This is possibly the worst time to create such an organisation, given the funding situation. BUT. It's also needed more than ever - a reaction I've had from a lot of people now (who kindly have also been excited that I'm personally involved). So, if you're up for a challenge, then come join us.

Come join our tribe to make a real meaningful difference. We're about action and tangible change, not empty words or the same old meetings.

Looking for a wide variety of expertise and experience. Additionally seeking any advice from people who've set up their own nonprofits in the UK!

Dutch late night TV has its take

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

We're accepting expressions of interest to join our inaugural board! As this is the board that will also be helping to establish us we are primarily focussed on people who are passionate about our focus areas and vision and who have experience/willing to get involved. 1/2

A warning against using this service. Account deleted (not that I used it anyway though)

How Preprints Are Revolutionising Science Publishing in Just 48 Hours! youtube.com/shorts/-yXVH... Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more!

It's official! @ripplingideas.bsky.social is a registered non-profit company in the UK 🎉🎉🎉 We'll be applying for charitable status once we have potential funding committed/secured.

Check out our new best practices! And other #prw2025 activities.

Join our upcoming webinar, "Who Has a Voice in Open Science?". 📅Date: 13 October 2025 ⏰Time: 8:00 am (PDT) | 5:00 pm (CEST) | 11:00 pm (CST) 👉Register: buff.ly/i9PNMSr Featuring invited speakers from PREreview @prereview.bsky.social, Rippling Ideas @ripplingideas.bsky.social and Preprints.org.

We've just released the first in a series of best practice guidelines around the use of AI in preprints and preprint peer review. Also widely applicable to traditional publishing! Some review services have already begun to implement some of our guidelines 🎉🎉 #scipub #academicsky

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

Brand new explainer on preprints! If you teach preprints, advocate for preprints or don't even know what one is then this should be useful 🙂 #preprint #scipub #scicomm

Last year at the CZI Open Science meeting, I spoke about the importance and power of communities in driving change in open science, specifically using my own journey as an example. It's hard to belive that this year at the same meeting I am not representing that community I spoke about.

BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End ‘Wall to Wall’ Farage Coverage They accuse the BBC of “following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage bylinetimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

Title over experience or expertise Self over team Theft of ideas over credit Exclusion over inclusion Personal over professionalism That's how you quickly destroy workplace culture and organizations. @ripplingideas.bsky.social we're working to make academic culture healthier and less toxic

Excellent piece from Maddi (again)! This is why I set up @ripplingideas.bsky.social with the specific focus areas of open science, academic culture and trust in research. These are so intricately linked but nobody seems willing to talk about bullying and behavior.

Excellent post from @pracheeac.bsky.social & Mike Eisen "How will I decide what to read?" and the whole curation thing constantly bothers me & I think the current thinking (by scientists & those trying to reform things) is hugely outdated. thescientistpapers.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

The top-down approaches in the OS space are pushing researchers away & damaging the movement. It's sad to see organisations that were once community beacons turning to this approach instead. It's a huge mistake. We should work with researchers & evidence - not push them away in favour of opinions

I'm looking for a US based 501(c)(3) who would be willing to apply for a grant with me & collaborate on an AI-based project. This is community/guideline based project rather than software. Happy to share more with those interested!

Can we measure #trust in scientific #publications? @jacoates.bsky.social @ripplingideas.bsky.social offers a model for assessing the trustworthiness of #research on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social.

This is a fantastic addition to the argument for science & vaccines in particular

It's Friday evening and before I stop SM for the weekend I wanted to put out my availability again If you would like a talk about preprints or academic culture then I'm extremely available at the moment and would love to talk for you/your audience!

Funding info in preprints isn’t just a formality. It’s part of the research record. 🔍 Builds trust through transparency 📑 Meets funder requirements 📈 Boosts discoverability & impact bioRxiv now has an easy way to add standardized funder info at the time of submission. openrxiv.org/funder-metad...

Really great step that is not only highly useful for funders but also is an additional marker of trust.

New podcast episode dropping tomorrow. If you'd like a sneak preview at the tone then this video tells you all you need to know: youtu.be/Vqbk9cDX0l0?...

New from @ripplingideas.bsky.social! The current proxies used to assess research result in an unhealthy culture, decreasing trust in outputs and do little to inform readers. How might be change this? I've put a lot of thought into what this might look like 👇 #academicsky #preprints #scipub

I'd add to this that open science has also been hijacked by a few who are interested in nothing more than their own career advancement, as the significance disadvantage to the community and movement

Navigating Open Research: A Guide for Early Career Researchers. Great work from the CONUL Research Group. Free to download zenodo.org/records/1702... #irishResearch #openResearch

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It is exceptionally infuriating how much attention is paid to a person's title. Titles don't necessarily mean expertise or experience or even competence. Just like with poor metrics in evaluating researchers, we shouldn't rely on a person's job title either.

Huge huge huge congratulations! Exceptionally well deserved.

I predict a bitter blog post coming from a certain Mr Anderson soon...

In the strongest possible terms: I cannot recommend. In fact, my professional opinion would be to actively avoid

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I'm rapidly hurtling towards being unemployed. For someone who wraps so much of their identity up with what they do this is going to be rough. I also hate having to talk myself up and be as self focussed as you do when trying to secure a new role

I think we need to be careful and ask if the APC caps/changes NIH are thinking of imposing are genuine efforts or yet more attempt to damage science - this time by way of limiting output

Not one to be missed!

I'm potentially looking for board members for Rippling Ideas (you'd only need to be involved if I can secure funding). I've got some people in mind that I'll be reaching out to but if you're reading this & interested give me a shout 😊

Check it out! If you're a preprint review service and would like to be added please get complete the linked form from the web page :) Hope this is useful

This is such a fantastic announcement!! 🎉 Congrats to @tracykteal.bsky.social & @openrxiv.bsky.social

What do you do when asked to recommend someone who has repeatedly displayed a lack of expertise and previously given incorrect information on multiple occasions? My instinct is always to be transparent and honest. I cannot make the recommendation as I have my own professional standards to uphold.

Wrong. Preprints are absolutely not "just blog posts". This also indirectly suggests peer review is protecting the literature. Which is also untrue. There's so much evidence now around the ineffectiveness of peer review (AI is actually helping show just how poor it is).

Preprints are not blog posts... Evidence consistently shows them to be comparable to peer reviewed lit (in bioscience at least but also data for some other fields). MIT may have pushed this to media, who likely didn't do good enough due diligence. This is a prestige problem, not a preprint one.

🧵 THREAD: What the leaked Alaska summit documents really reveal (excellent scoop by @NPR) 1/ NPR just broke some big news: US government documents were accidentally left in a hotel printer in Anchorage, revealing the actual plan for the Trump-Putin summit. They show exactly what Trump intended.

Just submitted the first grant for a potential @ripplingideas.bsky.social project which is exciting. Just a reminder that we're actively seeking funding. We're focussed on preprints/OS, increasing trust in research and improving academic culture.

The @force11.bsky.social team is organizing a PREreview Club to review #metascience #preprints. They are currently looking for participants to commit at various levels to help start up the club. If that sounds like something you'd be interested in, read more: force11.org/post/organiz...

Fwiw I constantly felt like doing this damaged my career. Even now working in this space, with a change of management, I feel this has potentially ended my career. To the point that I'm having to look at moving away entirely. I'm not stopping yet & if anyone is struggling I'm always happy to chat