Open Webinar: What’s the use of preregistration for Big Team Science?

As part of our open science event series, we are excited to launch registration for our upcoming webinar:

What’s the use of preregistration for Big Team Science?

📅 Date & time: January 27, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (ET) on Zoom view in your timezone

🎤 Speaker: Daniël Lakens

🔗 Register here: https://airtable.com/appdpnSYMtFsTWFzU/pag8NHzDA7xnP3v3e/form

📅 Calendar invite (with Zoom link)

Abstract: Preregistration and Registered Reports are recent developments that aim to counteract systematic bias. The goal of preregistration is to allow others to transparently evaluate how severely a claim has been tested. In this talk I will reflect on whether preregistration achieves this goal. I will also reflect on criticisms of preregistration, points of improvement, and challenges for future metascientific research, such as how to deal with deviations from preregistrations.

Daniel Lakens is a Full Professor in Metascience at the Human-Technology Interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology. He works actively on improving research methods and statistical inferences, and has published on the importance of replication research, sequential analyses and equivalence testing, and frequentist statistics. He was involved in establishing dedicated grants for replication studies by the Dutch science funder NWO, and with Brian Nosek co-edited a special issue with the first Registered Reports in psychology in 2014. He teaches better research practices on Coursera, published a free open textbook on statistics, and received the Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science in 2017 for his course ‘Improving Your Statistical Inferences’ in which more than 70.000 learners have enrolled. In 2023 he won the Ammodo Science award for fundamental research in the Social Sciences, and he is currently funded by an NWO VICI project on the meaningful interpretation of effect sizes.

The presentation will be followed by an interactive discussion with participants. The webinar is free and open to all, regardless of ManyManys membership or career stage. We encourage you to join and share this invitation widely with colleagues and students who might be interested. For any questions, please contact us at themanymanys1@gmail.com.

Our open webinar series is supported by the Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA). This project has been made possible, in part, by grant 2024-349547 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF, an advised fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Panel Discussion: Navigating Career Development in Open and Big Team Science: Challenges and Opportunities

We are happy to announce our upcoming panel discussion:

Navigating Career Development in Open and Big Team Science: Challenges and Opportunities

Date & time: November 24, 10–11 a.m. (ET)

Speakers: Melanie Soderstrom, Erin Buchanan, Nicholas Coles, & Kyndal Irwin

Register here: https://airtable.com/applafE4pI8WBkV3s/pag8NHzDA7xnP3v3e/form

Calendar invite: https://calendar.app.google/eph4Fqp7ucieokUr9

Zoom link: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/82439539431?pwd=Dx9oUS6T3rQ7Fij2rvSH4CX14mv7I4.1

Big Team Science (BTS) promises collaborative innovation and robust, transparent research—but how does it affect individual career trajectories? This panel explores the complex relationship between contributing to large-scale collaborative projects and advancing through academic contexts that vary in their commitment to open science values and their reliance on conventional performance metrics.

Join us as panelists across career stages discuss critical questions: How do trainees navigate the pace of collaborative projects while meeting individual program timelines and building specialized expertise? How do early-career researchers translate substantial BTS contributions into competitive job applications when evaluation committees may or may not value collaborative work? What is the interplay between building an independent research identity and contributing to large collaborative teams? And how do senior researchers approach trainee involvement in BTS projects in a shifting landscape?

We will address issues such as authorship, recognition, and resource allocation—acknowledging real challenges while also identifying opportunities that emerge when BTS projects are intentionally structured to support career development.

Whether you are considering joining a BTS project, already participating and wondering how to maximize its value, leading one, or evaluating candidates who have contributed to collaborative science, this panel offers essential perspectives on making Open and Big Team Science work for everyone involved.

For any questions, please contact us at themanymanys1@gmail.com. We look forward to the conversation and seeing you there!

Webinar: Open Methods in Comparative Cognition Research

We are excited to launch registration for our first open webinar exploring the connection between open science and comparative cognition: Open Methods in Comparative Cognition Research.

This session will explore what it means to implement open methods in comparative cognition research. We will consider the challenges, practices, and caveats involved in applying open science principles to the field, with particular attention to developing species-fair designs and sustaining collaboration and transparency in the context of large-scale team science.

The webinar will feature presentations by Dr. Emma Tecwyn and Dr. Ben Farrar, followed by an interactive discussion with participants. It is free and open to all, whether or not you are part of the ManyManys network and regardless of career stage.

📅 When: September 12, 11:00 a.m. (ET) on Zoom

🎤 Presenters: Dr. Emma Tecwyn and Dr. Ben Farrar

🔗Register here: https://airtable.com/app0bcw8jYPvKXD0H/pagH2WslnaSWTt7GL/form (Zoom details will be sent upon registration).

For any questions, please contact us at themanymanys1@gmail.com. We look forward to the conversation and seeing you there!

This open webinar series is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA).

Open Webinar Series on Implementing Reversal Learning Across Species

ManyManys is a Big Team Science network dedicated to investigating cognition and behavior across species. We are currently working towards finalizing the design of our first large-scale empirical study on reversal learning, and we want to ensure that all interested researchers have the opportunity to participate. Our initial survey showed that many potential contributors are unfamiliar with the reversal learning paradigm. To address this, we are hosting a series of open webinars exploring how reversal learning can be implemented with different taxa. These sessions are open to both current MM members and researchers interested in joining this collaborative effort. If your lab collects behavioral data with any species, we encourage you to attend and learn how you can be part of this unprecedented comparative cognition study.

📅 Webinar schedule:

〰️ Reversal Learning with Humans and Non-Human Primates – March 13, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (ET)

〰️ Reversal Learning with Ungulates, Rodents, Fishes, and Marine Invertebrates – March 14, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (ET)

〰️ Reversal Learning with Birds, Reptiles, and Amphibians – March 25, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (ET)

🔗 Register here: https://forms.gle/9VMgoXP4XmqUbvWg9 (Zoom details will be sent upon registration.) We would greatly appreciate it if you could share this invitation with colleagues who might be interested.

For any questions, please reach out to themanymanys1@gmail.com We look forward to seeing many of you there!

Open Webinar: “Reversal Learning Across Taxa: Exploring Applications and Standardizing Procedures for Comparative Cognition Research”

The ManyManys 1 project is thrilled to invite you to our upcoming open webinar, “Reversal Learning Across Taxa: Exploring Applications and Standardizing Procedures for Comparative Cognition Research,” which will take place on September 1, 2023, at 10–12 AM (EST) / 9–11 AM (CST) / 7–9 AM (PST) / 3–5 PM (BST) / 4–6 PM (CEST). This event is an excellent opportunity to delve deeper into our network and discover opportunities for joining our team. We will explore various aspects of reversal learning, its applications, and its potential for shaping the future of comparative cognition research. We will also hold a discussion around the methodological details of the reversal learning task currently under development for ManyManys 1.

Event schedule:

〰️ 10:00–10:45 (EST). Presentation: “Reversal Learning Across Taxa: Exploring Applications and Standardizing Procedures for Comparative Cognition Research” by Dr. Nicolás Alessandroni (Concordia University, Canada).

〰️ 10:45–12:00 (EST). Open discussion: “Developing a Standardized Reversal Learning Task for ManyManys 1”, led by Dr. Laurent Prétôt (Pittsburg State University, USA).

Register for free and reserve your virtual seat following this link