Meet the ASAPbio Fellows! Let's congratulate the 2025 ASAPbio Fellows who have just recently completed the Culture & Community part of the program: Pracheta Salunkhe, Colette Li, Clinton Ngabo, Boomer Russell, and Francis Walugembe.

📢 During #PeerPeviewWeek2025, we are tackling a common myth: “Preprints aren’t peer-reviewed, so they must be poor quality.”❌ 🎬 Watch the video to learn about the evidence why that’s not true 👇 buff.ly/MKjUzAo

🎬 Do you want to see the "Director's Cut" of the scientific research? Read the preprint!📝 Brian Kelch @briankelch.bsky.social, the Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, shared with us how preprints change how Brian's team publishes scientific findings. 💡

⏰ One day left to register for the September Community Call! Join ASAPbio and our speakers for talks about PubPub and Octopus experiments with science publishing. Talks will be followed by a Q&A session with the Call participants! buff.ly/KQ0MdfT

Meet the ASAPbio Fellows! 2025 ASAPbio Fellows just recently completed the Culture & Community part of the program. Now, they are hard at work on projects that interest them.

Crowd Preprint Review activities are about to start, but you can still join! We invite cell biologists, microbiologists, immunologists, and meta-researchers to sign up as crowd preprint reviewers.

Preprinting can facilitate the dissemination of research results at affordable cost. vis @asapbio.bsky.social asapbio.org/asapbio-resp...

Meet the ASAPbio Fellows! 2025 ASAPbio Fellows just recently completed the Culture & Community part of the program. Now, they are hard at work on projects that interest them.

Scientists love doing experiments, but those experiments do not need to be performed in the lab! The speakers of our next Community Call experimented with the ways research can be communicated. Join us to hear about the results of their (ongoing) experiments. buff.ly/KQ0MdfT

Check out this Preprint Policy Framework by @asapbio.bsky.social and @creativecommons.bsky.social #MedLib #OpenAccess #Preprint

In July, ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social, Creative Commons, and major research funders launched a Preprint Policy Framework. It outlines six best-practice components. We broke it down in a blog post, check it: buff.ly/2JMpTeL #AcademicSky #AcWri #SciWri

The elements in the framework are all aimed at increasing the openness and reusability of research (for example, we recommend using a CC BY license). Review it here: asapbio.org/preprint-pol...

In partnership with @asapbio.bsky.social, we worked with 14 open science funders to develop a model policy framework for open preprints, aiming to inform their policies and practices while encouraging others to follow suit.

Why hasn't Preprint Peer Review caught on more? I discovered a small, but simple reason - authors are missing out on the JOY of getting feedback because they aren't notified when feedback occurs. more in thread below!

We believe experimentation is necessary to test various solutions and find the best approaches to improve research communication. In this month's Community Call, we would like to discuss the results of such experiments in publishing by PubPub & Octopus. Join us! buff.ly/KQ0MdfT

Did you miss our July Community Call: Replacing Academic Journals with Björn Brembs? Don't worry, we've got you covered! You can watch the call on YouTube or read the summary on our blog 👇

📣 We are calling on research funders who wish to engage in more equitable sharing of scientific research! 📝 ASAPbio and @creativecommons.bsky.social developed a standard Preprint Policy Framework that aims to further policy alignment regarding open practices for preprints.

⏰ Only two days left to submit an application! Join the ASAPbio Board and support our mission of driving positive change in science communication!🚀 We welcome people from various career stages, backgrounds, and locations!

Meet the ASAPbio Fellows! 2025 ASAPbio Fellows just recently completed the Culture & Community part of the program. Now, they are hard at work on projects that interest them.

🎤 Join us for a Community Call where a panel of experts will provide an overview of their experiments and advancements in publishing. 💬 Following the panel, we will host a Q&A session where you can ask questions and learn more about the topic! buff.ly/KQ0MdfT

⚠️📣 An excellent opportunity for those seeking ways to work toward reforms in scientific publishing! ASAPbio seeks new board members to support our mission of driving positive change in science communication!🚀 We welcome ECRs and people from all around the world! 📅Deadline: Sep 5

Meet the ASAPbio Fellows! 2025 ASAPbio Fellows just recently completed the Culture & Community part of the program. Now, they are hard at work on projects that interest them.

Consider applying if you'd like to contribute to the much-needed innovation in scientific publishing!

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.✍️ 🔬

This year's Crowd Preprint Review activities will start soon; however, if you're interested in the experiences of previous participants, read this preprint by former ASAPbio Fellows: Xiuqi Li, Josie L. Otto, Lamis Y. M. Elkheir, and ASAPbio Associate Director Jonny Coates.

