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SUMMARY:A walk in the garden of forking paths by Dr Julia Rohrer
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nI am a personality psychologist by training and my work covers a broad range of topics\, including the effects of birth order\, age patterns in personality\, and the correlates and determinants of subjective well-being. My methodological interests include causal inference on the basis of observational data and data analytic flexibility. I am an active advocate for increased research transparency and have frequently given talks on the topic.\nI recently finished my doctoral degree as a fellow of the International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course and am now a lecturer (Akademische Assistentin) at the Department of Psychology\, University of Leipzig. \nTogether with Anne Scheel\, Malte Elson\, and Ruben Arslan\, I blog at The 100% CI. If you want to get in touch with me\, I’m fairly active on Twitter. \nTo learn more\, go to https://juliarohrer.com/. \nAbout the talk \nData analysis requires researchers to make many decisions — and sometimes\, they may not know which choices are most appropriate. In this talk\, I will give an overview of ways to tackle researcher degrees of freedom in a transparent manner (such as robustness checks\, multiverse and specification curve analyses)\, highlight their commonalities\, and discuss some crucial concerns.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/a-walk-in-the-garden-of-forking-paths-by-dr-julia-rohrer/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201029T140000
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SUMMARY:Theory building and testing in psychological research by Dr Eiko Fried
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nDr Eiko Fried is an Assistant Professor in clinical psychology at Leiden University working in the fields of clinical psychology\, psychiatry\, epidemiology and methodology. His main focus is on studying individual symptoms of mental disorders and their causal relations. Broader\, his interests include measurement (how to best assess whether someone is ill)\, modelling (what statistical models are most appropriate to model psychopathology)\, ontology (what are mental disorders) and nosology (how do we best classify them). \nAbout the talk \nThe last decade has brought reforms to improve methodological practices\, with the goal to increase the reliability and replicability of effects. However\, explanations of effects remain scarce\, and a growing chorus of scholars argues that the replicability crisis has distracted from a crisis of theory. In the same decade\, the empirical literature using factor and network models has grown rapidly. In this talk\, I discuss three ways in which this literature falls short of theory building and testing. First\, statistical and theoretical models are conflated\, leading to invalid inferences such as the existence of psychological constructs based on factor models\, or recommendations for clinical interventions based on network models. I demonstrate this inferential gap in a simulation study on statistical equivalence: excellent model fit does little to corroborate a theory\, regardless of quality or quantity of data. Second\, researchers fail to explicate theories about psychological constructs\, but use implicit causal beliefs to guide inferences. These latent theories have led to problematic best practices in psychological research where inferences are drawn based on one specific causal model that is assumed\, but not explicated. Third\, explicated theories are often weak theories: narrative and imprecise descriptions vulnerable to hidden assumptions and unknowns. They fail to make clear predictions\, and it remains unclear whether statistical effects corroborate such theories or not. Weak theories are immune to refutation or revision. I argue that these three challenges to theory building and testing are common and harmful\, and impede theory formation\, failure\, and reform. A renewed focus on theoretical psychology and formal models offers a way forward. \nRelated preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/zg84s/
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/theory-building-and-testing-in-psychological-research-by-dr-eiko-fried/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201105T120000
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SUMMARY:Visualising variability and uncertainty in R by Jack Taylor
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nJack Taylor is a PhD student at the University of Glasgow. He is in interested in how we represent words\, particularly how we represent and access concepts associated with words\, like emotion and imageability. Jack is also interested in the extent to which we predict the visual features of words\, given a semantic context. Jack also has a keen interest in supporting reproducible research practices\, including data visualisation among others\, and you can find some useful links below. Jack can also be found on Twitter @JackEdTaylor. \nUseful links: \n\nLexOPS is an R package I’ve written for generating word stimuli\, to use in Psychology experiments.\nHack Your Data Beautiful (HYDB) was an introductory workshop for R\, sponsored by the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science.\nShiny Tutorials introduce Shiny to R users with a focus on Psychology research.\nGitHub is where I share most of my code.\nTwitter is where I am occasionally spotted.\n\nAbout the talk \nA picture is worth a thousand words\, and good data visualisation is worth a thousand summary statistics. I’ll argue that good data visualisation is a key component of open and transparent science. I’ll highlight some example ways of visualising data transparently\, focusing on presenting individual observations\, visualising uncertainty\, and embracing variability. Because it’s well-known\, I’ll show some implementations in the ggplot2 package of R\, highlighting some really useful functions and extensions for presenting informative features of data and statistical models.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/visualising-variability-and-uncertainty-in-r-by-jack-taylor/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201112T140000
