Paper2Agent converts research papers into interactive artificial intelligence agents by turning manuscripts, code and data into model context protocol-based tool-invoking systems that reproduce original results, answer new scientific queries and collaborate to generate novel insights.

Call for Speakers for the 2027 BITSS Annual Meeting The  Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) will hold its 15th Annual Meeting on Friday, February 26, 2027 at UC Berkel...

Would you like to make a difference in how open science is implemented? The Center for Open Science (COS) is currently seeking volunteers to be our colleagues and join the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines Advisory Board.

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. ATC 2026 Participant…

Evidence from 100 Social Science Prediction Platform projects shows that research forecasts are too optimistic on average, but still predictive enough to improve study design when they are combined, s...

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 …

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.

Pre-Results Review Services and Resources About Pre-Results Review Research yielding unexpected or null results often goes unpublished, even when it has applied rigorous research design and used hi…

This post was written by Jo Weech, Research Transparency Program Manager at BITSS, and Liz Brown, Staff Scientist at CEGA and lead of CEGA's cost transparency work. Getty Images The...

The BITSS Annual Meeting brings together actors from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share novel research and discuss efforts to improve the credibility of social science by advancing re...

SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...

Over the past decade, social scientists and technologists have made significant advancements in transparency and reproducibility: from data and code sharing to pre-analysis plans and replication...

The BITSS Annual Meeting brings together actors from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share novel research and discuss efforts to improve the credibility of social science by advancing…

The BITSS Annual Meeting brings together actors from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share novel research and discuss efforts to improve the credibility of social science by...

Call for Speakers for the 2026 BITSS Annual Meeting The  Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) will hold its 14th Annual Meeting on Thursday, April 16 at UC Berkeley! Thi...

Call for Speakers for the 2026 BITSS Annual Meeting The  Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) will hold its 14th Annual Meeting on Thursday, April 16 at UC Berkeley! Thi...

Call for Speakers for the 2026 BITSS Annual Meeting The  Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) will hold its 14th Annual Meeting on Thursday, April 16 at UC Berkeley! Thi...

The Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA), with generous support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is pleased to launch the Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program.  The program aims to...

R4E will be hosting a workshop for anyone! Topics that will be covered include: Data Management, Methods, Reagent Sharing, Bioinformatics, Microscope, Statistics, Data and Code Sharing, Data Analysis…

BITSS Catalysts are academic faculty, graduate students, and other researchers across the quantitative social sciences—including economics, political science, and psychology— who are energized to impr...

Would you like to stay informed about the latest developments in social science research, assess your forecasting accuracy, and receive financial compensation for your participation in the process? Ap...

BITSS Catalysts are academic faculty, graduate students, and other researchers across the quantitative social sciences—including economics, political science, and psychology— who are energized to impr...

Survey finds that fear of reputational harm and a lack of support and publication platforms are among respondents’ key concerns.

This year’s RT2 took place from May 21-23, 2025 on UC Berkeley’s Campus. BITSS Program Manager Jo Weech shares common questions from 28 early-career researchers who are working to implement open sc…

Increasingly, researchers gather forecasts ex ante about the results of their research studies. Ex post, this allows for a comparison with the results to gauge contributions to the literature. But wha...

We analyze over 44,000 NBER and CEPR working papers from 1980 to 2023 using a custom language model to construct knowledge graphs that map economic concepts and their relationships. We distinguish bet...

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...