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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Do you have an interest in social cognition and skills in neuroscience? Come and do a fully-funded(!) PhD with Dr Daniel Shaw, Dr Enrico Amico, and me! 🧠 📚 "Social brain fingerprints: using network science to extract neural correlates of interpersonal (dys)function" Apply here: lnkd.in/eNRZxbf5

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Join us for Midlands Innovation Open Research Week, 6th–9th May The theme for this year’s event is “Just fOR the love of it”, where we aim to spotlight open research beyond compliance— focusing on the principles, values, & innovations that drive researchers to embrace openness as a way of working

Schedule of talks for the Midland's Open Research Week.

Tuesday 6th May
11:00am - Improving student research training through a consortium model (Dr Charlotte Pennington, Aston University)

1:00pm - Open Peer Review: perspectives from editor, author and reviewer (Dr Lara Skelly, Loughborough University)

Wednesday 7th May
11:00am - What if I really can’t share my data but want to be open? Synthetic data (Dr Krzysztof Cipora, Loughborough University)

1:00pm - The intersection of neurodiversity and open scholarship (Dr Mahmoud Elsherif, University of Leicester)

Thursday 8th May
11:00am - Computer Vision for Old Books: Open Research in the Digital Humanities (Dr Hazel Wilkinson, University of Birmingham)

1:00pm - Get Feedback, Work Smarter: The Hidden Perks of Preregistration (Dr Roni Tibon, University of Nottingham)

3:00pm - Building a Thriving Research Culture: The Importance of 'Openness' in its broadest sense! (Dr Marie Sams, Vicky Strudwick, & Dr Jake Spicer, University of Warwick NCRC)

Friday 9th May
11:00am - Measuring Ourselves: A Self-Assessment Tool for Open Research Practices (Dr Masi Noor, Keele University)

1:00pm - What can open research learn from the open source movement in computing? (Professor Stephen Eglen, University of Cambridge)

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Celebrating Magda Skubera's first, first-author paper 👏 🥳 and a super collaboration with @forrt.bsky.social Published in Royal Society Open Science, our systematic review of international Open Research initiatives in Psychology! doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #OpenResearch #OpenScience

Front page of our systematic review, "International initiatives to enhance awareness and uptake of open research in psychology: a systematic mapping review" showing the title page and abstract. Authors are Magda Skubera, Max Korbmacher, Thomas Rhys Evans, Flavio Azevedo, and Charlotte Pennington.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Join us for Midlands Innovation Open Research Week, 6th–9th May 2025 – a celebration of openness in research! This year’s theme, "Open Research: Just fOR the love of it!", highlights the intrinsic value of open research practices & the passion that drives them. Stay tuned for registration details!

An advert for the Midlands Innovation Open Research Week. The dates are 6th to the 9th May. Save the dates!

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

& this is still one of the best books I've ever read. I remember being on holiday & not being able to put it down. Problem is, I now see it as a story.

Front cover of the book "whistling vivaldi: how stereotypes affect us and what we can do" by Claude Steele.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

One thing I’m most pleased about is this figure that distinguishes the peer review process for Registered Reports from that of standard research articles. Students need to understand the peer review process to understand this new publication format, but many figures don’t depict this. (4/6)

A figure depicting the traditional publication model and the Registered Reports publication model. In the former, peer review happens at the end of a study for an entire research report. In the latter, peer review is split into two stages: before data collection/analysis and once the research is completed. Figure is licensed as CC-BY-4.0: Please cite the reference within the preprint if you wish to re-use this figure.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This guide provides an overview of what Registered Reports are and how they work, responds to FAQs, outlines barriers & solutions to their implementation, and offers 10 top tips for students and researchers. (2/6)

A cartoon of a person wearing a blue backpack and reading a guide full of information.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Never thought I'd see the day that I converted Channing Tatum to Open Science, but here we are!

A printscreen of BlueSky showing that, supposedly, Channing Tatum liked my post on study preregistration!

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

From my book, "A Student's Guide to Open Science", I outline the following:

Six landmark events in the replication crisis: Ioannidis 2005, Bem 2011, John and colleagues 2012, Many Labs 2014, the Open Science Collaboration 2015, and Baker 2016.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Estimates of test-retest reliability varied considerably between tasks and their component measures:

A table of test-retest estimates for indices of seven social cognition tasks.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

150 participants completed the race-Implicit Association Test (r-IAT), Stimulus-Response Compatibility (SRC) task, Emotional Go/No-Go (eGNG) task, Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), Dot Perspective-Taking (DPT) task, State Affective Empathy (SAE) task, & Explicit Bias (EB)...

Schematic diagram of the Stimulus Response Compatibility Task that measures automatic imitation, and the Emotional Go/No-Go Task that measures emotion recognition and regulation.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

In our new (and now revised!) preprint, we investigated the test-retest reliability of common experimental tasks used to measure social cognitive abilities (2/5)

A cartoon with two people looking down at a number - from one person's perspective, the number is a six and from the other's perspective, it is a nine. This exemplifies visual perspective taking; a component of social cognition.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

"As open as possible, as closed as necessary" Do not data dump 🚮 From my book below ⬇️ Relevant for students AND researchers. Fantastic paper on this by Ross et al. (2018): psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

A page from my book, "A Student's Guide to Open Science" that explains open data sharing and the importance of participant anonymity and data governance.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Off to teach our MSc Health students about Open Science, armed with prepregistration templates to compare & contrast! 🤩 #OpenResearch #Preregistration #OpenScience

A photograph of two different preregistration templates - one from AsPredicted.org and another from the Open Science Framework.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

It's the start of a new academic year & many are developing & updating their teaching materials! To inspire some content & activities, I've compiled my lectures, seminars, & workshop materials on an OSF page, across UG and PG levels! osf.io/n4vaq/ #OpenScience

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

Just updating for you now. Head to: osf.io/n4vaq/ and then to "Open Science Teaching & Resources". 😊

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

Thanks so much, Ashley! Yes @adw.bsky.social my book has a few 'interactivities' 🤣 that I paste below. Here's an accompanying PowerPoint, too: osf.io/tuyfd I've updated my OSF teaching materials in recent years so I'll let you know once I've updated that OSF page (this served as a timely reminder)!

