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Can you only praise within institution? I want one!

Open-Topia Made by Ruth Davies, Priya Silverstein, David Stansby, Iain Souttar, and Arthur Thives Mello at the Open Science Retreat 2026. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

As well as the physical map, our group created an interactive version of Opentopia that you can explore and interact with the environment: dstansby.codeberg.page/open-topia-m...

Apart from our main project, the restful space of the retreat allowed the space for creativity, leading to so many super interesting and useful conversations and the beginnings of collaborations.

I think this photo perfectly summarises what it was like to be in this space #OSR26UK

Had the most beautiful, chaotic, fun, inspiring, & rejuvenating time at the Open Science Retreat at the Center for Alternative Technology in Wales this week 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✨

My group created a map of Opentopia inspired by some of the different ways that people come to find and become interested in open science 🤍

A slide which reads: Ways to contribute - add yours here Discipline: - Improve and update your disciplines existing section - If a section doesn't exist for your discipline, create one! Region: - Add resources from a specific region to multiple areas Format: - Have an idea for how to improve the format? Run it by Priya, and we can discuss applying this throughout - Add something new to each section, e.g. a summary of “the state of the field” Sustainability: - Think about potential sustainability plans for the resource (more on this throughout the retreat...) Slides: https://bit.ly/OSR_ORxD priyasilverstein@uc.pt

Want to get involved? Please do!

Got questions? Reply here (or ping one of us a message!)

We're working here: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WASJvGs0...

Before the main #OSR26UK retreat begins, our group is on the go!

The hackathon kicks off this morning with a dedicated group of open science practitioners who arrived a day early to engage in meaningful conversations and collaborate extensively to find solutions.

Follow along today with #OSR26UK

Thanks so much to today's participants!

Today we:
- added more resources and more disciplines
- turned it from a pdf into a database
- created a mockup of how that database could be pulled and displayed on a webpage
- AND someone made a zine!

So excited for the rest of the retreat! 🌟

#OSR26UK

I echo Melissa that working in COS’s metascience team was transformational for me, in all the ways she describes so eloquently, but also personally. The team was so kind, helpful, and fun to work with, it set the bar very high. And starting my nonbinary journey was easy in such a queer team 🤍

I miss defiant and wiggly participants! Oh wait, I still study researchers ;)

🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science.

Here’s what we found 👇

Reliable research in the social and behavioural and sciences Sweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences.

Today, the SCORE program releases its primary results! 865 researchers examined research credibility across the social and behavioral sciences, publishing three papers in Nature + five preprints.

📑 Explore the papers: www.nature.com/colle...
ℹ️ Read more about SCORE: www.cos.io/score

Like, we were sometimes there with a single paper, having hour long conversations about which result corresponded to which claim in the abstract 😂 and that was just claim extraction

My new piece "Reproducibility: how to strengthen a weak foundation" is out today @nature.com! 🎉 How reproducible is research in the social & behavioural sciences? A new study by Miske et al. assessed 600 papers across 62 journals: the results are sobering.

📄 doi.org/10.1038/d415...
📄 rdcu.be/fbcq5

I'm at a bit of a loss of what to say to summarise what being a part of this monumental effort was like. It's strange to remember all the tiny parts and think that they were part of something so big when put together. Feeling very grateful to have worked with so many amazing collaborators 🤍

Don't miss out on new replications with the Zotero Replication Checker!

This is the current set of >1.6K studies in the FORRT Library of Replication Attempts (#FLoRA). Many of them belong to large-scale projects and are not even cited in the final report, so how to keep track of them?

Moral psychology flourishes because of our variation in moral values both within and across cultures. I'm happy to see that our registered report protocol for developing and validating the MFQ-2 in German populations is out now! Next up: Data collection and analysis ⚖️ 💻

📢 Hiring: Communications Officer

Join us to help champion evidence and transparency in public life.

Creative, tech-savvy, and ready to make an impact?

