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Big Team Science Conference @btscon.bsky.social · 1d

As we wrap up this year's conference, we want to say a HUGE THANK YOU to all of our 2025 BTSCON presenters and attendees. What a fantastic community of collaborative science enthusiasts! We can't wait to gather with you all again next year!

a group of older women are dancing in a living room . one of the women is wearing a pink sweater .

Alt: The Golden Girls (Dorothy, Blanche, Sophia, and Rose) come together for a group hug.

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ManyBabies @manybabies.org · 2d

Leaders of the ManyBabies 2, 3, and 4 projects will be presenting at the @btscon.bsky.social in less than 1 hour!! Register now (for free if you’d like!) to get the zoom link and/or access to the recording!

bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/

registration

>>> Register for the 2025 BTSCON now! *** ### BTSCON Registration Info To balance inclusivity with our funding needs, *registration fees for the Big Team Science Conference are optional*. You can pay ...

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Big Team Science Conference @btscon.bsky.social · 7d

Please help us spread the word about the 2025 BTSCON (Oct 6-8) with your big-team-science-loving friends and colleagues. Can't wait to see you all there!
bigteamscienceconference.github.io

Big Team Science Conference

The fourth annual Big Team Science Conference will be held virtually via Zoom October 6-8, 2025. The goal of this three-day virtual conference is to bring together a multidisciplinary group of researc...

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Big Team Science Conference @btscon.bsky.social · 7d

Catch keynotes from @angeladuckworth.bsky.social and Christopher Stubbs, featured sessions about Big Team Science in the Majority World, and presentations from all your favorite "Manys" including @manyprimates.bsky.social @manybabies.org @manydogsproject.bsky.social, etc. ALL THAT AND MORE!!

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Big Team Science Conference @btscon.bsky.social · 7d

There's still time to register for the 2025 Big Team Science Conference (October 6-8, live on Zoom)! All fees are OPTIONAL, so you can pay what you'd like (or nothing at all!) to gain access to a ton of amazing BTS content.

bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/

registration

>>> Register for the 2025 BTSCON now! *** ### BTSCON Registration Info To balance inclusivity with our funding needs, *registration fees for the Big Team Science Conference are optional*. You can pay ...

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Big Team Science Conference @btscon.bsky.social · 7d

Our full 2025 program and schedule are now up on our website! We've got so many great presentations lined up, you won't want to miss it!

bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/

program

Note: The live conference schedule with links to sessions will be provided to conference registrants via email. To access the live schedule, REGISTER NOW *** >>> View the 2025 BTSCON Program *** > Not...

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Big Team Science Conference @btscon.bsky.social · Jul 31

🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨
We’ve extended the #BigTeamScience conference submission deadline to August 8! 🧠🌎

Don’t miss your chance to be part of this global, interdisciplinary event! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

2025 Big Team Science Conference Submission Form

The 2025 Big Team Science Conference will feature symposiums, panel sessions, hackathons, talks, and unconferences related to big team science. This can include projects related to completed and/or ne...

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Big Team Science Conference @btscon.bsky.social · Jul 25

KEYNOTE:

Dr. Christopher Stubbs, Harvard Physics and Astronomy

"Going Big: How it's different, the ways it challenges us, and why we (increasingly?) need to do it"

Tuesday, October 7 | 14:00-15:00 UTC

register now (for free or pay-what-you-want):
bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/

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Big Team Science Conference @btscon.bsky.social · Jul 25

KEYNOTE:

Dr. Angela Duckworth, co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative

Megastudies: A new paradigm for field studies in social science

Monday, October 6 | 15:00-16:00 UTC

register now (for free or pay-what-you-want):
bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/

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Big Team Science Conference @btscon.bsky.social · Jul 24

REMINDER: abstracts for the 2025 Big Team Science Conference are due in one week (July 31)!

Any and all work related to large collaborative science is welcome!

bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/

submissions

>>> Submit your abstract here! Submissions for all session types are now open! * *Panels, hackathons, and symposia:* maximum 500 words * *Talks, lightning talks, and unconferences:* maximum 250 words ...

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ABRIR @abrir.bsky.social · Jul 7

Mark your calendars! BTSCON2025 is set for October 6-8th! This year, ABRIR is a member of the organizing team, together with @psysciacc.bsky.social and @manybabies.org. Follow us for more exciting news and make sure to submit your work 🔥

Big Team Science Conference @btscon.bsky.social · Jul 6

Mark your calendars! BTSCON2025 is officially set for October 6-8th.
@psysciacc.bsky.social @abrir.bsky.social @manybabies.org

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ManyBabies @manybabies.org · Jul 7

BTSCON submissions and registration are now open! Help us spread the word!

bigteamscienceconference.github.io
#teamscience #openscience

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Big Team Science Conference @btscon.bsky.social · Jul 7

Session Submission and registration is now open for BTSCON2025!

bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/

@abrir.bsky.social @psysciacc.bsky.social @manybabies.org

BTSCON 2025 is now seeking submission proposals for their annual conference. All session submissions are due on July 31st. You can submit on the website https://bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/. We are also excited to say that registration is also now live!
BTSCON 2025 is now seeking submission proposals for their annual conference. All session submissions are due on July 31st. You can submit on the website https://bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/. We are also excited to say that registration is also now live!

