Registered Reports in Primate Neurophysiology

[da5nsy]

Project Lead: @da5nsy

Mentor: @ivotron

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Week 1 (31 August - 4 September 2020): Meet your mentor!

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• Create an issue on the OLS-2 GitHub repository for your OLS work and share the link to your mentor.

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  This lesson from the Open Leadership Training Series (OLTS) might be helpful

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[da5nsy]

Draft vision statement:

I’m working with neurophysiologists and metascientists to create a guide to using the registered report format specifically for those in our field so that we can reap the benefits of the format (peer review in advance of data collection, and reducing publication bias).

Link to repo: https://github.com/da5nsy/Registered-Reports-in-Primate-Neurophysiology

[da5nsy]

I tried putting my vision statement through the upgoer5 process and I'm quite happy with the result:

I am working with people who study cells in small human-like animal brains and people who think really hard about how we actually do that type of work, to make something that helps people write about that type of work in a better way than what happens now,

because that way of writing means that people get help with their plan for the work before they actually do it, rather than on the work after it is already done (which is much less good, obviously, because actually doing the work takes lots of time and money, and you really don't want to do it more than once)

and it also means that work it shared because it is good rather than because something weird was found (which sometimes is exciting and good, but also sometimes is just because of chance).

I've broken it up because as a single sentence it is quite a mouthful!
I think it works really well though! And it definitely forced me to think about how to explain things in a less jargon-y way!

[CooperSmout]

Hi @da5nsy, excited to see what comes from this project! My background is in cognitive neuroscience, so slightly adjacent to your field, but we have a similar need for more RR support in our field. My colleague held a panel session on developing RR templates at the recent OHBM Open Science Room conference, which might be informative and I'll link here when the recording becomes available.

Regarding your vision statement -- to be honest I think the first version is better! Personally I don't see a problem using terms like 'neurophysiologists' and 'metascientists' in your vision statement because these are your target market, and also think it's better as a single concise statement -- but just my opinion :)

And finally, wanted to highlight a possible synergy between your project and mine (#5), which aims to support open science behaviours through collective action. The basic premise is that individuals (especially ECRs) might not feel comfortable adopting new behaviours due to potential costs, whether real or imagined (e.g., supervisors don't support it, it costs them time, can't publish in prestigious journals), but these costs can be mitigated if enough people act together to make the behaviour a new norm. I'd love to discuss a campaign to support RR in neurophysiology -- we could even build the campaign around the template you develop, which would mutually support the community as it grows (and provide additional pressure on journals to adopt the format). We recently started discussing a similar domain-general idea here, in case you have any feedback.

[CooperSmout]

My colleague held a panel session on developing RR templates at the recent OHBM Open Science Room conference, which might be informative and I'll link here when the recording becomes available

the link is now available here, just in case you're interested :)

[da5nsy]

Open Canvas: link

[malvikasharan]

@all-contributors please add @da5nsy for idea and content.

[allcontributors]

@malvikasharan

I've put up a pull request to add @da5nsy! 🎉

[malvikasharan]

Comments on Open Canvas: @da5nsy, I really like where this canvas is directing you too. I am adding a few suggestion hoping this can help in the next weeks while you develop your idea.

• do you want to brainstorm what resources you have available (webserver, social media, GitHub repo, team, community etc.) and what you will need specifically, going forward?
• In metrics, would you also want to have some sort of survey or user interaction to gain their experience at different stages of development to guide the development of your project?
• Contributors and user profile: you can go even deeper to understand if these people are grad students - if so, can they be taught formally to understand the process of RR - how can they contribute? if they are lab technicians - what resources they can be given to guide their experiments or what experiences they can share, a PI then do we need institutional leadership support to impact how they work (ethics, animal experiment policy etc.)?
• contributors and user channel: can this be social media, online repository, a google form, community call - how would you create a pathway for them to contribute or use information?

[da5nsy]

Draft roadmap: https://github.com/da5nsy/Registered-Reports-in-Primate-Neurophysiology/blob/main/Roadmap.pptx