Oct. 15, online — BITSS Project Scientist Fernando Hoces de la Guardia gave a presentation titled “Research Transparency: Challenges and Solutions” (in Spanish) as part of a seminar organized by the Center for Research in Applied Economics at the University of Talca, Chile. Read More →
BITSS and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) will host a panel on journal reproducibility policies and practices 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm on Dec. 11 at the BIDS office space at Doe Library, UC Berkeley. The panel will discuss perspectives and experiences at journals in economics, statistics, and the physical and health sciences, as well as resources to support reproducibility available to the UC Berkeley community and beyond. Read More →
BITSS Faculty Director Edward Miguel will give a Departmental Seminar titled “Research Transparency & Reproducibility in Economics and Beyond” at 4:10-5:30 p.m. on Sep 25 at the Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center. 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.
Catalyst Arnaud Vaganay will give a talk on research reproducibility at TU Delft on April 4, 2018.
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.
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.
Garret Christensen will present preliminary results from joint work with Edward Miguel and Allan Dafoe. This BITSS-funded project attempts to estimate the causal effect of data-sharing on citations.
The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) welcomes Philip Dooner, Associate Publisher from F1000, on May 26th at 1 – 3 pm to present on Gates Open Research. There will be a short presentation, followed by an open Q&A session.
3ie and BITSS will hold a series of three Research Transparency events in New Delhi, India for 3ie impact evaluation grantees, 3ie staff, and the general public.
The Reproducibility and Open Science Working Group at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) will host Michèle Nuijten on April 27 for a presentation about statcheck, and R package and web application that extracts statistics from articles and checks them for consistency.
Most social scientists want our research to be relevant, to reflect as well as interact with the social actors for whom it is relevant; we want it to be efficient, to maximize collaboration and exchange, and to make the most of our limited resources; and we want it to be accessible, to be read and debated by a wide audience beyond our disciplinary boundaries and university walls. These challenges seem more acute now than at any time in recent memory. And yet our scholarly communication system, especially journal publishing, remains mired in the structures of the past – moving too slowly and costing too much – which impedes the quality, quantity, efficiency, and responsiveness of our research. Open scholarship is a broad response to these deficiencies. In this presentation, Philip Cohen will make a case for open scholarship — and the use of preprints and working papers in particular — through the SocArXiv project, a new open-source, open-access, non-profit archive for social science research, modeled after arXiv in math and physics.
The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and the East African Social Science Translation (EASST) Collaborative, in partnership with the World Bank Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF) and the University of Dar es Salaam, will host the 2016 East Africa Evidence Summit, to be held July 12-14, 2016 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
What does it mean to work reproducibly and transparently? Why bother? Whom does it benefit, and how? What will it cost me? What work habits will I need to change? Will I need to learn new tools? What resources help? What’s the simplest thing I can do to make my work more reproducible? How can I move my discipline, my institution, and science as a whole towards reproducibility? Check out Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science recipient Philip Stark’s upcoming lecture on reproducibility.
