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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 11h

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 · 2d

👏 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 · 8d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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!

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 9d

🚨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 · 10d

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 · 22d

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 · 23d

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

www.surveymonkey.ca/r/TKRS5HG

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 23d

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.

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 23d

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).

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 23d

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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Alex Alekseev @aalexee.bsky.social · Sep 8

Big thanks to @fialalenka.bsky.social and @i4replication.bsky.social for the replication games in Brno. It was fun. We loved the songs! 🤘

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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Michael Eddy @michaeleddy.bsky.social · Aug 28

Science faces a replication crisis: billions wasted, progress slowed, policy misled

A new idea from @i4replication.bsky.social Brodeur & Barbarioli in @ifp.bsky.social's #LaunchEngine imagines how to build automated replication infrastructure for *better* & *faster* science ifp.org/the-replicat...

The Replication Engine | IFP

How to build automated replication infrastructure for better, faster science

ifp.org

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · Aug 27

As always, we are thankful to the replicators who have worked so hard on this late 2024 and early 2025. It’s been pretty relaxed since March. Just waiting for editorial decisions and packages.

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · Aug 27

We will have more consequential updates shortly. We are just waiting for editors to make their decisions public. Expect a mix of amazing editorial work, to well done, thanks for trying, this is a joke, and what the hell?

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · Aug 27

We reached out to the editors yesterday and got a response right away: “Thanks for alerting us. The co-Editor who handled it will look into the replication package.”

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · Aug 27

We also got very surprised to see a new paper published just now: “Corruption in Cyclone Relief and Reconstruction: Evidence from a Public Fund Distribution in Bangladesh” at the Journal of Development Studies.

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · Aug 27

but we got a package for “Non-price energy conservation information and household energy consumption in a developing country: Evidence from an RCT”. We will investigate that paper later on. The editors in chief seem serious about our requests, which is refreshing.

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