We're looking forward to the BITSS Annual Meeting next Thursday, April 16! Devon Crawford from the NIH will be our keynote speaker + the event will feature a panel on integrating AI into social science research. There's still room to register and we hope to see you there!
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SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.
Join us for MeasureDev 2026!
📊 The 2026 Measuring Development Conference (MeasureDev) will chart a path forward for research transparency and reproducibility in light of recent technological advancements.
Learn more: go.cega.org/measuredev-2026
Thrilled to announce Devon Crawford, Program Director of the Office of Research Quality at NIH NINDS, as the Keynote Speaker for the BITSS AM! Join us Thurs, April 16 to hear from Devon and from experts using LLMs to advance research transparency.
Registration: www.bitss.org/events/bitss...
Thank you @sci-integrity.com for featuring BITSS in the latest REACH issue! Honored to be referenced on page 6, along with other recipients of the Einstein Foundation Award 👏
Excited to share the agenda for the next BITSS Annual Meeting! Join us April 16 in Berkeley for presentations on AI in research, open science, and data quality.
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Register for the BITSS Annual Meeting!
📊 Join @ucbitss.bsky.social and the Institute for Business and Social Impact on April 16 to explore how to improve the credibility of social science research by promoting transparency, rigor, and reproducibility.
Register: go.cega.org/BITSSmeeting-2026
📢 Launching the Sustainable Evidence Infrastructure Commitment — a global effort to strengthen how impact evaluation evidence is produced, shared and used.
🤝 Signatories: @cega-uc.bsky.social, COS, IDinsight, @ifpri.org, 3ie and PIRC.
Read commitment: bit.ly/4aqj5WA
Why it matters: bit.ly/4aLQxWG
Hiring a pre-doc! Please circulate in your networks and apply here:
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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
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
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.
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📣 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.... 🧵👇
🔊 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
🚀 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
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:
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
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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
