Preregistration: Benefits, challenges, and practical tips by Dr Agata Bochynska
2022-04-06 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Oslo) | Zoom, United Kingdom
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Dr Agata Bochynska is a psychologist and a linguist with a background in experimental research on language and cognitive development in diverse populations. Currently, she works on implementing and teaching open science practices and reproducible research at the University of Oslo, Norway.
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More and more researchers across disciplines are preregistering their hypotheses, methods, and analysis plans before they collect or analyze the data. Preregistration motivates us to think more carefully about research designs, helps prevent manipulating the study outcomes, and increases research transparency and visibility. But how and where do we preregister research studies? In this talk, Agata Bochynska will lay out the benefits and challenges of preregistration and provide practical tips for preregistering studies on Open Science Framework (OSF) – a well-developed platform for research registration and sharing.
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A roadmap to reproducible, transparent, and rigorous Experience Sampling Method research by Dr Ginette Lafit & Dr Olivia Kirtley
2022-04-27 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | MS Teams
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Dr Ginette Lafit is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Group of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences and the Center of Contextual Psychiatry at KU Leuven, Belgium. Ginette works in the field of statistics applied to psychology. Her research is focused on addressing methodological complexities and developing statistical methods for the analysis of intensive longitudinal data. To make the statistical methods easily available, Ginette develops open-source software. Open source code is available on her GitHub. She is an applied statistician, with interests in high-dimensional covariance selection, mixed models applied to intensive longitudinal data, and #Rstats.
Dr Olivia Kirtley is a Research Foundation Flanders Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Center for Contextual Psychiatry, KU Leuven, Belgium. Her research focuses on using the experience sampling method (ESM) to investigate dynamic processes involved in suicidal thoughts and behaviours among young people, with a focus on social processes and future thinking. Olivia also leads several initiatives to increase transparency and reproducibility in clinical psychology and ESM research, including designing a preregistration template for experience sampling research and leading the ESM Item Repository.
About the talk
This talk will introduce the Open Handbook of Experience Sampling Methodology, and recent initiatives to boost the transparency, reproducibility, and rigour of daily-life research. These include the creation of registration templates, user-friendly apps to calculate sample size and statistical power, and the ESM Item Repository, an open bank of items for use in daily life research.
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Engaging undergraduate students with research training through replications by Dr Jim Grange, Dr Justin Ales & Dr Katherine Button
2022-04-29 13:00 - 14:30 (Europe/London) | Zoom, United Kingdom
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In this seminar, three speakers (Dr Jim Grange from Keele University, Dr Justin Ales from University of St. Andrew, and Dr Katherine Button from University of Bath) will talk about their efforts to engage students with replication studies during the final-year dissertations. Projects range from individual replications, both direct and conceptual, to a large-scale replication consortium. Talks will be followed by a panel discussion to address issues around project management, time commitment, and BPS requirements.
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Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials (RIAT) by Dr Anisa Rowhani-Farid
2022-05-09 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London) | Zoom, United Kingdom
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Anisa Rowhani-Farid PhD, MPH is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials initiative (RIAT) at the Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Department at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. She has a broad background in medical science and public health, with specific training in research on research (known as meta-research). Her research aims to strengthen the regulation of clinical research and promote open research, making science more reliable, trustworthy, verifiable, transparent, and robust. She did her first postdoctoral fellowship in research integrity and transparency at the Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency at the Yale Law School, School of Medicine and School of Public Health, and at the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at the Yale School of Medicine. Anisa received her doctorate from the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. The title of her thesis was: Towards a culture of open science and data sharing in health and medical research.
About the talk
Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials (RIAT) is an international effort to tackle bias in the way research is reported with the goal of providing more accurate information to patients and other healthcare decision-makers. When the original investigators or sponsors do not correct misreporting, or even leave the entire trial unpublished, they can be considered to have abandoned their trial. The downstream effects can be substantial, drawing false conclusions about the effectiveness and safety of medical interventions. The RIAT initiative offers a methodology that allows other people to responsibly correct the record. Anisa will be talking about the work of RIAT as well as her own work in meta-research.
