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MunichROCS - kickoff meeting
by LMU Open Science Center News Jan. 11, 2019

Jan. 11, 2019

Dear all, We would like to invite you to our ## MunichROCS - kickoff meeting *Munich ROCS - Researchers for Open and Credible Science* **Who**: everyone who wants to promote, discuss, or learn about open and credible science methods, especially if you are an early career researcher at one of Munich’s accademic institutions! **When**: 28.01.2019 from 2 pm (feel free to drop in at any time during the event) **Where**: Leibniz Supercomputing Centre **What**: - 2:00 pm Opening Talk: Open Science and Research Software Engineering - 3:30 pm Guided tour (SuperMUC-NG) - 5:00 pm Get2gether: Open Science speed dating and exchange of thoughts - Afterwards: Open Science Beers at Garchinger Augustiner Best, Munich ROCS organizing team P.S.: Please forward to anyone who might be interested *Join the Munich ROCS email list: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/MunichROCS* --- About Munich ROCS: This mailing list is open to everyone who wants to promote, discuss or learn about Open Science. Events promoted through the list are mainly centered around Munich. All members of the list are welcome to share events, experiences or questions and the list should serve as a support platform for early career researchers. We at Munich ROCS operate in close collaboration with the LMU Open Science Center (www.osc.lmu.de) but we welcome researchers with any affiliation. -- Heidi Seibold Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology LMU Munich Marchioninistr. 15, 81377 München +49 (0)89 / 440077448 @HeidiBaya

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1 day Workshop: Good Scientific Practices (Feb 12)
by LMU Open Science Center News Jan. 10, 2019

Jan. 10, 2019

#Workshop: Good Scientific Practices (see https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/news/gsparm/index.html) *Sign up for the workshop led by Dr. Michael Mende (IMPRS-TP Program Coordinator) on February 12th 2019.* * When: February 12th 2019, 9:00 - 17:00 * Where: Leopoldstr. 13, 80802 München, Room 3322 * Sign Up: https://terminplaner4.dfn.de/oscgsp The OSC offers a workshop for graduate students, PostDocs and faculty members on "Good Scientific Practices and how to Avoid Research Misconduct" (GSP|ARM!d) **led by Dr. Michael Mende** from the International Max Planck Research School for Translational Psychiatry (IMPRS-TP). The workshop aims to bring participants up to date with the standard statutes of research integrity as well as local regulations at place. The course is structured around the **DFG Curriculum „Good Scientific Practice“** for Courses in Science and Medicine (G. Sponholz | 10/2011), with particular emphasis on the following topics: Data storage, handling and protection, Documentation, Publication process and Authorship, Plagiarism and Conflict Resolution. During the workshop, participants will be engaged in discussions, group work, role play and case studies. All participants will receive relevant material: a tool-kit with institutional guidelines, local contact points, links to useful web resources as well as relevant publications, which they can refer to throughout their scientific careers. For further information take a look at the GSP|ARM!d Website or contact Felix Schönbrodt <felix.schoenbrodt(a)psy.lmu.de>. Sign up via https://terminplaner4.dfn.de/oscgsp The workshop has 16 free places; registrations after that will go on a waiting list. --- PD Dr. Felix Schönbrodt Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Managing Director of the LMU Open Science Center | http://www.osc.lmu.de Psychological Methods and Assessment, Department Psychology | http://www.psy.lmu.de/pm_en/team/staff/schoenbrodt http://www.nicebread.de http://www.researchtransparency.org Twitter: @nicebread303 --- ![](cid:0BC4F2CF-9A54-49E2-8E74-FB8DFDB76ECA@psy.lmu.de "PastedImage.png") http://www.osc.lmu.de/ Join our email newsletter: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lmu_osc

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Tomorrow: Talk by Lisa McShane: "Reproducibility of omics research: Shared responsibility and consequences of ignorance"
by LMU Open Science Center News Dec. 4, 2018

