The 4th annual BTSCON was held virtually on October 6-8, 2025. The goal of this three-day virtual conference was to bring together a multidisciplinary group of researchers, funders, and stakeholders to discuss advancements, challenges, and future opportunities related to big team science.
Program
The 2025 BTSCON program consisted of amazing keynotes, hackathons, panels, and talks from BTS experts and contributors from around the world.
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2025 Keynote Speakers
Angela Duckworth, Ph.D.
Co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative & Professor of Psychology | University of Pennsylvania, USMegastudies: A new paradigm for field studies in social science
Monday, October 6 | 15:00-16:00 UTC
Christopher Stubbs, Ph.D.
Author of "Going Big: A Scientist's Guide to Large Projects and Collaborations" & Professor of Physics and of Astronomy | Harvard University, USGoing Big: How it's different, the ways it challenges us, and why we (increasingly?) need to do it
Tuesday, October 7 | 14:00-15:00 UTCFeatured Sessions
Registered replication report: Study 3 from Trafimow and Hughes (2012)
Monday, October 6 | 16:00-16:30 UTCPresenter: Sean Rife, Murray State University
Big Team Science projects in the majority world
Tuesday, October 7 | 15:00-16:30 UTCPresenters:
Amelia Ibarra Mevans, University of Arizona
Diana Núñez, Yale University
Iris Žeželj, University of Belgrade
Majority world leadership in Big Team Science: Barriers, opportunities and ways forward
Wednesday, October 8 | 15:00-16:00 UTCModerator: Nadia Sarai Corral-Frias, Universidad de Sonora, México
Panelists:
Adeyemi Adetula, Lecturer/Research Scientist, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Nigeria | Lead researcher Many Labs Africa
Paola Giusti-Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, University of Florida | Executive Committee and Co-founder of the Latin American Genomics Consortium
Amelia Ibarra Mevans, Clinical Psychology Graduate Student, University of Arizona | Co-leader of the Vigilance In LATin America Research Group
Iris Žeželj, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Belgrade | Leader of the "Common drivers of questionable health behaviours identified across 33 countries and five continents" project
2025 BTSCON Organizers
- Sergio Barbosa De La Torre, ABRIR & Universidad del Rosario, Colombia [email]
- Heidi Baumgartner, ManyBabies & Stanford University, USA [email]
- Erin Buchanan, Psychological Science Accelerator & Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, USA [email]
- Brendan Ch’ng, ABRIR & Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus, Malaysia [email]
- Nadia Corral-Frías, ABRIR & Universidad de Sonora, México [email]
- Alma Jeftic, ABRIR, University of Geneva, Switzerland, & Peace Research Institute at International Christian University, Japan [email]
- Savannah Lewis, Psychological Science Accelerator & University of Alabama, USA [email]
Accessibility Consultant
2025 Program Committee
- Nicolás Alessandroni, Concordia University, Canada
- W. Matthew Collins, Nova Southeastern University, USA
- Laurent Prétôt, Pittsburg State University, USA
- Ekaterina Pronizius, SCAN-Unit, Austria & UCLouvain, Belgium
- Christian Stephens, Iowa State University, USA
2025 Sponsor Organizations
The Big Team Science Conference is presented by CONNECT, an SSHRC-funded partnership that unites seven Big Team Social Science (BTSS) networks comprising more than 3,500 researchers from over 70 countries.
This year's conference is organized by members of:
ManyBabies
Psychological Science Accelerator
