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28 May

🎉We're celebrating another successful Research Transparency & Reproducibility Training (RT2)! Last week, we hosted 28 early-career researchers for a course exploring preregistration, evidence aggregation, and other topics. Feeling inspired by scholars making open science happen!

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Events

2025 BITSS Annual Meeting
We're excited to announce that the 13th BITSS Annual Meeting will be held at UC Berkeley on Thursday, February 27! This one-day event will bring together …
Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) 2024
The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences will hold its 12th Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) in Berkeley, CA, June 5-7, 2024! …
2024 BITSS Annual Meeting
The BITSS Annual Meeting will bring together actors from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share novel research and discuss efforts to improve the credibility …

Blog

Advancing Research Transparency: A Conversation on Replication Checklists
3 months ago
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 …
Transparency Challenges in Policy Analysis: Lessons from the Congressional Budget Office
6 months ago
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 …

Catalyst Spotlight

Robbie van Aert

Tilburg University

Statistics and Data Science

Robbie van Aert obtained his Research Master’s degree with as specialization methodology and statistics, and is currently a PhD candidate at the department of Methodology and Statistics at Tilburg University. His PhD, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), is about correcting for publication bias in meta-analyses. Other research interests…