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SUMMARY:Open science with OSF by Dr Courtney Soderberg
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nCourtney Soderberg is the Statistician and Data Scientist at the Center for Open Science. Before working at COS\, she received her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of California\, Davis. \nAbout the talk \nOpen research practices around data\, materials\, code\, and articles are becoming more common in many fields\, but researchers often aren’t trained in how to best make their research open\, or what they need to consider when doing this. Using OSF as an example tool\, I will walk through efficient ways for researchers to make their work more open and reproducible. I’ll also discuss what can be done when there are ethical or legal reasons why some data/materials cannot be openly shared.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/open-science-with-osf-by-dr-courtney-soderberg/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201119T150000
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SUMMARY:Measurement schmeasurement: Questionable measurement practices and how to avoid them by Dr Jessica Flake
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nFor details about the speaker\, please see https://www.jessicakayflake.com. \nAbout the talk \nQuestionable measurement practices are decisions researchers make that raise doubts about the validity of the measures\, and ultimately the validity of study conclusions. They make it impossible to evaluate a wide range of potential validity threats to the study’s conclusions. I will demonstrate that psychology is plagued by a measurement schmeasurement attitude: QMPs are common\, offer a stunning source of researcher degrees of freedom\, pose a serious threat to cumulative psychological science\, but are largely ignored. I will review a list of questions researchers and consumers of scientific research can consider to identify and avoid QMPs. Transparent answers to these measurement questions promote rigorous research\, allow for thorough evaluations of a study’s inferences\, and are necessary for meaningful replication studies.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/measurement-schmeasurement-questionable-measurement-practices-and-how-to-avoid-them-by-dr-jessica-flake/
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SUMMARY:How do we ask better questions and get better answers? by Prof Stephen Cole
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nStephen R. Cole is a Professor in Epidemiology at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Stephen R. Cole works to build accurate and impactful knowledge\, particularly population-health (epidemiologic) knowledge. Professor Cole is interested in study designs and analyses that accurately estimate parameters of central interest to population-health scientists\, such as risk. These study designs include randomized experiments\, pseudoexperiments (i.e.\, observational studies) and thought-experiments (e.g.\, simulation studies). \nAbout the talk \nWhat is a good question? Provisionally\, good questions have proper syntax\, are semantically meaningful\, answerable\, and important. Good epidemiologic questions require a measurable outcome\, including the context; treatments or actions\, if causal; and translate unambiguously to a parameter of interest. What is a good answer? Again provisionally\, good answers are as robust and as accurate as possible. We present results from a simulation experiment of a minimal nontrivial example\, motivated by epidemiology\, which illustrates some features of good answers using estimators from nonparametric\, parametric\, and semiparametric models. In summary\, an estimator from a semiparametric model performed best among candidate estimators that were not omnisciently correct.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/how-do-we-ask-better-questions-and-get-better-answers-by-prof-stephen-cole/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201126T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201126T153000
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SUMMARY:Drifting into the world of open science and reproducibility by Dr Gavin Buckingham
