Tim Errington is the Senior Director of Research at the Center for Open Science (COS) that aims to increase openness, integrity, and trustworthiness of scientific research. In that position he conducts and collaborates with researchers and stakeholders across scientific disciplines and organizations on metascience projects aimed to understand the current research process and evaluate initiatives designed to increase reproducibility and openness of scientific research. These include large scale replication and reproducibility projects such as the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology and the DARPA supported Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE), and evaluation projects of new initiatives such as open science badges, Registered Reports, automated confidence assessment, and pilot programs to increase rigor and openness of research.