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5-day open science hybrid summer school on 11.-15. September 2023
by LMU Open Science Center News May 9, 2023

May 9, 2023

Dear open science enthusiasts The LMU Open Science Center is organising a 5-day open science hybrid summer school<https://malikaihle.github.io/OSC-Open-Research-Summer-School-2023/> on 11.-15. September 2023 to allow early-career researchers of any scientific discipline to gain more trust in the research that they do, and make it as credible as it can be in the eyes of their peers, the public, and funding agencies. The summer school will consist of public lectures and workshops for selected applicants. To attend the whole school, i.e. both public lectures and workshops for selected applicants, in person or online, you must apply before 17 July 2023, 12:00 noon. At equal application score, we will prioritize members of the LMU. The in-person part of the school will take place in the Fachbibliothek Philologicum, Ludwigstraße 25, 80539 Munich. The online part will be on Zoom. Anyone can register at any time before the end of the summer school to attend one, multiple, or all public lectures online. Apply to attend the whole summer school (in-person or online): https://tellmi.psy.lmu.de/formr/OSC-Summer-School-2023 Join one or several of the public lectures (online): https://www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/lectures/ By joining, you will learn how to: * plan your statistical plans in advance of collecting data to prevent biases in analyses, with the help of preregistration and data simulation; * create computationally reproducible workflows so you can be more efficient and spot mistakes in data wrangling or analyses, through programming, creating dynamic reports, and version controlling scripts; * share data, materials, codes, and articles appropriately (using Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable principles, sensible data anonymisation techniques, adequate repositories and licenses) for your research to have more impact, by allowing others to build upon or replicate your work; * follow guidelines to report results adequately and conduct systematic reviews Some keynote presenters: * Prof Uli Dirnagl, Director of the QUEST Center for Responsible Research * Prof Stephan Hartmann, Co-Director of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy * Dr Tony Ross-Hellauer, Open and Reproducible Research Group Leader * Prof Richard McElreath, Department Director at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology * Dr Joachim Wuttke, Scientific Computing Group Leader * Dr Tim Errington, Senior Director of Research at the Center for Open Science * Dr Verena Heise, Open Science Freelancer * Valérie Labonté, Researcher in Evidence in Medicine * Dr Raphael Ritz, Head of Data Division at the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility * Prof Denis Kenji Kipker, Professor for IT Security Law * Sofija Vojvodic, Researcher at the Berlin Institute of Health * Prof Felix Schönbrodt, Director of the LMU Open Science Center ...and many more instructors! You can find the programme, more information on the lectures, workshops, application and registration process on the school website: https://malikaihle.github.io/OSC-Open-Research-Summer-School-2023/ This event is supported by the Fund for the Promotion of Teaching and the University Library of LMU Munich. Best wishes Dr Malika Ihle, LMU Open Science Center coordinator Join the LMU Open Science Center community and attend our workshops and meetups (see our event list<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/events/index.html>) by subscribing to our mailing list: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc. As an LMU affiliate, you can also contribute to our activities by becoming a member<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/join/index.html>. Visit our website<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/index.html> for more information! -- Dr. Malika Ihle (she/her) (pronounciation<https://namedrop.io/malikaihle>) LMU Open Science Center Coordinator @MalikaIhle<https://twitter.com/MalikaIhle> | @MalikaIhle@scicomm.xyz<https://scicomm.xyz/web/@MalikaIhle> www.osc.lmu.de<http://www.osc.lmu.de/> | @lmu_osc<https://twitter.com/lmu_osc> |@lmu_osc@scicomm.xyz<https://scicomm.xyz/web/@lmu_osc> www.linkedin.com/company/lmu-open-science-center <http://www.linkedin.com/company/lmu-open-science-center> Mailing-list sign-up: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc

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Guest lecture + discussion: Methodological Hypocrisy in Psychology by JP de Ruiter on 11.05., 14:30 to 17:00
by LMU Open Science Center News May 3, 2023

