UK Reproducibility Network
@ukrepro.bsky.social
The UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) is a national peer-led consortium that aims to promote and enable rigorous, robust, transparent, and reproducible research in the UK.
https://www.ukrn.org/ #AcademicSky #OpenResearch #Research
https://www.ukrn.org/ #AcademicSky #OpenResearch #Research
Join us for Love Methods Week 2026, an all-online workshop on sharing open, reusable methods!
📅 Dates: January 19–23, 2026
Learn how to make your research more transparent and reproducible while enabling others to reuse your methods and data responsibly.
#LoveMethods26
📅 Dates: January 19–23, 2026
Learn how to make your research more transparent and reproducible while enabling others to reuse your methods and data responsibly.
#LoveMethods26
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Join us for Love Methods Week 2026, an all-online workshop on sharing open, reusable methods!
📅 Dates: January 19–23, 2026
Learn how to make your research more transparent and reproducible while enabling others to reuse your methods and data responsibly.
#LoveMethods26
📅 Dates: January 19–23, 2026
Learn how to make your research more transparent and reproducible while enabling others to reuse your methods and data responsibly.
#LoveMethods26
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Funny reading this quote because it's exactly the same way I'm now thinking about open research with @morphss.bsky.social
A reminder that "[o]ne should not think of OA as a thing-in-itself; rather, it should be seen as a process of understanding, engaging and experimenting with the ways in which research is presented and disseminated." (@samuelmoore.org, 2017)
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Funny reading this quote because it's exactly the same way I'm now thinking about open research with @morphss.bsky.social
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Advance the Culture of Peer Review with Preprints!
A few tips for funders, departments & institutions!
✨ Consider preprints and their reviews in evaluations for funding, hiring, promotion, etc.
✨ Allocate funding and support for preprint review services.
A few tips for funders, departments & institutions!
✨ Consider preprints and their reviews in evaluations for funding, hiring, promotion, etc.
✨ Allocate funding and support for preprint review services.
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Advance the Culture of Peer Review with Preprints!
A few tips for funders, departments & institutions!
✨ Consider preprints and their reviews in evaluations for funding, hiring, promotion, etc.
✨ Allocate funding and support for preprint review services.
A few tips for funders, departments & institutions!
✨ Consider preprints and their reviews in evaluations for funding, hiring, promotion, etc.
✨ Allocate funding and support for preprint review services.
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Transparency about poor inferential practices does not relieve us of the responsibility of not engaging in such practices in the first place. Wish we stopped attributing higher moral value on transparency than doing diligent work and explicitly aiming to minimize the reporting of invalid inferences.
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Transparency about poor inferential practices does not relieve us of the responsibility of not engaging in such practices in the first place. Wish we stopped attributing higher moral value on transparency than doing diligent work and explicitly aiming to minimize the reporting of invalid inferences.
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I'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform!
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
OpenSAFELY team awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further
Oxford’s OpenSAFELY team wins the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for revolutionising secure NHS data research, protecting patient privacy while unlocking life-saving health insights.
www.ox.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform!
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
Final Call!
Applications for the Open Science Retreat close 30 Nov.
Join us in Machynlleth for a week of focus, creativity & collaboration.
Last chance - apply now: open.science-retreat.org/OSR26UK/
Applications for the Open Science Retreat close 30 Nov.
Join us in Machynlleth for a week of focus, creativity & collaboration.
Last chance - apply now: open.science-retreat.org/OSR26UK/
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November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Final Call!
Applications for the Open Science Retreat close 30 Nov.
Join us in Machynlleth for a week of focus, creativity & collaboration.
Last chance - apply now: open.science-retreat.org/OSR26UK/
Applications for the Open Science Retreat close 30 Nov.
Join us in Machynlleth for a week of focus, creativity & collaboration.
Last chance - apply now: open.science-retreat.org/OSR26UK/
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🌱 GW4 Researchers: Are you looking for seed funding to kick-start your next project?
The Generator Fund is now open for applications!
➡️ We’re offering up to £20k in seed funding to help both new and existing GW4 research communities accelerate research.
www.gw4.ac.uk/generator-fund
The Generator Fund is now open for applications!
➡️ We’re offering up to £20k in seed funding to help both new and existing GW4 research communities accelerate research.
www.gw4.ac.uk/generator-fund
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
🌱 GW4 Researchers: Are you looking for seed funding to kick-start your next project?
The Generator Fund is now open for applications!
➡️ We’re offering up to £20k in seed funding to help both new and existing GW4 research communities accelerate research.
www.gw4.ac.uk/generator-fund
The Generator Fund is now open for applications!
