Journal Clubs
We now have journal clubs set up in many universities. Please use the search tool below to find out if there’s one in your area:
Aalto
A journal club hosted by the AERIS Lab (CS department, School of Science, Aalto University). We cover methods and open science practices primarily in games research. Our home disciplines are HCI and Psychology, but every discipline is welcome!
Amsterdam VU
The journal club is open to everyone across the the VU Amsterdam and nearby universities, from any discipline or department.
For each session, the presenter will provide a short (5-15mins) overview of the chosen paper with the remainder of the session dedicated to free discussion amongst all attendees.
Everyone is welcome to join us - skeptics and enthusiasts alike! We are hoping for a diverse range of attendees from all career stages, disciplines, and backgrounds, and particularly enjoy hearing views views from all perspectives.
Your voice is welcome here, and we offer a friendly atmosphere!
Amsterdam
Ankara
This journal club meets twice every month and discusses selected papers on scientific rigor. An attendee takes the responsibility at each meeting that makes a short summary of the paper and leads the discussion.
Our meetings are open to all researchers and students from Baskent University and other universities located in Ankara. We welcome attendees with different backgrounds and disciplines. We assure a friendly and open environment in meetings. So, please attend for tea, snacks, open science, and friendly conversation.
Behaviouralbiology
Berkeley
The Reproducibilitea Journal Club is organized by Sam Teplitzky (Open Science Librarian at the UC Berkeley Library) and Katie Hoeberling (Senior Program Manager, Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), as part of Berkeley’s growing open science community.
The journal club meets monthly (via zoom in 2021) and is open to everyone across UC Berkeley, from any discipline or department.
Berlin
In the upcoming semester, we will meet every second or third Thursday, from 5 pm to 6 pm. A meeting begins with a short presentation about the paper we read, followed by a discussion. Everyone and every perspective is welcome!
Please get in touch via email! 3 ECTS can be obtained for regular participation. Read the paper and come by for tea and discussion!
Next meetings: Our first meeting will be on 21 October.
BI Oslo
About us: We are excited to bring the first ReproducibiliTea journal club to Norway! We are two PhD candidates at BI Norwegian Business School (Department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior) organizing this journal club together. The journal club is open to everyone at BI Norwegian Business School, staff and students, across departments (and campuses). Everyone is welcome to join us - whether you are an enthusiast, skeptic, or a cautious explorer. Feel free to get in touch if you are interested to participate or contribute!
Our mission:
- provide an informal and friendly platform for discussions about open science and reproducibility
- help each other get familiarized with open science practices (e.g., pre-registrations, sharing data, sharing preprints, etc.)
- connect students and researchers from various specializations who are interested in open science
Format: Before each meeting, we read an article on open science practices and methods in general, which we then discuss during the meeting. At each meeting, a different presenter will begin by providing a short overview of the paper and facilitate discussion throughout the meeting. Anyone can propose a possible paper or topic to present if we have not covered it already. Grab a cup of tea (coffee?) and join us! Due to the current pandemic, all sessions will be held online (Zoom) for the time being.
Follow us on Twitter!
Bioclues
Have you ever seen researchers chatting online? Yes, we at Bioclues.org have been exchanging e-mails, and messaging everywhere from erstwhile PhpBB2 forums to the WhatsApp chats. It is time we all came together to discuss interesting topics. Bioinformatics club for experimenting scientists (a.k.a. Bioclues) has set up a virtual journal club and you’re welcome to join! We already have state reps from India to help you get started.
Birmingham
Bordeaux
ReproducibiliTea journal club at the Université de Bordeaux. We meet monthly, every last Tuesday of the month, at 5:30pm.
Brasil
We are an national-level online chapter of ReproducibiliTea journal clubs, based in Brazil. We used to meet once a month (2020-21) to discuss relevant articles on reproducibility and other good scientific practices with students and researchers from the whole country. For 2022, our meetings will be less frequent and we hope new local chapters will begin to meet in person throughout the country. Our presentations and discussions are always in Portuguese.
Brighton
Our opportunity to develop an Open Science discourse, and to support those who would like to include Open Science/Open Scholarship practices in their work. Open Access to any visitors can be arranged. Meetings take place on Microsoft Teams currently Monthly meetings, email Zoe Flack or Kerry Fox for future dates.
University of Bristol
The University of Bristol ReproducibiliTea journal club
Inspired by the original Oxford club ReproducibiliTea came to Bristol in January 2019 with the support of the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN), which is now spreading to other universities.
We run an ECR-led weekly journal club open to all staff and students from any discipline.
