On Wednesday, our team member @inesatalmeida.bsky.social delivered a keynote at BrainHack Donostia, presenting TREASURE institutional pilot project. 👏 Congratulations on sharing your insights on open and reproducible research! 🌟 #CNC-UC #HorizonEurope @ucoimbra.bsky.social #OpenScience

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This morning at Munin Conference 2025, our team leader Tracey Weissgerber gave the keynote 🎙️ “Reproducibility starts with methods: Building a culture of openness and reuse.” She emphasized how coordinated action can strengthen methods reporting and transform research culture 🌐 @ucoimbra.bsky.social

Last week, our team co-coordinated the doctoral course🎓 “Experimental Research Design & Responsible Research Practices”. Big thanks to all who made it a success! 🙏💡🔬💪 #MetaResearch #PDBEB #idpIN #CNC-UC #HorizonEurope @ucoimbra.bsky.social

📢 It’s almost time! Our three Meta-Research Seminars take place tomorrow at the CNC-UC (Polo I). See you there! #MetaResearch #PDBEB #idpIN #CNC-UC #HorizonEurope @ucoimbra.bsky.social

Ready to make your research more reliable and collaborative? Join the Quality Management Workshop this January! Apply by 12 Dec 2025! Organised by EXCELScIOR in collaboration with @bihatcharite.bsky.social. @neurocure.bsky.social #GoEQIPD @ucoimbra.bsky.social #CNC-UC

💡 Don’t miss the 3rd and last session of our Meta-Research Seminar Series! Tracey Weissgerber and Inês Almeida wil present TREASURE project 📍 CNC-UC 👀 One more announcement coming soon! #ResponsibleResearch #PDBEB #idpIN #CNC-UC #HorizonEurope #ERA-Chair @ucoimbra.bsky.social

💡 Don’t miss Session 2 of the Meta-Research Seminar Series this Friday! Susana Magalhães presents: "Responsible Conduct in Research: to whom and why does it matter?" 📍 CNC-UC 👀 One more announcement coming soon! #ResponsibleResearch #CNC-UC @ucoimbra.bsky.social @i3suporto.bsky.social

🎉 A warm welcome to our new PI, Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar! We’re excited to see your work continue at @ucoimbra.bsky.social with the EXCELScIOR team advancing #MetaResearch & #OpenScience.

💡 Get ready for cutting-edge meta-research this Friday! @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social presents: "Publication bias: studying it, adjusting for it, and preventing it" 📍 CNC-UC Stay tuned: two more announcements ahead! #PublicationBias #PDBEB #idpIN #CNC-UC #HorizonEurope @ucoimbra.bsky.social

Yesterday, our PI @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social spoke at a #EUFLYNET COST Action 🌍 workshop on rethinking standards in #EvidenceSynthesis for reliable #Ecology and #Evolution 🌱. EXCELSCIOR supports rigorous, transparent research across the European research community. #COSTAction #EXCELScIOR

Last week, our PI co-led a 4-day workshop on Open Science, Systematic Reviews & #Meta-Analysis, organised by #AEET in Seville. 🌍 It covered systematic reviews, effect sizes, meta-analysis in R & publication bias ⚖️🖥️📈 #EXCELScIOR #OpenScience #Meta-Research @sortee.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social

🌟 Wrapping up the day at the Open Science Communities at UC 2025 event, where our team contributed with 2 presentations. This afternoon, Tracey Weissgerber presented EXCELScIOR - promoting open, transparent, and trustworthy research practices. #OpenScience #Collaboration @ucoimbra.bsky.social

🌍 Open Science at UC! Today, the Open Science Communities at UC 2025 brings together projects and people across UC. ✨ This morning, Inês Almeida presented TREASURE: rewarding master’s & PhD candidates for open, reproducible research. #OpenScience #TREASURE #Collaboration @ucoimbra.bsky.social

📢 Seminar Alert! ✨ Join us on Nov 7th, 2025 at the University of Coimbra for seminars on #MetaResearch, #PublicationBias and #ResponsibleResearch! Speakers: Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar, Susana Magalhães, Tracey Weissgerber & Inês Almeida. #PDBEB #idpIN #CNC #HorizonEurope #ERAChair @ucoimbra.bsky.social

🎓 Master’s or PhD at UC? Make your thesis research more reproducible, reusable & open – and get certified for it! Join the #TREASURE programme for hands-on training + certification. 📅 Register by 30Oct via Inforestudante 🔷 Project: lnkd.in/dPyvcUWS 🗞 Article: lnkd.in/dfymyyVd #CoARABoost #EUFunding

Had an amazing time at the Responsible Research in Action Unconference #RRiA2025! Met loads of amazing people, made a lot of progress on a very exciting project, and had dinner with the dinosaurs! 🦕✨

What a beautiful location for the #RRiA2025 conference dinner!