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.✍️ 🔬

Grateful to @jacoates.bsky.social for leading this year's @asapbio.bsky.social Fellows program! What a great way to build community around shared values in open science. I'm now motivated to keep advocating - stay tuned for resources, reflections & hopes for a better future in academia (and beyond)!

📝ASAPbio is seeking to establish long-term, virtual crowds for preprint reviews. 🎓We particularly encourage early-career researchers to lead these crowds. ✍️As a Crowd Leader for 1 year, you'll manage a group of researchers to provide feedback on preprints. 👇For more details, visit

Meet the ASAPbio Fellows! 2025 ASAPbio Fellows just recently completed the Culture & Community part of the program. Now, they are hard at work on projects that interest them.

Open science can sometimes been seen as a risk but IME there are definitely people out there doing research more openly to advance science despite that. 1/4

A genuine opportunity to make a positive difference for science - accelerating discovery and communication in the life sciences. Apply to join the @asapbio.bsky.social board.

I was a @asapbio.bsky.social boardmember until 2023. It was a powerful opportunity to work with an incredibly thoughtful group of people committed to expanding what communicating and assessing scientific research could look like. If this sounds like your jam, definitely apply!

A fantastic opportunity to drive innovation and improve communication in the life sciences. Consider applying to become a board member at @asapbio.bsky.social! #BoardOpportunity #LifeSciences #ScienceCommunication #ResearchSky

At @asapbio.bsky.social we are seeking new members for our Board of Directors. Are you passionate about innovating scientific publishing? Do you feel science needs reward mechanisms that incentivize innovative new approaches to publishing? Then consider applying! asapbio.org/asapbio-seek...

🎤 Join us next month for a Community Call where a panel of experts will provide an overview of their experiments and advancements in publishing. 💬 Following the panel, we will host a Q&A session where you can ask questions and learn more about the topic! buff.ly/pfwTgVE

🚀Join us in implementing preprint review across life sciences and #metascience. It's a wonderful learning and service opportunity with opportunities to engage with scholars and industry experts globally. Next cycle will be my second year with the initiative!

Passionate about driving positive change in science communication? We need your guidance! asapbio.org/asapbio-seek... @asapbio.bsky.social @katiecorker.bsky.social @iaincheeseman.bsky.social @ludowaltman.bsky.social

Sign up to be a crowd preprint reviewer! ✴️ develop your reviewing skills ✴️ support trust in preprints We invite cell biologists, microbiologists, immunologists, and meta-researchers to sign up as crowd preprint reviewers.

Join us on September 18 for a panel discussion on various experiments within science publishing! We will hear about their publishing experiments from @meganhoch.bsky.social from @arcadiascience.com, @gabestein.com from PubPub, and @alexandrafreeman.bsky.social from Octopus. buff.ly/pfwTgVE

✴️ Would you like to be a leader in open #PeerReview? ✴️ Would you like to support #OpenScience and preprints? ...then join us and become Crowd Preprint Review Lead! More information and the signup form below 👇

Need an idea for your next Journal Club? Discuss a #preprint! 💪 Help the authors strengthen their work 🗣️ Discuss science as it happens 🥼 Help raise your and your group’s profile 📰 No restrictions on papers to include 🧪 Focus on the science #OpenScience

ASAPbio is looking to recruit long-term Crowd Leaders for #preprint review activities. The goal is to create a space for researchers to give feedback on preprints and support public reviews. More information can be found at

Great opportunity (especially for Early Career Researchers) to: ☑️ develop reviewing skills, ☑️ join a community of like-minded individuals, ☑️ support trust in preprints Sign up to be a crowd preprint reviewer!

📣 We are pleased to announce that recruitment for 2025-26 Crowd Preprint Reviewers & Leads is open! 📝 The goal of the Crowd Preprint Review initiative is to provide an engaging environment for researchers to participate in giving feedback on preprints and support public reviews of preprints.

📣 We are pleased to announce that recruitment for 2025-26 Crowd Preprint Reviewers & Leads is open! 📝 The goal of the Crowd Preprint Review initiative is to provide an engaging environment for researchers to participate in giving feedback on preprints and support public reviews of preprints.

Excellent work to show alignment with funder preprint policies! Keeping the work going in the #openscience and #openoutput space. #preprints #funderpolicies

Another step in growing support for preprinting: ASAPbio and Creative Commons have launched the Preprint Policy Framework, offering a systematic overview of preprint policies of several research funders. Funders and institutions interested in adopting the Framework are welcome to contact ASAPbio.

Congratulations to @asapbio.bsky.social & @creativecommons.bsky.social! Really excited to see this critical project on funder and organizational preprint policies come together.

Direct and simple #postdocvoice #academia

Preprints have helped researchers take control of dissemination of their work, but there is a ways to go. Institutions, please prevent certain corporate publishers from wresting back control, and set the foundation for further open dissemination by adopting these recommendations! #openaccess