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nGavin Buckingham was awarded his PhD in Psychology from the University of Aberdeen in 2008. Following the completion of his PhD\, he moved to Canada to take up a position as a postdoctoral fellow in the Brain and Mind Institute at Western University in Canada working with Prof Mel Goodale. His work here mostly focused on how we perceive weight and interact with objects in the world around us. In January 2013\, he was appointed as a lecturer in the Psychology Department at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. Three years later he joined the Department Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Exeter\, where he is currently a senior lecturer and leads the Object Interaction Lab. \nAbout the talk \nI am going to talk about my perspectives on open science and reproducibility from the (slightly unusual) perspective of not being a significant part of the open science ecosystem. I have not developed any reproducibility initiatives. I have not devoted my career to improving science. I do not force my trainees to do things ‘my way’. But\, since taking up a permanent position\, I have been making small tangible steps toward improving my scientific practices. In this talk\, I’ll give my reflections on how these many incremental changes to my research practices have improved the quality of my work which\, hopefully\, will be of interest to other scientists hoping to move in the right direction\, but unsure where best to start.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/drifting-into-the-world-of-open-science-and-reproducibility-by-dr-gavin-buckingham/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201203T120000
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SUMMARY:Reproducible Research Oxford by Dr Malika Ihle
DESCRIPTION:About the talk \nHow can an open research working group help drive a research culture change at the institutional level? Reproducible Research Oxford a.k.a. RROx (“rocks”) has been working to achieve this by (i) building cross-disciplinary communities\, (ii) providing training and promoting practices that are beneficial to research communities\, and sustainable for researchers\, and (iii) liaising with stakeholders to inform the design of policy. \nAbout the speaker \n\nMalika Ihle is the Reproducible Research Oxford Coordinator\, supporting the Steering Group in developing a comprehensive approach to open scholarship and reproducible research that extends across all disciplines\, using both bottom-up and top-down strategies. \nMalika holds a Master degree in Biology from Université de Bourgogne and Université du Québec à Montréal\, and a PhD in Behavioral Ecology from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology. During her post-docs at the University of Sheffield and University of Florida\, she organised a post-conference symposium on open science\, she co-authored an invited idea in the journal Behavioral Ecology titled “Striving for transparent and credible research: practical guidelines for behavioural ecologist”\, and she developed and taught a graduate course guiding students through the scientific pipeline\, from preregistration to a reproducible and open workflow. \nMalika is an Executive Committee member of the Society for Open Reliable Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE) and the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) local network lead at the University of Oxford.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/open-research-at-oxford-by-dr-malika-ihle/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201210T120000
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SUMMARY:Conflicts and complexities on the path to open data  by Prof Louise Connell
DESCRIPTION:About the talk \nEven with the best intentions and motivations\, sharing your data in an open repository is not always as easy as it should be. Barriers can appear in a variety of forms\, including uncertainty regarding copyright and data ownership\, diverging interpretations of GDPR and ethical issues\, and sheer lack of time and resources to curate your data into a shareable format. I discuss some ways my collaborators and I have navigated these barriers and share some tips and tricks for making the process as painless as possible. \nAbout the speaker \nMy research interests surround cognitive science and embodied cognition. Specifically\, I’m interested in how mental representations and conceptual knowledge are grounded\, how we access and use these representations in language\, and how we can create computational models to better understand human cognitive behaviour. I use a range of interdisciplinary methods from experimental psychology and cognitive modelling to corpus linguistics and machine learning. Some recent work has examined how sensorimotor experience (i.e.\, what we sense via different perceptual modalities\, what we do via different action effectors) underpins word meaning\, how distributional statistics from language capture important information about conceptual and social knowledge\, how information about space and time is mentally represented\, and how people combine concepts into new entities.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/open-data-ethics-by-prof-louise-connell/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210128T120000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210212T101319Z
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SUMMARY:Open knowledge: A silent revolution in science by Alexandra Elbakyan
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nA full autobiography is available here. \nAbout the talk \nOn the 5th September 2011\, aged 23\, Alexandra Elbakyan created a PHP script that downloaded articles for free to make them open access to all. That script came to be known as Sci-Hub\, “the first pirate website in the world to provide mass and public access to tens of millions of research papers” (more information here). Now\, in its 10th year\, Sci-Hub has become one of – if not the – most popular means to access academic literature hidden behind a paywall. Sci-Hub’s creator will join us to talk about the origin of Sci-Hub\, where it is now\, and what the future holds. The talk will be composed of a 25 minute pre-recorded talk followed by a live Q&A.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/open-knowledge-a-silent-revolution-in-science-by-alexandra-elbakyan/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210204T120000
