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Are you a researcher in the social sciences?

Join @ucbitss.bsky.social on May 19-21 for its Research Transparency and Reproducibility (RT2) Training to explore tools and best practices for upholding transparency in social science research.

Apply by February 8: go.cega.org/RT2-2026

Center for Effective Global Action - Call for Speakers for the 2026 BITSS Annual Meeting Call for Speakers for the 2026 BITSS Annual Meeting The  Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) will hold its 14th Annual Meeting on Thursday, April 16 at UC Berkeley! Thi...

Last week to apply to present at the BITSS AM! Our call for speakers closes Sunday, Jan 18. Join us at UC Berkeley for a conversation on open science, research methods, and changes in academic publishing - it's our favorite day of the year.

Apply here: cega.submittable.com/submit/34250...

All early-career researchers are welcome to apply! RT2 is designed for researchers in the social and health sciences, with particular emphasis on economics, political science, psychology, and public health, who use quantitative or mixed methods. @cega-uc.bsky.social @tedmiguel.bsky.social

Center for Effective Global Action Submission Manager

We're excited to share the application for the next Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2)! Join us May 19 - 21, 2026 in Berkeley for hands-on training in open science tools and methods.

Apply by Feb 8: cega.submittable.com/submit/34383...

It has been a while since @flavioazevedo.bsky.social asked me to take over the Reversals project at @forrt.bsky.social...

It has since evolved beyond my wildest dreams, mostly thanks to @aufdroeseler.bsky.social & @lukaswallrich.bsky.social.

We are very proud of the Replication Hub & Database ♥️

A short preprint describing our adoption of more consistent and precise use of terminology related to reproducibility, robustness, replicability, repeatability, and credibility.

osf.io/preprints/me...

📣 Our call for speakers is open! Please submit presentations for the BITSS Annual Meeting on April 16 in Berkeley. We are looking for submissions on open science tools and practices, academic publishing, and the impact of AI on research.

Apply by Jan 18: cega.submittable.com/submit/34250...

🚨 New working paper!

How well do people predict the results of studies?

@sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇

Center for Effective Global Action - Call for Speakers for the 2026 BITSS Annual Meeting Call for Speakers for the 2026 BITSS Annual Meeting The  Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) will hold its 14th Annual Meeting on Thursday, April 16 at UC Berkeley! Thi...

🔊 the call for speakers for the next BITSS Annual Meeting is open! Please submit your papers or projects on research transparency, open science, ethics, reproducibility, peer review, or the impact of AI on academic publishing.

Submit here by Sunday, January 18: cega.submittable.com/submit/34250...

We proudly present the winners of the #EinsteinFoundationAward for Promoting Quality in Research 2025! The jury has selected outstanding contributions that promote research quality around the world!
In coop w/ QUEST Center @bihatcharite.bsky.social
www.einsteinfoundation.de/presse/2025/... (1/5)

🗓️ Save the date: The next BITSS Annual Meeting is April 16, 2026! The conference will gather experts to discuss changes in academic publishing, AI, and current challenges to research transparency.

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

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