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Malika Ihle
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LMU Open Science Center coordinator
@lmu-osc.bsky.social

former Reproducible Research Oxford coordinator

cofounder of the Society for Open Reliable and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology
@sortee.bsky.social

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Malika Ihle @malikaihle.bsky.social · Nov 19
So happy to see you all here! As the @lmu-osc.bsky.social coordinator, I just started a new project: coaching individual research groups so members can switch together to #OpenResearch - a tailored pedagogical intervention to maximise chances of sustainable adoption in the group, and a lot of fun! 🧵
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How to create data dictionaries for all your reserch projects!
lmu-osc.bsky.social LMU Open Science Center @lmu-osc.bsky.social · 12d
How to ensure your research data is error-free & understandable by other users & your future self?🗂️ This tutorial by LMU OSC is on documenting & validating data in R to make it more reusable.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Data Documentation & Validation using R📑 lmu-osc.github.io/data-documen...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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How to promote data sharing for wider reuse when sensitive data cannot be shared? 🔐LMU OSC offers a tutorial on creating shareable & useful datasets when working with sensitive data.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Generating & Evaluating Synthetic Data in R 🤖 lmu-osc.github.io/synthetic-da...
Welcome to the synthetic data tutorial! – Generating and evaluating synthetic data in R
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October 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Struggling to keep your research data organized and reusable? 📂 The LMU Open Science Center has a tutorial to help bring order and accessibility to your datasets.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: FAIR Data Management 📚 lmu-osc.github.io/FAIR-Data-Ma...
Welcome – FAIR Research Data Management Tutorial
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October 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Need to calculate a sample size needed to detect an effect size before collecting data? 🧠LMU OSC's tutorial helps improve study design & conduct power analyses through simulation.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Simulations of Data in R for Advanced Power Analyses💪 lmu-osc.github.io/Simulations-...
Simulations for Advanced Power Analyses
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October 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Wondering if your study design will hold up before collecting real data? 📈 This LMU OSC tutorial on data simulation will help test & strengthen your statistical plan by creating artificial datasets.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Intro. to Data Simulation in R 📊 lmu-osc.github.io/Introduction...
Introduction to Simulations in R
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October 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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What if you could showcase the reproducibility of your research?💻 LMU OSC offers a tutorial on practices for sharing your code such as documenting your repository, and attaching a licence and DOI.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Code Publishing 🔗 lmu-osc.github.io/code-publish...
Code Publishing Tutorial
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October 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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🌍 Join SORTEE – A worldwide Open Science community for ecology and evolution! 🌱🧬

🌐 Join trainings, code clubs & our annual online conference
🚀 Help shape the future of Open Science

