1 week left to apply for funding for a research transparency workshop! BITSS is offering small-scale grants for researchers to run open science trainings or projects out of their home institutions 📚 Apply by Sept 30: cega.submittable.com/submit/33435...

Are you a social science researcher interested in advancing open science? @ucbitss.bsky.social is accepting applications for the BITSS Catalyst Program. Funding is available to develop a workshop, guidelines, or other open science materials. Apply by Sept 30th: go.cega.org/BITSScatalyst25

📣 Interested in making more forecasts? Want to get paid for doing so? Apply for the SSPP Forecasting Panel! Panelists receive $400 a year + a $300 bonus for high accuracy. Apply here: socialscienceprediction.org/predict/r/09... @cega-uc.bsky.social @evavivalt.bsky.social @sdellavi.bsky.social

📢 Want to run a research transparency workshop at your home institution? Looking for funding for an open science project? Apply for BITSS Catalyst funding by September 30! cega.submittable.com/submit/33435...

Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature go.nature.com/450KElr

🔍 How can we make research more reproducible? @ucbitss.bsky.social’s RT2 program offers a step towards #openscience. This year’s cohort convened 28 early-career researchers to learn how to make their research more transparent + credible. 🔗 Learn more: go.cega.org/2025BITSSRT2

New short meta-survey on the SSPP: can you predict how well people predict? Try your hand at it: socialscienceprediction.org/predict/r/0f... @socscipredict.bsky.social @sdellavi.bsky.social

Just back from the #Metascience2025 conference in London! Excited about new collaborators working on reproducibility, evidence aggregation, and standardizing reporting in social science research. In case you missed our panel, here are two of the papers we shared 🧵

Submit to the Leibniz Open Science Day 2025 taking place on October 27 in Berlin, organized with @leventneyse.bsky.social @jrgptrs.bsky.social @dsiegfried1.bsky.social @macartan.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @rwi.bsky.social @diw.de @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social www.zbw.eu/de/ueber-uns... 1/2

💬 Come see us in London! Looking forward to our panel "Meta-economics? Meta-research innovations in economics" on June 30 at the Metascience conference. See the papers & abstract here: metascience.info/programme/#1... @cega-uc.bsky.social @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social @i4replication.bsky.social

How many econ papers are computationally reproducible? 📈 The Social Science Reproduction Platform (SSRP) crowd-sources reproductions - and the team is ready to share results. New NBER working paper by Brodeur et al. shares findings from the first 487 SSRP reproductions: www.nber.org/papers/w33753

🎉We're celebrating another successful Research Transparency & Reproducibility Training (RT2)! Last week, we hosted 28 early-career researchers for a course exploring preregistration, evidence aggregation, and other topics. Feeling inspired by scholars making open science happen!

We have travel grants (up to 500USD) for PhD students and postdoc fellows to attend the San Francisco Replication Games on June 19th. Econ, pol sci and related fields. You can register to the event here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio... Email I4R to request a travel grant.

Only 2 weeks left to apply + nominate! Take a moment to explore the impactful work of our #EinsteinFoundationAward2023 Institutional winner, @ucbitss.bsky.social, which champions rigor, reproducibility and openness in social scientific practices. Deadline: 30 April 2025 ➡️ award.einsteinfoundation.de

📚 What incentives drive academic publishing? How can we update them to reflect modern tools & research standards? Watch Brian Nosek’s talk from the 2025 BITSS Annual Meeting on the evolution of the research transparency: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCM... @cega-uc.bsky.social @briannosek.bsky.social

EGAP's Edmund Malesky recently shared findings from our Metaketa V study on women’s group empowerment and political participation at the @ucbitss.bsky.social annual meeting. Watch the full presentation to learn more about the Metaketa approach: youtube.com/watch?v=29bR...

We've just opened registration to 6 replication games: i4replication.org/games.html Montreal (May 28-all) San Francisco (June 19-econ) Madrid (June 25-all) Bordeaux (August 24-econ) Paris (October 3-all) Lyon (October 9-all) 🧵 with more details.

🎥 Missed the 2025 BITSS Annual Meeting? The full event recordings are now on YouTube! Watch this year's presentations on research transparency and reproducibility below. www.youtube.com/@berkeleyini... @tedmiguel.bsky.social @cega-uc.bsky.social @sdellavi.bsky.social

That's a wrap! Many thanks to our amazing speakers & @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social for co-funding the BITSS Annual Meeting. Great discussions on meta-research, reporting, & reproducibility. @carsonchristiano.bsky.social @stuartbuck.bsky.social @dariosidhu.bsky.social @mariaruthjones.bsky.social

At the @ucbitss.bsky.social Annual Meeting today to talk about the revised TOP Guidelines. Sizeable crowd gathered here!