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SUMMARY:The IGDORE project: Reinventing academia with open (science) mind by Dr Rebecca Willén
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker\n \nDr Willén is an independent researcher in psychology. Her main professional interests are research ethics\, research methodology and investigative psychology (forensic psychology). She is the founder of IGDORE\, an independent virtual research institute\, and a strong proponent of open and replicable science. In 2016\, she finished her PhD at University of Gothenburg\, Sweden\, with a thesis on police interviewing techniques and verbal deception detection. The thesis included retroactive disclosure statements (RDS; p’s 27-28 in the thesis) which she followed up on in 2018 with additional statements published on her website. Her decision to publish RDS has been covered in an episode of Everything Hertz\, mentioned in a piece in Undark Magazine\, and she has co-authored a paper (in press at Perspectives on Psychological Science) on similar statements. Curate Science has turned her RDS into a reporting standard badge called ‘Basic 7 (retroactive)’. After 5 years abroad (Indonesia\, Canada\, Netherlands)\, she returned to Sweden in December 2019. She now resides in Gothenburg with her two children and three rescue dogs. She’s a first generation university student\, liberal leftist\, and a proponent of viewpoint diversity. \nYou can find out more about Dr Willén here:\nCV – ORCID – Publons – Google Scholar – Twitter – GitHub – Blog \nAbout the talk\n \nInstitute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE) is an independent research institute dedicated to improving the quality of science\, science education\, and quality of life for scientists\, students and their families. Founded in 2016 with one single researcher\, the founder herself\, the institute today has over 110 researchers from 35 countries. Dr Willén’s talk will provide a brief background to why the IGDORE project was launched\, an introduction to its goals\, visions\, and organisation\, and how IGDORE hopes to further advance the movement for open and replicable science.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/the-igdore-project-reinventing-academia-with-open-science-mind-by-dr-rebecca-willen/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210210T123000
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SUMMARY:Chiral materials and finding your voice as an early career researcher by Dr Jess Wade
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nBio available here and here. \nAbout the talk \nDr Jess Wade is a Research Fellow at Imperial College London investigating spin selective charge transport through chiral systems in the Department of Materials. As well as speaking on this work and her career thus far\, Jess will talk on work outside the lab. This work has included campaigning for greater diversity in science\, such as involving more women in physics and STEM subjects more broadly\, as well as tackling systemic gender and racial biases Wikipedia. Please join us for what will be a fascinating talk on the barriers in science and how to navigate them as an early career researcher. \nTo join\, please follow this link.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/chiral-materials-and-finding-your-voice-as-an-early-career-researcher-by-dr-jess-wade/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210216T130000
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SUMMARY:Learning the hard way: Reproducible workflows by Dr James Bartlett
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nDr James Bartlett completed his PhD at Coventry University on the neurocognitive mechanisms associated with addictive behaviour in daily and non-daily smokers. James is a lecturer in psychology at Arden University and leads undergraduate and postgraduate modules on research methods. He specialises in quantitative research methods and his research focuses on addictive behaviour. All his research and resources are available here. \nAbout the talk \nThe lifecycle of a research project spans months and often years\, with plenty of disruptions along the way. From preregistration to publication\, there is plenty of room for error as you forget what settings you used for your analyses or make a mistake cleaning your data. In this seminar\, I will outline how establishing a reproducible workflow helps yourself and the scientific community. Changing your approach can be daunting\, so I will be outlining the mistakes I made along the way including a spreadsheet mix-up and a cringy preregistration. By the end of the seminar\, you will see how you can incrementally create your own reproducible workflow.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/learning-the-hard-way-reproducible-workflows-by-dr-james-bartlett/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210219T130000
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SUMMARY:Introduction to preregistration and registered reports by Dr Kaitlyn M. Werner
