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Open Social Science Conference (@opensocsci): Jan 2019
by LMU Open Science Center News July 30, 2018

July 30, 2018

[News from our website: https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/news/mzes/index.html] The LMU Open Science Center is official partner of the Open Social Science Conference (@opensocsci) in Mannheim. Want to contribute? Submission deadline for abstracts is Aug. 22, 2018. From the conference webseite (https://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/openscience/) > ## Practicing New Standards in Transparency and Reproducibility > > About a decade ago, John Ioannidis claimed that “most published > research findings are false”. While seeming outrageous at the time, > a growing body of meta-scientific research in the behavioral and > social sciences has since substantiated this claim, causing > uncertainty about the trustworthiness of published scientific > findings. We believe that threats to the validity of published > findings in the social sciences are widespread and systemic. > Therefore, this conference promotes introspection about the current > state of social science research and exchange on the opportunities for > institutional and methodological improvement in the future. It is > interdisciplinary in nature. Scholars working in any branch and within > any methodology of the social sciences are invited to attend. The > conference is supported by the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in > the Social Sciences (BITSS) and will take place from 25-27 January > 2019 at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) in > Mannheim, Germany. --- ![](cid:4D03E922-4445-4D73-80F7-F895142C996B@psy.lmu.de "PastedImage.png") http://www.osc.lmu.de/

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A portrait of the LMU Open Science Center
by LMU Open Science Center News July 27, 2018

July 27, 2018

[News from our website: https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/news/osc_portrait_2018/index.html] #A portrait of the LMU Open Science Center *LMU‘s interdisciplinary Open Science Center (OSC) was formally inaugurated on May 8 2018. Its aim is to make scientific research more transparent and to strengthen its self-correcting mechanisms by facilitating the replication of published work. Here's a portrait of the OSC.* Read the full story (which is basically the English translation of a LMU press release) here: https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/news/osc_portrait_2018/index.html --- ![](cid:A729E453-F425-4A60-BC87-4EF2CEA91A4F@psy.lmu.de "PastedImage.png") http://www.osc.lmu.de/

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Foundation of Center for Reproducible Science at UZH
by LMU Open Science Center News July 13, 2018

July 13, 2018

Big news: Zurich University UZH now has a Center for Reproducible Science! Congrats @crsuzh http://www.crs.uzh.ch/ Here's their mission statement: > The objective of the Center of Reproducible Science (CRS) is to > improve the overall reproducibility of empirical scientific research > at UZH and to promote original research in reproducibility studies and > methodology related to reproducibility. One of the main additional > values of the CRS is that researchers of UZH who are active in > methodological aspects of research get together to discuss these > challenges, keep each other updated on advances from different fields > which typically do not communicate with each other intensively and > hopefully to propose common solutions. Moreover, UZH researchers who > are invested in replication or reproducibility efforts can get > together with the methodologists of the CRS either through training > activities, direct collaboration, or simply publications. As a result > we will improve overall quality and reproducibility of empirical > scientific research at UZH. > They also look for a post-doc to "develop faculty specific training activities and participate in research activities related to reproducibility": http://www.crs.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:9fdaaa9a-6dea-440a-9309-4b389d3f952f/CRSPostd… --- ![](cid:83AC8380-5A54-4B0C-8AE4-80E30834B30F@psy.lmu.de "PastedImage.png") http://www.osc.lmu.de/

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