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ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas

Come and discuss Open Science practices over a nice cup of tea.

The aim of the "ReprodubiliTea in the HumaniTeas" series is to create an informal meeting for humanities scholars at all career stages to learn about and discuss topics such as reproducibility, open science and good scientific practice. A recommended reading to stimulate discussion will be sent out before each session. Each session begins with a 20-30 minute introductory lecture/workshop. This is followed by a lively discussion to which everyone is invited to contribute.

  • Date: selected Mondays in the winter semester 16:00 - 17:30 CEST
  • Target group: Students, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, and anyone interested in humanities research
  • Language: English

The sessions take place in hybrid mode. We meet in room 4.006 in the University and City Library of Cologne (4th floor, entrance via Kerpener Str.) - that's also where tea and biscuits will be served.

 

Dates and topics in the winter semester 2024/25

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14 October 2024
"Research ethics and open science" with Scott Sterling (Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, Indiana State
University)
In Preparation: Sterling, Scott. Research Ethics in Open Science within Applied Linguistics. In Open Science in Applied Linguistics (Plonsky 2024). Open Applied Linguistics Press. https://www.appliedlinguisticspress.org/home/catalog/plonsky_2024

21 October 2024
On the need to teach basic statistical literacy. Elen Le Foll (Department of Romance Languages/DCH), Lena Pfannholzer (Department of Romance Studies) & Katja Wiesner (Department of Linguistics)
In Preparation: Loewen, Shawn, Talip Gönülal, Daniel R. Isbell, Laura Ballard, Dustin Crowther, Jungmin Lim, Jeffrey Maloney & Magda Tigchelaar. 2020. How Knowledgeable Are Applied Linguistics and SLA Researchers About Basic Statistics?: Data from North America and Europe. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 42(4). 871–890. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263119000548

18 November 2024
"Sharing is caring - Mapping existing transparency and reproducibility practices" with Agata Bochynska (Open Research | Digital Scholarship Center, University of Oslo)
In Preparation: Bochynska, A., Keeble, L., Halfacre, C., Casillas, J. V., Champagne, I.-A., Chen, K., Röthlisberger, M., Buchanan, E. M., & Roettger, T. B. (2023). Reproducible research practices and transparency across linguistics. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2 (1). https://doi.org/10.5070/g6011239

16 December 2024
"Reproducibility when working with large language models: A hallucination?" with Nils Reiter (Digital Humanities und Sprachliche Informationsverarbeitung, IDH)
In Preparation: Simone Balloccu, Patrícia Schmidtová, Mateusz Lango, and Ondrej Dusek. 2024. Leak, Cheat, Repeat: Data Contamination and Evaluation Malpractices in Closed-Source LLMs. In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 67–93, St. Julian’s, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-long.5/

13 January 2025
"Anonymity, data protection, privacy, and open data - lessons from a project on newly immigrated school children in Germany" with Sonja Eisenbeiss, Leonie Twente und Teresa Barberio (Mercator Institute for Literacy and Language Education)

20 January 2025
"Accessible research: Fair, diamond, open, free" with Martine Grice (Institute for Linguistics – Phonetics)

27 January 2025
"Good (enough) open data and code sharing practices: Personal reflections and recommendations" with Simon Wehrle (Institute for Linguistics – Phonetics)
In Preparation: Accepted paper associated with this GitHub repo: https://github.com/MartinSchweinberger/IJCL_ReproducibilityInCorpusPragmatics. The authors have submitted a preprint to the OSF, available shortly via: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/u8f26.

10 February 2025 (14-18 h)
Love Data Week Special: „Workshop on Computational Reproducibility“ with Mark Ellison (Institute for Linguistics)
 

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