A great opportunity for researchers to contribute to a great organization, and to how they want their work surfaced in all contexts where it matters! If you are thinking about applying, apply!!

ORCID@orcid.org · 2mo ago

⭐️ Nominations now open for ORCID Board: 👉 https://info.orcid.org/nominations-now-open-for-orcid-board-elections-2027/ & ⭐️ ORCID's Researcher Advisory Council: 👉 https://info.orcid.org/calling-all-researchers-orcid-researcher-advisory-council-nominations-now-open/ 📅 Nominations due 26 June!

Building on a recent publication in @pnas.org (plos.io/4saRwae), @verokiermer.bsky.social, @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social and @kbibbinsdomingo.bsky.social call for action on adopting a principle-based approach for a responsible authorship culture 🧪 #AcademicSky @plos.org @jama.com plos.io/3Pr5ZAu

"We examined authorship guidelines issued by journals ... & found [them] highly variable. We propose ... a shared, principle-based framework grounded in transparency, credit, and accountability." @verokiermer.bsky.social et al on authorship culture www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Authorship decisions should be anchored in the inseparable principles of credit, accountability and transparency. Credit entails accountability and accountability entails credit. Transparency is required because authorship practices must evolve with research practices. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Latest research with @plos.org colleagues to understand how we can help focus on intrinsic qualities in research assessment. A survey of how biology researchers assess credibility when serving on grant and hiring committees peerj.com/articles/205... @peerj.bsky.social @iainhz.bsky.social

New on the blog! In an interview with Veronique Kiermer @verokiermer.bsky.social, Chief Scientific Officer for @plos.org, she provides insight into their approach to data sharing, visibility and evaluation. 👉 Read the post: makedatacount.org/read-our-blo... #dataevaluation #datasharing

10 years since CRediT was introduced, >20% adoption (of full text in Dimensions). Now, we need to build on this to comprehensively integrate CRediT in metadata and make sure the taxonomy evolves to remain fit for purpose. doi.org/10.1038/d415... W/ @sjcporter.bsky.social Liz Allen Ruth Whitman

A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do

Information about the roles of each author of a paper can help to build trust, integrity and responsible research assessment. Coordinated efforts are needed to consolidate progress.

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My new PLOS Bio piece about when one's work is misrepresented: "[T]here is a normative expectation within scholarly research that all parties are well-intentioned and truth-seeking...when invitations to engage genuinely are not accepted..scholarly discourse is ill-equipped to resolve the conflict."

In a thought-provoking @plosbiology.org Perspective article, @briannosek.bsky.social asks whether science’s openness can be used against it, looking at how transparency and self-skepticism might be reframed in today’s discourse around golden standards plos.io/4l8rNuE #OpenScience 🧪

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Exclusive: Harvard University lays off fly database team

The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.

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🚨Still time to register. "Unconferences" are fun. And this one is about Responsible Research in Action, even better! A great opportunity to dig deep into important issues with people from different horizons.

PLOS@plos.org · 12mo ago

Join the #ResponsibleResearchInAction Unconference in Berlin, Sep 22–24. The event brings together not just researchers, funders, publishers, patients and more, shaping the future of research together. Learn more and register your place: plos.io/3JwdxP6 #ResponsibleResearch #RRiA2025 #OpenScience

Really excited to see this new partnership between MetaROR and PLOS Biology 👏 @metaror.bsky.social @plosbiology.org

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 12mo ago

We are proud to announce a new agreement with @rorinstitute.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social to become a partner journal with MetaResearch Open Review (MetaRoR) @metaror.bsky.social #metaresearch #openscience 🧪 Learn more: plos.io/45wPZB9

PLOS ONE metadata forms the basis of our study's Figure 1. We could only study PLOS ONE because PLOS made this metadata freely available (and in bulk XML, no less)! Information is only useful if it is accessible! plos.org/text-and-dat...

Text & Data Mining - PLOS

The right to read is the right to mine. Openness inspires innovation, and PLOS is committed to making scientific work easily shared…

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PLOS@plos.org · 12mo ago

PLOS responds to a new PNAS study (plos.io/4lv6m7t) that uses openly available articles to map the scale of paper mill and peer review ring activity across scholarly publishing.

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

Restoring Gold Standard Science

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

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When Do Scholarly Retractions Become a Form of Censorship? A talk by our Ivan Oransky, adapted by @quillette.bsky.social

When Do Scholarly Retractions Become a Form of Censorship?

Focusing on the handful of papers that are retracted for political reasons can obscure the more important problems afflicting the field of academic publishing.

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Newly published Perspective on why we should rethink publishing to support #openscience with @niamhoconnor73.bsky.social @amudditt.bsky.social itt.bsky.social It gives the context that led us @plos.org to embark on a research & design project with support from GBMF and RWJF bit.ly/44of6af

Rethinking How We Publish to Support Open Science

Click on the article title to read more.

