OSC hosts 8 public lectures, open for everyone & free of charge: Sept. 07 - 11, 2026 Each lecture offers valuable insights for students, researchers, & anyone ready to embrace open science practices. Get an overview here: bit.ly/4yz6dHP 📅 Registration for online attendance is open: bit.ly/4pI2GTC

📢 We are pleased to announce that you can register NOW for our 5th Open Science Summer School! #OSSS26 🔗 Check out the official website: bit.ly/4wULxJi 📍 Munich & Zoom 🔥 Various keynotes and engaging, practical workshops ➡️ Apply before July 06 or register anytime for the public lectures!

Just a few days left to apply for the OSPARK Bootcamp! If you are working on an Open Research initiative, service, or infrastructure and want your work to reach the people who need it, this program is designed for you. 📅 Application deadline: May 10, 2026 events.digital-research.academy/event/131/

🚀 The LMU Open Science Center’s (OSC) new website is live! We now have a refreshed online home, with all of our training programs, resources, initiatives, members, and partners’ profiles in one place. 🔗 Explore it here: bit.ly/4tb4RyM What you’ll find on the website: ⬇️

📢 Exciting news! We will be presenting a poster (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) at #FOR2026Munich - The Future of Open Research: Reliable, Responsible, Equitable. Happening from May 4 to 6, 2026, at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Technical University of Munich opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con...

Interested in the latest evidence on reproducibility across social and behavioral research? 📑 Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from these researchers and large-scale initiatives shaping the future of open science.

Center for Open Science@cos.io · 4mo ago

What can large-scale studies tell us about reproducibility? In our webinar on April 16, researchers from COS, I4R, and META-REP will discuss findings from three papers—one from the recently published SCORE effort—and insights on reproducibility, transparency, and credibility cos-io.zoom.us/webin...

📚 Proud to share a new LMU study led by OSC Member Prof. Dr. Katrin Auspurg! It shows that reproducibility in social science is often limited by missing or poorly documented materials. #OpenScience #LMU #Reproducibility #SocialScicence

LMU München@lmu.de · 5mo ago

Wie verlässlich sind sozialwissenschaftliche Ergebnisse? 📊 Eine LMU-Studie unter Leitung von @kauspurg.bsky.social zeigt: Oft fehlen Code und Dokumentation, sodass viele Befunde nur schwer reproduzierbar sind. Mehr #Transparenz und #OpenScience sollen das ändern. #LMU www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...

We ♥ Replications! The OSC is excited to be a partner in the upcoming LOVE REPLICATIONS WEEK 2026: an online event where you can learn about doing reproduction and replication studies 📚 When? Next week! March 2-6, 2026 Find out more about the program and register here: forrt.org/LoveReplicat...

Taught bavarian center for cancer research students about Preregistration → more reliable research Reproducible workflows FAIR data managmt → higher-quality, reusable data Yes, FAIR & sensitive medical data are compatible Slides osf.io/p9sev/files/... Tutorials lmu-osc.github.io/training/sel...

We ♥ Free Software! On Love Free Software Day, huge thanks to the maintainers of tools we rely on and teach about daily: OpenAlex, R, Quarto, Git, renv, Zotero, RDMO, formR.. Free software is collective infrastructure for open, reproducible research. Thank you! #OpenScience #FOSS #Reproducibility

Celebrating Love Data Week, we presented an introduction to Open Data & Research Data Management at LMU Munich, highlighting practical resources and real-world data stewardship experiences. 📽️ Recording & slides: osf.io/ytc7m/ Contributions: @lmu.de Research Funding Unit, Library, and SFB 1369.

LMU OSC’s FAIR Data Management expert, Reema Gupta, presented her team's NHP-EBRAINS project, an open-source pipeline making messy multi-lab primate electrophysiology data more FAIR & usable, at the EBRAINS Summit 2025 (@ebrains.bsky.social) 🧠 Check out the project: gin.g-node.org/NHPRestingSt...

