Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training

🚀Together with @forrt.bsky.social, we launched the Train-the-Trainer programme. Insightful talks and activities by Barbara Beege, Sarah von Grebmer, and Franziska Schrade to explore teaching strategies, didactics, tools, techniques, promoting open science practices, & being leaders of open science.

program Note: The live conference schedule with links to sessions will be provided to conference registrants via email. To access the live schedule, REGISTER NOW *** >>> View the 2025 BTSCON Program *** > Not...

Our full 2025 program and schedule are now up on our website! We've got so many great presentations lined up, you won't want to miss it!

bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/

Just to clarify this is at AM:

07:00am UTC / 08:00am BST / 09:00am CEST 😀

If you can't make this meeting, don't worry! We will also be running this meeting again in October.

Keep an eye out for this date in the near future 👀

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We will meet on Microsoft Teams here:

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

Then please join our first Onboarding meeting!! ⭐ First meeting this Friday 12th September, 07:00 UTC/ 08:00 BST/ 09:00 CEST.

In these 30-minute open meetings, anyone can join to find out more about FORRT 🧵

Let’s build a fort together! 🌱

This could mean leading in areas like:

🎯 Metascience
📚 Education & Training
📢 Advocacy & Outreach
💬 Community Building
💰 Fundraising
🌈 DEIA in OS
🤝 Partnerships
⚙️ Operations

…or something we haven’t thought of yet!

We’re looking for nominations (self- or others) for people who can bring skills, ideas, and energy to running our community.

We welcome all nominations, including early career scholars!

Nominations for the FORRT Steering Committee We’re forming FORRT’s new Steering Committee 🚀 — and we’re looking for people who want to help lead our community into its next chapter. Whether your passion is metascience, education, advocacy, commu...

Reminder! 📣

Nominations are now open for our new FORRT Steering Committee.

📝 📝 Nominate yourself or someone else here: forms.gle/vNwrUWvkZAMj...

Further information is below 👇

Again, I am in awe of how @forrt.bsky.social is a place where researchers come together to support open scholarship most enthusiastically and constructively and where everybody is welcome! This would not have been possible without the dedication of many experts: Thank you very much to...

At the FORRT Replication Hub, our mission is to support researchers who want to replicate previous findings. We have now published a big new component with which we want to fulfill this mission: An open access handbook for reproduction and replication studies: forrt.org/replication_...

Thank you Jade!!!

1 week left to apply to join us in Münster from 22–24 October 2025 for the Making Replications Count Hackathon! 🤩 - a fully funded, three-day event to dedicated to building tools that make replication studies easier to find and use!
Apply by 7 Sept ➡️ indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco1

A woman and several younger women are wearing lab PPE and looking at equipment with a laboratory Image by: Argonne National Laboratory, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Continuing our series of #BackToSchool resources: @forrt.bsky.social have many excellent resources on teaching and mentoring students in Open Research practices, including easy to incorporate materials, assessments, and lessons. Check some of them out here: forrt.org/adopting/

🌍 Glad to see our paper out!
How researchers in developing countries & other resource-constrained contexts (can) practice #OpenScience, with free tools, training, success stories, & more.

🔓 doi.org/10.1177/2515...
🛠 osf.io/gu7v4

More in this thread by @hcp4715.bsky.social 👇 #AcademicSky #PsychSky

📅 Coming later this year:

➡️ elections for representatives of FORRT community groups, from special interest areas to groups bringing underrepresented perspectives, to make sure our leadership reflects our whole community! 🫂

Nominations for the FORRT Steering Committee We’re forming FORRT’s new Steering Committee 🚀 — and we’re looking for people who want to help lead our community into its next chapter. Whether your passion is metascience, education, advocacy, commu...

🌱 Let's dream of better OS communities together! 🌱

Nominate yourself or someone else here: forms.gle/vNwrUWvkZAMj...

(The survey has just ONE short question: tell us who they are and what they could bring and contact info. We’ll work together to find the best fit.)

This could mean leading (or helping lead) in areas like:

🎯 Metascience
📚 Education & Training
🏳️‍🌈 DEIA in OS
💬 Community Building
📢 Advocacy & Outreach
💰 Fundraising
🤝 Partnerships
⚙️ Operations

...or something we haven’t thought of! We're open to consider new directions from the community!

🌟 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.

Very excited that hashtag#UKRI is allowing us to bring coders and meta-scientists together in Germany to build tools that make replications more visible. If you are up for three days of coding, collaboration and new connections, have a look at the details below ... and please share.

Making Replication Count Hackathon Join us for a three-day-hackathon to create a Zotero plug-in and a preprint bot to boost the visibility of replication studies! Background In the social, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, replicatio...

We’ll build:
🔹 Zotero Replication Checker
🔹 Preprint Bot

Looking for coders, data wranglers, UX folks & open science enthusiasts.

Apply by 7 Sept ➡️ indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco1

Making Replications Count Hackathon 22-24 Oct 2025, Munster Join us for a three-day hackathon to boost the visibility of replication studies! Apply by September 7th

🚀Making Replications Count Hackathon - in-person🚀

3 days. 2 open tools. 1 goal: make replication studies impossible to ignore

📅22–24 Oct 2025 | Münster, Germany ✈️Travel & accommodation covered (UKRI-funded)

Find out more below 👇
#OpenScience #Metascience #Replication #Hackathon #CodingForScience

Making Replication Count Hackathon Join us for a three-day-hackathon to create a Zotero plug-in and a preprint bot to boost the visibility of replication studies! Background In the social, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, replicatio...

We’ll build:
🔹 Zotero Replication Checker
🔹 Preprint Bot

Looking for coders, data wranglers, UX folks & open science enthusiasts.

Apply by 7 Sept ➡️ indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco1

🚨 Exciting new program from the OSC!
This September, we will launch our Train-the-Trainer program through the instructor training track at the Open Science Summer School. Here’s all the information about it 👇

#OpenScience #TrainTheTrainer #FORRT #OSSS25 #LMUOSC

We are creating an academic journal and *you* can shape it!

Make comments and suggest changes to replicationresearch.org 's
- Constitution
- TOP guidelines
- article types
- and reviewer guidelines
until September 5 and be credited as a contributor: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Figure 1. Mechanisms of power and privilege operating in citational practice and their effects on six individuals with different intersecting identities.

“This paper unpacks the concept of citation politics and its role in sustaining epistemic hierarchies within scholarly communities.”

osf.io/qjecy_v2

Awesome work, Joris! Congratulations 🙌

Point of View: An annotated introductory reading list for neurodiversity A collaboratively developed annotated reading list expands upon core themes in neurodiversity, aiming to enhance understanding and to promote rigorous, destigmatizing, and inclusive practices in resea...

Together, we’re reshaping what open science can be ✊

SIPS Mission Award: doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Commendations:
1. forrt.org/contributors/
2. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
3. doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
4. doi.org/10.31234/osf... forrt.org/os-developin...
5. doi.org/10.1098/rsos... forrt.org/mapping_os/

We’re beyond honored to receive the SIPS Mission Award 🏆 & thrilled to have received 5 SIPS Commendations 🏆 for projects across our 4 core pillars: Metascience, Social Justice & DEIA, Community, and Education in OS.

We are so grateful to all contributors who made this possible 💜

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