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Data and AI Ethics (Nov 14, LMU Munich)
by LMU Open Science Center News Oct. 1, 2025

Oct. 1, 2025

Dear all, "Data and AI Ethics<https://sites.google.com/view/epix-workshop/2025-data-ethics>" will be a full-day workshop happening on November 14, 2025, at LMU Munich, organized by the Data Ethics Initiative at the LMU Department of Statistics in collaboration with the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML). We hope to build inter- and transdisciplinary bridges by bringing together scholars who might otherwise not often have the chance to engage in dialogue on data ethics. We therefore invite anyone interested to join the conversation, regardless of disciplinary or methodological background. Some of themes<https://sites.google.com/view/epix-workshop/2025-data-ethics/workshop-theme…> to be explored in the workshop include: - Embedding data ethics into practice and education - Power and governance - Research ethics, AI ethics, and their relation to data ethics - Identification of current gaps and needs in data ethics - Epistemic and ontological perspectives on data If you would like to present at the workshop, please contact us by September 21, 2025 – or earlier, as submissions are considered on a rolling basis. The workshop is free of charge, but registration is required as capacity is limited. Registration is open until November 1, 2025. Further details about the topics and opportunities to contribute can be found on the workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/epix-workshop/2025-data-ethics . Please feel free to forward this email to others who may be interested in the workshop. We hope to see you there. Data and AI Ethics Workshop: What: 20-minute presentations + 10 minutes of discussion When: Friday, November 14, 2025 Where: Munich, Germany, near LMU main building (in person) Workshop language: English Workshop fees: Free of charge, but registration required Registration: Open until November 1, 2025, but capacity is limited Submissions considered until: September 21, 2025 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/epix-workshop/2025-data-ethics Kind regards, Patrick Oliver Schenk, OSC Fellow, on behalf of the workshop organizing team

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LMU Open Science Summer School wrap-up
by LMU Open Science Center News Sept. 23, 2025

Sept. 23, 2025

Dear Open Science enthusiasts, We are just wrapping up our week-long hybrid summer school on open science<https://lmu-osc.github.io/Open-Science-Summer-School-2025/Programme.html>. We selected 40 out of 99 applicants to attend our workshops on open research (Track 1), and 24 to attend our instructor training (Track 2). In addition, we received over 200 registrations for the public lectures. Thank you so much for taking part and for making this such a memorable week! You can find all the material (slides, lecture recordings, workshop materials) of the open science training track here: https://osf.io/x639j/files/osfstorage and of the instructor training track here: https://osf.io/tkwqs/files/osfstorage We would also like to highlight the self-paced tutorials that can be followed asynchronously and reused for your own teaching (CC.BY.4.0, i.e. by giving attribution, unless otherwise specified, e.g. CC.0 means no attribution is required): Reproducible Workflow in R * Introduction to R<https://lmu-osc.github.io/introduction-to-R/> * Introduction to version control within RStudio (version control - part 1)<https://lmu-osc.github.io/Introduction-RStudio-Git-GitHub/> * Introduction to collaborative coding with Github (version control - part 2)<https://lmu-osc.github.io/Collaborative-RStudio-GitHub/> * Introduction to literate programming with Quarto<https://lmu-osc.github.io/introduction-to-Quarto/> CC.0 * Introduction to R package manager renv<https://lmu-osc.github.io/introduction-to-renv/> * Introduction to Zotero as reproducible citation management system<https://lmu-osc.github.io/introduction-to-zotero/> * Wrap-up tutorial: publish your reproducible project<https://lmu-osc.github.io/code-publishing/> Designing Reliable Studies * Introduction to data simulation in R<https://lmu-osc.github.io/Introduction-Simulations-in-R/> * Simulations of data in R for advanced power analyses<https://lmu-osc.github.io/Simulations-for-Advanced-Power-Analyses/> FAIR data management * FAIR data management<https://lmu-osc.github.io/FAIR-Data-Management/> and more, on the LMU Open Science Center GitHub organisation: https://github.com/lmu-osc (3 more coming this year: data dictionaries, data anonymity, and synthetic data tutorials). Happy self-learning! Forwarded this email by a colleague? You can subscribe to the OSC mailing list to receive announcements of future workshops, self-paced tutorials, and symposia here: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc Best wishes Sarah & Malika -- Dr. Malika Ihle (she/her) (pronunciation<https://namedrop.io/malikaihle>) LMU Open Science Center Coordinator Website: https://www.osc.lmu.de<https://www.osc.lmu.de/> Mailing list: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc Computing skill self-paced tutorials: https://github.com/lmu-osc Workshops material: https://osf.io/zjrhu/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lmu-osc.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lmu-open-science-center Mastodon: https://scicomm.xyz/@lmu_osc

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Online Public Lectures: LMU Open Science Summer School 2025
by LMU Open Science Center News Sept. 1, 2025

Sept. 1, 2025

Dear students, researchers, and research support staff, The LMU Open Science Center is inviting you to attend, online, the public lectures of our upcoming Open Science Summer School. We welcome researchers of any scientific discipline who want to make their research as credible, reproducible, and transparent as it can be in the eyes of their peers, the public, and funding agencies. More information: https://lmu-osc.github.io/Open-Science-Summer-School-2025/ Registration: https://www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS25/ Monday 15 September * 9:45 - Prof Felix Schönbrodt, LMU Open Science Center Director, "The replicability crisis" * 11:00 - Dr Malika Ihle, LMU Open Science Center Coordinator, "Credible research" Tuesday 16 September * 09:00 - Prof Felix Schönbrodt, LMU Open Science Center Director, "Data sharing" Wednesday 17 September * 9:00 - Prof Richard McElreath, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology Director, "Science as amateur software development" * 10:15 - Prof Felix Schönbrodt, LMU Open Science Center Director, "Open Access, preprints, postprints" Thursday 18 September * 9:00 - Vera Karlbauer, MPI psychiatry PhD Student , "Readable code" * 16:30 - Dr Tim Errington, Senior Director of Research at the Center for Open Science, "Assessing research replicability - the case of cancer research" Note that it is no longer possible to apply for the workshops: we had over 100 applicants and already selected 40. Join the 90+ researchers who already signed up for the public lectures! Please share this announcement widely! Best regards Dr Malika Ihle, LMU Open Science Center coordinator -- Dr. Malika Ihle (she/her) (pronounciation<https://namedrop.io/malikaihle>) LMU Open Science Center Coordinator Website: https://www.osc.lmu.de<https://www.osc.lmu.de/> Mailing list: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc Computing skill self-paced tutorials: https://github.com/lmu-osc Workshops material: https://osf.io/zjrhu/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lmu-osc.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lmu-open-science-center Mastodon: https://scicomm.xyz/@lmu_osc

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MCML Workshop on Computational Reproducibility and Scientific Computing: 24 - 30 September 2025
by LMU Open Science Center News Sept. 1, 2025

Sept. 1, 2025

The Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) is organizing a 5-day workshop on computational reproducibility and scientific computing for experienced R and Python users. The in-person workshop is designed to provide a balanced mix of theoretical background and practical skills with lecture-style morning sessions and hands-on tutorials in the afternoon. Topics covered include writing reproducible manuscripts for small-scale data analysis projects, high performance computing (HPC) for large-scale projects, and packaging and software development. Details of the workshop Who: Primary target group are junior MCML PhD students, but the workshop is open to all researchers and students meeting the prerequisites (Max. 50 participants, see the prerequisites on the homepage) When: We-Fr, 24.09. - 26.09. & Mo-Tu, 29.09. - 30.09. If it is organizationally feasible, we will try to enable participation on individual days. Where: Munich, in-person, Location: Richard-Wagner-Str 10, 80333 Munich, Room D 105 What: Topics include computational reproducibility, HPC, Packaging, CI/CD; both for R and Python users How: Lecture-style morning sessions, hands-on tutorials in the afternoons You can find a detailed program and more information on the workshop, the prerequisites and the registration process on the workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/mcml-ws-repro-compute/2025 To attend, please register by 5 September 2025, 23:59 CEST: https://forms.gle/8vEV5MW4tesEqrBFA. Seats will be given on a first-register, first-serve basis. (We reserve the right to reject applicants who do not meet our minimum coding experience requirements.) Best wishes Martin Binder, MCML Open Source and Open Data Transfer Coordinator Moritz Herrmann, MCML Reproducibility and Open Science Transfer Coordinator