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Protecting against researcher bias in secondary data analysis: Challenges and potential solutions by Dr Jessie Baldwin
2022-05-10 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | MS Teams
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Open science through a lens of feminist psychology by Dr Maddi Pownall
2022-05-13 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London) | Zoom, United Kingdom
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Building sustainable science - the case of ResearchEquals.com by Christ Hartgerink
2022-05-19 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | MS Teams

Using webtools to promote balance in cognitive neuroscience citation practices by Dr Jackie Fulvio
2022-05-24 14:30 - 15:30 (Europe/London) | Zoom, United Kingdom
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In this seminar, Dr Jacqueline Fulvio will discuss the work by Fulvio, Akinnola, & Postle (2021) and the Gender Citation Balance Index webtool that was developed from that work. The speaker will also provide a one-year update as to how the publication and the tool have impacted publication and citation rates in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
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Open and reproducible neuroimaging: From study inception to publication by Dr Guiomar Niso & Dr Rotem Botvinik-Nezer
2022-06-02 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | MS Teams

Brain-wide association studies: Current challenges and future directions by Dr Scott Marek & Dr Brenden Tervo-Clemmens
2022-06-09 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | MS Teams
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Dr Tervo-Clemmens is a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on understanding the emergence of psychopathology and substance use during adolescence and uses techniques from cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychopathology research, and data science. He is also engaged in methodological research aiming to evaluate and improve the reproducibility and ultimately, clinical utility, of large-scale fMRI research in neurodevelopmental studies. His work is supported by a Massachusetts General Hospital and National Institute on Drug Abuse Career Development Award and an early career award from the American Psychological Foundation.
Dr Marek is an Instructor in the Psychiatry Department at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. His research focuses on pediatric neuroimaging, precision functional imaging of individual brains, and best practices for reproducible research. Dr Marek leverages very large sample size datasets to understand population-level links between the brain and non-brain factors, as well as small sample size datasets with deep phenotyping to understand what makes a brain unique. His work is supported by the National Institute of Mental Health.
About the talk
Mental health research and care have yet to realize substantive advances from Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), despite wide-spread and increasing use MRI and functional MRI in translational neuroscience. A primary challenge to such translational insights has been replicating associations between inter-individual differences in brain structure or function and complex cognitive or mental health phenotypes (brain-wide association studies (BWAS)). We will discuss our recent work demonstrating that a historical reliance on small sample sizes in neuroimaging can parsimoniously explain such BWAS replication failures across common, cross-sectional brain-phenotype linkage methods. Within the context of these results, additional discussion will focus on considerations and priorities for future BWAS and non-BWAS approaches to translational brain-behavior linkages.
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The application of mixed models for the investigation of EDI issues in higher education by Dr Evren Raman
2022-06-15 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London)
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Species agnostic tools for translational MRI processing by Dr Eilidh MacNicol
2022-06-29 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | MS Teams
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Eilidh studied neuroscience at the University of Glasgow before coming to study neuroimaging at King’s College London. Her PhD research used MRI to investigate how brain networks change in healthy ageing. During this time, she became interested in extending processing tools developed for human data to be species agnostic, and supporting open science and reproducibility in the preclinical MRI community. In her current role as a postdoctoral researcher, she continues to apply network-based analysis methods to MRI data with the aim of modelling brain changes over time. You can find out more about Eilidh on Twitter and her website.
About the talk
Many tools that prepare neuroimaging data for analysis assume the input data are from adult humans and rely on assumptions that are not appropriate for other populations (e.g., human babies or non-human subjects). Researchers working with these populations make ad hoc adaptions to make their data compatible, but these choices may impact outcomes. These choices diverge workflows based on species, reducing MRI’s translational appeal, and raise concerns for reproducibility between groups. fMRIPrep and MRIQC are standardised workflows for transparent processing of human neuroimaging data. This talk will describe how these tools are being extended to include non-human data and why making our workflows species-agnostic can benefit everyone.
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Transforming & humanizing science in the 21st century by Prof Catherine Odora Hoppers
2022-06-30 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | MS Teams
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Reproducibility and Innovation: Can we do Better? by Dr Stuart Buck
2022-10-18 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | MS Teams
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As a Vice President at Arnold Ventures, Stuart funded renowned work showing that scientific research is often irreproducible, including the Reproducibility Projects in Psychology and Cancer Biology. As a grantmaker, he helped launch the Center for Open Science, Vivli, the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford, the Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience, the Yale Collaboration on Research Integrity and Transparency, and the Evidence-Based Medicine DataLab at Oxford. He was instrumental in creating the TOP Guidelines, the world’s most widely-adopted standards for scientific publication. His grantmaking was featured in Wired, the Economist, the New York Times, and the Atlantic, among many others. The president of the National Academies of Science and Medicine (Marcia McNutt) has said, “I cannot imagine how much progress would have been made in furthering open science without your leadership.”
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Like the layers of an onion: Transparency and reproducibility for quantitative research by
2022-10-19 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | Zoom, United Kingdom
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On intersectionality: Integrating critical theories and methods as a PhD student by Annalisa Myer
2022-10-25 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | MS Teams
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Open music research between art and science by Dr Alexander Refsum Jensenius
2022-10-27 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London) | Zoom, United Kingdom
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Alexander Refsum Jensenius is Professor of music technology at the University of Oslo and Director of the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion. His research focuses on why music makes us move, which he explores through empirical studies using different motion-sensing technologies. He also uses analytical knowledge and tools to create new music with both traditional and very untraditional instruments. These are presented in his upcoming book Sound Actions: Conceptualizing Musical Instruments (MIT Press, 2022).
