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Quality Training for Quality Research (https://digital-research.academy/)

Community of expert trainers, who deliver custom trainings in #OpenScience, #DataLiteracy, and #RSE

Account is maintained by @joyceykao.bsky.social and @heidiseibold.bsky.social
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🚀 Registration is OPEN for the Open Science Retreat 2026!
A week of open ideas, fresh air & creative collaboration.
It’s not your usual conference, it’s part unconference, part hackathon, all community.
📅 Apr 7–11, 2026 | 📍 Machynlleth, Wales
👉 Sign up: buff.ly/L6MIbtq
#OpenScience
Our trainer Laura Carter is speaking at SeaGL 2025! 🎤
Open Training for Open Research
📅 Nov 7 | 10:30 | Room 340
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She’ll share how DRA builds community-powered training to make Open Science the default.
If you're at SeaGL, say hi! 🌱
November 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
New workshop alert!
DRA + Forschungszentrum Jülich are hosting:
Better Software Architecture, Better Software, Better Research
🗓 13 Nov 2025
Most research software focuses on what the code does.
This workshop focuses on how to structure it so it remains reusable and adaptable.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Dr. Heidi Seibold is speaking at TEDxTUM 2025! 🎤
She’s asking: How do we make science serve its purpose again?
If you care about Open Science & better research culture — this talk is for you.
📅 Nov 8, 2025
🎟️ Discounted tickets:
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#TEDxTUM #OpenScience #ResearchCulture
November 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We’re planning a hands-on workshop for the Open Science Retreat 2026 and we’d love your ideas!
What topic should we explore to that would help you and your community to make research more open, inclusive & impactful?
📅 Apr 7–11, 2026 | Machynlleth, Wales
💬 Reply or tag someone with awesome ideas!
October 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Year-end budgets left?
Invest in openness, not leftovers.
The Digital Research Academy helps institutions build transparent, reproducible research through expert training and collaboration.
Turn unused funds into future-ready research skills.
📩 hello@digiresacademy.org
#OpenScience #ResearchCulture
October 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Big goals need powerful voices and ours just hit TEDx! 🎤
Heidi Seibold, co-founder of Digital Research Academy, takes the stage at TEDxTUM 2025 to talk Open & Reproducible Science.
How do we rebuild trust, openness & collaboration in research? Find out Nov 8!
#OpenScience y #TEDx #ResearchCulture
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Last call to level up your #Python skills!
Make your projects reproducible, shareable & long-lasting.
Join our interactive online workshop with Priyanka Ojha to learn:
Project structuring best practices
Managing deps with Pixi
Building & publishing on PyPI
📅 Mon, 27 Oct 2025
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Python Packaging
Do you want to learn more about Python Packaging? Join our workshop! Format: Interactive online workshop What to expect: Why packaging matters for reproducibility, versioning, and collaboration. How…
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October 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Ready to finally preregister your next study? 🚀
Join Lisa Spitzer (ZPID) for a 90-min live workshop to make preregistration simple, practical & fun!
📅 22 Oct | 🕑 14:00–15:30 CEST
📍 Uni of Cologne – Room S134
👉 Sign up: buff.ly/TMhjbrj
#OpenScience #Psychology
Preregistration in Psychology
Learning Content In my course, you will learn about: What is a preregistration? Why is it important to preregister? How do I create a preregistration? Format 90 min in-person preregistration intro…
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October 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🚨 Happening live next week!
Thinking about preregistering your next psychology study but unsure where to start?
Join Lisa Spitzer for a hands-on, live workshop designed to make preregistration accessible
22 Oct 2025
14:00–15:30 (Europe/Zurich)
Room S 134, University of Cologne
Preregistration in Psychology
Learning Content In my course, you will learn about: What is a preregistration? Why is it important to preregister? How do I create a preregistration? Format 90 min in-person preregistration intro…
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October 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
🚀 Registration is OPEN for the Open Science Retreat 2026!
A week of open ideas, fresh air & creative collaboration.
It’s not your usual conference, it’s part unconference, part hackathon, all community.
📅 Apr 7–11, 2026 | 📍 Machynlleth, Wales
👉 Sign up: buff.ly/L6MIbtq
#OpenScience
October 15, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Health researchers who code this is for you!
Our flipped classroom workshop of 6 weeks will help you level up your coding: reproducibility, documentation, version control, CI, testing + more
Format: videos, tasks, buddy system + live sessions
Online | 20 hours total work
Register:
Research Software Engineering for Health Researchers Workshop Series
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October 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Curious about preregistration but not sure where to start?
Join Lisa Spitzer for a 90-min Preregistration in Psychology workshop on 22 Oct 2025 (14:00–15:30, Cologne).
Learn the why, what & how of preregistration and leave ready to make your next study transparent & reproducible.
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October 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
✨ Final quarter of 2025 ✨
If your org has funds to allocate, why not invest in your people?
DRA offers training in:
🔹 Open Science
🔹 Data Literacy
🔹 Research Software Engineering
Let’s turn year-end budgets into lasting skills.
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#OpenScience #Training #DataLiteracy #ResearchSoftware
October 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Continuous Integration for Research Code
Oct 9, 2025 | 10–12 CEST | Online
Make your code reproducible, automated & future-proof.
Join Christian Meesters for a practical CI workshop.
✅ CI pipelines with GitHub Actions
✅ Testing, debugging, reproducibility with Conda/Docker
Sign up: buff.ly/pspq9yC
October 2, 2025 at 10:43 AM
💡 Strong teams are built, not born.
On 1 Oct, 10:00–12:30 CEST (online) Helene Hoffmann leads a workshop on Community Building for Software Projects.
🌱 Psychological safety, trust & collaboration in software teams.
🤝 Interactive + practical insights.
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#OpenScience #ResearchSoftware
Community Building for Software Projects
Are you part of a software development team and looking to improve collaboration? In this workshop, we’ll explore the role of psychological safety in building strong and effective teams—especially in…
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September 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🥄 Got Open Science? Put it on the menu!
Our free email course serves up 13 tasty recipes:
🍋 Find your flavor
📱 Serve on socials
🎙️ Try podcasting
🎥 Add video
🍰 Generous marketing
Starts Sept 18 → 2x emails/week → free!
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Let’s make your Open Science impossible to miss. 🚀
#OpenScience
How to get visibility for your Open Science Initiative
Your Open Science initiative or service deserves to be seen. In this Email course you will receive 13 emails packed with information on outreach and marketing that feels right for you. We'll walk you…
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September 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
🍳 New email course: Open Science on the Menu!
A 13-step recipe to boost your initiative’s visibility.
🥄 Social media, networking, outreach & your unique voice—served in 2 emails/week, starting Sept 18.
👉 Sign up: buff.ly/mj8wVZw
#OpenScience #OSPARK
September 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
✨ “Outreach isn’t something on the side—it deserves space.”
That was @lspitzer.bsky.social 's big takeaway from the OSPARK workshop. They left ready to boost their Open Science initiatives with new ideas, social media plans, and even a future collaboration!
#OpenScience #SciComm
September 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
🚀 Your Open Science initiative deserves to be seen!
On Sept 11, Heidi Seibold speaks at the PANERIS Open Science workshop. Her talk focuses on making OS initiatives visible & impactful.
Let’s work towards transparent, collaborative & reproducible science!
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#OpenScience #FAIRData
Empower Your Research with Openness and Transparency - PANERIS
Organisers: VU LSCEvent date & time: 11 September 2025, 09:00–16:30 (CET)Event type: Online workshop
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September 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This week in Aachen 🚀 Researchers came together to learn how to teach.
In 3 days of Train-The-Trainer: skills grew, ideas were tested, and creativity in teaching shone.
Highlight: trainers supporting trainers & researchers learning from each other.
👉 What training shaped your career?
#OpenScience TT
September 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🎉 What a week at #CoRDI2025 in Aachen!
Highlights from the DRA booth:
Meeting the people behind tools we rely on ( forschungsdaten.info!)
Lots of curiosity about how DRA supports academic training
Biggest buzz: our Train-the-Trainer program + upcoming Open Science Retreat
#CoRDI2025 #OpenScience
September 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Looking for GitHub alternatives?

