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Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA) @orca-open.bsky.social · 7d

🚀 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

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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Reproducibility for Everyone (R4E) @repro4everyone.bsky.social · 5d

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:

R4E Workshop Announced!!! — R4E

R4E will be hosting a workshop for anyone! Topics that will be covered include: Data Management, Methods, Reagent Sharing, Bioinformatics, Microscope, Statistics, Data and Code Sharing, Data Analysis…

www.repro4everyone.org

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BITSS @ucbitss.bsky.social · 14d

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...

Center for Effective Global Action - BITSS Catalyst Funding 2026

BITSS Catalysts are academic faculty, graduate students, and other researchers across the quantitative social sciences—including economics, political science, and psychology— who are energized to impr...

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Center for Effective Global Action @cega-uc.bsky.social · 26d

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

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Social Science Prediction Platform (SSPP) @socscipredict.bsky.social · Sep 4

📣 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

Apply to Join our SSPP Forecasting Panel 2.0!

Would you like to stay informed about the latest developments in social science research, assess your forecasting accuracy, and receive financial compensation for your participation in the process? Ap...

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BITSS @ucbitss.bsky.social · Aug 18

📢 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...

Center for Effective Global Action - BITSS Catalyst Funding 2026

BITSS Catalysts are academic faculty, graduate students, and other researchers across the quantitative social sciences—including economics, political science, and psychology— who are energized to impr...

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Nature @nature.com · Jul 23

Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature

go.nature.com/450KElr

Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them

Survey finds that fear of reputational harm and a lack of support and publication platforms are among respondents’ key concerns.

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Center for Effective Global Action @cega-uc.bsky.social · Jul 22

🔍 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

Putting Open Science Into Practice: Reflections from the 2025 RT2 Training

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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Eva Vivalt @evavivalt.bsky.social · Jul 10

New short meta-survey on the SSPP: can you predict how well people predict?

Try your hand at it:
socialscienceprediction.org/predict/r/0f... @socscipredict.bsky.social @sdellavi.bsky.social

Forecasting the SSPP Research Results

Increasingly, researchers gather forecasts ex ante about the results of their research studies. Ex post, this allows for a comparison with the results to gauge contributions to the literature. But wha...

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BITSS @ucbitss.bsky.social · Jul 17

Paper by @prashantgarg.bsky.social analyzing causal claims in economics from 44,000 NBER and CEPR working papers: arxiv.org/abs/2501.06873

Causal Claims in Economics

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 bet...

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BITSS @ucbitss.bsky.social · Jul 17

Paper by Brodeur et al. assessing computational reproducibility in economics through the Social Science Reproduction Platform: www.nber.org/papers/w33753

Assessing Reproducibility in Economics Using Standardized Crowd-sourced Analysis

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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BITSS @ucbitss.bsky.social · Jul 17

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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Marianne Saam @mariannesaam.bsky.social · Jun 30

Submit to the Leibniz Open Science Day 2025 taking place on October 27 in Berlin, organized with @leventneyse.bsky.social @jrgptrs.bsky.social @dsiegfried1.bsky.social @macartan.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @rwi.bsky.social @diw.de @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social www.zbw.eu/de/ueber-uns... 1/2

Leibniz Open Science Day 2025: Better Science for Better Policies

Where? Berlin. When? 27 October 2025. Replications and meta-studies in particular are becoming increasingly crucial to ensure the reliability and validity of scientific research findings.

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BITSS @ucbitss.bsky.social · Jun 23

💬 Come see us in London! Looking forward to our panel "Meta-economics? Meta-research innovations in economics" on June 30 at the Metascience conference. See the papers & abstract here: metascience.info/programme/#1...

@cega-uc.bsky.social @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social @i4replication.bsky.social

Programme - Metascience

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BITSS @ucbitss.bsky.social · Jun 18

How many econ papers are computationally reproducible? 📈 The Social Science Reproduction Platform (SSRP) crowd-sources reproductions - and the team is ready to share results. New NBER working paper by Brodeur et al. shares findings from the first 487 SSRP reproductions: www.nber.org/papers/w33753

Assessing Reproducibility in Economics Using Standardized Crowd-sourced Analysis

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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BITSS @ucbitss.bsky.social · May 28

A big thank you to our speakers and our participants - RT2 isn't possible without you! See their presentations on our OSF page: osf.io/u4hfe/files/...

@tedmiguel.bsky.social @cega-uc.bsky.social

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BITSS @ucbitss.bsky.social · May 28

🎉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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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · May 5

We have travel grants (up to 500USD) for PhD students and postdoc fellows to attend the San Francisco Replication Games on June 19th. Econ, pol sci and related fields. You can register to the event here:

www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

Email I4R to request a travel grant.

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · Apr 16

Only 2 weeks left to apply + nominate! Take a moment to explore the impactful work of our #EinsteinFoundationAward2023 Institutional winner, @ucbitss.bsky.social, which champions rigor, reproducibility and openness in social scientific practices.
Deadline: 30 April 2025
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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · Jan 27

Call for entries 📣 The international €350K #EinsteinFoundationAward honors researchers and institutions across all scientific disciplines working to advance #research quality. Deadline: 30 April 2025 - please share! 🌍 (1/2)
➡️ award.einsteinfoundation.de
#OpenScience #reproducibility

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BITSS @ucbitss.bsky.social · Apr 1

📚 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 the research transparency:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCM...
@cega-uc.bsky.social @briannosek.bsky.social

BITSS AM 2025: The Evolution of Research Transparency - Brian Nosek

YouTube video by Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS)

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · Mar 25

EGAP's Edmund Malesky recently shared findings from our Metaketa V study on women’s group empowerment and political participation at the @ucbitss.bsky.social annual meeting.

Watch the full presentation to learn more about the Metaketa approach: youtube.com/watch?v=29bR...

BITSS AM 2025: Metaketa - Women's Group Empowerment - Edmund Malesky

YouTube video by Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS)

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · Mar 19

We've just opened registration to 6 replication games: i4replication.org/games.html

Montreal (May 28-all)
San Francisco (June 19-econ)
Madrid (June 25-all)
Bordeaux (August 24-econ)
Paris (October 3-all)
Lyon (October 9-all)

🧵 with more details.

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BITSS @ucbitss.bsky.social · Mar 19

🎥 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.
www.youtube.com/@berkeleyini...

@tedmiguel.bsky.social @cega-uc.bsky.social @sdellavi.bsky.social

Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS)

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 initiative...

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BITSS @ucbitss.bsky.social · Feb 28

We will post the event recordings soon!

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BITSS @ucbitss.bsky.social · Feb 28

That's a wrap! Many thanks to our amazing speakers & @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social for co-funding the BITSS Annual Meeting. Great discussions on meta-research, reporting, & reproducibility. @carsonchristiano.bsky.social @stuartbuck.bsky.social @dariosidhu.bsky.social @mariaruthjones.bsky.social

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