Time & Place
Every other Monday, 4-5pm, via Zoom & in person
Format
In advance of each session, one attendee chooses a paper related to the barriers and solutions to better research methods in the life sciences. During the session the attendee presents a short (~15mins) overview of the chosen paper and the remainder of the session is dedicated to free discussion amongst all attendees.
Inclusivity
Everyone is welcome to join us - skeptics and open science enthusiasts alike! We are hoping for a diverse range of attendees from all career stages, disciplines, and backgrounds.
How to join
To join the mailing list please email one of the club organisers, Benji Woolf (Benjamin.woolf@bristol.ac.uk) and Robbie Clark
Brno
A journal club promoting the principles of Open Science in Psychology and related disciplines.
Charlottesville School of Education and Human Development
Chester
Belfast
We are aiming to create a welcoming space at Queen’s where researchers from all fields, and from any career stage, can relax and discuss reproducible practices and open science. Anyone with an interest is more than welcome to apply.
The first meetings will potentially be online, but we have also secured a physical address at QUB’s beautiful Graduate School. Hope to see you there!
Davis
De Montfort University
Dresden
Our journal club in Dresden wishes to provide a platform for early career researchers from all disciplines to discuss Open Science and good scientific practices in general.
During the current winter term, we are taking sort of a creative break. But we are even more excited to welcome you in summer! More information coming soon.
Dublin
The TCD ReproducibiliTea journal club is currently tailored to early career researchers (i.e. PhD Students, Postdocs, Fellows), undergraduate/postgraduate students and senior academics within the realms of neuroimaging, psychology and neuroscience. We promote collaborative efforts to address the barriers impacting the reproducibility and replicability of studies and results in the aforementioned fields. We aim to leverage on the interdiscilinary experiences of the journal club to implement proposed solutions to critical problems in the literature and help researchers move a step closer towards open science in their own line of work.
The TCD ReproducibiliTea journal club will meet on a bi-weekly basis to discuss about a specific paper (chosen prior to the meeting) to understand the potential issues related but not limited to study design, sample size, publication bias, selective reporting and p-hacking. The journal club will also produce a series of podcasts to promote interactive discussions between early career researchers and senior academics/primary investigators (PIs) about their thoughts on reproducibility in research.
Exeter
Frankfurt
The ReproducibiliTea journal club in Frankfurt
Our journal club is organized by the Frankfurt Open Science Initiative, located within the Goethe University, and is open to anyone who is interested in the topic.
Every second Wednesday, we are going to meet online on Zoom, from 4pm to 5pm. Afterwards every other time until 6pm, we are going to host an Open Science Café, where discussions can continue to flourish and general questions about Open Science can be asked (e.g., where and how can I upload my data?). All relevant materials as well as the latest schedule can be found on our OSF page.
In case you are interested in Open Science in general and want to be more involved, you can sign up here to our mailing list of the Frankfurt Open Science Initiative.
We are looking forward to welcoming you! :)
Freiburg
Student-run ReproducibiliTea at the University of Freiburg in Germany
Fukuoka
This journal club will be open and welcomed to all young researchers around Fukuoka and other areas in Japan! Please feel free to contact Yuki Yamada for details.
Organized by the Geneva local node of the Swiss Reproducibility Network
Glasgow
We meet once monthly online (currently because of COVID) and ECRs from all disciplines are welcome.
Sign up with your email address to be kept updated and be sent the Zoom link
Graz
The ReproducibiliTea in Graz, Austria is organized by Gabriela Hofer (Differential Psychology) and Hilmar Brohmer (Social Psychology) and is greatly supported by the Graz Open Science Initiative (@GrazOpenScience).
We are slowly evolving from a journal club of psychology papers to a multidisciplinary discussion group.
Moreover, our increasing number of attendees demonstrates an interest in Open Science-related topics throughout academic disciplines: In the spring / summer semester 2019 we counted usually 5 to 7 members per session. In fall / winter semester 2019/20 we are in the double digits (so far).
If you are interested to join our ReproducibiliTea please get in touch and come along!
Greenwich
ReproducibiliTEA @Greenwich was launched in October 2020. We are a vibrant interdisciplinary community who meets to discuss classic and recent papers about reproducibility/replication, problems in the scientific system, meta-science, philosophy of science, and more.
The journal club takes place virtually every three weeks (Fridays 13.00-14.00) and is open to all: from those who have never heard of open science to experts; students of all levels and staff from all disciplines.
We are always looking for volunteers to lead paper discussions so please do get in touch if you have read an interesting paper that you would like to share with our group. As the journal club organizer, I am also very happy to make paper recommendations if you are not set on a specific paper but are keen to be involved.
During the pandemic, meetings are being held on Microsoft Teams. This means that, unfortunately, the teapot we have been generously provided with is yet to being used. We hope, however, that the online format will make our sessions accessible to even more interested attendees and highly encourage you to join us over lunch/tea. We cannot wait to meet everyone face to face soon.
Hannover
Hobart
Hull
Hull Open Research and Reproducibility Group is the University of Hull’s community dedicated to modern open research
Bern
Uni Bern Journal Club
Kingston
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The journal club is open to everyone across Kingston University, at any level, from any discipline or department. We meet monthly on the second Wednesday of the month at 12:00 - 13:30 via Zoom. We also organise talks and workshops on open research related topics. The most up-to-date information can generally be found on our OSF page, and we will circulate meeting details through the Kingston ReproT mailing list. Please contact Dr Mircea Zloteanu to join the mailing list.
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For each session, the presenter will provide a short (5 mins) overview of the chosen paper with the remainder of the session dedicated to free discussion among all attendees.
Inclusivity
Everyone is welcome to join us - sceptics and enthusiasts alike! We are hoping for a diverse range of attendees from all career stages, disciplines, and backgrounds, and particularly enjoy hearing views from all perspectives. Your voice is welcome here, and we offer a friendly atmosphere!
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To join the mailing list please email the club organiser, Dr Mircea Zloteanu.
Lancaster
Lancaster University’s Psychology Department and the PROSPR group (Promoting Open Science Practices) launched the ReproducibiliTea Journal Club in July 2019. We meet twice a month during term time to discuss key papers on open science and reproducibility issues. All are welcome regardless of the experience and career status!
Le Mans Universite
Leeds
The University of Leeds ReproducibiliTea journal club. Find some of our previous sessions and papers here:
Our OSF page: https://osf.io/qvyk4/
Our previous events on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/reproducibilitea-leeds-30162739476
Recordings of some of our previous sessions: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU5XU8R1p20HimC7ulQlCwA
Leicester
ReproducibiliTea Leicester is for anyone who wants to learn more about reproducible research and open science practices in the Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour at the University of Leicester, but other departments are also welcome! We get together (with tea, coffee and cake!) once a month to discuss interesting journal articles about topics relating to open science, replicability in research, pre-registration and data sharing, among others. It doesn’t matter if you’re an undergrad, professor, beginner or expert – everyone is welcome!
Meeting details are circulated via email so if you are interested, email Sammie (slt47@le.ac.uk) or Brendan (btoc1@le.ac.uk) and you will be added to the mailing list.
Leiden
About
The ReproducibiliTea journal club is a member initiative of the Open Science Community Leiden (OSCL). We discuss papers related to open science, replication, and of course reproducibility. Our journal club is open to anyone affiliated with Leiden University, no matter their background, discipline, or career status.
Anyone whoâs never heard the term open science before is particularly welcome! No sign-up needed - just join OSCL Teams channel.
Mission
- Discuss methodological issues in the social sciences and beyond, and potential ways forward
- Familiarize ourselves with open science tools and methods
- Connect engaged students and researchers from various specializations
Format
During each session, one member volunteers to host. That member will prepare a short introduction to the paper/preprint/blog post and facilitate discussion. Do we at all agree with the author’s claims? How do we integrate the findings into our own research? How can we broaden this topic to include all research fields of our members?
We want to stimulate open, critical conversations, and encourage but don’t expect participants to read the paper beforehand. Of course, everyone is free to contribute as much time, effort, or input as they wish.
Practical information
Our monthly-ish sessions are currently hosted online, at the Open Science Community MS Teams channel. If you’re not sure how to find it, or have any questions, shoot us an email. Stay up to date by joining our mailing list and twitter.
Leipzig
ReproducibiliTea Leipzig journal club is a space to discuss various aspects related to Open Science practices. We discuss articles, which are selected to touch upon possibly versatile Open Science topics, from general issues to specific applications, presenting both enthusiastic and critical perspectives. If you look for an opportunity to broaden your knowledge on Open Science, discuss pros and cons, share experiences and get to know other Open Science adopters - feel warmly invited! Our next term will start beginning 2022.
Leuven
The ReproducibiliTea@KULeuven journal club is a space for interdisciplinary discussion about science in general, and more specifically about Open Science and Reproducibility. We welcome people from all backgrounds and disciplines, and we hope to create an inclusive environment for friendly discussion. We are open to anyone, staff or students, at KU Leuven.
Linköping
About: The journal club is open to everyone across Linköping University, from any discipline or department (all campuses included). Everyone is welcome to join us - skeptics and enthusiasts alike! For each session, the presenter will provide a short (5-15mins) overview of the chosen paper with the remainder of the session dedicated to free discussion amongst all attendees.
