Encouraging the Adoption of Open Science Practices in Influenza Research
Preliminary research demonstrates that the influenza community sees value in preregistration and data sharing, the publication of null results, and replication studies. However, these same respondents believe that their peers hold disfavorable views regarding these same practices, demonstrating a mismatch between researchers’ perceptions and beliefs of open science practices in influenza research1. These behaviors must be addressed and amended in all areas of research, and especially as they relate to findings that can dramatically improve public health and education.
The Center for Open Science (COS) and Flu Lab are collaborating to support the adoption of open science practices within the influenza research community, encourage the availability of all findings that contribute to the influenza body of knowledge, and bypass detrimental publishing incentives using four primary actions:
This project is working to create (1) a community of influenza researchers sharing knowledge and practices in open science, and, subsequently, (2) a body of research that is more credible, less affected by publication bias, and more verifiable through the increased adoption of open science practices.
With generous funding from Flu Lab, COS is recruiting post-graduate, early- and mid-career influenza and public health researchers to learn about open science practices, apply them to their work, and promote open science within their communities.
Open Science Fellows will:
The Open Science fellowship will be divided into three cohorts. Members of each cohort will attend three one-hour training sessions covering the philosophy and motivation behind the open science movement as well as important facets of open science, including open data, materials, and code; reproducible analyses; preregistration and registered reports; and replication research. Fellows will also learn how to use the Open Science Framework (OSF) to implement open science practices in their own research.
Following the cohort sessions, fellows will have the opportunity to attend a one-on-one session with an open science expert to help them prepare for disseminating their new knowledge in a venue of their choice. This might involve presenting at a conference, giving a departmental talk, hosting a webinar, administering their own workshop, or giving a lecture. After submitting verification that they have engaged others in their community, either by sharing pictures, posters, slide decks, or other artifacts, fellows will be awarded $2,000 USD.
Cohorts will convene in the following months:
Cohort 1: November 2022
Cohort 2: January 2023
Cohort 3: February 2023
Sessions will be recorded for those who cannot attend due to scheduling conflicts although synchronous attendance is encouraged. For more information, please see the Eligibility and Awards tab or contact us at flulab@cos.io.
1The OSS is a standard, modular survey to assess open scholarship attitudes, perceptions, and behavior of researchers
In order to accommodate a variety of schedules and preferences, each cohort will follow a distinct meeting cadence. The first cohort will convene over the course of three weeks, with a single one-hour workshop session per week. The second will span one week, with one-hour sessions on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The third cohort will combine all of the workshop sessions into one single three-hour session. See below for the exact schedules, note that all times are EST:
Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | |
Cohort 1 | 4 November 2022 | 11 November 2022 | 18 November 2022 |
Cohort 2 | 23 January 2023 | 25 January 2023 | 27 January 2023 |
Cohort 3 | 15 February 2023 | 15 February 2023 | 15 February 2023 |
The application period for the Fellowship is now closed.
Researchers whose work is related to influenza are eligible to participate in the Fellowship. Qualifying researchers’ specific discipline may be biomedical, behavioral, epidemiological, or interdisciplinary.
Fellows are eligible to receive financial awards from Flu Lab after (1) attending or reviewing the video recordings of all 3 workshop sessions presented to their cohort, (2) participating in a one-on-one session with a member of the COS team, and (3) within 4 months after the open science workshop sessions, verifying that they have shared their knowledge by submitting one or more of the following artifacts to the COS team:
Activity |
Potential artifact submission |
Conference presentation | poster or paper file (PDF, Word, etc) conference program accepted abstract submission |
Departmental talk | Departmental talk slide deck advertisement, flyer, or other announcement image of participants during talk |
Workshop | slide deck advertisement, flyer, or other announcement image of participants during talk |
Lecture | slide deck |
Other | Contact flulab@cos.io with any other suggestions |
Awards cannot be sent to countries where U.S. law prevents such transactions. Please see the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) FAQs for further details.
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