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \n\nI am a SSHRC Banting postdoctoral research fellow in the Affective Science and Health Laboratory (PI: Dr Brett Ford) at the University of Toronto.  My research takes an interdisciplinary approach to understand the factors that facilitate successful self-regulation and goal pursuit. I also have a strong interest in measurement (e.g.\, construct and ecological validity)\,  advanced quantitative methods (e.g.\, multilevel SEM\, Bayesian statistics)\, research design (e.g.\, experimental\, longitudinal\, experience sampling)\, and meta-science (e.g.\, transparent and reproducible research practices). Outside of the lab\, I am also an Ambassador for the Center for Open Science.​\nTo learn more about Dr Werner\, visit her website. \nAbout the talk \nThis session will provide an overview of preregistration and registered reports.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/introduction-to-preregistration-and-registered-reports-by-dr-kaitlyn-m-werner/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210225T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210225T150000
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SUMMARY:Rmarkdown and Github: A walkthrough for sharing code and results by Dr Oliver Pain
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nDr Oliver Pain is a postdoctoral research associate at the Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre\, King’s College London. His work uses statistical genetics to understand and predict outcomes related to mental health. \nAbout the talk \nThis workshop will provide an introduction to Rmarkdown websites and how to host them online using GitHub pages. Oliver will take you through a few exercises to create a Rmarkdown website online. \nImportant note: for the practical\, Oliver suggests using Rstudio and GitHub Desktop\, but he will also provide instructions using R and Git on the command line. You will also need a GitHub account and to download the workshop materials in advance.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/rmarkdown-and-github-a-walkthrough-for-sharing-code-and-results-by-dr-oliver-pain/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210304T120000
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SUMMARY:Psychology in a crisis by Dr Stuart Ritchie
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nDr Ritchie is a psychologist with research interests in a variety of areas\, including intelligence\, individual differences in cognitive abilities\, behavioural genetics\, and more recently in the replication crisis. In 2014\, he completed his PhD at the university of Edinburgh\, staying on to become a postdoctoral research fellow investigating difference in intelligence\, working on the world renowned Lothian Birth Cohort dataset. In 2018\, he became a lecturer in the Social\, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. In his recent book\, Science Fictions\, Stuart examines fraud\, bias\, error\, and hype in scientific research\, and the incentives that undermine scientific integrity. More recently\, Stuart focused his energies on cross-examining scientific claims relevant to the coronavirus pandemic\, and in pursuit of this has set up a Myth Busting website. \nAbout the talk \nAt the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic\, psychologists and other behavioural scientists sprung into action\, writing high-profile papers that described the application of their research findings to the crisis. Since changing people’s behaviours is a big part of controlling a pandemic\, they saw many opportunities to use their research to help out. As we know\, though\, the behavioural sciences have been going through their own crisis over the past years – a crisis of confidence in the quality\, replicability\, and generalisability of their findings. How appropriate was it to try to apply these findings to a completely unprecedented scenario – and one where lives were at stake? What are the pitfalls in doing so? In this talk\, I’ll discuss what’s happened with psychology and the pandemic\, and propose a new scheme—partly stolen from NASA—to assess how ready any given piece of research is for translation to a crisis.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/psychology-in-a-crisis-by-dr-stuart-ritchie/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210305T120000
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SUMMARY:Working with R Markdown by Dr Jon McPhetres
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nSpeaker’s bio and any relevant social links can be found here. \nAbout the talk \nThis seminar will demonstrate how to use R to produce statistical output directly to a document without manually inputting values. \n 
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/working-with-r-markdown-by-dr-jon-mcphetres/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210311T120000
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SUMMARY:The AccessLab by Dr Lotty Brand
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nDr Brand is currently Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Sheffield with Prof. Tom Stafford investigating the use of argument maps and automated dialogue for fostering open-mindedness and de-polarisation. Lotty was previously Postdoctoral Research Associate with Prof. Alex Mesoudi at the University of Exeter’s Cornwall Campus as part of the Human Behaviour and Cultural Evolution Group (HuBCEG). Her research spans a variety of topics related to the evolution of human behaviour and cognition. All her publications and preprints are openly available here. \nAbout the talk \nAccessLab is a novel science communication initiative in which researchers and those without research training get together to discuss how scientific literature can be accessed and used by people outside of the academic bubble. The aim is to open-up access to scientific research for anyone to find\, understand\, and use in their daily lives. The workshops include open discussion about how scientific research is funded and published\, how to find it\, how to get to the bottom of confusing media headlines\, and a chance for those without formal research training to confidentially research a question of their own with a trained researcher. It’s a really eye-opening workshop that I really recommend to any researcher who cares about how scientific research is accessed\, understood\, and put to good use. In this talk\, I’ll discuss my experience of helping to run and develop these workshops\, as well as the general principles about science communication and open science that I’ve learnt through the process. More about AccessLab can be found in this open publication. \nTo join\, follow this link.