📢 We’re hiring for the Research IT / Open Science team at the University of Bonn! 👉 IT Consultant & Platform Developer (E13, full-time) fixed-term until Dec 31, 2029 📅 Apply by April 19, 2026 🔗 www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit...

📢 We’re hiring for the Open Science team at ULB Bonn! 👉 Project Coordinator & Repository Manager (E13, full-time) fixed-term until Dec 31, 2029 Work on DataPublication.nrw and help build a state-wide research data publication service! 📅 Apply by April 19, 2026 🔗 www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit...

The Copim Conference 2026 starts today! A hybrid event exploring the future of community-led Open access books: from Diamond OA and funding models to accessibility, metadata, and preservation. 🔗 copim.pub/join-us-for-... 🏫 Guidance on OA books: www.open-access.uni-bonn.de/en/basics/op...

Who owns a journal? The publisher or the scholarly community? 🔑 Title rights often determine whether editorial boards can leave commercial publishers. A free webinar (24 Feb 2026 · 10:30–12:00 CET) discusses buy-backs vs. new foundations. Register: eveeno.com/332413058

⚠️ Unsure about a journal? Predatory publishing remains a real threat! 🛠 Aletheia-Probe offers an automated check using data from multiple databases. Open source, run via command line after GitHub download. Guide: www.open-access.uni-bonn.de/en/basics/pr... Download: github.com/sustainet-gu...

Looking for genome sequences, annotations, or expression data from @puckerlabpapers.bsky.social ? Access large datasets on bonndata: 🔗 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/resea... #OpenScience #Genomics #ResearchData #Bioinformatics #GenomeData @bpucker.bsky.social @opensciene-unibonn.bsky.social

✨ New in bonndata: Anonymous Preview URLs Share unpublished datasets anonymously for peer review — no login needed, no author-identifying metadata shown. A simple way to support FAIR and transparent review workflows. 👉 bonndata.uni-bonn.de #bonndata #RDM #OpenScience #PeerReview

🎉 Congratulations to @bpucker.bsky.social on receiving the FAIR Data and Software Award for the bHLH_annotator! A great example of FAIR, well-documented research software in practice. Doing similar things in your research? We’d love to hear about it 🌱

Looking for the right place to publish Open access? 🔍 The oa.finder brings together data on 57,000+ journals and 80+ book publishers, including OA status, APC/BPC info, subject areas and institutional OA resources. finder.open-access.network

We’re continuing our series: one OA term each month! This month it’s Rights Retention 🖋️ It means keeping reuse rights when publishing so research stays accessible. Organisations such as cOAlition S and SPARC Europe actively support this approach. Learn more: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

The Service Centers Open Access and Research Data are at the Welcome Event for Doctoral Students organised by the Argelander Program @unibonn.bsky.social for Early-Career Researchers. We are looking forward to introduce our services and tools. #UniBonn #PhD #Doctorate #Networking #RDM #OA

Running or planning a Diamond Open access journal and wondering how to fund it? 💡💎 Join the "SeDOA" hands-on online workshop on 10 December, 10:00–11:30 (CET) to map your journal’s costs and explore funding models! More info & registration: www.zbw.eu/de/ueber-uns...

Working on your thesis and unsure how publishing works? 📘🎓 Join our workshop “Publication of Scientific Work” on 2 Dec 2025 (9–12 CET), offered by the Bonn Graduate Center in cooperation with the University and State Library Bonn. ➡️ Register: www.uni-bonn.de/de/forschung...

Need funding for Open Access publishing at the University of Bonn? 🔓💰 ❶ Wiley/Springer Nature/Elsevier (DEAL): Funding is managed in the publisher’s system. ❷ Other OA journals: Apply to the Publication Fund! ❸ OA books: Up to €5,000 BPC supported! 👉 www.open-access.uni-bonn.de/en/funding

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail

𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒖𝒑 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐 💾 Backups are like sunscreen: you don’t notice them until it’s too late. Keep your data safe with @unibonn.bsky.social Sciebo. 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐲 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 = 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭’𝐬 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩. #BestPracticeThursday #DataSecurity #backup #RDM #FDM

Some datasets abroad are now at risk of deletion or manipulation. That can hit research here, too. Know at-risk datasets relevant to @unibonn.bsky.social? NRW offers already safety net + new DFG call provides extra funding to secure endangered data (link below). Contact [email protected]

Make your data citable 📊 Your data deserve more than living forever in a forgotten folder. Publish it in bonndata.uni-bonn.de and get a DOI — so others can reuse (and cite!) your work. Sharing = visibility = impact. 🚀 #BestPracticeThursday #OpenScience #repository @unibonn.bsky.social

How can Open Access move beyond market logics? Samuel Moore (Cambridge University Library) will explore "Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons": a talk on rethinking OA beyond markets and policy. 🗓️ Nov 26, 17:00 CET 🔗 Register: unilu.webex.com/weblink/regi...

🔎 Discover who’s shaping #OpenAccess in the German-speaking world! The oa.hub on open-access.network showcases current Open Access projects and services. open-access.network/en/networkin...

