<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(64,64,64)">Dear Mozilla Science Lab,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(64,64,64)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(64,64,64)">Please jo</span><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:10pt">in the </span><a href="http://www.bitss.org/" target="_blank" style="font-size:10pt">Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences</a><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:10pt"> (BITSS) at our fifth </span><span class="gmail-m_-8419557612952288726gmail-il" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:10pt">Annual</span><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:10pt"> </span><span class="gmail-m_-8419557612952288726gmail-il" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:10pt">Meeting</span><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:10pt"> on </span><b style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:10pt"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Decemb<wbr>er 15-16, 2016</span></b><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:10pt"> in Berkeley, California. The </span><span class="gmail-m_-8419557612952288726gmail-il" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:10pt">meeting</span><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:10pt"> brings together leaders from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to strengthen the standards of transparency and reproducibility across social science disciplines. The </span><span class="gmail-m_-8419557612952288726gmail-il" style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:10pt">meeting</span><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:10pt"> will feature:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"></p><ul style="font-size:12.8px"><li style="margin-left:15px">keynote speakers <a href="http://lorenabarba.com/" target="_blank">Lorena Barba</a> and <a href="http://eml.berkeley.edu/~sdellavi/index.html" target="_blank">Stefano DellaVigna</a>,</li><li style="margin-left:15px">an announcement of and panel discussion with the 2016 <span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.bitss.org/lr-prizes/" target="_blank">Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science</a></font></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(64,64,64)">,</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(64,64,64)">results from selected </span><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.bitss.org/ssmart-grants/" target="_blank">Social Science Meta-Analysis and Research Transparency</a></font></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(64,64,64)"> (SSMART) grants,</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(64,64,64)">a Journal Editors Roundtable discussion on Results-Blind Review, and</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(64,64,64)">selected research from a call for papers.</span></li></ul><p style="font-size:12.8px"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt"><font color="#404040">We will also hold a film screening of </font><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><font color="#000000"><a href="http://thedishonestyproject.com/" target="_blank">"(Dis)Honesty- The Truth about Lies"</a></font></span><font color="#404040"> followed by a Q&A with Academy Award-winning producer and director Yael Melamede and RAND scientist Sean Grant on the evening of December 15. More information about the screening can be found on our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1392424474125683/?notif_t=plan_user_joined&notif_id=1480980957442291" target="_blank">Facebook event page</a>.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(64,64,64)">Registration is free </span><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:13.3333px">for both the conference and the film screening</span><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:10pt">. More information, including a detailed </span><a href="http://www.bitss.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/AM2016_Agenda-1.pdf" target="_blank" style="font-size:10pt">agenda</a>,<span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:10pt"> </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/forms/d/1V2jkEAYOD6bqgkN2Pn5CTVapMD_eBWWJ0VeAJRiMes8" target="_blank" style="font-size:10pt">registration</a><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:10pt"> <wbr>link, and live stream videos, can be found </span><a href="http://www.bitss.org/events/bitss-2016-annual-meeting/" target="_blank" style="font-size:10pt">here</a><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-size:10pt">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Best regards,</span></p><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:"lucida grande","lucida sans unicode",arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:20px;margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt;margin-left:0in"><font color="#073763"><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial">Katie Hoeberling </span></b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial">| <b>Senior </b></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial"><b>Program Associate </b></span></font><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial"><font color="#073763">| </font><font color="#3d85c6"><b><a href="http://www.bitss.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">BITSS</a></b></font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:"lucida grande","lucida sans unicode",arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:20px;margin:0.1pt 0in"><font color="#3d85c6"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:arial"><a href="http://cega.berkeley.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Center for Effective Global Action</a> <b> </b></span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:arial">| <a href="http://510.642.4361/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">510.642.4361</a></span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:"lucida grande","lucida sans unicode",arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:20px;margin:0.1pt 0in"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(23,54,93)">UC Berkeley | 207 Giannini Hall<b> </b>| Berkeley, CA 94720</span></p><p style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:"lucida grande","lucida sans unicode",arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:20px;margin:0.1pt 0in"><font color="#3d85c6"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:arial"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fvisitor.r20.constantcontact.com%2Fmanage%2Foptin%3Fv%3D001qV_LMxK9XFVxXA4XvFFE2pzej3UtiMiiPfOrygRDT9CzWXVzCXuP0D4eOct2IDTMtDMUuEVY64fKK1Pbxm6J5zUdV-UzeIKO_4ZAgmXEZbtksSeNIuHGv5Qr8TU_uPyALVrGntEray6QrEWo7pYVWZLN47ZiJ8bV&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzeEt0JjnrM6uS9m0AZj-yvResKQcw" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">e-bulletin</a></span><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:arial"> </span></b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:arial">| <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FCenterforEffectiveGlobalAction&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzdq-4yLVFWjXfgApOpMBYrsrwSIFQ" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">facebook</a><b> </b>| <a href="https://twitter.com/UCBITSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">twitter</a></span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:"lucida grande","lucida sans unicode",arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:20px;margin:0.1pt 0in"><font color="#3d85c6"><br></font></p><p style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:"lucida grande","lucida sans unicode",arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;line-height:20px;margin:0.1pt 0in"><font color="#3d85c6"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B5KgDfIPDTqTNlBlM190dXJ1c00&revid=0B5KgDfIPDTqTcDRFYlo5MytmZS9ZY0t5YzJuM3ZEYWg2Z2ZjPQ" width="96" height="45"></font></p></div></div></div></div>
</div>