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Thanks Hansika Kapoor, PhD for your diligent work and insight as a member of our Management Team and as an evaluation manager.

https://bit.ly/NudgeUJ evaluation package for Banerjee et al -- "Selecting the Most Effective Nudge: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment on Immunization" How can a government or NGO find the ‘best way’ to get people to do something like vaccinate or send their kids to school? There’s a lot of ‘new policy tools’ such as nudges, reminders, and conditional direct payments, & many ways to do & combine these. But how do we find the best combo? See our thread on BlueSky

Recent 'applied stream' evals: http://dlvr.it/TDBwX2 "Forecasting Existential Risks, Evidence from a Long Run Forecasting Tournament" by Ezra Karger, Josh Rosenberg, Zachary Jacobs, Molly Hickman, R. Hadshar, Kayla Gamin, Taylor Smith, Bridget Williams, Tegan McCaslin, Stephen Thomas, Philip Tetlock

New evals: http://dlvr.it/TDBvbX Claude-AI: "Biodiversity Risk" offers insights on impact of ESG concerns on financial returns. New msr of perceived biodiversity risk; ~useful for future work. But the def. of biodiv. risk lacks clarity & nuance, potentially confusing it w/ climate risk. Paper shd explore policy implications, e.g. better pricing of biodiv. risks & addressing externalities btwn. firms exposed to & responsible for biodiv. damages. Dictionary approach limits analysis depth.

Quite a few new #unjournal.org evaluation packages have come out recently. Check out http://dlvr.it/TD8qvz and a new 'quick summary view' interface at http://dlvr.it/TD8qwJ

The Unjournal's Independent Evaluations project is now live to the public and we are looking for participants! After the first 8 quality submissions (or by January 1, 2025 - whichever comes later) we will award a prize of $500 to the most valuable evaluation. Further prizes will be announced based on the success of this initiative. To view some of the research you might evaluate, head to our public research database: https://shorturl.at/cFlmR

The Unjournal provided funding and support to the “Data Management and Sharing, and Open Evaluations Workshop” at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, a workshop sponsored by the  Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) on August 21. As a part of the workshop, David Reinstein (The Unjournal’s Director) and Emmanuel Orkoh (Unjournal Management Team) discussed innovations in journal-independent open evaluation. They presented The Unjournal’s approach in context and invited students’ and researchers’ participation in initiatives such as the “independent evaluations” project. This workshop aimed to build the capacity of graduate students and researchers in developing countries to produce transparent, reproducible, and impactful research. It provided participants the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of open science practices and robust, replicable research processes and pipelines, and to build stronger global ties with cutting-edge researchers and institutions.

The Unjournal is excited to announce two pilot initiatives - pivotal questions and independent evaluation projects. As a part of our pivotal questions initiative, we will select important and impactful research questions and evaluate a cluster of research associated with it. You can read more about our project here: https://shorturl.at/hMyhM Independent evaluations project seeks academics, researchers, and students to submit structured evaluations of the most impactful research emerging in the social sciences. Strong evaluations will be posted or linked on our PubPub community, offering readers a perspective on the implications, strengths, and limitations of the research. Read more: https://shorturl.at/zOCId