Tim Errington is the senior director of research at the Center for Open Science (COS) that aims to increase openness, integrity and reproducibility of scientific research. In that position, he conducts research 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 reproducibility projects, such as the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology, the DARPA-supported Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE), and evaluation projects of new initiatives such as open science badges, registered reports and a novel responsible conduct of research training.

Errington received his Ph.D. in microbiology, immunology and cancer biology from the University of Virginia, his MA in molecular and cell biology at University of California Berkeley and earned a BS in biology and chemistry at St. Lawrence University.