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Upcoming Events

Optimal Methods and Strategies for Reproducible Research: How to Publish Faster with Less Stress!
2015 recipient of the Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science and BITSS Catalyst J. Scott Long is holding a week-long workshop at the ICPSR Summer Program in …
Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) – Los Angeles
BITSS invites applications to its Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) in Los Angeles, CA, September 5-7, 2018. RT2 provides participants with an overview of …
Introduction to Transparency, Reproducibility, and Open Science Research Methods — Catalyst Workshop, Soa, Cameroon
Catalysts Idrissa Ouedraogo and Vedaste Ndizera will hold a workshop at the Pan African University Institute of Governance, Humanities and Social Sciences on transparency, reproducibility …
MZES Open Social Science Conference 2019: Practicing New Standards in Transparency and Reproducibility
The Open Social Science Conference is a forum for practicing and discussing credibility, transparency, and replicability in the social sciences.

A Great Day for Open Policy Analysis
1 week ago
Post by Fernando Hoces de la Guardia (BITSS Postdoc). How the best tweet of the year came not from Taylor Swift, or Barack Obama… but from CBO. Earlier this year, we …
CONSORT-SPI 2018: Announcing an extension for randomized controlled trials of social and psychological interventions
3 weeks ago
Re-post by Paul Montgomery, Evan Mayo-Wilson, and Sean Grant Complete and transparent reporting of randomized controlled trials is integral for replication, critical appraisal and understanding context. Published today in Trials, …
MetaLab Awards Three Contribution Challenge Prizes!
4 weeks ago
Guest announcement by Christina Bergmann and Sho Tsuji (MetaLab) The MetaLab challenge calling for meta-analyses on cognitive development, with support from Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), …

Fiona O’ Donovan
Fiona O’ Donovan is completing a PhD in psychology in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Beaumont Hospital, Dublin. Her research is funded by the Irish Research Council and is in collaboration with the agri-technology company Devenish Nutrition. Broadly, her PhD is looking at how nutritional and genetic factors …

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