Moin dear Open Science friends of Oldenburg (and beyond),

We are happy to announce that we are starting a newsletter. From now on every two months you will be updated about what has been going on in the OSIG, upcoming events, general open science news and more. In this first issue we will include a small general recap on what the OSIG has worked on so far.

 Please feel free to share this newsletter and, as always, you’re welcome to join our online biweekly meetings (Tuesdays 11-12 a.m. on uneven calendar weeks: Next meeting on 26th of April) that are open to everyone.

Recap of OSIG

• In the Open Science Series of the Psychological colloquium, you can attend open science related talks three times a semester. So far, we organized the following talks:
  • Open Science: What have we achieved, where do we go? (Prof. Dr. Felix Schönbrodt, LMU)
  • Open Access publishing and funding possibilities at the University of Oldenburg (Kim Braun, BIS UOL)
  • Experiences with Registered Reports: An Update (Jill von Conta, UOL)
  • Open Code (Sarah Blum and Arnd Meiser, UOL)
  • Pre-registration & Data Sharing (Dr. Stephanie Rosemann, Georgetown U)
  • Introduction of the DFG Core Facility Grant (Dr. Tina Schmitt, UOL)
  • Introducing the OSIG (Nadine Jacobsen, UOL)
  • Registered reports (Jill von Conta, UOL)
• The Department of Psychology now has an open science website, introducing the OSIG, TORS, and also showcasing our publications following open science principles (yes, open access is enough!). For your research to be listed please send the reference to 
• Together with TORS we joined the Network of Open Science Initiatives, which is the central platform for the Network of (German-speaking) Open Science Initiatives
• We initiated the creation of a department twitter account @psychOLogyOL. Mareike Daeglau (re-)tweets interesting articles and news concerning our department. For your research to be featured please send her your tweet (or a draft of a possible tweet if you do not have an account yourself).
• Via our mailing list  you can send and receive information about upcoming events. If you are receiving this mail you already signed up :)
• With the newsletter you are reading right know, you can stay up-to-date with the recent work of the OSIG
• Use this overview of expertise within our department (study group access required) to check who has experience with certain methods or topics and would be willing to help you. If you are willing to help others, please extend the list. 

We were also involved in some projects that so far were not successful yet and are ongoing. For instance, we were involved in applying for funds to enable students to internally preregister their master’s theses or to get a student assistant to evaluate if and how open science knowledge could be further integrated into the Neurocognitive Psychology study program. We will keep you updated on the progress.

Upcoming events

• Open Science Series summer term 2022, Psychological Colloquium, Thursdays 16:15-17:45
  • June 09: Dr. Tina Lonsdorf, UKE Hamburg. Details TBA
  • Other dates TBA
• 02.05.22, 10:15-11:45, online: introductory git workshop by Paul Maanen (PhD student Neuropsychology Lab) for department members here. Please let us know here if you plan to join.
• 23.09.22: one-day workshop on Bayesian Statistics by Prof. Dr. Daniel Schad. Workshop is primarily directed at interested master's students, but spots can also be filled by scientific staff. Details TBA

External events:

• 01.09.22: One-day Netherlands National Open Science Festival Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, registration free of charge (https://opensciencefestival.nl/)
• 27.10.22: OS NovaTalk; Prof. Dr. F. Miedema, University of Utrecht: The Transition to Open Science, why and how

For updates on events please refer to the Open Science website of our department.

Open Science News

• 17.03.22: DFG signed action plan for supporting infrastructure of diamond open access publication (https://www.dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissenschaft/2022/info_wissenschaft_22_26/index.html) 

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Moin dear Open Science friends of Oldenburg (and beyond),

