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).
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