If only it were this easy to be an academic! A fun game by @forrt.bsky.social.
I reached the rank of Asst. Prof in Tenure Run! 🎓
I published 40 papers and paid $2,500 in APCs to publishers. My grant money is gone and I am exhausted. 💸
How far can you make it? Play now at forrt.org/TenureRun/
In case you missed it 👀 ❗
FORRT has launched the Open Research Games Portal — a collection of games and interactive activities for teaching open and reproducible science !
Explore it here: forrt.org/games/ and feel free to browse and use ✨
The Academic Wheel of Privilege showing the 24 socio-cultural identities. The 24 socio-cultural identity types span six sectors: health and wellbeing, society, culture and communication, gender and sexuality, education and career, living arrangements and lastly childhood and development. These identity types are shown as circles connected to three concentric rings (outer, middle and inner) of “identity” circles with increasing privilege as you go towards the centre.
Out now!
The Academic Wheel of Privilege 🎡
We developed a framework & app to guide authorship teams in making equitable and thoughtful authorship decisions.
@saralilplants.bsky.social, @justinsulik.bsky.social, Bethan Iley, Mahmoud Elsherif, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social
🔗 osf.io/preprints/me...
>5h recordings and slides for most #LoveReplicationsWeek talks are now available on our updated website. Thank you so much everybody who contributed to this wonderful week, participated in the talks, and partnered-up with us. I think there should be a replication of this.
forrt.org/LoveReplicat...
Contact @verheyensteven.bsky.social !
If you meet these requirements or know someone who does and who might be willing to help, please reach out to Steven Verheyen as soon as possible. Here's the Slack join link: join.slack.com/t/forrt/shar... or reach out to info at forrt.org.
The deadline for this call is already April 1 😬
🚨 Calling Flemish researchers interested in Open Science!🚨
Are you appointed for at least 50% of your time as an independent academic staff member at a Flemish university and would be willing to support an application for an International Coordination Action at FWO (lnkd.in/eiWWjFvj)?
This has been many years in the making. We wanted to do it right—not simply get it done.
Our goal was to contribute, however modestly, to an academia that genuinely strives for inclusivity.
May the AWoP—small as the step may be—help move academia toward greater inclusion. 🤝🫂🌈🍉🏳️⚧️✊⚖️♿🦮🌐
It's been a long journey to this point but very rewarding. Check out the app I built to support it---it was fun working out how to make this static image into something dynamic/interactive (though still room for improvement, especially accessibility). academic-privilege-2177e04480f1.herokuapp.com
Let us know if you use the #AcademicWheelOfPrivilege in your authorship teams or in other academic contexts!
You can also follow along for updates on the Academic Wheel of Privilege on FORRT’s:
Website: forrt.org/awop/
Slack Channel: forrt.slack.com/archives/C03...
Though mainly guiding authorship decisions, the AWoP has wider use cases: our materials can help teams discuss positionality and understand each others' perspectives and experiences as part of general team wellbeing.
The first version of the Academic Wheel of Privilege (Elsherif et al. 2022) gained a lot of traction and social media attention! We considered feedback and consulted a diverse group of experts to make it robust, ethical, and more useful to the wider community. 100+ experts gave 30+ reviews 💚
A guide to using the Academic Wheel of Privilege reflexively outlined in six key steps: Examine, prepare, evaluate, record, reflect and learn.
This framework includes:
🎡 Customisable app + user guide
💭 Reflection questions
🎓 Case study on first-gen academics
⛔ Examples of academic privilege & disadvantage
📄 Extended bibliography
📚 📚 Syllabus covering 14 key DEIA topics for long-term learning
Resources: osf.io/pfxqb/overview
An illustration of how authorship ordering methods differ in focus using a hypothetical example of contributions to a research study from a multi-authorship team (a). Integrating the Academic Wheel of Privilege (AWoP) in authorship order decisions into the CRediT framework (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) is more equitable than contributorship focused methods like alphabetisation (b) or randomisation (c). The AWoP considers both contributions of authors and redresses imbalances of academic privilege (d). e) shows what a solely equity-focused authorship order would look like, where authors are positioned with increasing privilege along the author list based on AWoP scores shown in (a).
Authorship in academia often decides who is hired, funded or celebrated. Current authorship order methods like randomised or alphabet author lists are not equitable.