➡️ We’re offering up to £20k in seed funding to help both new and existing GW4 research communities accelerate research.
www.gw4.ac.uk/generator-fund
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Final call to apply for this amazing opportunity 👇
Applications close 30th November
Applications close 30th November
Final Call! OSR applications close 30 November!
If you’ve been planning to apply, this is the moment.
Join an international community of researchers & open science practitioners for a week of focus, creativity, collaboration, and connection in Machynlleth.
Apply: buff.ly/6z1PhfU
If you’ve been planning to apply, this is the moment.
Join an international community of researchers & open science practitioners for a week of focus, creativity, collaboration, and connection in Machynlleth.
Apply: buff.ly/6z1PhfU
November 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Final call to apply for this amazing opportunity 👇
Applications close 30th November
Applications close 30th November
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#statstab #467 Hypothesis testing, model selection, model comparison some thoughts
Thoughts: An excellent (but too short) discussion on bayesian inference.
#bayesian #bayesfactor #modelselection #inference #NBHT #BF #ROPE #primer
discourse.mc-stan.org/t/hypothesis...
Thoughts: An excellent (but too short) discussion on bayesian inference.
#bayesian #bayesfactor #modelselection #inference #NBHT #BF #ROPE #primer
discourse.mc-stan.org/t/hypothesis...
Hypothesis testing, model selection, model comparison - some thoughts
EDIT: This was an attempt to write guidance. It turns out I stepped quite far from my depth and the text sounded much more conclusive than it should. I think it is correct to currently just classify i...
discourse.mc-stan.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
#statstab #467 Hypothesis testing, model selection, model comparison some thoughts
Thoughts: An excellent (but too short) discussion on bayesian inference.
#bayesian #bayesfactor #modelselection #inference #NBHT #BF #ROPE #primer
discourse.mc-stan.org/t/hypothesis...
Thoughts: An excellent (but too short) discussion on bayesian inference.
#bayesian #bayesfactor #modelselection #inference #NBHT #BF #ROPE #primer
discourse.mc-stan.org/t/hypothesis...
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Please give a warm welcome to a new ReproducibiliTea journal club:
✨ The University of Stirling, Scotland, UK ✨
Organised by:
Hamzeh Norouzi @hamzehn.bsky.social & Gemma Learmonth @gemmalearmonth.bsky.social
✨ The University of Stirling, Scotland, UK ✨
Organised by:
Hamzeh Norouzi @hamzehn.bsky.social & Gemma Learmonth @gemmalearmonth.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Please give a warm welcome to a new ReproducibiliTea journal club:
✨ The University of Stirling, Scotland, UK ✨
Organised by:
Hamzeh Norouzi @hamzehn.bsky.social & Gemma Learmonth @gemmalearmonth.bsky.social
✨ The University of Stirling, Scotland, UK ✨
Organised by:
Hamzeh Norouzi @hamzehn.bsky.social & Gemma Learmonth @gemmalearmonth.bsky.social
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The authors of a Comment article in Nature discuss Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT), a tool for clarifying the roles of each author of a research paper and call for CRediT to become the norm, to support researchers and research integrity across the whole academic landscape. #Academicsky 🧪
A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do
Information about the roles of each author of a paper can help to build trust, integrity and responsible research assessment. Coordinated efforts are needed to consolidate progress.
go.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The authors of a Comment article in Nature discuss Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT), a tool for clarifying the roles of each author of a research paper and call for CRediT to become the norm, to support researchers and research integrity across the whole academic landscape. #Academicsky 🧪
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Luke Thompson, Head of Data Protection & Legal Services at @sheffielduni.bsky.social discusses emerging challenges in data protection, particularly in relation to Generative AI, and highlights the need for updated governance and legal frameworks.
@n8cir.bsky.social #N8CIR
youtu.be/kte3I9I8qLA?...
@n8cir.bsky.social #N8CIR
youtu.be/kte3I9I8qLA?...
Data protection and Generative AI
YouTube video by N8 CIR
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Luke Thompson, Head of Data Protection & Legal Services at @sheffielduni.bsky.social discusses emerging challenges in data protection, particularly in relation to Generative AI, and highlights the need for updated governance and legal frameworks.
@n8cir.bsky.social #N8CIR
youtu.be/kte3I9I8qLA?...
@n8cir.bsky.social #N8CIR
youtu.be/kte3I9I8qLA?...
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We have a new revision on our preprint "Practice what you preach: Designing student assignments that advance open and reproducible science"! We had some of the nicest (but still critical) peer-review comments I've ever received, so that was refreshing.
osf.io/preprints/os...
osf.io/preprints/os...
