and now for something a little more uplifting

if you read my blog, you might think everything is shit and we might as well go drink whiskey and play euchre.  that's definitely plan b.  but for now, i'm sticking with plan a: SIPS.* you should come, too.

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)**
Inaugural Meeting
June 6-8th, 2016
Center for Open Science, Charlottesville, VA

SIPS is a new group created to bring together scholars working to improve methods and practices in psychological science. The aim of the inaugural meeting is to generate ideas, goals, and actionable plans to improve psychological science, including:

-Improving the training and research practices in psychological science
-Improving institutional practices to incentivize better scientific practices (e.g., journals, societies, departments, and universities)
-Conducting meta-science, empirical tests of reforms, and critical self-evaluation
-Outreach within and outside psychology (including attention to diversity)

The meeting will be a dynamic agenda of very brief presentations, open discussion, break-out work, and action planning.  We have a draft agenda here.

If you're interested in coming, sign up here!

Because of practical constraints, registration is limited to approximately 60 participants for the inaugural meeting.  Beyond the organizing team, registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis and we will create a wait-list should interest exceed capacity.

* not mutually exclusive with plan b.

** you know i'm serious because i'm using capitals.***

***  don't get used to it.

plan c

Comments

[Davenuss79]

This sounds fantastic! Let me know if I can be helpful getting the word out through SPSP or otherwise.

[Aritra Mukherjee]

hey, I am from India is there any online platform for this conference and if there is then i would love to register and if the conference is actually online then i come off as rather ignorant and apologize for that.

[Simine Vazire]

thanks dave!

aritra - we don't have any plans to have a live version of the conference online, but we will likely post most or all of the materials from the conference online, and we'll make sure to share those. you can fill out the signup form for the conference and indicate that you don't plan on attending (it's one of the options, because brian nosek is clever like that), and that way we'll have your contact info and can share the materials with you.