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Labsquare: Incubator for Collaborative & Transparent Economic Sciences is a hub for replications and meta-science.
More than glad to have been part of Leibniz Open Science Day 2025 — “Better science for better policies.”

Slides soon available here: www.zbw.eu/en/about-us/...
Thanks to the organizers and all participants.
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Leibniz Open Science Day 2025: Better Science for Better Policies
Where? Berlin. When? 27 October 2025. Replications and meta-studies in particular are becoming increasingly crucial to ensure the reliability and validity of scientific research findings.
www.zbw.eu
October 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
🚨Job Opportunity at WZB Berlin Social Science Center

WZB’s Markets and Choice department is hiring Student Research Assistants for two major projects:
- Lab^2 (@leventneyse.bsky.social)
- Mental Models and Discrimination (@kaibarron.bsky.social)

🔗Learn more & apply: wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/398...
Student Research Assistants (ID 350)
The WZB Berlin Social Science Center is a publicly financed research institution that conducts leading-edge theory-based and problem-oriented social ...
https://wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/398/student-research-assistants?page_lang=enæ
July 31, 2025 at 10:32 AM
🔁 Berlin Replication Games – Call for Participation!

📅 Date: September 30, 2025
📍 Location: Freie Universität Berlin (online participation also available)
July 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
„Big-Team Science enables structured, collaborative research.“ In his interview in the ZBW Open Science Magazine, Lab² member David Albrecht reflects on what makes Big-Team Science valuable.
👉 Read the full interview (in German):
open-science-future.zbw.eu/big-team-sci...

@da-lbrecht.bsky.social
Big-Team-Science ermöglicht strukturierte, gemeinsame Forschung
Big-Team-Science zeichnet sich durch eine koordinierte Zusammenarbeit vieler Forschungsteams aus, die jeweils definierte Beiträge entlang...
open-science-future.zbw.eu
July 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🎤 Guest Talk

Join us this Friday (June 27) at 10:00 at WZB (Room E425) for a talk by Diego Aycinena (U-Penn) on
"Dictator Games with Different Endowment Sources". 🎲
June 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
🎬 Behind the Scenes Seminar

The next edition, featuring Dražen Prelec, takes place on 26 June at 4 PM (UK time) 🕓

Don’t miss out — register here:
🔗 forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
June 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
📢 Upcoming Talk

We’re excited to welcome Filippos Exadaktylos from the University of Barcelona this Friday at WZB Berlin Social Science Center, where he will be giving a talk on "Social norms across societies" at 10:00 in D216-17. 🌍

Filippos Exadaktylos: scholar.google.com/citations?us...
June 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Why is reproducibility different from replicability?
What is robustness reproducibility?
And why do we care?

Our new material breaks it all down.
Explore our second release here:
📘 labsquare.net/materials/ed...
May 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
We are absolutely stoked. 200 teams applied to join the #ManyDaughters multi-analyst study 👥 led by Lab² researchers. 🙏 Thank you to everyone who registered for your time and interest.

We’ve now admitted 160 teams to participate 📊 and look forward to the collaboration ahead 🤝

#ManyDaughters
May 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🔔 Reminder: Call for Participation! 🔔

Two more weeks to join Lab²'s multi-analyst study on how having daughters affects various outcomes.

🗓️ Deadline: April 27, 2025
🔗More details and registration: www.manydaughters.com

#ManyDaughters
#ManyDaughters
Many Analysts
www.manydaughters.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🔔 Call for Participation 🔔
Lab² is inviting researchers to take part in a multi-analyst study on the effects of having daughters on various outcomes.
Join this metascience project as a co-author and gain the opportunity to work with SOEP data!
#ManyDaughters
Many Analysts
www.manydaughters.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🎉 Learn about the importance of Pre-Analysis Plans (PAPs) and Registered Reports (RRs) in research and how they contribute to more reliable findings.

🔍 Explore our round-up material here: labsquare.net/materials/ed...

🎓 More to come soon!
March 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Do you want to enhance your understanding of preregistrations?

We invite you to explore preregistration as a research practice in this webinar 👉 “Preregistration Essentials: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Do It” by COS.

