Open science: improving your research workflow to increase transparency and reproducibility

7-8 December 2023

Dr Dominique Roche, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

- Dominique Roche

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

- Giulia Masoero

Swiss Ornithological Institute, Switzerland

- Daniel Berner

Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland

- Alfredo Sanchez-Tojar

Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Bielefeld, Germany

- Antica Culina

Ruder Boskovic Institute, Croatia

This two-day workshop will teach graduate student how to adopt open science practices to promote transparency and reproducibility in research. The first day of the workshop will consist of 5 lectures by invited speakers on topics including the replication crisis in science and the benefits of open science practices, publication bias and measures to counter it, statistical misconceptions and best practices, common mistakes in study design and reporting, and open data and code. These lectures will be followed by and a round table discussion where students ask questions to the panel of speakers. The second day of the workshop will be devoted to hands-on, practical sessions for students to put into practice the concepts presented in day 1, including how to use the Open Science Framework (www.osf.io) and how to create reproducible workflows using Rstudio and GitHub.

Day 1 (Dec 07, 2023)

09:30 - 09:45 Welcome (Dominique Roche)

09:45 - 10:45 The what, why and how of open science (Dominique Roche)

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break (Eateco)

11:00 - 12:00 Publication bias: what's that and how can we tackle it? (Alfredo Sanchez-Tojar)

12:00 - 13:15 Lunch break (Eateco)

13:15 - 14:15 Credible science with data and code sharing (Antica Culina)

14:15 - 15:15 Statistical misconceptions and understanding scientific inference (Daniel Berner)

15:15 - 15:30 Coffee break (Eateco)

15:30 - 16:30 An early career researcher's journey into open science (Giulia Masoero)

16:45 - 18:00 Apéro with students (Eateco)

Day 2 (Dec 08, 2023)

09:30 - 09:45 Welcome

09:45 - 10:45 Introduction to the Open Science Framework part 1 (Dominique Roche)

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break (Eateco)

11:00 - 12:00 Introduction to the Open Science Framework part 2 (Dominique Roche)

12:00 - 13:15 Lunch break (Eateco)

13:15 - 14:15 Reproducible workflows using Git/GitHub and RStudio (Alfredo Sanchez-Tojar)

14:15 - 14:30 Coffee break 

14:30 - 15:45 Reproducible workflows using Git/GitHub and RStudio (Antica Culina)

15:45 - 16:00 Wrap-up (Dominique Roche)

University of Neuchâtel, Chemistry building, room GE14

Location

Rail station Neuchâtel _Chemistry building UNINE

Registration: open

Registration fee: Free for CUSO Microbiology PhD members. 150.- for non PhD members (plus travel expenses).

Deadline for registration :29.11.23

Cancellation fee: 50.- if cancellation after the 29.11.23

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