https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc4nw7ripb0&t=1139s About the speaker A full autobiography is available here. About the talk On 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 provideContinue reading "Open knowledge: A silent revolution in science by Alexandra Elbakyan"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQb8axUBeMk About the speaker Dr 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 ofContinue reading "The IGDORE project: Reinventing academia with open (science) mind by Dr Rebecca Willén"

About the speaker Bio available here and here. About the talk Dr 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.Continue reading "Chiral materials and finding your voice as an early career researcher by Dr Jess Wade"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5F_aVz3J70 About the speaker Dr 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 onContinue reading "Learning the hard way: Reproducible workflows by Dr James Bartlett"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3vLw5rnmY4 About the speaker I 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., constructContinue reading "Introduction to preregistration and registered reports by Dr Kaitlyn M. Werner"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtPqcw8OPvs About the speaker Dr 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. About the talk This workshop will provide an introduction to Rmarkdown websites and how to host themContinue reading "Rmarkdown and Github: A walkthrough for sharing code and results by Dr Oliver Pain"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D42d9d9Eijw About the speaker Dr 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 inContinue reading "Psychology in a crisis by Dr Stuart Ritchie"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7MX68dpyJs About the speaker Speaker's bio and any relevant social links can be found here. About the talk This seminar will demonstrate how to use R to produce statistical output directly to a document without manually inputting values.  

About the speaker Dr 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 HumanContinue reading "The AccessLab by Dr Lotty Brand"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aUhFqDnk6o About the speaker To learn more about Dr Branney, visit his website. About the talk Despite (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 andContinue reading "Opportunities and challenges of open science for qualitative methods by Dr Peter Branney"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un33_M8NL_0 About the speaker I’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 andContinue reading "Data visualisation in R by Dr Niklas Johannes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy19kRKsgWc About the speaker Corey 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”. Twitter: @coreyhorien About the talk LargeContinue reading "Working with large, open-source neuroimaging datasets by Corey Horien"