We are excited to send out the call for the 2025 Digital Humanities Faire posters! The Faire will take place April 22 and 23 with a poster session (virtual) and a keynote speaker. For the poster session, we invite sign-ups from across the UC Bay Area community. Students, grad students, staff, instructors, or faculty are welcome to show off their in-progress or completed work, ranging from maps to video sonnets, data visualizations, or completely experimental projects.
The UC Berkeley Digital Humanities Working Group is a research community founded to facilitate interdisciplinary conversations in the digital humanities and cultural analytics. Our gatherings are participant driven and provide a place for sharing research ideas (including brainstorming new ideas and receiving feedback from others), learning about the intersection of computational methods and humanistic inquiry, and connecting with others working in this space at Berkeley. We encourage everyone to participate, regardless of your experience level. The DH Working Group is a welcoming and supportive community for all things digital humanities.
Reflecting on the complexities of the human experience is paramount to conducting research. Jonathan Pérez, through his exploration of a conspiracy subreddit, reflects on his experience trying to find the human behind the datum. Jonathan critiques the harmful effects of dehumanizing rhetoric and the researcher’s responsibility to navigate ethical implications. In doing so, he establishes three guiding rules to support researchers seeking to humanize their analysis: 1) a researcher must always find the story behind the data; 2) a researcher must protect themselves; 3) a researcher must still humanize participants (even those who perpetuate harmful narratives).
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Are you passionate about making your research accessible and engaging to a broader audience? Join our 1-hour interview study to help shape how podcasts communicate academic research! We are looking for researchers from diverse academic fields to share their expertise and experiences. By participating, you'll contribute to advancing science communication and fostering connections between academia and the public.
As a participant, you will:
Provide and explain a recently published paper you’ve authored.
Participate in a session where you’ll listen to a science podcast of your field and share feedback.
Help us understand how podcasts can make research more accessible to broader audiences inside and outside of the academic community.
Eligibility Criteria:
You are a researcher in the UC Berkeley community.
You have authored a research paper in a leadership role (e.g., first author, co-first author, PI).
The paper is written for an academic audience and contains technical jargon relevant to your field.
The paper was published recently and is publicly accessible (pre-prints also eligible).
We will reach out to participants to schedule interviews with them. Interviews will be conducted via Zoom.
MaCSS is a one-year professional degree program designed to equip social science graduates with practical skills for analyzing, interpreting, and visualizing social data—data about individuals, families, communities, organizations, and regions. Our graduates are prepared for careers as data analysts across business, nonprofit, and government sectors, opening up new opportunities for social science professionals.
Course Details:
Course Type: Introduction to Applied Statistics
Format: Primarily asynchronous, with pre-recorded Zoom lectures and hands-on assignments.
Support: A Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) will assist with grading and advising, as well as hold live office hours alongside the instructor.
Materials: The 2024 course was highly successful, with comprehensive materials (readings, slides, and assignments) already developed and available. The course is taught using R/RStudio, and the new lecturer would only need to make minor adjustments to align the materials with their teaching style.
The compensation is competitive and based on educational background, prior teaching experience as the instructor of record, and relevant industry experience.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Heather Haveman, Faculty Director of MaCSS, at haveman@berkeley.edu.
California Research Bureau (CRB)'s CRB Nexus: Where Policy Meets Research is a community of practice for policy staff and researchers across California to initiate and build relationships, share policy needs and solutions, and find ways to move those ideas into action to benefit all Californians.
The mission of the California Research Bureau is to provide nonpartisan and confidential public policy research for the Governor’s Office and the State Legislature and to advance equitable access via statewide initiatives.
The next BITSS Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) will be held in Berkeley, CA from May 21-23, 2025! RT2 is geared towards social science researchers and is open to graduate students, junior faculty, and the broader research community. Participants will receive hands-on training on open science tools and methodologies, including pre-specification and data management. Participants are expected to come prepared to present their own research project and to provide a statement on how RT2 will benefit their current research.
Applications are open until this Sunday, January 19, 2025!
We're excited to announce that the 13th BITSS Annual Meeting will be held at UC Berkeley on Thursday, February 27! This one-day event will bring together leading voices from academia, policy, and the scholarly publishing world to discuss new research and developments in research transparency, reproducibility, and ethics.
We are thrilled to welcome Brian Nosek as our keynote speaker. Brian is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Open Science (COS), where he leads initiatives designed to increase the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research across disciplines. Brian will share his insights into how the research culture is evolving and what we, as a community, can do to push these changes further. We look forward to an engaging discussion on the role of institutions, researchers, and systemic reforms in fostering scientific progress.
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