Malika Ihle
LMU Open Science Center coordinator
@lmu-osc.bsky.social
former Reproducible Research Oxford coordinator
cofounder of the Society for Open Reliable and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology
@sortee.bsky.social
she/her
- Reposted by Malika IhleTomorrow I will give a webinar on preregistration for the ManyMany's: What’s the use of preregistration for Big Team Science? You can join for free for the talk, and discussion afterwards. For more info, see: manymanys.github.io/events/
- Reposted by Malika IhleExciting news! The cBRAIN lab🧠, led by Inga Koerte at LMU Klinikum München (LMU Munich Hospital), has completed our Switch to Open Program (SwOP) led by @malikaihle.bsky.social! Here's a recap of what we did over the last several months:
- Reposted by Malika IhleHas anyone tried the trackdown package for collaborative quarto editing? Love writing papers on Quarto, but switching back to Word for co-author edits is still an awkward missing link claudiozandonella.github.io/trackdown/
- How to create data dictionaries for all your reserch projects!
- How to ensure your research data is error-free & understandable by other users & your future self?🗂️ This tutorial by LMU OSC is on documenting & validating data in R to make it more reusable. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Data Documentation & Validation using R📑 lmu-osc.github.io/data-documen...
- Reposted by Malika IhleHow to promote data sharing for wider reuse when sensitive data cannot be shared? 🔐LMU OSC offers a tutorial on creating shareable & useful datasets when working with sensitive data. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Generating & Evaluating Synthetic Data in R 🤖 lmu-osc.github.io/synthetic-da...
- Reposted by Malika IhleStruggling to keep your research data organized and reusable? 📂 The LMU Open Science Center has a tutorial to help bring order and accessibility to your datasets. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: FAIR Data Management 📚 lmu-osc.github.io/FAIR-Data-Ma...
- Reposted by Malika IhleNeed to calculate a sample size needed to detect an effect size before collecting data? 🧠LMU OSC's tutorial helps improve study design & conduct power analyses through simulation. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Simulations of Data in R for Advanced Power Analyses💪 lmu-osc.github.io/Simulations-...
- Reposted by Malika IhleWondering if your study design will hold up before collecting real data? 📈 This LMU OSC tutorial on data simulation will help test & strengthen your statistical plan by creating artificial datasets. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Intro. to Data Simulation in R 📊 lmu-osc.github.io/Introduction...
- Reposted by Malika IhleWhat if you could showcase the reproducibility of your research?💻 LMU OSC offers a tutorial on practices for sharing your code such as documenting your repository, and attaching a licence and DOI. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Code Publishing 🔗 lmu-osc.github.io/code-publish...
- Reposted by Malika Ihle🌍 Join SORTEE – A worldwide Open Science community for ecology and evolution! 🌱🧬 🌐 Join trainings, code clubs & our annual online conference 🚀 Help shape the future of Open Science Membership is inclusive and flexible. 👉 Learn more: www.sortee.org/join/ #OpenScience #Ecology #Evolution
- Reposted by Malika IhleWant to make R projects reproducible on another computer or a later time?📝LMU OSC has a tutorial on how you can use the renv package in R to create isolated, reproducible environments for R projects. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Intro. to R Package Manager renv ⚙️ lmu-osc.github.io/introduction...
- Reposted by Malika IhleIs it possible to combine text, reproducible code, and reproducible results (tables or figures) all into one document? 📑 Find out how with the LMU Open Science Center tutorial about Quarto. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Intro. to Literate Programming with Quarto 💻 lmu-osc.github.io/introduction...
- Reposted by Malika IhleWhat do you know about version control?🔁 It’s how researchers keep their projects organized, track every change, and never lose work again. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Introduction to Version Control within RStudio ⚙️ lmu-osc.github.io/Introduction...
- Reposted by Malika IhleCurious about creating a reproducible workflow for your research? 🔍 We provide several self-paced tutorials about tools that make your work more efficient, reproducible, and collaborative. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Introduction to R 📊 lmu-osc.github.io/introduction...
- Reposted by Malika IhleLMU OSC has completed its Open Science Summer School! 🙌 5 days of exploring open science & open research practices. Links for materials of the open science training track: osf.io/x639j/files/...; the instructor training track: osf.io/tkwqs/files/...; & our self-paced tutorials: github.com/lmu-osc.
