The 5th annual BTSCON was held virtually on October 6-8, 2026. 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 2026 BTSCON program consisted of amazing keynotes, hackathons, panels, and talks from BTS experts and contributors from around the world.
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2026 Featured Sessions
Symposium:
Big Questions about Analytical Robustness
Empirical Results on Analytical Variability
Barnabas Szaszi
Institute of Operations and Decision Sciences, Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies, Corvinus University of Budapest; Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Conceptual treatment of Analytical Variability
Balazs Aczel
Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Statistical Treatment of Analytical Variability
Alexandra Sarafoglou
Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsLive Podcast Recording:
Research as it Happens
Rolf Zwaan
Department of Psychology, Child and Education Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The NetherlandsTalk:
CREP: The Collaborative Replication and Education Project
Ljiljana Lazarević
Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, SerbiaPre-Conference Workshop:
What is GitHub? A Brief Introduction
October 1, 15:30-16:30 UTC
In this webinar, we will introduce GitHub as a resource for sharing project files and building research portfolios. This webinar is ideal for those who have heard of GitHub, but have never used it before. We will cover navigating and creating repositories, downloading files, creating a research portfolio, and releases.
Watch the recording
Pre-Conference Workshop:
Accessible Presentations
October 5, 13:00-14:00 UTC
In this webinar, we'll go over the basics of making accessible presentations.
Join via Zoom
Add to calendar2026 BTSCON Organizers
- Heidi Baumgartner, ManyBabies & Stanford University, USA [email]
- Erin Buchanan, Psychological Science Accelerator & Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, USA [email]
- Nadia Corral-Frías, ABRIR & Universidad de Sonora, México [email]
- Savannah Lewis, Psychological Science Accelerator & University of Alabama, USA [email]
- Brittany Tsang, CONNECT & University of British Columbia, Canada [email]
- Steven Verheyen, FORRT & Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands [email]
2026 Program Committee
- Alma Jeftic, Advancing Big-team Reproducible Science through Increased Representation (ABRIR); University of Geneva, Switzerland; & Peace Research Institute at International Christian University, Japan
- Marine Joly, ManyPrimates & University of Portsmouth, UK
- Mahmoud Elsherif, Psychological Science Accelerator, FORRT, ManyEyes, & University of Birmingham, UK
- Losia Lagisz, Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE); Canadian Reproducibility Network (CaRN) & University of Alberta, Canada
2026 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:
