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The Institute for Replication (I4R) works to improve the credibility of science by promoting and conducting reproductions and replications. i4replication.org

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · Mar 17

🚨 We're launching a special thematic focus on deforestation in the Global South! 🚨

Join us as we systematically assess research on deforestation, a key issue at the science-policy interface. 🧵👇

#OpenScience #Deforestation

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Sebastian Gechert @sgechert.bsky.social · 2h

Looking forward to this great event, participating in the #replication games and presenting our #metaanalysis on #energy price elasticities www.tu-chemnitz.de/wirtschaft/v.... Thanks to @i4replication.bsky.social , Abel and the MAERnet team for making this happen in such a great place!

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 3h

Teams of “replicators” will be assigned a published paper which they will work on (1) reproducing and (2) performing sensitivity analysis (robustness checks) from the published paper’s online replication folder.

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Breakfast and lunch are provided to participants during the day. We further coordinate a post-games social event for all participants.

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Replication Games are free, 1-day events which provide faculty, early career researchers, and graduate students, an opportunity to expand their knowledge of good practices in open science while networking with researchers in a welcoming and fun environment.

Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 3h

We are hosting Replication Games at the 95th Meeting of the Southern Economics Association on Friday November 21st, 2025. This is a new collaboration with the SEA!

Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 3h

Email our chair ([email protected]) if you'd like to receive the zoom link.

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We are hosting this year's MAER-Net Colloquium on Friday and Saturday. The program and more information are available here: www.maer-net.org/2025-ottawa

Plenary sessions (with Andrew Gelman, Shinichi Nakagawa and others) and some parallel sessions will be live-streamed for free

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 6d

Big thanks to our research scientist, Derek Mikola, for organizing 4 games over the past 2 weeks. Lots of planes/trains from Galway, to Berlin, Paris and now Lyon. Today's event in Lyon is underway!

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 6d

New DP @i4replication.bsky.social: Meta-analysis on green nudges correcting for publication bias. "Behavioral interventions on households and individuals are unlikely to deliver material climate benefits." www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

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Réseau français de la recherche reproductible @reproductible-fr.bsky.social · 8d

👏 Many thanks to everyone who took part in the Replication Games on Friday, October 3rd!

6 teams joined the challenge, 5 in person and 1 online, bringing curiosity and collaboration to every step and making this event a truly inspiring collective experience around reproducibility & open science.

participants of the replication games held in Paris on october 3 2025 working on their article replications

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Luna Fazio @lunafazio.bsky.social · 13d

Took part yesterday in @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social's Replication Games, it was such a nice experience! People were lovely and the work was a very fun challenge.

Thanks to @i4replication.bsky.social and @janmarcus.de for organizing this, it was absolutely worth enduring the ride from Dortmund. 😄

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 14d

Application deadline: October 15th, 2025
Start date: ASAP (latest Summer 2026)
Please submit your CV and cover letter to our chair, Abel Brodeur ([email protected])

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 14d

Computer science: Join our team of computer scientists to develop three AI reproducibility agents (i) computational reproducibility, (ii) detecting coding errors and (iii) robustness!

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 14d

Public health: We are about to mass reproduce hundreds of studies published in leading public health journals. Our main focus will be on early life interventions and tropical diseases.

Join our team and help us make those litteratures more credible!

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 14d

The work can be done in Ottawa, Canada or virtually. Some of our team members are in Ottawa, while others are in Toronto, Brazil, Colombia, Germany and the Netherlands!

Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 14d

🚨I4R is looking to hire postdoc fellows in public health and computer science!

The postdoc will join a team of researchers and help mass reproduce studies in leading public health journals or develop AI replicator agents.

Info 👇

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 16d

At @i4replication.bsky.social it is our ambition to foster a replication culture in the social sciences – and we hence welcome if our approaches are replicated as well: Replication Games on using LLM in experiments, in Valencia and Oxford. talkingtomachines.org/projects/ime...

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 28d

I4R Replication Games coming to Münster! @i4replication.bsky.social @aufdroeseler.bsky.social @fialalenka.bsky.social

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 28d

5/ Undergraduate, master, PhD, postdoc and faculty are welcome to join in-person or virtually! Economics/management/politics/psychology!

www.surveymonkey.ca/r/TKRS5HG

Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 28d

4/ Why join?
Hands-on reproduction
Coauthorship to a meta paper
Learn reproducible workflows
Be part of one of the largest experiment on AI in science

Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 28d

3/ In one day, as an individual participant, you’ll try to reproduce and test robustness of results from published social science studies—while we measure how AI changes performance vertically and horizontally.

Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 28d

2/ What’s new?
A follow-up to our AI Games (www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...), this round to test how AI affects coding and research across the expertise ladder (undergrads, grads vs faculty) and across disciplines (econ, management, poli sci, psych).

Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 28d

1/ The Vertical & Horizontal AI Replication Games debut at the University of Ottawa on Oct 16! This is the first event feeding into our next paper, and all participants will be listed as coauthors.

Apply: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/TKRS5HG

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Jan Feld @econfeld.bsky.social · Sep 9

Wellington Replication Games — Dec 4, 2025
One-day team challenge to reproduce top social-science studies; co-authorship on a meta-paper; virtual welcome. Researchers, postdocs, PhDs — sign up: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/RB6K73Q
#OpenScience #Metascience @i4replication.bsky.social

Victoria University of Wellington Replication Games

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Lenka Fiala @fialalenka.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Brno Replication Games were a success!🥳 Many thanks to our awesome replicators who spotted a range of coding errors and fixed incorrectly specified models. Many thanks also to @econmuni.bsky.social for having us: you are the reason economists love coming back every year😊

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