Digital Research Academy

Research Software Engineering for Health Researchers Workshop Series

Health researchers who code this is for you!
Our flipped classroom workshop of 6 weeks will help you level up your coding: reproducibility, documentation, version control, CI, testing + more
Format: videos, tasks, buddy system + live sessions
Online | 20 hours total work
Register:

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Curious about preregistration but not sure where to start?
Join Lisa Spitzer for a 90-min Preregistration in Psychology workshop on 22 Oct 2025 (14:00–15:30, Cologne).
Learn the why, what & how of preregistration and leave ready to make your next study transparent & reproducible.
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✨ Final quarter of 2025 ✨
If your org has funds to allocate, why not invest in your people?
DRA offers training in:
🔹 Open Science
🔹 Data Literacy
🔹 Research Software Engineering
Let’s turn year-end budgets into lasting skills.
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#OpenScience #Training #DataLiteracy #ResearchSoftware

Continuous Integration for Research Code
Oct 9, 2025 | 10–12 CEST | Online
Make your code reproducible, automated & future-proof.
Join Christian Meesters for a practical CI workshop.
✅ CI pipelines with GitHub Actions
✅ Testing, debugging, reproducibility with Conda/Docker
Sign up: buff.ly/pspq9yC

Community Building for Software Projects Are you part of a software development team and looking to improve collaboration? In this workshop, we’ll explore the role of psychological safety in building strong and effective teams—especially in…

💡 Strong teams are built, not born.
On 1 Oct, 10:00–12:30 CEST (online) Helene Hoffmann leads a workshop on Community Building for Software Projects.
🌱 Psychological safety, trust & collaboration in software teams.
🤝 Interactive + practical insights.
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#OpenScience #ResearchSoftware

How to get visibility for your Open Science Initiative Your Open Science initiative or service deserves to be seen. In this Email course you will receive 13 emails packed with information on outreach and marketing that feels right for you. We'll walk you…

🥄 Got Open Science? Put it on the menu!
Our free email course serves up 13 tasty recipes:
🍋 Find your flavor
📱 Serve on socials
🎙️ Try podcasting
🎥 Add video
🍰 Generous marketing
Starts Sept 18 → 2x emails/week → free!
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Let’s make your Open Science impossible to miss. 🚀
#OpenScience

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🍳 New email course: Open Science on the Menu!
A 13-step recipe to boost your initiative’s visibility.
🥄 Social media, networking, outreach & your unique voice—served in 2 emails/week, starting Sept 18.
👉 Sign up: buff.ly/mj8wVZw
#OpenScience #OSPARK

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✨ “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

Empower Your Research with Openness and Transparency - PANERIS Organisers: VU LSCEvent date & time: 11 September 2025, 09:00–16:30 (CET)Event type: Online workshop

🚀 Your Open Science initiative deserves to be seen!
On Sept 11, Heidi Seibold speaks at the PANERIS Open Science workshop. Her talk focuses on making OS initiatives visible & impactful.
Let’s work towards transparent, collaborative & reproducible science!
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#OpenScience #FAIRData

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This week in Aachen 🚀 Researchers came together to learn how to teach.
In 3 days of Train-The-Trainer: skills grew, ideas were tested, and creativity in teaching shone.
Highlight: trainers supporting trainers & researchers learning from each other.
👉 What training shaped your career?
#OpenScience TT

🎉 What a week at #CoRDI2025 in Aachen!
Highlights from the DRA booth:
Meeting the people behind tools we rely on ( forschungsdaten.info!)
Lots of curiosity about how DRA supports academic training
Biggest buzz: our Train-the-Trainer program + upcoming Open Science Retreat
#CoRDI2025 #OpenScience

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...