May 3, 2023

Dear everyone Next Thursday, 11 May, after the presentation of J.P. de Ruiter (Tufts University, Department of Computer Science) on "Methodological Hypocrisy in Psychology" (see below) in room 3322 in Leopoldstr 13, Munich, the reproducibiliTea Journal Club team will be hosting an open discussion with the presenter from 16:00 to 17:00. Participants will be able to ask follow-up questions to the lecturer and discuss own ideas in a less formal and more open round. There will be no additional presentation on the topic, so it would be best to attend the lecture before (from 14:30 (s.t.) to 16:00, see below). Both the lecture and the discussion will take place solely in person on this occasion. Feel free to contact reproducibilitea.munich(a)gmail.com<mailto:reproducibilitea.munich@gmail.com> if you have any questions or remarks. Best wishes Malika -- Dr. Malika Ihle (she/her) (pronounciation<https://namedrop.io/malikaihle>) LMU Open Science Center Coordinator @MalikaIhle<https://twitter.com/MalikaIhle> | @MalikaIhle@scicomm.xyz<https://scicomm.xyz/web/@MalikaIhle> www.osc.lmu.de<http://www.osc.lmu.de/> | @lmu_osc<https://twitter.com/lmu_osc> |@lmu_osc@scicomm.xyz<https://scicomm.xyz/web/@lmu_osc> www.linkedin.com/company/lmu-open-science-center <http://www.linkedin.com/company/lmu-open-science-center> Mailing-list sign-up: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc From: Malika Ihle Sent: Wednesday, 12 April 2023 09:53 To: 'lmu-osc(a)lists.lrz.de' <lmu-osc(a)lists.lrz.de>; 'osip(a)lists.lrz.de' <osip(a)lists.lrz.de> Subject: Guest lecture: Methodological Hypocrisy in Psychology by JP de Ruiter on 11.05. at 14:30 Dear colleagues, we kindly invite you to an in person guest lecture from J.P. de Ruiter (Tufts University, Department of Computer Science) on "Methodological Hypocrisy in Psychology" - see abstract below. The talk takes the field of psychology as a starting point, but also makes more general points about statistical practices, NHST, and academic incentive structures that apply to many scientific fields. When: Thursday, 11.05.2023, 14:30 (s.t.) - 16:00 Where: Leopoldstraße 13, 80802 München, Room 3322 We hope for a large number of participants and a lively discussion! Felix Schönbrodt Title: Methodological Hypocrisy in Psychology Abstract: It is plausible that the widespread use of Questionable (or worse) Research Practices has substantially contributed to the current replication crisis in psychology. But would we still have a replication crisis if everyone had always played by the rules? We like to believe that we are aiming to be objective and self-critical, working towards a reliable body of knowledge about the mind/brain. Our methodological Superego is still guided by Popperian Falsificationism and Feynmanian "bending over backwards". However, our methodological Id wants to publish as many influential papers as we can, with as few resources as possible. In this Freudian model, it is the job of the methodological Ego to negotiate between these two conflicting desires. Our current system of methodological conventions, rules, and practices, essentially a fusion of inverse Falsificationism and NHST, is very effective at keeping both Superego and Id happy: it gives the impression of being objective, self-critical, and scientific, while at the same time making it very easy, too easy, to reach evidence standards that allow us to publish our claims. This means that even if we all "played by the rules", we would still not produce reliable knowledge. It is very difficult to change this situation, because the current incentive structures in scientific psychology strongly reward the publication of attractive findings, while there are hardly (if any) negative consequences for publishing false claims. Nevertheless, I will optimistically suggest a number of potential improvements.

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Peer Community in Registered Reports
by LMU Open Science Center News May 2, 2023

