Moin Syed Hosts Replication Games Event

Moin Syed, faculty, organized a "Replication Games" event put on by the Institute for Replication on March 17, 2025. The event was a day-long active session in which about 45 participants were organized into 12 teams. Researchers from psychology, economics, and ICD participated; even a team from MIT joined remotely.

International Replication Games are free, 1-day events that provide faculty, early career researchers, and graduate students an opportunity to expand their knowledge of good practices in open science while networking with local researchers in a welcoming and fun environment. Derek Mikola from the Institute for Replication visited the university to run the games.

Interested participants are formed into teams, and these teams of “replicators” are assigned a published paper which they work on reproducing and performing sensitivity analysis from the published paper’s online replication folder. Teams of researchers then write up a report summarizing the reproducibility and replicability of the published paper. Completion of a report gives replicators co-authorship on the Institute for Replication’s  Meta Paper, which summarizes all of the replications from all of the games hosted in a given year.

The games are organized by the Institute for Replication (I4R), which is dedicated to advancing credible research through mass reproductions and replications. Moin Syed serves on the Behavioral Science Editorial Board for I4R.

Composed by Madison Stromberg, communications assistant.