UK Reproducibility Network
@ukrepro.bsky.social
The UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) is a national peer-led consortium that aims to promote and enable rigorous, robust, transparent, and reproducible research in the UK.
https://www.ukrn.org/ #AcademicSky #OpenResearch #Research
https://www.ukrn.org/ #AcademicSky #OpenResearch #Research
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During the Festival of Hidden REF, we spoke to some of our attendees to find out how they think research culture in UK higher education can be improved.
Take a look and let us know what you would like to change!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJCu...
Take a look and let us know what you would like to change!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJCu...
Change one thing #ResearchCulture #REF
YouTube video by Hidden REF
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November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
During the Festival of Hidden REF, we spoke to some of our attendees to find out how they think research culture in UK higher education can be improved.
Take a look and let us know what you would like to change!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJCu...
Take a look and let us know what you would like to change!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJCu...
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How many preregistered studies end up in the file drawer? 🗂️
Join us to find out from Eline Ensinck at the next ReproducibiliTea!
📅Nov 25, 3pm GMT
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/are-prereg...
@tabeasch.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org @uclopenscience.bsky.social @ukrepro.bsky.social @lakens.bsky.social
Join us to find out from Eline Ensinck at the next ReproducibiliTea!
📅Nov 25, 3pm GMT
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/are-prereg...
@tabeasch.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org @uclopenscience.bsky.social @ukrepro.bsky.social @lakens.bsky.social
Are Preregistered Studies Publicly Shared? With Eline Ensinck
Eline Ensinck will present research on the number of preregistered studies which are never published and the reasons behind this
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November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
How many preregistered studies end up in the file drawer? 🗂️
Join us to find out from Eline Ensinck at the next ReproducibiliTea!
📅Nov 25, 3pm GMT
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/are-prereg...
@tabeasch.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org @uclopenscience.bsky.social @ukrepro.bsky.social @lakens.bsky.social
Join us to find out from Eline Ensinck at the next ReproducibiliTea!
📅Nov 25, 3pm GMT
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/are-prereg...
@tabeasch.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org @uclopenscience.bsky.social @ukrepro.bsky.social @lakens.bsky.social
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✍️ Advance the Culture of Peer Review with Preprints!🚀
Tips for researchers:
✨ Request reviews and feedback for your next preprint
✨Write preprint reviews
✨Agree to review preprints
✨Convert journal clubs to a preprint review club
✨List preprint reviews on your lab website
Tips for researchers:
✨ Request reviews and feedback for your next preprint
✨Write preprint reviews
✨Agree to review preprints
✨Convert journal clubs to a preprint review club
✨List preprint reviews on your lab website
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
✍️ Advance the Culture of Peer Review with Preprints!🚀
Tips for researchers:
✨ Request reviews and feedback for your next preprint
✨Write preprint reviews
✨Agree to review preprints
✨Convert journal clubs to a preprint review club
✨List preprint reviews on your lab website
Tips for researchers:
✨ Request reviews and feedback for your next preprint
✨Write preprint reviews
✨Agree to review preprints
✨Convert journal clubs to a preprint review club
✨List preprint reviews on your lab website
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Share your research on molecular excited states!
With early-career and established scientists in attendance, our Faraday Discussion #FD_ExcitedStates is an ideal forum to share what you’re working on.
Submit an oral abstract: rsc.li/excitedstates-fd2026
#ChemSky
With early-career and established scientists in attendance, our Faraday Discussion #FD_ExcitedStates is an ideal forum to share what you’re working on.
Submit an oral abstract: rsc.li/excitedstates-fd2026
#ChemSky
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Share your research on molecular excited states!
With early-career and established scientists in attendance, our Faraday Discussion #FD_ExcitedStates is an ideal forum to share what you’re working on.
Submit an oral abstract: rsc.li/excitedstates-fd2026
#ChemSky
With early-career and established scientists in attendance, our Faraday Discussion #FD_ExcitedStates is an ideal forum to share what you’re working on.
Submit an oral abstract: rsc.li/excitedstates-fd2026
#ChemSky
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Today the UK government has released a strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods.
Read more: www.gov.uk/government/n...
Read more: www.gov.uk/government/n...
Animal testing to be phased out faster as UK unveils roadmap for alternative methods
New plan backs researchers to seize on new and developing opportunities to phase out animal tests with specific commitments for the coming years.
www.gov.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Today the UK government has released a strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods.
Read more: www.gov.uk/government/n...
Read more: www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Thrilled to see PLOS Medicine (@plos.org) now REQUIRES the TARGET checklist to be completed for submitted target trial emulations. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004796
Transparent reporting shouldn't be optional, if you edit at a journal, please encourage your EiC or publishers to follow suit.
