Nicholas A. Coles

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, where I direct the Social Science Collaboratory: a group dedicated to advancing open, collaborative, and quantitative methods in the social sciences.

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Much of my work focuses on big team science, affective science, and machine learning. For example, I founded the Many Smiles Collaboration: a large adversarial collaboration that evaluated whether posed smiles can make people feel happier. I subsequently supported the broader big team science movement by directing the Psychological Science Accelerator: a global data collection network involving thousands of researchers from over 70 countries. Through this kind of work, I have more broadly studied and written about the rise, benefits, and challenges of collaboration in science.