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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

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📢 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!
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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 @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 👇.
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Try your hand at it:.@socscipredict @sdellavi.
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Paper by Brodeur et al. assessing computational reproducibility in economics through the Social Science Reproduction Platform:
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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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How many econ papers are computationally reproducible? 📈 The Social Science Reproduction Platform (SSRP) crowd-sources reproductions - and the team has initial results. New working paper by Brodeur et al. shares findings from the first 487 reproductions:
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A big thank you to our speakers and our participants - RT2 isn't possible without you! See their presentations on our OSF page:
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🎉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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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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RT @DukeDCID: Edmund Malesky shares findings from Metaketa study on women’s group empowerment and political participation at @UCBITSS annua….
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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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We will post event recordings soon!.
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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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