BITSS held its seventh Annual Meeting on December 10, 2018 at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California. The event brings together stakeholders from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share knowledge and discuss the evolving movement toward research transparency and efforts to strengthen the standards of openness and integrity in the social sciences. Read More →
BITSS is attending the Advancing Ethical Research Conference, organized by Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R), November 14-17, 2018 in San Diego, CA. Read More →
Fernando Hoces de la Guardia presented on Open Policy Analysis (OPA), and Sean Grant spoke about Open Science for Policy Research as part a panel on replication in policy analysis, hosted at the 40th Annual Fall Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) on November 9 in Washington, D.C.
Catalyst Ada Gonzales-Torres led a short course on Transparent, Open, and Reproducible Research for PhD students at the European University Institute (EUI), in Florence, Italy. Read More →
Sho Tsuji will be giving invited presentations at McGill University, including MetaLab: Language Acquisition Meta-Analyzed on October 31, and Meta-analytic methods for infant and language studies: An introduction on November 1, 2018.
BITSS Postdoctoral Scholar Fernando Hoces de la Guardia held a workshop on research transparency and reproducibility tools and practices in Quito, Ecuador on October 2, 2018. The audience consisted of researchers from the Inter-American Development Bank and a team of local researchers.
Catalysts Paulo Oliveira, Caio Malaquias, Dalson Figueiredo, Nicole Janz, and Flavianne Nóbrega (Adjunct Professor, Federal University of Pernambuco Law School) will host a series of workshops titled “Nuts and Bolts in Scientific Research” at the Federal University of Pernambuco Law School. Read More →
BITSS held its Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) in Los Angeles, CA, September 5-7, 2018.
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 academic leaders in the open science movement and there is space for collaborative work and hands-on skill building. Participants are encouraged to bring existing research questions and ideas based on their own interests to seek support and feedback from instructors and other attendees.
Catalysts Idrissa Ouedraogo and Vedaste Ndizera will hold a workshop at the Pan African University Institute of Governance, Humanities and Social Sciences on transparency, reproducibility and open science research methods.
Catalyst Ben Marwick (University of Washington) will host six workshops in Southeast Asia. The curriculum includes open methods, open access, open data, and an introduction to R for social scientists. All materials and pre-training instructions are available here.
Catalyst Jose Manuel Magallanes will hold a short course at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Governement on using various computational tools for carrying out reproducible research in interdisciplinary teams.
Catalyst Jose Manuel Magallanes will hold a short course at the School of Governement on using various computational tools for carrying out reproducible research in interdisciplinary teams.
Demand for evidence-based policy is growing, but so is recognition that limited transparency in social science research has contributed to what many have called a crisis of reproducibility and credibility.
With this 5-week, self-paced Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), you can explore the causes of limited transparency in social science research, as well as tools to make your own work more open and reproducible.
Catalysts and SSMART Grantees Sho Tsuji and Christina Bergmann will hold a workshop on meta-analytic methods for infant studies at the 2018 International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS).
Catalyst Jose Manuel Magallanes will hold a short course at Los Andes University in Colombia on using various computational tools for carrying out reproducible research in interdisciplinary teams.
Catalysts Soazic Elise Wang Sonne and Richard Ball will present their work on a panel titled “Promoting Transparency in Undergraduate Empirical Research” at the Eighth Annual AEA Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (CTREE).
BITSS will have a booth exhibit at the 30th Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention in San Francisco. Come by our booth to learn more about how BITSS can support researchers and reproducibility in the psychological sciences! BITSS booths can be found at both the APS Exhibit Hall and the APS-COS Open Science Pavilion.
BITSS is supporting a 1-day research transparency and reproducibility training at the Spring Meeting of the Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE). The training will be held May 18-19, 2018 at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA. Read More →
BITSS has partnered with the American Institutes of Research (AIR) to deliver a hands-on workshop focusing on pre-registration, pre-analysis plans, open data, version control, and dynamic documents.
Catalysts Oscar Barriga Cabanillas, Aleks Michuda, and Matthieu Stigler will hold a training on transparency, reproducibility, and open science research at Los Andes University in Colombia.
Catalysts Dief Reagen Nochi Faha, Tafadzwa Maramura, and Idrissa Ouedraogo will hold a training on transparency, reproducibility, and open science research at Félix Houphouët-Boigny University in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
Catalysts Dief Reagen Nochi Faha, Tafadzwa Maramura, and Idrissa Ouedraogo will hold a training on transparency, reproducibility, and open science research at University of Ouaga II in Burkina Faso.
BITSS held the second international Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) in Amsterdam, Netherlands April 4-6, 2018.
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 academic leaders in the transparency movement, and space is provided for collaborative work and hands-on skill building. Participants are encouraged to bring existing research questions and ideas based on their own interests to seek support and feedback from instructors and other attendees.
Catalyst Arnaud Vaganay will give a talk on research reproducibility at TU Delft on April 4, 2018.
BITSS has partnered with the Inter-American Development Bank to deliver a hands-on workshop aimed at improving understanding of challenges to research transparency and reproducibility and teaching the latest techniques for developing a reproducible workflow. Read More →
Catalysts Dief Reagen Nochi Faha, Tafadzwa Maramura, and Idrissa Ouedraogo will hold a training on transparency, reproducibility, and open science research at North-West University in South Africa.
The Department of Political Science at Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in association with the School of Public Policy and Innovation (EIPP) is delighted to host “Transparency & Public Policy”. This two-day workshop will gather state and local policymakers and researchers to discuss the role of transparency in public policies.
