Join us in congratulating Aleksandra Lazić – ABRIR’s Executive Committee Member – who received the very first edition of the ‘Sarah Jones Award for Exceptional Contribution to fostering collaboration in Open Science‘!

Aleksandra was announced as the winner during the Closing Session of the 23rd Research Data Alliance (RDA) Plenary Meeting in Costa Rica on November 14. The Award recognizes the positive impact of Aleksandra’s work on REPOPSI – the repository for open psychological instruments in Serbian at the LIRA Lab. The panel of judges also emphasized her passion in promoting open science practices, her commitment to the RDA community, and her strong belief in the value of international collaboration.

During her acceptance speech, Aleksandra said that the Award will help her increase the visibility of the communities she is a part of, including the Open Science Community Serbia and ABRIR.

We are incredibly proud to have her as part of our Executive Committee, and this recognition is a testament to her hard work and profound impact on the global open science movement. Please join us in congratulating Aleksandra on this well-deserved honour!

ABRIR had a fantastic panel session at the Big Team Science 2024 Conference yesterday! The event brought together a diverse group of researchers to discuss the critical topic of Global South representation in Big-team Science, fostering an environment of open dialogue and shared learning.

Our panel featured a lineup of ABRIR members from various regions of the Global South: Nadia Corral-Frias, Brendan Ch’ng, Sandesh Dhakal, Nikita Ghodke, Alma Jeftic, Aleksandra Lazić, and Kwizera Rulinda.

Each panellist had the opportunity to introduce themselves, provided background on the hackathon events that they have organised in their respective regions, and also reported on how much did the participants in their events know about open science and big-team science practices.

The heart of the session focused on two key areas:

1. The specific barriers encountered by Global South psychological researchers in engaging with open science and big-team science practices.
2. Actionable steps the Global North scientific community can take to support Global South researchers in bridging the gap in these practices.

As the session concluded, we shared ABRIR’s ongoing efforts to foster engagement and create opportunities for Global South researchers to participate in open science and big-team science initiatives.

The session wrapped up with a Q&A period, allowing attendees to engage directly with the panelists. This interactive segment further deepened the conversation, addressing specific concerns and ideas from the audience.

We are immensely grateful to everyone who joined us for this enlightening discussion. It is our sincere hope that these conversations will continue to open minds and doors for psychological researchers worldwide, embodying the true spirit of open science.

Click the button below to view our slides for the panel session!

We are excited to announce that ABRIR will be part of a panel session at the Big Team Science 2024 Conference! Our panel will bring together speakers from diverse regions of the Global South to discuss the unique barriers faced by psychological researchers and students when engaging with open science practices and participating in big-team science projects. 

Nadia Corral-Frias, Brendan Ch’ng, Sandesh Dhakal, Nikita Ghodke, Alma Jeftic, Aleksandra Lazić, and Kwizera Rulinda will be sharing valuable insights, fostering dialogue, and explore solutions to these critical challenges.

🗓️ Date: 8th October 2024

🕑 Time: 2PM UTC

Special news for participants from Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia: Registration is free! We encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to join the conversation and connect with researchers from around the world.

Click the button below to learn and register for the event.

We look forward to seeing you there!

On August 15, 2024, ABRIR and MEPS joined forces to offer a free workshop on Open Science and Big-Team Science. The event was open to everyone, attracting students, lecturers, and researchers interested in research collaboration. 

The workshop was conducted by Brendan Ch’ng, who shared insights on how engaging with Open Science and Big-Team Science practices could help increase Malaysian researchers’ visibility in the fields of psychology and education. The workshop provided opportunities for attendees to discuss ideas on how they would like to participate in big-team science projects. The event was well-received, fostering a collaborative atmosphere and encouraging open dialogue among professionals and aspiring researchers in the field.

For those who missed the live session or wish to revisit the content, a recording of the workshop is available on MEPS’s YouTube channel. We encourage interested individuals to check out the workshop’s resources to benefit from the valuable discussions and insights shared during the event.