Membership is inclusive and flexible.
👉 Learn more: www.sortee.org/join/

#OpenScience #Ecology #Evolution
Join
Join Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)
www.sortee.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Want to make R projects reproducible on another computer or a later time?📝LMU OSC has a tutorial on how you can use the renv package in R to create isolated, reproducible environments for R projects.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Intro. to R Package Manager renv ⚙️ lmu-osc.github.io/introduction...
Welcome to the {renv} Tutorial! – Introduction to {renv}
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October 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Is it possible to combine text, reproducible code, and reproducible results (tables or figures) all into one document? 📑 Find out how with the LMU Open Science Center tutorial about Quarto.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Intro. to Literate Programming with Quarto 💻 lmu-osc.github.io/introduction...
1. Welcome to the Quarto Workshop – Introduction to Quarto
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October 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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What do you know about version control?🔁 It’s how researchers keep their projects organized, track every change, and never lose work again.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Introduction to Version Control within RStudio ⚙️ lmu-osc.github.io/Introduction...
Introduction to version Control with git and GitHub within RStudio
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October 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Curious about creating a reproducible workflow for your research? 🔍 We provide several self-paced tutorials about tools that make your work more efficient, reproducible, and collaborative.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Introduction to R 📊 lmu-osc.github.io/introduction...
Welcome – Introduction to R
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October 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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LMU OSC has completed its Open Science Summer School! 🙌 5 days of exploring open science & open research practices. Links for materials of the open science training track: osf.io/x639j/files/...; the instructor training track: osf.io/tkwqs/files/...; & our self-paced tutorials: github.com/lmu-osc.
A group of 22 participants and organizers of the Open Science Summer School 2025 stand together outside in the sun. They are on a terrace in front of a glass building with towers of LMU Munich in the background. A group of 8 staff members of the Open Science Center stand together outside in the sun. They are on a terrace in front of a glass building with towers of LMU Munich in the background. A wide sun beam is shining over them. Group photo of Open Science Summer School 2025 participants and organizers, inside a classroom. 21 people stand or sit in front of a wall projection showing remote participants on a video call. A room speaker is visible on the top-right corner; a microphone, table and part of a laptop are visible to the bottom-left; and part of a whiteboard is visible to the bottom-right.
September 24, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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🧾Learn about making your own research more credible, reproducible, and reliable by engaging with preregistration and a set of computing tools!
Attend the “Credible Research” lecture by Dr. @malikaihle.bsky.social on Mon 15 Sept, 11:00-11:45.
👉Register here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...
Promotional poster for the LMU Open Science Center Summer School 2025 Public Lecture. The poster features photos of speaker Dr. Malika Ihle. The text states the lecture focuses on credible research through preregistration and computing tools, time and date of lecture being 11:00-11:45 CEST on September 15 2025, and instructions to register online. Logos of LMU Open Science Center, LMU, and Universitätsbibliothek München are displayed at the bottom.
September 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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💡 Explore how practices from distributed, open-source software can make science more professional, open, and collaborative! Attend the “Science as amateur software development” lecture by Prof. Dr. @rmcelreath.bsky.social on Wed 17 Sept, 9:00.
👉 Register here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...
Promotional poster for the LMU Open Science Center Summer School 2025 Public Lecture. The poster features a photo of speaker Prof. Dr. Richard McElreath. The text states the lecture focuses on science as amateur software development, time and date of lecture being 9:00-10:00 CEST on Wednesday September 17 2025, and instructions to register online. Logos of LMU Open Science Center, LMU, and Universitätsbibliothek München are displayed at the bottom.
September 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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💻 Make your research more reproducible by making your code more readable. Get recommendations and key strategies for clean code!
Attend the “Readable code” lecture by @vera-karlbauer.bsky.social and Jonas Hagenberg on Thurs 18 Sept, 9:00-9:45.
👉 Register here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...
Promotional poster for the LMU Open Science Center Summer School 2025 Public Lecture. The poster features photos of speakers Vera Karlbauer and Jonas Hagenberg. The text states the lecture focuses on recommendations and strategies for readable code; time and date of lecture being 09:00-09:45 CEST on Thursday September 18 2025; and instructions to register online. Logos of LMU Open Science Center, LMU, and Universitätsbibliothek München are displayed at the bottom.
September 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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📢 This year, we’re hosting seven public lectures that anyone can attend completely free of charge between Sept 15 and 18!
📅 Registration for online attendance is open.
🔗 www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...

#OpenScience #OSSS25 #LMUOSC
Promotional poster for the LMU Open Science Center Summer School 2025 Public Lectures. The poster features photos of five speakers: Prof. Dr. Felix Schönbrodt, Prof. Dr. Richard McElreath, Dr. Tim Errington, Dr. Malika Ihle, and Vera Karlbauer. The text states the skills that the lectures will develop, the dates for the lectures running from September 15-18 2025, and instructions to register online. Logos of LMU Open Science Center, LMU, and Universitätsbibliothek München are displayed at the bottom.
September 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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It's been great to have @thomvolker.bsky.social create a self-paced tutorial on synthetic data for the @lmu-osc.bsky.social! It is currently open for feedback by the community! Your contributions will be aknowledged and the tutorial will be free to reuse with attribution.

