LMU Open Science Center

Best of luck to all participants in implementing what you’ve learned to make your research more open, transparent, and impactful! Keep in touch, and see you in 6 months for a group check-in ! 🌍✨
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Thanks all who joined & the OSC team for their efforts, including Reema Gupta, Pat Callahan, Dr. @sarahvongrebmer.bsky.social, Dr. @saralilplants.bsky.social, Florian Kohrt, Dr. @malikaihle.bsky.social, Prof. Dr. @nicebread.bsky.social (Felix Schoenbrodt), @bethwater.bsky.social, & Tejaswini Sharma.

👩‍🏫Train-the-Trainer programme equipped participants with didactics, teaching strategies, & practical skills to share knowledge & be leaders of the open science movement.
🤝Connect & collaborate. Participants built relationships with fellow researchers equally passionate about adopting open practices.

📚Highlights:
🔓Lectures combined theory with practical recommendations on topics like making publications more accessible & crafting clearer code.
💻Workshops on R, Git & GitHub, & Quarto blended demos, activities, & self-paced tutorials to help researchers apply these tools to their projects.

A group of 22 participants and organizers of the Open Science Summer School 2025 stand together outside in the sun. They are on a terrace in front of a glass building with towers of LMU Munich in the background.

A group of 8 staff members of the Open Science Center stand together outside in the sun. They are on a terrace in front of a glass building with towers of LMU Munich in the background. A wide sun beam is shining over them.

Group photo of Open Science Summer School 2025 participants and organizers, inside a classroom. 21 people stand or sit in front of a wall projection showing remote participants on a video call. A room speaker is visible on the top-right corner; a microphone, table and part of a laptop are visible to the bottom-left; and part of a whiteboard is visible to the bottom-right.

LMU OSC has completed its Open Science Summer School! 🙌 5 days of exploring open science & open research practices. Links for materials of the open science training track: osf.io/x639j/files/...; the instructor training track: osf.io/tkwqs/files/...; & our self-paced tutorials: github.com/lmu-osc.

Although the Summer School has come to a close, the momentum continues! We encourage you to keep exploring these topics and reach out if you’re interested in bringing open science skills into your own research journey.

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🚀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.

📌Day 5 recap:
💡Participants joined groups focusing on open access, preregistration, computational reproducibility, or FAIR research data management to dive deeper into each topic.
🎯@sarahvongrebmer.bsky.social engaged participants to explore how to apply open science practices to their own projects.

Three female speakers stand in front of a green and white Open Science Center sign where the LMU logo is visible on the top-left corner. On the left, Barbara Beege wears a black and white striped dress and red shoes; Sarah von Grebmer stands in the middle wearing a black shoes, pants, and blazer with a red top underneath; and on the right, Franziska Schrade wears a brown top and black pants. An arrow pointing right and a fire extinguisher sign are visible in the top-right corner.

Female speaker Sarah von Grebmer stands near a table with a laptop and microphone. She stands in the front of the room facing a screen projected onto the wall that displays virtual Post-It notes scattered on an online whiteboard. Items on a surface, a white table, a black chair and the backs of participants are visible at the bottom of the image. A window and wall speaker are visible in the top-left area of the image.

The fifth and final day of the Open Science Center Summer School 2025 is completed ✅ We have concluded a week full of learning, discussing, and practicing open science and open research skills. You can check out the slides and recordings of all the public lectures here: osf.io/x639j/files/....

We are excited for you to make the best of all these newly learned skills!

Happy to see you enjoyed the Summer School and gained some new knowledge!

We’re excited for the final day to bring together the skills we’ve explored throughout the week and launch the Train-the-Trainer programme ✨ where participants will also learn how to effectively teach and share these competencies with other researchers.

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📝Pat Callahan, Florian Kohrt, & Reema Gupta guided participants in combining text and code to create reproducible manuscripts using Quarto. Then, they focused on building a reproducible R environment and considerations for publishing code with appropriate license and documentation.

📌recap of Day 4:
💻@vera-karlbauer.bsky.social and Jonas Hagenberg gave advice for readable code: provide structure, follow programming style standards, and more!
🔬Dr. Tim Errington advocated for open science practices as a solution for barriers to replicability in research.

Male speaker Jonas Hagenberg wearing a green shirt and brown pants stands near female speaker Vera Karlbauer who is wearing a blue shirt with a white jersey underneath and black pants. Both speakers hold books and stand in front of a green and white Open Science Center sign where the LMU logo is visible on the top-left corner.

Female facilitator Reema Gupta wearing a brown jersey and blue jeans stands as she helps a female participant sitting behind her grey laptop wearing glasses and a brown top. Visible on the table in front of them are a mug with coffee, an empty glass, green and pink Post-It notes, a computer mouse, and a microphone.

We wrapped up our fourth day of the Open Science Summer School 2025 ✅ Although the public lectures are over, registered participants still have one more day to benefit from the workshops and interactive sessions! You can find slides and recording of the public lectures here: osf.io/x639j/files/...