- Reposted by Malika Ihle🧾Learn about making your own research more credible, reproducible, and reliable by engaging with preregistration and a set of computing tools! Attend the “Credible Research” lecture by Dr. @malikaihle.bsky.social on Mon 15 Sept, 11:00-11:45. 👉Register here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...
- Reposted by Malika Ihle💡 Explore how practices from distributed, open-source software can make science more professional, open, and collaborative! Attend the “Science as amateur software development” lecture by Prof. Dr. @rmcelreath.bsky.social on Wed 17 Sept, 9:00. 👉 Register here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...
- Reposted by Malika Ihle💻 Make your research more reproducible by making your code more readable. Get recommendations and key strategies for clean code! Attend the “Readable code” lecture by @vera-karlbauer.bsky.social and Jonas Hagenberg on Thurs 18 Sept, 9:00-9:45. 👉 Register here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...
- Reposted by Malika Ihle📢 This year, we’re hosting seven public lectures that anyone can attend completely free of charge between Sept 15 and 18! 📅 Registration for online attendance is open. 🔗 www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS... #OpenScience #OSSS25 #LMUOSC
- It's been great to have @thomvolker.bsky.social create a self-paced tutorial on synthetic data for the @lmu-osc.bsky.social! It is currently open for feedback by the community! Your contributions will be aknowledged and the tutorial will be free to reuse with attribution. #rstats #OpenScience
- Been working on a tutorial on synthetic data for open science for @lmu-osc.bsky.social A draft version is now up: lmu-osc.github.io/synthetic-da... It covers model building, evaluating synthetic data utility with density ratio estimation, and disclosure risk. Feedback is very welcome!
- Reposted by Malika Ihle📖 Lab handbooks of groups who switch to open science will be openly shared under a CC-BY license so others can adapt them. 👀 Preview the cBRAIN open research practice guide: zenodo.org/records/1626... 📢 Interested? Labs from all fields of science can contact @malikaihle.bsky.social to learn more!
- Reposted by Malika Ihle🎯 The OSC proudly supported 6 of 7 funded Clusters of Excellence at LMU. 🤝 Excited to continue working with the @synergy-munich.bsky.social & ORIGINS clusters which are both OSC Funding Members. Congrats to all involved! 🎉 Looking forward to excellent AND transparent research! #OpenScience #LMUOSC
- 🎉 Major achievement for #LMU in the Excellence Strategy: All seven proposed Clusters of Excellence have successfully passed the review process and will be funded for seven years as of 2026. An outstanding result! 🎉 #ExcellenceCluster #LMUMunich #research Read more here: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
- Reposted by Malika IhleTop requests from LMU BMC researchers to be able to adopt open science: ✨ More training in FAIR data and code sharing 💡 Access to expert consultations 🤝 Stronger community support 📄Read the full report here: zenodo.org/records/1530...
- Reposted by Malika IhleHow can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
- Reposted by Malika IhleHackathon: Data Under Threat/Data Rescuing in #München The LMU OSC runs a hackathon to support the #SciOp #SafeguardingResearch initiative: Rescuing research data that is deleted by the Trump administration. 📅 07/08/25 from 16 – 19 (only in-person) 👉 Details and signup: github.com/lmu-osc/safe...
- Reposted by Malika IhleSession Submission and registration is now open for BTSCON2025! bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/ @abrir.bsky.social @psysciacc.bsky.social @manybabies.org
- Reposted by Malika IhleWe are pleased to be supporting this unconference on responsible research: we love the 'getting things done' focus of it! Register for a project, join a diverse working group, and make things happen!
- Shape research culture + practices! Join the Responsible Research in Action Unconference 2025, Sept 22–24, Berlin, to collaborate on innovative solutions – from reproducibility checks to researcher-driven funding models. rr-in-action2025.org @dfg.de @ucoimbra.bsky.social @berlinualliance.bsky.social
- Reposted by Malika IhleTwo weeks left to apply if you are an: 1️⃣ early career researcher interested in developing efficient and reproducible ways of working, and creating reusable and citable research outputs or an 2️⃣ open science adopter wanting to learn how to spread your enthusiasm #OpenScience #OpenResearch
- 📢 We are pleased to announce our 4th open science summer school! #OSSS25 📌 Sept 15-19, Munich & Zoom 🔥 keynotes and outstanding hands-on workshops 2️⃣ dual-track: open science training and instructor training tracks! ➡️ apply before July 14 or register anytime for the public lectures!
