March 2026
CONNECT newsletter

Thank you for your interest in our partnership and for helping us work towards a more connected future for Big Team Social Science!

Working Group Updates

CONNECT is supported by three specialized working groups that drive our core initiatives. Here is what the groups have been working on.
Metascience
The Metascience group has just finished putting together a survey to measure researchers’ experience in Big Team Science.
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Tools & Infrastructure
The TI group has finished putting together a survey to assess project collaboration tools in Big Team Science. They are now continuing to compile a list of useful tools for large-scale projects.
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Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion
The EDI group is now working with Avances en Psicología Latinoamericana to send out a call for articles centred around Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (JEDI) in multisite and international collaborative research.
Join the working group

Events

APR
23
ManyBabies presents: 
Datapages workshop
Want to learn how to create an interactive, user-friendly interface for your data? Register for this free virtual workshop where we’ll demo how to get started with Datapages and you’ll test it out yourself in a hands-on session. For this workshop, we recommend some basic familiarity with R and RStudio. Beginners welcome!
Learn more and register
APR
30
Canadian Reproducibility Network presents: 
Meta-science in ecology and lessons from 3 meta-science organisations: AusRN, AIMOS, SORTEE
This talk will explore how meta-science initiatives in ecology are advancing reproducibility.
Learn more and register
OCT
27-29
Canadian Reproducibility Network presents: 
2nd Canadian Open Science Conference
The 2nd Canadian Open Science Conference will be held in Ottawa, Canada, from October 27–29, 2026. This conference, spearheaded and organized by PMC members Nico Alessandroni and Krista Byers-Heinlein, had its inaugural meeting in October 2025 and we are so excited it will have a second installment. Please visit the conference website to save the date and join the mailing list. We will share additional details as they become available. 
Learn more and save the date
To view all upcoming events, check out our events page and calendar
If you would like to share information about an upcoming event, fill out this form or email us.

Partner Updates

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A recording of the ManyManys webinar, “What's the use of preregistration for Big Team Science?" is available now.
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ManyBabies recently launched its newest project, MB8: Screen Use! Subscribe to the MB8 listserv to receive info about upcoming events. 

Reminders

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