OSF
osf.io
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
We have a new revision on our preprint "Practice what you preach: Designing student assignments that advance open and reproducible science"! We had some of the nicest (but still critical) peer-review comments I've ever received, so that was refreshing.
osf.io/preprints/os...
osf.io/preprints/os...
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📊 One week to go until our next survey data drop-in.
This free online drop-in is for anyone working with secondary survey data who is looking for help or advice.
To book a place, please follow the link below:
📅 3 December 2025
⏰ 12:00-13:00
📍 Online
🧷
This free online drop-in is for anyone working with secondary survey data who is looking for help or advice.
To book a place, please follow the link below:
📅 3 December 2025
⏰ 12:00-13:00
📍 Online
🧷
Survey data drop-in - UK Data Service
3 Dec 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - This free online drop-in is for anyone working or thinking of working with secondary survey data who are looking for help and advice with their project or research.…
ukdataservice.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
📊 One week to go until our next survey data drop-in.
This free online drop-in is for anyone working with secondary survey data who is looking for help or advice.
To book a place, please follow the link below:
📅 3 December 2025
⏰ 12:00-13:00
📍 Online
🧷
This free online drop-in is for anyone working with secondary survey data who is looking for help or advice.
To book a place, please follow the link below:
📅 3 December 2025
⏰ 12:00-13:00
📍 Online
🧷
Congratulations Sofia @shsslbu.bsky.social!
It's great to see your work as one of our Local Network Leads being recognised and awarded. So well deserved!
It's great to see your work as one of our Local Network Leads being recognised and awarded. So well deserved!
In our next Research and Knowledge Exchange Awards blog post, we shine a spotlight on the Open and Responsible Research Award, won this year by Dr Sofia Persson @shsslbu.bsky.social for her fantastic work with @ukrepro.bsky.social
🏆 bit.ly/4rmcHpD
#RKEFest25 #AcademicSky #research
🏆 bit.ly/4rmcHpD
#RKEFest25 #AcademicSky #research
November 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Congratulations Sofia @shsslbu.bsky.social!
It's great to see your work as one of our Local Network Leads being recognised and awarded. So well deserved!
It's great to see your work as one of our Local Network Leads being recognised and awarded. So well deserved!
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Together w/ @odissei.bsky.social, I4R is organizing CBS Replication Games, re-analyzing 6 papers w/ Dutch administrative microdata! Teams get 1 month of microdata access in Feb 2026, meeting in Utrecht for a three-day hackathon. Interested? Register by Nov 30! tinyurl.com/yx3e7b3a
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Together w/ @odissei.bsky.social, I4R is organizing CBS Replication Games, re-analyzing 6 papers w/ Dutch administrative microdata! Teams get 1 month of microdata access in Feb 2026, meeting in Utrecht for a three-day hackathon. Interested? Register by Nov 30! tinyurl.com/yx3e7b3a
Well deserved win for the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative, one of our partners in the Global Federation of Reproducibility Networks.
🏆 Institutional: The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative is a nationwide effort to evaluate research results in laboratory biology & the largest coordinated replication effort in the field worldwide, showcasing the potential of country-level research improvements. @redebrrepro.bsky.social (3/5)
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Well deserved win for the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative, one of our partners in the Global Federation of Reproducibility Networks.
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Hey folks! We're running a big repliCATS workshop in Melbourne on 16 Dec, evaluating of replicability of published papers.
🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome
💰 AU$200
🎫 + travel subsidies
ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY...
Re-posts appreciated 🌈
🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome
💰 AU$200
🎫 + travel subsidies
ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY...
Re-posts appreciated 🌈
October 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Hey folks! We're running a big repliCATS workshop in Melbourne on 16 Dec, evaluating of replicability of published papers.
🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome
💰 AU$200
🎫 + travel subsidies
ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY...
Re-posts appreciated 🌈
🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome
💰 AU$200
🎫 + travel subsidies
ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY...
Re-posts appreciated 🌈
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HYBRID EVENT: 'Introduction to Quantitative Bias' with Rachel Hughes on Monday 1st December at 10am-12pm UK time.
For those near Leeds, bring your laptop and enjoy this as an in-person session!
Sign-up before 9am on Thursday 27th via: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
For those near Leeds, bring your laptop and enjoy this as an in-person session!
Sign-up before 9am on Thursday 27th via: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
HYBRID EVENT: 'Introduction to Quantitative Bias' with Rachel Hughes on Monday 1st December at 10am-12pm UK time.
For those near Leeds, bring your laptop and enjoy this as an in-person session!
Sign-up before 9am on Thursday 27th via: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
For those near Leeds, bring your laptop and enjoy this as an in-person session!
Sign-up before 9am on Thursday 27th via: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
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Calling Bioethics researchers.