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MCML Workshop on Computational Reproducibility and Scientific Computing: 24 - 30 September 2025
by LMU Open Science Center News Aug. 13, 2025

Aug. 13, 2025

Dear OSC list, please see this announcement from our colleagues from the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML): --------------------- The MCML is organizing a 5-day workshop on computational reproducibility and scientific computing for R and Python users. The in-person workshop is designed to provide a balanced mix of theoretical background and practical skills with lecture-style morning sessions and hands-on tutorials in the afternoon. Topics covered include writing reproducible manuscripts for small-scale data analysis projects, high performance computing (HPC) for large-scale projects, and packaging and software development. Details of the workshop Who: Primary target group are junior MCML PhD students, but the workshop is open to all researchers and students meeting the prerequisites (Max. 50 participants, see the prerequisites on the homepage) When: We-Fr, 24.09. - 26.09. & Mo-Tu, 29.09. - 30.09. If it is organizationally feasible, we will try to enable participation on individual days. Where: Munich, in-person, Location: Richard-Wagner-Str 10, 80333 Munich, Room D 105 What: Topics include computational reproducibility, HPC, Packaging, CI/CD; both for R and Python users How: Lecture-style morning sessions, hands-on tutorials in the afternoons You can find a detailed program and more information on the workshop, the prerequisites and the registration process on the workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/mcml-ws-repro-compute/2025 To attend, please register by 5 September 2025, 23:59 CEST: https://forms.gle/8vEV5MW4tesEqrBFA. Seats will be given on a first-register, first-serve basis. (We reserve the right to reject applicants who do not meet our minimum coding experience requirements.) Best wishes Martin Binder, MCML Open Source and Open Data Transfer Coordinator Moritz Herrmann, MCML Reproducibility and Open Science Transfer Coordinator

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Newsletter July 2025
by LMU Open Science Center News July 22, 2025

