your peers!

To sign up: spsp.wufoo.com/forms/spsp-2...

2023 — AIMOS

Congrats to Beth Clarke, Adeyemi Adetula, Emma Wilson & Max Primbs for winning our 2023 top-up scholarships. They were randomly chosen out of 35 applications. aimos.community/scholarships...

We're SUPER excited to be collaborating with COS, evaluating the reliability of preprints in psych & adjacent disciplines. We're kicking off with a pilot workshop before AIMOS2023 in Brisbane, on Mon 20 Nov.
For info & sign-up: go.unimelb.edu.au/v29s

Welcome @replicats.bsky.social Lovely to see you here :) #metasci