Context is vitally important for how we understand the world around us, and this is particularly so with language. We know that humans use a range of linguistic cues when understanding language to help tailor their expectations about upcoming linguistic material, contributing to the seamless nature of comprehension. Linguistic cues fall into two different levels of context – the local, sentence context and the wider, global context. Some linguistic cues that are considered to be global are knowledge about the world or the speaker. These have been found to facilitate semantic processing when they align with linguistic expectations through faster reading times of predictable content. One other global contextual cue that may be of use to how we represent meaning and understand the world around us is the coherence of a discourse. The current, pre-registered study investigates the interaction between discourse coherence and word predictability during language comprehension. To do so, we used an online, self-paced reading paradigm and had participants read three-sentence discourses that differed on the coherence of the final target sentence with the first two preamble sentences, and also on the predictability of a critical word within the target sentence. From our first experiment, we found that people were sensitive to the coherence of the overall three-sentence narrative, with slower reading times for trials that had less coherent preamble contexts. After exploration of our data, we pre-registered two further studies to investigate whether this effect is still present in more extreme experimental settings. For Experiment 2, we altered the ratio of less and more coherent contexts to see if people still make use of discourse coherence as a linguistic cue for informing their expectations when there was a greater proportion of more coherent trials. We found this to be the case. In Experiment 3, we replaced our less predictable critical words that were semantically relevant to the overall message of the target sentence with completely anomalous words. Here, we found people were faster to read the highly predictable critical words and slower to read the anomalous critical words when they first read more coherent contexts, but not when they first read less coherent contexts. This suggests that people are able to use relevant linguistic cues from both levels of context, and do so flexibly depending on the degree of contextual support at the global discourse level.
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In the last few years there has been an increased focus on research culture and the importance of creating a culture that is open and inclusive. This has been highlighted by the UK Government’s Research and Development People and Culture Strategy and the Concordat for the Career Development for Researchers as well as various initiatives by funders such as the Royal Society, the Wellcome Trust and UKRI. Within the University of Edinburgh a Research Cultures Working Group has been established and tasked with creating a Research Cultures Acton Plan for the University. I will talk about the working group and the action plan that is emerging, particularly touching on the role of recognition and reward towards creating a positive culture and how open research can contribute to that.
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Stefano Coretta, Joseph Casillas, Timo B. Roettger
With the recent increase of large scientific collaborations in the form of "Many Analysts" projects, research project management has quickly moved from small/medium-scale coordination to large-scale planning. Project coordinators are faced with unprecedented challenges which make "Many Analysts" projects time consuming and resource demanding. With this poster, we would like to share our experience managing the ongoing Many Speech Analysis project (https://many-speech-analyses.github.io) and offer tips and logistic solutions to minimise the resource overhead required for such type of projects. We will also discuss which steps in the process didn't go as expected and how on hindsight we wished we approached them. More specifically we will discuss the following aspects: Overall design of the study in five phases: recruitment, teams' analyses, analyses peer-review, meta-analysis and write-up. Preparation of a Registered Report and process of getting an In Principle Acceptance prior to the beginning of the first phase (recruitment). Preparation and management of a project-wide OSF repository using the R package osfr, and integration with GitHub. Logistics of recruitment and team creation with social media, Eventbrite and Google Sheets. Development of questionnaires to gather background information on the recruited analysts and to collect reports on the the teams' analyses. General project management with GitHub projects, issues and GitHub actions.
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In this talk, I will provide a summary of a large-scale review of how embedding open and reproducible scholarship may impact student outcomes across educational contexts. This project aimed to reduce barriers to embed open and reproducible scholarship into research training, by reviewing, synthesising, and clearly articulating how embedding such an approach can confer benefits for students. We provide the first comprehensive review of how integrating open and reproducible science into teaching and learning impacts students, using a large-scale, collaborative, Big Team Science approach. This project focused on interdisciplinary undergraduate and postgraduate students, on an international level. In the talk, I will describe the key findings of the review and also reflect upon the value of employing Big Team Science approaches to the study of open pedagogy.