July 22, 2025

[https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/y3b/en8/d93/lmu-osc_logo_l…] 1. News from the Open Science Center New staff and new programs Train-the-Trainer Program Designed to equip researchers and research support staff with both Open Science skills and the teaching tools to train other researchers and students, Dr. Sarah von Grebmer zu Wolfsthurn<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/lmu-members/wolf…>, the Train-the-Trainer Program Coordinator, will develop and deliver a Train-the-Trainer program on Open Science at LMU, with the support of Dr. Sara Lil Middleton<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/lmu-members/lil/…>, Training Development Coordinator and Community Engagement Manager. A key strength of the program is its partnership with the Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT) 🤝 [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/4sg/wz5/6cf/FORRT%20Logo1.…] FORRT<https://forrt.org/> is an international and interdisciplinary community project that promotes and curates open science training resources. They will contribute expertise in democratizing access to both learning and teaching materials in Open Science, and in ensuring equitable participation across career stages, disciplines, and geographies. Read the full FORRT-LMU OSC partnership press release<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/news/pressreleaseforrt/index.html>. A first pilot of this program will be delivered through the instructor training track of this year's Open Science Summer School taking place in September. Further development will take the views of OSC members who filled out our survey into careful consideration; thanks for sharing your thoughts! 🙏 If you have additional thoughts, feel free to get in touch with Sarah<mailto:s.grebmer@lmu.de>. Switch to Open Program (SwOP) This program supports research groups wanting to switch, as a team, to open research practices. Dr. Malika Ihle<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/about_us/coordinator/index.html>, OSC coordinator, provides close consultations to research groups, over the period of 6 months, following a flipped classroom format. Reema Gupta<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/fellows/gupta/in…>, FAIR data sharing expert, provides the tailored consultations on data management and metadata standards. Following the period of training, an open research practice guide is developed to be used for reference for new projects and as an onboarding document for new team members. [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/u36/we8/li2/LMU_Klin.png] [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/nlr/u0g/vtf/cBrain.png] 🧠 The lab from Prof. Dr. med. Inga Koerte, cBRAIN, from the Clinic and Polyclinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the LMU Munich Hospital, was the first group that performed the switch through our program. We are grateful for the generous support of the cBRAIN Computer Scientist and OSC Fellow Alberto Villagran during the piloting of our program! 🙏 Congratulation to the whole team!🎉 The Laboratory of Experimental Stroke Research at the LMU Munich Hospital led by the OSC Scientific Board chair Prof. Dr. med. Nikolaus Plesnila is currently undertaking their switch. 💪 [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/u36/we8/li2/LMU_Klin.png] [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/pww/zzc/0ob/ISD_logo.png] All their labhandbooks will be made public with a CC-BY license to allow adaptation for your own labs. You can already preview the first draft of the cBRAIN lab handbook here: https://zenodo.org/records/16262261! 📢 We now invite groups from other scientific fields to express interest and request more information by sending this email<mailto:malika.ihle@psy.lmu.de?subject=interested%20in%20the%20Switch%20to%20Open%20Program&body=Dear%20Malika,%0D%0A%0D%0Ahere%20is%20the%20webpage%20of%20my%20research%20group:%20%0D%0A%0D%0AI%20would%20be%20interested%20in%20a%20follow%20up%20interview%20to%20possibly%20enter,%20with%20my%20entire%20research%20group,%20a%20period%20of%20close%20consultation%20with%20an%20open%20science%20expert.%0D%0A> to Malika. ✉️ New OSC Scientific Board Thanks to our nominees and newly elected scientific board members: * Prof. Dr. Anna Kümpel (Communication) * Dr. Sabine Hoffmann (Head of statistical consulting laboratory StaBLab) * Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Plesnila (Neuroscience) * Dr. Tobias Straub (Head of the Core Facility Bioinformatics) * Prof. Dr. Alexander Wuttke (Politics) Your contributions will steer the directions of the OSCfor the term 2025-2027! Dr. Malika Ihle and Prof. Dr. Felix Schönbrodt stay in their roles as Scientific Coordinator and Managing Director, respectively. The OSC in the University of Excellence [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/6vb/1x8/z0s/origins-cluste…] [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/si1/wv3/lnn/synergy-logo-w…] The OSC is proud to have consulted for 6 of 7 successfully funded Clusters of Excellence applications! We are especially looking forward to continuing our collaborations with the Munich Cluster for System Neurology and with the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS, both Funding Institutional Members of the OSC. Congratulations on the success of this monumental application project! 