Still waiting for the UK to adopt these kinds of roles. Advocacy/direct effort is a vital part of OS adoption mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree... Great opportunity for someone in Canada though.

It sticks out in this article that #openscience top brass quickly pivoted from critiquing “gold standard” science to embracing it. Helping the very same nih director who is slashing science in the us, politicizing it, and shared conspiracy theories about me and my colleagues work.

Question to feed into an upcoming video: Who is science for? / Why do you do science? Other academics? The public? Policy makers? Just a career? to benefit society? #academicsky #science

This is vital for our success. So far I've been doing everything whilst unemployed and burning through savings. Even small donations would help with keeping the podcast running and allow an expanded YouTube effort. Bigger donations would enable us to enable others.

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"A mix of science advocate and the guy who brings the mulled wine to the party—but instead of wine, it’s hot takes on academic integrity." - I'd like to be clear. I also bring the wine!

I keep saying that there is a huge problem in the OS space (& wider reform) of mistrust and disillusionment. This, right here, is spot on. It's so nice to hear this coming from someone else and Richard is hitting some of the concerns I've heard from researchers.

www.science.org/content/arti... Worth highlighting this isn't the first, vixra has a dedicated AI platform already - ai.vixra.org (I don't recommend this or their "normal" preprint server). You will not find any of these on our preprint server list: ripplingideas.org/portfolio/pr... just FYI

New guide alert! 🚨 If your journal club is stuck in “read and vibe” mode, this walks you through switching to a preprint review club where your discussions actually help authors and your ECRs. Science but with community energy ✨ Get it here: zenodo.org/records/1... 1/2

Breaking silence again to say how dissapointed and slightly confused I am at this. Not a single direct mention of preprints - the single biggest effort that can be capitalised on to achieve assessment reform. Given some of the orgs involved this is particularly perplexing sfdora.org/2025/12/02/a...

UK government, delivering late and not as advertised initially. Not ideal implementation but much needed to prevent abusive employers and poor, bullying, behaviours. I've had my share of these and the damage an abusive employer can do is immense. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Vinay Prasad everyone..... Although I will hand it to him, he's not hiding his distain for anyone who disagrees with him. Nor is he hiding his willingness to ignore scientific debate or the scientific method. To be clear, this is not how a good scientist behaves

This is kinda the problem. Science has been built on inherent trust and the notion that there are no bad actors or people doing bad things. We need to have clear signals of trust beyond the individual person. The incentives are too misaligned for that system to make sense.

Not sure it was meant to be used for mulled wine but still!

Going to try to get into the festive spirit. Tree is up, dogs stocking is up. Finishing touches to do tomorrow. Christmas music on, mulled wine in preparation.

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Working hard today! Lots of data collection. The analysis pipelines are ready and waiting. Writing/slides are underway. Also have new YouTube videos out earlier this week! #preprints

I can't wait to share this bit of work in January! It's been something I've wanted to do for ages now and it's finally underway. Going to be featuring an in depth look @openrxiv.bsky.social (because they're wonderful and provide API access) and more!

The Matthew Effect is alive and well in academia - always makes me wary of programs aimed at identifying rising stars in an already highly talented pool... elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Join us on the podcast! Get in touch if you've recently posted an interesting preprint - we'd love to chat with you

If you're working to change academia or scholarly publishing then this is such a small yet impactful investment! With 50+ hours of content about how great preprints are this is a vast resource. We've also recently started a YouTube channel to expand this even more (www.youtube.com/@rippling_id...)

This is fantastic!

Mark knocking it out of the park again!

Strongest possible recommendation for this program! If you're an ECR this is a fantastic opportunity

We need new funding & support to keep the Preprints in Motion podcast running for another year! We've mapped out what different levels of funding could do for us. I know this is tiny change for some orgs out there but would mean an enormous amount to us 👀

My horoscope today is telling me that I should "do" collaboration. So, let's put it to the test. I'll be sending some emails out but if you'd like to collaborate with me then please do reach out!

Why is it sooo difficult to open a business bank account? I don't yet have any income but I can't start trading without an account for potential income to go into!

A lot of the discourse around the openrxiv announcement of experimenting with qed is quite surprising. It's an experiment and it's not "peer review" it's more for author feedback. In that use case it doesn't have to be perfect or listened to. Authors can decide if it highlights a good gap and act

I'm officially no longer part of ASAPbio; a community I had been part of for 7+ years. As such this feels like a good moment to reflect back on what I achieved while I was there. A short 🧵

This looks like such a cool job at @cshlnews.bsky.social Sadly it's in-person in the US. But if that works for you (I'm a lil jealous & unqualified) then it definitely seems like a great opportunity!

I'm not convinced that yet another declaration is really all that helpful but I do agree with the points. I would much rather see more collaboration and synergy between all of the current efforts as that would actually lead to some change rather than yet more people coming up with similar ideas.

It's that time of year again where we are looking for funding to support the future of the Preprints in Motion podcast! Low running costs (or a slightly bigger sponsorship to allow us to do more) Anyone like to sponsor us, before I start pestering people? #preprints #scicomm #podcast #academicsky

I’m reading a book about berlin in the 30s right now & there are so many overlaps w current American scene but one is the violent keystone cop thuggishness is exactly how the brown shirts operated. Read accounts of then to narrate videos now.

This is sad indeed!

It's getting to that time of year where we need to start looking for renewed funding for the Preprints in Motion podcast. Anyone out there who would like to sponsor us? Our yearly running costs are pretty low (though we'd love to upgrade our mic set up) #scicomm #preprints

My quote of the day Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. Colin Powell

And @royalsociety.org STILL stands by this man! He is a clear and present danger, stoking tensions and violence. He should never have been a fellow to begin with, but too many people seem to make bad choices then double down instead of admitting they made a mistake.

This was such a fun chat, Ashley is definitely one of my favourite people to chat with!

I'm actually in the midst of writing an article on this very topic!

Looking forward to seeing a whole bunch of amazing open science folk in a couple of days in sunny San Diego! @cziscience.bsky.social

Really fantastic to see our work featured so prominently in this video about preprints and COVID-19! m.youtube.com/watch?v=M70y... These 2 papers are definitely the pinnacle of my academic career!

If you have any questions about joining our board please do reach out and I'm happy to chat. There are more materials I can share, including a draft strategy for those interested. Expressions of interest: forms.gle/BnEX9kQnTjE4...

I've been awake for 22 hours now. Couple more to go. On the upside, got into the US without any issues. Look forward to the @cziscience.bsky.social OS meeting!

Love this so much. Works perfectly everytime.

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

This is how you do "invite only" events! You're never going to get good viewpoint diversity if you rely on people you already know - who often already attend the same meetings and say the same things over and over. www.cerra.aau.dk - also a great looking meeting!

Yes to the attention score method of determining when to do peer review! This is something I've suggested a few times in the past.

I'm biased but I think this is a really good guide 😉 I'm also very open to feedback and collaborations on a version 2. Or, even better, tailoring this to specific departments/institutions to incorporate specific institutional policies too! (*cough* any librarians interested?)