{"title":"How Does Open Research Impact Student Outcomes? A Big Team Science Review and Evidence Synthesis","authors":"Madeleine Pownall","doi":"10.2218/eorc.2022.7001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2218/eorc.2022.7001","url":null,"abstract":"In this talk, I will provide a summary of a large-scale review of how embedding open and reproducible scholarship may impact student outcomes across educational contexts. This project aimed to reduce barriers to embed open and reproducible scholarship into research training, by reviewing, synthesising, and clearly articulating how embedding such an approach can confer benefits for students. We provide the first comprehensive review of how integrating open and reproducible science into teaching and learning impacts students, using a large-scale, collaborative, Big Team Science approach. This project focused on interdisciplinary undergraduate and postgraduate students, on an international level. In the talk, I will describe the key findings of the review and also reflect upon the value of employing Big Team Science approaches to the study of open pedagogy.","PeriodicalId":244254,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Open Research","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122076365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The FAIR Principles have succeeded to unit stakeholders world-wide behind a common concept: good data management under common standards. However, putting FAIR into practice is still work in progress and it "takes a village". I will provide an overview of two community-driven resources, the FAIRsharing (https://fairsharing.org) and the FAIR Cookbook (https://faircookbook.elixir-europe.org), as examples of what we need to turn FAIR into reality. Both resources will also contribute to the UKRN ecosystem.
{"title":"FAIRification as a Team Sport","authors":"Susanna-Assunta Sansone","doi":"10.2218/eorc.2022.7006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2218/eorc.2022.7006","url":null,"abstract":"The FAIR Principles have succeeded to unit stakeholders world-wide behind a common concept: good data management under common standards. However, putting FAIR into practice is still work in progress and it \"takes a village\". I will provide an overview of two community-driven resources, the FAIRsharing (https://fairsharing.org) and the FAIR Cookbook (https://faircookbook.elixir-europe.org), as examples of what we need to turn FAIR into reality. Both resources will also contribute to the UKRN ecosystem.","PeriodicalId":244254,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Open Research","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130063924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Software is intended to be a tool used to complete tasks efficiently. However, the intent is not always matched by the execution as users may become frustrated with design idiosyncrasies or suboptimal implementations. In order to support reproducibility and the user experience, research software needs to be rewarded on its usability and documentation as well as its functionality. Quality documentation needs to cover design decisions, functionality, and how to contribute to the software. Here we describe our work to tackle the reproducibility crisis in qPCR analysis by creating the open-source software package tidyqpcr. We also introduced the extensive infrastructure available for creating software documentation in the R programming language. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is a fundamental technique in molecular biology to detect and quantify DNA and RNA. However, the ubiquitous use of qPCR across research disciplines has led to inconsistencies in implementation and reporting, leading to a reproducibility crisis and the publication of the Minimum Information in a Quantitative PCR experiment (MIQE) guidelines. In addition, each stage of a qPCR experiment can be customised to extract a wide variety of information from numerous biological processes. Developing versatile and reliable software built with best-practices and thorough documentation would promote reproducible qPCR analysis across diverse disciplines. tidyqpcr is an open source software package for user-friendly qPCR analysis using the tidyverse suite of R packages. tidyqpcr offers a consistent user interface and structure for qPCR analysis, within the tidyverse paradigm of spreadsheet-like rectangular data frames and generic functions that build up complex analyses in a series of simple steps. tidyqpcr focuses on experimental design in microwell plates, and relative quantification using changes in quantification cycle (∆Cq). tidyqpcr has been improved in response to software review from the rOpenSci non-profit initiative, which co-ordinates with the Journal of Open Source Software. Overall, tidyqpcr empowers scientists to conduct reproducible, flexible, and best-practice compliant quantitative PCR analysis.