Transparent reporting shouldn't be optional, if you edit at a journal, please encourage your EiC or publishers to follow suit.
Raising the bar for causal inference: PLOS Medicine adopts the TARGET guidelines for target trial emulation studies
The TARGET guidelines aim to improve transparency and consistency in reporting of observational studies that emulate target trials. This Editorial announces that PLOS Medicine fully endorses the TARGE...
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Thrilled to see PLOS Medicine (@plos.org) now REQUIRES the TARGET checklist to be completed for submitted target trial emulations. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004796
Transparent reporting shouldn't be optional, if you edit at a journal, please encourage your EiC or publishers to follow suit.
Transparent reporting shouldn't be optional, if you edit at a journal, please encourage your EiC or publishers to follow suit.
Reproducibility can be a difficult word to start with when we're engaging in discussion with researchers and research enablers across different research disciplines.
UKRN has grown beyond the psychology and life sciences, from where we initially began and adopted reproducibility into our name.
UKRN has grown beyond the psychology and life sciences, from where we initially began and adopted reproducibility into our name.
November 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Reproducibility can be a difficult word to start with when we're engaging in discussion with researchers and research enablers across different research disciplines.
UKRN has grown beyond the psychology and life sciences, from where we initially began and adopted reproducibility into our name.
UKRN has grown beyond the psychology and life sciences, from where we initially began and adopted reproducibility into our name.
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📣 Join the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee!
📅 Applications are open until 30th November 2025 (midnight CET).
Full Announcement:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Application Form:
forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2...
Please share!
📅 Applications are open until 30th November 2025 (midnight CET).
Full Announcement:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Application Form:
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Please share!
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
📣 Join the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee!
📅 Applications are open until 30th November 2025 (midnight CET).
Full Announcement:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Application Form:
forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2...
Please share!
📅 Applications are open until 30th November 2025 (midnight CET).
Full Announcement:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Application Form:
forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2...
Please share!
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Join us on 26 Nov (12 - 1pm GMT) for a webinar sharing early findings from @UCL’s REPAIR Project, exploring structural inequities in funding, recognition & career progression.
Free to attend
Register here: www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e...
#ResearchCulture# STEMEquity #Neuroscience #AcademicCareers
Free to attend
Register here: www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e...
#ResearchCulture# STEMEquity #Neuroscience #AcademicCareers
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Join us on 26 Nov (12 - 1pm GMT) for a webinar sharing early findings from @UCL’s REPAIR Project, exploring structural inequities in funding, recognition & career progression.
Free to attend
Register here: www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e...
#ResearchCulture# STEMEquity #Neuroscience #AcademicCareers
Free to attend
Register here: www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e...
#ResearchCulture# STEMEquity #Neuroscience #AcademicCareers
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Another troubling exposé of fraud in science publishing: organised groups of reviewers (here, in the medical sciences) conspiring to push authors to cite the reviewers' own work.
Hats off to sleuths Oviedo-García, Aquarius, and @deevybee.bsky.social
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hats off to sleuths Oviedo-García, Aquarius, and @deevybee.bsky.social
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Gaming the peer review system: a sophisticated review mill in medicine highlights the need to ensure reviewer integrity
Background A review mill is a network of researchers who game the peer review system to apparently boost their citations. Members write generic review reports containing suggestions for citations to t...
www.medrxiv.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Another troubling exposé of fraud in science publishing: organised groups of reviewers (here, in the medical sciences) conspiring to push authors to cite the reviewers' own work.
Hats off to sleuths Oviedo-García, Aquarius, and @deevybee.bsky.social
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hats off to sleuths Oviedo-García, Aquarius, and @deevybee.bsky.social
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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📊 Official statistics must serve everyone, not just government. The RSS calls for a new partnership between producers & users, built on transparency, engagement & co-design. Read our new position paper calling for a better system: bit.ly/3LNwKwU #Statistics #PublicData
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
📊 Official statistics must serve everyone, not just government. The RSS calls for a new partnership between producers & users, built on transparency, engagement & co-design. Read our new position paper calling for a better system: bit.ly/3LNwKwU #Statistics #PublicData
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Every day, we generate huge amounts of data – from smartphones to supermarket loyalty cards.
This social data is a powerful tool for catalysing new discoveries in health research. We need to unlock its full potential.
Learn more in our new report ⤵️
wellcome.org/insights/rep...
This social data is a powerful tool for catalysing new discoveries in health research. We need to unlock its full potential.
