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Rene Bernard

@renebernard.bsky.social
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Coordinator for (Research) Value and Open Science at NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, QUEST Center of the BIH, Reproducibility -enthusiast, -communicator and -educator. and cat person t1p.de/zmpz5

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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🔬 How can we make labs more sustainable – without adding unnecessary work? 🌱 Learn what works in Berlin's #Neuroscience labs ♻️ Share & reuse resources 🤝 Find local support & more Berlin Lab Sustainability Action Day 📅 10 Nov | 10–12 | online | in German Register: www.mdc-berlin.de/form/berlin-...
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Berlin Lab Sustainability Action Day
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
There are still free spots for the 2nd edition of the 5-day course: "Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R", run in collaboration with the @eco-aeet.bsky.social This year we are running the event at beautiful and historic @ucoimbra.bsky.social (Portugal) Info: aeet.org/events/2026/... #rstats
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Course Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R, 2ed
This course provides a practical introduction to modern methods of evidence synthesis, with a focus on systematic review and meta-analysis in ecology and evolution.
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ORCID @orcid.org · 16/06/2026
Are you spending more time formatting your publication history than actually doing research? 😩📝 Ditch the dread of grant applications and repeated tasks. Watch this quick breakdown on what your ORCID record can do for you:👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rZvFGLe7bg #ResearchSky
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What Your ORCID Record Can Do For You
Managing your research across different systems, institutions, and career stages can be exhausting. But is your ORCID iD just a required checkbox, or is it actually working for you? In this video, learn how to unlock the full potential of your record. Save Time by reducing manual data entry by seamlessly logging into systems, autofilling grant forms, and syncing your data across platforms. Build Trust through Trust Markers that signal your information has been verified and added directly by trusted institutions, funders, and employers. Stay in Control of how your data is shared, viewed, and managed with fully customizable visibility settings. The research ecosystem works best when everything connects. Explore your record today to see how much more your ORCID iD can do. 👉 Manage your record at orcid.org #ORCID #ResearchCommunity #OpenScience
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Fake papers are becoming a massive problem for scientific literature. We discuss a paper which is doing something about this. Come and join the discussion.
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NeuroCure.bsky.social @neurocure.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Fake papers in biomedicine: how big is the problem and what can we do about it? Join next Monday’s DRIVERS Journal Club! @renebernard.bsky.social will introduce the topic, followed by an open discussion. Everyone welcome. 📅Monday, June 1 | 12 pm(noon) 📖 doi.org/10.1007/s002... 🔗 tinyurl.com/fea876j8
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 09/04/2026
"Fact-checking is how journals could add real value at a time when the academic community — which is also carrying out peer review, usually as a labor of love — are questioning what publishers bring to the table apart from typesetting and copy-editing articles and making them look pretty."
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Scientific Journals Need Dedicated Fact-Checkers
Opinion | An additional layer of quality control could help academic publishers weed out problematic content before it propagates.
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EXCELScIOR ERA Chair Project @excelscior-era.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🚀 “ReproducibiliTeach” is back! Online course from April 2 ✨ Hands-on training to make your research more transparent, reproducible and reusable. Register: tinyurl.com/RepTeach Organisers: @tweissgerber.bsky.social (@ucoimbra.bsky.social) and @renebernard.bsky.social (@neurocure.bsky.social)
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Apply best practices in real time. Get feedback and insights from instructors and classmates. Ideal for biomedical researchers working with small sample sizes—preclinical, in vitro, or human studies. Flipped classroom! Check out our YT channel: www.youtube.com/@reproducibi...
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ReproducibiliTeach
Learn strategies to make your research more transparent, robust & reproducible. After each video, viewers will be able to apply the skills that they have learned to their own research projects. This...
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
ReproducibiliTeach is a joint course from @bihatcharite.bsky.social QUEST Center for Responsible Research & @neurocure.bsky.social Cluster of Excellence. The ReproducibiliTeach Team Tracey @tweissgerber.bsky.social & René #Reproducibility #Transparency #OpenScience #Rigor #Preclinical
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Whether you are from Berlin or not, come & learn with us how to make your research transparent & reproducible! Join our free flipped classroom course in 5 online sessions (90 min each) starting April 2nd, 4 pm CET & get ECTS ! For more info and how to register, visit: tinyurl.com/reproteach
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer www.nature.com/articles/d41... Many probs: Predatory journals, slow retraction, paper mills, faulty studies... "...external oversight could push journals and publishers to work harder to reduce integrity..."
