Every year, CONNECT partners come together to host the Big Team Science Conference (BTSCON), a multidisciplinary gathering of researchers, funders, and stakeholders to discuss advancements, challenges, and future opportunities related to large scientific collaborations.
Several of our CONNECT partner organizations and networks recently presented their amazing work at the 4th annual BTSCON, held virtually on October 6-8, 2025.
Check out the following talks, symposiums, and unconferences hosted by various CONNECT partners:
Investigating Overimitation in Dogs: The ManyDogs 2 Project 🐕
Presenter: Karoline Gerwisch
Additional authors: ManyDogsProject, Louise Mackie, Ludwig Huber
Hold that fin! A big-team dive into fish self-control 🐟
Presenter: Laurent Prétôt
Additional authors: Benjamin C. Bluck, María J. Cabrera-Álvarez, Yseult Héjja-Brichard, Kyndal Irwin, Tyrone Lucon-Xiccato, Cait Newport, Maria Santacà, Levi Storks
Include, scale, and reach out: Challenges ahead and learning from ManyX projects ⭐
Presenter: Indranil Dutta, Drew Altschul
Additional authors: ManyBabies, ManyPrimates, ManyLanguages
ManyPrimates 3: Inference by Exclusion 🐵
Presenter: Drew Altschul
Additional authors: ManyPrimates
The ManyBirds Project: Updates and Future Plans 🦜
Presenters: Jimena Lois Milevicich
Additional authors: Rachael Miller, Vedrana Šlipogor, Kai R. Caspar, Carl Soulsbury, Claudia Mettke-Hofmann, Megan Lambert, and the ManyBirds Project
ManyBabies 2, 3, & 4 symposium 👶
Presenters: Anna Krämer, Kelsey Lucca, Catia Ferreira De Oliveira, Tobias Schuwerk
Additional authors: ManyBabies 2, ManyBabies 3, & ManyBabies4
Big-Team Science Resource Corner: Improving access to research and teaching materials 📖
Presenters: Aleksandra Lazić, Pooja Kulkarni, Alma Jeftic, Karla Garduño-Realivazquez, Nadia Corral-Frías, Brendan Ch’ng, Sergio Barbosa, Federico Alegría
All recordings from the conference are uploaded to YouTube at this link.
In addition, the CONNECT partnership’s four specialized working groups hosted hack-a-thons focused on our three core initiatives:
Toward a metascience of large-scale collaboration: Developing tools and metrics to evaluate Big Team Science workflows
Leads: Krista Byers-Heinlein and Nicolás Alessandroni
What do we need to improve large acale collaborations? Developing infrastructure and tools for Big Team Science
Leads: Melanie Soderstrom and Francis Yuen
Promoting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Big Team Social Sciences
Leads: Nadia Corral-Frias, Alma Jeftic, and Kiley Hamlin
Big Team Science training and knowledge mobilization resources: What exists and what do we need?
Leads: Michael Frank and Heidi Baumgartner