Hello! We're Edinburgh ReproducibiliTea and we host seminar/journal club-style meetings every 3rd Friday of the month on themes related to reproducibility, transparency and integrity in research. We aim to keep our meetings accessible to anyone who would like to learn more about open research practices, regardless of their level of experience/familiarity. Read more about our previous meetings in the blog posts below. Please sign up to our mailing list here to receive details for our monthly meetings. For an overview of the upcoming sessions, please refer to the schedule below. We hope to see you at one of our sessions!
Schedule 2021-2022
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Materials |
| 17/09/2021 | Dr Priya Silverstein | Easing Into Open Science | Ummul-Kiram Kathawalla, Priya Silverstein, Moin Syed; Easing Into Open Science: A Guide for Graduate Students and Their Advisors. Collabra: Psychology 4 January 2021; 7 (1): 18684. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.18684 Priya’s previous talk for RIOT science club here Recording of RTea session here |
| 15/10/2021 | Dr Will Cawthorn | Building an Open Research Culture | Read more about the 8 pillars of open science and LERU’s template roadmap here: https://www.leru.org/publications/open-science-and-its-role-in-universities-a-roadmap-for-cultural-change |
| 19/11/2021 | Dr Gillian Currie | Open Research Practices in Wet-Lab Research | Link to EUROC: edin.ac/2SZvY4U |
| 17/12/2021 | Dr Zachary Horne | Bayesian Statistics and Open Research | |
| 21/01/2022 | Laura Klinkhamer | Paper discussion | “Fallibility in Science: Responding to Errors in the Work of Oneself and Others“, by Prof Dorothy Bishop |
| 25/02/2022 | Moderator: Dr Emily Sena | Panel discussion on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Open Research | Dr Kirstie Whitaker, Dr Olivia Guest, Dr Nadia Soliman & Dr Catherine Talbot Read more about this session in this blog |
| 18/03/2022 | Niamh MacSweeney | Registered Reports | |
| 15/04/2022 | tbc | tbc |
The replication crisis in psychology: Pre-registration and Registered Reports as crusaders for a brighter future | 20/01/23 | Dr Roman Briker
In our first Edinburgh ReproducibiliTea session of 2023, Dr Roman Briker gave a talk on pre-registration and Registered Reports. Dr Briker is an Assistant Professor in Organisational Behaviour at Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, and an Open Science Ambassador at the School of Business and Economics. Reproducibility crisis and questionable research practices Many…
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Open Research Across Disciplines | 16/12/22 | Emma Wilson
In our December session of Edinburgh ReproducibiliTea, Emma Wilson presented a session on open research practices across disciplines. Emma is a PhD student at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences. The session was focused on the UK Reproducibility’s list of open research case studies, examples, and resources for various research disciplines: https://www.ukrn.org/disciplines/ The list of…
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Introducing FAIRPoints and FAIR + Open Research for Beginners | 18/11/22 | Dr Sara El-Gebali
In our November session of Edinburgh ReproducibiliTea, we were joined by Dr Sara El-Gebali. Sara is a Research Data Manager, Co-Founder of FAIRPoints and Project Leader of LifeSciLab. In her talk, Sara introduced FAIRPoints, an event series highlighting pragmatic community-developed measures towards the implementation of the FAIR data principles, and some of the projects currently…
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Errors in Research
“Fallibility in Science- Responding to Errors in the Work of Oneself and Others” This was the first session of year 2022 and revolved around a paper discussion on Errors in Research. It was led by Laura Klinkhamer, a PHD student at The University of Edinburgh. Her research interests lie at the intersection of neuroscience and…
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Bayesian data analysis and preregistration 17/12/2021 with Dr Zachary Horne
This session was the final session of the year 2021. The speaker was Dr Zachary Horne, a lecturer at School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh. Dr Horne talked about Bayesian statistics and preregistration in the context of open research practices. Dr Horne started his presentation by talking about what is…
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Edinburgh University Research Optimisation Course (EUROC) 19/11/2021 with Dr Gillian Currie
In this session, Dr Gillian Currie who is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the CAMARADES group, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences at The University of Edinburgh talked about EUROC (Edinburgh University Research Optimisation Course) which encourages open research practices in animal research. Dr Gillian Currie is a meta-researcher and her research interests include improvement in…
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