Get Paid to Co-create!
We continue to recruit contributors in a funded initiative to co-create open-access educational materials for teaching open science. Join us in our mission to make the learning and teaching of open science more inclusive and accessible! We offer a flat-rate contribution of €400 per set of materials. Each set includes:
• A set of teaching slides with script and pedagogical notes, editable and aligned with FORRT's Clusters.
• A set of structured lesson plans incorporating student activities, styled according to Pownall et al. (2024). All materials should follow Bloom’s Taxonomy and are openly shared under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. |
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Announcing Replication Research (R²) — Now Open for Submissions! We’re thrilled to launch Replication Research (R²) — the first community-owned, diamond open access, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to replications and reproductions. R² publishes high-quality studies that test previous claims and welcomes tools or insights that advance replication and reproduction research. 🔍 Why a New Journal?
Despite the open science movement’s progress, fewer than 2% of findings in most social, behavioural, and cognitive sciences have been independently replicated. Replication Research, part of the FORRT Replication Hub, aims to change that — alongside maintaining the world’s largest replication database, a free handbook, and tools like a reference list annotator. 🌍 Our Scope
We welcome replications, reproductions, and conceptual work across disciplines including psychology, political science, neuroscience, metascience, management sciences, linguistics, medicine, geoscience, experimental philosophy, digital humanities, qualitative research and more! 📖 Learn More & Get Involved Explore the R² Zenodo Community to learn more about the process of setting up an academic journal.
Please help us spread the word in your networks — and submit your work to help make replications count! |
Team Neurodiversity’s Position Statement Published! After nearly three years since its preprint, Team Neurodiversity’s position statement has just been published in the Journal of Social Issues! The paper highlights how neurodivergent academics are often pressured to mask, navigate hidden rules, and face intersecting disadvantages — and argues that aligning Open Scholarship (OSch) with neuro-inclusion can strengthen integrity, rigor, accessibility, and justice across academia.Read the position statement here.
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Replication Hackathon Success!
26 researchers — 17 in Münster and 9 online from around the world — came together for three intense days to make replications more visible.
Among the exciting outputs:
• A bot that alerts authors of preprints to new replications of their work
• A Zotero plugin that helps users find and add replications to their libraries
These and other tools will be released soon — stay tuned!
The hackathon was part of the UKRI-funded “Making Replications Count” project, which explores how and when replications are cited. More hackathons (in-person and online) are coming in 2026 — contact Lukas Röseler or Lukas Wallrich to get involved. |
Applications are now open for the Open Science Retreat!
📅 April 7–11 at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth, Wales, UK
📝 Applications close Nov 30
The Open Science Retreat is something between an unconference, a hackathon, a networking event, and a retreat. It’s a chance for the open research community to come together and collectively work out what we need to do next — while also taking a moment to rest and recharge. Many of us working in open and collaborative research environments face high workloads, fragmented communities, and limited time to think creatively. This retreat offers a counterbalance: space to pause the daily rush and focus on the “why” behind our work. Our goal is to create an environment that supports deep thinking, authentic connection, and shared learning. Participants can explore ideas they don’t usually have time for, exchange knowledge across disciplines and roles, make new connections, and feel re-energized in their commitment to open and reproducible research. |
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FORRT Outreach - New members!
Help shape how we share FORRT’s mission. We’re recruiting new Team Outreach members to craft our monthly newsletter, create social media content, and dream up fresh ways to spread the word (bring your ideas!). Great fit if you: enjoy creative science communication want to make a real impact in open scholarship are open to learning — no prior experience required
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Find out about ongoing projects you can get involved with, and where to contact to find out more. |
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Learn how to join our efforts toward advancing research transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics through pedagogical reform. |
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Many FORRT project teams meet regularly, and anyone is welcome to join. |
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We ask everyone at FORRT to read our CoC and abide by it in all FORRT-related interactions and spaces. |
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Selection of previous FORRT publications you might have missed: Azevedo, F., Parsons, S., Micheli, L., Strand, J., Rinke, E., … & FORRT. (2019). Introducing a Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT). Röseler, L., Kaiser, L., Doetsch, C. A., Klett, N., Seida, C., Schütz, A., … Zhang, Y., Mr. (2024). The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science. Pownall, M., Ghai, S., Fassi, L., Hayes, G., Schaaf, M., Chin, C., … Orben, A. (2024). What does Open Science mean for Educational Technology Research? Challenges, Opportunities, and a Call for Research.
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