Wrapped up an excellent and productive day at #RRiA2025 with progress updates from the 10 projects - excited for the last push tomorrow morning!

Dr Erin C. McKiernan & Dr. Greg Tananbaum discuss reforms for values-based assessment in academic evaluations at the Responsible Research in Action Unconference. @ucoimbra.bsky.social @einsteinberlin.bsky.social

Great way to end the first day at the Responsible Research in Action Unconference — keynote by Maryann Martone on changing the culture around data sharing, followed by an introduction to the new MERRI collaboration by @tweissgerber.bsky.social

Short project overview this morning before each of the 10 projects start today at the Responsible Research in Action Unconference! @ucoimbra.bsky.social @einsteinberlin.bsky.social

Great way to end the day at the Responsible Research In Action Unconference - keynote by Dr Maryann Martone on changing the culture around data sharing, followed by an introduction to the new MERRI collabboration by Dr. Tracey Weissgerber 🌟 @ucoimbra.bsky.social @einsteinberlin.bsky.social

What are your hopes for research culture in 2035? 🤔 Some snippets from Dr. Anne Merks' workshop on "change management for transforming research culture" at the Responsible Research for Action unconference! @ucoimbra.bsky.social @einsteinberlin.bsky.social

Dr. Sadie Boniface and Dr. Emma Francis running a workshop on "how to use principles of behaviour change in improving research culture" at the Responsible Research in Action unconference @ucoimbra.bsky.social @einsteinberlin.bsky.social

Excited for the kick-off of the "Responsible Research in Action" unconference! 🌟 @ucoimbra.bsky.social @einsteinberlin.bsky.social

Today at the #ResearchQuality Improvement Symposium in Sošice, Croatia, EXCELScIOR was represented by our project leader Tracey Weissgerber and our PI Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar. They shared insights on rewarding open, reproducible research and improving evidence synthesis. #TREASURE #OpenScience

Today at #OSFair2025 at CERN, our colleague Inês Almeida presented a poster on her pilot program rewarding graduate students for reproducible, reusable, and open research practices: #TREASURE. 👏 #StopTalkingStartDoing #OpenScience #EarlyStageResearchers #RethinkingResearchAssessment”

Starting today at #OSFair2025(Sept 15–17, CERN) 🎉 Team member Inês Almeida is presenting a poster on her #ResearchAssessment pilot from the #UniversityOfCoimbra, engaging #Masters & #PhD students in #OpenResearch, #Reproducible & #Reusable practices! #CoARABoost www.opensciencefair.eu/2025/posters

‪ ✅ Two inspiring #MetaResearch seminars this week at the #UniversityofCoimbra! 🧪 June 25: Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social on meta-research in ecology & evolution 🌐 June 26: Pragya Chaube on community data governance Thanks to both speakers & all who joined! #CNC-UC #CiBB

📢 #MetaResearch seminar today at 15:00 WEST (online)! 🎓 Community Data Governance in Open Data Frameworks 👤 Pragya Chaube (UPES, India) 📍Zoom: videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/91815679120 Join us for a conversation on open data & community governance. #OpenScience #EXCELScIOR #UniversityofCoimbra

📢 Seminar Today! 🗓 June 25 | 🕓 16:00 📍 CNC, 2nd floor, Polo I – Univ. of Coimbra 🎓 Meta-Research for More Reliable Ecology and Evolution 👤 Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar (Bielefeld University) Don’t miss this #MetaResearch talk! #EXCELScIOR #OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity

🎓 The Meta-Science Summer School 2025 has wrapped! 📍 Near Frankfurt | 📅 June 15–20 28 early career researchers from around the world teamed up to design studies on transparency & reproducibility. 👏 Thanks to all who joined! #MetaResearch #OpenScience #Reproducibility #ScienceOfScience #SummerSchool

📢 Seminar Alert – This Week!💡 🗓 June 25 | 16:00 – Alberto Sánchez-Tójar 📍 CNC, 2nd floor, Polo I 🎓 Meta-Research for More Reliable Ecology and Evolution 🗓 June 26 | 15:00 – Pragya Chaube 📍 Online 🎓 Community Data Governance in Open Data Frameworks 🌟 Join us! #MetaResearch #EXCELScIOR

✨ Seminar Recap! A big thank you to everyone who joined us last Friday for our #MetaResearch #Seminar at UC Biotech! 🔹 Prof. John Ioannidis’s talk on peer review and evaluation in science sparked deep reflection and great discussion on the future of scientific assessment. 👏 Inspiring exchange!

