ABRIR

Deadline extended!

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KEYNOTE:

Dr. Angela Duckworth, co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative

Megastudies: A new paradigm for field studies in social science

Monday, October 6 | 15:00-16:00 UTC

register now (for free or pay-what-you-want):
bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/

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KEYNOTE:

Dr. Christopher Stubbs, Harvard Physics and Astronomy

"Going Big: How it's different, the ways it challenges us, and why we (increasingly?) need to do it"

Tuesday, October 7 | 14:00-15:00 UTC

register now (for free or pay-what-you-want):
bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/

submissions >>> Submit your abstract here! Submissions for all session types are now open! * *Panels, hackathons, and symposia:* maximum 500 words * *Talks, lightning talks, and unconferences:* maximum 250 words ...

REMINDER: abstracts for the 2025 Big Team Science Conference are due in one week (July 31)!

Any and all work related to large collaborative science is welcome!

bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/

Thrilled to announce that @abrir.bsky.social was awarded @improvingpsych.org commendation! This is our second time winning this award, and we see it as an additional motivator to work harder, build stronger connections & open psychological science to all. Follow us for more exciting projects 🥇

We're looking forward to this collaboration! Welcome home @thuyvytnguyen.bsky.social and keep up the amazing work!

Submit your research to @btscon.bsky.social:

bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/

We're waiting for you ;)

Mark your calendars! BTSCON2025 is set for October 6-8th! This year, ABRIR is a member of the organizing team, together with @psysciacc.bsky.social and @manybabies.org. Follow us for more exciting news and make sure to submit your work 🔥

We're co-hosting the 2025 @btscon.bsky.social! Save the date and follow us for more information!

🌎✨ Excited to collaborate with @melissafloresphd.bsky.social, @nscorralfrias.bsky.social, @almajeftic.bsky.social, @brendanchng.bsky.social and others on our @orca-open.bsky.social funded #OpenScience project for and from the Majority World!

Follow @abrir.bsky.social for what's ahead!

Special thanks to @alelazic.bsky.social, @brendanchng.bsky.social, @almajeftic.bsky.social and Sergio de la Torre for their amazing work 👏🏻

Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program — Open Research Community Accelerator The Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA), with generous support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is pleased to launch the Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program.  The program aims to...

Congrats to @melissafloresphd.bsky.social & Designated Campus Colleague @nscorralfrias.bsky.social (U of Arizona), awarded the ORCA Catalytic Award in collaboration with @abrir.bsky.social to advance DEI in open & big team science! Proud of our work: orcaopen.org/work/cap
#OpenScience #ORCA #ABRIR

Read our #OpenScience guide for researchers in Majority World! Pay attention to @ABRIR_Psy Box and help us spread this news further! Special thanks to @hcp4715.bsky.social for letting us be part of this project. Read, cite, and follow @abrir.bsky.social!

@brendanchng.bsky.social Can we share this further?

🚨 @abrir.bsky.social 🚨

Screenshot of a Nature article titled "How a ‘boring administrative task’ transformed my PhD career," published on 14 April 2025 in the Career Column section. The subtitle reads, "Good ideas — and impactful tools — don’t just come from rich, Western nations, says Aleksandra Lazić, a social scientist in Serbia." The article is written by Aleksandra Lazić, whose name appears as a clickable link.

Open science isn't just for the rich.

I wrote about building #REPOPSI – a repository of psychological instruments in Serbian – and what it taught me about doing #OpenScience with limited resources and lots of persistence. #PhDSky

doi.org/10.1038/d415...

Interview with Aleksandra Lazić – first recipient of the Sarah Jones Award | GÉANT CONNECT Online Aleksandra Lazić, PhD and co-founder of REPOPSI, was awarded the Sarah Jones Award for her outstanding contribution to Open Science collaboration and inclusion.

I haven't done an interview since elementary school, hope I've improved! 😄 Thanks to GÉANT geant.org for inviting me to share my #OpenScience journey in the latest CONNECT Magazine, highlighting the amazing communities that made a difference:
LIRA Lab
@researchdataall.bsky.social
@abrir.bsky.social

@abrir.bsky.social, check this research out!

Thank you!

@abrir.bsky.social is constantly pushing ahead to seek avenues and opening doors of opportunities for underrepresented psych researchers to participate in global psych research!

Check out abrirpsy.org to learn more about their initiatives!

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Just since the start of the year, we've submitted two grant applications with ABRIR! No matter the outcome, I'm so proud of the work we're doing. 😊

🌍 @abrir.bsky.social

#OpenScience

✨ Apoyan: @okfn.bsky.social, @nerdearla.bsky.social, @latambioimaging.bsky.social, UNC CCAD Supercómputo, Conectorial, LA-CoNGA Physics, ILDA, R-Ladies Buenos Aires, @abrir.bsky.social, PsiNet Lab, ARPHAI, DiploCientífica.
¡Gracias por acompañarnos! 🚀

Another great collaboration with @psychrstats.bsky.social!

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Congrats to our Executive Committee member @alelazic.bsky.social, the winner of the Sarah Jones Award!!!

Title slide of the presentation with the text: ABRIR: Towards greater accessibility and equality of open and big-team science (in Serbian)

A map showing that the authors of Big-Team publications that come from the Global South and Eastern Europe are underrepresented. Citation: Buchanan, E. M., & Lewis, S. C. (2023, August 29). Who does big team science?. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/hqta4

A slide showing the names and countries of the project participants, with the text in Serbian: ORFG Open Scholarship Seed Award for the most recent ABRIR project 2024/2025, 4.850 USD

A slide with the text, in Serbian: Hackathons with 250+ participants in 6 ABRIR hubs: Latin America, Bosnia + Serbia, Malaysia, India, Africa, Nepal. Contains 6 posters from the different events.

The second talk I gave @ #DON2024 was about
@abrir.bsky.social 's latest project supported by the Open Research Funders Group

Among other activities - ABRIR recently organized #OpenScience + #BigTeamScience hackathons💻 in hubs worldwide, incl Bosnia + Serbia (by @almajeftic.bsky.social & I)

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🚀 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 📩

🧠 Calling All Psychology Students, Lecturers, and Researchers! 🌏

Come join this hackathon event with @abrir.bsky.social on 23 October (Wed) at either 7AM and/or 3PM UTC!

🔗 Register now: bit.ly/abrir-oct2024

Don't miss this chance to shape the future of psychological research! 🚀