📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v

We sincerely thank Erasmus University Rotterdam for their support in 2025 via the Erasmus Diamond Open Access Fund 🙏 www.eur.nl/en/library/r...

The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) has released “A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations”, designed to help research performing organizations. ℹ️ Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gSzFA6 @dorassessment.bsky.social

We posted a short #OAWeek blog post yesterday, highlighting ways in which @uoylibrary.bsky.social supports external, community-led open research initiatives, including @openbookcollective.bsky.social, @peercommunityin.bsky.social , @oapenbooks.bsky.social and @proghist.bsky.social 👇

On November 4th, PCI will participate in the Open Access Week hosted by the Institut Polytechnique de Paris! For more information, visit www.ip-paris.fr/en/news/open...

Great news for #replication #research. We have our own journal now! www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/in... #openscience @flavioazevedo.bsky.social

Curious about becoming a PCI Psych recommender, but not sure if you should? Here's a short video with some reasons why it might be time to sign up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BDr... #PsychSciSky #SciPub

Well done Historical Biology! 🥳 doi.org/10.1080/0891...

Next week, PCI will be at the Open Access week organised by Johns Hopkins University: hub.jhu.edu/events/2025/... and the ACROSS Open Access week organised by the University of Perpignan: bu.univ-perp.fr/bibliotheque...

Many thanks to the University of Graz for joining the PCI supporters in 2025!✨ www.uni-graz.at/en/

Last Friday, we published the 500th article of Peer Community Journal! 🥳

We are delighted to have Durham University as one of our supporters this year. Thank you!💐 www.durham.ac.uk

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s

Register now for #SORTEE2025 conference! We thank our sponsors (@asn-amnat.bsky.social, @cdnsciencepub.com, @datadryad.bsky.social, @peercommunityin.bsky.social, @royalsociety.org, @sse-evolution.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social) who are eligible for free registration.

Hot off the heels of our what is a preprint video is our what is preprint peer review video! Featuring @prelights.bsky.social @prereview.bsky.social @reviewcommons.org, @elife.bsky.social & @peercommunityin.bsky.social #peerreview #preprint #scipub

PCI is featured in this Nature News post, which presents some ideas to help fix the peer-review system: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It is next week! Have you registered yet?

💡 PCI recently took part in a CSE webinar focusing on the publish-review-curate model. Read about the discussions and discover innovative strategies for decentralized publishing at: www.csescienceeditor.org/article/new-...

ICYM ASAPbio seeks new board members to support our mission of driving positive change in science communication!🚀 🤝 Board members are involved in strategic planning, participate in decision-making, and engage the community to help connect ASAPbio to contacts who can help us achieve our mission.✍️ 🔬

We are thrilled to announce that PCI is now supported by the University of Bern (www.unibe.ch/index_eng.html)! 💫

PCI Ecology and PCI Evolutionary Biology have recently launched a team of data editors who are implementing the SORTEE guidelines for new submissions. Other PCIs may join soon. Expressions of interest from potential new data editors are welcome!

📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit:

Many thanks to Karlstad University for becoming a supporter of PCI this year (www.kau.se/en)%F0%9F%98...!

The Association for Psychological Science and its journal AMPPS recently spotlighted PCI in two news articles💫!! You can find them here: www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... and here: www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Check out the SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code checks in E&E journals 🤩! We have been implementing these at @peercommunityin.bsky.social and we hope others will follow suit. Also very interesting from an author's perspective 😉

PCI is at the Ecology & Behaviour 2025 @ecobhvr2025.bsky.social conference this week! If you're curious about the PCI initiative, Barbara Class will be happy to answer any questions you may have on Wednesday morning ☕

Many thanks to the University of Göttingen for supporting PCI in 2025! 🤩 www.uni-goettingen.de/en/1.html

Stockholm University (@stockholm-uni.bsky.social) is joining the ranks of PCI's new sponsors for 2025! 😊 www.su.se/english/

Why link preprints and their peer reviews? Read this post from Kathleen Shearer (COAR @coar-repositories.bsky.social): coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

PCI is proud to welcome the Universidade do Minho - Unidade de Serviços de Documentação e Bibliotecas (USDB) as one of its new supporters 🥳 www.usdb.uminho.pt/pt

Explore how PCI is spotlighted in this Le Monde piece, which outlines the challenges in academic publishing and discusses alternative paths. The full article (for subscribers): buff.ly/sGnBWp8. #ScholarlyPublishing #LeMonde

Biology Open's editorial on a decade of preprints in biology. Check it out here: journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

#Nouveauté // “Psychology”, la nouvelle section de la revue “Peer Community Journal”, est désormais en ligne ! 👉 www.uga-editions.com/uga-editions... 👏 Diffusion : centre Mersenne en collaboration avec UGA Éditions ! @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social @centre-mersenne.bsky.social

This year, PCI is also supported by the University of Lausanne & BCUL via their revolutionary Diamond Open Access Fund! What a great way to support diamond OA journals!😍 ⭐ www.bcu-lausanne.ch/en/blog-libr...

A very important document by the European University Association, which clearly outlines the current challenges in scholarly communication and highlights ways to move forward! You can access it at: www.eua.eu/publications...

PCI was interviewed by Damon Orion, a writer for the Local Peace Economy media. Don’t miss the fantastic blog article here! 👇 observatory.wiki/How_Academic...

We are delighted to share that the ETH Zürich Library has become a supporter of PCI!🎉

📣 Calling on individuals interested in: ✨ Reinforcing the potential of preprints and expanding their uptake ✨ Role of preprints in improving trust and integrity ✨ Preprints in the Global South ✨ Institutional recognition of preprints If that's you, let us know!

You can now watch the recording of Brandon Stell's PCI webinar! ⏯️ Check it out here youtu.be/PXshwcUmTog?...

We're pleased to announce the University of Cambridge as a new supporter of PCI! We greatly appreciate their endorsement of our open, transparent, and community-driven peer review model.

Thanks to the Société Française de Bioinformatique for the highlight 😊 www.sfbi.fr/en/blog/arti...

🥁Today at 4pm CET!

NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @peercommunityin.bsky.social / @pci-regreports.bsky.social Read here ➡️ osf.io/tn8mh

Many thanks to the University of Melbourne for joining the PCI supporters in 2025! ✨ blogs.unimelb.edu.au/researcher-l...

Reminder: It is next week!

Exciting update across all @peercommunityin.bsky.social websites! Now, every review, editorial decision, and author response has its own DOI. This allows for citation of each step if necessary and helps in recognizing the contributions of everyone involved in our 🆓 and transparent evaluation process

We are looking for new recommenders to join Peer Community in Genomics! The position of “recommender” is analogous to an associate editor at a traditional journal. However, recommenders are not obliged to handle any manuscripts.

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳 After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org #PsychSciSky #scipub

Check out the freshly launched TSOSI (Transparency to Sustain Open Infrastructure) website and take a peek at the list of PCI supporters! tsosi.org/entities/ba7...

Still time to register for this webinar: TSOSI, a new platform designed to promote transparency and broaden support for open science infrastructure