Berkeley Initiative for
Transparency in the Social Sciences

Upcoming Events

2018 BITSS Annual Meeting
BITSS will hold its seventh Annual Meeting on December 10, 2018 at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California. The event will bring together leaders …
Tools for Robust Experimental Science – Catalyst Short Course in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Christina Bergmann will give a week-long course on “Effect sizes and meta-analyses: Tools for cumulative, robust experimental science” as part of the Winter School of …
Bogotá Experimental Economics Workshop
Catalyst Diego Aycinena and colleagues from the Rosario Experimental and Behavioral Economics Lab (REBEL) will host the Bogotá Experimental Economics Workshop (BEEW) on January 8-10, …
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.

Open Access: The timely publishing solution truly serving scientists, science and the public
1 month ago
This post, written by Elizabeth Marincola, Senior Advisor for Research Communications and Advocacy at the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), was originally published on the AAS Open Research blog. It …
Pre-results review at the Journal of Development Economics: Taking transparency in the discipline to the next level
2 months ago
This post, developed by Aleksandar Bogdanoski (Program Associate, BITSS) and Keesler Welch (Research Associate, J-PAL) with support from Anja Sautmann (Director of Research, Education, and Training, J-PAL), is also posted …
A Great Day for Open Policy Analysis
3 months 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 …

Steven Miller
Steven V. Miller is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Clemson University. His research and teaching interests focus on international conflict, democratic peace and conflict behavior, and political behavior. His current research agenda explores how external threats (e.g. terrorism and disputed territory) change individual-level political attitudes to …

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