Center for Open Science
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Our mission is to increase openness, integrity, and trustworthiness of research. 📧 Contact COS: contact[at]cos.io | OSF Support: support[at]osf.io
🏆 The NCI Office of Data Sharing is offering $200,000 across 16 monetary prizes through its new Impact Prize, which recognizes ideas and strategies that improve how cancer research data, tools, and other outputs are shared and reused. Submissions open through Oct. 5, 2026.
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We invite the community to provide comments on a new strategic plan from the Coalition for Resilient Research Data Infrastructure (CRRDI). Learn more 📖 Read the draft strategic plan 💭 Share feedback 💻 Join us August 7th at 2 pm ET for a webinar! www.datarescueproject.org/open-for-com...
Open for Community Comment: Coalition for Resilient Research Data Infrastructure (CRRDI) Strategic Plan
The DRP Steering Committee is excited about the release of the draft Strategic Plan of the Coalition for Resilient Research Data Infrastructure (CRRDI). DRP Director Lynda Kellam has been working with...
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Issue 56 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ Coalition for Resilient Research Data Infrastructure (CRRDI) Strategic Plan @cos.io ➡️ Quantitative Research in Organizations Using Excel ➡️ Data Tools Landscape for Developers ➡️ Roles of Common Data Elements and Harmonization rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
RDM Weekly - Issue 056
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
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Our proposal to build a more resilient, responsive, and sustainable ecosystem for federally-funded research data is open for comments until September 30th:
Center for Open Science@cos.io · 6d agoCOS 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:
Registration is open for C4R26, a free conference in Philadelphia all about scientific rigor. 🎉 📍 Philadelphia, PA 📅 September 28 to 30, 2026 🎟️ Free with RSVP 🔗 Register today @ c4r.io/conference We hope you'll join us in the fall! #ScienceConference #ScienceCommunity
More to come from @datarescueproject.org but from me it has been a huge honor to work with & get to know this group of professionals who care deeply about research & repositories. I am proud of this collective work & my effort to represent librarians, DRP volunteer comm, & soc sci data. Much ❤️!
Center for Open Science@cos.io · 6d agoCOS 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:
📖 New blog from the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI), comprised of 7 generalist repositories including OSF. Learn how community feedback has shaped GREI priorities, resources, and initiatives—helping advance solutions for data sharing, discovery, and reuse:
Listening, Learning, Evolving: Four Years of GREI Community Engagement
Over the past four years, GREI has prioritized listening to its community to guide and strengthen its work. Through community feedback…
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Thank you to the strategic planning committee for this important work to advance resilient data infrastructure. Please review and offer feedback on the draft plan!
Center for Open Science@cos.io · 6d agoCOS 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:
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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#Preregistration supports #OpenScience, but is uncommon in animal research. This Meta-Research study by @hannowuerbel.bsky.social reveals that despite known benefits, perceived bureaucracy, time costs and inflexibility hinder adoption. 🧪#AcademicSky @unibe.ch @swissrn.bsky.social plos.io/4pL0tXq
📅 Save the date! The Metascience 2027 conference will be held in Montreal on June 14–16, 2027. Metascience 2027 is a global gathering for knowledge sharing, community building, and opportunities to define research and intervention priorities to improve science.
Save the Date: Metascience 2027 Set for Montreal
The Tanenbaum Open Science Institute and Center for Open Science (COS) are bringing the Metascience 2027 conference to Montreal on June 14–16, 2027.
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📌 Introducing the Metascience Bulletin Board—a new community resource from the Metascience Alliance. Share funding opportunities, job openings, calls for collaborators, events, and more with the broader metascience community beyond your existing network. Learn more:
Introducing the Metascience Bulletin Board
The Metascience Alliance's new tool, the Metascience Bulletin Board, is a shared place to post funding calls, datasets, jobs, calls for collaborators, and more.
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REGISTER NOW to get access to dozens of sessions related to Big Team Science, including talks from the leaders of the SCORE project (@cos.io) and CREP (www.crep-psych.org) and a live recording of the "Research as it Happens" podcast hosted by @rolfzwaan.eurosky.social! ALL FEES ARE OPTIONAL!
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>>> Register for the 2026 BTSCON now! *** ### BTSCON Registration Info To balance inclusivity with our funding needs, *registration fees for the Big Team Science Conference are optional*. You can pay ...
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📌 Introducing the Metascience Bulletin Board—a new community resource from the Metascience Alliance. Share funding opportunities, job openings, calls for collaborators, events, and more with the broader metascience community beyond your existing network. Learn more:
Introducing the Metascience Bulletin Board
The Metascience Alliance's new tool, the Metascience Bulletin Board, is a shared place to post funding calls, datasets, jobs, calls for collaborators, and more.
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Looking for open-science and meta-research events? Been tracking these in the past month, manual and automated. Encouraging to see that there are quite a few. If you want to see what I'm keeping track of: metaventory.vercel.app/events?view=...
