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ICIS Pre-Conference Workshop: Introducing meta-analytic methods for infant studies — Catalyst Workshop
Catalysts and SSMART Grantees Sho Tsuji and Christina Bergmann will hold a workshop on meta-analytic methods for infant studies at the 2018 International Congress of …
Computational Tools for Interdisciplinary Reproducible Research — Catalyst Short Course, Bogotá, Colombia
Catalyst Jose Manuel Magallanes will hold a short course at Los Andes University in Colombia on using various computational tools for carrying out reproducible research …
MOOC: Transparent and Open Social Science Research
Demand for evidence-based policy is growing, but so is recognition that limited transparency in social science research has contributed to what many have called a …
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 …

Interpretation of study results (Part 2/2): A reproducible method
18 hours ago
Guest post by Arnaud Vaganay (Meta-Lab) This post is the second of two dedicated to the reproducible interpretation of empirical results in the social sciences. In my previous post on …
Interpretation of study results (Part 1/2): One reproducibility crisis may hide another
3 days ago
Guest post by Arnaud Vaganay (Meta-Lab) This post is the first of two dedicated to the reproducible interpretation of empirical results in the social sciences. If you are a regular …
Transparency and Trust in the Research Ecosystem
4 weeks ago
This post is authored by Jennifer Sturdy, BITSS Program Advisor. It is cross-posted with the CEGA Blog. CEGA launched the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) based …

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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