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/the-accesslab-by-dr-charlotte-brand/
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SUMMARY:Opportunities and challenges of open science for qualitative methods by Dr Peter Branney
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nTo learn more about Dr Branney\, visit his website. \nAbout the talk \nDespite (perhaps in-part because of) the mocking of expertise in recent elections and the replication crisis in social psychology\, the 17th century Scientific Revolution is re-emerging; albeit reconfigured as the Open Science movement in calls for open collaboration and digitally mediated open access to study designs\, methods\, notebooks\, data and results. To date\, psychologists have largely focused on experiments and the replications of findings\, but it is important for us to consider the possibilities for qualitative research as open science. I will do this by weaving three threads of thought; 1) the systemic changes open science is bringing about to the research landscape and how far these reach back in history\, 2) the legitimate sensitivities of qualitative data and 3) opportunities available for supporting open qualitative research.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/opportunities-and-challenges-of-open-science-foe-qualitative-methods-by-dr-peter-branney/
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SUMMARY:Data visualisation in R by Dr Niklas Johannes
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nI’m a Postdoc in the Adolescent Well-Being in the Digital Age program at the Oxford Internet Institute. Under the supervision of Andrew Przybylski\, I study the effects of technology use on well-being and performance. My PhD had a similar topic: Here\, I investigated the effects of constant connectedness on performance and well-being. In my research\, I follow open science practices. That means I preregister all studies and make materials\, data\, and analyses publicly available.\nTo learn more about Dr Johannes\, visit his website. \nAbout the talk \nThis session will focus on data visualisation in R.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/data-visualisation-in-r-by-dr-niklas-johannes/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Working with large\, open-source neuroimaging datasets by Corey Horien
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nCorey Horien is an MD-PhD student in Todd Constable’s lab at Yale School of Medicine. His research focuses on individual differences in fMRI data in the developing brain in health and disease. He recently wrote “A hitchhiker’s guide to working with large\, open-source neuroimaging datasets”.\nTwitter: @coreyhorien \nAbout the talk \nLarge datasets are growing increasingly common in neuroimaging. Due to the simultaneous increasing popularity of open science\, these state-of-the-art samples are more accessible than ever. Nevertheless\, their sheer size presents a new set of challenges that might cause difficulties. In this talk\, Corey will discuss tips for working with large datasets from the end-user’s perspective. He will cover all aspects of the data lifecycle: from what to consider when downloading and storing the data to tips on how to become acquainted with a dataset one did not collect and what to share when communicating results. Emphasis is placed on practical solutions\, as well as lessons his lab has learned working with large samples.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/working-with-large-open-source-neuroimaging-datasets-by-corey-horien/
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SUMMARY:The racial origins of the p-value by Theresa Wege
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nTheresa Elise Wege is a PhD student and PGTA for statistics at the Centre for Mathematical Cognition\, Loughborough University. While her research is focused on preschool maths\, she thinks about statistics pedagogy and introducing students to the philosophy of science as part of her teaching role. \nAbout the talk \nWhere do the statistical methods we commonly use come from? In this presentation\, Theresa will explore the origins of the p-value and other statistical methods and discuss their connections to eugenics and white supremacist thinking in the early 20th century. With a feminist epistemology in mind\, Theresa will present the discovery of statistical methods embedded in the biographies of Sir Francis Galton\, Karl Pearson and Sir Ronald Fisher. She will conclude with how thinking about the origins of statistical methods can be integrated in the statistics curriculum and how it can facilitate discussions in the open science context.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/the-racial-origins-of-the-p-value-by-theresa-wege/