Prof. Dr. Felix Schönbrodt (@nicebread.bsky.social), LMU OSC's Managing Director, joined a workshop on “Instructional Design”, held by Antje Manske at the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (@zpid.bsky.social). Key topics included: ADDIE Learning Model, Agile Instructional Design, & Bloom’s taxonomy:

Exciting news! The cBRAIN lab🧠, led by Inga Koerte at LMU Klinikum München (LMU Munich Hospital), has completed our Switch to Open Program (SwOP) led by @malikaihle.bsky.social! Here's a recap of what we did over the last several months:

The LMU OSC participated in AI-Hub@LMU’s event "KI-Symposium 2025” 💡We invited visitors of our booth to reflect on the intersection of AI 🤖 & Open Science 🔍 encouraging dialogue around AI & how it affects Research Quality, Reproducible Research, & FAIR Data Sharing. Recap of some discussions:

How to ensure your research data is error-free & understandable by other users & your future self?🗂️ This tutorial by LMU OSC is on documenting & validating data in R to make it more reusable. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Data Documentation & Validation using R📑 lmu-osc.github.io/data-documen...

How to promote data sharing for wider reuse when sensitive data cannot be shared? 🔐LMU OSC offers a tutorial on creating shareable & useful datasets when working with sensitive data. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Generating & Evaluating Synthetic Data in R 🤖 lmu-osc.github.io/synthetic-da...

Struggling to keep your research data organized and reusable? 📂 The LMU Open Science Center has a tutorial to help bring order and accessibility to your datasets. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: FAIR Data Management 📚 lmu-osc.github.io/FAIR-Data-Ma...

Need to calculate a sample size needed to detect an effect size before collecting data? 🧠LMU OSC's tutorial helps improve study design & conduct power analyses through simulation. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Simulations of Data in R for Advanced Power Analyses💪 lmu-osc.github.io/Simulations-...

🌍 During our Open Science Summer School, Prof. Dr. Felix Schönbrodt's (@nicebread.bsky.social) lecture “Open Access, Preprints, Postprints - or ‘How to do Open Access For Free’,”🔓 explored ways researchers can control how their work is shared. Full lecture: osf.io/5rsxb; Slides: osf.io/c2mrb

🌍 Who owns the knowledge we create? 🔓 Our Von “DEAL” zu “Diamond” symposium discussed how universities can move toward community-driven, non-profit systems: 💎 Diamond Open Access & 🌐 Peer Community In (PCI) Check out the materials (in German) from this symposium here: osf.io/r49ng/files

🌍Under the theme “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” for Open Access Week 2025🔓, we’re spotlighting two initiatives reshaping how knowledge is shared and evaluated: CoARA and OpenAlex.

🌍It’s Open Science Week!🔓 From Oct. 20–26, we join the global community in celebrating open access to knowledge and research. 💡This year’s theme “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” invites us to reflect on how research & education are shared, who creates knowledge, & whose voices are recognized in shaping it.

Wondering if your study design will hold up before collecting real data? 📈 This LMU OSC tutorial on data simulation will help test & strengthen your statistical plan by creating artificial datasets. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Intro. to Data Simulation in R 📊 lmu-osc.github.io/Introduction...

What if you could showcase the reproducibility of your research?💻 LMU OSC offers a tutorial on practices for sharing your code such as documenting your repository, and attaching a licence and DOI. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Code Publishing 🔗 lmu-osc.github.io/code-publish...

Need a free tool that easily manages all your citations? 📚 This LMU OSC tutorial will show you how to use Zotero to organize sources & sync your library across devices. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Intro. to Zotero as Reproducible Citation Management System 🗂️ lmu-osc.github.io/introduction...

Want to make R projects reproducible on another computer or a later time?📝LMU OSC has a tutorial on how you can use the renv package in R to create isolated, reproducible environments for R projects. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Intro. to R Package Manager renv ⚙️ lmu-osc.github.io/introduction...

Is it possible to combine text, reproducible code, and reproducible results (tables or figures) all into one document? 📑 Find out how with the LMU Open Science Center tutorial about Quarto. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Intro. to Literate Programming with Quarto 💻 lmu-osc.github.io/introduction...

Need a place for your team to store code, track versions, and work collaboratively? 🤝 The LMU Open Science Center offers a tutorial about GitHub that can help you with all of these things. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Intro. to Collaborative Coding with Github 💻 lmu-osc.github.io/Collaborativ...

What do you know about version control?🔁 It’s how researchers keep their projects organized, track every change, and never lose work again. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Introduction to Version Control within RStudio ⚙️ lmu-osc.github.io/Introduction...