Berkeley Initiative for
Transparency in the Social Sciences

Upcoming Events

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.
Presentation: Using Blockchain for Scientific Transparency
Kweku Opoku-Agyemang will give a presentation titled “Using Blockchain for Scientific Transparency” at this year’s Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of …

Open Access: The timely publishing solution truly serving scientists, science and the public
2 months 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
3 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
4 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 …

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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