Call for Validators: FLoRA |
Join one of FORRT’s largest and most impactful projects: FLoRA — the FORRT Library of Replication and Reproduction Attempts — the world’s largest database of replication studies, currently containing 2,000+ original–replication study pairs and supported by nearly 250 contributors worldwide. 🌍✨
Over the next 12 months, we’re preparing a major paper describing the database — and we need your help!
We’re looking for volunteers to: 🔹 Validate existing entries and classifications 💡 No statistics required — just careful, meaningful work open to researchers at any career stage.
We now have a gamified app for people wanting to contribute to FLoRA. Conduct 20 correct validations & become a contributor of the largest replication database. |
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What began five years ago as an online space for people missing the “lab meeting” experience has grown into a thriving global community of nearly 300 members across career stages and disciplines. From students to faculty to researchers outside academia, Nowhere Lab has become a place for collaboration, mentorship, support, and connection. As part of FORRT, Nowhere Lab will continue serving as a welcoming community space beyond project-based collaborations.
✨ Weekly meetings are open to anyone wanting to discuss open scholarship, research, academia, or simply connect with others in the community.
FORRT Slack members can now join the new #nowherelab channel — check the pinned message to learn how to get involved! |
Contribute to New Open Science Leadership Case Studies |
We’re looking for contributors to co-develop case studies on Leadership in Open Science/Scholarship as part of a new collaboration between LMU Munich Open Science Center (OSC) and the FORRT Train-the-Trainer Program.
The project aims to create practical, community-driven resources to help emerging leaders navigate the challenges of the growing Open Science movement.
Each case study will include:
• A short real-world leadership dilemma or challenge
• Guiding discussion questions
• Suggested strategies and approaches
• Reflection prompts
• Additional resources for further learning
We welcome researchers, educators, student ambassadors, advocates, mentors, project leads, and others with experience in Open Science/Scholarship practices — including Big Team Science, open data/code, equitable authorship and citation practices, co-creation, epistemic diversity, and more.
✨ Contributors will receive:
• Public credit on LMU OSC and FORRT webpages
• A citable Zenodo resource (CC BY-SA 4.0)
• Potential future co-authorship opportunities
Interested in contributing? Contact Sara L. Middleton - Open Science Training Development Coordinator at LMU OSC.The project runs from May to mid-July 2026. |
🚨New Project Alert🚨Community-Driven, Consensus-Based Best-Practices for Psychology! |
While the open science movement is growing fast, our field still lacks a clear, universal definition of what “best practice” actually looks like. The Leibniz Institute for Psychology ZPID and FORRT are bringing the community together to build practical, consensus-based guidelines for preregistration, open data, code, materials, and transparent reporting. These will provide a reliable roadmap for researchers and help journals adopt the highest standards of open science.
Get Involved This is a fully collaborative effort, and we want your voice included! Join the Preregistration Sub-Task Force. Participate in our upcoming Mini-Hackathon & help draft the guidelines. Friday, June 5 at 4-6 PM CET
Whether you have a lot of experience with open science or are just getting started, your perspective is valuable.
Interested or have questions? |
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Do you care about replications?
Learn about a dozen FORRT replication projects at the Replication Hub Showcase.
📅 1 July 2026 ⏰ 3 - 5 pm CEST 📍online
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FORRT at SIPS 2026 “CRediTing in BTS"
At the 2026 Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) conference in Washington, DC, the FORRT Team Credit group will be leading a hackathon/unconference session on improving contributor recognition in Big Team Science (BTS) projects.
The session, “CRediTing in BTS,” will explore how the current CRediT taxonomy may overlook important BTS contributions and invite participants to collaboratively develop proposals for more inclusive and representative contributor recognition practices.
📅 June 10, 2026
📍 SIPS 2026 — Washington, DC
We would especially love to connect with FORRT community members attending SIPS interested in helping facilitate the session. It’s a great opportunity to engage in conversations around authorship, Open Science, and collaborative research practices — while contributing to work that would shape the future of contributor recognition. And yes — everyone who contributes will be properly recognized for their work 😊 |
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Call for Applications:
LMU Open Science Summer School 2026 |
The LMU Open Science Center invites early career researchers (PhDs and postdocs from any scientific discipline) to join this year’s Open Science Summer School (OSSS26). Learn practical skills to make your research more reliable, computationally reproducible, and credible to peers, the public, and funding agencies!
✨ Returning for the second time: an Instructor Training Track co-developed with FORRT that enables participants to become certified Open Science instructors!
🗓️ September 07–15, 2026, CEST 📍Online & Munich
⏰ Apply by July 6!
💻 Public lectures can also be attended online via Zoom (registration open anytime). |
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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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