May 2, 2023

Dear Registered Reports enthusiasts, The Peer Community in Registered Reports<https://rr.peercommunityin.org/about/about> (PCI RR) is reaching out to see if members of our community might be interested in becoming a recommender (editor) at PCI RR, which was launched in 2021 by Chris Chambers<https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/133632-chambers-chris>, Zoltan Dienes<http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/Zoltan_Dienes/>, Corina Logan<https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/corina-logan/>, Emily Sena<https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-emily-sena>, and Benoit Pujol<http://www.criobe.pf/pro/personnel/chercheurs-et-enseignants-chercheurs/ben…>. Please find their invitation below: Peer Community in Registered Reports<https://rr.peercommunityin.org/about/about> (PCI RR) is taking Registered Reports (RRs) to the next level<https://twitter.com/PCI_RegReports/status/1384076205796728839>. We are a free, non-profit, non-commercial, supra-journal platform that reviews & recommends <https://twitter.com/RegReports> RR preprints across all research fields. RRs are a form of empirical article in which study proposals are peer reviewed and pre-accepted before research is undertaken, in addition to a post-study peer review. By deciding which articles are published based on the question and proposed methods, RRs offer a remedy for a range of research biases, including publication bias and reporting bias. Once submissions are accepted (or, in PCI terms, "recommended") following peer review, the revised manuscript is posted at the preprint server where the preprint is hosted, and the peer reviews and recommendation of the preprint are posted at the PCI RR website. Authors then have the option to also publish the preprint in a traditional journal. So far, PCI RR has implemented 7 innovations<https://spore.social/@pcirr/109720811781462323> in academic publishing... 1) one centralized review process that opens the gateway to a growing list of PCI RR-friendly journals<https://rr.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_rr_friendly_journals> that will automatically accept PCI RR recommended articles without further peer review 2) a scheduled review<https://rr.peercommunityin.org/help/guide_for_authors#h_6199824364355161330…> track speeds up the review process 3) authors can choose whether reviewers must sign their reviews 4) programmatic RRs<https://rr.peercommunityin.org/help/guide_for_authors#h_5249285723325161330…> accommodate large and long term research programs: 1 RR = more than 1 final article 5) explicitly stating your level of bias<https://rr.peercommunityin.org/help/guide_for_authors#h_9579049051049161330…> every step of the way allows one to use RRs for studies where data already exist 6) PCI RR recommenders<https://rr.peercommunityin.org/about/recommenders> (editors) are trained in how to edit RRs and have to pass a test<https://twitter.com/PCI_RegReports/status/1389173232725643266> before handling manuscripts. This helps standardize the quality of the review and decision process 7) authors can choose to exclude any recommender from being invited to handle their manuscript RRs for everyone... Our aim is to make RRs accessible to all areas of research. We do this through making the RR process more flexible via points 2, 4, and 5 above, and also researchers can indicate their non-negotiable data collection start date (because these are often inflexible, therefore if the pre-study peer review is not complete by then, the research may still be able to begin), and by giving authors the opportunity to estimate the power of their results in a variety of easy-to-implement ways for those who conduct hypothesis testing. The business model... PCI RR is free for readers and authors, it is funded by donations from universities/institutes/societies/grants, and it costs almost nothing (~500 EUR/yr/PCI for web development and hosting; see blog post<https://peercommunityin.org/2019/05/29/pci-economic-model/> for details). This shows that we researchers can produce and peer review our own articles (which we already do for journals and publishers) and stop wasting billions of Euros per year globally on subscriptions to journals and on open access charges that mostly line the shareholder pockets of these usually publicly traded publishers. Our question for you is... Would you like to be a Recommender at PCI Registered Reports? We generally select people who are post PhD, conduct independent research, and have at least a handful of first author articles (to ensure people have some experience with the publishing process). There is a nice write up and video about how and why to become a PCI Recommender here<https://youtu.be/2BDrPoHGkn0>, and we posted a thread<https://spore.social/@pcirr/109720811781462323> on the benefits to researchers for becoming Recommenders. You can learn more about PCI RR at our website<https://rr.peercommunityin.org/about/about> and on Mastodon (@pcirr@spore.social<https://twitter.com/PCI_RegReports>). FYI there is no minimum time commitment that we expect from our recommenders. When submitting, authors suggest recommenders, who then receive automated invitations. Recommenders can choose to accept, decline, or ignore invitations depending on their schedule. Please do not hesitate to contact us at contact(a)rr.peercommunityin.org<mailto:contact@rr.peercommunityin.org> if you are interested in becoming a recommender or if you have any questions! Best wishes Malika -- Dr. Malika Ihle (she/her) (pronounciation<https://namedrop.io/malikaihle>) LMU Open Science Center Coordinator @MalikaIhle<https://twitter.com/MalikaIhle> | @MalikaIhle@scicomm.xyz<https://scicomm.xyz/web/@MalikaIhle> www.osc.lmu.de<http://www.osc.lmu.de/> | @lmu_osc<https://twitter.com/lmu_osc> |@lmu_osc@scicomm.xyz<https://scicomm.xyz/web/@lmu_osc> www.linkedin.com/company/lmu-open-science-center <http://www.linkedin.com/company/lmu-open-science-center> Mailing-list sign-up: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc

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Invitation ReproducibiliTea
by LMU Open Science Center News April 27, 2023

April 27, 2023

Dear all Please see below the invitation to the first ReproducibiliTea Journal Club session of this semester on Friday 5th May, 14:30-16:00 (hybrid). This will be a welcoming session for newcomers and/or people who recently got interested in Open Science -> send your colleagues or students! The rest of the semester will explore „The complexity of the (replication) crisis: Intercorrelations between methods, theory and the scientific system“. Subscribe to the reproducibilitea mailing list to get notified about all future sessions: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/reproducibilitea Best wishes Malika -- Dr. Malika Ihle (she/her) (pronounciation<https://namedrop.io/malikaihle>) LMU Open Science Center Coordinator @MalikaIhle<https://twitter.com/MalikaIhle> | @MalikaIhle@scicomm.xyz<https://scicomm.xyz/web/@MalikaIhle> www.osc.lmu.de<http://www.osc.lmu.de/> | @lmu_osc<https://twitter.com/lmu_osc> |@lmu_osc@scicomm.xyz<https://scicomm.xyz/web/@lmu_osc> www.linkedin.com/company/lmu-open-science-center <http://www.linkedin.com/company/lmu-open-science-center> Mailing-list sign-up: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc From: reproducibilitea <reproducibilitea-bounces(a)lists.lrz.de> On Behalf Of ReproducibiliTea Munich Sent: Wednesday, 26 April 2023 19:23 To: reproducibilitea(a)lists.lrz.de Subject: [reproducibilitea] Invitation ReproducibiliTea Hello everyone, we are very excited to invite you all to this semester’s first meeting of our Journal Club „ReproducibiliTea“. It will take place next Friday (May 5th) from 2:30pm-4:00pm. Our first meeting is dedicated to a general introduction to Open Science. This way we hope to introduce new people to Open Science and our Journal Club. Please feel free to share information about the session with colleagues and students. You’re very welcome to use the attached poster for this. Following the session we will announce the rest of the program for this semester, which will be dedicated to the topic „The complexity of the (replication) crisis: Intercorrelations between methods, theory and the scientific system“. As all planned sessions, the meeting on Friday is organized as a hybrid-event, so you can choose to attend in person (Room 1301 at Leopoldstraße 13) or you can join online (see link below). When: Friday, May 5th from 2:30pm-4:00pm Where: Leopoldstraße 13, Room 1301 or via zoom: Meeting-ID: 698 5572 6392 Kenncode: 439315 ( https://lmu-munich.zoom.us/j/69855726392?pwd=aElJZFJ3TGhYMFRBc3hjM1JXd3NIQT…) Below, you can find a short abstract for the session and its introductory presentation by two members of our team, Gracia Prüm and Laura Goetz (LMU Munich). Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or remarks. We are looking forward to seeing you soon! Your organisation team of ReproducibiliTea Munich Welcome to the Open Science Universe You have never heard of Open Science before? In our presentation "Welcome to the Open Science Universe" we are going to give an introduction to Open Science as well as the most important terms and topics linked to it. Have you ever wondered what goes wrong in science and why, and what you can do about it? Then you have come to the right place! Just a little spoiler: the goal of Open Science is to make science reproducible, open and accessible for everybody. Of course, we are also happy if people join us who are already experts in the field of Open Science, which will only make the discussion more interesting.