🎉 Survey results: Open Research at the LMU Biomedical Center 📊 A survey we conducted In January 2025 at the BMC revealed strong awareness but limited practice of open research practices, with key barriers being lack of training, norms, and incentives. Respondents overwhelmingly requested more training (particularly for FAIR data and code sharing), expert consultations, and community support. The OSC will strive to provide these services at the BMC, an Institutional Member of the OSC, to the limits of our time-capacity. Access the report and associated data, material, and code<https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15304213>. 📢OSC Institutional Members can contact us to coordinate the administration of this survey which assess attitudes toward open research practices and recruitment criteria. 📝 2. News from OSC members Prof. Dr. Anne-Laure Boulesteix awarded meta-research grant! 🌟Member of OSC's first Scientific Board Team and senior member of the Open Science Initiative in Medicine, Anne-Laure has been awarded €750,000 over five years by the DFG - Reinhart Koselleck project. Her project, titled “Design, interpretation and reporting of empirical evaluations of statistical methods” focuses on metascience and replicability in the context of methodological statistical research. Congratulations!🎉We look forward to seeing how this research will advance open and rigorous research practices and to connect it with other LMU meta-research programs! Guidelines about research data integrity by Dr. Elmar Spiegel 📚Ensuring research data integrity is essential for accuracy and reproducibility. Our associate member Dr. Elmar Spiegel from Helmholtz proposed practical guidelines for handling research data from planning and collection to processing: Guidelines for Research Data Integrity<https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04312-x> and a checklist<https://ascgitlab.helmholtz-munich.de/cf_statcon/grdi> to improve robustness and reliability in science. 3. Events Upcoming Events Research Data Rescue Hackathon - August 7 🗂️The Trump administration is aggressively deleting<https://www.ft.com/content/ccb0c850-f466-4b74-8c07-7d01230679a4> scientific and governmental research data, purging thousands of web pages and datasets related to climate, health, demographics, LGBTQ + issues, and more — silently erasing vital knowledge that underpins scientific progress. Grassroot initiatives like the "Data Rescue Project<https://www.datarescueproject.org>" and "Safeguarding Research & Culture<https://safeguar.de>" have mobilized volunteers, librarians, and scientists to download and archive these resources before they are lost forever. We are running a hackathon which will directly support these efforts: Join the global coalition of data rescuers by turning your own laptop into a Research Data Rescue Node, scraping at-risk data sets, and breathing new life into your old HDD as part of the global, decentralised network. 📦 Data Rescue Hackathon — 07.08.2025, 16:00–19:00 📍 Leopoldstr. 13, Munich 🍕 Free pizza! 👉 Interested? Signup form: https://surveys.osc.lmu.de/safeguard-hackathon Whether you’re a coder, a librarian, social media enthusiast, or just curious — everyone can contribute. Open Science Summer School 2025: Public Lectures, Sept 15.-17. 🔈If you did not apply to attend the Open Science Summer School 2025<https://lmu-osc.github.io/Open-Science-Summer-School-2025/> before July 14, you can still register to attend the public lectures online<https://www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS25/>! These include lectures from OSC's Managing Director Prof. Dr. Felix Schönbrodt and Coordinator Dr. Malika Ihle, but also keynotes from * Prof. Dr. Richard McElreath, Director of Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology: "Science as amateur software development" * Dr. Tim Errington, Senior Director of Research at the Center for Open Science: "Assessing the replicability of research" Recent Events Reports “Open Access: From DEAL to Diamond” 💎 On June 24, we hosted an event on managing publication costs and the future of publishing. The DEAL is a national initiative that negotiates publishing agreements and processing fees with for-profit academic publishers. Diamond Open Access, in contrast, refers to publishing models where neither authors nor readers pay fees, supported instead by institutions or public funds. Over 70 guests joined the event to discuss publication models beyond the DEAL, aiming to regain scientific autonomy. Discussion of these alternative models included: * Journal flips or founding of Diamond Open Access journals * Community-led publishing like Peer Community In<https://peercommunityin.org/> * “Replacing Journals” — exploring a modular and interoperable infrastructure designed as a public good for scholarly publishing Sounds interesting? Check out the recording<https://osf.io/zn38s> and slides<https://osf.io/bhfcr> from the event! Software Carpentry Workshops 💻Twelve out of our 15 newly certified Software Carpentry instructors have already collaboratively delivered 4 two-day workshops covering the Shell, Git, and either R or Python. Over 150 early career researchers registered to attend and fill our 100 available seats! Attendees came from the Faculties of Medicine, Biology, Chemistry, Business Administration, Statistics, Social Sciences, Language & Literature, History & Arts, and Study of Culture. More workshops will be organised in the future thanks to the dedication of our volunteer instructors and fellows. 