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@CEGA_UC the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences promotes openness and integrity in social science research. ucbitss.bsky #openscience
Berkeley, CA
Joined October 2014
RT @Nature: Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature. http….
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Nature - Survey finds that fear of reputational harm and a lack of support and publication platforms are among respondents’ key concerns.
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RT @CEGA_UC: 🔍 How can we make research more reproducible? @UCBITSS’s RT2 program offers a step towards #openscience. This year’s cohort c….
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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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RT @I4Replication: We have 8 replication games over the next 13 weeks (Tilburg, Bordeaux, Brno, Galway, Berlin, Paris, Lyon and Ottawa)! No….
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New meta-survey on the Social Science Prediction Platform (SSPP): can you predict how well people predict? . Make your predictions using the link below 👇.
Try your hand at it:.@socscipredict @sdellavi.
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Paper by @Prashant_Garg_ analyzing causal claims in economics from 44,000 NBER and CEPR working papers:
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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...
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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 🧵
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💬Come see us in London! Looking forward to our panel "Meta-economics? Meta-research innovations in economics" this coming Monday, June 30 at the London Metascience conference. See the papers and abstract here: . @CEGA_UC @TheChoiceLab @I4Replication.
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Take a look over the Metascience 2025 timetable.
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RT @I4Replication: We have travel grants (up to 500USD) for PhD students and postdoc fellows to attend the San Francisco Replication Games….
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RT @NINDS4Rigor: Please spread the word about the NINDS Early-Career Rigor Champions Prize, for those early in their scientific careers who….
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📚 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 research publication and transparency:.@CEGA_UC @BrianNosek.
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🎥 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. @tedmiguel @CEGA_UC @TheChoiceLab @sdellavi.
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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 initiat...
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That's a wrap! Many thanks to our amazing speakers &.@TheChoiceLab for co-funding the 13th BITSS Annual Meeting. Great discussions on meta-research, results reporting, and reproducibility. @carsonamelia7 @stuartbuck1 @mariaruth83 @sdellavi
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📝 Replication is key to credible research, yet it is too rare in social sciences. BITSS interviewed @goddesssridevi and @dmglandon about their replication checklist- a tool to standardize and simplify impact evaluation replications. Read more here:
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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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