Recap of the last two months

• We continued the Open Science Series of the Psychological colloquium with the following talks::
  • May 2: Multiverse analyzes in cognitive neuroscience – The METEOR project (Prof. Dr. Andrea Hildebrandt, UOL)
  • June 9: Opening pandora's box: Practices, Problems, Prospects and Perspectives of data sharing in Psychology (Dr. Tina Lonsdorf, UKE Hamburg)
    • Tina was so kind to share her slides and you can find a short summary of the post-talk discussion here.
• We approached the data protection officer of our university (Lars Galow) with a catalog of questions regarding data protection issues in data sharing. If you are part of our study group, you can find his answers here. In summary, he provided us with the following information:
  • Data protection regulations do not apply to anonymized data (behavioral data without identifiers are anonymized, for brain data that’s not clear yet). Therefore, anonymized data can theoretically be shared without the participant’s explicit consent (However, from an ethical point of view it is highly recommended to ask for the participant’s consent!)​​​​​​​​​​
• To foster the use of version control of code, we organized an introductory git workshop by Paul Maanen (PhD student Neuropsychology Lab) for department members on May 2. Please find the material here.
• Together with Prof. Andrea Hildebrand and Dr. Kerstin Bleichner we applied for funds at “Innovation Plus” to enable students to internally preregister their master’s theses. Unfortunately, this application was not successful but we will re-apply for the next financing round (2023/24).

Upcoming events

• Open Science Series summer term 2022, Psychological Colloquium, Thursdays 16:15-17:45  
  • July 21: TBA

External events:

• 01.09.22: One-day Netherlands National Open Science Festival Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, registration free of charge (opensciencefestival.nl)
• 27.10.22: OS NovaTalk; Prof. Dr. F. Miedema, University of Utrecht: The Transition to Open Science, why and how

For updates on events please refer to the Open Science website of our department.

Open Science News

• OpenPlato, a free e-learning platform that bundles quality-assured learning resources concerning the topic of open science was launched on June 1st! Find more details here.

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Moin dear Open Science friends of Oldenburg (and beyond),

we hope you enjoyed your semester break and want to warmly welcome everyone who joined the department since our last issue.

Please feel free to share this newsletter and, as always, you’re welcome to join our online biweekly meetings (Tuesdays 11-12 a.m. on uneven calendar weeks: Next meeting on 25th of October) that are open to everyone. Previous newsletter issues can be retrieved from the OSIG website.

Recap of the last two months

• We continued the Open Science Series of the Psychological colloquium with the a video and discussion on a talk by Prof Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) “Towards a More Self-Correcting Science”.
  • The series will continue with internal talks in the next summer semester. If you cannot wait until then, please note that in the psychological colloquium on October, 27th at 6pm there will be a HWK Nova lecture on the topic of “Transition to Open Science, Why and How.” by Prof. Dr. Frank Miedema, Professor of immunology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University. You may join online here.
• Bayes workshop: In September, Prof Daniel Schad (HMU Potsdam) visited us in Oldenburg to give a talk on Bayesian statistics and workflows.
  • For more information please have a look at his paper Toward a principled Bayesian workflow in cognitive science 
  • R scripts and data for the workshop can be retrieved here: https://osf.io/y354c/ and https://osf.io/b2vx9/

• In the last year we have worked on a way to give researchers in our department the chance to openly display their support of research transparency. We are proud (and a little relieved) to say that our Department's version of the commitment to research transparency is now online. Thanks again to everyone who participated in the process! If you want your name added to the list of signatories, please send a mail to .
  • Please note that we adapted the original version of the statement, which means that our version does not come with a badge that you can put on your own website. If you have spare time and energy to make a badge that can be added to our statement, please feel invited to do so. If you want to additionally sign the original commitment (which includes the privilege to use the official badge) we encourage you to do so! 
  • If you are managing your own university website you can link the statement to your profile to create a better visibility of the OSIG Commitment and show that you are a signee, with the following steps :
    • Stud.IP -> Profile -> Personal Details -> More Details
    • Go to the box: “Research interest” and add: "Signee of the OSIG Commitment to research transparency"
    • Highlight “OSIG Commitment to research transparency”
    • Click on Link (or Ctrl+K)
    • Paste in the URL Box: https://uol.de/psychologie/open-science/osig/osig-commitment-to-research-transparency
    • Click "Accept"
    • The information will be updated over night
    • You can also add other things (e.g., CV, publications, etc) to your university web page

Action required!

