Lisa DeBruine – “Everything is cool when you're part of a team", 13/02/2023

The “replication crisis” has led to a call for initiatives to increase the replicability of psychological science, such as data and code sharing, pre-registration, registered reports, and reproducible workflows. Similarly, researchers have questioned the extent to which studies of WEIRD populations (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic) generalise to the majority of people in the rest of the world. Here, I will discuss how large-scale collaborations can improve both replicability and generalisability, with a focus on the Psychological Science Accelerator, a globally distributed network of more than 1300 researchers from more than 80 countries across all six populated continents.

Massimo Grassi - The way we were, the way we will be. Open science: a change in the scientific paradigm, 10/01/2023

If we imagine a scientist sleeping for 15 years and waking up today we can just guess his/her surprise: open access journals, papers that are published along with accessible repositories where authors make available the data, the codes that they used to analyze the data and all the relevant digital materials. Even peer reviews are available to the reader, not to mention pre-registration documents that reveal step by step the origin of scientific path followed by the author! All of this is happening because of a double reason. First, we realised that science – often obscured behind paywalls – needed to be accessible by everyone. The second reason for this increase in transparency is perhaps is less noble: we realized that the science we were making needed some adjustments as many of the results reported in the literature were likely false positive. Altogether, this abrupt increment in research transparency and accessibility has been referred to as “open science”. In my talk I will review the major ideas that are emerging nowadays in science to increase accessibility, trustiness and transparency.
https://doi.org/10.25430/researchdata.cab.unipd.it.00000844


Balasz Aczel - Developing tools and practices to promote open and efficient science, 13/12/2022

In this talk, Dr. Aczel will introduce some new tools that aim to improve the efficiency of researchers’ work and the accumulation of knowledge. He’ll argue that minimizing extra workload and increasing the ease of use have key importance in the introduction of new research practices. The tools that he’ll share are: (1) The Transparency Checklist, a consensus-based general ShinyApp checklist to improve and document the transparency of research reports; (2) Tenzing, a solution to simplify the CrediTbased documentation and reporting the contributions to scholarly articles; (3) SampleSizePlanner, an app and R package that offer nine different procedures to determine and justify the sample size of a study design; and (4) the Multi-analyst guidance, a consensus-based guide for conducting and documenting multi-analyst studies.

John Ioannidis - Reproducibility: progress, hurdles, and utopia, 21/05/2024

In this talk prof. John Ioannidis made a journey into the status quo of current science highlighting the several issues that currently limit and harm the reproducibility of scientific results. During the talk, that described several fields of science, prof. Ioannidis stressed the importance of raising the standards of contemporary science and in particular the importance of adopting open science practices.