About the talk
Many music researchers are turning towards studying music performance and perception in real-world settings. Collecting data in a concert situation is non-trivial, and FAIRifying the data is even more challenging. In this talk, I will discuss some challenges with handling privacy and copyright matters in music research. I will also discuss some benefits of working towards more open music research.
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Accelerating the uptake of high quality open research practices by Dr Neil Jacobs
2022-10-31 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | Zoom, United Kingdom
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Neil Jacobs gained his PhD in information science from Loughborough in 2000, then joined the team running the ESRC’s then projects and outcomes database. In 2005 he joined the national education and research digital infrastructure agency Jisc, leading national programmes and services in open science, and ending up in 2019 as lead for Jisc’s strategy to support research. During that time he spent a year on secondment to the UK Government as co-head of open science and was also programme manager for the international Plan S Open Access funder alliance. From 2020-2022 he was a leading member of UKRI’s strategy team on research culture and integrity, before joining UKRN in 2022 as head of the UKRN open research programme.
About the talk
Neil Jacobs will outline the aims and main activities in the five-year UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) open research programme, which runs until 2026. It aims to accelerate the uptake of high-quality open research practices. The programme has three main strands, on evaluation, on training, and on sharing and improving institutional policies and practices, including on recruitment and promotion of researchers. Neil will set out those strands, the wider sector context in which they sit, the work that’s been done so far, what’s next, and some potential opportunities to get involved. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion.
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Open access publishing by James Bisset & Sarah Hyland
2022-11-02 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London) | Zoom, United Kingdom
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Intro to Python by Iain Emsley
2022-11-10 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | MS Teams
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Iain Emsley will give an introductory talk about Python along the lines of Data Carpentry with a code example for those new and notes to follow up on later. Iain is happy to answer questions where possible.
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Trends in self-citation rates in neuroscience literature by Prof Dustin Scheinost & Matt Rosenblatt
2022-11-15 15:30 - 16:30 (Europe/London) | MS Teams
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Dustin Scheinost earned his PhD in biomedical engineering from Yale University and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging at Yale School of Medicine, where he leads the Multimodal Imaging, Neuroinformatics, and Data Science (MINDS) Lab. Dustin’s research interests include functional connectivity, predictive modeling, software development (BioImage Suite), and fetal-infant fMRI. In addition, Dustin is a founding member of the Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group (FIT’NG).
Matt Rosenblatt received his BS in bioengineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and he is currently a biomedical engineering graduate student in the Multimodal Imaging, Neuroinformatics, and Data Science (MINDS) Lab at Yale University. Matt’s main research focus is evaluating and improving the trustworthiness of machine learning for neuroimaging.
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In this talk, we will summarize our recent bioRxiv preprint “Trends in self-citation rates in neuroscience literature”. Since the downstream effects of self-citations include increased visibility and citations from others, it is crucial to establish baseline self-citation rates in neuroscience literature. We will not only discuss baseline self-citation rates, but also differences in self-citation by year, seniority, country, and gender. Finally, we will highlight a Python tool where authors can evaluate their own self-citation rates.
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Crowdsourcing research questions in science by Dr Susanne Beck
2022-11-25 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | MS Teams
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Scientists are increasingly crossing the boundaries of the professional system by involving the general public (the crowd) directly in their research. However, this crowd involvement tends to be confined to empirical work and it is not clear whether and how crowds can also be involved in conceptual stages such as formulating the questions that research is trying to address. Drawing on five different “paradigms” of crowdsourcing and related mechanisms, we first discuss potential merits of involving crowds in the formulation of research questions (RQs). We then analyze data from two crowdsourcing projects in the medical sciences to describe key features of RQs generated by crowd members and compare the quality of crowd contributions to that of RQs generated in the conventional scientific process.
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Supervisors' role modeling of responsible research practices by Dr Tamarinde Haven
2022-11-28 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/London) | Zoom, United Kingdom
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Tamarinde Haven has a background in psychology, philosophy, and epidemiology. She defended her PhD thesis in 2021 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam focusing on the role of the research climate in fostering or undermining research integrity. In her time as a postdoc at the BIH QUEST Center for Responsible Research, she investigated role modelling of Open Science practices among biomedical supervisors. Currently, Tamarinde works at Aarhus University on a Rubicon funded project to develop a measurement instrument for responsible supervision.
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Supervision is one important way to socialize PhD candidates into responsible research. We hypothesized that one should be more likely to identify responsible research practices (here publishing open access and sharing data) in empirical publications that were part of a PhD thesis when the PhD candidate’s supervisors engaged in these responsible research practices compared to PhD candidate’s supervisors who did not or rarely did.
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