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Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer
Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to follow suit.
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
And so I take that as an opportunity to highlight the dangers posed by @deevybee.bsky.social's "four horsemen of irreproducibility": hypothesizing after results are known (HARKing), low power, p-hacking, and publication bias. www.nature.com/articles/d41... ...3/n
A painting showing the four horsemen of irreproducibility, from left to right: hypothesizing after results are known (HARKing), low power, p-hacking, and publication bias. Adapted by Prof. Dorothy Bishop from the original 1887 painting by Russian artist Viktor Vasnetsov.
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Today I presented at the fantastic @ecnp.eu workshop how the #eqipd framework connects to the skills you can leverage from preclinical Systematic Reviews. #ECNP #Neuroscience Slides are here: osf.io/pqja2/files/...
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Have you registered for #LoveMethods26 yet? Join us from Jan 19-23, 2026 with 19 online workshops and seminars focused on improving method reproducibility and transparency. Check it out: excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods...
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Love Methods Week 2026 – Excelsior
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
👉 Don’t miss out. It only happens once a year. Because better methods = better data. Register now for LOVE Method Week. excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods... (5/5)
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Love Methods Week 2026 – Excelsior
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🌱 This is your chance to gain practical, applied skills that help make your science reproducible — not just publishable. (4/5)
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
📅 Jan 19–23, 2026 🎯 For scientists, students, educators – across preclinical & clinical research (3/5)
#LoveMethods26
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
💡 From in vivo design to transparent reporting 19 free online sessions will walk you through how to build more reproducible, robust methods. (2/5)
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🧵 Why are so many experiments hard to reproduce? Spoiler: It's not the data – it's the method. That’s where LOVE Methods Week comes in. (1/5)
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Thrilled that @shreyadimri.bsky.social & I will be part of #LoveMethods26! We'll present on "How to avoid common problems in #SystematicReviews & #MetaAnalyses" 📅 Jan 19–23, 2026 | FREE | All online Everyone's invited to join the entire week of workshops! 🔗 excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods...
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Laborjournal @laborjournal.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
»Wir leben in einer totalen Reputationsökonomie, in der Karrieren weniger über wissenschaftlichen und damit gesellschaftlichen Impact, sondern über Surrogate wie Zitierhäufigkeit des Publikationsorgans (sprich: Impact Factor), Zahl der Publikationen und eingeworbene Drittmittel gesteuert werden.«
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NFDI4BIOIMAGE @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
🌟 #MeetOurDataStewards – Highlight Workshop/Publication #4: Vanessa Fuchs Discover I3D:bio's great OMERO training slides, workshop materials and presentations. Valuable resource – not just for us data stewards at @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social but also for you. Check it out! gerbi-gmb.de/i3dbio/i3dbi...
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Let's get negative about scholarly publishing – a new paper (first in a long time for me!) on proposals to tackle the problem of publication bias that emerged from a NINDS workshop held in May last year. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/... [Direct link to paper: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Let’s get negative about scholarly publishing | Reciprocal Space
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 25/09/2025
Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. @scurry.bsky.social &co present a roadmap to a solution that has a role for everyone in the scientific community 🧪 #Academicsky #reproducibility plos.io/3VwaU2O
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Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results
Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. This Consensus View discusses the problem of such publication...
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Publication bias continues to skew academic literature. In our new @plosbiology.org article, we outline actionable steps for journals, funders & researchers to ensure all results—not only “positive” ones—are valued. A roadmap for more reliable science: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results
Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. This Consensus View discusses the problem of such publication...
