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Upcoming Events

  • Reproducible Analytics workshop

    In collaboration with the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) group and the Innovations in Big Data Analytics program, BITSS will host a one-day workshop …
  • Catalyst workshop: Open Science for Early Career Researchers in Health

    Elaine Toomey and colleagues are organizing Open Science in Health Research, a two-day introductory workshop for early career researchers on April 11-12, 2019 at the …
  • Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) – Location TBD, USA

    RT2 provides participants with an overview of tools and best practices for transparent and reproducible social science research. The curriculum is developed and delivered by …

Recent Blog Posts

  • The Future of Forecasting – Highlights from the BITSS Workshop on Forecasting Social Science Research Results

    3 days ago
    By Nicholas Otis, second-year PhD student in Health Economics at UC Berkeley This post is also published on the CEGA blog. Researchers are increasingly collecting forecasts of social science research …
  • Working toward a Common Rule for Transparent, Reproducible, and Ethical Research

    2 weeks ago
    by Jennifer Sturdy, BITSS Communalism, organized skepticism, disinterestedness, and universalism[1]. These scientific norms guide BITSS as an advocate for research transparency. From our perspective, research transparency is the means by …
  • ReproducibiliTea: A Reproducibility-themed Journal Club

    2 months ago
    ReproducibiliTea started as a journal club at the University of Oxford and is now also a podcast co-hosted by Sam Parsons, Amy Orben, and Sophia Crüwell. As the name suggests, …

Spotlight

  • Bárbara Farias Mota

    Bárbara Farias Mota

    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 …
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