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!

WE ARE HIRING! Come work with us (me + @malte.the100.ci) on developing and validating RegCheck. PhD or postdoc applications welcome. Folk with backgrounds in meta-science, psychology, (pre)clinical trials, and/or economics are especially invited to apply. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science - Universität Bern

Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science

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Can you identify problems in a paper using only the reported statistics? @lhdjung.bsky.social joins us to discuss tools for assessing the trustworthiness of published research through summary statistics. Register free; open to all www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kings-...

Can questionable research practices make almost anything look statistically significant? @ephemeralidea.bsky.social explores p-hacking, false positives, and how seemingly small analytical decisions can dramatically influence research findings. Register free; open to all. tinyurl.com/3wbx9tmr

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research. go.nature.com/4dP1rwk

Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which we publish

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.

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On May 28 at 08:00 hrs UTC, @steve-kambouris.bsky.social will be speaking on assessing replicability in ecology and evolution for SORTEE's workshop and webinar series! Register here: events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin... ✨

SORTEE Webinar: Assessing Computational Reproducibility in Ecology and Evolution

SORTEE Webinar: Assessing Computational Reproducibility in Ecology and Evolution - Some Lessons Learned from Working with Shared Code and Data

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🚀 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: ⬇️

Who do you review for? Should you boycott commercial publishers? Should you boycott specific publishers? Does it matter for your career? We are orgainizing a one-hour session with lightning talks and an open discussion. Join us on May 26th 12-13 CEST online. Registration at t1p.de/wdirf

📢 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...

There are only a few spots left in our Missing Data Summer School, so be quick if you want to participate! Feel free to reach out if you want any additional information on the content or the programme. If you want to sign up, you can do so here: utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/data...

Thom Volker@thomvolker.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Do you struggle with missing data in your statistical analyses? Come join our Summer School "Solving Missing Data Problems in R"! We will tell you when you can safely use complete case analysis, and when more dedicated strategies are required! utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/data...

🌟Nominations are now open for the 2026 SORTEE Commendation Awards! Know a project promoting #OpenScience in Ecology & Evolution (workshops, tools, outreach & more)? Projects can be local or global, team-based or individual Submit a nomination here: sortee.org/awards/

Quarto 2 is coming, and it’s a total rewrite in Rust. 🦀 The headline feature? Native collaborative editing. Don't choose between Google Docs ease and Git rigor! You get real-time, conflict-free collab directly in your .qmd files. #RStats #Python Coming soon! ✨ opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...

What's next: Quarto 2

We've started working on [`quarto-dev/q2`](https://github.com/quarto-dev/q2/), a full rewrite of Quarto in Rust.

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I’ll be leaving PCI in May to begin a new postdoc, which means my current position will soon be open! You’ll find the job advert below (in French). Please feel free to share it within your networks, and don’t hesitate to get in touch if you’d like more information!

Peer Community In@peercommunityin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢 Recrutement La Direction pour la Science Ouverte d’INRAE recrute un·e ingénieur·e d’études pour contribuer au pilotage de PCI 📄 Contrat : CDD 15 mois 🎯 Mission : Accompagner le développement et la coordination de PCI Détails de l'offre : jobs.inrae.fr/ot-28928

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

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SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...

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In one week I'll be talking about tips for reproducible R code and why science would love you to try these tips on your own code too 🧪😍🌏 It's an online talk, so feel free to watch comfortably from your couch. Hope to see you there! @sortee.bsky.social #rstats events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...

SORTEE Webinar: On what makes good sharable and reproducible R code, how to do it, and why it’s good for science

For this month's SORTEE webinar, Dr. Dax Kellie from the Atlas of Living Australia will present on good, sharable, and reproducible R code in science

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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...

Why sharing your research data? What is the difference between open and FAIR data ? Should you get a coauthorship when another researcher reuse your data? These are some of the questions I address in this presentation. Slides are CC.BY. 4.0 - feel free to reuse giving us credit ;)

LMU Open Science Center@lmu-osc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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.

Tomorrow I will give a webinar on preregistration for the ManyMany's: What’s the use of preregistration for Big Team Science? You can join for free for the talk, and discussion afterwards. For more info, see: manymanys.github.io/events/

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# Open Webinar: What's the use of preregistration for Big Team Science? As part of our open science event series, we are excited to launch registration for our upcoming webinar: **What's the use of…

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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:

Has anyone tried the trackdown package for collaborative quarto editing? Love writing papers on Quarto, but switching back to Word for co-author edits is still an awkward missing link claudiozandonella.github.io/trackdown/

How to create data dictionaries for all your reserch projects!

LMU Open Science Center@lmu-osc.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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-...

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...

🌍 Join SORTEE – A worldwide Open Science community for ecology and evolution! 🌱🧬 🌐 Join trainings, code clubs & our annual online conference 🚀 Help shape the future of Open Science Membership is inclusive and flexible. 👉 Learn more: www.sortee.org/join/ #OpenScience #Ecology #Evolution

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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...