📅 Feb 26, 8 PM CET

🎙️ Sign up here: cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
February 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Reposted by Lab²
Our Editorial Board has chosen our Paper of the Year for 2024. This paper presents important results regarding the trustworthiness of economic research. Congratulations to Anna, Magnus and Yifan! doi.org/10.1111/ecin...
February 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🔍 Check out the new online Behind-the-Scenes Seminar Series by Severine Toussaert and @vatsalecon.bsky.social – a new way to explore research! Instead of just results, speakers dive into the research process—challenges, decisions & surprises. Plus, live audience surveys!
February 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Looking back on our Lab² Applied Microeconomics Workshop last Friday. 📖

Thank you to all attendees who joined our half day of presentations, networking and discussions and big thanks to our invited speakers Valeria Zurla and Antoine Bertheau.🎙️
February 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
📢 Talk at WZB 📢
Join us tomorrow at 11:00 AM in Room E425 at WZB for a talk by Zacharias Maniadis on his latest working paper:
“‘Identify the Expert‘: An Experimental Study in Economic Advice“, co-authored with Theodoros Alysandratos, Aristotelis Boukouras, and Sotiris Georganas.
See you there!
February 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
☀️ Applications are open for the 3rd Summer School on Open Science in Innsbruck!

🔍 Explore the "rules of the game called science" & tackle challenges in research credibility

📅 June 30 – July 4, 2025 | On-site @uniinnsbruck

More info & application here: bit.ly/4aX1inb
@flxhlzmstr.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
📢 Call for Papers! 📢 The Barcelona School of Economics Summer Forum 2025 is hosting a workshop on ‘External Validity, Generalizability and Replicability of Economic Experiments’ on June 13, 2025, in Barcelona. 📝 Submit your paper by February 28, 2025!
🔗 Learn more: events.bse.eu/live/files/5...
events.bse.eu
February 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
🚨 Call for Submissions – SOEP-IS 2026

Want to implement your own survey module in a large representative sample? Consider the German Socioeconomic Panel Innovation Sample. The call is open until 31 March 2025!

🔗 More info: www.diw.de/en/diw_01.c....
January 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
📣 Upcoming Event
The Lab² Applied Microeconomics Workshop will be taking place on the 7th of February. Half day of networking and discussions and two exiting talks by our invited speakers Valeria Zurla & Antoine Bertheau @bertheau.bsky.social.

👉 Program and Sign-up Link: www.wzb.eu/de/node/85211
January 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
📢 Save the date! The Metascience 2025 conference, hosted by the Research on Research Institute, is happening June 30–July 2 at University College London. Proposals are due by February 7. ⏳

Learn more: opusproject.eu/openscience-...
Metascience 2025: A Global Summit to Advance the Science of Science - Open and Universal Science (OPUS) Project
Metascience, the study of science itself, has rapidly gained momentum as a transformative field. By applying scientific methods to analyze and improve the research system, it has attracted a diverse a...
opusproject.eu
January 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Starting 2025 with an exciting publication alert! 🚨 Lab² researchers (@flxhlzmstr.bsky.social and Magnus Johanesson) and co-authors explored how structured elicitation protocols can predict the replicability of social and behavioural science claims in COVID-19 preprints.
Predicting the replicability of social and behavioural science claims in COVID-19 preprints - Nature Human Behaviour
This study assessed COVID-19 social science preprints’ replicability using structured groups. Both beginners and more-experienced participants used a elicitation protocol to make better-than-chance pr...
doi.org
January 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
🎄 Looking for a research boost?🎄

Check out CClaRA, the Causal Claims Research Assistant:
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2️⃣ Easily search for papers by causal claims, concept nodes, authors, fields, and more.
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Welcome to the Causal Claims Research Assistant (CClaRA) Built on Causal Graph of Economics. Access CClaRA A literature review tool grounded on the knowledge graph. Search for papers by causal claim...
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December 16, 2024 at 8:18 AM
Exciting update from the Center for Open Science (@cos.io)!

Lab² is happy to see the new TOP25 Guidelines highlight replication & many-analyst studies as key to verifying empirical research 🌟🔍

Read more: www.cos.io/blog/new-pre...
December 6, 2024 at 12:08 PM