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Wissenschaft im Dialog @w-i-d.de · 27/03/2025
Die Leitlinien zur guten Wissenschaftskommunikation sind jetzt verfügbar. Sie bieten Wissenschaftskommunikator*innen Orientierung und Unterstützung. Sie benennen Rollen und Verantwortlichkeiten und beinhalten eine Checkliste für die Praxis: wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/documents/38... #Wisskomm
Jetzt verfügbar Leitlinien zur guten Wissenschaftskommunikation. Bundesverband Hochschulkommunikation und Wissenschaft im Dialog. Hintergrund: Checkliste
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German Reproducibility Network @germanrepro.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🔬✨ Interested in research transparency & reproducibility? Join the Meta-Science Summer School: design & launch a meta-research study! ➡️ Co-org. @germanrepro.bsky.social 📅 Date: 15-20 June 2025; apply by March 21! 🔗 www.bihealth.org/en/notices/m... #OpenScience #Reproducibility #MetaResearch (lmf)
Invitation to the Meta-Science Summer School and logos of affiliated and organizing institutions: Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), the German Reproducibility Network (GRN), the META REP Priority Program, iRise and the University of Coimbra EXCELScIOR project ERA chair.
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NeuroCure.bsky.social @neurocure.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🎉 The Excellent Pub Quiz was amazing! 🧠 First night focused on #Neuroscience with Laura Göschel talking about #Dementia . 🎭 Next event: April 7, theme #Literature 📖! 🎉 ✨ Explore Berlin's research highlights, from literature to AI. More info on our website! #PubQuiz #Berlin #Research #scicomm
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This is unbelievable and sad!
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Florian Naudet @floriannaudet.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
♥️ methods week. At 5 PM a webinar in French with Andre Gillibert ♥️ your statistical methods.
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Webinaire LORIER : les écueils statistiques majeurs à éviter pour les chercheurs en recherche clinique et préclinique - Lorier - INSERM
Le groupe d’animation scientifique « reproductibilité et méta-recherche » organise un webinaire en français, le 28 février prochain, sur le thème des bonnes pratiques statistiques. L’intervenant, Andr...
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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨 Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses! Applications are due Sunday, March 23. Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/ #mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪
Applications are now open! 3-week courses: Comp Neuro and Deep Learning. 2-week courses: NeuroAI and Comp Tools for Climate Science.
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Final call! Come and learn everything there is to know about quality in methods!
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Today @researchdataall.bsky.social conference in Potsdam. Stefanie Seltmann could not be here but her poster is on the @berlinualliance.bsky.social CARDs project for the Berlin Excellence Clusters.
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Hilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @plos.org discusses the lines we need to fight to hold – and alternatives we can rely on internationally: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w... #medlibs
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What if We Can't Rely on PubMed? - Absolutely Maybe
PubMed is incredibly reliable. And a lot depends on it. It’s an ecosystem built around MEDLINE, the steady feed of new publications…
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 17/02/2025
#GitHub, a platform widely used in software development, offers a robust framework for documenting all activities of laboratory research projects. This Community Page highlights the benefits of, and provides guidance for, incorporating the GitHub ecosystem into wet lab workflows. 🧪💻 plos.io/4i1LWkV
A figure depicting features of GitHub that are useful for laboratory research and how they compare to software development.
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MATH+ Berlin Cluster of Excellence @mathplusberlin.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🔍☕ No Data Without... Identifiers! Persistent identifiers (PIDs) ensure data integrity, accessibility & reproducibility. Join Dr. Stefanie Seltmann in this Tuesdays' Coffee Lecture to learn why PIDs matter! 📅 Feb 18, 2025 | ⏰ 2 PM CET | 💻 Online 🔗 More informations & Zoom Link: shorturl.at/POWeC
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 14/02/2025
This is a very heavy day for us. To those who lost their jobs, we are with you and will work with you again. To those struggling to see a future for our work, do not give up. Real change in public health has always been a battle. Now it’s a war. We will win it. This is our country. #RISEUP
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ACT UP’s Radical Activism Saved Lives During the AIDS Epidemic
The movement stood up to the president, pharmaceutical companies, and the CDC.
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Our #RDM coffee lecture series organized by 4 Berlin Excellence Clusters is in full swing. Just swing by on Tuesdays at 2 PM CET (online) and learn in 10 min serveral aspects to make your #researchdata excellent. Cool tips to come: www.unisyscat.de/rdm/coffee-l...
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UniSysCat: Coffee Lectures
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Bio-protocol @bio-protocol.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This workshop is part of Love Methods Week 2025, hosted by the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH). A special thanks to Tracey Weissgerber and @renebernard.bsky.social for organizing this amazing event! 🔗 For more details on the full week of lectures and interactive workshops, visit the link.