Created in collaboration with @tandfresearch.bsky.social, & affiliated with The American Journal of Bioethics, Bioethics Open Research welcomes submissions in all areas of #Bioethics.
Explore here: spr.ly/633217m7fS
Created in collaboration with @tandfresearch.bsky.social, & affiliated with The American Journal of Bioethics, Bioethics Open Research welcomes submissions in all areas of #Bioethics.
Explore here: spr.ly/633217m7fS
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Calling Bioethics researchers.
Created in collaboration with @tandfresearch.bsky.social, & affiliated with The American Journal of Bioethics, Bioethics Open Research welcomes submissions in all areas of #Bioethics.
Explore here: spr.ly/633217m7fS
Created in collaboration with @tandfresearch.bsky.social, & affiliated with The American Journal of Bioethics, Bioethics Open Research welcomes submissions in all areas of #Bioethics.
Explore here: spr.ly/633217m7fS
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"It is noteworthy here that in all likelihood, the wealthy would still continue to receive high-quality personal instruction while the less wealthy would be taught by these potentially problematic LLMs due to resource constraints." — me and @samhforbes.bsky.social
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They love to say it's a way to help underserved groups of children too. Extra scary.
Forbes, S. H. & Guest, O. (2025). To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models. Cognitive Science. doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
PDF: philpapers.org/archive/FORT...
Forbes, S. H. & Guest, O. (2025). To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models. Cognitive Science. doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
PDF: philpapers.org/archive/FORT...
To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models
Huettig and Christiansen in an earlier issue argue that large language models (LLMs) are beneficial to address declining cognitive skills, such as literacy, through combating imbalances in educationa....
doi.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"It is noteworthy here that in all likelihood, the wealthy would still continue to receive high-quality personal instruction while the less wealthy would be taught by these potentially problematic LLMs due to resource constraints." — me and @samhforbes.bsky.social
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✒️ New blog post by Mircea Zloteanu @mzloteanu.bsky.social
💡 Post-publication reviewing - some reflections
reproducibilitea.org/jc/2025/11/2...
💡 Post-publication reviewing - some reflections
reproducibilitea.org/jc/2025/11/2...
Post-publication reviewing - some reflections
There is a pedagogic and pragmatic reason to consider post-publication reviews, which I believe are often dismissed. Science is an ever-correcting process, but also a slow process. Academia is a socia...
reproducibilitea.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
✒️ New blog post by Mircea Zloteanu @mzloteanu.bsky.social
💡 Post-publication reviewing - some reflections
reproducibilitea.org/jc/2025/11/2...
💡 Post-publication reviewing - some reflections
reproducibilitea.org/jc/2025/11/2...
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🌲 The Green RSE Special Interest Group (SIG) aims to embed sustainability more deeply into research software practice. One year after its launch, the Green RSE SIG returned to RSECon to share their progress and discuss new challenges. Find out more about it at
www.software.ac.uk/blog/rses-ca...
www.software.ac.uk/blog/rses-ca...
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🌲 The Green RSE Special Interest Group (SIG) aims to embed sustainability more deeply into research software practice. One year after its launch, the Green RSE SIG returned to RSECon to share their progress and discuss new challenges. Find out more about it at
www.software.ac.uk/blog/rses-ca...
www.software.ac.uk/blog/rses-ca...
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💡 Are you stuck on a computational social science project? Join our free computational social science drop-in sessions.
Our next session is on 13 January and you can book your place at the link below:
📅 13 January 2026
⏰ 13:00-14:00
📍 Online
🧷
Our next session is on 13 January and you can book your place at the link below:
📅 13 January 2026
⏰ 13:00-14:00
📍 Online
🧷
Computational social science drop-in - UK Data Service
13 Jan 2026 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm - Do you find yourself: stuck on a project with no one to ask about it? not sure what to learn next? the only person in your team using computational methods? wanting…
ukdataservice.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
💡 Are you stuck on a computational social science project? Join our free computational social science drop-in sessions.
Our next session is on 13 January and you can book your place at the link below:
📅 13 January 2026
⏰ 13:00-14:00
📍 Online
🧷
Our next session is on 13 January and you can book your place at the link below:
📅 13 January 2026
⏰ 13:00-14:00
📍 Online
🧷
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Training initiative FORRT has released a platform for those who wish to discover and publicize computer and tabletop games about open research and publishing! Linked through this landing page:
forrt.org/games/
forrt.org/games/
Open Research Games Portal
Integrating open and reproducible science into higher education
forrt.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Training initiative FORRT has released a platform for those who wish to discover and publicize computer and tabletop games about open research and publishing! Linked through this landing page:
forrt.org/games/
forrt.org/games/