Join us for our BITSS annual meeting in Berkeley next week! I'm going to talk about evidence aggregation on a panel about open science and policy. With mistrust in science at an all-time high, research credibility couldn't be more a important topic for discussion right now. @ucbitss.bsky.social

📝 Replication is key to credible research, yet it is too rare in social sciences. BITSS interviewed Sridevi Prasad and Douglas Glandon about their replication checklist- a tool to standardize and simplify impact evaluation replications. Read more here: www.bitss.org/advancing-re...

📢 Registration for the BITSS Annual Meeting closes this week! Join us at UC Berkeley on February 27 to discuss the latest in open science and research transparency. Register and see the agenda at: cega.berkeley.edu/event/2025-b... @cega-uc.bsky.social

Thinking about how to increase your scientific rigor???!!!??? Join February 18, 2025! We are excited to be presenting at SPORR Reproducibility Rounds. More details here: https://buff.ly/4jEtvV3 #Academicsky

📢 Learn how to apply for grants ≤$15k to foster #OpenScience #OpenResearch #OpenData at U.S. non-R1 & under-resourced institutions. Join us for an @orca-open.bsky.social Catalytic Awards Program Webinar! 🕐 Feb 5 @ 1 PM ET 🔗Program Details: orcaopen.org/work/cap 🔗 Webinar Registration: bit.ly/40DuEES

📣 Applications close soon for the Research Transparency and Reproducibility (RT2) training! All researchers can apply for hands-on training on open science, reproducibility, and transparency. 📍 Location: Berkeley, CA 🗓️ Dates: May 21-23 ⏱️ Apply by Jan 24 cega.submittable.com/submit/31229...

📣 Registration is open for the BITSS Annual Meeting! Kick off 2025 with a discussion of research transparency, reproducibility, and ethics. Featuring a keynote by @briannosek.bsky.social. 📅 Date: Feb 27, 2025 📍 Location: UC Berkeley 🔗 Info and registration: cega.berkeley.edu/event/2025-b...

How can we find out what causes happiness? Through rigorous research, of course! Excellent article in the @washingtonpost.com by Jacqueline Nesi about preregistration and the use of open science methods in happiness research. wapo.st/40itxdG

🎉 Huge congrats to @CEGA_UC on the launch of PILCEE! PILCEE shows how evidence-based decision-making can drive better outcomes in global development. Excited to see transparency principles front and center 🌏 cega.berkeley.edu/article/usai...

I participated in this @ucbitss.bsky.social RT2 training many years ago and highly recommend it for anyone interested in research #transparency www.bitss.org/events/resea...

It's what we've been waiting for - applications are open for the next Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2)! Join us May 21 - 23, 2025 in Berkeley for training on best practices for transparent & reproducible research. Apply by Jan 19: cega.submittable.com/submit/31229...

🔊 Interested in open science? Want to be in the room with leading researchers on research transparency? Join us at the BITSS Annual Meeting on February 27, 2025! Register here: forms.gle/e77dzcaCeA7x...

How can policy analysis be more transparent? Our new blog post explores how the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) can strengthen the reproducibility and transparency of its reports. www.bitss.org/transparency... #OpenScience

🔗 Details & Registration: infra4nextgen.com/events/works... #OpenScience #ReproducibleResearch #RStudio #JupyterNotebook #Infra4NextGen

📣 Don‘t miss out! The European Economic Review now features a special section on Experimental Replication. Submit or explore short replication studies of lab or online experiments. Learn more 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Our very own @tedmiguel.bsky.social dives into pre-analysis plans and the power of open science on the @i4replication.bsky.social podcast! Listen at the link below or watch the video here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig-GrAZG0Uo

MetaROR is here! The free, open peer review platform by @rorinstitute.bsky.social & @aimosinc.bsky.social, aims to change how research is reviewed and shared. Their Publish-Review-Curate model makes the publication process faster and more open. Details: researchonresearch.org/introducing-...

In 2023, Harvard Business School suspended a star professor over charges of research misconduct. As it happens, one of her papers also had funny data from a *different* B-school superstar -- a "mad, fraudulent unicorn,” per @jamesheathers.bsky.social... (1/3) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

BITSS is here, and the forecast calls for 100% research transparency! New platform, same mission. Looking forward to connecting - find us at www.bitss.org.

Registration is now open for the 13th BITSS Annual Meeting! 🗓️ Feb 27, 2025 📍 The Magnes, Berkeley, CA 🎙️ Keynote: Brian Nosek (@briannosek.bsky.social) Join us for a day of insights on transparency, reproducibility & ethics in research. Register at forms.gle/e77dzcaCeA7x...