[Poscgrad] Fwd: BITSS: Apply for 2026 Research Transparency Training
Jieun Lee
jlee1433 at ucr.edu
Mon Dec 15 12:01:27 PST 2025
Circulating this call for applications for a great research training
opportunity at UC Berkeley!
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From: Jo Weech <jweech at berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Subject: Fwd: BITSS: Apply for 2026 Research Transparency Training
To:
Dear RT2 2025 Participants,
I hope you are all having a wonderful holiday season! I'm writing because
we just opened up the call for applications for next year's RT2. We'll be
accepting applications until *February 8*.
Please forward the application to your friends, colleagues, professors, and
anyone you think would be interested in attending the training and/or
sharing the event announcement!
Sincerely,
Jo
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From: 'Jo Weech I BITSS Manager' via cegastaff at lists.berkeley.edu <
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Date: Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Subject: BITSS: Apply for 2026 Research Transparency Training
To: <cegastaff at lists.berkeley.edu>
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Apply for the 2026 BITSS Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training
(RT2)
*RT2 2025 (Berkeley) | Credit: BITSS*
Are you a social science researcher interested in strengthening your open
science skills? Are you looking for guidance on pre-registering a research
study or ensuring that your code is computationally reproducible? BITSS's
flagship *Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2)*, held
at UC Berkeley over three days, will give participants the confidence to
improve specification through study pre-registration and pre-analysis
plans, experience using the OSF and other open science tools, and hands-on
GitHub tutorials while better understanding norms and standards in the
rapidly changing open science landscape. Our fifteenth RT2 will take place *May
19*–*21, 2026 at UC Berkeley*.
RT2 is designed for researchers in the social and health sciences, with
particular emphasis on economics, political science, psychology, and public
health. Participants are typically current Master’s and PhD students,
junior faculty, research staff, librarians and data stewards, or research
managers curious about the implications of transparency and reproducibility
for their work. The RT2 curriculum is most applicable to researchers who
use quantitative or mixed methods.
There will be plenty of opportunities for collaborative work and hands-on
skill building, as well as time for participants to get feedback and
support on their own research questions from instructors and peers. Learn
more here
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Please circulate this application within your network! The deadline to
apply is *February 8, 11:59 pm PT*.
Apply for RT2 2026
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Upcoming Conferences in Research Transparency
The call for speakers is currently open for the BITSS Annual Meeting
<https://berkeley.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=70a92598dcbca62d93d504ee9&id=4727c0bdb3&e=23fa26b66f>
on April 16 (Berkeley, CA) and for MeasureDev
<https://berkeley.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=70a92598dcbca62d93d504ee9&id=d8cbe16941&e=23fa26b66f>
on April 29 (Washington, DC)! Both events will gather metascientists to
discuss how technology is changing research. The BITSS AM call for speakers
will close on *January 18* and the MeasureDev call for speakers will close
on *January 30*.
BITSS AM Call for Speakers
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MeasureDev 2026 Call for Speakers
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How well do people forecast study results?
The Social Science Prediction Platform (SSPP
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team just published an NBER working paper: Forecasting Social Science:
Evidence from 100 Projects
<https://berkeley.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=70a92598dcbca62d93d504ee9&id=9ebe8545ec&e=23fa26b66f>!
Building on a dataset of 53,298 forecasts from projects posted on the SSPP
from 2020 to 2024, the team found that forecasters, on average,
overestimate treatment effects. However, they also found that the average
forecast is quite predictive of the actual treatment effect.
Open for Predictions on the SSPP
The following studies are currently open for predictions:
Forecasting Training Survey
<https://berkeley.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=70a92598dcbca62d93d504ee9&id=051b7b9f1c&e=23fa26b66f>
(15 min, closes Dec 31), by Jessie Barker and co-authors - financial
incentives available based on forecast accuracy.
Firm Beliefs about Worker Preferences
<https://berkeley.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=70a92598dcbca62d93d504ee9&id=e28b14916b&e=23fa26b66f>
(5 min, closes Jan 15), by Simon Cordes and Max Müller.
Determinants of Professional Forecasting
<https://berkeley.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=70a92598dcbca62d93d504ee9&id=db23465049&e=23fa26b66f>
(15 min, closes Feb 28), by Lukas Hack, Lora Pavlova, and Davud
Rostam-Afschar.
Post on MetaArXiv
MetaArXiv
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is an open-access preprint community hosted on OSF Preprints. MetaArXiv
welcomes submissions on topics of open science, research transparency,
reproducibility, scientific credibility and integrity, and meta-research
broadly defined.
Positions at CEGA
The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) is hiring right now for two
roles. To apply to the below positions, go to go.cega.org/jobs
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Intern, CEGA Operations (Spring 2026)
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Predoctoral Research Fellow, Kenya Life Panel Survey (KLPS)
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