#rstats #OpenScience
thomvolker.bsky.social Thom Volker @thomvolker.bsky.social · Aug 21
Been working on a tutorial on synthetic data for open science for @lmu-osc.bsky.social
A draft version is now up: lmu-osc.github.io/synthetic-da...

It covers model building, evaluating synthetic data utility with density ratio estimation, and disclosure risk.

Feedback is very welcome!
September 4, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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📖 Lab handbooks of groups who switch to open science will be openly shared under a CC-BY license so others can adapt them.
👀 Preview the cBRAIN open research practice guide: zenodo.org/records/1626...
📢 Interested? Labs from all fields of science can contact @malikaihle.bsky.social to learn more!
cBRAIN open research practice guide
This handbook is for students and researchers joining the cBRAIN research group from the Clinic and Polyclinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the LMU Munich H...
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August 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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🎯 The OSC proudly supported 6 of 7 funded Clusters of Excellence at LMU.
🤝 Excited to continue working with the @synergy-munich.bsky.social & ORIGINS clusters which are both OSC Funding Members. Congrats to all involved! 🎉
Looking forward to excellent AND transparent research!

#OpenScience #LMUOSC
lmumuenchen.bsky.social LMU München @lmumuenchen.bsky.social · May 22
🎉 Major achievement for #LMU in the Excellence Strategy: All seven proposed Clusters of Excellence have successfully passed the review process and will be funded for seven years as of 2026. An outstanding result! 🎉 #ExcellenceCluster #LMUMunich #research Read more here: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
August 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Top requests from LMU BMC researchers to be able to adopt open science:
✨ More training in FAIR data and code sharing
💡 Access to expert consultations
🤝 Stronger community support

📄Read the full report here: zenodo.org/records/1530...
Open research at the Biomedical Center of LMU Munich
This is a survey administered by the LMU Open Science Center at the Biomedical Center (BMC) of LMU Munich in Dec 2024 and Jan 2025. The aim of this survey is to assess the views of researchers on open...
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August 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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rmcelreath.bsky.social
How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
Which Kind of Science Reform
What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.
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July 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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​Hackathon: Data Under Threat/Data Rescuing in #München

The LMU OSC runs a hackathon to support the #SciOp #SafeguardingResearch initiative: Rescuing research data that is deleted by the Trump administration.
📅 07/08/25 from 16 – 19 (only in-person)
👉 Details and signup: github.com/lmu-osc/safe...
GitHub - lmu-osc/safeguar.de-hackathon
Contribute to lmu-osc/safeguar.de-hackathon development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
July 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Session Submission and registration is now open for BTSCON2025!

bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/

@abrir.bsky.social @psysciacc.bsky.social @manybabies.org
BTSCON 2025 is now seeking submission proposals for their annual conference. All session submissions are due on July 31st. You can submit on the website https://bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/. We are also excited to say that registration is also now live! BTSCON 2025 is now seeking submission proposals for their annual conference. All session submissions are due on July 31st. You can submit on the website https://bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/. We are also excited to say that registration is also now live!
July 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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lmu-osc.bsky.social
We are pleased to be supporting this unconference on responsible research: we love the 'getting things done' focus of it! Register for a project, join a diverse working group, and make things happen!
July 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Two weeks left to apply if you are an:

1️⃣ early career researcher interested in developing efficient and reproducible ways of working, and creating reusable and citable research outputs

or an

2️⃣ open science adopter wanting to learn how to spread your enthusiasm

#OpenScience #OpenResearch
lmu-osc.bsky.social LMU Open Science Center @lmu-osc.bsky.social · Jun 3
📢 We are pleased to announce our 4th open science summer school! #OSSS25

📌 Sept 15-19, Munich & Zoom
🔥 keynotes and outstanding hands-on workshops
2️⃣ dual-track: open science training and instructor training tracks!

➡️ apply before July 14 or register anytime for the public lectures!
LMU Open Science Center Summer School 2025
programme and application process
lmu-osc.github.io
July 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM