<div dir="ltr">Circulating this call for applications for a great research training opportunity at UC Berkeley!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Jo Weech</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:jweech@berkeley.edu">jweech@berkeley.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM<br>Subject: Fwd: BITSS: Apply for 2026 Research Transparency Training<br>To: <br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Dear RT2 2025 Participants,<div><br></div><div>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 <b>February 8</b>.</div><div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Jo<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">'Jo Weech I BITSS Manager' via <a href="mailto:cegastaff@lists.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">cegastaff@lists.berkeley.edu</a></strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:cegastaff@lists.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">cegastaff@lists.berkeley.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM<br>Subject: BITSS: Apply for 2026 Research Transparency Training<br>To: <<a href="mailto:cegastaff@lists.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">cegastaff@lists.berkeley.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div><u></u>
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Are you looking for guidance on pre-registering a research study or ensuring that your code is computationally reproducible? BITSS's flagship </span><strong><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2)</span></strong><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, 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 </span><strong><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">May 19</span></strong>–<strong><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">21, 2026 at UC Berkeley</span></strong><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-break:break-word;font-weight:400;line-height:24px;text-align:left;direction:ltr;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-break:break-word;font-weight:400;line-height:24px;text-align:left;direction:ltr;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> 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. <br><br>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 </span></span></span></span><a href="https://berkeley.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=70a92598dcbca62d93d504ee9&id=6955ffd567&e=23fa26b66f" style="word-break:break-word;color:rgb(20,134,200);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;direction:ltr" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(20,134,200)"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">here</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-break:break-word;font-weight:400;line-height:24px;text-align:left;direction:ltr;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br>Please circulate this application within your network! 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Both events will gather metascientists to discuss how technology is changing research. The BITSS AM call for speakers will close on <strong>January 18</strong> and the MeasureDev call for speakers will close on <strong>January 30</strong>.</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" id="m_-8503678990224490235m_-634834954635410934gutterContainerId-83"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:separate" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border:0;border-radius:0" valign="top" id="m_-8503678990224490235m_-634834954635410934b83"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" id="m_-8503678990224490235m_-634834954635410934section_436cf2c2c59808c64aaba509a2b9f807"><tbody><tr><td style="background-position:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" id="m_-8503678990224490235m_-634834954635410934mceColumnId--12" colspan="12" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="border:0;border-radius:0" valign="top" align="center" id="m_-8503678990224490235m_-634834954635410934b-8"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="background-position:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" id="m_-8503678990224490235m_-634834954635410934mceColumnId--13" colspan="12" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="border:0;border-radius:0" valign="top" id="m_-8503678990224490235m_-634834954635410934b88"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="background-position:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="24" width="100%" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" valign="top" id="m_-8503678990224490235m_-634834954635410934mceColumnId-85" colspan="12" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:16px;padding-left:16px;border:0;border-radius:0" valign="top" align="center" id="m_-8503678990224490235m_-634834954635410934b89"><div></div><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:separate;margin:0;vertical-align:top;max-width:100%;width:100%;height:auto" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="border:0;border-radius:0;margin:0" valign="top"><img alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/70a92598dcbca62d93d504ee9/images/c6f3fb1c-4490-5393-4aeb-ba08b08aa876.png" width="628" height="auto" style="display:block;max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:0"></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div><div>
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</div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0" valign="top" id="m_-8503678990224490235m_-634834954635410934gutterContainerId-104"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:separate" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border:0;border-radius:0" valign="top" id="m_-8503678990224490235m_-634834954635410934b104"><table width="100%" style="border:0;background-color:transparent;border-radius:0;border-collapse:separate"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-left:24px;padding-right:24px;padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px"><div id="m_-8503678990224490235m_-634834954635410934d104" style="width:100%"><p style="line-height:0"><br></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The Social Science Prediction Platform (</span></span></span></span><a href="https://berkeley.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=70a92598dcbca62d93d504ee9&id=a58cd05c4e&e=23fa26b66f" style="color:rgb(20,134,200);word-break:break-word;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;direction:ltr;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(20,134,200)"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">SSPP</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">) team just published an NBER working paper: </span></span></span></span><a href="https://berkeley.