Garret Christensen will participate in the Data Stories and Visualization Panel at UC Berkeley Love Data Week 2018 on Tuesday, February 14, 2018. Garret will discuss how he used Department of Defense data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request to research how war deaths were affecting the supply of military recruits. Especially without a lawyer, getting this data is time-consuming and may be impossible to verify the quality of the data. But now the data is publicly available in a trusted repository.
The Geography & Environment Department is pleased to host you for the first Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Faculty: Greer Gosnell (LSE, Grantham Research Institute), Ben Groom (LSE, Department of Geography & Environment), Thomas Leeper (LSE, Department of Government), Laurence Horton (LSE Library), Rachael Meager (LSE, Department of Economics), and Arnaud Vaganay (Meta-Lab).
Participants will learn about a range of innovative practices and tools, including:
With this training, we aim to directly impact researchers’ practices in favor of transparency and reproducibility. We focus on topics such as pre-registration, pre-analysis plans, and version control so that participants can apply these tools to their own work. We hope that these events will have long-term, sustainable impacts on scientific norms and practices as learners and faculty continue to incorporate innovative tools and methods into curricula and coursework.
BITSS is co-sponsoring a 4-day research methods training to precede the international meeting of the Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE). The training will be held January 22-25, 2018 at New York University-Abu Dhabi.
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BITSS has partnered with the World Bank to deliver a hands-on workshop focusing on Git/GitHub for version control and collaboration.
Demand for evidence-based policy is growing, but so is recognition that limited transparency in social science research has contributed to what many have called a crisis of reproducibility and credibility.
With this 5-week, self-paced Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), you can explore the causes of limited transparency in social science research, as well as tools to make your own work more open and reproducible.
Cleo Protogerou will present findings from her SSMART project “Integrated Theoretical Model of Condom Use for Young People in Sub-Saharan Africa” at the 13th Annual UK Society for Behavioural Medicine in Liverpool, England.
BITSS will hold its sixth Annual Meeting on December 5-6, 2017 in Berkeley, California to bring together leaders from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share knowledge and discuss the evolving movement toward research transparency in order to strengthen the standards of openness and integrity across social science disciplines.
Catalysts Jayne Byakika-Tusiime (Busitema University) and Saint Kizito Omala (Makerere University) will hold the second in a series of 10 research transparency and reproducibility workshops at universities across Uganda.
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2017 Leamer-Rosenthal recipient and BITSS Catalyst Soazic Elise Wang Sonne will be a featured speaker on a panel discussing the purpose of open access and how to operationalize open access in the context of extreme poverty. Panelists will also take questions from both in-person and virtual audiences from around the world.
Catalyst Arnaud Vaganay will present oral evidence to the House Commons Science and Technology Committee regarding research transparency and reproducibility as part of the committee’s inquiry on scientific integrity. Dr. Vaganay will give evidence at 9:30 am on Tuesday, October 24.
Note: This event was originally canceled due to the general election on June 8, 2017 and the dissolution of Parliament. The new Science and Technology Committee has since decided to re-open their inquiry.
Watch Dr. Vaganay’s testimony here.
2016 Leamer-Rosenthal Recipient and BITSS Catalyst Elaine Toomey will have a booth at the 3rd Annual Health Research Board Trial Methodology Symposium. Come by the booth to learn more about BITSS’s efforts to support researchers and reproducibility in the social sciences!
BITSS Catalyst and 2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize recepient Elise Wang Sonne is presenting at a speed session and a hosting a poster at the 2017 Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference (WSDS) of the American Statistical Association (ASA), scheduled for October 19-21, 2017. Elise’s presentation builds on her Catalyst trainings in Sub-Saharan Africa and reflects on the gender bias in research transparency and the adoption of reproducibility practices. Abstract below.
BITSS and La Salle University in Bolivia have partnered to develop and deliver a series of activities on research transparency that caters to the needs of the research community involved in conducting high-quality research in Bolivia. The proposed activities are a small yet significant step to i) generate awareness among users and contributors of the science research, and ii) to provide a platform to share tools and resources that assist in improving transparency in research, within the community of practitioners and academicians.
BITSS Scientific Director Ted Miguel will give a keynote at the Meta-Analysis of Economics Research Network (MAER-Net) Colloquium 2017 at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen in Germany. Dr. Miguel’s talk is titled “Transparency, reproducibility, and the credibility of economics research.”
BITSS and the Lima SE have partner to develop and deliver a workshop on research transparency that caters to the needs of the research community involved in conducting high quality research in Peru. The proposed workshop is a small yet significant step to i) generate awareness among users and contributors of the science research, and ii) to provide a platform to share tools and resources that assist in improving transparency in research, within the community of practitioners and academicians.
Catalysts Jayne Byakika-Tusiime (Busitema University) and Saint Kizito Omala (Makerere University) kick off a series of 10 research transparency and reproducibility workshops at universities across Uganda.
BITSS and a joint collaboration of the Center for Longitudinal Studies and the School of Government of Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC), have partner to develop and deliver a workshop on research transparency that caters to the needs of the research community involved in conducting high quality research in Chile. The proposed activities are a small yet significant step to i) generate awareness among users and contributors of the science research, and ii) to provide a platform to share tools and resources that assist in improving transparency in research, within the community of practitioners and academicians.
Catalyst: Arnaud Vaganay
Primarily aimed at PhD students from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), this summer school will give a general overview of what Open science can mean in practice.
The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) held the first international Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) in London, England September 20-22, 2017. 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 academic leaders in the transparency movement, and space is provided for collaborative work and hands-on skill building. Participants are encouraged to bring existing research questions and ideas based on their own interests to seek support and feedback from instructors and other attendees.