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symposium on open science education, May 11, Berlin and online
by LMU Open Science Center News April 19, 2023

April 19, 2023

Dear Open Science Educators, The German Reproducibility Network (GRN) is inviting you to a symposium on education and reproducibility on May 11, 2023 at BIH QUEST Center for Responsible Research in Berlin<https://www.bihealth.org/en/contact> (and online) The symposium will give you the chance to exchange experiences, good practices and efforts on education and teaching formats on reproducibility. Various representatives from the GRN and from national reproducibility networks from all over Europe will give you an overview on their formats. Please find the detailed program now here and attached: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T67-kVQutfHGVG7B141gSebUokEjz41xxkO1pHW… The symposium will be held in a hybrid format. Whether you want to participate on-site in Berlin or online, please register in advance via the following link: https://www.bihealth.org/en/notices/reproducible-research-education-and-tea… The Registration for on-site participation will end on May 04. More information how to join can be found in the Program. All interested colleagues are invited, whether you are a member of a local reproducibility node or not. You are welcome to draw the attention of further colleagues in your organization to this Event. Hope to see you in Berlin or online! Ulf Toelch, BIH QUEST Center for Responsible Research and GRN steering member Antonia Schrader, Helmholtz Open Science Office and GRN steering member -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Antonia C. Schrader (she/her) Helmholtz Association Helmholtz Open Science Office Phone: + 49 (0) 331 288 28790 email: antonia.schrader(a)os.helmholtz.de<mailto:antonia.schrader@os.helmholtz.de> Web: https://os.helmholtz.de<https://os.helmholtz.de/> Mastodon: @HelmholtzOpenScienceOffice@helmholtz.social<https://helmholtz.social/@HelmholtzOpenScienceOffice> Twitter: @helmholtz_os<https://twitter.com/helmholtz_os> c/o Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany #callmebymyfirstname --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Guest lecture: Methodological Hypocrisy in Psychology by JP de Ruiter on 11.05. at 14:30
by LMU Open Science Center News April 12, 2023

April 12, 2023

Dear colleagues, we kindly invite you to an in person guest lecture from J.P. de Ruiter (Tufts University, Department of Computer Science) on "Methodological Hypocrisy in Psychology" - see abstract below. The talk takes the field of psychology as a starting point, but also makes more general points about statistical practices, NHST, and academic incentive structures that apply to many scientific fields. When: Thursday, 11.05.2023, 14:30 (s.t.) - 16:00 Where: Leopoldstraße 13, 80802 München, Room 3322 We hope for a large number of participants and a lively discussion! Felix Schönbrodt Title: Methodological Hypocrisy in Psychology Abstract: It is plausible that the widespread use of Questionable (or worse) Research Practices has substantially contributed to the current replication crisis in psychology. But would we still have a replication crisis if everyone had always played by the rules? We like to believe that we are aiming to be objective and self-critical, working towards a reliable body of knowledge about the mind/brain. Our methodological Superego is still guided by Popperian Falsificationism and Feynmanian "bending over backwards". However, our methodological Id wants to publish as many influential papers as we can, with as few resources as possible. In this Freudian model, it is the job of the methodological Ego to negotiate between these two conflicting desires. Our current system of methodological conventions, rules, and practices, essentially a fusion of inverse Falsificationism and NHST, is very effective at keeping both Superego and Id happy: it gives the impression of being objective, self-critical, and scientific, while at the same time making it very easy, too easy, to reach evidence standards that allow us to publish our claims. This means that even if we all "played by the rules", we would still not produce reliable knowledge. It is very difficult to change this situation, because the current incentive structures in scientific psychology strongly reward the publication of attractive findings, while there are hardly (if any) negative consequences for publishing false claims. Nevertheless, I will optimistically suggest a number of potential improvements.

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KonsortSWD Ausschreibung Projektförderung Forschungsdatenmanagement (FDM) gestartet
by LMU Open Science Center News March 27, 2023

