📣 Registration is open for the BITSS Annual Meeting! Kick off 2025 with a discussion of research transparency, reproducibility, and ethics. 📅 Date: Feb 27, 2025 📍 Location: UC Berkeley 🔗 Info and registration: cega.berkeley.edu/event/2025-bit… @tedmiguel Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA)

📢 Funding opportunity: the Catalytic Awards Program is LIVE! Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA) is awarding grants of up to $15,000 to foster open science & scholarship at non-R1 & under-resourced US institutions. More details & application: orcaopen.org/work/cap

New research alert! Our study investigates the effectiveness of human-only, AI-assisted, and AI-led teams in assessing the reproducibility of quantitative social science research. We've got some surprising findings!

The deadline for proposal submission is tomorrow, February 14, by 23:59 GMT. Submit your proposal and learn more: metascience.info/call-for-propo…

📢 Registration for the BITSS Annual Meeting closes this week! Join us at UC Berkeley on February 27 to discuss the latest in open science and research transparency. Register and see the agenda at: cega.berkeley.edu/event/2025-bit… Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) @tedmiguel

Please spread the word about the NINDS Early-Career Rigor Champions Prize, for those early in their scientific careers who try to improve rigorous research practices!

💡 Led by our BITSS team, CEGA’s Open Policy Analysis (OPA) Initiative is transforming how evidence is used in decision-making by making policy analysis more transparent, reproducible, and accessible. 🔗 Learn more about OPA + explore recent projects: buff.ly/41j6TCw

📝 Replication is key to credible research, yet it is too rare in social sciences. BITSS interviewed Sridevi Prasad and Douglas Glandon about their replication checklist- a tool to standardize and simplify impact evaluation replications. Read more here: bitss.org/advancing-rese…

🎥 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. youtube.com/@berkeleyiniti… @tedmiguel Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) FAIR-The Choice Lab Stefano DellaVigna

Edmund Malesky shares findings from Metaketa study on women’s group empowerment and political participation at BITSS annual meeting Presentation recording: youtube.com/watch?v=29bRXA… EGAP

📚 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: youtube.com/watch?v=vfCMdD… Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) Brian Nosek (@[email protected])

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: surveymonkey.ca/r/Replication_… Email I4R to request a travel grant.

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: nber.org/papers/w33753

💬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: metascience.info/programme/#165… Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) FAIR-The Choice Lab I4R