In a series of new blogposts on the ECHR website, I’m going to write some stuff about ‘Open Science’. The first is an introduction to what open science is, why it is especially important topic for ECRs, and provides a short history of the events in psychological science that resulted in the adoption of open research practices by an increasing number of psychology researchers. After that, the posts will try to follow the life cycle of a research project, so that you can see how, at each stage of a study, you could adopt some open research practices. Below are a set of links to each post (links will become live as each blog is posted):
What is open science? And how did we end up here?
How can I make better predictions/develop better models?
Why should I pre-register a study?
Why should I try to collect a large sample size?
Why should I share my materials?
Why should I use open source materials?
Why should I focus on measurement?
Why should I support not-for-profit publishers/diamond open access journals?
What about openness in terms of diversity, equality, and inclusivity?
Throughout, I will try to keep the posts short, and will link to resources that people who are smarter than me have developed.
And to close, I should emphasize that if you are new to open science, then (as Christina Bergmann – https://bsky.app/profile/chbergma.bsky.social – noted) you should think of the above as a buffet of open research practices that you can try out, rather than a set menu that you must take on all at once.
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