ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas
Meeting place for science and exchange - over a good cup of tea.
Would you like to network with other humanities scholars and learn more about open science, the reproducibility of data and good scientific practice? Then our event series "ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas" is the right place for you.
Just drop by, share your ideas and become part of the community.
Overview
- Dates: on selected Thursdays from 16:00-17:30 (CEST)
- Target groups: Students, researchers at all career levels and anyone interested in research in the humanities
- Location: Room 4.006 in the University and City Library of Cologne (4th floor, entrance via Kerpener Str.)
- Zoom: You will receive a link if you subscribe to this mailing list: Mailing list
- Language: English
Procedure
- Each session begins with a 20- to 30-minute presentation or an activating mini-workshop.
- This is followed by the exchange and discussion part - over a cup of tea and cookies.
- For each session, there is a recommended, yet optional, reading that can serve as an introduction to the topic.
Organizers & Contact
Dr. Gabriele Schwiertz
schwiertz(at)ub.uni-koeln(dot)de
Dr. Denis Arnold
arnold(at)ub.uni-koeln(dot)de
Dr. Elen Le Foll
elefoll(at)uni-koeln(dot)de
Dates
Overview for the summer semester 2026
16 April – From Lab to Public: Navigating the Challenges of Science Communication
Lecture: Anne Rosar (University of Mannheim)
Location: Room 4.006 in the USB
Recommended viewing/reading:
- "Wie gelingt die Kommunikation wissenschaftlichen Wissens?" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKmbxKA94xI). The video is in German but can be watched with auto-generated English subtitles. The full position paper can be found linked at the bottom of this page: https://www.wissenschaftsrat.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/PM_2021/PM_1921.html.
13 May – Open Peer Review
Lecture: Andrey Anderson dos Santos (Federal University of Santa Catarina)
Location: Room 4.006 in the USB
Recommended reading:
- Wolfram, D., Wang, P., Hembree, A. et al. Open peer review: promoting transparency in open science. Scientometrics 125, 1033–1051 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03488-4.
21 May – Registered Reports as a model for research reform: theory and practice (Session via Zoom only)
Lecture: Stefano Coretta (University of Edinburgh) and Jessica Hampton (University of Lancaster)
Location: Room 4.006 in the USB
Recommended readings:
- Chambers, Christopher D., Zoltan Dienes, Robert D. McIntosh, Pia Rotshtein & Klaus Willmes. 2015. Registered reports: realigning incentives in scientific publishing. Cortex 66. A1–A2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2015.03.022.
- Karhulahti, Veli-Matti. 2022. Registered reports for qualitative research. Nature Human Behaviour 6(1). 4–5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01265-8.
11 June – Technological measures to deal with sensitive data in reproducible research
Lecture: Gioele Barabucci (IDH, University of Cologne)
Location: Room 4.006 in the USB
Recommended reading:
Jordon, James, Lukasz Szpruch, Florimond Houssiau, Mirko Bottarelli, Giovanni Cherubin, Carsten Maple, Samuel N. Cohen & Adrian Weller. 2022. Synthetic Data – what, why and how? arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2205.03257.
25 June – Reproducibility in Computer Science
Lecture: Robert Keßler (Parallel and Distributed Systems Group, University of Cologne)
Location: Room 4.006 in the USB
Recommended reading:
Guide for Reproducible Research In The Turing Way Community. 2025. The Turing Way: A handbook for reproducible, ethical and collaborative research. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3233853.
9 July – Sustainable research and education for sustainable development
Lecture: Sonja Eisenbeiß (Mercator Institute, University of Cologne)
Location: MoMo & Seminar room 0.27
Recommended viewing/reading:
- Eisenbeiß, Sonja, Jacopo Torregrossa & Emma Hopper. 2025. The role of environmental ethics and sustainability in research ethics for linguistics: what is currently available in terms of guidance and how might that be improved? Linguistics 63(2). 511–555. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2023-0203.
- Eisenbeiß, Sonja. 2026. The Sprachspinat® Concept. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvx-E24bd20&t=36s.
16 July – How to do research with 100+ colleagues
Lecture: Onur Özsoy (CRC 1252, UoC)
Recommended reading:
Faytak, Matthew, Šárka Kadavá, Chenzi Xu, Onur Özsoy, Pius Akumbu, Amanda Cardoso, Mark Amengual, Amalia Arvaniti, Malte Belz & Dorotea Bevivino. 2024. Preprint - Big Team Language Sciences. Opportunities and Challenges. OSF. https://osf.io/3pkj6.
We have been a member of the Reproducibility Network since October 2025.