March 27, 2023

***English version below – apologies for cross-posting*** Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, Sie besitzen Forschungsdaten oder kennen Personen, die Daten in den Wirtschafts-, Sozial-, Bildungs- und Verhaltenswissenschaften erhoben haben? KonsortSWD<https://www.konsortswd.de/konsortswd/> vergibt zum zweiten Mal Fördergelder um Ihre Daten gemeinsam mit einem Forschungsdatenzentrum aufzubereiten und der wissenschaftlichen Community zur Sekundärnutzung zur Verfügung zu stellen. Den Ausschreibungstext finden Sie im Anhang, bewerben Sie sich jetzt! * Bewerbungsende: 30. September 2023 * Bekanntgabe Förderung: Ende Juni 2024 * Frühster Förderbeginn: 1. Oktober 2024 Die Projektförderung unterstützt die Aufbereitung und Bereitstellung relevanter neuer qualitativer und quantitativer Datenkorpora, die der wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft noch nicht zugänglich sind. Auch die Anreicherung bestehender Datenkorpora mittels Verknüpfung zu weiteren Datenquellen kann gefördert werden, wenn dadurch das Analysepotential von Datenquellen deutlich gesteigert wird. Info und Call: https://www.konsortswd.de/konsortswd/das-konsortium/services/fdm-projektfoe… #Datenschatz heben! *** Dear Sir or Madam, dear colleagues, Do you own research data or know people who have collected data? For a second time, KonsortSWD<https://www.konsortswd.de/en/konsortswd/> awards funding to collaborate with a research data center to prepare your data and make it available to the scientific community for secondary use. Please find attached the call for applications, you can apply now! * Application deadline: September 30th, 2023 * Announcement of funding: end of June 2024 * Earliest start of funding: October 1st, 2024 Project funding supports the preparation and provision of relevant new qualitative and quantitative data corpora that are not yet available to the scientific community. The enrichment of existing data corpora by means of linking to additional data sources can also be funded if this significantly increases the analytical potential of data sources. Info and call: https://www.konsortswd.de/en/konsortswd/the-consortium/services/rdm-grants/ Herzliche Grüße Christian Aßmann & Friederike Schlücker ‐‐‐ Friederike Schlücker Koordinatorin Task Area 2 KonsortSWD www.KonsortSWD.de<http://www.konsortswd.de/> Telefon: +49 951 863-3436 Fax: +49 951 863-3411 E-Mail: friederike.schluecker(a)lifbi.de<mailto:friederike.schluecker@lifbi.de> LIfBi – Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsverläufe e.V. Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories Wilhelmsplatz 3 96047 Bamberg Germany www.lifbi.de<http://www.lifbi.de/> [cid:image001.png@01D8DCC1.1F9A89D0]<https://www.konsortswd.de/kswd/9kswd/> [LIfBi Logo_Signatur_NEU]<http://www.lifbi.de/> [cid:image007.png@01D93BAF.0D12ED00]<http://www.konsortswd.de/>

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RSE Meetup Munich, March 15th
by LMU Open Science Center News March 7, 2023

March 7, 2023

Dear all, We are excited for our first 2023 RSE Meetup in Munich on March 15th. A meetup for and with Research Software Engineers and people interested in research software in the greater Munich area. Sign up via: https://pad.okfn.de/p/rse-muc-meetup1-23 Agenda: - 16:50-17:00: People arrive - 17:00-17:30: Talk by Michael Franke (Software Management Plans) + Q&A - 17:30-18:00: Talk by Gerasimos Chourdakis (Continuous integration with GitHub Actions in preCICE) + Q&A - 18:00-18:20: Beginning of discussions regarding the group - 18:20-18:30: Moving to the restaurant (very closeby) - 18:30-21:00: Stammtisch-style discussions ;) LMU University Library, Room F324, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 (easily accessible through the main University Library entrance close to U-Bahn "Universität" (U3/U6), exit D (Schellingstr./Ludwigstr.). Here is the link to the LMU Raumfinder:x https://www.lmu.de/raumfinder/#/building/bw0000/map?room=003003324_) If you want to join this and future RSE events or are interested in research software, please sign up to our RSE Munich mailing list: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/rse As this is our first event since a while, we rely on such emails and word of mouth to gather people. Please forward this email to that colleague you know would be interested (and maybe they can convince you to join as well!). All the best, Heidi -- Heidi Seibold Open and Reproducible Data Science @HeidiBaya<https://twitter.com/HeidiBaya> Newsletter<https://heidiseibold.ck.page> heidiseibold.com +49 1517 0681105

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Reforming Research Assessment, hybrid symposium, March 13, 14:30 - 16:30 s.t. (reminder)
by LMU Open Science Center News Feb. 27, 2023

Feb. 27, 2023

Dear researchers from any disciplines and career stages, research support staff, and research administrators, You, and people from your networks, are invited to attend and contribute to the discussions of this hybrid symposium: Reforming Research Assessment: how to implement responsible procedures and move beyond impact factors and h-index? Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Munich, and on Zoom, on March 13, 14:30 – 16:30 st. Registration: https://en.xing-events.com/AUCGBGM.html “The use of journal impact factors and other metric indicators of research productivity, such as the h-index, has been heavily criticised for being invalid for the assessment of individual researchers and for fueling a detrimental “publish or perish” culture. Multiple initiatives call for developing alternatives to existing metrics that better reflect quality (instead of quantity) in research assessment.” (https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.8162) A number of themes run through the recommendations of initiatives such as The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA, https://sfdora.org/) and the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA, https://coara.eu/) * the need to eliminate the use of journal-based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, in funding, appointment, and promotion considerations; * the need to assess research on its own merits rather than on the basis of the journal in which the research is published; and * the need to recognise the diverse outputs, practices, and activities that maximise the quality and impact of research As of 12 January 2023, 441 organisations (including European Commission, League of European Research Universities, European University Association, Science Europe, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) e.V., Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie) have signed the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment. The signatories agree to define an action plan within the year. With these developments, it is evident that profound changes will come in how academic achievements will be evaluated, both in hiring and in funding decisions. But how can we practically implement and evaluate a reformed research assessment? What will be the consequences for researchers from signing institutions or applying for signatory funding agencies? How to ensure a smooth transition for early-career researchers? And how can we reconcile diverse needs across disciplines? To address these questions, the LMU Open Science Center is inviting you to a symposium, with short presentations followed by a panel discussion. * Prof Dr Toma Susi (CoARA Steering Board Member, University of Vienna) will present the Agreement and the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (https://coara.eu/agreement/the-agreement-full-text/) * Prof Dr Kristin Mitte (Vice President Research & Development, Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena) will share her views on how societal impact and translation of research constitute important evaluative dimensions in the applied sciences. * Dr Tobias Grimm (Head of Division Life Sciences II, German Research Foundation (DFG) head office) will present the DFG’s approach to reforming research assessment. * Dr Jess Rohmann (Scientific Strategic Advisor in the Scientific Director's Office at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin) will present the perspective of Early-Career Researchers and an overview of recent actions taken in selected Berlin Institutions (Charité/BIH, Max Delbrück Center). * Prof Dr Felix Schönbrodt (Managing Director of the LMU Open Science Center) will present the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie’s working group proposal for practical implementation, for the field of psychology in Germany (see https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.8162 and https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5yexm) The event will be chaired by Dr Heidi Seibold, Open and Reproducible Data Science Consultant, and Associate Member of the LMU Open Science Center. Registration: https://en.xing-events.com/AUCGBGM.html Please circulate in your networks, and share on LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lmu-open-science-center_symposium-reforming-…>, Twitter<https://twitter.com/lmu_osc/status/1630121308255027200>, Mastodon<https://scicomm.xyz/@lmu_osc/109935739514353769>. Best wishes Dr Malika Ihle, LMU Open Science Center coordinator Join the LMU Open Science Center community and attend our workshops and meetups (see event list here: https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/events/index.html) by subscribing to our mailing list: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc. As an LMU affiliate, you can also contribute to our activities by becoming a member https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/join/index.html. Visit our website https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/index.html for more information! -- Dr. Malika Ihle (she/her) (pronounciation<https://namedrop.io/malikaihle>) LMU Open Science Center Coordinator @MalikaIhle<https://twitter.com/MalikaIhle> | @MalikaIhle@scicomm.xyz<https://scicomm.xyz/web/@MalikaIhle> www.osc.lmu.de<http://www.osc.lmu.de/> | @lmu_osc<mailto:@lmu_osc> |@lmu_osc@scicomm.xyz<https://scicomm.xyz/web/@lmu_osc> https://www.linkedin.com/company/lmu-open-science-center Newsletter sign-up: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc

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Hackathon at ifo 28.-30. April
by LMU Open Science Center News Feb. 23, 2023

Feb. 23, 2023

Dear OSC members, The Information and Forschung Institute for Economic Research (ifo) is organizing a 2-day hackathon on 28.-30. April - the ifoHack 2023. You can find more information on the event page https://www.ifo.de/en/ifohack2023. Registration and feedback are required before 3rd March 2023. Please forward the information below to your department as the event is open for everyone (Seniors/Post-Docs, Juniors/PhD students, specialists, interns, research assistants). What is a hackathon? Teams from different backgrounds ranging from economics and statistics, psychology, sociology, computer science, design, and engineering will develop prototypical solutions to economic and social problems using state-of-the-art technology, tools and infrastructure. Why ifoHack? There are large potential gains from combining sharp economic reasoning and pre-existing technical knowledge with basic programming in Python and modern web technologies. The way how economic research is conducted has changed remarkably and new hypotheses require an appropriate, modern approach to empirical and analytical applications. Replicability and transparency are increasingly important to society but also within academia, especially with respect to the publication process. The ifoHack is an ideal environment for testing first ideas that could lead to innovative projects and publications, to explore or to construct a novel dataset, to build prototypes that could automate tasks, to develop a predictive model that performs better than conventional models at relatively low costs. Lastly, it can be an enjoyable experience to collaborate with colleagues you didn't work together with in the past, to learn from each other and to hold a "tangible" product (such as a dashboard) in your hands that you can show to the world after a very short period! This event is meant to provide a low-barrier opportunity for exposing yourself to unknown concepts in a safe (but nonetheless intense) environment. Only basic knowledge and experience of programming with Python (~1 year) is a plus. Which kind of challenges to expect? Participants may come up with their own ideas or select a pre-defined but open-ended challenge each which is mentored by one of the ifo departments. For example, teams develop * a predictive model for firms' answers from the ifo Business Survey based on micro data. * a dashboard of real-time indicators that can be used to nowcast economic variables, deploy it and provide a user interface to obtain predictions given inputs. * a method to extract information from texts capturing sentiment, inter-linkages and/or factors for predicting stock price changes. * a language model and interface ("ifoGPT", similar to ChatGPT) trained on press releases for text generation. * an interactive map of households' characteristics at very high resolution, involving spatial computations and satellite imagery. If you (or your department) are (is) considering a project idea, a research question or a specific task to be solved in a new challenge that requires certain computational resources or specific knowledge - please send a very short description (2-3 sentences) to ifohack(a)ifo.de<mailto:ifohack@ifo.de> or discuss your proposal directly with the organisor Gerome Wolf (wolf.g(a)ifo.de<mailto:wolf.g@ifo.de>) until 3rd March 2023. Why participate? Attending a hackathon is an enriching and sustainable experience in and of itself and highlights your ability to implement a technical solution within a short amount of time and in a collaborative manner which will also improve your CV. You will acquire new skills that lend themselves to ambitious research projects and are in high demand for data-centric industry roles such as orchestration of data pipelines, reviewing code, and deploying your own application. There are also great prizes for the winning teams to assist you in following -up on the concepts you encounter during the hackathon. You will benefit greatly and should attend if you want to... * have an unforgettable experience, a steep learning curve, and lots of fun! * adopt an algorithmic way of thinking. * try out an ubiquitous but unfamiliar concept (e.g. GPT) on real data. * like-minded hackers and work on meaningful challenges. * brush up or upgrade your operational research skills by integrating modern open-source tools. * leverage computational capacity to complete tasks more efficiently. Food, hacking spaces, exciting data, and infrastructure will be provided - expect nice surprises! When and where does it take place? The ifoHack 2023 will take place from Friday 28th (3pm) - Sunday 30th April 2023 (5pm) and will be hosted in-person at the ifo premises. A registration for the hackathon is required under https://ifohack2023.eventbrite.de as seats are limited to 30 (first come, first served). We're looking forward to ifoHack 2023 and your ample participation! In case of questions, please contact ifohack(a)ifo.de<mailto:ifohack@ifo.de> or Gerome Wolf (wolf.g(a)ifo.de<mailto:wolf.g@ifo.de>) directly. Kind regards, The ifoHack 2023 team ____________ ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut fuer Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universitaet Muenchen e.V. Poschingerstr. 5, 81679 Muenchen, Sitz: Muenchen, Vereinsregister-Nr.: 4419, Amtsgericht Muenchen, Vorstand: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Clemens Fuest (Praesident), Dr. Stephanie Dittmer; Steuernummer 143/217/10159, USt-IdNr. DE129516729 Folgen Sie dem ifo Institut auf Twitter: https://twitter.com/ifo_Institut

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