The Academic Wheel of Privilege showing the 24 socio-cultural identities. The 24 socio-cultural identity types span six sectors: health and wellbeing, society, culture and communication, gender and sexuality, education and career, living arrangements and lastly childhood and development. These identity types are shown as circles connected to three concentric rings (outer, middle and inner) of “identity” circles with increasing privilege as you go towards the centre.
Out now!
The Academic Wheel of Privilege 🎡
We developed a framework & app to guide authorship teams in making equitable and thoughtful authorship decisions.
@saralilplants.bsky.social, @justinsulik.bsky.social, Bethan Iley, Mahmoud Elsherif, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social
🔗 osf.io/preprints/me...
⏳ 2 weeks left to apply to the Making Replications Count Hackathon (Münster, 4–6 May 2026). Join us to build open tools that make replications impossible to ignore. Apply by 16 March: indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco2
“Open research is about more than the tightening of analytical and methodological standards. The movement also invites us to reconsider how, and by whom, knowledge is created, shared and evaluated”
By @maddipow.bsky.social, @drcpennington.bsky.social, & @flavioazevedo.bsky.social
#MetaSci #OpenSci
Happy Valentine's Day from us at FORRT! ❤️
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"Scientific literacy has long been a cornerstone of higher education but the open research movement has redefined what it means to be literate as a researcher" with @flavioazevedo.bsky.social & @drcpennington.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/if-p...
Join us for the LOVE REPLICATIONS WEEK from March 2 - 6 with talks on reproductions, replications, how to find them, how to conduct them, how to have them conducted on your study, where to publish them, and much more!
4-6 May 2026 | Münster, Germany Join us for a three-day Hackathon to boost the visibility of replication studies! Apply by 16th March
🚀 Making Replications Count Hackathon - in-person 🚀
Apply by 16 March: indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco2
#OpenScience #Metascience #Replication #Hackathon #CodingForScience
We’ll build:
⚫ Chromium plug-in Automated
🟢 PeerPub Comments
🟡 Automated data extraction
🔵 FORRT Lighthouse
Who are we looking for?
Coders, data wranglers, UX folks & open science enthusiasts ⭐
#OpenScience #Metascience #Replication #Hackathon #CodingForScience
🚀 Making Replications Count Hackathon - in-person 🚀
3 days. 4 open tools. 1 goal: make replication studies impossible to ignore.
📆 4-6 May 2026 | Münster, Germany
✈️ Travel & accommodation covered (UKRI-funded)
Apply by 16 March ➡️ indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco2
🧵👇 What we will build?
@forrt.bsky.social and the Münster Center for Open Science are organizing a Love Replications Week this year. Get in touch if you would like to contribute with tutorials, case studies, or discussions surrounding #reproductions and #replications! The full program will be announced soon!
Graphic announcement with a blue background reading “Big News from RoSE.” The RoSE and FORRT logos appear side by side with an “×” between them. Text states: “We’re launching a Big Team Science review asking: What is the current state of evidence on the use of statistical packages in teaching and learning?” A magnifying glass graphic emphasises the research theme.
📣 Big news from RoSE! We’re launching a new RoSE × FORRT collaborative research project 🎉
With @rosenetwork.bsky.social and @forrt.bsky.social, we’re starting a Big Team Science review on evidence for using statistical packages in teaching & learning.
Watch this space 👀
#statsed #openscience
I loved working on this booklet, the process taught me a a lot about @forrt.bsky.social in a short time and after eyeing the initiative for years, I finally consider myself part of the lovely community now! 🥰
Also, we will extend the booklet in a bigger project - keep an eye out for this in 2026 ✨
The FORRT community is already hard at work producing 🛠️ tools, 📄 guidelines, 💬recommendations and 🚀materials to democratize science and we are excited to continue this work into this next Decade of Science!
Go to forrt.org/awards/ to find out more!
FORRT’s work in 🎓Education & Pedagogy (Curriculum Hub), 🔎Metascience & Research (Replication Hub) and ⚖️ Social Justice & DEIA is an essential contribution to the UN’s strategy for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 🎯
📣We are excited to announce that FORRT is one of the few initiatives worldwide to be formally endorsed as a Programme of the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (IDSSD, 2024–2033)! 🎉
Join us for #SIPS2026!
We will meet online (May 6-7, 2026) and in person in Washington, D.C., USA (June 8-10, 2026).
We are looking forward to your proposals, so don't miss the submission deadlines:
📅 January 23, for in-person SIPS 2026
📅 February 27, for online SIPS 2026