📍 London | 💷 £30k
⏰ Deadline: 13 April, 9am

More info ➡️ senseaboutscience.org/vacancies/

Do researchers share their code upon request? Does running their orginal code on the original data produce the original results? We provide evidence in a new Royal Society Open Science publication. Studying more than 1,000 articles which use data from the European Social Survey, we find that... 🧵

💰 The Price of “Free” in Open Access
How well do we actually understand the real costs behind #DiamondOA?
A discussion on the EDCH Forum highlights a new research initiative, exploring hidden costs in OA publishing in Poland.
🔷Join the discussion: bit.ly/4lDkZHm
🔷Join the Forum: forum.edch.eu

A black and white image of a butterfly on a flower with a colored overlay. The PLOS logo is displayed in the top left corner. A blue text box reads: "Explore Open Science Indicators. Our interactive dashboard brings open research-sharing signals together in one place, helping you explore how openness is developing across the research landscape and where progress is emerging.

Explore research‑sharing trends with our new interactive Open Science Indicators dashboard prototype.

See how practices like study registration, data, code, protocol sharing and preprints vary across fields, countries, funders and organizations.

🔗 Explore #OpenScience Indicators: plos.io/3PFvT3h

Data Organization in Spreadsheets Karl W. Broman & Kara H. Woo Pages 2-10 | Received 01 Jun 2017, Accepted author version posted online: 29 Sep 2017, Published online: 24 Apr 2018 1. Introduction 2. Be Consistent 3. Choose Good Names for Things 4. Write Dates as YYYY-MM-DD 5. No Empty Cells 6. Put Just One Thing in a Cell 7. Make it a Rectangle 8. Create a Data Dictionary 9. No Calculations in the Raw Data Files 10. Do Not Use Font Color or Highlighting as Data 11. Make Backups 12. Use Data Validation to Avoid Errors 13. Save the Data in Plain Text Files ABSTRACT Spreadsheets are widely used software tools for data entry, storage, analysis, and visualization. Focusing on the data entry and storage aspects, this article offers practical recommendations for organizing spreadsheet data to reduce errors and ease later analyses. The basic principles are: be consistent, write dates like YYYY-MM-DD, do not leave any cells empty, put just one thing in a cell, organize the data as a single rectangle (with subjects as rows and variables as columns, and with a single header row), create a data dictionary, do not include calculations in the raw data files, do not use font color or highlighting as data, choose good names for things, make backups, use data validation to avoid data entry errors, and save the data in plain text files.

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The current State and Status of Theory in Psychological Science Welcome and thank you! Thank you for taking part in this survey. We are collecting views from psychological scientists on the current state of theory development in psychology and how this may affect ...

We’ve created an overview of the current state of theory development in psychological science (doi.org/10.31234/osf...).

We're now conducting a survey on the topic to collect your views on the current state of theory development:

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Save the date: 1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Meta Science for Methods Research (MSMR 2026)

How can we improve research on research methods?

📍 Zurich, Switzerland (+ livestream for attendance)
📅 August 31 – September 1, 2026
🔗 crsuzh.pages.uzh.ch/msmr/

Deadline extended to 23rd of March!

Waiting for your submissions 📃
🔗aisb.org.uk/aisb-2026-symposium-hype...

ICYMI: in our new paper, we contend there is "no current consensus on a definition of sex that is free of assumptions and limitations... and most importantly,...no biological definition of sex should be used to dictate human rights" #evolsky #LGBTQSTEM #ecology #evolution #biologicalsex

Clinical trial reforms that once seemed radical How randomized controlled trials, preregistration, and results reporting became standard practice.

New post!

It may seem ambitious to ask for individual patient data from clinical trials to be shared, anonymized, for use by other researchers.

But the history of medicine shows us that clinical trials have already undergone a series of transformations that once seemed equally bold:

eLife Webinar: Fair and equitable publishing models – how to transition to Diamond Open Access The latest eLife Global South Committee webinar looks at Diamond Open Access, what it is, and why it matters, highlighting real-world examples.

🧪Hoje às 12:00 BRT acontecerá o webinário "Fair and Equitable Publishing Models - How to Transition to Diamond Open Access" promovido pela @elife.bsky.social. Abel Packer (Diretor) participará do evento representando o SciELO.

Inscreva-se!

elifesciences.org/events/94216...

Someone please fund me to put together a measures bank where people in developmental science can search for commonly used scales and see how the items can be consistently named and coded? 🙏