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Housed at ‪‪@cega-uc.bsky.social at UC Berkeley‬, the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences promotes openness and integrity in social science research. #openscience

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  • The World Bank’s Reproducible Research Initiative: Raising the Bar for Transparency in Development Economics

    October 21, 2025
    Written for the BITSS Blog by Maria Ruth Jones, Senior Economist at the World Bank’s Development Impact Group. Imagine a world where every policy decision is backed by transparent, reproducible evidence—where anyone can verify the numbers behind the headlines. The World Bank has just taken a major step toward making this vision…

  • Putting Open Science Into Practice: Reflections from the 2025 RT2 Training

    June 5, 2025
    This year’s RT2 took place from May 21-23, 2025 on UC Berkeley’s Campus. BITSS Program Manager Jo Weech shares common questions from 28 early-career researchers who are working to implement open science practices in their own research. The academic community has long reckoned with epistemic challenges, from the reproducibility to the underreporting…

  • Advancing Research Transparency: A Conversation on Replication Checklists

    February 24, 2025
    Replication is an important tool for research credibility. In this interview, BITSS Program Manager Jo Weech interviewed impact evaluation experts Sridevi Prasad and Douglas Glandon on their replication checklist, designed to help standardize replications for impact evaluations and other social science studies. As the political landscape and funding for scientific research is…

  • Transparency Challenges in Policy Analysis: Lessons from the Congressional Budget Office

    December 10, 2024
    How can the principles of research transparency be applied to policy research? What opportunities are there for the incoming administration? BITSS Research Scientist Fernando Hoces de la Guardia and Program Manager Jo Weech discuss recommendations for the Congressional Budget Office, a key actor in the legislative process. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO),…

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  • P-Curve: A tool for detecting publication bias
    P-Curve: A tool for detecting publication bias
  • The World Bank’s Reproducible Research Initiative: Raising the Bar for Transparency in Development Economics
    The World Bank’s Reproducible Research Initiative: Raising the Bar for Transparency in Development Economics
  • Merton's norms and the Scientific Ethos
    Merton's norms and the Scientific Ethos
  • About Registered Reports at the JDE
    About Registered Reports at the JDE
  • Catalysts
    Catalysts
  • About
    About
  • A replication example: The Many Labs Project
    A replication example: The Many Labs Project
  • Resources
    Resources
  • Forecasting Social Science Results
    Forecasting Social Science Results

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