In late 2020, we decided to expand the ReproducibiliTea Steering Community in order to make sure, we keep the early career researcher (ECR) perspective to building open science communities as well as allowing for more diverse perspectives. Consequently last year we started a new call for applications to again bring fresh impulses to our work.

So without further ado:

Please join us in welcoming our new committee members:

Helena Gellersen

Helena received her PhD in psychology from the University of Cambridge where she was also a co-organiser of the ReproducibiliTea journal club. She is now a postdoc at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Paulina Manduch (on LinkedIn)

Paulina is a psychology student at the SWPS University in Warsaw, Poland, working on her master’s thesis on creativity and memory. Paulina is the chair of the Open Science Society at her university and she co-organises online ReproducibiliTea meetings in the Polish language.

And, our new committee chair:

Jan Vornhagen @VornhagenJB@hci.social

Jan will follow Sam as the chair of the steering committee for 2023.

Jan is a cognitive Psychologist and PhD fellow at the IT university Copenhagen, Denmark. He joined the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee in 2021.

And, give a warm ‘welcome back’ to our returning members:

Sophia Crüwell @cruwelli

Sophia is a PhD student in Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, working on conceptual issues of the replication crisis and also working on empirical metaresearch projects with the QUEST Center in Berlin. Sophia started the ReproducibiliTea journal clubs at Oxford (with Sam & Amy), Amsterdam (with Angelika Stefan & Florian Wanders), and Berlin (with Corinna Hartling).

Matt Jaquiery @MJaquiery

Matt is a Research Software Engineer at the University of Oxford. He completed a DPhil in Experimental Psychology in January 2023. Matt manged the Oxford Experimental Psychology ReproducibiliTea while a DPhil student there, and has contributed to various open science projects with the UKRN, FORRT, and other organisations. He does a bunch of the technical stuff for the core ReproducibiliTea organisation.

William Ngiam @will_ngiam

William is a postdoc in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago, where he started and co-organizes the ReproducibiliTea journal club!

Sam Parsons @sam_d_parsons

Sam is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour. He started ReproducibiliTea with Sophia and Amy, and also founded the Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT) project.

The coming year

We have a lot of exciting things planned for next year.

There will be a new season of the ReproducibiliTea Podcast
We will expand our offer of Reading Lists
and we are looking to rework our community outreach.

Like last year, we will also reflect on our recruiting process. We will add that soon. In the mean time, we are always looking for ideas. If you yourself want to get involved, have a cool idea you think we could tackle, or have some critique for us, please get in touch

In conclusion: A new year, a new steering committee and a lot of things to do.

We are looking forward to it.