We'll also be hosting a launch webinar for the draft strategic plan on August 6. The webinar will introduce the plan's case for action, pillars, and the coalition model it proposes. Most importantly, we'll open the floor for community input and questions. 💻 Register: cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Building a Coalition for Resilient Research Data Infrastructure: Introducing a Draft Strategic Plan for Community Input. After registering, you will receive...

Federally funded research data is a public good — but the repositories and infrastructure that keep it findable, accessible, and usable have long been fragile, and recent funding, staffing, and policy...

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COS is working with a committee of experts through the Coalition for Resilient Research Data Infrastructure to develop a strategic plan for strengthening federally funded research data infrastructure. We want to hear from you! The draft plan is open to feedback until Sept 30:

Announcing the Coalition for Resilient Research Data Infrastructure (CRRDI) Strategic Plan

The Center for Open Science collaborated with research data infrastructure experts on a strategic plan for the Coalition for Resilient Research Data Infrastructure—a coalition working to build a more resilient ecosystem for federally funded research data. The draft is available for community comment.

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Fucking hell as if receiving automated rejection letters for jobs wasn't bad enough.

Meet librarians who have walked away from publisher packages & products. Our exit interview series describes how institutions decided to leave, preparation involved, alternative access options, next steps & advice. It's easier than many thought possible! #OpenAccess sparcopen.org/our-work/exi...

Exit Interviews: Leaving Big Deals & Proprietary Products - SPARC

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How do surveillance, censorship, and technologies of control get weaponized—and how do we push back? Justin Hendrix talks with Jonathon W. Penney, author of "Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age," about his roadmap for reform.

A Roadmap for Confronting the Chilling Effects of Censorship, Surveillance and New Technology

A conversation with Jonathon W. Penney, author of Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age.

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At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

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NCI Data Jamboree: Enhancing Data Sharing & Utility to Advance Cancer Research Nov 16–18, 2026 Researchers, postdocs, students, citizen scientists, patients, and advocates are invited to collaboratively solve problems using cancer research datasets. Register by: July 27 events.cancer.gov/nc...

New article from @mattmakel.bsky.social, Melanie Meyer, and Mary Pei about qualitative replication.

Replication is possible, can be relevant, and is useful in qualitative research

In 2022, we argued that replication is relevant to qualitative research. In this manuscript, we update and clarify that idea to make three more specific claims about replication in qualitative rese...

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🚀 2026 Big Team Science Conference 🗓️ October 6-8 on Zoom This conference convenes researchers, funders, and stakeholders to discuss advancements, challenges, and future opportunities related to big team science. Featured sessions include leaders of COS's SCORE project!

Big Team Science Conference

The goal of the Big Team Science Conference is to bring together a multidisciplinary group of researchers, funders, and stakeholders to discuss advancements, challenges, and future opportunities related to large scientific collaborations. The fifth annual Big Team Science Conference will be held virtually via Zoom, October 6-8, 2026. We loosely...

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Using headers at the start of your code files provides a helpful introduction to your project. One way you can standardize this information is through code snippets in R! Once the snippet is created and named ("header" in this case), just enter the name and press tab and voila!

Per @tressiemcphd.bsky.social this is gold: 1. Polling we did in ME shows same. Data centers are underwater in every subgroup we poll in. 2. Local organizing as party building LFG 3. Please grad students this is a great area for a dissertation.

Opinion | This Could Be the Winning Issue for Democrats

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⭐ New blog post from the NIH-funded Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI)—comprised of 7 generalist repositories including OSF. GREI’s Year 4 update showcases new shared standards, improved dataset discovery, and practical tools shaped by community input.

GREI Year 4: Reflections, Progress, and What Comes Next

As the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) concludes its fourth year and moves into its fifth, this update examines the…

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Thank you for sharing! SocArXiv is accepting an average of 12.9 papers per day in 2026 -- a 50% increase from 2025. Kudos to our moderation team, who are working very hard to efficiently get your real research up while weeding out the rising tide of AI slop.

🆕 The Open Scholarship Training for Researchers Series offers self-paced online courses created in response to researchers' needs. Each focuses on a core open scholarship practice, with real-world examples. First two courses enrolling now; more to come through Winter 2026!

Introducing the COS Open Scholarship Training for Researchers Series

The Center for Open Science (COS) introduces Open Scholarship Training for Researchers: self-paced online courses developed in response to researcher needs.

