Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her)

@barbaraclass.bsky.social

I am a behavioral ecologist interested in among-individual variation in wild animals. I am also a data editor @peercommunityin.bsky.social‬ and a cat mom. Views my own.

Our article on Peer Community In and its journal Peer Community Journal is out!!🎉 I am so proud to have been part of it 😊Dive in to learn all about this alternative publishing model: doi.org/10.1629/uksg... @peercommunityin.bsky.social @peercomjournal.bsky.social

Peer Community In and Peer Community Journal: a two-step diamond OA process giving research communities back control of publishing | Insights

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UKSG@uksg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The latest from #UKSGInsights "Peer Community In and Peer Community Journal: a two-step diamond OA process giving research communities back control of publishing" by Barbara Class, Denis Bourquet and Thomas Guillemaud dub.sh/cfTzIZS @barbaraclass.bsky.social @tguillemaud.bsky.social

The current academic publishing system faces many well-identified issues. Not only is it slow and costly, but it is also an opaque system that produces a substantial amount of non-reproducible results. Peer Community In (PCI) is a non-profit organization that allows research communities to organize the open and free peer review of preprints on different thematic platforms. The authors of preprints that are recommended by these platforms can then choose to submit them to any journal or to Peer Community Journal (PCJ), a diamond open access journal, which publishes any and only PCI-recommended preprints. Because PCI follows the highest standards for evaluations and openness, many institutions and journals publicly recognize PCI-recommended preprints as being of similar value to accepted journal articles. This two-step process hence decouples the evaluation of research articles from their publication, while offering a free open access publication venue for its recommended preprints. Doing so allows researchers to reappropriate the publishing system, and the increasing number of submissions, publications and communities shows a growing demand for such alternative publishing models. Ongoing developments aim to further increase the robustness and reproducibility of published research via increasing requirements and checks at submission and promoting the use of registered reports.

I’ll be leaving PCI in May to begin a new postdoc, which means my current position will soon be open! You’ll find the job advert below (in French). Please feel free to share it within your networks, and don’t hesitate to get in touch if you’d like more information!

Peer Community In@peercommunityin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢 Recrutement La Direction pour la Science Ouverte d’INRAE recrute un·e ingénieur·e d’études pour contribuer au pilotage de PCI 📄 Contrat : CDD 15 mois 🎯 Mission : Accompagner le développement et la coordination de PCI Détails de l'offre : jobs.inrae.fr/ot-28928

How do you know if your data and scripts are FAIR and your analyses reproducible? Check out the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines written by @joelpick.bsky.social and @eivimeycook.bsky.social, now published in @peercomjournal.bsky.social.

Ed Ivimey-Cook@eivimeycook.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🧵 New paper out today in @peercommunityin.bsky.social Journal! @joelpick.bsky.social et al. introduce the first standardised guidelines for data & code quality control in #ecology & #evolutionarybiology, on behalf of @sortee.bsky.social 🔓 doi.org/10.24072/pcj... #OpenScience #EEB [1/5]

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Replication studies: a win-win for early-career training and behavioral ecology

Replicating previous research builds confidence that results are real and meaningful. But close replications are rare due to limitations in resources and d

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My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com