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Over the past few years, we have gathered an amazing & active community on this platform, but we have now taken the decision to move away from X.
We hope that we can still retain inspiring discussions with our community through our other platforms, which we will link to below👇
Our Bluesky account: bsky.app/profile/forrt.bsky.…
Our Linkedin account: uk.linkedin.com/company/forr…
Mastodon: mastodon.social/@forrt
You can also subscribe to our monthly newsletter here: forrt.org/newsletters/
🚨 Catch the latest updates in our June newsletter: mailchi.mp/forrt/forrt-newsl…
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🔔 We're pausing newsletters until September as we switch providers and set things up. See you then!
The FORRT May newsletter is now out 🎉
Updates include:
🤝 Opportunity to get paid to co-create open-access educational materials 🧵
👉 Read here: mailchi.mp/forrt/forrt-newsl…
📩 Subscribe here: forrt.org/newsletters/
🔧 FORRT Replication Hub Hackathon 🎉
We’re hosting an online coding session to polish our replication tools — and we’d love your help!
📅 June 20
🕙 1st session: 10:00, CEST
🕙 2nd session: 13:30, CEST (You can join both!)
💻 Should be confident in R (and ideally Shiny). 🧵
We’ll be working on:
FReD R package and two Shiny apps:
🧭 FReD Explorer – browse the replication dataset, assess effect sizes & replicability
🔗 forrt.org/apps/fred_explorer…
📎 FReD Annotator – annotates reference lists with replication findings
🔗 forrt.org/apps/fred_annotato…
🙌 Every contribution will be transparently credited.
💡 Contribute a full solution? Become an official contributor to the FReD R package!
📅 Register by June 15 by emailing: [email protected]
Let’s get these tools polished and out there together!🚀
🎓 Get PAID to co-create open-access teaching materials!
We're launching a funded initiative to make open science education more inclusive and accessible beyond elite institutions and the Global North. Contribute a set of materials and earn €400. 🧵
✨ Contributors get:
✅ €400 per set
✅ Public credit on our site and directly on the materials
✅ Opportunity to co-author future publications (if authorship criteria are met)
Join us in democratizing open science education!
📷 Interested? Email: [email protected]
Want to find out more? Please read here for additional information for contributors: eur03.safelinks.protection.o…
🚨FORRT Hackathon: Contribute to the Accessible Feedback in Academia E-Book! 🚨
📅 Thursday, 29 May
🕚 11:00–13:00 BST | 12:00–14:00 CEST | 10:00–12:00 UTC
🔗 Join via MS Teams: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup…
#OpenScience #Hackathon 🧵
Join us on for a collaborative FORRT hackathon where we’ll be working together on writing up chapters for our upcoming community-maintained e-book on feedback strategies in academic research! 📖
We'll focus on:
✍️ Writing feedback strategies at specific stages of the research cycle
📊 Using existing descriptive data (like average feedback ratings!)
🤝 Co-creating an inclusive, practical guide for researchers
🚀 Help us build FORRT’s Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page!
We’re creating a resource to support new members, and we need your input. Share your thoughts in our short form:
🔗forms.gle/rG2Si2vYtkY99eXt6
Your contribution will make our community more accessible. Thank you!
Apply for participation in the Replication Workshop by FORRT and MüCOS
Apply for our 3 hour free online workshop on June 17 (10am-1pm, CEST) 📅
To get you up-to-date on best practices of replications and reproductions!
Registration: indico.uni-muenster.de/e/rep… #OpenScience
🏗️ Doing research means building on something - but what if what you are trying to build on is brittle? Wouldn't you want to find out about that?


