Strengthening Research
Since 2012, BITSS has worked to improve research credibility by advancing transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics.
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BITSS & 3ie Launch the Sustainable Evidence Infrastructure Commitment
Read how CEGA, 3ie, and partners are working to strengthen the evidence pipeline so studies are conducted, reported, and published in ways that facilitate data re-use and synthesis.
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DEVIDENCE: Building a Transparent Data with Opaque Machines
As new technologies change how we engage with research, how can we speed up evidence synthesis without sacrificing quality? In this post, the BITSS team shares its approach through DEVIDENCE, a multi-institutional project building a transparent repository of development evidence. AI is transforming research, including the way findings are interpreted and applied.…The Gap Is Not Technical, It’s Epistemic: Reflections from the Global South on open science
Guest blog post by José Daniel Conejeros and Magdalena Gatsch on their experience organizing the “Abre Tu Ciencia” workshop (ATC 2026) in Chile January 21–23, 2026. In January 2026, we organized the “Abre Tu Ciencia” workshop (ATC 2026) in Chile, thanks to support from a BITSS Catalyst Grant. The workshop brought together…From Classroom to Community: Lessons from Conducting an Open Science Workshop
This post was written by Celine Tsoi, Laura Elizabeth Moreno-Gama, Shangcheng Zhao, Ph.D. students and co-chairs at ReproducibiliTea at UC Santa Barbara. I attended the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences’ (BITSS) Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) a year ago in 2025. Not only did I walk away with…Research-grade AI: Move Fast, Break Science
What can we learn from open science as we bring AI tools into academic research? BITSS Program Manager Jo Weech shares concerns and opportunities discussed at two research transparency conferences this spring: the BITSS Annual Meeting in Berkeley, CA and the MeasureDev conference in Washington, DC. Artificial intelligence (AI) is already reshaping…
Recent Research
Sep 2026 | Nature Human Behaviour
Improving Computational Reproducibility in the Social Sciences
Michael V. Reiss, Garret Christensen, et al.
APR 2026 | NBER WP 34493
Forecasting Social Science: Evidence from 100 Projects
Stefano DellaVigna and Eva Vivalt
May 2025 | NBER WP 33753
Assessing Reproducibility in Economics Using Standardized Crowd-sourced Analysis
Abel Brodeur, Seung Yong Sung, Edward Miguel, Lars Vilhuber, and Fernando Hoces de la Guardia