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🚨Submission deadline is approaching for the #EinsteinFoundationAward for Promoting Quality in Research. A prestigious and unique award recognizing efforts to improve research rigor, reliability and transparency. Three categories: three opportunities to nominate research heroes!

Einstein Foundation Berlin@einsteinberlin.bsky.social · last yr.

#Reminder: The €350K #EinsteinFoundationAward aims to provide recognition & publicity for outstanding efforts that enhance the rigor, reliability, robustness and transparency of research in three categories. The #CallForEntries closes 30/04/2025: award.einsteinfoundation.de

What remains of the CDC after Tuesday’s cuts is a hobbled agency, with a smaller global footprint, devoting fewer resources to environmental health, occupational health and disease prevention. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/h...

C.D.C. Cuts Threaten to Set Back the Nation’s Health, Critics Say

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Very insightful piece by @ludowaltman.bsky.social on why publishing reform requires assessment reform AND vice versa. Coordination is crucial.

Leiden Madtrics@leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · last yr.

🤝 The need to reform research assessment and scientific publishing practices is widely recognized. However, @ludowaltman.bsky.social argues that the assessment and publishing reform movements will be successful only if they manage to align their agendas. 👇 Read about it in our latest blog post

I was lucky to work with Tara when she co-led the ACD Working Group Re-Envisioning NIH-supported postdocs. If true, this is a real loss but there’s zero chance her leadership won’t be appreciated elsewhere. www.statnews.com/2025/03/26/t...

Tara Schwetz, who oversaw creation of ARPA-H, placed on leave by NIH

The NIH has placed deputy director Tara Schwetz on administrative leave, marking the third senior leader to depart the agency since the Trump administration took power roughly nine weeks ago.

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Seismic scoop from @lenasun.bsky.social: A long-time anti-vaxer who was disciplined for practising medicine without a license has been selected by #HHS to conduct the study RFK Jr. wants looking yet again at whether vaccines cause autism. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism

A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism.

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We've started a consultation with academic leaders to understand how publishing a more complete record of research can support better recognition and rewards for researchers. Great to see a lot of alignment in our first workshop. theplosblog.plos.org/2025/03/why-...

Why we need to go ‘beyond the article’ to transform research - The Official PLOS Blog

Over the course of 18 months, we are working on an ambitious new project to Redefine Publishing. Working with stakeholders from across…

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RFK Jr. has suggested allowing the H5N1 virus to spread on poultry farms, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...

RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread (Gift Article)

The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.

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The Texas-New Mexico-Oklahoma #measles outbreak could be a long one, local public health official warns. www.statnews.com/2025/03/18/m...

Texas public health official predicts the measles outbreak could take a year to contain

The director of public health for the city of Lubbock said Tuesday that uptake of the measles vaccine “has definitely been a struggle,” and that the outbreak will be "large."

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Once again a splendid line up of winners for this important award. The focus of the Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research is unique yet so important. If you can, join the live stream to honor the winners!

PLOS@plos.org · last yr.

The 2024 Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research will be presented next Thursday, March 13! Join the @einsteinberlin.bsky.social livestream to be part of the ceremony and celebrate the winners: plos.io/3QOovQr

openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

We (AIMOS and RORI) launched a metascience platform, MetaROR.org, several months ago 😀. Submit your metascience-related preprints and get peer reviews! André Brasil articulates the vision here, reflecting the hard work he's done to get the platform working for us. katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Rethinking How Research is Reviewed, Curated, and Communicated

MetaROR uses the publish-review-curate model to share work in the field of metaresearch. In this Q and A, Moumita Koley and André Brasil discuss the platform in the context of a scholarly publishing s...

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More on the NIH termination of vaccine hesitancy studies.

Kai Kupferschmidt@kakape.bsky.social · last yr.

The NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying vaccine hesitancy. Projects studying mRNA vaccines may be next. Important story by my colleague Sara Reardon in @science.org 🧪 #IDsky

As President Trump seeks to purge the federal government of “woke” initiatives, agencies have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump (Gift Article)

Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.

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Thank you for all the input so far on the Metascience Alliance! A wide range of perspectives is crucial for informing future development. 🗣️ Please continue to share this call. The feedback form is open through 3/16/25. (See further info in the thread below.) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Metascience Alliance - Initial Concept Feedback

Thank you for your interest in the Metascience Alliance! If you wish to receive updates on the Metascience Alliance, please join the mailing list! Privacy Notice The Center for Open Science is reque...

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Center for Open Science@cos.io · last yr.

The Metascience Alliance is launching at #Metascience2025! This new cross-sector network is building collaboration to better understand & improve the research system. We want your input! Here's how to get involved (🧵)