🙏 [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/wvs/e7i/gny/carpentries.png] 4. Welcome to our new members! The Open Science Center now counts 113 individual members. Please consult the list of all our members<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/index.html> to find potential collaborators! 👋 We are happy to introduce our latest members to you: [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/a4f/ipv/pbq/adler1.png] Dr. Susanne Adler<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/lmu-members/adle…> Business Administration [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/20m/30v/tos/Behrends1.png] Prof. Dr. Christian Behrends<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/lmu-members/behr…> Medicine [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/p1i/rpw/jel/Burkhardt1.png] Dr. Gerrit Burkhardt<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/lmu-members/alte…> Medicine [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/2wb/rtc/kyb/edelsbrunner_p…] Prof. Dr. Peter Edelsbrunner Pedagogy [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/hmh/bw6/c12/feuerriegel1.p…] Prof. Dr. Stefan Feuerriegel<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/lmu-members/feue…> Business Administration [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/a4b/2pw/02c/inga-koerte-pi…] Prof. Dr. Inga Koerte<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/lmu-members/koer…> Medicine [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/fg3/sqt/hnz/kuempel1.png] Prof. Dr. Anna Sophie Kümpel<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/lmu-members/kuem…> Communication Science [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/z2g/w2w/lan/misgeldpic1.png] Prof. Dr. Thomas Misgeld<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/associated-membe…> Medicine (TUM) [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/zpx/k0v/46v/saskia-pic.png] Dr. Saskia Rusche<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/lmu-members/rusc…> Medicine [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/g6h/tjd/b2n/schwemmer_pic1…] Prof. Dr. Carsten Schwemmer<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/lmu-members/schw…> Social Sciences [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/odl/9fn/sjk/shagal1.png] Prof. Dr. Ksenia Shagal<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/lmu-members/shag…> Languages & Literatures [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/4tf/3ge/7qh/sienel1.png] Dr. Rebecca Sienel<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/lmu-members/shag…> Medicine Welcome to our new OSC Fellows! Additionally, the count of OSC Fellows continues to rise. We acknowledge and value their voluntary work in leading grassroots initiatives as early career researchers. We will continue to share further leadership development opportunities with them. Thanks for your contributions and welcome! [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/pgi/8ne/cuo/image002-1.jpg] Maximilian Kristen<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/fellows/kristen/…> History & Arts Hacky Hour, Wikipedia Event [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/pgi/8ne/cuo/image002-1.jpg] Patrick O. Schenk<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/fellows/schenk/i…> Social Sciences Open Science Initiative in Statistics [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/3f9/7d8/3c9/simsom1.png] Jan Simsom<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/fellows/simson/i…> Math, Informatics & Stats Software Carpentry Instructor [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/qpl/ll3/bfj/tseng1.png] Po-Chun Tseng<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/fellows/tseng/in…> Medicine Software Carpentry Instructor [https://579cf2b545.imgdist.com/pub/bfra/2xh1vlx8/pgi/8ne/cuo/image002-1.jpg] Yijing Wang<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual_members/fellows/wang/ind…> Medicine Software Carpentry Helper 5. Stay in touch! Visit our website at: www.osc.lmu.de<https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/index.html> and follow us on Bluesky<https://bsky.app/profile/lmu-osc.bsky.social>, LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/lmu-open-science-center/>, and Mastodon<https://mastodon.social/@lmu_osc@scicomm.xyz>. By joining the LMU Open Science Center on the LMU chat Matrix<https://matrix.to/#/#lmu-open-science-center:matrix.lmu.de>, you'll have the opportunity to interact with other researchers and members of the OSC. Do you have any suggestions or contributions for the next newsletter? Or perhaps you'd like to publish your news on our website, or request a repost from our social media accounts? Email us at osc(a)lmu.de<mailto:osc@lmu.de>. Were you forwarded this email by a colleague? Make sure you never miss an event from the OSC by subscribing to our mailing list<https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc>! Unsubscribe from this mailing list<https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc> [Designed with BEE]<https://www.designedwithbee.com/?utm_source=editor&utm_medium=bee_pro&utm_c…> Designed with BEE<https://www.designedwithbee.com/?utm_source=editor&utm_medium=bee_pro&utm_c…>

