Following the success of last year’s event we’re delighted to announce that the 2025 UKRN Replication Games will be held on Thursday 13 November. During this all day event researchers work in small teams to replicate (or not!) published papers. The games will be led by Lenka Fiala and Derek Mikola from the Institute for Replication (I4R).
Last year 15 teams worked to replicate 13 papers. At least 11 teams submitted reports to I4R that have now been sent to the original authors. Once the authors provide their responses, the reports will be published as preprints. Abel and Derek are also incorporating the work into two meta papers, one for Nature Human Behaviour and one for Psychological Science. Researchers can choose to be named on the initial reports and subsequent meta-papers. The author response and the I4R papers are released at the same time on the I4R Reports and Meta-papers webpage.
Comments from LNLs who attended the 2024 event:
‘It was great working and collaborating with a team, and I took away key lessons on how to handle my own research.’
‘It was interesting to see how difficult it is to follow the logic of someone else’s code. It made me reflect on my own code.’
‘Gaining knowledge, collaboration, and even a publication is excellent.’
Further event details and registration page coming shortly. Watch this space.