With just two days left, we are excited to see how much more knowledge and skills the attendees already gained from this summer school!

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📚Member of the Research Data Management team of the Universitätsbibliothek München, Laura Meier, led participants to work in small groups as they learn about research data management plans, explore relevant resources, & practice skills gained in the previous FAIR research data management workshop.

📌Recap of Day 3:
🧑‍🏫 Prof. Dr. @rmcelreath.bsky.social promoted standards such as version control and documentation in making science more professional.
💻 Dr. @malikaihle.bsky.social engaged participants to explore version control using Git, collaborate through GitHub and merged their pull requests!

📖Prof. Dr. Felix Schoenbrodt (@nicebread.bsky.social) showed open access tools like open policy finder openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk - see if publishers allow you to deposit preprint, postprint or fully formatted articles on preprint servers/institutional repository; i.e. do green open access for free

Speaker Laura Meier wearing glasses, a red top, and black pants stands in front of the green and white Open Science Center sign. Behind the sign on the right side is a brown wall with a sheet of paper with a schedule printed in blue on it and a black door to the left. The LMU logo is visible on the top-left corner of the sign.

One male participant wearing a black jersey and grey pants stands near a female participant wearing glasses, a purple top, and striped beige pants. In the middle of the participants is a small green and white Open Science Summer School flyer on a black stand and behind them are a brown, wooden pillar and a blue security belt. Lights on the ceiling are seen above the participants.

The backs of three participants, two males with dark hair, one wearing a black jersey and the other wearing a blue sweater, and one female with light brown hair and a red top, are seen sitting in white chairs behind tables with laptops, power outlets, and a microphone on them. Speaker Prof. Dr. Richard McElreath is projected on the screen at the front of the room next to a slide from his presentation. The presentation on the screen contains a flowchart with elements such as statistical model, measurement model, sample estimate, etc. Wall speakers are seen on either side of the room and a projector is at the top.

Crossing the half-way point of the Open Science Summer School 2025 as we complete our third day ✅ Participants have gained experience using RStudio, tackled Open Science topics like replicability, open access, and more! Register for the final public lectures: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...

👏 wise words

We're happy that you gained a lot and felt supported during the workshop ☺️

We're glad to see you're enjoying the talks from the Open Science Summer School so far!

Yes! Look out for the slides and recordings of the public lectures.

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💻 We finished with a self-paced workshop to introduce Simulations in R where participants practiced generating random data to build up an understanding of the real data.
We look forward to three more days of deepening the understanding and application of Open Science practices!

📌Recap of Day 2:
💡 Prof. Dr. Felix Schoenbrodt (@nicebread.bsky.social) discussed data sharing. FAIR data sharing expert Reema Gupta showed how to put this new knowledge into action.
📝 Dr. @malikaihle.bsky.social got participants thinking about how preregistration fits into their research projects.

Female speaker, Reema Gupta in a multi colored, patterned blouse and black pants, stands next to male speaker, Prof. Dr. Felix Schoenbrodt wearing a dark blue shirt and brown pants, in front of the green and white Open Science Center sign. Behind the sign is a brown wall to its right and a black door to its left. The LMU logo is visible on the top-left corner of the sign.

Speaker Reema Gupta and facilitator Laura Meiser are seen at the front of the room. A projected screen shows words related to “meta-data” such as description of data, information about data, data about data. A projector is visible in the top-left corner. Items on a surface and the back of a female participant’s head are visible at the bottom of the image.

Wrapped up the second day of the Open Science Summer School 2025 ✅ Another inspiring day of building Open Science and Open Research skills! Don’t forget that you can still be part of the journey by joining our public lectures: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...

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🤝 Participants joined in small groups to share their experiences, interests, and journeys with Open Science.
💻 Dr. @sarahvongrebmer.bsky.social introduced R, paving the way for workshops later this week.

We are excited to see how the following days of this summer school will be!

📌 Recap of Day 1:
👨‍🏫 Prof. Dr. Felix Schoenbrodt (@nicebread.bsky.social) talked about challenges with replicability in current research and benefits of adopting open research practices.
📝 Dr. @malikaihle.bsky.social shared on preregistration and how it can make our research more credible.

Two female organisers of the Open Science Summer School, Dr. Sarah von Grebmer in a dark green top and black pants and Dr. Malika Ihle in a white top and dark blue pants, stand in front of the green and white Open Science Center sign. Behind the sign is a brown wall to its right and a black door to its left.

Male speaker, Prof. Dr. Felix Schoenbrodt, wearing glasses, a dark blue shirt, and brown pants stands behind a laptop near a mic at the front of the room with a projected screen behind him explaining data as forking paths. Items such as name tags are seen on the table at the front of the room and the backs of participants’ heads are seen at the bottom of the picture.

First day of the Open Science Summer School 2025 complete ✅

Participants learned a lot today but there’s still a lot more in store, you can join in for the public lectures by registering here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...

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