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Reminder: annual member's meeting 21.07. 16:00-18:15
by LMU Open Science Center News July 21, 2025

July 21, 2025

Dear open science enthusiasts from LMU and beyond, This is a reminder that our annual member's meeting is today from 16:00 to 18:15, Theresienstr. 39, room B 139 (LMU raumfinder link<https://www.lmu.de/raumfinder/#/building/bw1003/map?room=100201039_>) and on Zoom<https://lmu-munich.zoom-x.de/j/68092252612?pwd=Vispf9aJ4Btj58ZsSpfTWnBiHyi7…>. Looking forward to seeing many of you there, all are welcome! Best wishes Malika -- Dr. Malika Ihle (she/her) (pronounciation<https://namedrop.io/malikaihle>) LMU Open Science Center Coordinator https://www.osc.lmu.de<https://www.osc.lmu.de/> From: Ihle, Malika Sent: Montag, 7. Juli 2025 10:05 To: 'lmu-osc(a)lists.lrz.de' <lmu-osc(a)lists.lrz.de> Subject: annual member's meeting 21.07. 16:00-18:15 Dear LMU Open Science Center community members You are invited to the OSC's annual members' meeting, taking place on Monday July 21 from 16:00 to 18:15, with dinner afterwards. The meeting will take place on Theresienstr. 39, room B 139 (LMU raumfinder link<https://www.lmu.de/raumfinder/#/building/bw1003/map?room=100201039_>) and on Zoom<https://lmu-munich.zoom-x.de/j/68092252612?pwd=Vispf9aJ4Btj58ZsSpfTWnBiHyi7…>. A calendar invitation is attached. Agenda: * 16:00 - Guest presentation: We will welcome the Head of Helmholtz Open Science Office, Dr. Mathijs Vleugel, to present the Helmholtz open science strategy and the activities of his office. This will be followed by discussions about possible strategies that can be implemented at the LMU. He will also join our dinner. * 17:00 - OSC report: The OSC team will report on activities, new programs, and future plans. Members will share their updates. * 18:00 - Election: New scientific board members will be voted for by OSC members * 18:30 - Dinner: You can join us at Cyclo, Theresienstr. 70, 80333 München; at own cost and upon registration before July 14: https://forms.gle/7a8mR57rC9fJYaEy6 Looking forward to seeing you there! Best wishes Malika -- Dr. Malika Ihle (she/her) (pronounciation<https://namedrop.io/malikaihle>) LMU Open Science Center Coordinator Website: https://www.osc.lmu.de<https://www.osc.lmu.de/> Mailing list: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc Computing skill self-paced tutorials: https://github.com/lmu-osc Workshops material: https://osf.io/zjrhu/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lmu-osc.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lmu-open-science-center Mastodon: https://scicomm.xyz/@lmu_osc Apply before July 14 to our Open Science Summer School (Sept 15.-19.) including an instructor training track: https://lmu-osc.github.io/Open-Science-Summer-School-2025/

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Open Science Events in Vienna, Berlin & Hamburg – Registration Now Open
by LMU Open Science Center News July 17, 2025

July 17, 2025

Dear open science enthusiasts, There are three upcoming events organised by our colleagues focused on advancing open and responsible research practices that may be of interest to you. Whether you're a researcher, student, policymaker, research administrator, or advocate for better science, these events offer opportunities to connect, learn, and work on solutions. Open Science Festival 2025 📍 Vienna | 📅 Sept 8-9 🔗 https://osfestival2025.univie.ac.at/en/ 💶170 € regular, 50 € students Audience: students, researchers, or research support specialists What to expect: * Explore Open Science’s real-world impact through knowledge valorisation * Tackle the "dark side" of Open Science * Develop an Open Science strategy for your own research Responsible Research in Action Unconference 📍 Berlin | 📅 Sept 22–24 🔗 https://rr-in-action2025.org/ 💶300 € regular, 200 € students 🎫 Register before Aug 3! Audience: researchers, administrators, funders, and publishers What to expect: * Join one of 10 hands-on projects aimed at improving research practices * Topics include: research assessment, stakeholder engagement, pre-registration, reproducibility checklists, and more * Dinner in the dinosaur room at Berlin’s Natural History Museum Open Science Conference 2025 – Theme: “Open Science meets Artificial Intelligence” 📍 Hamburg & Online | 📅 Oct 8–9 🔗 https://www.open-science-conference.eu/ 💶 250 € in person, 50 € online Audience: researchers, librarians, data stewards, policymakers, and Open Science advocates What to expect: * Examine the opportunities and challenges of integrating AI into research workflows * Participate in discussion/solution sessions, explore posters and demos * Special session on the safeguarding research movement Best wishes Malika -- Dr. Malika Ihle (she/her) (pronounciation<https://namedrop.io/malikaihle>) LMU Open Science Center Coordinator Website: https://www.osc.lmu.de<https://www.osc.lmu.de/> Mailing list: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc Computing skill self-paced tutorials: https://github.com/lmu-osc Workshops material: https://osf.io/zjrhu/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lmu-osc.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lmu-open-science-center Mastodon: https://scicomm.xyz/@lmu_osc

