What’s new

We just submitted our Stage 1 Registered Report “Lottery funding and academic career outcomes: a randomized natural experiment at the Swiss National Science Foundation” to PCI RR. The preprint is available under https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23189200.
Our Stage 1 Registered Report “COmplete Reporting for Transparent Reproducibility Efforts (CORTRE): a reporting guideline” was granted in-principle acceptance by Peer Community in Registered Reports, see here.

I am about to start teaching the EBPhD methods seminar on computational reproducibility at the University of Zurich.
We started our public lecture series “Fake Science”. More information on https://crsuzh.pages.uzh.ch/fake-science/.
Holiday in Slovenia (5–14 Sep), with lots of gravel biking. 🚴

I attended the MSMR in Zurich (31 Aug – 1 Sep).
I was an instructor at the Meta-Science Summer School near Frankfurt (24 – 28 Aug).
We submitted the first milestone of the INSPECT project (15 Aug).
I was interviewed for a Nature career feature on lotteries in research funding: When the best decision is no decision: the rise of randomization in grant funding.
New paper: Our paper “Evaluating the applicability of replication success metrics in animal-to-human translation: A simulation study” was just published in eLife; https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.109853.3.

Together with my CoARA working group colleagues F. Schönbrodt, K. A. Nawrot and D. Crepaldi, we published a poster and booklet on The structure and formative dimensions of research excellence https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21670038.
Rejection: Our EU WIDERA application, which I coordinated, was not funded. A big bummer, but on to the next one!
Award: The ECR Reviewers Platform received a Commendation from the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science.

I attended the final iRISE General Assembly in Split (end of June) and the iRISE WP5 Synthesis Event in Nijmegen (beginning of June).