Learn more in our new report ⤵️
wellcome.org/insights/rep...
Social Data for Health | Report | Wellcome
This landscaping review presents findings and recommendations on the ways social data can advance research on life, health and wellbeing across public health, humanities and social sciences.
wellcome.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Every day, we generate huge amounts of data – from smartphones to supermarket loyalty cards.
This social data is a powerful tool for catalysing new discoveries in health research. We need to unlock its full potential.
Learn more in our new report ⤵️
wellcome.org/insights/rep...
This social data is a powerful tool for catalysing new discoveries in health research. We need to unlock its full potential.
Learn more in our new report ⤵️
wellcome.org/insights/rep...
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Do you want to know how you can fight back against fraudulent research & paper mills? Join speakers Jack Wilkinson & Reese Richardson – experts who have made it their mission to empower the world to fight back against the fakery of paper mills: https://rsc.li/47ysXuD #ChemSky @chemistryworld.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Do you want to know how you can fight back against fraudulent research & paper mills? Join speakers Jack Wilkinson & Reese Richardson – experts who have made it their mission to empower the world to fight back against the fakery of paper mills: https://rsc.li/47ysXuD #ChemSky @chemistryworld.com
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The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time.
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
Check Research Outputs for Best Practices
A modular, extendable system for automatically checking research outputs for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.
scienceverse.github.io
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time.
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
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💻 Our next Code Anxiety Club session is on 11 November!
This free session will cover best practices for organising coding projects.
There is no need to book a place - just follow the link below to watch the livestream.
📅 11 November 2025
⏰ 13:30-14:00
📍 Online
🧷 www.youtube.com/live/O3BZwzm...
This free session will cover best practices for organising coding projects.
There is no need to book a place - just follow the link below to watch the livestream.
📅 11 November 2025
⏰ 13:30-14:00
📍 Online
🧷 www.youtube.com/live/O3BZwzm...
Code Anxiety Club - Project organisation: Best practices for coding projects
Content:Get to grips with naming conventions and why consistency is key.Understand how to structure your directory.Learn how to ‘set your directory’ so that ...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
💻 Our next Code Anxiety Club session is on 11 November!
This free session will cover best practices for organising coding projects.
There is no need to book a place - just follow the link below to watch the livestream.
📅 11 November 2025
⏰ 13:30-14:00
📍 Online
🧷 www.youtube.com/live/O3BZwzm...
This free session will cover best practices for organising coding projects.
There is no need to book a place - just follow the link below to watch the livestream.
📅 11 November 2025
⏰ 13:30-14:00
📍 Online
🧷 www.youtube.com/live/O3BZwzm...
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Just under a week to go until our next webinar! ⏰ We hope you'll join us for the 3rd webinar in our The Complete Publication Journey series 💻
🎤 Enhancing research reach: Open access, publication extenders, and target audience strategies
📅 Weds 12 Nov @ 3pm GMT
🔗 Register: spr.ly/60037ED59
🎤 Enhancing research reach: Open access, publication extenders, and target audience strategies
📅 Weds 12 Nov @ 3pm GMT
🔗 Register: spr.ly/60037ED59
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Just under a week to go until our next webinar! ⏰ We hope you'll join us for the 3rd webinar in our The Complete Publication Journey series 💻
🎤 Enhancing research reach: Open access, publication extenders, and target audience strategies
📅 Weds 12 Nov @ 3pm GMT
🔗 Register: spr.ly/60037ED59
🎤 Enhancing research reach: Open access, publication extenders, and target audience strategies
📅 Weds 12 Nov @ 3pm GMT
🔗 Register: spr.ly/60037ED59
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“At a time when state leaders are promoting distrust in science and attacks on the social sciences are multiplying….
We firmly believe that social sciences and academic freedom are intrinsic to democracy and must be protected and promoted”
www.isa-sociology.org/en/about-isa...
We firmly believe that social sciences and academic freedom are intrinsic to democracy and must be protected and promoted”
www.isa-sociology.org/en/about-isa...
A Time for Sociology
A Time for Sociology
www.isa-sociology.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
“At a time when state leaders are promoting distrust in science and attacks on the social sciences are multiplying….
We firmly believe that social sciences and academic freedom are intrinsic to democracy and must be protected and promoted”
www.isa-sociology.org/en/about-isa...
We firmly believe that social sciences and academic freedom are intrinsic to democracy and must be protected and promoted”
www.isa-sociology.org/en/about-isa...
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Representing RoRI at #AIS25, Denis Newman-Griffis shares insights from our Handbook on Responsible AI for Research Funders at the first European AI in Science Summit.
