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Housed at @cega-uc.bsky.social at UC Berkeley, the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences promotes openness and integrity in social science research. #openscience
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🗓️ 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.
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🗓️ 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
@cega-uc.bsky.social @tedmiguel.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
🗓️ 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
@cega-uc.bsky.social @tedmiguel.bsky.social
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🚀 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
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
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...
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October 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
🚀 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
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
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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:
Registration here:
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…
www.repro4everyone.org
October 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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:
Registration here:
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...
Apply by Sept 30: cega.submittable.com/submit/33435...
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...
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September 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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...
Apply by Sept 30: cega.submittable.com/submit/33435...
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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
@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
September 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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
@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
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📣 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
Apply here: socialscienceprediction.org/predict/r/09...
@cega-uc.bsky.social @evavivalt.bsky.social @sdellavi.bsky.social
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...
socialscienceprediction.org
September 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
📣 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
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...
Apply for BITSS Catalyst funding by September 30! cega.submittable.com/submit/33435...
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...
cega.submittable.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
📢 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...
Apply for BITSS Catalyst funding by September 30! cega.submittable.com/submit/33435...
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Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature
go.nature.com/450KElr
go.nature.com/450KElr
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.
go.nature.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature
go.nature.com/450KElr
go.nature.com/450KElr
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🔍 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
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
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…
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July 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
🔍 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
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
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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
Try your hand at it:
socialscienceprediction.org/predict/r/0f... @socscipredict.bsky.social @sdellavi.bsky.social
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...
socialscienceprediction.org
July 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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
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 🧵
In case you missed our panel, here are two of the papers we shared 🧵
July 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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 🧵
In case you missed our panel, here are two of the papers we shared 🧵
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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
Leibniz Open Science Day 2025: Better Science for Better Policies
Where? Berlin. When? 27 October 2025. Replications and meta-studies in particular are becoming increasingly crucial to ensure the reliability and validity of scientific research findings.
www.zbw.eu
June 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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
@cega-uc.bsky.social @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social @i4replication.bsky.social
Programme - Metascience
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June 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
💬 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
@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
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...
www.nber.org
June 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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!
May 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
🎉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!
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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.
www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
Email I4R to request a travel grant.
May 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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.
www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
Email I4R to request a travel grant.
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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
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Deadline: 30 April 2025
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Call for entries 📣 The international €350K #EinsteinFoundationAward honors researchers and institutions across all scientific disciplines working to advance #research quality. Deadline: 30 April 2025 - please share! 🌍 (1/2)
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#OpenScience #reproducibility
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#OpenScience #reproducibility
April 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCM...
@cega-uc.bsky.social @briannosek.bsky.social
BITSS AM 2025: The Evolution of Research Transparency - Brian Nosek
YouTube video by Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS)
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April 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
📚 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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCM...
@cega-uc.bsky.social @briannosek.bsky.social
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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...
Watch the full presentation to learn more about the Metaketa approach: youtube.com/watch?v=29bR...
BITSS AM 2025: Metaketa - Women's Group Empowerment - Edmund Malesky
YouTube video by Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS)
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March 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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...
Watch the full presentation to learn more about the Metaketa approach: youtube.com/watch?v=29bR...
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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.
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.
March 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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.
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
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
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...
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March 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
🎥 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
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
February 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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
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At the @ucbitss.bsky.social Annual Meeting today to talk about the revised TOP Guidelines. Sizeable crowd gathered here!
February 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
At the @ucbitss.bsky.social Annual Meeting today to talk about the revised TOP Guidelines. Sizeable crowd gathered here!
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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
📢 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
Register and see the agenda at: cega.berkeley.edu/event/2025-b...
@cega-uc.bsky.social
2025 BITSS Annual Meeting
One-day event bringing together leading voices from academia, policy, and the publishing world to discuss research transparency and reproducibility.
cega.berkeley.edu
February 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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...
Douglas Glandon about their replication checklist- a tool to standardize and simplify impact evaluation replications. Read more here: www.bitss.org/advancing-re...
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…
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February 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
📝 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...
Douglas Glandon about their replication checklist- a tool to standardize and simplify impact evaluation replications. Read more here: www.bitss.org/advancing-re...