{"title":"tidyqpcr","authors":"Samuel Haynes, Edward W. J. Wallace","doi":"10.2218/eorc.2022.7008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2218/eorc.2022.7008","url":null,"abstract":"Software is intended to be a tool used to complete tasks efficiently. However, the intent is not always matched by the execution as users may become frustrated with design idiosyncrasies or suboptimal implementations. In order to support reproducibility and the user experience, research software needs to be rewarded on its usability and documentation as well as its functionality. Quality documentation needs to cover design decisions, functionality, and how to contribute to the software. Here we describe our work to tackle the reproducibility crisis in qPCR analysis by creating the open-source software package tidyqpcr. We also introduced the extensive infrastructure available for creating software documentation in the R programming language. \u0000Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is a fundamental technique in molecular biology to detect and quantify DNA and RNA. However, the ubiquitous use of qPCR across research disciplines has led to inconsistencies in implementation and reporting, leading to a reproducibility crisis and the publication of the Minimum Information in a Quantitative PCR experiment (MIQE) guidelines. In addition, each stage of a qPCR experiment can be customised to extract a wide variety of information from numerous biological processes. Developing versatile and reliable software built with best-practices and thorough documentation would promote reproducible qPCR analysis across diverse disciplines. tidyqpcr is an open source software package for user-friendly qPCR analysis using the tidyverse suite of R packages. tidyqpcr offers a consistent user interface and structure for qPCR analysis, within the tidyverse paradigm of spreadsheet-like rectangular data frames and generic functions that build up complex analyses in a series of simple steps. tidyqpcr focuses on experimental design in microwell plates, and relative quantification using changes in quantification cycle (∆Cq). tidyqpcr has been improved in response to software review from the rOpenSci non-profit initiative, which co-ordinates with the Journal of Open Source Software. Overall, tidyqpcr empowers scientists to conduct reproducible, flexible, and best-practice compliant quantitative PCR analysis.","PeriodicalId":244254,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Open Research","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127116903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open research practices can benefit students, researchers, and the research community by improving the quality, transparency, and accessibility of research findings. Many groups such as the Edinburgh Open Research Initiative (EORI) and the Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT) aim to promote the integration of open research practices into university curriculums. Senior year high school pupils preparing to study STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) of Social Sciences subjects at university will often conduct their first research project as part of an Advanced Higher course, Nuffield Research Placement, or CREST Award. We have recently received funding to develop resources aimed at introducing S4-S6 Scottish High School pupils to open research practices. Already there is keen interest from Scottish Schools Education Research Centre (SSERC), who run Nuffield Research Placements in Scotland, to make these resources available to all pupils completing placements. We are currently looking for a small group of UoE students (undergraduate or postgraduate) to assist in developing two short animation scripts on open research topics and an interactive activity. Students will be reimbursed for contributing to the project. Students should be knowledgeable on open research topics (although you don’t have to be an expert!). Science communication experience is not required, although we will encourage all student volunteers to sign up to the STEM Ambassadors programme. We are not able to use our funding to reimburse staff members, but UoE staff are more than welcome to register their interest in our project and help out with developing or assuring the quality of our resources. This project is funded by alumni and friends of the University of Edinburgh through the Student Experience Grant scheme.
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Catherine J. Crompton, D. Ropar, N. Sasson, M. Lages, S. Fletcher‐Watson
Information sharing depends on successful communication. Because autism is clinically defined by social communication deficits, autistic people may be expected to be less effective at sharing information, particularly with one another. In 2020, we published a paper indicating that it is the mismatch between autistic and non-autistic people, rather than autism itself, that degrades information sharing. We used an experimental diffusion chain methodology to examine information transfer in groups of autistic people, groups of non-autistic people, and mixed groups of autistic and non-autistic people. The first participant in each group was told a story which they recounted to a second participant, who recounted it to the third participant and so on, along a “diffusion chain” of eight participants (n = 72). Retention of details within the mixed chain showed a significantly steeper decline than the autistic and mixed chains, which did not significantly differ from each other. These results challenge the diagnostic criterion of inherent social deficits in autism, demonstrate that autistic social behaviour can include effective communication and social interaction, and suggest that social difficulties in autism are contextual rather than absolute. Although these findings have profound implications for practitioners, educators, clinicians and psychologists, pushing for dramatic change in policy and practice is premature without a replication establishing these effects as robust and meaningful. Importantly, a failure to replicate would still yield novel insights into interactions between autistic and non-autistic people that could be applied to practice across services. We are embarking on an open-science replication of this study in a larger (n = 324) and more diverse sample, across three international sites, to determine whether these findings are replicable in new samples. We hypothesise that we will replicate the original finding, showing that social interactions are facilitated in an autistic group of participants. Our increased sample size will allow for the identification of moderating demographic factors, and potential communicative mechanisms that facilitate or impede interaction between and within diagnostic groups. Additionally, we will explore whether informing participants of the diagnostic status of participants in their chain affects information transfer and rapport, and whether transfer differs for fictional and factual information. This study was funded as part of an Open Science Initiative; our protocols will be pre-registered on the Open Science Framework, and we have a Registered Report currently under review. It is the first Open Science endeavour of this team, and we look forward to the opportunity to discuss this work with the Edinburgh Open Science community. We will present a short summary of the results from the first study and a detailed account of the planned replication, drawn from our Registered Report (currently unde
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The University of Edinburgh’s current position regarding Open Access and Data management – including the introduction of our new policies. As well as the University’s general approach to supporting Open Research and Open Science. Then give his view on the emerging challenges regarding international research, especially the increased administrative research burden and restrictions on the free use of international research data caused by recent legislation and pending legislation (such as the National Security Investment Act) as well as continued effects from BREXIT. Finally covering his recent discussions and work with our new UK Information Commissioner as well as the Scottish government on these subjects.
