Apr 16, 2026 |
Berkeley, CA
The BITSS Annual Meeting brings together actors from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share novel research and discuss efforts to improve the credibility of social science by advancing research transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics. The 14th BITSS Annual Meeting will be held on Thursday, April 16th at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.
We are excited to share the agenda, featuring a morning session “Frontiers on AI and Open Science”. The BITSS community has been exploring how LLM applications can improve evidence synthesis and workflows. While there are real opportunities these tools can offer, there are also potential risks. We look forward to discussing these topics in detail with our speakers and attendees. This year’s event is hosted by BITSS and co-hosted by the Institute for Business and Social Impact (IBSI).
Please let us know if you will be attending through the following registration link. We look forward to welcoming you to Berkeley!
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Feb 27, 2025 |
Berkeley, CA 94720
The 13th BITSS Annual Meeting was held at UC Berkeley on Thursday, February 27! This one-day event brought together leading voices from academia, policy, and the scholarly publishing world to discuss new research and developments in research transparency, reproducibility, and ethics. Brian Nosek was our keynote speaker. Brian is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Open Science (COS), where he leads initiatives designed to increase the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research across disciplines. You can view the full agenda here.
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Dec 13, 2019 |
Berkeley, CA
BITSS held its eighth Annual Meeting on December 13, 2019, at UC Berkeley. The event brought together stakeholders from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share knowledge and discuss the evolving movement toward research transparency and efforts to strengthen the standards of openness and integrity in the social sciences.
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Dec 10, 2018 |
Berkeley, CA
BITSS held its seventh Annual Meeting on December 10, 2018 at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California. The event brings together stakeholders from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share knowledge and discuss the evolving movement toward research transparency and efforts to strengthen the standards of openness and integrity in the social sciences. Read More →
Dec 5, 2017 –
Dec 6, 2017 |
Berkeley, CA
BITSS will hold its sixth Annual Meeting on December 5-6, 2017 in Berkeley, California to bring together leaders from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share knowledge and discuss the evolving movement toward research transparency in order to strengthen the standards of openness and integrity across social science disciplines.
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Dec 15, 2016 –
Dec 16, 2016 |
Berkeley, CA
BITSS held its fifth Annual Meeting on December 15-16, 2016 in Berkeley, California to bring together leaders from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to strengthen the standards of transparency and reproducibility across social science disciplines. The meeting featured keynote speakers, an announcement of the 2016 Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science, results from selected Social Science Meta-Analysis and Research Transparency (SSMART) grants, and selected research from an open call for papers.
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Dec 10, 2015 –
Dec 11, 2015 |
Berkeley, CA
BITSS held its 4th Annual Meeting in Berkeley, California to bring together leaders from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to strengthen the standards of openness and integrity across social science disciplines. The meeting featured awards to the recipients of the first annual Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science, presentations from winners of BITSS’ Social Science Meta-Analysis and Research Transparency (SSMART) grants, selected research from our open call for papers, as well as an optional hand-on training with research transparency software tools. Read More →
Dec 11, 2014 –
Dec 12, 2014 |
Berkeley, CA
The movement towards more transparency, reproducibility, and openness has gained a lot momentum in the social sciences. Yet, the norms and institutions that govern academic research do not reflect this culture shift. Significant problems remain, including professional incentives that reward striking and statistically significant research findings at the expense of scientific integrity. Read More →
Dec 12, 2013 –
Dec 13, 2013 |
Berkeley
This year’s convening featured presentations of several recent and promising efforts to increase transparency in economics, political science, psychology, and biostatistics. During this day and a half, a packed room of academics, funders, and journal editors discussed different strategies to increase the coordination among transparency initiatives, promote knowledge-sharing and innovation, and foster the adoption of effective transparency tools by the research community. Read More →
Dec 7, 2012 |
Berkeley, CA
This one-day meeting brought together a select group of researchers from across disciplines – including Economics, Political Science, Psychology and Statistics – to discuss the use of pre-analysis plans and study registries. The goal of the meeting was to understand the promise, as well as limitations, of recent developments in this area across different social science disciplines, and discuss possible ways forward. Read More →
