Although SIPS meetings happen once a year, improving psychological science is a year-round endeavor. To help our community stay active outside the annual meetings, SIPS is launching a “pop-up events” pilot program: SIPS members can now propose unconferences, hackathons, or workshops that further the SIPS mission throughout the year! Because of its more flexible scheduling, pop-up SIPS events can help rally the SIPS community to work on projects at any time.
To apply, please send an email to sips@improvingpsych.org with the following information:
- type of session to be held (workshop, hackathon, unconference, or something else),
- the problem addressed by the session or guiding question ( 300 word max),
- plans for the session/ proposed session logistics (e.g., session length, dates and times, how it will be hosted),
- anticipated outcomes,
- and a brief background on the organizers.
The SIPS Executive Committee will review all proposals and decide whether to approve them on a case-by-case basis. The board meets once a month at the beginning of each month, so proposals should take this into consideration when scheduling the event.
Although these are SIPS-branded events, SIPS cannot provide financial or infrastructural support to the event; the hosts are responsible for providing the necessary infrastructure.
SIPS pop-up events can be open to non-members at the hosts’ discretion, but all participants need to agree to abide by the SIPS Code of Conduct explicitly (for example, during event registration).
Upcoming Events
SIPS 2025 Pre-conference Early-reformers Discussion
December 18, 2024
Join us for the SIPS 2025 Pre-Conference Discussion: What went wrong? How can we do it better? In celebration of SIPS’s 10th anniversary, early reformers will discuss challenges and improvements in psychological science. This virtual warm-up event is free and open to all. Our invited speakers are:
- Simine Vazire, Professor at the University of Melbourne, co-founder of SIPS
- Brian Nosek, Executive Director of the Center for Open Science, co-founder of SIPS
- Dorothy Bishop, University of Oxford
- Joseph Simmons, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founder of Data Colada
- Leif Nelson, Professor at UC Berkeley, co-founder of Data Colada
Moderator: Balazs Aczel, ELTE, host of SIPS 2025 in Budapest, Hungary.
Find out more about the event, register, and submit your questions in advance!
Past Events
PCI Psychology SIPS Hackathon
November, 2023
PCI is a non-profit and non-commercial organization of researchers offering peer review, recommendation and publication of scientific articles in open access for free. During this hackathon, we focused on outlining what editorial policies PCI: Psychology should have, creating a contact list of potential recommenders, and drafting a proposal for submission to the PCI Board. This is an ongoing project.
To stay up-to-date on the progress of PCI Psychology, subscribe to the mailing list / google group here: https://groups.google.com/g/pci-psychology/about