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The deadline for proposal submission is tomorrow, February 14, by 23:59 GMT. Submit your proposal and learn more: https://metascience.info/call-for-proposals/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=centerforopenscience

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Events

2025 BITSS Annual Meeting
We're excited to announce that the 13th BITSS Annual Meeting will be held at UC Berkeley on Thursday, February 27! This one-day event will bring together …
Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) 2024
The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences will hold its 12th Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) in Berkeley, CA, June 5-7, 2024! …
2024 BITSS Annual Meeting
The BITSS Annual Meeting will bring together actors from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share novel research and discuss efforts to improve the credibility …

Blog

Advancing Research Transparency: A Conversation on Replication Checklists
2 months ago
Replication is an important tool for research credibility. In this interview, BITSS Program Manager Jo Weech interviewed impact evaluation experts Sridevi Prasad and Douglas Glandon on their replication checklist, designed …
Transparency Challenges in Policy Analysis: Lessons from the Congressional Budget Office
4 months ago
How can the principles of research transparency be applied to policy research? What opportunities are there for the incoming administration? BITSS Research Scientist Fernando Hoces de la Guardia and Program …

Catalyst Spotlight

Bárbara Farias Mota

Federal University of Pernambuco

Sociology

Bárbara Maria Farias Mota is a Sociologist and a Masters student in Sociology at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in Brazil. She co-founded The Political Macroscope, an open source interactive platform aiming to help the broader public to better understand the Brazilian elections data. She also founded the “Real Techno Politik,”…