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SUMMARY:Hans Eysenck: personality and fatal diseases; exposing a scientific scandal by Dr Anthony Pelosi
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nDr Anthony Pelosi is a consultant psychiatrist at Priory Hospital Glasgow. Since the early ‘90s\, Pelosi has published extensive critiques of the work of Hans Eysenck\, In February 2019\, Pelosi published a paper in the Journal of Health Psychology\, in which he stated that the Eysenck case is “one of the worst scientific scandals of all time\,” which was also accompanied by an editorial from David Marks\, in which he called for an inquiry by King’s College London and the British Psychological Society. \nAbout the talk \nDuring the 1980’s and 1990’s\, the late Hans Eysenck conducted a programme of research into the causes\, prevention and treatment of cancer and other fatal diseases in collaboration with one of his protégés\, Ronald Grossarth-Maticek. This led to what must be the most astonishing series of findings ever published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. I am going to present just a selection of these findings. I will also summarise a study in which these scientists describe in detail – and without a trace of insight – a criminally negligent clinical experiment on 41 people who were at grave and imminent risk due to malignant hypertension. \nI will be asking the RIOT Science Club what I have been asking myself for three decades. How on earth could this work have been published and why was nothing done about it until last year? I will be making a few suggestions.  i) Professor Eysenck considered himself to be some sort of genius. Over the years\, he managed to beguile numerous young researchers who egged him on in this belief. Some of them still try to defend his work on fatal diseases. ii) He was encouraged to continue this research by tobacco company scientists even when they knew that it was so flawed. iii) Eysenck thought of himself as the world’s greatest psychometrician. However\, he had only a loose and fluctuating grasp of the difference between statistical significance and effect size. iv) His university and his regulatory body were not up to the task of dealing with such a person. \nI will be asking for suggestions about how to undo some of the damage to science that has been caused by this scandal.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/hans-eysenck-personality-and-fatal-diseases-exposing-a-scientific-scandal-by-dr-anthony-pelosi/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210415T150000
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SUMMARY:Using Superpower R package to simulate power by Dr Aaron R. Caldwell
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nAaron is an exercise physiologist with a PhD in Health\, Sport\, and Exercise Science from the University of Arkansas. He is currently as ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow at the United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine where his current research projects are focused on human performance in extreme environments (heat\, cold\, and altitude). In addition\, Aaron works as an applied statistician.  He has gained expertise in statistics through a Graduate Certificate in Statistics & Research Methods program while at the University of Arkansas\, and is continuing his education with an MSc in Analytics through the Georgia Institute of Technology. \nAbout the talk \nPower analysis has become the sine qua non for justifying for sample sizes in experimental studies. For simple one or two sample comparisons\, the process is fairly straightforward. When the experiments become more complex\, such as when factorial designs are implemented\, the tools used for power analysis are sparse and the calculations become more difficult. A simple solution to the problem of design complexity is just to simulate the study design in order to estimate power. However\, simulation tends to require more technical knowledge and some ability to write code. Therefore\, Superpower R package was created to streamline the simulation process and make simulation tools accessible for the average researcher. Currently\, the package allows for Monte Carlo and “exact” simulations for factorial designs with both within and between subjects factors. This allows for power estimates for ANOVA\, MANOVA\, and estimated marginal means comparisons. In addition\, this is a useful teaching tool as it can show how violating assumptions (e.g.\, homoskedasticity or sphericity) can affect both statistical power and type 1 error rates. In this presentation\, I will demonstrate 1) why these principles are important 2) how Superpower\, in both its R and Shiny formats\, can be useful and 3) how non-simulation based functions can be used to justify your alpha level.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/using-superpower-r-package-to-simulate-power-by-dr-aaron-r-caldwell/
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SUMMARY:Research and researcher assessment; how do we do it\, are we doing it right\, and what is the role of preprints? by Prof Chris Jackson
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nProf Chris Jackson is Chair in Sustainable Geoscience\, at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Manchester. \nAbout the talk \nWe assess research outputs and thus researchers by a range of metrics\, often during job appointments and promotions. What tools do we use and are they fair? Do they get us the desired result? What\, in fact\, is the desired result? And what role do preprints play in this and in\, more generally\, creating an open and progressive research culture?
