FORRT Conference in Münster from 14 - 16 September 2027 |
Support when you need it 💙 |
🤝 Confidential Advisor Ruth Van der Hallen A confidential point of contact for concerns around interpersonal conflicts, inappropriate behaviour, integrity, or professional conduct.
⚖️ Ombuds Thomas Rhys Evans An independent point of contact for broader concerns about FORRT’s policies, practices, structures, or processes. 📩 ombuds@forrt.org
Reaching out is confidential and does not initiate a formal complaint. |
🤖 AI meets research 🤖
FORRT AI in Metascience Online Conference |
How can AI and large language models (LLMs) help us understand and improve how science works, and how are they changing science itself? We invite you to explore these questions at the FORRT AI in Metascience Online Conference, featuring 33 accepted submissions from people studying or building with AI.
📅 28–30 September 2026 (online, inclusive of various time zones, free to attend)
What to expect?
💻 Online & accessible Join via Google Meet, with live captions available in every session. Registered participants will receive joining details the week before via email, and selected talks will later be available on the FORRT YouTube channel. Programme🤖 Monday: AI across the research pipeline
🔬 Tuesday: AI, replications & reproductions
🛠️ Wednesday: Three hands-on workshops The full programme drops in early September.
Questions? Feel free to email Lukas Wallrich or reach out to him on Slack! |
R2’s first peer-reviewed publication |
A major milestone for Replication Research (R2): its first peer-reviewed publication is now live, with many more on the way!
Huge thanks to FORRT members Elen Le Foll (Associate Editor), Miriam Müller (Editorial Assistant), and Helena Hartmann (Lay Summary) for helping make it happen, and to João Valladares Padua and Michael Brennen for reviewing the article.
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Fresh from the research community 📚 |
More research worth checking out! The Reversals preprint is now available, alongside a new publication from the reproducibility network - two timely contributions to understanding and strengthening research practice.
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Last call for Open Science Summer School! 📣 |
FORRT is proud to be one of the Open Science Summer School partners. Registration is still open for the public lectures at the Open Science Summer School, organised by the LMU Munich Open Science Center. 💙 📅7–11 September
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Save the dateMaking Replications Count Hackathon 💻 |
Join us 11–13 November in Münster for the Making Replications Count: Fall Hackathon, where we will design and build tools to better support replications.
📅 Applications opening soon!
Accepted participants will receive funding for travel and accommodation. Stay tuned for registration details! |
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Join us for a three-day robustness reproduction workshop, where every participating team will leave with a finished report to be published as part of an R2 special issue on the limits of AI. And there is a twist: one team will reproduce the work of all the others - led by AI! 🤖 📅 Applications opening soon!
Accepted participants will receive funding for travel and accommodation. Stay tuned for more details! |
From OSF to what’s next 🔄 |
If you have an OSF repository to migrate or want to help shape our approach,
we’d love to hear from you! |
Looking for Leads
Open Research Across Disciplines |
We're looking for discipline leads (individuals, teams, or organisations) to help review and update their field's page, either as a one-off contribution or an annual commitment. Contributors will be recognised on the project, with annual leads also listed on the FORRT and UKRN webpages.
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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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