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NeuroCure.bsky.social @neurocure.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Adverse childhood experiences accelerate #brain aging & increase #dementia risk. 🧠 Study: Women with severe trauma show: 🔸 More inflammation/#neurodegeneration biomarkers 🔸 Reduced brain volume 🔸 More frequent cognitive problems #DementiaPrevention #ChildhoodTrauma #BrainHealth tinyurl.com/mrx39794
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Pressemitteilung-Detail: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Pressemitteilungen der Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
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Reproducibility for Everyone (R4E) @repro4everyone.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Want to increase your scientific rigor?!!!?? Be sure to sign up for our workshop. Check out details here:
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#ILoveMethodsWeek25 is happening this year! R4E are hosting a workshop! — R4E
Sign up for the R4E workshop here: https://buff.ly/40SG1Jn Check out other events here: https://buff.ly/40Axc5u
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Jess Rohmann @jlrohmann.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
And if you don't yet know about Peerspectives, check out our webpage here: iph.charite.de/en/academic_...
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Peerspectives: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Förderprogramm für Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen mit dem Ziel, die Qualität von Publikationen zu erhöhen
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
On our ReproducibiliTeach Youtube channel we just uploaded a new video on "why researchers really need an ORCID and should care about @orcid.org" including a few practical tips. Check it out: youtu.be/PX4MZxJyRdY?... @tweissgerber.bsky.social
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Why should I care and really need to get an ORCID ?
YouTube video by ReproducibiliTeach
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ABandrowski @abandrowski.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
#LoveMethods25 is coming in two weeks. 🔬 Love Methods Week 2025 – Putting Methods like #RRID in the Spotlight! ❤️ ✅ Document your methods with precision – to maximize reusability, transparency, and visibility ➡ Choose from 17 different session and register here: www.bihealth.org/de/aktuell/l...
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Love Methods Week - Aktuelles - BIH at Charité
In dieser Woche werden mehrere Workshops und Seminare rund um das Thema Reproduzierbarkeit von Methoden angeboten. (In Englisch)
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Reproducibility for Everyone (R4E) @repro4everyone.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
ILoveMethods25 is happening this year! Be sure to sign up for our workshop. Check out details here:
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#ILoveMethodsWeek25 is happening this year! R4E are hosting a workshop! — R4E
Sign up for the R4E workshop here: https://buff.ly/40SG1Jn Check out other events here: https://buff.ly/40Axc5u
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SciScore @sciscore.com · 04/02/2025
SciScore and @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social Launch New Key Resource Tables for Preprints, Pioneering a New Era of Reproducibility and Transparency in Life Science Research world.einnews.com/article/7829... cc @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social
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SciScore and bioRxiv Launch New Key Resource Tables for Preprints, Pioneering New Era of Reproducibility & Transparency
Surfacing reagents and resources
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝘁𝘀: 1. 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘀: Practical workshops and hands-on sessions. 2. 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴: Connect with experts and like-minded peers. 3. 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲: Gain insights that will elevate your research. ➡ Secure your spot now #LoveMethods25: www.bihealth.org/de/aktuell/l...
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Love Methods Week - Aktuelles - BIH at Charité
In dieser Woche werden mehrere Workshops und Seminare rund um das Thema Reproduzierbarkeit von Methoden angeboten. (In Englisch)
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
📅 February 24–28, 2025 via Zoom, 17 sessions featuring: • 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘆: Maximize reuse and visibility. • 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆: Benefit from pre-registration and bias reduction. • 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆:Get tailored advice from journal editors.
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🔬𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱𝘀 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 ❤️ #LoveMethods25 | #OpenScience | #Reproducibility 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱? Methods are the foundation of robust science – they ensure reproducibility, create transparency, and boost the impact of your research. But how can you optimally create, share, and utilize methods? Learn it here.
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Rene Bernard @renebernard.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
📅 February 12, 19, 26, March 5, and March 12, 2025 ⏰ 4:00 – 5:30 PM CET 🗣️ English 🌐 Online via Zoom 🎥 Lectures before class: www.youtube.com/@reproducibi... 📚 Homework: 1–1.5 hours per week 💰 completely free Thanks for spreading the word!
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ReproducibiliTeach
Learn strategies to make your research more transparent, robust & reproducible. After each video, viewers will be able to apply the skills that they have learned to their own research projects. This...
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