Jan. 7-8, 2021, online — BITSS held its 9th Annual Meeting on January 7-8, 2021. The BITSS Annual Meeting brings together actors from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share novel research and discuss efforts to improve the credibility of social science by advancing research transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics.

This Annual Meeting featured presentations of meta-scientific work selected from the Call for Papers, as well as several panel discussions, including:

Keynote panels

• The Challenges and Opportunities of Transparency in COVID-19 Research
  
  • Panelists: Carrie D. Wolinetz (National Institutes of Health, Office of Science Policy), Samir Bhatt (Imperial College London), and Joakim Weill (UC Davis)
  • Moderator: Maya Petersen (UC Berkeley)
• Open Science for a more Democratic and Inclusive Scholarship
  • Panelists: Juan Pablo Alperin (ScholComm Lab, University of British Columbia), Leslie Chan (University of Toronto), and Antoinette Foster (PREreview)
  • Moderator: Ted Miguel (UC Berkeley, BITSS)

Panel presentations

• Social Science Prediction Platform
  • Panelists: Arun Advani (University of Warwick), Eva Vivalt (University of Toronto), and Nick Otis (UC Berkeley)
  • Moderator: Stefano DellaVigna (UC Berkeley)
• Accelerating Computational Reproducibility in the Social Sciences
  • Panelists: Fernando Hoces de la Guardia (BITSS) and Lars Vilhuber (Cornell University)

Presenters included (in alphabetical order): Flávio Azevedo (Friedrich Schiller University), Nate Breznau (University of Bremen), Abel Brodeur (University of Ottawa), Aaron Edlin (UC Berkeley), Sean Grant (Indiana University), Nick Huntington-Klein (Seattle University), Charlotte Lane (International Initiative for Impact Evaluation), Molly Lewis (Carnegie Mellon University), Andrew Little (UC Berkeley), Maya Mathur (Stanford University), Nick Otis (UC Berkeley), Francesca Parente (University of Pennsylvania), Sam Parsons (University of Oxford), Eike Mark Rinke (University of Leeds), Esther Shears (UC Berkeley), Tara Slough (New York University), Matteo Tranchero (UC Berkeley), Robbie Van Aert (Tilburg University), and Olmo van den Akker (Tilburg University).

See the full agenda here. See a playlist with the videos from all presentations below.

Code of Conduct

BITSS is dedicated to a harassment-free event experience for everyone. Our Code of Conduct can be found here.

Contact

Reach out to Aleksandar Bogdanoski (abogdanoski@berkeley.edu) with any questions about this event.