- Reposted by Malika IhleThree weeks left to apply to learn rigorous, reproducible, and transparent research methodology! Our keynotes presenters: @rmcelreath.bsky.social & Tim Errington from @cos.io #OpenScience
- 📢 We are pleased to announce our 4th open science summer school! #OSSS25 📌 Sept 15-19, Munich & Zoom 🔥 keynotes and outstanding hands-on workshops 2️⃣ dual-track: open science training and instructor training tracks! ➡️ apply before July 14 or register anytime for the public lectures!
- Reposted by Malika Ihle📢 We are pleased to announce our 4th open science summer school! #OSSS25 📌 Sept 15-19, Munich & Zoom 🔥 keynotes and outstanding hands-on workshops 2️⃣ dual-track: open science training and instructor training tracks! ➡️ apply before July 14 or register anytime for the public lectures!
- Reposted by Malika IhleA PhD in paper mills? retractionwatch.com/2025/05/01/p... This @retractionwatch.com piece is about PhD position we have at @cwtsleiden.bsky.social for project on paper mills. For more info, see www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/adv.... Deadline for applying is May 13. @stephenpinfield.bsky.social
- Reposted by Malika Ihle“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- Research data management in lungfish 😆
- Lungfish xkcd.com/3064
- Reposted by Malika IhlePubMed down .... Here's my post on what to do
- Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @plos.org discusses the lines we need to fight to hold – and alternatives we can rely on internationally: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w... #medlibs
- Reposted by Malika IhleLatest blogpost on Musk/Royal Society debacle: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve... I look at the reasons that have been given for inaction, and find them wanting. @royalsociety.org
- Reposted by Malika Ihle10 days left: Submit your proposal to improve research culture and practices and join the unconference - Sept 22-24, Berlin! Selection: Batool Almarzouq, Olavo Amaral, Kelly Kobey, @malikaihle.bsky.social, @verokiermer.bsky.social, @kordinglab.bsky.social, @ufangyang.bsky.social rr-in-action2025.org
- Reposted by Malika IhleUpdate. As recently as January 2, 2025, #NASA had five modules for teaching #OpenScience on its web site. The #Trump administration has taken them down. science.nasa.gov/open-science/tops/o… Here they are in the @internetarchive Wayback Machine […]
- Reposted by Malika IhleLearn to reuse this FAIR data management self-paced tutorial to facilitate self-learning or workshops online, in-person or in a hybrid format. Co-developed for the LMU-MPG Open Science Summer School 2024 amongst other self-paced tutorials. Overview here: github.com/lmu-osc
- 📚 Excited to present "FAIR Data Management: A Workshop OER for Flexible Learning Environments" at Max Planck Digital Library & LMU Munich! 🗓️ Feb 13, 2-3 pm, 💻 via Zoom. Join us to explore key FAIR data aspects. Register here: lmu-munich.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 💖📊 #OpenScience #Event #LoveData25
- Reposted by Malika IhleJoin us at Metascience 2025 in London, June 30–July 2, 2025! Connect, share knowledge, and shape metascience priorities. Proposals for virtual pre-conference & in-person sessions are open. 🗓 Submit by Feb 7, 2025. 🔗 Details & submit your proposal today: metascience.info/cal... #Metascience2025
- From promoting open science as a job to needing open access as a patient: @pcmasuzzo.bsky.social’s newsletter is also available in English. Warm congratulations on beating breast cancer ❤️🩹
- The last episode of my newsletter is out. It touches upon the end of my chemotherapy and what it has meant to me to know all I could about #BreastCancer when I was diagnosed. It also shows how much of the scientific literature on it is still not #OpenAccess.
- Reposted by Malika IhleWe're looking for a Junior Researcher (postdoc) in metaresearch to join the EXCELScIOR project ERA-Chair meta-research team at the University of Coimbra (www.euraxess.pt/jobs/299801, apply by Jan 24). Open to researchers from many fields who are working in metaresearch & research improvement.
- Reposted by Malika IhleDo you have an idea to improve research culture and practice? Submit a proposal to lead a project during the Responsible Research in Action Unconference (September 22-24, Berlin) by January 26: rr-in-action2025.org/info-for-app.... 20 person teams will collaborate on selected projects.
- Also in collaboration with @rmcelreath.bsky.social !!
- Meta-science postdoc position (3yrs): Agent-based modeling of academia 📍 Munich, Germany (Remote/hybrid options may be available) 🗣️ Felix Schönbrodt @nicebread.bsky.social, director of @lmu-osc.bsky.social 📅 application: 21.01.2025, start: March-July 2025 www.psy.lmu.de/pm/aktuelles...
- Meta-science postdoc position (3yrs): Agent-based modeling of academia 📍 Munich, Germany (Remote/hybrid options may be available) 🗣️ Felix Schönbrodt @nicebread.bsky.social, director of @lmu-osc.bsky.social 📅 application: 21.01.2025, start: March-July 2025 www.psy.lmu.de/pm/aktuelles...
- Reposted by Malika IhleWelcome @c-bz.bsky.social. You have just been added in the meta-research and open science starting pack (2). All other interest folks not in the pack 1 nor in the pack 2, say hello 👋. go.bsky.app/DWo6RbAat://did:plc:3nuyftkga5q32inooxbbxa74/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbozhq3zmz2f
- Useful read to check in if I am /you are humble enough to promote #OpenScience: ““Nothing is as visionary or as blinding as moral indignation”. That always poses a threat to being aware when you’re in the wrong.” From @hildabast.bsky.social in absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2021/10/31/t...
- Reposted by Malika IhleHow to make reproducible research and open science training the norm in Universities? The article elifesciences.org/articles/89736 offers actionable steps. At LMU Munich, we have already started to implement each of these 11 strategies. A thread🧵:
- Reposted by Malika IhleApplications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio
- Reposted by Malika IhleWhat are systematic reviews and meta-analyses? And why are they essential in ecology and evolution? 🌿📊 Discover it in our course with @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social & Shreya Dimri "Meta-Analysis in R," Feb. 10-13! Learn to apply & interpret methods in R 🚀 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
- Reposted by Malika IhleThe Leipzig discussion session for my course is beginning this week. If you aren't lucky enough to live in Leipzig, you can still access all the lectures free of charge, work at your own pace. github.com/rmcelreath/s...
- If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- Reposted by Malika IhleEvolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes retractionwatch.com/2024/12/27/e...
- Reposted by Malika Ihle📢 Exciting opportunity for a Research Fellow or Senior Research Fellow to contribute to our consultancy, training, teaching & research portfolio. A permanent, full-time core post working closely with @susanmichie.bsky.social & the rest of the CBC team 👉 Apply by 26 Jan: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- Starnberg 8:00 19.12.2024 when waiting for the next sbahn because the ersatz bus was too full and late to make the first sbahn and that the train in between was too full to take any passagers … public transport around Munich is the worst it’s been - but what a place to be waiting !
- As we @lmu-osc.bsky.social build a train-the-trainer programme for open science with @forrt.bsky.social, I’m wondering about this… should we try to change LMU Munich‘s culture in depth by engaging many locals or make material usable for educators around the world to seed changes? Can we do both?
- Perhaps it’s ambitious but with our new @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social grant and our joint new staff starting in 2025 I hope we can do both as both the OSC and FORRT have their target audiences ready and engaged ! 💪🏻💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿
- Reposted by Malika IhleIn 2020, we showed that studies published in ecological journals WITH a code-sharing policy showed a 21% reproducibility potential at max (Culina et al 2020, @plosbiology.bsky.social) We've now investigated journals WITHOUT a code-sharing policy. The results are worrying. 📰 doi.org/10.32942/X21...
- Reposted by Malika IhleThis is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often
- Reposted by Malika Ihle+ 67 for the second. Please say hello 👋 if you are not in think you should join. go.bsky.app/DWo6RbAat://did:plc:3nuyftkga5q32inooxbbxa74/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbozhq3zmz2f
- Reposted by Malika IhleAre you a Black woman in any subfield of Ecology, Evolution or marine science? Come join BWEEMS, learn about our community and all of the programs we offer! Spread the word, Black women supporting Black women! #BlackSky #BlackinSTEM #BlackSTEM #WomeninSTEM #BlackinAcademia