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Our chapter* "Evaluating interventions: a practical primer for specifying the smallest effect size of interest" can be found in the section on: 👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏿How to improve the evidence-to-policy pipeline @maxprimbs.bsky.social @duddaleonie.bsky.social Hannah Peetz Pia Andresen Erin Buchanan Sam Westwood

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Still on a high from the #SIPS2024 conference held in Nairobi, Kenya! @improvingpsych.bsky.social It was so great to see the publication of a new Open Access book edited by @psforscher.bsky.social & Mario Schmidt of Busara Center "A better how: Notes on developmental meta-research 📖 "

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

Your ethics application can become your preregistration which can become your manuscript. Simples!

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

That's me 💁🏻‍♀️❣️ Make your own research wordcloud! scholargoggler.com

A wordcloud of Charlotte Pennington's research expertise.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

Oo, perhaps for the first time, I disagree with @lakens.bsky.social (& agree with Smriti Mehta) here: Preregistration should be about the severity of the analysis AND the hypothesis... If I run 15 tests, I'd want to know which one best confirms my hypothesis. (1/X)

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

"Much well-designed and preregistered research is conducted but never published... Making this research public would help us all to do better science." 💯, I could not agree more! That's why I wrote the following in a recent paper of mine; learn from my mistakes!

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

We want it to be mainstream; get rid of the dash!!

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

It was great to give my first keynote ✨️ today for the @Radboud_Uni Behavioural Science Institute's PhD day! My talk "Your PhD: Starting, Surviving & Thriving" focused on: 🔸️Breaking down tasks (🐸 method) 🔸️Reflecting on ethos & values 🔸️Being a responsible researcher

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

We developed the Brief Open Research Survey to be used by others to easily capture (<5 mins completion time) prevalence of Open Research practices and track uptake overtime. (5/end)

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

USE They reported having mostly used Open Access Publications (77.8%), Preprints (56.5%) and Open Data (52.5%) and having least used Registered Reports (8.7%), Replication Studies (16.3%), and Study Preregistration (25.3%) (3/X)

A graph showing awareness and useage of open research practices. Statistics are stated in the associated tweet so not repeated here.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Whilst the need for Open Research practices is well documented, there remains a lack of validated questionnaires to assess their prevalence. We developed, piloted, and administered the Brief Open Research Survey (BORS) to measure OR awareness & uptake in the UK (1/X)

A picture of an open door with a bright landscape, as an analogy of how open research can improve research.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Listening to the fantastic ReproducibiliTEA podcast with Max Korbmacher, Thom Rhys Evans & @flavioazevedo talking about our recent FORRT paper. Reflecting on how amazing it is to be part of this incredible, positive & supportive team! Read the paper, OA 🔓📝, here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The ReproducibiliTEA podcast, Season 3, Episode 13 on "From crisis to FORRTsitive change".

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Woah, England, what is this weather? 🌞 On my way to work at 7am, cardigan in hand and iced latte ordered!

A selfie of Charlotte walking to work, with a Cardigan in her hand and green woody scenery in the background.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Correlation does not equals caus.... Oh! *facepalm*

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Chapter 6 then concludes with a look towards the future – seeing the crisis as an opportunity. It includes an excellent quote from Ian Hussey about seeing the crisis as a ‘call to action’.

A snippet of text from my book about seeing the replication crisis as an opportunity.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Chapter 5 puts these practices into practice with top tips for each open science practice. It includes researcher’s self-reported mistakes & solutions in open science to reduce barriers to uptake, & is written in the style of an ‘open science buffet’ (credit to Christina Bergmann for this term!)

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

This chapter also exemplifies how open science can be easily integrated into psychology teaching & learning through a ‘consortium approach’ to the dissertation process. It ends with a crossword; a crossword!!

The consortium approach to the dissertation process: supervisors across multiple institutions supervise students on a large empirical study.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Chapter 4 introduces students to open science practices such as preprints, preregistration, registered reports, open materials/code/& and wider behaviours such as inclusivity. Did you know that registered reports were introduced in the 70s?

A quote from Walster and Cleary in the 70s introducing Registered Reports.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Throughout the book there are pedagogical activities that can easily be embedded within teaching, such as an activity on ‘spot the questionable research practices’.

A pedagogic activity of 'spot the questionable research practices'. Students identify the QRP and present solutions to this issue in the form of open science practices.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Chapter 3 focuses on explanations for the crisis; academic incentives, cognitive biases, publication bias, questionable research practices, underpowered research, p-values, measurement schmeasurement, novelty over replication, no self-correction, & closed science.

An example of questionable research practices including p-hacking, HARKing, selective reporting, and publication bias.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Chapter 2 also provides students with a case study on ego-depletion, featuring the famous quote from Mickey Inzlicht's blog: "The problem is that ego depletion might not even be a thing".

A case study on ego depletion, discussing replication attempts.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Chapter 2 outlines the importance of replication in & outlines key events from 2011 onwards that sparked the ‘replication crisis’ in psychology. It also covers different types of replications mean, what a ‘failure to replicate’ actually means, & whether we are really in crisis.

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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

“A Student’s Guide to Open Science” walks students through the history of the replication crisis & the behaviours that we can engage in to improve transparency, replication, & reproducibility. It’s written for students, researchers, & supervisors. What’s behind the cover?

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