📢 Seminar Alert! Happening today: don't miss this #Meta-Research seminar by Prof. John Ioannidis! 👥 Open to all—see you there! 👇👇👇

🎓EXCELScIOR was in Helsinki last month! 🇫🇮 Inês Almeida presented TREASURE, UC’s pilot to reward open & reproducible research, at #SCIROS events & #RESSH2025. #OpenScience #ResearchAssessment #HelsinkiInitiative #CoARA #ResponsibleResearch #SSH #ReformEvaluation @coarassessment.bsky.social

🎓 The Meta-Science Summer School is officially underway! 📅 June 15–20, 2025 📍 Near Frankfurt, Germany Early career researchers are teaming up to design studies on research transparency & reproducibility. #MetaResearch #OpenScience #Reproducibility #ScienceOfScience #SummerSchool

📢 Seminar Alert!💡Join us for an insightful talk on peer review and research evaluation in science! 🗓 June 20, 2025 | 15:00 📍 UC Biotech – Auditório Euclides Pires 🔷 Speaker: Prof. John Ioannidis 🎓 Peer review and evaluation in science: utopia, problems and solutions 🌟 Don’t miss it! #MetaResearch

✨ Seminar Recap! A big thank you to everyone who joined us Friday at the #MetaResearch #Seminar at CNC-UC! 🔹Thomas Feliciani’s talk on bias in grant review panels and 🔹@priyasilverstein.com’s presentation on replication studies sparked thoughtful discussion and great exchange. 👏Wonderful energy!

📢 Seminar Alert! Happening today: don't miss this #Meta-Research event! 👥 Open to all—see you there! 👇👇👇

📢 Seminar Alert!💡Don’t miss this #Meta-Research #Seminar event at CNC-UC on June 6th, 15:00 (Auditorium, 2nd Floor, Polo I – Universidade de Coimbra)! Talks: 🔷 Bias in Grant Review Panels – Thomas Feliciani 🔷 On Replication Studies – @priyasilverstein.com 🌟 Don’t miss it! Open to all!

📢 We're still HIRING Lead the future of #MetaResearch! 🚀 #PrincipalInvestigator position! Join our team at #CIBB, #UCoimbra! 🌍 ✔️PhD+5 yr postdoc ✔️Research leadership & funding success ✔️Publication record in meta-research 🚨 NEW DEADLINE 🚨 📅 Apr 18, 2025 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/320057

🎙️ EXCELScIOR at PLOS Open 2.0! 🔎 Catch EXCELScIOR #TeamLeader in this insightful webinar on the power of Open Science in Big Team collaborations. From communication to data sharing—what does it take to make large-scale research work? 🎥 Watch the full session here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI9W...

📢 We're still HIRING Lead the future of #MetaResearch! 🚀 #PrincipalInvestigator position! Join our team at #CIBB, #UCoimbra! 🌍 ✔️PhD+5 yr postdoc ✔️Research leadership & funding success ✔️Publication record in meta-research 🚨 NEW DEADLINE 🚨 📅 Apr 18, 2025 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/320057

🚨 We're HIRING 🚨 Lead the future of #MetaResearch! 🚀 #PrincipalInvestigator position Now Open! Join our team at #CIBB, #UCoimbra! 🌍 ✔️PhD+5 yr postdoc ✔️Research leadership & funding success ✔️Publication record in meta-research 📅 Apply by Apr 7, 2025: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/320057

✨ Seminar Highlights! 📖 Prof. Ioannidis, EXCELScIOR ERA Chair holder delivered a thought-provoking talk on #MetaResearch in Sports Science at FCDEFUC. 🔍 This session examined the strengths and limitations of evidence-based medicine and sparked vital conversations on improving research integrity!

🚀 Big Teams, Big Problems: Open Science in Large-Scale Collaborations – Join this PLOS Open 2.0 webinar ⚡ 📢 It happens this Friday!! 📅 March 28 | 2 PM CET 📝 Register now: plos.io/3DBYe53 💡 If you’re passionate about research transparency, collaboration, and impact—this is a must-attend event!

📢 Seminar Alert! 💡 Join us for a thought-provoking seminar on #MetaResearch on March 24, 2025 | 14:30! 📍 University of Coimbra, FCDEF, Sala Nova-Pavilhão 2 🔷 Speaker: Professor John Ioannidis on "Evidence-based medicine: current status and challenges" 🌟 Don’t miss it! #MetaResearch #Seminar

📢 Last call! ⏳ Meta-Science Summer School 2025! ☀️🌍🔬 Are you passionate about improving research transparency and reproducibility? Curious about the science of science (meta-research)? 📅 Deadline: March 21, 2025 | TODAY Don’t miss your chance 🎯 APPLY NOW