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/research-and-researcher-assessment-how-do-we-do-it-are-we-doing-it-right-and-what-is-the-role-of-preprints-by-prof-chris-jackson/
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SUMMARY:Dynamic systems modelling and simulation - assisted thought experiments by Dr Charles Driver
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nDr Charles Driver is a researcher at the Center for Lifespan Psychology at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. He focuses on improving methods for mapping theories of change to data and applying these to different problems across the broad domain of human development. One of his projects included writing the statistical software package “ctsem” in R\, which can be used to model dynamic systems. (@CharlesDriverAU) \nAbout the talk \nMost phenomena of scientific interest can be loosely thought of as ‘dynamic systems’\, in the sense that they usually change in different ways depending on different inputs. In the social sciences\, phenomena are usually highly complex and dependent on many features of the world\, such that any formal model is inherently a vast simplification. In order for our modelling simplifications to provide useful insight\, they need to adequately represent the core aspects we are interested in\, and cope with the many aspects we are not. In this talk I will discuss some of the basic ideas of modelling dynamic systems\, demonstrate how simulating such systems can yield important insight and questions\, and outline the ctsem software for estimating dynamic systems models in social science contexts.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/dynamic-systems-modelling-and-simulation-assisted-thought-experiments-by-dr-charles-driver/
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SUMMARY:The matter of facts: Citation bias and distortion by Dr Rhodri I. Leng
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nRhodri Leng is a quantitative sociologist of science. His research concerns developing understanding of how the structure of citation networks affects the spread of information across the scientific literature\, how the spread of information affects the development of scientific opinion\, and involves integrating this understanding into theories of scientific development. An important element of his work involves developing methods to detect citation bias and other citation distortions in the literature. This involves methods of systematic literature retrieval\, systematic review and meta-analysis\, citation network analysis\, and content analysis.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/the-matter-of-facts-citation-bias-and-distortion-by-dr-rhodri-i-leng/
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SUMMARY:Service user involvement in mental health research by Dr Sagar Jilka
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nSagar Jilka is the co-ordinator for the patient and carer involvement and engagement theme within the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre. He has previous experience of research and applied science in academia and industry and facilitates service user-led projects. \nAbout the talk \nI will familiarise participants with the background\, methods and approaches to service user involvement within mental health research. We will discuss what is meant by “PPI” (patient and public involvement) and I will provide examples of service user involvement in current research studies. We will end the session discussing how to get advice from service users\, guidelines and best practices when discussing your research with service users.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/service-user-involvement-in-mental-health-research-by-dr-sagar-jilka/
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210521T150000
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SUMMARY:Interpreting replications by Dr Jill Jacobson
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nDr Jacobson is a social psychologist who has taught statistics and research methods at the undergraduate and graduate level for the last 20 years. Her primary research is on the social-cognitive and social-behavioral consequences of various self-constructs such as depression\, causal uncertainty\, and self-esteem importance. More recently\, she has begun examining topics in meta-science including a SSHRC-funded project on participant prospection and non-naïveté. \nAbout the talk \nThis seminar will discuss how we evaluate when a replication should be considered failure/success and what that means for original studies.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/interpreting-replications-by-dr-jill-jacobson/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210524T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210524T133000
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SUMMARY:DORA: Re-thinking and re-engineering what we value in research by Prof Stephen Curry
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nStephen Curry is a Professor of Structural Biology at Imperial College London where he also serves as the Assistant Provost for Equality\, Diversity and Inclusion. For many years he has been a writer and campaigner on a range of scientific issues including open access\, research assessment\, research funding and science policy. He is currently chair of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). \nAbout the talk \nThe San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) is a campaigning initiative to improve the ways that we evaluate research and researchers. It aims particularly to call out the problematic nature of the over-reliance on aggregate metrics such as the journal impact factor in assessment processes. Such metrics have enduring appeal because they appear to offer the simplicity and objectivity of numerical analyses. I will discuss the work DORA is doing to promote and develop alternative and more holistic processes of research assessment – work that is synergistic with broader moves to advance open scholarship and enduring issues of equality\, diversity and inclusion.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/update-on-dora-by-prof-stephen-curry/
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