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What to do after this workshop?

The Turing Way also has a chapter on Research Data Management - and a lot more information on how to work more reproducible.

Frequently asked questions about reproducible research (in archaeology)

You can find answers to the questions below in (Marwick 2022), p20.

• How do you decide if you should publish data and/or code openly?
• Where do you start training skills in open science and reproducibility?
• What should you consider when you publish an article with underlying data/code?
• How do you share data to make it more accessible to others?
• How do you clean up the data and code before sharing this publicly?
• How do you share research methods more openly?
• What is metadata?
• What about licenses/copyright?
• What if people misinterpret data or find a mistake?
• A supervisor doesn’t want to work reproducibility, how do you convince them?
• Will reproducible research be taken into account when looking for a next job?
• Do platforms like SciHub, ResearchGate, Academia.edu count as Open Access?

SORTEE

Resources on data management

• A guide to Data Management in Ecology and Evolution by the British Ecological Society

• Sharing biological data: why, when, and how

• Reproducible Bioinformatics Research for Biologists’ (for people with wetlab lives!)

Resources on code management

• Data Analysis and Visualisation in R for Ecologists

• Top ten reasons to not share your code (and why you should anyway)

• A guide to Reproducible Code by the British Ecological Society

• Beginner: Carpentry workshops

• Intermediate: CodeRefinery

Resources on data sharing

• Steps To Share Your Data

Videos on reproducibility

• ‘Towards a Culture of Computational Reproducibility’

• ‘Steps towards reproducible research’

• How to make your research reproducible? (requires you to register to watch on demand)

• SORTEE 2021 Plenary Presentations

Other resources on reproducibility

• A Beginner’s Guide to Conducting Reproducible Research

• Questionable research practices in ecology and evolution

• Six factors affecting reproducibility in life science research and how to handle them

• Podcast episode ‘Reproducible data science, how hard can it be?’

• Genotypic variability enhances the reproducibility of an ecological study

How to get started with programming?

• Resources for using spreadsheets in research and moving to other tools

• 9 Reasons Excel Users Should Consider Learning Programming

• Training resources for researchers who want to code

• Top Tips to Start Coding in Academia

Publishing

• Peer Community in Ecology

Open Science

• You can follow the Open Science 101 materials set up by NASA on your own pace, or apply to one of the future OLS programme to participate in a 6 week cohort with mentoring.
• Max Planck Open Science Ambassadors

References

Marwick, Ben. 2022. “Three Levels of Reproducible Workflow Remove Barriers for Archaeologists and Increase Accessibility.” Peer Community In Archaeology, November. https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.archaeo.100022.