• Since the practical project is coming up we want to take the opportunity  to share a paper by Schönbrodt et al. (2022) to you concerning OS- based guidelines on what can be covered in a practical project. We hope you enjoy the read and maybe get inspired.
• In the upcoming months our department will welcome a lot of new students and PhDs. This might be a great time to consider signing up to our list of expertise within our department (study group access required) if you haven’t done so already. Also, if you learned something new,  please update the list. For everyone, who has not used the list so far:  the list contains information on Department members and the software/programs/fields they feel confident enough in to offer support. So if you’re looking for someone with expertise, check out the list.

Open Science News

• Tweet of the issue: During his talk on the current state of psychology at the DGPs congress 2022 the former president of the DGPs, Prof Markus Bühner, highlighted the need to further enhance our efforts to practice open and reproducible science.

We couldn’t agree more! :)

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Moin dear Open Science friends of Oldenburg (and beyond),

we hope you are enjoying the semester break and had a wonderful start in the new year!

Please feel free to share this newsletter and, as always, you’re welcome to join our hybrid biweekly meetings (Tuesdays 11-12 a.m. on uneven calendar weeks in the study group and A7-0-36: Next meeting on 28th of February) that are open to everyone. Previous newsletter issues can be retrieved from the OSIG website.

Recap of the last two months

• The beginning of the year was a time for reflection and planning ahead for us. Thanks to everyone (29 people!) who filled out our questionnaire at the beginning of the year. We really gained some great insights, are happy about the positive feedback and are committed to work on improving the points you constructively criticized. Some of out personal highlights from the questionnaire were:
  • 100 % of the people who filled out the questionnaire this year are aware of the OSIG, which is 20% more than last year! We are very happy to have increased our outreach and do not want to hear anything about a so-called “selection-bias” ;) 
  • 20/22 people who are aware of this newsletter actually at least skim through it, which is of course music to our ears!
• We also looked into the goals we set for ourselves a year ago and can proudly report that we accomplished most of them! Some goals we were able to accomplish are …
  • Increase our outreach by starting this newsletter and presenting the OSIG to new students
  • Organize ourselves better internally
• ... while other goals will be carried to our to-achieve-in-2023-list:
  • Increase our momentum on certain projects by recruiting new members
  • Continue to facilitate communication across labs
• We also put a special focus on the generation of an ethical and fair participant code that can be implemented in future studies and be easily retrieved. Since this has proven harder than expected, we are still working on this and appreciate every helping hand and brain.
• We are happy to be able to tell you that we are also currently looking into new topics for OS-related workshops and external talks for the summer term (also taking into account some of the great ideas you provided in the OSIG evaluation – thanks a lot!). We will keep you updated on the process. If you cannot wait until then, we recommend this great lecture series featuring OS-related topics by the ZPID.

Action required!

• We are currently looking for new members to join the OSIG. If you are interested in joining us or just getting to know us and learning about our projects without any commitment, please join us on our on-boarding meeting on 28.03. from 11 to 12 o’clock in A7-0-36. We will introduce our running projects, answer all questions that you might have, chat, and maybe even provide some snacks ;) We would be very happy to see interested people there! If you plan to attend, please indicate that here. 
  • ​​​​​​​P.S.: We are aware that the meeting is scheduled during the semester break and school holidays in Lower Saxony. If that causes any inconvenience for you, please let us know, and we will find a solution.
• To all new members of the department: Have you considered signing our commitment to research transparency? If you want to add your name to the list, please contact  . Feel free to approach us if you have questions.
• From the OSIG-evaluation we also learned that some people in the department wish for more support in terms of OS practices. We would like to highlight that you can contact us at any time and we will try to help or refer you. There is also a list of expertise within the department that includes information on people who can help you with specific problems/topics.

Open Science News

• At the United Nations 3rd Annual Open Science Conference, the NASA has announced 2023 to be the YEAR OF OPEN SCIENCE. Could that be a sign for you to announce your personal year of open science? We would love to support you if you want!

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