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Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program — Open Research Community Accelerator The Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA), with generous support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is pleased to launch the Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program.  The program aims to...

🚀 Applications are OPEN for the 2nd round of the ORCA Catalytic Awards!

With support from the @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social ORCA is offering $15,000 per project to grow a culture of #OpenScience #OpenScholarship at traditionally under-resourced U.S. institutions.

🔗 Learn more: orcaopen.org/work/cap

R4E Workshop Announced!!! — R4E R4E will be hosting a workshop for anyone! Topics that will be covered include: Data Management, Methods, Reagent Sharing, Bioinformatics, Microscope, Statistics, Data and Code Sharing, Data Analysis…

Join R4E for a workshop on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, at 10 AM ET / 3 PM CET. Topics include Data Management, Reagent Sharing, Bioinformatics, Microscopy, Statistics, and Data & Code Sharing, Analysis, and Visualization. #AcademicTwitter
Registration here:

Center for Effective Global Action - BITSS Catalyst Funding 2026 BITSS Catalysts are academic faculty, graduate students, and other researchers across the quantitative social sciences—including economics, political science, and psychology— who are energized to impr...

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

Apply to Join our SSPP Forecasting Panel 2.0! Would you like to stay informed about the latest developments in social science research, assess your forecasting accuracy, and receive financial compensation for your participation in the process? Ap...

📣 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

Center for Effective Global Action - BITSS Catalyst Funding 2026 BITSS Catalysts are academic faculty, graduate students, and other researchers across the quantitative social sciences—including economics, political science, and psychology— who are energized to impr...

📢 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...

Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them Survey finds that fear of reputational harm and a lack of support and publication platforms are among respondents’ key concerns.

Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature

go.nature.com/450KElr

Putting Open Science Into Practice: Reflections from the 2025 RT2 Training This year’s RT2 took place from May 21-23, 2025 on UC Berkeley’s Campus. BITSS Program Manager Jo Weech shares common questions from 28 early-career researchers who are working to implement open sc…

🔍 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

Forecasting the SSPP Research Results Increasingly, researchers gather forecasts ex ante about the results of their research studies. Ex post, this allows for a comparison with the results to gauge contributions to the literature. But wha...

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

Causal Claims in Economics We analyze over 44,000 NBER and CEPR working papers from 1980 to 2023 using a custom language model to construct knowledge graphs that map economic concepts and their relationships. We distinguish bet...

Paper by @prashantgarg.bsky.social analyzing causal claims in economics from 44,000 NBER and CEPR working papers: arxiv.org/abs/2501.06873

Assessing Reproducibility in Economics Using Standardized Crowd-sourced Analysis Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Paper by Brodeur et al. assessing computational reproducibility in economics through the Social Science Reproduction Platform: www.nber.org/papers/w33753

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

Programme - Metascience

💬 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

Assessing Reproducibility in Economics Using Standardized Crowd-sourced Analysis Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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

A big thank you to our speakers and our participants - RT2 isn't possible without you! See their presentations on our OSF page: osf.io/u4hfe/files/...

@tedmiguel.bsky.social @cega-uc.bsky.social

🎉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

YouTube video by Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) BITSS AM 2025: The Evolution of Research Transparency - Brian Nosek

📚 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

YouTube video by Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) BITSS AM 2025: Metaketa - Women's Group Empowerment - Edmund Malesky

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.

Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) was established in 2012 to strengthen the quality of social science research and evidence used for policy-making. The initiative...

🎥 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

We will post the event recordings soon!

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

A room with round tables and tablecloths, filled with attendees looking at a big screen

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

Advancing Research Transparency: A Conversation on Replication Checklists Replication is an important tool for research credibility. In this interview, BITSS Program Manager Jo Weech interviewed impact evaluation experts Sridevi Prasad and Douglas Glandon on their replic…

📝 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...

2025 BITSS Annual Meeting One-day event bringing together leading voices from academia, policy, and the publishing world to discuss research transparency and reproducibility.

📢 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

R4E to present at SPORR’s Reproducibility Rounds — R4E On Tuesday February 18th, 2025. Abstract: Training in Rigor and Reproducibility varies across countries and institutions. In this talk, representatives from Reproducibility for Everyone (R4E), …

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
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