Dec. 4, 2018

*Reminder for tomorrow's talk by* #Lisa McShane: "Reproducibility of omics research: Shared responsibility and consequences of ignorance" A talk by the Acting Associate Director, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute The IBE, LMU Open Science Center, STRATOS, and the European Bioconductor Meeting cordially invite to a guest talk: **When: December 5, 2018 - 5:00 pm s.t.** **Where: Schellingstr. 3, Room S005** *Abstract:* Irreproducible biomedical research is particularly concerning because flawed findings have the potential to make their way to clinical studies involving human participants. Many factors have been suggested as contributors to irreproducible biomedical research, including poor study design, analytic instability of measurement methods, sloppy data handling, inappropriate and misleading statistical analysis methods, improper reporting or interpretation of results, and on rare occasions, outright scientific misconduct. Potential for these problems to occur is amplified when the research involves use of novel measurement technologies such as “omics assays” which generate large volumes of data requiring specialized expertise and computational approaches for proper management, analysis and interpretation [http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/2012/Evolution-of-Translationa…] Successful translation of omics research findings to safe and effective clinical tests requires a research team with expertise including laboratory and clinical science, bioinformatics, computational science, and statistics. Team members share responsibility for ensuring that research is performed with integrity and best practices are followed to ensure reproducible results. Although making data and computer code publicly available are valuable and important first steps toward promoting reproducible research, they are not sufficient. Through a series of case studies, the many dimensions of reproducible omics research are explored, and shared responsibilities are discussed. Maintaining a culture of reproducible research requires effort, resources, and vigilance to counter many potential threats. --- ![](cid:6AAB3D2E-ABDD-4FEA-A419-8F4A7B3FFAED@psy.lmu.de "PastedImage.png") http://www.osc.lmu.de/ --- PD Dr. Felix Schönbrodt Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Managing Director of the LMU Open Science Center | http://www.osc.lmu.de Psychological Methods and Assessment, Department Psychology | http://www.psy.lmu.de/pm_en/team/staff/schoenbrodt http://www.nicebread.de http://www.researchtransparency.org Twitter: @nicebread303

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Open Science Days 2019
by LMU Open Science Center News Dec. 3, 2018

Dec. 3, 2018

*[News from Martin Boosen from the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL)]* The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) cordially invites you to participate in the in the **Open Science Days 2019**. As was the case at our recent conferences, we would like to put an emphasis on one of the numerous areas of Open Science: The focus topic in 2019 will be **RESEARCH SOFTWARE**. There will be presentations about practical examples of software development, usage and dissemination, as well as platforms supporting this practice. We would like to take a look at the reality in day-to-day research, e.g. regarding software citation and reproducibility of research findings. How important is free accessibility of the software (Openness)? Which are the major problems regarding the usage of software in academic life? The event will take place at the Harnack House in **Berlin** and is going to extend over one and a half days (**February 05/06**). It is directed at researchers and specialists from inside and especially from outside the Max Planck Society who are interested in an interdisciplinary communication about Open Science. The conference language will be English. The participation fee is 100 € and the number of participants is limited to 70 persons. For registration, preliminary program and additional information please visit: http://osd.mpdl.mpg.de/ --- ![](cid:B0B9CF01-8C0D-4215-96DF-2C0822DF3D8D@psy.lmu.de "PastedImage.png") http://www.osc.lmu.de/ Join our email newsletter: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lmu_osc

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Massive replication project released in psychology
by LMU Open Science Center News Nov. 21, 2018

Nov. 21, 2018

[News from our website: https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/news/manylabs2/index.html] # Many Labs 2: Massive replication project released in psychology An international team of researchers in the field of psychology has published a massive new study in the journal Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. More than 15,000 experimental subjects took part in the project, the purpose of which was to repeat 28 psychological studies that have already been published in the literature. The outcome of their efforts was a sobering one: the results of only 14 could be reproduced. In all, 60 research groups working at institutions all over the world were involved in the replication study, including one led by OSC member Dr. Felix Schönbrodt of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at LMU. Read the full story at the LMU press release [German](https://www.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/news/2018/schoenbrodt_studien.html) / [English](https://www.en.uni-muenchen.de/news/newsarchiv/2018/schoenbrodt_reproducibility.html). More information on the project, which is one of the largest replication efforts ever in psychology can be found here: https://cos.io/our-services/research/many-labs-2-project-overview/ ![](cid:8E7B6E09-E380-41E1-A372-EB639CC552D6@psy.lmu.de "ml2.jpg") --- ![](cid:37FA0F9B-26F0-430B-B201-6BB76478A15A@psy.lmu.de "PastedImage.png") http://www.osc.lmu.de/ Join our email newsletter: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lmu_osc

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Support for Registered Reports
by LMU Open Science Center News Nov. 15, 2018