📅 Save the date! The Metascience 2027 conference will be held in Montreal on June 14–16, 2027. Metascience 2027 is a global gathering for knowledge sharing, community building, and opportunities to define research and intervention priorities to improve science.
Save the Date: Metascience 2027 Set for Montreal
The Tanenbaum Open Science Institute and Center for Open Science (COS) are bringing the Metascience 2027 conference to Montreal on June 14–16, 2027.
cos.io
🎉 We’re celebrating #PeerReviewWeek with a Review-a-thon! Gather your lab, classroom, department, or community to review preprints or datasets as a team, in any language or research field. You can win a prize to support your Club's activities! Learn more & register by Aug. 31: bit.ly/Review-a-thon
📌 Save the date: Metascience 2027 is heading to Montreal, June 14–16, 2027! The Tanenbaum Open Science Institute (@theneuro.bsky.social) and @cos.io are bringing the global metascience community together in one of the world's top research cities. Updates: metascience.info #Metascience2027
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...
I was featured in a Q&A with the Center for Open Science! We talked about preregistering my study with OSF, linking with my data on Zenodo, and the resulting article in Public Understanding of Science.
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Center for Open Science@cos.io · 3w agoRodrigo Alonso Reyes Cordova studies how political identity shapes public trust in science. His research record links the preregistered plan, data, scripts, and publication, giving readers a clearer basis for understanding, checking, and trusting the work. 📝 Read our Q&A:
⚠️ OSF Notice: We're experiencing temporary service interruptions that are affecting some OSF features and functionality. You can monitor the status here: https://status.cos.io/ If you continue experiencing an issue once all services are operational, please email support@osf.io with details.
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Rodrigo Alonso Reyes Cordova studies how political identity shapes public trust in science. His research record links the preregistered plan, data, scripts, and publication, giving readers a clearer basis for understanding, checking, and trusting the work. 📝 Read our Q&A:
Lifecycle Open Science in Action: Researcher Q&A with Rodrigo Reyes Cordova
Rodrigo Cordova discusses the benefits of preregistration, how keeping plans, outputs, and outcomes linked and discoverable on OSF strengthens the research record, and more.
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Rodrigo Alonso Reyes Cordova studies how political identity shapes public trust in science. His research record links the preregistered plan, data, scripts, and publication, giving readers a clearer basis for understanding, checking, and trusting the work. 📝 Read our Q&A:
Lifecycle Open Science in Action: Researcher Q&A with Rodrigo Reyes Cordova
Rodrigo Cordova discusses the benefits of preregistration, how keeping plans, outputs, and outcomes linked and discoverable on OSF strengthens the research record, and more.
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We're hosting a Reproducibility Hackathon on July 24th @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social to highlight the ongoing reproducibility crisis in the Social Sciences. All welcome. Lunch provided. So, come for the scran, if not the company! Register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/NFZwvM4LC
Today we launch the first stable release of RegCheck: v1.0.0. RegCheck makes it easier and quicker to compare study registrations to published papers for consistency - something we know is important in principle, but rarely done in practice. A 🧵 on what's new: regcheck.app
RegCheck
RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.
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💻 Upcoming OSF Essentials webinar: How to Use PIDs on the OSF 📅 July 30 Learn about persistent identifiers (PIDs) and how they help make connections between researchers, institutions, research outputs, and more. 📝 Register: cos-io.zoom.us/webin... 💡 More COS webinars: www.cos.io/events/osf
PHASE ONE of our fight against the OMB rule is complete and YOU ALL SHOWED UP!!! HALF A MILLION COMMENTS is WILD. We absolutely exceeded our goal of 100,000! So, what happens next??? Welcome to PHASE TWO: Pressure and Preparation! 1/x
Jolana Samii’s research focuses on psychological & behavioral factors that influence health & wellbeing, including sleep quality. Her connected research record links a preregistered plan, data, & a preprint so the work can be followed from question to findings. Read our Q&A:
Lifecycle Open Science in Action: Researcher Q&A with Jolana Samii
Jolana Samii discusses the value of preregistration; how keeping plans, outputs, and outcomes linked and discoverable strengthens the research record; and benefits of making research publicly accessible.
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Jolana Samii’s research focuses on psychological & behavioral factors that influence health & wellbeing, including sleep quality. Her connected research record links a preregistered plan, data, & a preprint so the work can be followed from question to findings. Read our Q&A:
Lifecycle Open Science in Action: Researcher Q&A with Jolana Samii
Jolana Samii discusses the value of preregistration; how keeping plans, outputs, and outcomes linked and discoverable strengthens the research record; and benefits of making research publicly accessible.
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As open science has matured, so has COS. On our blog, Executive Director @briannosek.bsky.social discusses how COS's strategy has evolved to support the growth of lifecycle open science and evaluating the effectiveness of open science to accelerate knowledge production. www.cos.io/blog/cos-mis...
COS Mission and Strategy Evolution
The Center for Open Science (COS)'s work has evolved with the maturation of the open science movement. Our strategic priorities focus on supporting the growth of lifecycle open science—making research...
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