Follow us on Twitter for the most up-to-date information about meeting times etc.: @LinkopingTea. You can also check out our OSF page or contact us to sign up to our mailing list, where we circulate meeting details.
Loughborough
About: The journal club is open to anyone across Loughborough University and nearby institutions, from all disciplines or deparments. The most up-to-date information can be found on our Twitter Page, you can sign up through the Doctoral Developmental Portal (PhD students), send us an Email or simply pop by.
The format: The sessions are a combination of discussing current issues in academia and introducing new, innovative research methods. We go with the flow and look forward to incorporating everyone’s interests into the session plan. Most sessions are run online and are a combination of a presentation and discussions among all attendees.
Inclusivity: Everyone is welcome to join us- skeptics and enthusiasts alike. We are hoping for a diverse range of attendees from all career stages, disciplines and backgrounds and look forward to learning from each other.
LSHTM
ReproducibiliTea is coming to LSHTM! Sign up to the email list above for information on reproducibility-themed journal club sessions with a health-related twist. To volunteer to run a session or for questions, please contact Anna Schultze at anna.schultze[at]lshtm.ac.uk
Lund Psychology
We are based at the Dept. of Psychology at Lund University and we are a group of PhD students who are interested in learning more about Open and Reproducible Science.
Lyon
The Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (LNRC) student club is organized by a few PhD students of the center, with no specific leader (here we rolled a dice to choose the JC communication ‘lead’). Student club sessions are organized on a monthly basis. They consist in a presentation of a paper, principle, software, method, etc somehow related to neuroscience which is then discussed in the way of locally trying to ‘fix science’. We seek to be very careful regarding the idea that any comments have to be welcomed and discussed regardless of the scientific statute at play. By ‘student club’, we do not mean that we exclude extra-student staff. They are all welcome, but we seek to stick to the bottom-up fashion of discussing, proposing, etc. In practice, our student club is also a chill-out time during which we drink tea and eat cakes.
Maastricht
Our Reproducibilitea journal club meets 4 times per year, and is in collaboration with the Open Science Community Maastricht. We aim to make Open Science visible at Maastricht University, and to facilitate discussion between researchers, departments and faculties on integrating open science in everyday research.
Manchester
About: The journal club is open to everyone across the University of Manchester and nearby universities, from any discipline or department.
Manchester ReproducibiliTea is currently on hiatus until September, for open research news and events at UoM please consider joining the Open Science Working Group mailing list
Inclusivity: Everyone is welcome to join us - skeptics and enthusiasts alike! We are hoping for a diverse range of attendees from all career stages, disciplines, and backgrounds, and particularly enjoy hearing views views from all perspectives. Your voice is welcome here, and we offer a friendly atmosphere!
Mannheim
This ReproducibiliTea is associated with the Mannheim Open Science Meetup, bringing together open science enthusiasts across various institutions in Mannheim. Find us on Twitter @MAOpenScience
As our community consists of various disciplines, the ReproducibiliTea Mannheim wants to cover open science topics of broader interest. Meetings will be held monthly. Being “born” during the pandemic, we don’t have a real life meeting location (yet!).
Our next meeting will take place on November 10th 2021, 17:30 GMT +2, where we will discuss
Szollosi, A., Kellen, D., Navarro, D. J., Shiffrin, R., van Rooij, I., Van Zandt, T., & Donkin, C. (2020). Is preregistration worthwhile? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(2), 94–95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.11.009
Email us for the link to join!
Massachusetts
McMaster
Welcome to the McMaster ReproducibiliTea journal club! We discuss how we can help make science transparent, reproducible, and cumulative.
Everyone is welcome to join us - skeptics and enthusiasts alike! We welcome undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff from all departments and background, and hope to hear views from all perspectives.
Melbourne
About This journal club is in the process of being founded, please get in touch if you want to be involved!
Inclusivity We are open to people from all disciplines and from all career stages. Whether you are a skeptic or an enthusiast, we would like you to be involved! While regular meetings will be shared by the University of Melbourne and Australian Catholic University, we invite and welcome attendees from any institution.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
This journal club is for anyone at MUN (student, staff, faculty) interested in discussing open science and related issues of interest. We meet online on a weekly basis. Keep an eye on your departmental mailing lists for meeting annoucements!
Minnesota
MIzzou
We hope to foster an inclusive environment for early career researchers at the University of Missouri looking to discuss practices that advance science. We hope to learn more from one another and the current literature/media about how to create science that is accessible, replicable, and useful.
