BERD Academy course 2025

This course is a flipped-classroom online course via the BERD Academy.
For more information see here.

Introduction

Welcome to the course “Make your research reproducible”! We will have 5 exciting weeks together in which you will implement reproducible research practices into your daily work.

Course format

This is an online course. Each week you will..

  • watch the weekly videos,
  • review one of the booklet chapters,
  • have a short session with your accountability buddy (15-20 minutes),
  • implement the tasks of the week, and
  • discuss your progress in the weekly online meeting with the instructor and fellow course participants (1-1.5 hours).

You will choose your accountability buddy during the course. You and your buddy will help each other in implementing the tasks of each week.

The course includes 5 Online Meetings, in which you will discuss the week’s contents with an expert and fellow participants:

Date & Time (CEST) Topic Expert
06.05., 16:00-17:30 Reproducible research and how to get there Elen Le Foll
13.05., 16:00-17:30 Get your research project organized Elen Le Foll
20.05., 16:00-17:30 Computational workflows 1: The workflow as a pipeline; Version control Johanna Bayer
27.05., 16:00-17:30 Computational workflows 2: Stabilize your computing environment and software; Automate your code Rabea Müller
03.06., 16:00-17:30 Publishing research outputs Rabea Müller