Nov. 15, 2018

*Please read this message from our OSC member Xenia Schmalz: We need your support for Registered Reports!* Dear colleagues, Many of you have probably heard of a new format for journal articles: Registered Reports (RR). With RRs, you write a study and analysis plan, and submit it to a journal before you collect the data. You get feedback from the reviewers on the design of the study. If the reviewers approve of the methods, you get conditional acceptance. This means that the study will be published regardless of its outcome. Exploratory analyses can still be reported, but they will be explicitly distinguished from the confirmatory analyses relating to the original hypotheses. The RR format is good for science, because it combats publication bias. It is also good for us as individual researchers, because it helps us to avoid situations where we invest time and resources into a study, only to find out in retrospect that we overlooked some design flaw and/or that non-significant findings are uninformative, yielding the study unpublishable. You can find more information and answers to some FAQs about RRs here <https://cos.io/rr/>. With a group of colleagues, we would like to convince more journals to offer RRs as a publication option, along with the traditional formats. We have already contacted over a hundred journals editors in our respective fields (in my case, reading research/psycholinguistics). You can see a list of journals which have been approached and their responses here <https://osf.io/3wct2/wiki/Journal%20Responses/>. A full list of journals which offer RRs can be found here <https://cos.io/rr/>. As a next step, we would like to extend the initiative. First, joining forces with other psycholinguistics researchers who have been collecting signatures, we would like to continue approaching psychology and linguistics journals with a pooled list of signatories. We will base the letters on this <https://osf.io/3wct2/wiki/Journal%20Requests/> template. Second, together with researchers from other areas and fields, we would like to approach scientific journals with a wider audience: specifically, we are working on a letter to PNAS. The editors have announced that PNAS will be offering a new format, namely brief reports. While this could be an excellent outlet for groundbreaking discoveries, we would like to suggest to the editorial board that they also consider accepting registered reports, which will support high-quality hypothesis-driven confirmatory research. You can read the draft here <https://osf.io/epsg2/>. Third, we are working on an open letter, which will be addressed to all journal editors, to outline the necessity and the advantages of offering Registered Reports. You can read the draft here <https://osf.io/5shpk/>. We are currently collecting signatories. If you are willing to support this initiative, please let me know, via this google form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rQd17z8M9sGHNOV9G1KcQGjCwewFlR_4oU4sKirHLi…>, or directly via email (xenia.schmalz(a)gmail.com) Please let me know if you have any comments or questions. Also, I would be grateful if you could forward my request to any colleagues or mailing lists if you think it could be of interest. Note that we're aiming for a broad audience, so researchers from any field are welcome to sign. Thank you very much in advance! Kind regards, Xenia --- ![](cid:3D42E27C-C963-4A73-BC4D-C4654454EC90@psy.lmu.de "PastedImage.png") http://www.osc.lmu.de/ Join our email newsletter: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lmu_osc

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LMU Open Science Initiative in Medicine
by LMU Open Science Center News Nov. 8, 2018

Nov. 8, 2018

Dear all, a new working group has been founded in medicine: **LMU Open Science Initiative in Medicine**. See https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/osim/index.html It aims to promote open science in medicine by developing training programs and offering strategies on how to improve effectiveness and reproducibility of basic and clinical medical research. Together with the LMU Open Science Center, the final goal is to improve scientific practices and reproducibility in medical research at LMU and beyond. If you are a faculty member of LMU medical science and want to join the initiative, do not hesitate to contact us. ### Contact [Prof. Dr. Ulrich Mansmann](https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual-members/mansmann/index.html) [Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Plesnila](https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual-members/plesnila/index.html) [Dr. Heidi Seibold](https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual-members/seibold1/index.html) --- PD Dr. Felix Schönbrodt Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Managing Director of the LMU Open Science Center | http://www.osc.lmu.de Psychological Methods and Assessment, Department Psychology | http://www.psy.lmu.de/pm_en/team/staff/schoenbrodt http://www.osc.lmu.de/ Join our email newsletter: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lmu_osc ![](cid:C01F54DD-9F6F-44EB-9825-629E6DEF3829@psy.lmu.de "PastedImage.png")

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Live-screening & panel discussion: "Paywall - The Business of Scholarship", Dec 14
by LMU Open Science Center News Nov. 5, 2018