Monash
Montpellier
The journal club is dedicated to exchanges about reproducibility in Science and is open to anyone at the Supagro Campus, both students and scientists. Each session is based on a specific paper that is discussed during lunch breaks.
Moscow
Munich
We have decided to establish a journal club on the topic of Open Science. We meet every three to four weeks. The slogan of our journal club is “ReproJuicebiliTea” and highlights the topics to be covered and discussed (Reproducibility & Open Science) and our broadened beverage selection. We will discuss the issue of the “replication crisis”, identify necessary improvements in science and talk about current debates on the theories of science. Tea, juice and snacks will be provided in order to fulfil our motto.
With the Journal Club we would like to address and encourage attendees from all disciplines and at every career step to join the discussion and enable an interdisciplinary exchange.
Please send us a short mail and we will put you on our mailing list (reproducibilitea.munich@gmail.com)
MX
Love open science and tea
Mälardalen
Nijmegen
About
ReproducibiliTea Nijmegen is organised by the local Open Science Community. Like the community, the journal club is open to people from anywhere in the Nijmegen campus, regardless of affiliation or career stage.
Practical information
We meet monthly every 3rd Wednesday of the month at 15.00. In each meeting, one person introduces the topic to be discussed (mostly papers but feel free to use your imagination here!), followed by discussion. Our topics are broad: if there’s something open science or reproducibility-related you’d like to discuss, you can lead a discussion. If you’re interested, email us at contact@openscience-nijmegen.nl
If you’d like to join us check the schedule which will be posted on our website. Meetings will also be announced on our mailing list. If you’ve not signed up already, you can do so here.
Inclusivity
Everyone is welcome! We want to hear from anyone who’s interested in reproducibility and open science, researchers and support staff alike. So come along for tea, open science, and friendly conversation :)
North Carolina State University
Join us on Twitch for a conversation about open science and tea! Micah Vandegrift and Sheila Saia will share their open science knowledge through an informal discussion, teaching concepts along the way. Anyone can watch the livestream, and if you have a free Twitch account, you can send your questions and comments in the live chat. We’re happy to answer your questions or refer you to someone who can help! Recordings of past streams are available on our twitch page after the event.
Nottingham
The ReproducibiliTea journal club at the University of Nottingham is set up by researchers at the Institute of Mental Health, School of Psychology and the Precision Imaging Beacon. Our group will focus primarily on the practice of open science in the field of neuroimaging and clinical research. People from all backgrounds and disciplines are welcome to join!
Olomouc
Open Science and Reproducabili-Tea
Join us on Twitch for a conversation about open science and tea! Micah Vandegrift and Sheila Saia will share their open science knowledge through informal discussions, teaching concepts along the way.
Open Science Society
We want to solidify our understanding of good practices in open science.
Oxford Clinical Research
Want to improve the rigour and transparency of your research? Interested in discussing the principles of research reproducibility and recent advances in the open science community? The ReproducibiliTea Clinical Research journal club will cover all aspects of research integrity and reproducible science.
Anyone is welcome, from students to professors, basic scientists to clinicians, and open science sceptics to reproducibility enthusiasts. We promote a friendly and inclusive environment, ensuring that everyone has a chance to contribute, so we can all learn from each other’s experiences to improve the way we think, do and share research.
We meet online every other Wednesday of the academic term from 2-3 pm. Just click on the sign-up link on the right side of this page and register your email to get the invitations and relevant papers sent right to your inbox!
Oxford
The original reproducibiliTea Journal Club, meeting fortnightly during term-time at the University of Oxford (currently in a hybrid format). Most members come from the Department of Experimental Psychology, but we welcome people from all over the university, and have had regular members in the past from Anthropology and non-psychology parts of the Medical Sciences Division.
The majority of our regular members are graduate students and early career researchers, but we’re pleased to count one or two established faculty as regular members, too.
You can sign up to our mailing list by logging into your Single Sign On account. Those who don’t have an SSO can email Sarah and he’ll be happy to add you!
ReproducibiliTea Oxford is kindly sponsored by Reproducible Research Oxford.
Plymouth
ReproducibiliTea Plymouth welcomes both staff and students at all career stages. We meet fortnightly (in-person, as of late 2021) to discuss target papers about open and transparent science, research methods, research culture, and science reform. Our papers mostly focus on issues prevalent in Psychology and Cognitive Science, but we also welcome researchers from other disciplines.
If you’d like to join our mailing list, please contact our lead organizer Rory Spanton at rory.spanton@plymouth.ac.uk
Poitiers
ReproducibiliTea Journal Club from Poitiers, France. We aim at gathering early career researchers from different fields in order to promote new practices and share interesting conversations about important issues regarding replicability, methods and statistics.
Portsmouth
Potsdam
Prague
The journal club takes place online.
Princeton-Rutgers
Princeton-Rutgers ReproducibiliTea is organized by Meghan Testerman (Princeton), Jessica Kosie (Princeton), and Jason Geller (Rutgers) and is sponsored by the Princeton University Library.
The journal club is open to everyone across Princeton and Rutgers University, from any discipline or department.
Spring 2021 Schedule and Readings
Please register here.
You can also find us on Twitter
For each session, a volunteer host from the group or a guest from the community will lead a discussion on the week’s reading.
Everyone is welcome to join us - skeptics and enthusiasts alike!
Puebla
Purdue
ReproducibiliTea Purdue was started by postdocs in the human development and family studies department to discuss meta-science topics relevant to both disciplines and cultivate an open science culture.
We get together every two weeks to discuss articles and better science practices. All are welcome!
Queen Mary University of London
Welcome to the Queen Mary ReproducibiliTea! Founded fall 2020, we host various open science and reproducibility-related events and meetings with the goal of improving the trustworthiness of research across a wide range of scientific disciplines.
Get started by joining our mailing list and stop by our monthly journal club, where we discuss one or more articles about topics ranging from meta-science to scientific fraud to philosophy of science over a (currently socially-distanced) cup of tea or coffee.
Sign up using this link (https://forms.gle/9coCMGvPqddkKn5G7) or by emailing Nick (n.b.ballou@qmul.ac.uk).
All are welcome: from those who have never heard of open science to experts, undergraduates to department heads, linguists to entomologists to computer scientists and beyond.
Reading
Bergen
Based at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Bergen, but members from other faculties or other local institutions are more than welcome. We tend to have a nice mix of PhD students and more senior researchers.
Reproductibilithe
Open Science UMontreal is a bilingual student-led initiative that aims to create a welcoming onboarding experience to open science to scientists who begin to become open science curious.
The ReproductibiliThé Journal Club is one of the activities we offer to discuss about how we can question, inspire, and empower our community to make science more credible, transparent, and accessible.
Richmond, Virginia (RVA)
About: The Data Science Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) proudly hosts the ReproducibiliTea journal club. All VCU students, faculty, and staff regardless of discipline or department are welcome to join us (attendees from Virginia Union University and University of Richmond are also welcome!).
Beginning in January 2020, we will meet on the second Tuesday of every month at 2pm in the Virginia Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics conference room in Biotech I (MCV campus near the Eighth Street parking deck). The most up-to-date information can generally be found on our OSF page. To stay up to date with all VCU DSL open science initiatives and events, we encourage joining both the DSL general listserv as well as the Open Science mailing list.
The format: Each month we will focus on a specific theme (e.g., flexible analysis methods, project organization). A discussion leader for that meeting will select one or two papers that highlight or illustrate important topics associated with the theme of the month. The meeting will begin with the discussion leader providing a short (5-15 min) overview of the theme and article(s). The remainder of the session will be dedicated to open discussion among all attendees over tea and snacks. The most up-to-date information about the discussion leaders, monthly themes, and selected articles can be found on our OSF page.
Inclusivity: Everyone is welcome to join us - skeptics and enthusiasts alike! We are hoping for a diverse range of attendees from all career stages, disciplines, and backgrounds, and particularly enjoy hearing views views from all perspectives. Your voice is welcome here, and we offer a friendly atmosphere.
Rotman
Rotterdam
About
ReproducibiliTea Rotterdam is a journal club organized by the Open Science Community Rotterdam (OSCR). We discuss documents addressing various topics on open science practices.
Format
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Every session, one discussant chooses a published article, preprint, or blog post about a specific open science topic (e.g., the advantages of publishing your work in open access journals, criticism of pre-publication peer review, best practices of data/code curation/sharing, …). The discussant prepares a short presentation (5’-15’) summarizing the main points of the document, but the bulk of the meeting (45’-55’) is dedicated to open discussion: is the topic relevant for your field of research? In case of specific issues, has anybody proposed and/or implemented some solutions? Can any of these solutions be translated, scaled, and applied in other research areas?
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Even though some papers, at first glance, seem to relate only to a specific discipline (e.g., psychology has been working on open science issues quite intensively in the past years), we aim to extract general lessons that can be helpful for researchers in different fields.
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A different discussant will take care of the initial summary, ensuring that different research areas are represented.
Attendees
This journal club is open to everyone: PhD students, post-docs, junior and senior faculty, from any school/department at EUR and ErasmusMC. Interested Bachelor and Master students are also welcome to join, especially if it can be helpful for their thesis.
Practical Information
From November 2019 to March 2020 we used to meet on the second Wednesday of every month at 11:00. From April 2020 onward we meet online, once a month. Around two weeks before the session, an invitation is sent via the mailing list of the Open Science Community Rotterdam (to be included, please contact Antonio Schettino). Announcements are also made on our website (News section) and on Twitter (@OSCRotterdam).
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Saint Louis Area
This journal club is for those interested in open science, reproducibility, and related topics. We’re based in the Saint Louis area, and welcome all!
Sheffield
The Sheffield branch of ReproducibiliTea meets monthly and has people coming from a range of departments across the University of Sheffield and beyond. We might increase the frequency of our meetings in 2022.
Aims
At our sessions, we are aiming to provide an informal, friendly and supportive space to discuss topics related to reproducibility, replicability and transparency, open research practices and research culture change.
Format
Anyone is welcome to propose a paper or topic to discuss.
During each session, one or more members volunteer to lead the discussion. The volunteer/-s prepare a short introduction to the paper/blog post/talk/topic and facilitate discussion.
Practical information
If you’re a student, early career researcher or staff, please do come and join us! Just log into MUSE, then sign up to our Google group and subscribe to our Google calendar. Do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any trouble joining the group!
Singapore
Singapore ReproducibiliTea is a joint intitative of researchers from the National Institute of Education (NIE) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and kindly supported by both NIE and NTU libraries. We welcome researchers at any career stage and from any reserach fields to read target papers we select each week and join us for some ReprroducibiliTehPeng, snacks and open science chats. In most sessions we also set up a videoconference link for researchers based at NTU’s second campus in Novena or interested researchers from other institutions to join us. Information on the dates, location and topics to discuss in each meeting can be found on our OSF page, our Twitter accounf @SingReproTea or by contacting alexa.vonhagen@nie.edu.sg. You can also read more about our past encounters on the NTU library blog.
Southampton
Spartan
This is the MSU chapter of ReproducibiliTEA where spartan scientists can gather and discuss open science practices.
St Andrews
Stanford
This is a club dedicated to discussing questions relating to the practice of open science in the social sciences. We welcome students from all backgrounds with all experience levels - we’re here to learn together and from one another!
Surrey
About
ReproducibiliTea at the University of Surrey is run by PGRs and ECRs from the Surrey Reproducibility Society. It forms a central part of the society’s activities. The society organise meetings on a fortnightly basis with different sessions taking place every time. We organise sessions that aim to deliver workshops and demonstrations to aid the development of skills needed to implement reproducible and open science methods. We alternate these with the ReproducibiliTea journal club sessions occurring once a month. Our focus is interdisciplinary and we welcome attendees at all levels of academic careers. Anyone can become a member of the Surrey Reproducibility Society, please send us an email to be added to the mailing list and receive our fortnightly newsletter.
Resources
We take special care to collect a library of resources to aid independent learning of reproducible and open science methods in between society meetings. They can be found on our OSF page along with detailed notes from each society meeting.
Sussex
Sussex Open Science (SOS) hosts various activities over tea and biscuits including a journal club (ReproducibiliTea), methods workshops, and SOS clinic to help students apply the principles of open science to their own research.
Mission
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Develop a discourse on open science and discuss the main ideas and debates in open research
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Build capacity of students and researchers to integrate open science principles and methods in their research
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Foster a collaborative open research culture within and beyond the University of Sussex
Format
SOS alternates between ReproducibiliTea journal club and workshops fortnightly. At the end of each session, we dedicate 15 minutes to “SOS Clinic” where attendees can discuss practical applications of open science to their own research, and ask any questions about methodology.
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ReproducibiliTea journal club (monthly)
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Workshops (monthly)
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SOS Clinic (fortnightly)
The activities are open to anyone who is interested and we are happy to be contacted.
Swansea
Macquarie
The Macquarie branch of RTea is based at Macquarie University with primary input from the Departments of Psychology and Cognitive Science. The RTea journal clubs form a key part of the Macquarie Methods and Meta-science meetings (Triple M meetings). The format for triple M meetings is a mixture of RTea journal clubs and talks.
Talks are welcome in a range of formats. It can be a summary of something recent in your lab that speaks to open science or a how-to talk that demonstrates a new methodological, theoretical, statistical or more general data-science approach. External speakers will be invited at various points also.
This is an inclusive meeting, and all are welcome. We are particularly keen to have a strong masters, PhD and early career presence at these meetings. Anyone can propose a possible topic and present, so please do come along and get involved.
Taipei
About us The Taipei ReproducibiliTea journal club meets at Taipei Medical University to have open discussions about what might be wrong with the way we are doing science and how to make things better.
