We are excited to welcome Richard McElreath for a discussion on open research, open source software, and research software development on Monday 8 March, based on his recent lecture ‘Science as Amateur Software Development’.

The event will be in two parts; feel free to join one or both!

Guest: Prof. Richard McElreath (Director of the Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig; author of the book Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and STAN, CRC Press 2020)

Lecture title: Science as Amateur Software Development (50 min video recording)

14:00-14:50 GMT: join our watch party (bandwidth permitting!) or watch on your own

14:50-15:00 GMT: break

15:00-15:45 GMT: join the discussion, hosted by Dr Laura Fortunato (Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford; Reproducible Research Oxford lead)

Of course, feel free to watch the recording at a different time that may suit your schedule, and then join us for the discussion on the day!