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=70a92598dcbca62d93d504ee9&id=9ebe8545ec&e=23fa26b66f" style="color:rgb(20,134,200);word-break:break-word;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;direction:ltr;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(20,134,200)"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Forecasting Social Science: Evidence from 100 Projects</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">! Building on a dataset of </span></span><span style="font-family:Arimo,"Lucida Grande",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">53,298 forecasts from</span></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> 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.</span></span></span></span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px;border:0;border-radius:0" valign="top" id="m_-8503678990224490235m_-634834954635410934b103"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="background-color:transparent;width:100%" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;border-top-width:2px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:#000000;line-height:0;font-size:0" valign="top"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-left:24px;border:0;border-radius:0" valign="top" align="center" id="m_-8503678990224490235m_-634834954635410934b98"><div></div><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:separate;margin:0;vertical-align:top;max-width:100%;width:100%;height:auto" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="border:0;border-radius:0;margin:0" valign="top"><img alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/70a92598dcbca62d93d504ee9/images/60f08ede-e994-7e7e-fcd6-c6c5f92cf747.png" width="612" height="auto" style="display:block;max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:0"></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div><div>
</div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0" valign="top" id="m_-8503678990224490235m_-634834954635410934gutterContainerId-101"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:separate" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border:0;border-radius:0" valign="top" id="m_-8503678990224490235m_-634834954635410934b101"><table width="100%" style="border:0;background-color:transparent;border-radius:0;border-collapse:separate"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-left:24px;padding-right:24px;padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px"><div id="m_-8503678990224490235m_-634834954635410934d101" style="width:100%"><p style="line-height:0"><br></p><p style="line-height:0"><br></p><h2 style="display:block;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:37.5px;text-align:center;direction:ltr;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(255,140,0)"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Open for Predictions on the SSPP</span></span></span></h2><p style="margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;word-break:break-word;font-weight:400;line-height:24px;text-align:left;direction:ltr;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The following studies are currently open for predictions:</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin:13px 0px;padding:0px;word-break:break-word;font-weight:400;line-height:24px;text-align:left;direction:ltr;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a href="https://berkeley.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=70a92598dcbca62d93d504ee9&id=051b7b9f1c&e=23fa26b66f" style="color:#1486c8" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Forecasting Training Survey</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> (15 min, closes Dec 31), by Jessie Barker and co-authors - financial incentives available based on forecast accuracy.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin:13px 0px;padding:0px;word-break:break-word;font-weight:400;line-height:24px;text-align:left;direction:ltr;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a href="https://berkeley.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=70a92598dcbca62d93d504ee9&id=e28b14916b&e=23fa26b66f" style="color:#1486c8" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Firm Beliefs about Worker Preferences</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">(5 min, closes Jan 15), by </span></span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Simon Cordes and Max Müller.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin:13px 0px;padding:0px;word-break:break-word;font-weight:400;line-height:24px;text-align:left;direction:ltr;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a href="https://berkeley.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=70a92598dcbca62d93d504ee9&id=db23465049&e=23fa26b66f" style="color:#1486c8" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Determinants of Professional Forecasting</span></span></span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> (15 min, closes Feb 28), by Lukas Hack, Lora Pavlova, and Davud Rostam-Afschar.</span></span></span></span></p><h2 style="display:block;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:37.5px;text-align:center;direction:ltr;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(255,140,0)"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Post on MetaArXiv</span></span></span></h2><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-break:break-word;line-height:24px;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><a href="https://berkeley.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=70a92598dcbca62d93d504ee9&id=5bc063ed22&e=23fa26b66f" style="color:#1486c8" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:normal">MetaArXiv</span></a> 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.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-break:break-word;line-height:24px;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br></p><h2 style="display:block;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:37.5px;text-align:center;direction:ltr;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(255,140,0)"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Positions at CEGA</span></span></span></h2><p>The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) is hiring right now for two roles. 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