People from an field, at any institution in Taipei, and at any stage of their career are all welcome to come along and join in.
Bring a cup and enjoy some tea, some biscuits, and some friendly science chat!
TCPSR
TCPSR is the Chinese-speaking community where we wish more Chinese-as-first-language scholars realize and join ReproducibiliTea journal clubs. We expect each mega city in Taiwan will have a standalone journal club. Since 2021 winter, we are managing bimonthly open practices workshops included the pre-research estimations on power, effect size and sample size.
Tokyo
Toronto
The journal club is open to everyone across York University, from any discipline, department, or level of study.
Meeting times and locations will be announced soon.
Tuebingen
Tufts Area
Psychology
University College London
UEA
University of Oslo
Welcome
Our journal club is open to both staff and students at UiO across all departments. Everyone is welcome to join us - whether you are an enthusiast, a skeptic, or a cautious explorer. Feel free to get in touch if you are interested to participate or contribute!
Our mission
- provide an informal and friendly platform for discussions about meta scientific topics
- help each other get familiarized with open science practices (e.g., pre-registrations, sharing data, sharing preprints, etc.)
- connect students and researchers from various disciplines who are interested in meta science.
Format
Before each meeting, we read an article on meta scientific topics, which we then discuss during the meeting. At each meeting, a different discussion leader will begin by providing a short overview of the paper and facilitate discussion throughout the meeting. Anyone can propose a possible paper or topic to present if we have not covered it already. Grab a cup of tea (coffee?) and join us! Due to the current pandemic, all sessions will be held online (Zoom) for the time being.
If you would like to receive announcements about our journal club and related events, please subscribe to our mailing list: https://sympa.uio.no/uio.no/subscribe/open-science-oslo
UniBasel
Welcome to the ReproducibiliTea UniBasel journal club. Once a month we will discuss a paper on the topic of reproducibility, replicability, open science, and statistics.
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago ReproducibliTea Journal Club meets every week during each quarter to discuss meta-science topics such as reproducibility, open science and others! An initiative started by graduate students and early-career researchers in the Psychology department, the goal is to create a supportive community and empower each other to undertake rigorous and open research practices!
To subscribe to our mailing list, please email William with your @uchicago.edu email.
University of Dundee
Edinburgh
Hello, we’re Edinburgh ReproducibiliTea and we host a mix of seminar/journal club style sessions on Open Research topics every 3rd Friday of the month from 11-12 UK time during the academic semesters.
For an overview of our schedule and blog posts about our previous sessions see https://edopenresearch.com/reproducibilitea-blog/.
We also have a YouTube channel were we upload our recordings https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9y6VX6Dvs4-vC8eDuOKpNQ and we also post our recordings and other relevant materials on our OSF page: https://osf.io/kh5px/
To sign up for our sessions you can join our mailing list by filling out this form https://forms.gle/AuYXJtayYMc41T5j6 or keep an eye on our Twitter (@Edinburgh_Tea) for links to our session-specific Eventbrite pages. We hope to see you at one of our sessions!
University of Florida
University of Southern California
ReproducibiliTea USC is a journal club devoted to discussing papers related to transparency and reproducibility in science.
We meet virtually each month and welcome members from all career stages, disciplines and departments.
To subscribe to our mailing list, please email Shelby (sbachman@usc.edu).
USyd
Vancouver
This journal club is currently is currently in the process of being founded, please get in touch if you want to be involved!
Bielefeld
Vienna
The ReproducibiliTea Vienna was founded by the Early Career Researchers of the Faculty of Psychology. It is meeting once a month in order to discuss papers on open science and exchange our own open science research practices. ReproducibiliTEA Vienna is open to researchers from all areas and from all stages of research (early career to senior academics).
Växjö-Kalmar
Warwick
Waterloo - Psychology
Welcome to the University of Waterloo’s Psychology ReproducibiliTea journal club! This club is meant for everyone in the department of psychology and beyond!
We are a new club run by senior grad students and plan to start meeting in the Fall of 2021 on a bi-weekly basis. We look forward to discussing reproducibility concerns in our field as well as practical ways to improve the robustness of one’s research, while also making science more reproducible, open, and accessible.
Waterloo - School of Public Health and Health Systems
Welcome to the University of Waterloo’s School of Public Health and Health Systems ReproducibiliTea journal club! This journal club is open to anyone within the School at any level.
We are a relatively new journal club, with our first meeting held in January 2021. We hold meetings every two weeks, and very much looking forward to discussing how to improve scientific practice, and making science more reproducible, open, and accessible.
Westminster
Research methods, statistics and reproducibility reading group
York St John
York
Zurich
Organized by the Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich.