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Upcoming Events

  • Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) – Washington, D.C.

    BITSS will hold its next Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) in Washington DC, September 11-13, 2019. RT2 provides participants with an overview of tools …

  • Rigor, Reproducibility and Transparency (RRT) at the Interdisciplinary Interface

    BITSS Catalyst Sean Grant will represent BITSS at a workshop titled “Rigor, Reproducibility and Transparency (RRT) at the Interdisciplinary Interface”, organized by the School of …

  • UC Berkeley Economics Departmental Seminar: Research Transparency & Reproducibility in Economics and Beyond

    BITSS Faculty Director Edward Miguel will give a Departmental Seminar titled “Research Transparency & Reproducibility in Economics and Beyond” on Sep 25 at the  Sibley …

Recent Blog Posts

  • Ted Miguel in conversation on “Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research: How to Do Open Science”

    3 weeks ago
    By Isabelle Cohen and Hagit Caspi A note from BITSS: Recently, we announced the official release of a new textbook, “Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research: How to do open …

  • Improving research transparency through easier, faster access to studies in the AEA RCT Registry

    1 month ago
    By Keesler Welch, Senior Research Associate (Trial Registry), J-PAL Global, and James Turitto, Senior Research Manager, J-PAL Global. This post was originally published here on the J-PAL Blog. J-PAL and …

  • Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research: A new open science textbook

    2 months ago
    It’s been nearly 15 years since John Ioannidis’s “Why Most Published Research Findings are False” was published, turning the scientific community on its head. Today you might think little had …

Catalyst Spotlight


Baobao Zhang

Yale University
Political Science

I am a third year PhD student in political science at Yale University currently researching as an exchange scholar at MIT. My research focuses on public policy and political science methodology. In the past, I have worked as an intern developer at Plotly, a data visualization software startup that promotes data transparency…
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