You can access the handbook here: rori.figshare.com/articles/boo...
You can access the handbook here: rori.figshare.com/articles/boo...
November 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Representing RoRI at #AIS25, Denis Newman-Griffis shares insights from our Handbook on Responsible AI for Research Funders at the first European AI in Science Summit.
You can access the handbook here: rori.figshare.com/articles/boo...
You can access the handbook here: rori.figshare.com/articles/boo...
As part of The Global Federation of Reproducibility Networks we're pleased to be sponsoring #WCRI2026, to support our shared endeavours to improve the trustworthiness and quality of research. We hope to see many of you in Vancouver in May!
reproducibility.global
wcri2026.org
reproducibility.global
wcri2026.org
Welcome! | Global Federation of Reproducibility Networks
reproducibility.global
November 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
As part of The Global Federation of Reproducibility Networks we're pleased to be sponsoring #WCRI2026, to support our shared endeavours to improve the trustworthiness and quality of research. We hope to see many of you in Vancouver in May!
reproducibility.global
wcri2026.org
reproducibility.global
wcri2026.org
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‘If the industrial strategy is to succeed, we’ll need English graduates as well as engineers, historians alongside computer scientists, and social scientists together with health professionals.’
www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/do-we-n... @timeshighered.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/do-we-n... @timeshighered.bsky.social
Do we need humanities graduates to deliver the industrial strategy?
Policymakers should take a broad view of the value of degree courses when building our future workforce, says Charlotte Hallahan
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM
‘If the industrial strategy is to succeed, we’ll need English graduates as well as engineers, historians alongside computer scientists, and social scientists together with health professionals.’
www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/do-we-n... @timeshighered.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/do-we-n... @timeshighered.bsky.social
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Rising together: How collective action emerges in the face of an emergency
@drselintekin.bsky.social's event for @bpsofficial.bsky.social
www.bps.org.uk/news/rising-...
@drselintekin.bsky.social's event for @bpsofficial.bsky.social
www.bps.org.uk/news/rising-...
Rising together: How collective action emerges in the face of an emergency | BPS
Dr Selin Tekin reflects on the first event in the Rising Together series, hosted by the BPS Social Psychology Section.
www.bps.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Rising together: How collective action emerges in the face of an emergency
@drselintekin.bsky.social's event for @bpsofficial.bsky.social
www.bps.org.uk/news/rising-...
@drselintekin.bsky.social's event for @bpsofficial.bsky.social
www.bps.org.uk/news/rising-...
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DEAR FOLLOWERS - LINKEDIN POSTING SURGE REQUESTED
November 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
DEAR FOLLOWERS - LINKEDIN POSTING SURGE REQUESTED
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📅 Upcoming events - ReproducibiliTea online
Check out our calendar for more details:
reproducibilitea.org/calendar
#OpenResearch #OpenScience #metasci #academicsky
Check out our calendar for more details:
reproducibilitea.org/calendar
#OpenResearch #OpenScience #metasci #academicsky
ReproducibiliTea Calendar
ReproducibiliTea - Journal Clubs for Open Science
reproducibilitea.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
📅 Upcoming events - ReproducibiliTea online
Check out our calendar for more details:
reproducibilitea.org/calendar
#OpenResearch #OpenScience #metasci #academicsky
Check out our calendar for more details:
reproducibilitea.org/calendar
#OpenResearch #OpenScience #metasci #academicsky
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The recording of the BBSRC Community Webinar 2025 is now available on the UKRI YouTube channel.
Hear from the Executive Chair Anne Ferguson-Smith and leadership team on current activities and priorities for UK bioscience.
Watch it now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWLq...
Hear from the Executive Chair Anne Ferguson-Smith and leadership team on current activities and priorities for UK bioscience.
Watch it now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWLq...
November 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The recording of the BBSRC Community Webinar 2025 is now available on the UKRI YouTube channel.
Hear from the Executive Chair Anne Ferguson-Smith and leadership team on current activities and priorities for UK bioscience.
Watch it now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWLq...
Hear from the Executive Chair Anne Ferguson-Smith and leadership team on current activities and priorities for UK bioscience.
Watch it now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWLq...
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Exciting new addition to the AsPredicted and ResearchBox research infrastructure toolbox: AsCollected ascollected.org A platform to document results provenance - where did data come from, who collected it, and who cleaned and analyzed it. So important!
Home | AsCollected
ascollected.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Exciting new addition to the AsPredicted and ResearchBox research infrastructure toolbox: AsCollected ascollected.org A platform to document results provenance - where did data come from, who collected it, and who cleaned and analyzed it. So important!