Nov. 5, 2018

# Live-screening & panel discussion: "Paywall - The Business of Scholarship", ## Dec 14, 2018, 14:30 - 16:30, Lecture Hall M 018, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, LMU Munich. We are happy to announce that a collaboration of the LMU Open Science Center, LMU University Library, and Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) will present the movie "Paywall - The Business of Scholarship" in Munich. As a special guest, we welcome the director and producer of the movie, Prof. Jason Schmitt (Clarkson University, USA). The movie is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science. It questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publishers, and looks at the factors impeding global academic innovation. We will live-screen the movie, and have a subsequent panel discussion, featuring the following panelists: - Prof. Jason Schmitt (Director and producer of the movie; Clarkson University, USA) - Prof. Michael Bosnjak (Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information, ZPID, Trier) - Volker Schallehn (Head of Electronic Publishing, University Library, LMU) - Prof. Nikolaus Plesnila (LMU Open Science Center; University Hospital of Munich) See the trailer of the movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaHlcwyn2Jk&feature=youtu.be The event will take place on Friday, Dec 14, 2018 from 14:30 to 16:30 in Lecture Hall M 018, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, LMU Munich. ##Claim your (free!) ticket here: http://www.leibniz-psychology.org/paywall/ ##Feel free to forward this announcement to interested friends and colleagues! --- Dr. Felix Schönbrodt Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Managing Director of the LMU Open Science Center | http://www.osc.lmu.de Psychological Methods and Assessment, Department Psychology | http://www.psy.lmu.de/pm_en/team/staff/schoenbrodt ![](cid:7D1725D4-11BC-4300-9DC2-86DE14BCDE5C@psy.lmu.de "OSC_Paywall_Plakat.jpg")

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Talk announcement: "Data sharing and reproducibility in clinical trials" (Florian Naudet)
by LMU Open Science Center News Oct. 22, 2018

Oct. 22, 2018

##Talk announcement: *Florian Naudet (Rennes): "Data sharing and reproducibility in clinical trials"* **When**: Tomorrow, Tuesday 23.10.18, 14:00 **Where**: Library of the IBE (Klinikum Großhadern, U1, between blocks IK und KL). Florian Naudet is first author of the BMJ (2018) paper, together with John PA Ioannidis: Data sharing and reanalysis of randomized controlled trials in leading biomedical journals with a full data sharing policy: survey of studies published in The BMJ and PLOS Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k400 Bio: Florian Naudet, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist, meta-researcher and former post-doctoral fellow at METRICS (Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford). He is currently teaching Therapeutics at Rennes 1 University, France. His research interests are evaluating and developing methodological solutions to assess treatments in patients, primarily but not exclusive in psychiatric research. He has a strong interest in studying research wastes and data sharing practices. He has worked in the fields of clinical pharmacology, research methodology, epidemiology, and neurosciences. --- ![](cid:B5038F80-425B-401F-B603-636A83E0EDED@psy.lmu.de "PastedImage.png") http://www.osc.lmu.de/

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Talk by Lisa McShane: "Reproducibility of omics research: Shared responsibility and consequences of ignorance"
by LMU Open Science Center News Oct. 17, 2018

Oct. 17, 2018

[News from our website: https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/news/mcshane/index.html] #Lisa McShane: "Reproducibility of omics research: Shared responsibility and consequences of ignorance" A talk by the Acting Associate Director, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute The IBE, LMU Open Science Center, STRATOS, and the European Bioconductor Meeting cordially invite to a guest talk: **When: December 5, 2018 - 5 pm s.t.** **Where: Schellingstr. 3, Room S005** *Abstract:* Irreproducible biomedical research is particularly concerning because flawed findings have the potential to make their way to clinical studies involving human participants. Many factors have been suggested as contributors to irreproducible biomedical research, including poor study design, analytic instability of measurement methods, sloppy data handling, inappropriate and misleading statistical analysis methods, improper reporting or interpretation of results, and on rare occasions, outright scientific misconduct. Potential for these problems to occur is amplified when the research involves use of novel measurement technologies such as “omics assays” which generate large volumes of data requiring specialized expertise and computational approaches for proper management, analysis and interpretation [http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/2012/Evolution-of-Translationa…] Successful translation of omics research findings to safe and effective clinical tests requires a research team with expertise including laboratory and clinical science, bioinformatics, computational science, and statistics. Team members share responsibility for ensuring that research is performed with integrity and best practices are followed to ensure reproducible results. Although making data and computer code publicly available are valuable and important first steps toward promoting reproducible research, they are not sufficient. Through a series of case studies, the many dimensions of reproducible omics research are explored, and shared responsibilities are discussed. Maintaining a culture of reproducible research requires effort, resources, and vigilance to counter many potential threats. --- ![](cid:6AAB3D2E-ABDD-4FEA-A419-8F4A7B3FFAED@psy.lmu.de "PastedImage.png") http://www.osc.lmu.de/

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