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 |
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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Building an Open Research Culture 29/10/2021 with Dr Will Cawthorn
In this session, Dr Will Cawthorn at The University of Edinburgh Centre for Cardiovascular Science talked about Building an Open Research Culture. Dr Cawthorn began by talking about the conflicts of interest in research which can be extrinsic and intrinsic and how important it is in open research to have no potential conflicts of interest. Here…
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Easing Into Open Science 17/09/2021 with Dr Priya Silverstein
written by Laura Klinkhamer (co-organiser of Edinburgh ReproducibiliTea) In this session we took a look at the following paper: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 and we were joined by one of the authors,…
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A selfish guide to RSpace: Why and How?
In this session, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Dr. Ralitsa Madsen covers why using an Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) is a great idea. Dr. Madsen suggests that there are many rewards in using ELN for a reproducible workflow and they include: Saving a lot of time while reading, searching the documents and so on. If you are…
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