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On 18 October 2023, TIER2 held its first workshop for funders, attended by four representatives from major funding organisations in Europe. The workshop aimed to foster an engaged community of funders committed to supporting future empirical work within TIER2, while discussing key topics and strategies for advancing reproducible research from their perspective. To offer insights into TIER2’s funder community, a summary report of the...

On 24 April, TIER2’s partner OpenAIRE will host a Reproducibility Café. The event promises to bring together scientists and reproducibility professionals to discuss existing prototypes and brainstorm solutions to overcome current limitations in the research landscape. The focus will be on incentivising reproducibility practices at the planning stage of research. Participants will receive an introduction to TIER2, including insights into i...

Last year, TIER2 released a report based on the main findings from the project’s work identifying priorities from the stakeholder community to explore the future of reproducibility and identify actionable steps to a preferred future for reproducibility. The study aims to determine the future of reproducibility by exploring potential scenarios of the future, examining what steps are needed to make these ...

A new TIER2 deliverable is now accessible through the project’s library, providing the theoretical, evidential and strategic framework for the project. It aims to capture the complexity in the meaning(s) of reproducibility across contexts, as well as provide a conceptual framework that systematically relates epistemic diversity to reproducibility by identifying key research characteristics affecting the relevance and feasibility of different type...

TIER2’s first policy brief “Reproducibility and Epistemic Diversity”, written by Jesper W. Schneider, Sven Ulpts, Nicki Lisa Cole and Tony Ross-Hellauer, is now accessible through the project’s library. In light of recent concerns surrounding purportedly low reproducibility rates across various disciplines, ensuring reproducibility has become a key priority for research stakeholders. To aid policymakers in navigating these challenges,...

TIER2 is excited to launch its new campaign #MeetThePartners focused on each partner institution participating in the project. Starting now, each week a different organisation will be featured, sharing more about their work, involvement and motivation to join TIER2. Make sure to follow us on social media to discover more about our project and partners. X: @TIER2Project Linkedin: TIER2 Project...

TIER2 partners will be presenting at the upcoming Center of Open Science webinar titled: "Reproducibility Futures and the Need to Center Epistemic Diversity" on 17 April at 16:00 CET online. Jesper W. Schneider, Barbara Leitner, Joeri Tijdink and Tony Ross-Hellauer will be engaging in two discussions, followed by an inclusive Q&A session. The first part of this webinar examines why thinking about relevance and feasibility...

TIER2 is pleased to announce that we will have a significant presence at the 8th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI), taking place 2-5 June 2024 in Athens, Greece. The biannual WCRIs are multidisciplinary events focusing on research findings, reflection, and policy development. All stakeholders in research integrity are involved, including universities, research institutes, research funders, publishers, and government...

For the first time this annual report is supplemented by four perspectives, one co-authored by key members of TIER2 Published by Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature, The State of Open Data is the longest-running longitudinal analysis of researchers' attitudes towards and experiences of open data. Its latest release, State of Open Data Report 2023, provides valuable insights based on 6,091 survey responses, and also offers some recomm...

This week marks the end of TIER2’s social media campaign #ReproResearch. Over the past months, we've shared valuable insights into reproducibility, scientific integrity, and broader metascience topics. We featured 20 articles, which are all available in TIER2’s library or in our social media channels with the hashtag #ReproResearch. Throughout this journey, we hope to have enriched the TIER2 community by spotlighting foundational research that...

A new preprint was recently published by Thomas Klebel and Vincent Traag on the topic of causality in science studies. Partially funded by TIER2, it hopes to help more researchers in science studies consider causality explicitly. The publication focuses on structural causal models, which have a convenient graphical representation, allowing researchers to make their causal assumptions and findings transparent, thereby fostering further discussion. ...

A new study protocol, supported by TIER2, is investigating interventions aimed at improving the reproducibility and replicability of scientific research. This systematic approach involves identifying empirically evaluated interventions through comprehensive searches and expert consultations. Published in Open Research Europe, the protocol aims to provide valuable insights to address reproducibility challenges and promote transparency in ...