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Data Under Threat — Join the Data Rescue Hackathon (Aug 7)
by LMU Open Science Center News July 11, 2025

July 11, 2025

Dear colleagues, the Trump administration has aggressively removed scientific and governmental research data from public access, purging thousands of web pages and datasets related to climate, health, demographics, LGBTQ + issues, and more — silently erasing vital knowledge that underpins scientific progress. While some European institutions start backing up at-risk research data, the data rescue movement is driven by grassroots efforts like the "Data Rescue Project" and the "Safeguarding Research & Culture" initiative, who have mobilized volunteers, librarians, and scientists to download and archive these resources before they are lost forever. 🚀 Join the LMU Open Science Center Safeguar.de Hackathon [PastedGraphic-1.png] At this hands-on event, we welcome Henrik Schönemann (HU Berlin), an initiator of safeguar.de, for an ignition talk. In the practical part, we will directly support the data rescue efforts: * Learn & Build: Install a BitTorrent client on your own machine to seed and safeguard critical research datasets. Scrape at-risk data sets. * Repurpose Old Hardware: Turn old 2.5" HDDs, Raspberry Pis, or laptops into dedicated data rescue nodes by installing Linux and setting up archiving tools. * Improve Tools & Docs: Write better documentation and develop one-click installation scripts to simplify deployment on any system. When: Thursday, 7 August 2025, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Where: Leopoldstr. 13, 80802 München (exact location will be announced to registered participants) 🤝 Open to Everyone — Not Just Coders While some parts are technical, we welcome everyone to contribute to: Outreach, documentation, coordination, creative ideas. Let’s work together to preserve scientific knowledge and build a resilient, community-powered data infrastructure. You can contribute to the project by ... * Donating old hardware and/or * Attending the Hackathon * Participating in the discussions 👉 Register your interest and stay informed: https://surveys.osc.lmu.de/safeguard-hackathon Best regards, Felix Schönbrodt & Philipp Sckopke LMU Open Science Center --- Prof. 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 | https://www.psy.lmu.de/pm/personen/lehrstuhlmitarbeiter/schoenbrodt/index.h… http://www.nicebread.de http://www.researchtransparency.org http://www.shinyapps.org Mastodon: @nicebread@scicomm.xyz<https://scicomm.xyz/web/@nicebread> ‌

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TUM conference: The Future of Open Research: Reliable, Responsible, Equitable
by LMU Open Science Center News July 10, 2025

July 10, 2025

On behalf of Prof. Sabina Leonelli from TUM: Call for conference abstract submission: The Future of Open Research: Reliable, Responsible, Equitable 4–6 May 2026 | Institute for Advanced Studies, Technical University of Munich Submission Deadline: 30 September 2025 Conference Website & Submission Portal<https://opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-conference/> The FOR 2026 Conference invites contributions that critically examine and advance open research practices across disciplines and geographies. As open research gains traction, this event explores its challenges, inequities, and transformative potential. We welcome abstracts (max. 500 words) for presentations and posters from researchers, policymakers, civil society organizations, and institutional representatives. Topics include philosophy, ethics, AI, infrastructure, training, legal frameworks, open research in the arts and humanities, and more. A key outcome will be the Munich Manifesto for Equitable Open Research, co-developed during the event. -- Dr. Malika Ihle (she/her) (pronounciation<https://namedrop.io/malikaihle>) LMU Open Science Center Coordinator Website: https://www.osc.lmu.de<https://www.osc.lmu.de/> Mailing list: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc Computing skill self-paced tutorials: https://github.com/lmu-osc Workshops material: https://osf.io/zjrhu/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lmu-osc.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lmu-open-science-center Mastodon: https://scicomm.xyz/@lmu_osc Apply before July 14 to our Open Science Summer School (Sept 15.-19.) including an instructor training track: https://lmu-osc.github.io/Open-Science-Summer-School-2025/

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