SIPS Pop-Up Events

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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, SIPS pop-up 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, how it will be hosted),
  • which months would work for you (we’ll aim to have one pop-up event per month; within the month, the date can be chosen freely)
  • anticipated outcomes,
  • and a brief background on the organizers.

SIPS is also launching ECR pop-up events to provide a platform for early career researchers to hold events (e.g., talks, workshops, unconferences, etc.) that further SIPS’ mission. ECR pop-ups are aimed at encouraging researchers in early stages of their careers (including graduate students) to engage with the community, and share and benefit from each other’s work and skills. If you wish to submit your event as an ECR pop-up, please mention whether and what early career position the main speaker/organiser holds, along with the information listed above.

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. In case of positive evaluation, we will reach out to you regarding the further scheduling and planning of your pop-up event.

To increase inclusivity and reusability, the sessions will typically be recorded and shared after the event (capturing speaker presentations only). Recording is therefore highly recommended, but may be omitted at the speakers’ discretion.

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. If the speakers do not have a university Zoom account, SIPS can provide a Zoom room for the event.

SIPS pop-up events are open and free for everyone. All participants need to agree to abide by the SIPS Code of Conduct explicitly (for example, during event registration).

Upcoming Events

Unconference: Building Better Science Systems | Meta-scientific Assets & Co-Designing a Shared Agenda for Rigorous Research

Date: September 3 2026, 4 – 5:30 PM CET
Speaker: Flávio Azevedo
Register here!

Abstract: FORRT began as a volunteer project to make open and reproducible research accessible to students and educators. Today, it is a global community recognized by UNESCO and endorsed by the UN International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (2024–2033). That recognition reflects a shift: open science is no longer a niche reform – it is infrastructure for trustworthy, equitable knowledge systems.

FORRT is now moving beyond pedagogy into metascience and error reduction. This hackathon focuses on diagnosing where science fails and building tools to fix it. Using FORRT’s existing infrastructure – ”FReD (replication databases), R² Replication Research, reproducibility toolkits, and contributor-recognition systems” – we will prototype solutions for replication pipelines, reproducibility audits, bias detection, and incentive redesign.

Goal: transform community knowledge into deployable systems that improve reliability, equity, and scientific integrity.

Build with us.

Past Events

SIPS 2025 Pre-conference Early-reformers Discussion

December 18, 2024

In celebration of SIPS’s 10th anniversary, early reformers discussed challenges and improvements in psychological science during the SIPS 2025 Pre-Conference Discussion: What went wrong? How can we do it better? Our invited speakers were:

  • 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.  

Read more about the event and watch the recording.

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