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Big Team Science Conference @btscon.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨 SAVE THE DATE! 🗓️

The 2025 Big Team Science Conference will be October 6-8!

More information coming soon about invited speakers, submissions, and schedule. Get excited!

(hosted by your BTS friends @manybabies.org @psysciacc.bsky.social @abrir.bsky.social)

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Giulia Calignano @giuliacalignano.bsky.social · Jun 22

#Multiverse analyses turn #uncertainty into #insight.
At @manybabies.org , we walked through our #MB2 #Pupillometry multiverse: how labs can merge their analysis while celebrating diversity in methods, and why that’s a win for science 🌍✨ #CollaborativeScience

🎥 and ℹ️links below👇

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Jun 24

In particular, check out Chapter 4 for some discussion of how open science enables the work of inclusive big teams (including @manybabies.org)!

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Jun 24

The new National Academies report on the Science and Practice of Team Science is out today: nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2904...

I was very excited to be a part of this group in order to discuss the role of open science in team science.

The Science and Practice of Team Science

Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.

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ABRIR @abrir.bsky.social · Jun 24

Congrats to @melissafloresphd.bsky.social & Designated Campus Colleague @nscorralfrias.bsky.social (U of Arizona), awarded the ORCA Catalytic Award in collaboration with @abrir.bsky.social to advance DEI in open & big team science! Proud of our work: orcaopen.org/work/cap
#OpenScience #ORCA #ABRIR

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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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · Apr 25

Proud to join other CDS Presidents in writing about challenging times for our science. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times

Published in Journal of Cognition and Development (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Katie Von Holzen @katievonholzen.bsky.social · Apr 14

🚨4-5 new postdoc positions in language & cognition🚨

😇 One postdoc will work specifically with Eon-Suk Ko and I on the ManyBabies-AtHome project, focusing on infant word recognition in global, remote settings using collaborative, open science practices [https://shorturl.at/5l3tW]. @manybabies.org

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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · Feb 21

Why do a multilab study?

Robust evidence
Credible evidence when using transparent open practices
Large and diverse data set
Highly valuable data for reuse
Lowering the risk for any one researcher
Exchanging methodological expertise and training
Foster a collaborative culture

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · Mar 10

The platform I run, Children Helping Science, is supported almost entirely by US government science funding, both directly and in collaboration with CHS researchers.

Here's the note we sent to users today - we need help gathering your stories and citations! Submit here: forms.gle/zFnzrVURntdZ...

I'm writing today with a big request during a difficult time for all of us. Together, we've grown Children Helping Science into a cornerstone for online developmental research. Researchers from roughly 150 institutions have conducted remote studies with over 15,000 families since 2020, with many of those families returning to participate in multiple studies across labs.
The CHS team and infrastructure is currently supported almost entirely by the United States government (NSF and NIH). Like many US researchers, we're facing substantial uncertainty about what this means for our financial stability over the coming months and years, and we are hard at work pursuing every angle to keep this platform available to the community. This includes exploring new funding strategies we have previously not considered, like possibly allowing some carefully vetted companies to display ads to families.
Researchers will continue to be able to use the CHS platform for free, but your support right now is critical. At the same time, we know that many of you, especially those of you in the United States, are facing the same instability to present and future funding as we are.
Today, we are asking for three FREE actions from all of you to support our immediate fundraising efforts:

**Send us your citations.**
If you have publications that collected data or advertised studies through CHS or Lookit, please share those references. These citations are essential for demonstrating CHS’s impact to funders. A list of all the citations we're aware of is linked here, in case you're not sure whether we have your recent articles.
**Send us publicly shareable materials and press coverage.**
If you have cute study designs, engaging visuals, or images of adorable kids (with the necessary permissions) we’d love to use them in presentations to potential funders. Similarly, if your research has been covered in any public media (university publications, podcasts, news articles), please send these to us.
**Share your funding applications and ideas.**
If you are preparing a grant proposal (to any funding source), please reach out to discuss how you can include a budget line to support CHS. If you have ideas for joint projects, or even of funders you think we should reach out to - we're all ears! And if you have ever received funding to conduct studies using CHS/Lookit, please also make sure we know about it.

You can do all of these things right now at this link (https://forms.gle/zFnzrVURntdZizMK8). Please also feel free to email us (best address: mekline@mit.edu) with any other questions or ideas.
We are committed to keeping CHS running and serving this community, and we will do everything in our power to keep the lights on. Thank you for helping to make CHS such a wonderful community resource and for helping us in whatever ways you can!
With appreciation,
Melissa Kline Struhl
Executive Director
Laura Schulz
Scientific Director

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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · Jan 27

📣 The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) is now on Bluesky! Please follow them @cogdevsoc.bsky.social for news about the 2026 conference in Montreal and more!

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International Congress of Infant Studies @infantstudies.bsky.social · Jan 22

#infantstudies Founding Generation Summer Fellowship now open for student applications! The program pairs promising students with researchers from around the world who conduct cutting-edge science. Apply by February 14.
infantstudies.org/founding-gen...

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DevStart @devstart.org · Jan 22

Last chance to join our 2-day workshop on eye-tracking (3-4 April, London) 👀 You'll learn everything from data collection to statistical analysis.
Only 7️⃣ more spots available, register here:

registration – DevStart_Workshop

Registration page for the first Eye-Tracking Workshop for Developmental Scientists, hosted by DevStart on April 3-4, 2025.

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