This is the inaugural issue of the CONNECT newsletter, in which we will aim to provide information about the work of the partnership and share announcements about events and opportunities. Please share relevant info with your networks and help us improve future issues by sending suggestions to connect-contact@manybabies.org. Thank you for your interest in our partnership as we work towards a more connected future for Big Team Social Science!

CONNECT (Coordinated Network of Networks for Enhancing Collaborative Teams) is an SSHRC-funded partnership that unites four community partners and seven Big Team Social Science (BTSS) networks comprising more than 3,500 researchers from over 70 countries. Our mission is to apply a network-of-networks approach to understand and solve the unique challenges of large-scale social science research, making it more reliable, inclusive, and impactful. Learn more on our website.

The Metascience team is examining team assessment methodologies from organizational psychology and other relevant fields and is actively developing an instrument to evaluate BTS workflows and team experiences.

Currently, the TI working group is generating a data validator, as well as collecting a pre/post survey comparison of collaboration tools for Big Team Science.

This group has drafted a proposal for a special issue on EDI in Big Team Science. It will be an open call for articles centered around Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (JEDI) in multisite and international collaborative research.

The ManyFishes collaboration is thrilled to share that its first paper entitled "ManyFishes: a big team science collaboration on fish comparative cognition" has just been accepted for publication in Animal Cognition. This is a fully open-access review article that is part of a special collection on the diversity of fish cognition.

ManyBabies recently launched its newest project, ManyBabies 7: Curiosity! Subscribe to the MB7 listserv to receive info about upcoming events. 

MB5 is gearing up for data collection and held a pair of project info sessions in December.