BITSS Annual Meeting 2015
The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences will hold its 4th Annual Meeting at the University of California, Berkeley on December 10-11, 2015. The goal of the meeting is to bring together leaders from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to strengthen the standards of openness and integrity across social science disciplines.
The 2015 BITSS Annual Meeting is co-sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.
Agenda
Thursday Morning (December 10)
9:30AM – 10:00AM
Setup and Workshop Registration
10:00AM – 12:00PM
Student Training Workshop:
Introduction to Research Transparency Software Tools and Methodology
Garret Christensen, BITSS/BIDS Project
Scientist
Thursday Afternoon (December 10)
01:00PM – 01:30PM
Setup and Workshop Registration
01:30PM – 02:00PM
Introduction and Reflections on Progress Achieved
Edward Miguel, CEGA/BITSS Faculty Director, UC Berkeley
02:00PM – 02:30PM
Sturdiness of Regression Estimates
Ed Leamer, UCLA
02:30PM – 03:30PM
COFFEE BREAK
03:30PM – 04:30PM
Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science Recipients
Discussions from recipients of the 2015 Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science with Ed Leamer and Bob Rosenthal
04:30PM – 05:00PM
Q&A Panel
Edward Miguel, UC Berkeley
Ed Leamer, UCLA
Skip Lupia, University of Michigan
Maya Peterson, UC Berkeley
05:00PM – 06:00PM
Reception
Friday Morning (December 11)
08:30AM – 9:00AM
Setup and Registration
9:00AM – 09:40AM – Research Seminar:
Institutional Re-Engineering of Ethical Discourse in STEM, with applications to authorship and data management
Kevin Esterling, UC Riverside
Dena Plemmons, UC San Diego
09:40AM – 10:20AM
Preregistration and Results Free Reviewing: A Live Fire Exercise in a Leading Political Science Journal
Mike Findley, UT Austin
10:20AM – 10:40AM – Break
10:40AM – 11:20AM
Weighted False Discovery Rate Approaches for Social Scientific Inference
Annie Franco, Stanford University
11:20AM – 12:00PM
What Scholars and Citizens Think of Experimental Ethics: Results of a Survey Experiment
Scott Desposato, UC San Diego
Friday Afternoon (December 11)
12:00PM – 1:00PM – Lunch Break
1:00PM – 2:00PM
SSMART Grantee Award Winner Presentations
02:00PM – 02:30PM
Open Discussion & Next Steps
Edward Miguel, UC Berkeley
Kevin Esterling, UC Riverside
