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Lab² @labsquare.net · 13d

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.
labsquare.net #OpenScience

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

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Lab² @labsquare.net · Jul 31

🚨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

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Lab² @labsquare.net · Jul 28

🔬 Participants will:
• Work in teams based on research expertise and interest
• Reproduce studies from leading journals
• Be granted co-authorship on a meta-paper

📝 Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/I4R_Replic...

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Lab² @labsquare.net · Jul 28

The Institute for Replication, in collaboration with Jan Marcus (@janmarcus.de) from Freie Universität Berlin, is organizing a one-day replication event for researchers, postdocs, and graduate students in the social sciences.

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Lab² @labsquare.net · Jul 28

🔁 Berlin Replication Games – Call for Participation!

📅 Date: September 30, 2025
📍 Location: Freie Universität Berlin (online participation also available)

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Lab² @labsquare.net · Jul 17

„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

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Lab² @labsquare.net · Jun 23

🎤 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". 🎲

Lab² @labsquare.net · Jun 23

🎬 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...

Lab² @labsquare.net · Jun 10

📢 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...

Lab² @labsquare.net · May 19

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...

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Lab² @labsquare.net · May 13

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

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Lab² @labsquare.net · Apr 14

🔔 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

Lab² @labsquare.net · Mar 31

📅 Check out for more details and register here by April 27, 2025: www.manydaughters.com

#ManyDaughters

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Lab² @labsquare.net · Mar 31

🔔 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

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Lab² @labsquare.net · Mar 21

🎉 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!

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Lab² @labsquare.net · Feb 25

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...

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Economic Inquiry @ei-sky.bsky.social · Feb 18

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...

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Lab² @labsquare.net · Feb 14

📅 Kick off featuring Anna Dreber on Feb 17, 4 PM UK.

🔗 Details: www.bts-seminar.net
🎙️ Register: forms.office.com/e/FUgVh7Jqxi

Home | BTS Seminar Series

The Behind-the-Scenes Seminar Series is designed to learn about the production process of research papers, offering an opportunity for students and researchers in all fields and at all career stages t...

www.bts-seminar.net

Lab² @labsquare.net · Feb 14

🔍 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!

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Lab² @labsquare.net · Feb 12

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.🎙️

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Lab² @labsquare.net · Feb 10

📢 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!

Lab² @labsquare.net · Feb 6

☀️ 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

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Lab² @labsquare.net · Feb 4

📢 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

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Lab² @labsquare.net · Jan 31

🚨 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....

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Lab² @labsquare.net · Jan 22

📣 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

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