ABRIR is collaborating with the APA Division 48 (Student & Early Career Committee) to organise this webinar with Prof. Fathali M. Moghaddam on his book “How Psychologists Failed: We Neglected the Poor and Minorities, Favored the Rich and Privileged, and Got Science Wrong” (2022, Cambridge University Press).

Fathali M. Moghaddam, PhD is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University. Prof Moghaddam was born in Iran, educated from an early age in England, and worked for the United Nations and McGill University before joining Georgetown University in 1990. He returned to Iran in the spring of the revolution in 1979 and was researching there during the hostage-taking crisis and the early years of the Iran–Iraq War. He has conducted experimental and field research in numerous cultural contexts and published extensively on radicalization, intergroup conflict, human rights and duties, and the psychology of globalization. Prof. Moghaddam was the editor of Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology and has received numerous recognitions for his academic work.

If you are willing to rethink the past, present, and future of psychological science, join us on June 20th, 2024 at 7 PM EST via Zoom. Sign up for our newsletter to get updated with the Zoom link.

To learn more about Prof Moghaddam’s research and his book, check out the buttons below!

ABRIR (Advancing Big-team Reproducible Science through Increased Representation) began as an initiative to identify the unique challenges faced by social science researchers from developing countries. In this endeavour, we have come across partner organizations that do brilliant work!

Hello from ABRIR!

We are excited to share a new update regarding our upcoming workshop series titled Increased Representation: A Vision for Inclusive Big-team Science to be held from Sept 22-24th 11AM – 7PM Eastern time, hosted by the Universidad de Sonora.

The Event:

The Increased Representation: A Vision for Inclusive Big Team Science workshop series is a SIPS Grants in Aid funded event that aims to build the gap towards inclusion for researchers from low to middle income countries. Towards that end, we have confirmed 23 speakers from about 15 countries to come and share their expertise around doing and leading big team science. Please find our program schedule below with details regarding the dates & times and panels for each session. 

The Format:

Hosted by the Universidad de Sonora, Mexico, the workshop series will follow a hybrid format. This means that panels & workshop sessions from Day 1 & 2 will be pre-recorded and shared BEFORE the workshop dates from 22-24th Sept. These pre-recorded talks will also be supported by translated transcripts in different languages ( including Hindi, Portuguese, Bosnian/Serbian, and Spanish). The panels & workshops will have corresponding 40-minute Q&A sessions which will happen live in the first 40mins of the session.

Day 3, Hackathons, will be conducted live from 11AM – 6PM Eastern Time.

Recorded videos of all sessions (pre-recorded panels & live hackathons) will later be uploaded onto Youtube so that they can be freely accessible post the event. Please note that this will be done on a case-by-case basis as per speaker & participant consent. Non-video materials such as handouts or documents generated during the hackathon will be stored on an openly accessible OSF page.

Find our program at the link below!

We will reach out soon with more details about registering as attendees to our workshop. Please keep a close eye on our socials below. We are very excited to meet you at the workshop series!

ABRIR,

• Nadia Corral-Frias (nadia.corral@unison.mx)
• Natalia Dutra ([email protected])
• Alma Jeftic ([email protected])
• Aishwarya Iyer ([email protected])

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In 2021, three researchers came together to reflect on how psychological scientists from developing nations conducted research in academic infrastructure different from the Global North.

We hosted an un-conference at PSACON21, proposing a consortium of researchers from developing nations. While existing networks such as the Psychological Science Accelerator & ManyLabs have provided evidence regarding the collaborative research in non-WEIRD populations, that does not solve a greater challenge of inclusion. Psychological scientists and researchers from academically peripheral countries (predominantly in developing nations) face unique challenges pertaining to systemic structures, funding challenges, differences in the zeitgeist of psychological research, and pace of scientific advancement that may be different from scientists from academically strong countries. (Silan et al., 2021). A consortium of psychological scientists and researchers from developing nations would provide an opportunity to build mutually beneficial networks that could accelerate the pace of scientific advancement (with accelerated pipelines for conducting and disseminating scientific research) for such academics.

Check our Events page for more updated information regarding the upcoming workshop series, Increased Representation: A Vision for Inclusive Big Team Science.