"It is arguably the largest science crisis of all time." The #StockholmDeclaration urges reform: return publishing to academia, reward quality, detect fraud, protect integrity. 📄 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

You can tell a lot about a project by its filenames… and final_reallyFINAL.xlsx tells us everything 😅 Instead: Use clear, consistent names with version numbers Your future self will thank you zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/... #BestPracticeThursday @UniBonn #RDM

New OA term of the month: DEAL 🤝 Nationwide publish and read agreements with Elsevier, Springer Nature and Wiley. The University of Bonn takes part in DEAL. Guidance for authors: www.open-access.uni-bonn.de/en/funding/p... #OpenAccess #DEAL

It's official now! We will build a statewide research data repository for NRW. Highlights: • 🏛️ Based on Dataverse, operated in Bonn • 🧩 Modular structure: own section for each university • 🔗 Connected to other state services • ✅ Quality and visibility with DOIs and standardized review process

Förderinitiative zur Sicherung gefährdeter Datenbestände und zur #Datenresilienz: Die DFG stellt bis 2027 Mittel für Maßnahmen bereit, durch die Datensätze und Forschungsergebnisse aus Repositorien im Ausland für die deutsche/europäische Forschung gesichert werden können. www.dfg.de/de/foerderun...

Today, the SFD is dating other research data service centers at the #ForschungsDating2025. We just started with a greeting by Karoline Wirbatz. And she announced big news from @unibonn.bsky.social for fdm.nrw: DataPublication.nrw, a research data repository for NRW higher education institutions 🥳

#OAWeek2025 asked: Who owns our knowledge? In Germany, this question connects to the strategy by the Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen, calling for community-led OA infrastructures, transparent funding, and digital sovereignty. 👉 www.allianz-der-wissenschaftsorganisationen.de/en/topics-st...

New OA term of the month: Diamond OA 💎 No fees for readers or authors, journals are run by institutions, libraries, not publishers. Learn more via the new Service Center Diamond Open Access (SeDOA): diamond-open-access.de/en/sedoa/ #OpenAccess #DiamondOA

As a researcher, you do it all: teach, publish, apply for funding. Yet when trying to publish openly, the door often stays closed because of high costs, limited funds, and prestige bias. That’s why the University of Bonn supports researchers in overcoming these barriers to #OpenAccess.

80% of Nobel discoveries come from just 5 countries. If science were truly open, maybe genius would look more global. 🌍 Why Open Science should matter for the Nobel Prize → www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

𝟓 biggest RDM mistakes ➡ how to avoid them @unibonn.bsky.social 1️⃣ Collect data with no plan 💣 use our DMP guide 2️⃣ Store stuff on Dropbox 🤢 use Sciebo 3️⃣ Write local code 💻 use GitLab/Jupyter4Research 4️⃣ No documentation 🗒️ use README template as a guide 5️⃣ Share data as supplemt to paper 📂 use bonndata

👽 Alien: “What is science?” 🙂 You: “Asking questions + testing ideas.” 👽 Alien: “Then why hide the data?” Read our little story here 👇 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Who gets published, who gets cited — and who gets left behind? For women in academia, publishing is about equal participation & recognition. 👉 Workshop "Visible Research – Equal Publishing" 📅 Oct 30, 2025 | Bonn 🔗 Register: www.gleichstellung.uni-bonn.de/de/angebote-...

Halfway through your project, you can’t find the study data, five different files all claim to be final_version.xlsx, nobody remembers what the variable names mean, and the notes explaining them are scattered across three email threads. Now the funder asks for your data management strategy. Oops 👇

Did you know? 3 myths about OA … busted! ❌ “I can’t publish OA without funds.” ✅ Funders cover costs, waivers exist, Diamond OA is free. ❌ “OA isn’t peer-reviewed.” ✅ Same standards as subscription publishing. ❌ “OA isn’t copyrighted.” ✅ Authors keep rights, licenses ensure attribution.

Lost in the data jungle? 🐒 The Research Data Service Center @unibonn.bsky.social offers templates & trainings to guide you through 🌴 Get your data management plan template from our website or book a training. Still stuck? We offer 1:1 consultations for your #RDM questions. Contact details in bio 👆

New series: one Open Access term each month! This time: APC = short for Article Processing Charge, also called publication or author fee. Some publishers charge it to make articles OA. 💡 APC funding available @unibonn.bsky.social : open-access.uni-bonn.de/en/forms/application-article

Ever wondered what the OA Service Center at @UniBonn does? 🎓 Learn: We guide you through OA basics, check journals, explain licenses. 💶 Fund: We manage the OA fund for articles & books, handle OA agreements. 📖 Publish: We run repository bonndoc & hostjournals with OJS. 🔗 open-access.uni-bonn.de

There is the saying “Home is where your WiFi is”. Thanks to the European success story of eduroam, the entire world becomes your home when you’re studying or working at a university. Thanks for the cool insights @c4thrin.bsky.social at #CoRDI2025 #CoRDI

“Good infrastrcture is invisible. You usually only notice infrastructure when it malfunctions” true words in the morning keynote at #CoRDI by @c4thrin.bsky.social. Looking forward to the last day of #CoRDI2025 @nfdi.de

This week we’re at the #cordi in Aachen. And we’re happy to report that we survived the kick-off explosion that got us all started. Looking forward to exciting presentations and meeting fellow research data experts. #cordi2025

👋 Our first post! We are the #ResearchData & #OpenAccess Service Centers at @unibonn.bsky.social. We: 📖 fund OA publications 📝 consult & train on data management 🎓 offer tools for processing & sharing research data We'll share insights, resources & updates from our work! #OpenScience #UniBonn