Open science: Why, what, how… and some paranoia by Joe Barnby

About the speaker

In his PhD, Joe is investigating the neural mechanisms underlying information salience and belief formation with psychopharmacological methods. Joe discusses his work, his experience with pre-registering (which is a gnarly business in neuroscience), and issues with reproducibility in his research field.

About the talk

Open Science is a progressive movement toward transparent predicting, testing, and reporting data. It overcomes problems recently highlighted in scientific discourse such as HARKing, reproducibility, and replication. There are a number of free and open access tools which can help us to achieve more transparency in the way we work. I will go over some of these tools, how to use them, with worked examples from my own research. At the end there is time for an open discussion and clinic where we can talk about how to implement Open Science in your own research.