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

Those of us at DRA not at #CoRDI2025 eagerly await selfie posts today. 😜 It’s not too late…

If you spot @heidiseibold.bsky.social or Julia Pauquet at #CoRDI2025, take a selfie with them and post it in the comments! 🤳

🌟 Bonus points if you wear a DRA button or sticker. 🌟

🏆 Best picture will get a 'special' prize by the end of #CoRDI2025. 😉

#SelfieContest #OpenScience #DataLiteracy #RSE

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🎉 DRA is at CoRDI 2025 in Aachen!
Come by our stall for pins & merch, Open Science chats, and to connect with the DRA team.
Let’s build stronger research data communities together!
#CoRDI2025 #OpenScience #Reproducibility

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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
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#OpenScience #ResearchSupport #OSPARK

Six questions to ask before jumping into a spreadsheet Spreadsheet software can be frustrating, but adopting some helpful habits can improve its effectiveness.

Spreadsheets are everywhere in research but are they always the right tool?
A new Nature piece explores this & the risks of fragile formulas + messy data.
Check it out to hear from DRA co-founder Heidi Seibold & other experts: buff.ly/NXPfXOl
#OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity

Thank you!

Thank you 💜

Happy 1st Birthday @digiresacademy.bsky.social 💜🎉

🎉 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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Make your research FAIR & reproducible 🔍💡
Join Dr. Heidi Seibold on 25 Aug, Aachen for tips on templates, workflows & documentation that save time and boost transparency.
📍 4 PM | CBMS, Forckenbeckstr. 55
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#FAIRData #OpenScience #ReproducibleResearch #FAIRScience

Yesterday we had fantastic chats at useR! 2025 🌍💬 — and we’re just getting started!

Today, swing by to:
🔍 Discover how peer-led training can transform your research practice
🤝 Explore collaboration ideas
🎁 Pick up some DRA pins & merch (perfect conference souvenirs!)

#useR2025 #RStats #Training

🚀 We’re all set up at useR! 2025!
📍 Penn Pavilion, Duke University, Durham, NC
🗓️ August 8–10

The Digital Research Academy booth is open — and yes, the pins and swag are looking fantastic! 🎁✨

Find us, say hi, and let’s chat!

#RSEng #Reproducibility #ResearchTraining #PeerLearning #OpenScience

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🎉 The Digital Research Academy will be at useR! 2025, Durham, NC, Aug 8–10!

Stop by our booth to talk research software, reproducibility & training and pick up some cool buttons!
Open to all R lovers and research enthusiasts.

Find more: buff.ly/5orHUWd
#useR2025 #rstats #RSEng

A picture with group of people who attended OSR last year. The following details are mentionedOPEN SCIENCE RETREAT GLOBAL EDITION TUESDAY 7 APRIL - SATURDAY 11 APRIL 2026 / MACHYNLLETH, Wales, UK. Applications open- Fall 2025. A week in which people from various disciplines and institutions across the world come together to share knowledge, experiences, and best practices related to open science. For more info see open.science-retreat.org

Ready to rethink research culture in a new way?

📍 April 7–11, 2026
📌 Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales, UK
🌱 Open Science Retreat Global is back!

No panels, no posters, just space to connect, build, and reimagine Open Science together.

Details: buff.ly/vTi15qE
#OpenScience #OSRetreat

📣 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

🚨 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

Building an Open Science Culture by training, trust and transformation — The Experimentalist Heidi Seibold When I first started doing research, I never questioned whether I should make my data or code publicly available; it simply felt like the right thing to do. To me, making your work…

🚀 Open Science is about people, not just platforms.
In her new piece for The Experimentalist, Heidi Seibold shares reflections on building a strong, values-based Open Science culture.

Read here 👉 buff.ly/jP5Mu0p
#OpenScience #SciComm

Is Machine Learning and AI solving the problem of p-hacking? Does using machine learning solve our problem of p-hacking and HARKing or do we have the same problems as with statistical tests and models?

Does using machine learning solve our problem of p-hacking and HARKing or do we have the same problems as with statistical tests and models?

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