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Joined the Times Tech Report to talk about how OpenAI’s missed revenue targets threaten the stability of the circular AI economy, and how token-based billing is increasingly costing as much as a human employee. youtu.be/fmK40iq-U6Y?...

AI bubble: How OpenAI’s missed targets threaten AI’s circular financing | Ed Zitron

YouTube video by The Tech Report

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📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

Why.

This pasta sauce wants to record your family

Even dinner wants to listen to your conversations now.

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Larry Ellison’s TikTok forcing “AI Remixing” onto their entire user base without their knowledge or consent is a really great microcosm of what US tech overlordship looks like — and why the backlash against this technology is only growing.

A new TikTok AI toggle is causing panic among creators

TikTok creators say a new AI remix setting is enabled on videos by default, forcing users to manually review and change permissions.

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🗞️ A recent editorial in The Guardian draws on SCORE findings to examine how replication results are interpreted: “Not every failed replication signals a crisis...Results that don’t consistently replicate should be weighed against a wider evidence base when guiding policy”

The Guardian view on social science research: embracing uncertainty | Editorial

Editorial: Science rarely produces identical outcomes. Mistaking this for failure turns caution into an excuse for inaction

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In our latest researcher Q&A, research scientist and biostatistician Alisha Bruton shares how she integrates open science into her workflow, navigates data sharing in collaborative research, and applies FAIR principles to help make research more findable and reusable. 💡

Q&A with Alisha Bruton: Open Science in Integrative Medicine Research

Research scientist and biostatistician Alisha Bruton shares how she integrates open science practices into her workflow, navigates data sharing decisions, and applies FAIR principles to make research findable and reusable over time.

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What can large-scale studies tell us about reproducibility? In our webinar on April 16, researchers from COS, I4R, and META-REP will discuss findings from three papers—one from the recently published SCORE effort—and insights on reproducibility, transparency, and credibility cos-io.zoom.us/webin...

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

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The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

New on the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) blog: highlights from the Streamlining Data Sharing webinar series, featuring practical guidance and tools, real-world user stories, solutions to common data sharing challenges, and more! 📖 medium.com/@blog-gre...

COS is pleased to welcome Chris Bourg (MIT) and Marcus Munafò (University of Bath) to our Board of Directors. Their leadership in equitable open scholarship, research culture reform, and metascience will help shape how the next phase of our work unfolds. 🎉

The Center for Open Science Welcomes Chris Bourg and Marcus Munafò to its Board of Directors

The Center for Open Science is pleased to welcome Chris Bourg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Marcus Munafò (University of Bath) to the COS Board of Directors in 2026.

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📋 TOP 101: An Overview of the Transparency & Openness Promotion Guidelines April 1, 11 AM ET Learn about the TOP framework, which provides recommendations for journals, funders, universities, & researchers about practices that can increase verifiability of research claims.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: TOP 101: An Overview of the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

The Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines (TOP) is a policy framework that can provide specific recommendations for journals, research funders, universities, and researchers about practices that are designed to increase the verifiability of empirical research claims. TOP was updated in 2025 and contains three main parts: Research Practices, Verification Practices, and Verification Studies. This webinar will include an overview of these components and how TOP’s tiered and modular structure makes it applicable to a diverse community of researchers and policymakers. This webinar is part of COS’s ongoing campaign to demonstrate implementations of our Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines (https://bit.ly/top-guidelines), grounding our policy framework in real-world examples. If you have feedback, implementation stories, or lessons learned from working with TOP, get in touch with us at top@cos.io.

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The 2025 COS Impact Report is now live! From open infrastructure to research initiatives, policy engagement, and global partnerships, see what COS accomplished over the past year to advance transparent, rigorous, and accessible research. 🔍 Check out the report: www.cos.io/impact

⏰ REMINDER: Applications for AREN's Local Network Leads program are open through March 16. This program trains researchers & research professionals in #Africa to become #openscience leaders who can establish a community of practice at their institution. Learn more & apply:

Replication Research (R2), a 🆕 community-led Diamond OA journal, makes replication studies more discoverable, publishable & rigorously evaluated—without subscription barriers or author fees. Ahead of #LoveReplicationsWeek, R2's senior editors shared their vision in our Q&A:

Building a Publishing Model for Replication: Q&A with the Senior Editors of Replication Research

COS spoke with the senior editors of Replication Research—a community-led Diamond Open Access journal that supports reproduction and replication studies.

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