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Promoting Transparency and Equity in Pre-Doctoral Research
by Coly Elhai, Dominic Russel, Jun Wong Introduction from BITSS: Today on the BITSS blog, Coly Elhai, Dominic Russel, and Jun Wong reflect on their Catalyst training project entitled “Transparency and...
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Ensuring Reproducibility in Large Research Teams
Introduction from BITSS: Today on the BITSS blog, Thomas Brailey shares takeaways from his Catalyst training project which involved onboarding in reproducible workflows for members of the J-PAL...
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Pre-Specification and Reproducibility Outside of Academia
Introduction from BITSS: In this post, Catalyst Ann Furbush shares her experience from her training project and discusses how open science tools and practices can be adopted in professional settings...
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BITSS Flagship Open Science Training Gets a Boost
Introduction from BITSS: Today on the BITSS blog, BITSS Communications Intern Brian Lee announces a new NIA grant that invests in open science and transparency efforts across the social sciences....
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BITSS Catalysts Inspired to Publish on Research Ethics
The authors, Anna Josephson and Jeffrey Michler, credit BITSS textbook Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research for launching their research ethics journey. (Note: this post is...
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BITSS wins Einstein Foundation Institutional Award for Promoting Quality in...
BITSS is thrilled to share that it has received the 2023 Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research in the Institutional category. The Einstein Foundation Berlin made the announcement...
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Edward Miguel, BITSS Faculty Director and Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley, and Carson Christiano, Executive Director of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), participated in a zoom call...
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The Gender Gap in Academic Criticism
Research shows that women are less likely to point out and penalize mistakes in science, and publish fewer comments and failed replications in scientific journals. What does this mean for the social...
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BITSS Honored for Building the Next Generation of Open Science Advocates
Credit: Einstein Stiftung Berlin/Sebastian Semmer “We know that institutions matter: They transform the [scientific] dedication of individuals to the next generation,” remarked representatives of the...
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Announcing the 2024 Catalyst Grants for Advancing Transparent, Reproducible,...
The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) is excited to announce the recipients of our 2024 round of competitively selected Catalyst grants. From January–June 2024, 8...
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