New free online training announced: "Collaborative git without GitHub" by @petrichor.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy 🧑‍💻

📅 3 September 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 CEST

More info and sign up:
events.digital-research.academy/event/110/

#git #VersionControl
Collaborative git without GitHub
Although git was created as a decentralised way to collaborate, the practical needs of day-to-day work have pushed most of us to use it through a centralised platform (generically called a “forge”), o...
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August 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
If you spot @heidiseibold.bsky.social or Julia Pauquet at #CoRDI2025, take a selfie with them and post it in the comments! 🤳

🌟 Bonus points if you wear a DRA button or sticker. 🌟

🏆 Best picture will get a 'special' prize by the end of #CoRDI2025. 😉

#SelfieContest #OpenScience #DataLiteracy #RSE
We're at #CoRDI2025 with a Digital Research Academy poster and fun buttons.

If you're there, come by!
August 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🎉 DRA is at CoRDI 2025 in Aachen!
Come by our stall for pins & merch, Open Science chats, and to connect with the DRA team.
Let’s build stronger research data communities together!
#CoRDI2025 #OpenScience #Reproducibility
August 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Many research support teams offer great services but struggle to get noticed.
That’s what the OSPARK workshop is all about: making Open Science initiatives visible & valuable.
📅 29 Aug | RWTH Aachen
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#OpenScience #ResearchSupport #OSPARK
August 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM