Dear colleagues,

Please be kindly reminded that the deadline for submissions to give a talk or win the pre-registration challenge at the MZES Open Social Science Conference 2019 (OSSC19) is approaching fast. Please Submit your extended abstracts (750 words max) before 22 August 2018, 24:00 CEST.

OSSC19 will be held at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) in Mannheim, Germany, from 25-27 January 2019.

It offers an opportunity to connect with the open science movement for all researchers from across the social sciences who are interested in debating, advancing, and practicing open science. OSSC19 will feature keynotes by Jeremy Freese (Stanford University), Thomas König (University of Mannheim), Arthur Lupia (University of Michigan), and Julia Rohrer (University of Leipzig).

There are two options for you to participate in the conference:

You can give a talk that provides discussion of, a methodological advance to, or a demonstration of best practices in open social science.
You can submit an extended abstract for a study you would like to conduct (i.e., a “pre-registered analysis plan”). The submitter(s) of the best abstract will get the opportunity present their study plan at OSSC19 and will win free collection of survey panel data from a high-quality national probability sample or, alternatively, financial support for a data collection effort of the participant’s own choosing.

Please note that OSSC19 is transdisciplinary in nature: Submissions from any social science discipline are welcome!

We look forward to your submissions. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

Best,

Nate Breznau

Eike Mark Rinke

Alexander Wuttke

CfP -- MZES Open Social Science Conference 2019: Practicing New Standards in Transparency and Reproducibility

This conference is a forum for practicing and discussing credibility, transparency and replicability in the social sciences.

About a decade ago, John Ioannidis claimed that “most published research findings are false”. While seeming outrageous at the time, a growing body of meta-scientific research in the behavioral and social sciences substantiated this claim, causing uncertainty about the trustworthiness of published scientific findings. We believe that threats to the validity of published findings in the social sciences are widespread and systemic. Therefore, this conference promotes introspection about the current state of social science research and exchange on the opportunities for institutional and methodological improvement in the future.

The conference is supported by the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) and will take place from 25-27 January 2019 in Mannheim, Germany.

Conference Website - twitter

Keynote speakers:

Jeremy Freese (Stanford University)

Thomas König (APSR, University of Mannheim)

Arthur Lupia (OSF, University of Michigan)

Julia Rohrer (100% CI, Leipzig University)

Participate in the conference:

Give a talk: We call for researchers to advance discussion, debate, literature synthesis, or methods in open social science. We welcome methodological advances, e.g., p-curve analysis, systematic reviews, pre-analysis planning, and replication. We welcome general research findings that apply best practices of open science while conducting the research - Abstract submission DL: 22 August 2018 Read more
MZES-GESIS Pre-Registration Challenge: We call for researchers to participate in a competition to win funding or free survey time for the most innovative and rigorous pre-registration plan for a social science study. - Abstract submission DL: 22 August 2018 Read more
Participate as a guest in Mannheim during the conference or during the subsequent Open Science Workshop, offered in collaboration with the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS). Or use the live stream online.

Organizing Committee

Nate Breznau (MZES, University of Mannheim)

Eike Mark Rinke (MZES, University of Mannheim)

Alexander Wuttke (MZES, University of Mannheim)

Conference website: http://www.open-socsci.org/

Twitter: @opensocsci

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