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The Institute for Replication (I4R) works to improve the credibility of science by promoting and conducting reproductions and replications.

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🚨 We're launching a special thematic focus on deforestation in the Global South! 🚨

Join us as we systematically assess research on deforestation, a key issue at the science-policy interface. 🧵👇

#OpenScience #Deforestation
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🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨
Research In Labor Economics (rle.iza.org) is planning a volume featuring critical analyses of applied economics research. We are soliciting up to ten new papers that rigorously review an applied microeconomics topic, area, or methodology. #econsky
Home | Research in Labor Economics
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December 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
📷New blog post: Where Papers Go Before (and After) rejection at a top field journal? This blog post explore this and more. One key finding is that desk- and referee-rejected manuscripts end up getting published at roughly the same rate elsewhere.

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December 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
We're thrilled to open registration for our 1st 2026 Replication Games. The event will be at the University of Zurich on January 19th.

Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced! Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
December 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Call for speakers! MeasureDev2026, Open Science in the Age of AI: Balancing Privacy and Transparency

Reflect on a decade of progress in open science while outlining a path for transparency and replicability amid rapid shifts in technology, data, and computation.

www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...
Measuring Development Conference 2026
The annual Measuring Development Conference co-hosted with the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA).
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December 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Special issue on meta-science in Journal of Economic Psychology! Topics covered among others: expert-informed approaches, normative biases and crowd-science. Submitted papers evaluated & published on rolling basis. @i4replication.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
December 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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🚨 Our comment on Begum, Grossman & Islam (2018) is now out in Demography @readdemography.bsky.social (w/ @carlbonander.bsky.social, Bensch, @nikljako.bsky.social & Brodeur @i4replication.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1215/0070...
A Commentary on “Gender Bias in Parental Attitude: An Experimental Approach” by Begum, Grossman, and Islam (2018) | Demography | Duke University Press
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December 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🚨New blog post: Replicators, rejoice! Episode 1 of the new series is out: “A New README.” A practical guide to transforming messy project folders into clear, well-structured documentation that strengthens transparency and reproducibility.

See more at
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Don’t Panic: A Researcher’s Guide to Replication Packages
Episode 1: A New README Who Needs a README? Imagine coming across a really cool paper in a top journal. The kind of paper you wish you wrote yourself; the…
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December 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
🚨New blog post: The Reproducibility Gap in Tropical Disease Research

Tropical diseases remain one of the greatest global health challenges, yet much of the evidence guiding interventions may not be as reliable as we assume...
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Last Friday we held Munster Replication Games (@uni-muenster.de jointly with #MüCOS and #CDSC). Sixty researchers replicated fifteen papers: well done, everybody! Many thanks to the local organizers as well, @bschlipphak.bsky.social and @aufdroeseler.bsky.social and Katrin Schmietendorf :)
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
📢 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our new “Research Fellows” program! 🎉

If you’ve contributed to a Replication Game, published in our Discussion Papers series, or helped organize one of our events — you’re invited to join the roster of I4R Research Fellows.
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Together w/ @odissei.bsky.social, I4R is organizing CBS Replication Games, re-analyzing 6 papers w/ Dutch administrative microdata! Teams get 1 month of microdata access in Feb 2026, meeting in Utrecht for a three-day hackathon. Interested? Register by Nov 30! tinyurl.com/yx3e7b3a
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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10 days left to apply for the CBS Replication Games, organised by ODISSEI & the @i4replication.bsky.social. Reproduce recent economics papers with @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social microdata.

📍Utrecht, Feb 2026.

Apply by 30 Nov 👉 lnkd.in/e3G3YxYn
November 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Wanna do #openscience and get credit for it in your career? Try a #replication at @i4replication.bsky.social i4replication.org. You will contribute to better science, build your skills and get a CV item.
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Playing Replication Games
www.ukrn.org/2025/11/18/t...
Last week, 40 researchers from 6 countries joined the 2025 UKRN Replication Games with @i4replication.bsky.social

Huge thanks to Lenka Fiala, Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, and all our participants.

#researchintegrity #openresearch
November 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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🚀 Join us for the CBS Replication Games hosted by @odissei-soda.bsky.social & @i4replication.bsky.social — an intensive, hands-on replication challenge with economics papers using microdata by Statistics Netherlands. Express your interest by 30 November via edu.nl/yhk7q
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
#GDRI_rep Update 9: We have been waiting a couple of months to make two announcements. A few journals were in the process of retracting GDRI article. The editors informed the authors and then lawyers got involved. Who knows how long it will take.
October 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Join us for the virtual Replication Games😍🤓 on Nov 13th! (You don't have to be in the UK - join us from wherever you are😉)
We are hosting virtual Replication Games on Friday November 13th, 2025 with @ukrepro.bsky.social ro.bsky.social. This is our 2nd year collaborating with UKRN. Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced!

Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/I4R_Replic...
October 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
We are hosting virtual Replication Games on Friday November 13th, 2025 with @ukrepro.bsky.social ro.bsky.social. This is our 2nd year collaborating with UKRN. Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced!

Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/I4R_Replic...
October 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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🔬♻️ « Quand la science s’amuse à se reproduire »
Merci à @lemonde.fr et à David Larousserie pour la mise en lumière des #ReplicationGames du 3 octobre, co-organisés par le Réseau Français de la Recherche Reproductible et @i4replication.bsky.social.
October 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Looking forward to this great event, participating in the #replication games and presenting our #metaanalysis on #energy price elasticities www.tu-chemnitz.de/wirtschaft/v.... Thanks to @i4replication.bsky.social , Abel and the MAERnet team for making this happen in such a great place!
October 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We are hosting Replication Games at the 95th Meeting of the Southern Economics Association on Friday November 21st, 2025. This is a new collaboration with the SEA!

Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
October 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
We are hosting this year's MAER-Net Colloquium on Friday and Saturday. The program and more information are available here: www.maer-net.org/2025-ottawa

Plenary sessions (with Andrew Gelman, Shinichi Nakagawa and others) and some parallel sessions will be live-streamed for free
October 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Big thanks to our research scientist, Derek Mikola, for organizing 4 games over the past 2 weeks. Lots of planes/trains from Galway, to Berlin, Paris and now Lyon. Today's event in Lyon is underway!
October 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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New DP @i4replication.bsky.social: Meta-analysis on green nudges correcting for publication bias. "Behavioral interventions on households and individuals are unlikely to deliver material climate benefits." www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
October 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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👏 Many thanks to everyone who took part in the Replication Games on Friday, October 3rd!

6 teams joined the challenge, 5 in person and 1 online, bringing curiosity and collaboration to every step and making this event a truly inspiring collective experience around reproducibility & open science.
October 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM