NSF bio hour - NSF BIO lost 40% of its staff 😑

I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...

📣 Calling all early career #neuroscientists! @thetransmitter.bsky.social & Neuromatch are teaming up to better understand how to support #EarlyCareer Researchers. Whether you're a student, postdoc, or launching your career, we want to hear from you. ➡️ www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Very much enjoyed last week's meeting in Cambridge about the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model for scholarly publishing. There were lots of highly inspiring discussions, including an important discussion about strengthening coordination between initiatives in this area. asapbio.org/reimagining-...

There seems to be a decrease in the coverage of affiliation metadata in #OpenAlex, particularly with regard to journal articles published by Elsevier since 2024. Only around 6% of Elsevier articles published in 2025 have affiliation metadata. subugoe.github.io/scholcomm_an...

Change can feel slow while it’s happening, but the contemporary landscape looks very different from even a few years ago. bit.ly/4oSkv09 #openaccess #openresearch #openscience

The Department of Psychology @uzh-ch.bsky.social has an open position for a tenured Lecturer (Research) «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship» jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... #psychjobs

Submissions due 12/19! Still plenty of time left to apply! #science #neuroscience #NIH #metascience

Just had our first set of reviews from @pci-regreports.bsky.social for our proposed study on RT during GLP-1-RA treatment. Probably the most constructive and useful set of reviews I have ever had... and having them before starting the study makes them even better! 11/10 would recommend!

We have made public #openscience materials from the Münster Center for Open Science, specifically flyers and cheatsheets on #OpenAccess, #OpenData, and #Preregistration. Flyers are already on Zenodo, Cheatsheets will follow: zenodo.org/communities/muecos/ and lukasroeseler.github.io/MueCOS-Infom...

Canada is announcing program details for science talent recruitment from abroad. The first one across my desk this morning is support for 600 doctoral students and 400 post-docs. Research investment is greatly appreciated, especially trainees and early career. www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/research_tra...

Our 2025 ASAPbio Fellow, Fotis Mystakopoulos @elibrarydude.bsky.social, will be moderating an online international discussion, co-hosted between Global Young Academy and ALMASI Project, @almasiproject.bsky.social, on the current state of Diamond publishing. 🔗 Register here: buff.ly/JQQpbhd

PCI Statistics and Machine Learning (@pcistatml.bsky.social) is now open for submissions!! statml.peercommunityin.org For an updated list of all the thematic PCIs, visit peercommunityin.org/current-pcis/

Just a reminder about the new all-island Irish Reproducibility Network. There are already lots of great people involved. You can sign up and find local site leads with the link, and if you are based in Cork feel free to reach out to me directly. irishrn.org

The Modular Peer Review Working Group we co-organized with @continuous.foundation kicks off in January, 2026! 🚀 Join the cohort shaping how we review modular research outputs like data, code, methods, and visuals. Sign up here: continuousfoundation.org/peer-form

2️⃣ Publishing preprint reviews: Another emerging model is overlaying reviews on top of preprints. In this case, the journal publishes formal peer reviews of notable and time-sensitive preprints on its publication website (cross-linked to the preprint).

^ @mitpress.bsky.social started the first journal like this, @rapidreviews-id.bsky.social. RR\ID was born out of necessity during the pandemic, initially launched as RR: COVID-19 to facilitate speedy review of COVID papers and help distinguish quality research from questionable studies.

🚫 No longer are preprint servers just platforms for sharing draft papers. Today, they are venues for so much more, like early verification of research, archiving final versions of articles to make them Green OA, and even publishing journals. 🧵 highlighting two preprint journal publishing routes 👇

The EEGManyPipelines Dataset: Metascientific Data on 168 Independent Analyses of a Single EEG Dataset: https://osf.io/c4xwg

Together with colleagues from @dorassessment.bsky.social, @cwtsnl.bsky.social, and @sciencecouncil.bsky.social, @asapbio.bsky.social hosted a workshop to identify and advance joint actions to strengthen the research assessment and publishing reform movements. Learn more: asapbio.org/internationa...

1. Transparency is necessary for credibility 2. Transparency is hard to change 3. Require transparency* 4. Transparency is not magic 5. Journals are part of problem 6. Expect more from journals 7. Peer review is not magic 8. A crisis can look a lot like „normal“ science 9. Meta-analysis is not magic

Second ASAPbio fellows project for 2025 - this one around data sharing policies at preprint servers and repositories.

Please help spread the word! All contributions tax deductible!

Starting in about two hours, I’ll be giving a zoom talk about what lessons other disciplines can take from Psychology’s replication crisis. Link to register: univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

CNRS cancels Web of Science in order to focus on qualitative evaluation and promoting the development of open databases. www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...

Each quarter, DORA hosts a Community of Practice (CoP) for International Initiatives advancing RRA. Four research groups shared insights on narrative CVs - applicant experience, reviewer behavior & cultural change. Watch & read here 👉 sfdora.org/2025/11/30/e... #ResearchAssessment #NarrativeCV

Re-upping my Bluetorial about VAERS which is the likely source of these cases. bsky.app/profile/jere... 2/2

🚨 Our team has just published a Registered Report in BMC Medicine, one of the very few medical journals that offers this format (if we want better science, we should not follow journal impact factors, we should support journals with the best policies).

Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?

Thrilled to see the work of 2025 @asapbio.bsky.social Fellows come to completion! First up, a set of interviews on recognition of preprints: ✨A Funder’s Perspective: youtu.be/CWthlNss7n4 ✨A PI’s Perspective: youtu.be/ZSqkwdFYCxQ ✨An ECR Perspective: youtu.be/6Te9dA_nv1k

📢 Upcoming #booktalk! 📖 Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph for PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET, reimagining open access through scholar-led, non-commercial publishing. 📆 Thurs Dec 4th 🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951... @SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social

At ZPID we are searching for a tenure track assistant professor for Psychological Metascience in joint appointment with @unitrier.bsky.social preferably someone who has conducted quantitative research in metascience in psychology or related disciplines. Questions? Feel free to contact me personally.

Thrilled that @shreyadimri.bsky.social & I will be part of #LoveMethods26! We'll present on "How to avoid common problems in #SystematicReviews & #MetaAnalyses" 📅 Jan 19–23, 2026 | FREE | All online Everyone's invited to join the entire week of workshops! 🔗 excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods...

There is no reason why systematic reviews can't be open. The data used for synthesis is *already* open and there are many excellent open source tools that can facilitate the easy sharing of analysis scripts. Here's a nice guide for performing open systematic reviews doi.org/10.1525/coll...

I completely agree that more is needed to implement the CRediT taxonomy in proper scholarly infrastructure. I love coding, but text and data mining is not the right way to get data that should be available in a standardised format! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We proudly present the winners of the #EinsteinFoundationAward for Promoting Quality in Research 2025! The jury has selected outstanding contributions that promote research quality around the world! In coop w/ QUEST Center @bihatcharite.bsky.social www.einsteinfoundation.de/presse/2025/... (1/5)

I think it's hard to overstate how much Simine has changed research practices and standards in psychology for the better, despite at times massive resistance from powerful parties with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Very well deserved award imho 🥳

Image screening is going to fail. We need audit trails for data provenance.

I would love to see the for-profit publishing industry taken down in my lifetime. We give our work away for free and then buy it back again. Madness.

🗓️ Save the date: The next BITSS Annual Meeting is April 16, 2026! The conference will gather experts to discuss changes in academic publishing, AI, and current challenges to research transparency. @cega-uc.bsky.social @tedmiguel.bsky.social

Join us for the @icoropen.bsky.social webinar recapping the meeting, ‘From Tools to Adoption: A Path to Modular & Interactive Scientific Publishing’. Come find out how we could potentially pivot from the PDF & print based publishing... Registration details: incentivizingopen.org/2025/11/from...

🎈 Time flies! Exactly one year ago today @rorinstitute.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social launched MetaROR, a platform to publish metaresearch through the publish-review-curate approach. Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers. [1/3]

There's got to be SOME hypothesis that makes our experiment useless. THINK! COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/stats-3 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

New blogpost. Some reflections on a @clarivate.com webinar that I attended yesterday. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... #evaluation #papermills #fraud

I wrote up an EARLY but still lengthy review of the hot new AI enhanced Google Scholar offering - Scholar Labs service aarontay.substack.com/p/scholar-la... - Image is just generated by Nano Banana Pro from my text....

📣 We are looking for new members for the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee! 📅 Applications are open until 30th November 2025 (midnight CET). 👉 Full Announcement: docs.google.com/document/d/1... ✍️ Application Form: forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2...

Super exciting to see COS committing to putting TOP into practice in its own roles as a publisher, funder, and research performing organization. I'm particularly looking forward to seeing the implementation for the research team - so much great metascience coming out of this group.

How do we make sense of scientific literature that is growing explosively to the point where no-one could read all the relevant papers, and is contaminated with fraudulent and LLM-generated papers? I think that science isn't currently equipped to deal with this, and we need to. #science #metascience

Job posting alert! Open Science Specialist at the University of Calgary (in Canada!) #job #OpenScience careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1704502...

Example of some hard fought data with real value and worth celebrating as a contribution in their own right. Very cool.