{"title":"Open Access, Data Management and Emerging Challenges to International Research","authors":"G. McLachlan","doi":"10.2218/eorc.2022.7337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2218/eorc.2022.7337","url":null,"abstract":"The University of Edinburgh’s current position regarding Open Access and Data management – including the introduction of our new policies. As well as the University’s general approach to supporting Open Research and Open Science. Then give his view on the emerging challenges regarding international research, especially the increased administrative research burden and restrictions on the free use of international research data caused by recent legislation and pending legislation (such as the National Security Investment Act) as well as continued effects from BREXIT. Finally covering his recent discussions and work with our new UK Information Commissioner as well as the Scottish government on these subjects.","PeriodicalId":244254,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Open Research","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128644606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
18 academic libraries across Scotland, through SCURL (Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries), are collaborating to develop a not-for-profit open access publishing platform that is owned and managed by the participating libraries. The aim of the Scottish Universities Open Access Press (SUOAP) is to provide a straightforward and cost-effective OA publication route for academics across Scottish HEIs, in response to changes in funder policies and Plan S. By publishing research open access, the SUOAP aims to raise the global visibility and usage of research at Scottish HEIs, increasing the high impact of Scottish HEI research outputs across all disciplines. In this talk, Dominique Walker, the Publishing Officer for SUOAP, will set out the background to the project, discussing how SCURL’s experience of delivering cooperative developments for Scottish HEIs provided the foundation and the framework for creating a collaborative OA press. It will also look at where the development of the Press has reached so far, with the establishment of an online platform and formation of a diverse Editorial Board constituting academics from across the 18 institutions. It will also discuss the next steps, including plans to open a call for monograph proposals. Overall the talk aims to show how Libraries and HEIs can work together to provide open access to research, providing alternative routes for publication and delivering a mutually beneficial outcome for the sector in Scotland.
{"title":"Scottish Universities Open Access Press","authors":"Dominique Walker","doi":"10.2218/eorc.2022.6967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2218/eorc.2022.6967","url":null,"abstract":"18 academic libraries across Scotland, through SCURL (Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries), are collaborating to develop a not-for-profit open access publishing platform that is owned and managed by the participating libraries. The aim of the Scottish Universities Open Access Press (SUOAP) is to provide a straightforward and cost-effective OA publication route for academics across Scottish HEIs, in response to changes in funder policies and Plan S. By publishing research open access, the SUOAP aims to raise the global visibility and usage of research at Scottish HEIs, increasing the high impact of Scottish HEI research outputs across all disciplines. \u0000In this talk, Dominique Walker, the Publishing Officer for SUOAP, will set out the background to the project, discussing how SCURL’s experience of delivering cooperative developments for Scottish HEIs provided the foundation and the framework for creating a collaborative OA press. It will also look at where the development of the Press has reached so far, with the establishment of an online platform and formation of a diverse Editorial Board constituting academics from across the 18 institutions. It will also discuss the next steps, including plans to open a call for monograph proposals. \u0000Overall the talk aims to show how Libraries and HEIs can work together to provide open access to research, providing alternative routes for publication and delivering a mutually beneficial outcome for the sector in Scotland.","PeriodicalId":244254,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Open Research","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133983023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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