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    <p>Big Team Science (BTS) is when a large group of researchers collaborate and combine  their resources to explore a common research focus.</p>     
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          <li><a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221082970" target="_blank">Benefits, Barriers, and Risks of Big Team Science (Forscher et al., 2023)</a> <i>(<a href="https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2mdxh" target="_blank">Preprint</a>)</i><br>
            "We define [BTS] as a method involving a relatively large number of collaborators who may be dispersed across labs, institutions, disciplines, cultures, and continents."
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          <li><a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230235" target="_blank">How to build up big team science: A practical guide for large-scale collaborations (Baumgartner et al., 2024)</a><br>
            Helpful tips for building a BTS group, from identifying leadership to selecting tools to integrating open science approaches.<br>
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    <p>Open science refers to a method of conducting research in which practices, processes, and results are transparent and accessible to the public.</p>     
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          <li><a href="https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/open-science" target="_blank">What is Open Science? (Government of Canada, 2022)</a>)</i>
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        <li><a> href="https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-science/about/benefits" target="_blank">Benefits of Open Science (Springer Nature, n.d.) </a>)</i>
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  <h2 style="margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;color:#FFFFFF;"> What is the Replication Crisis?</h2>
  <p>Replication of previous research designs allow researchers to verify findings, and confirm the credibility and reliability of previous studies.</p> 
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          <li><a href="https://www.aje.com/arc/why-is-replication-in-research-important" target="_blank">Why is Replication in Research Important?</a></li>  
          <li><a href="https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/science/replication-crisis" target="_blank">The History of the Replication Crisis</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/23743603.2019.1684822?needAccess=true" target="_blank">How the Replication Crisis Affected Public Trust in Psychological Science</a></li> 
          <li><a href="https://pose.open.ubc.ca/open-research/open-workflows/reproducibility-and-replicability/" target="_blank">What is the Difference Between Replicability and Reproducibility?</a></li> 
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  <h2 style="margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;color:#FFFFFF;">Why has research historically focused on WEIRD populations?</h2>
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<p>Why has research historically focused on WEIRD populations?</p>
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What is Open Science?

Open Science Life Cycle. Circular diagram depicting four, sequential and cyclical broad categories of open science. Example practices from each category appear in an outside ring. Source: https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/open-science
(source: https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/open-science)