Love Methods Week 2025

Why are Methods so Important?

          – Methods are one of the most valuable outputs that researchers create. In many fields, others may be more likely to reuse and cite your methods than your data.

          – Reproducibility starts with methods. If others don’t know what you did, they can’t reproduce your research.

          – We can’t reuse open or FAIR data responsibly if we don’t know how they were generated. We need to share methods along with data to facilitate reuse.

Why Should I Join the “Love Methods Week”?

Learn how to share open, reusable methods. In addition to improving your own research, this will help others to reuse your methods and your data responsibly. By attending hands-on virtual workshops or webinars you’ll learn how to:

          – Write and deposit a reusable, step-by-step protocol in a public repository
          – Peer-review a method section in a manuscript
          – Design an in vivo study protocol for the preclinic
          – Pre-register a preclinical in in vivo or in vitro study
          – Write up protocols for peer-reviewed publications that editors will like
          – Share reproducible methods
          – Cite your reusable step-by-step protocol, study design protocol or pre-registration in your research paper
          – Use a lab notebook to produce a reproducible protocol
          – Use reporting and PRO-MaP guidelines to improve your methods reporting
          – Use research resource identifiers (RRIDs) to tell others exactly what materials you used
          – Use methodological shortcut citations responsibly
          – Cite your protocols and describe your methods when sharing your data. Apply and report methods to reduce experimental bias