Jessica Polka
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Open Science Program Director at Astera Institute Somerville, MA
I’m excited to share that I’m embarking on a new chapter: after 9 years working in open science nonprofits, including most recently at
@asterainstitute.bsky.social
, I’m transitioning to a new effort in the open education space - more on that soon!
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Getting more science into the world means publishing beyond papers. There’s no one-size-fits-all answer, but there are options to help researchers transcend the structure of traditional papers. See my analysis on Human Readable:
asterainstitute.substack.com/p/science-tr...
9 months ago
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One of our
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open science fellows is running a competition to identify interesting uses of the
@metapages.bsky.social
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open.substack.com/pub/dionwhit...
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Scientific Visualization Competition Series: 2
We're excited to announce our second weekly science challenge, focusing on biological data visualization!
https://open.substack.com/pub/dionwhitehead/p/scientific-visualization-competition?r=49lh2b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
9 months ago
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⏰ Deadline today!
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10 months ago
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Nokome Bentley
10 months ago
Come and find out about 🪄Alchemy, ✨Cosmik, 🕸Fylo, 📑MetaPages, 🔬SciSci, and 📊Stencila, and help us make them more useful tools for science 🧪 !
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Calling all Bay Area researchers for a paid opportunity: the
@asterainstitute.bsky.social
Open Science Program’s User Testing Day in Emeryville on Feb 11! 📍 Try cutting-edge research tools 💡 Share feedback 🍷 Network Apply by Feb 5:
forms.gle/1qk4PHjbee35...
#UXTesting
#Biotech
#OpenScience
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Application to the Astera Open Science program's user testing day
Are you a Bay Area researcher in academia or industry? Do you want to make an impact on innovative tools designed to transform the way we work and think? Apply below to be a part of the Astera Open Sc...
https://forms.gle/1qk4PHjbee35i1J68
10 months ago
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Curious about new tools to manage scientific information? Join us at the Whitehead on Tuesday 1/28 2-4pm...💡
@ronent.bsky.social
@iaincheeseman.bsky.social
@nadjaohnadja.bsky.social
#openscience
10 months ago
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Excellent post-mortem of peer-review.io - why is it so hard to disrupt peer review? 👥 social pressure to review ⚖️ need for moderation 🔑 reputational lock-in Would love to see more scholcomm experiments report learnings like this!
theroadgoeson.com/crowdsourcing-…
ht Subbiah Arunachalam
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https://theroadgoeson.com/crowdsourcing-…
almost 2 years ago
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Iain Cheeseman
almost 2 years ago
An amazing opportunity to shape the future (and present) of scientific communication. Advance discovery. Do right by science and scientists. Make a positive and tangible difference. ASAPbio is an incredibly effective and robust organization that is looking for a new leader. Apply today!
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After 8+ incredible years at ASAPbio, I am beginning a new chapter as Open Science Program Director at Astera Institute later this month. So, we're looking for new leadership: please share the posting with people passionate about open science!
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Job posting: Executive Director of ASAPbio (deadline Feb 19)
Join us to make scholarly communication in the life sciences more open and efficient by catalyzing cultural change in scholarly communication, for instance around the use of preprints and other interi...
https://asapbio.org/job-posting-executive-director-of-asapbio-deadline-feb-19
almost 2 years ago
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+ Flatland! Thanks for a fun conversation!
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almost 2 years ago
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A browser extension that blocks journal names (on pubmed or the whole web) so researchers can focus on evaluating research itself without quality proxies Does it exist? Is anyone working on this?
almost 2 years ago
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
almost 2 years ago
You do not need private emails when leaders of the movement are publicly tweeting about the motivation behind their actions.
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Just as not all preprint servers are suffixed w/ "Rxiv" not everything ending in "Rxiv" is a preprint server. Case in point - searchRxiv is a database for search strings! Interesting concept
www.cabidigitallibrary.org/journal/sear...
almost 2 years ago
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We're trying a new experiment at
#cellbio2023
this year. Join us!
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Meet your colleagues and discuss a new preprint over lunch during Cell Bio 2023
We’re pleased to announce preprint launch parties during Cell Bio 2023 (Boston, MA, USA)! These lunch events are not formally affiliated with ASCB/EMBO, but will be held Monday and Tuesday, Dec 4 an...
https://asapbio.org/meet-your-colleagues-and-discuss-a-new-preprint-over-lunch-during-cell-bio-2023
almost 2 years ago
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Abel Packer closes #scielo25, saying the future is publish first, assess later with open peer review 🤩
about 2 years ago
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Wonderful discussion at #scielo25 today! TLDR for my slides: Preprints… 🟰Promote equity by lowering barriers to dissemination 💬Enable new forms of dialog ⚖️Support reinventing assessment 🔓With reviews, are dynamic OA
tinyurl.com/scielo25polka
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v2 SciELO 25 2023 Jessica Polka
Jessica Polka Executive Director, ASAPbio mas.to/@ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social mastodon.social/@polka @jessicapolka.bsky.social Preprinting to broaden scholarly dialog These slides: tinyurl.com/scielo...
https://tinyurl.com/scielo25polka
about 2 years ago
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Congress is trying to stop the Biden administration’s directive to make federally funded research articles free to read, and Mayank Chugh and I have ~opinions~
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Congress could stop free public access to government-funded research
Every year, Americans invest hundreds of billions in federal research that they can’t access.
https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/28/nelson-memo-holdren-government-funded-research-access/
about 2 years ago
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eLife's new model accelerates access to peer-reviewed research! Refereed preprints are made public in 79 days vs 170 days to publication w/old model. Via Fiona Hutton at the
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community call
@elife.bsky.social
about 2 years ago
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Publishing industry reps have argued that the EU Council's proposed "no pay" publishing model is unrealistic. But there are already 4 functioning roads to making this vision a reality: 💎 Diamond OA journals 🪙 Publishing platforms 👁️ Preprints + peer review 🔓 Subscribe to open
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EU council ‘no pay’ publishing model is realistic
This post originally appeared on Olivier Pourret's blog and in Indonesian on Dasapta Erwin Irawan's blog. Authors Olivier Pourret - UniLaSalle, Beauvais, France -
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https://asapbio.org/eu-council-no-pay-publishing-model-is-realistic
about 2 years ago
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Marc Somssich
over 2 years ago
Do you support #Preprints? If you want to show your support, you can get these stickers from
@jessicapolka.bsky.social
and
ASAPbio.org
here:
https://asapbio.org/stickers
#Publishing #OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #ResearchPublishing #AccelerateScience
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Research should never be behind a paywall. But now there's a bill in the House that will restrict access to scientific work we pay for with our taxes. Take action for #taxpayeraccess:
https://sparcopen.org/our-work/oppose-section-552-that-will-block-taxpayer-access-to-research/
over 2 years ago
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