The strain on peer review is due to our obsession of submitting *everything* to a journal and requiring PRE-PUBLICATION peer review of it before it's deemed "mature science." The problem with peer review is that no one can accept we have to stop pre-publication reviewing as default. 2/n

DataPipe (pipe.jspsych.org) is ready for its post-OSF life. You can use it as before to save data from online experiments, but now the data can be sent to Zenodo, Google Drive, or a Dataverse instance. Existing OSF connections work until 11/16 I took this opportunity to do some major updates...

TWO new BLOGS on the the messy landscape of preprints. First, mapping out preprint servers and services seems easy... but it's not! What counts as a #preprint server? read our take w/ @mariomalicki.bsky.social and @nataschachtena.bsky.social www.scholcommlab.ca/2026/09/01/d...

Defining Preprints and Preprint Servers: Mapping an Inconsistent Landscape

A term without a settled definition The term “preprint” is widely used in scholarly communication, but it does not have an agreed-upon definition across disciplines, platforms, or professional role…

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Interested in helping make science a better place? Nominations for 2027 #SORTEE volunteer positions are open now! With 10 committees to choose from and so many ways to get involved, we welcome everyone to volunteer with us! Nominations close 31st Oct. sortee.org/join/ #openscience

Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.

Transactions on Machine Learning Research@tmlrorg.bsky.social · last wk.

TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission? medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...

Excellente nouvelle et signal important ‼️ At the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social Blue Skies forum on STI Data & Indicators, the minister of Higher Education & Research presented the new French Open Science strategy: https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/french-open-science-strategy/ @ouvrirlascience.bsky.social

A new article is out in the free, generalist, open-access Peer Community Journal! Free public peer reviews and recommendation by PCI Nutrition: doi.org/10.24072/pci... 📣 You want to publish in PCJ? Submit your preprint to one of the 21 thematic PCI 👉 peercommunityin.org/submit-a-pre...

Co-creation of nutrition interventions in higher education settings: proposals from a student citizens’ assembly

el Karmouni, Hajar1 ; Dehove, Henri2 ; Allès, Benjamin2 ; Baudry, Julia2; Kesse-Guyot, Emmanuelle2 ; Péneau, Sandrine2 ; Touvier, Mathilde2 ; Mofakhami, Malo3 ; Group, USPN Student Citizens’…

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Our new paper, with @asapbio.bsky.social, @cwts.nl and @sciencecouncil.bsky.social, argues for coordinated action across assessment and publishing reform 👉 bit.ly/RRA-publishing The conversation continues at our @oaspa.bsky.social side event, helping shape the upcoming Practical Guide for Schol Comm

Looking for a home for your new psychology preprint? PsyArXiv is the best place for psychologists to post preprints! PsyArXiv is a preprint server run and maintained by SIPS volunteers and hosted on the OSF platform. Don't search any further; visit buff.ly/k7t14KM and share your research!

The researchers adopting the Publish, Review, Curate model understand the importance of peer review. During this #PeerReviewWeek, we celebrate reviewers and the work they do. Let’s give them the credit they deserve by making the review process transparent and reviews publicly available!

An interesting thing is happening to me at the moment. I have a standing bug bounty policy for my first authored scientific work. That means, I've committed to pay people who report bugs in my code, up to 750€ for severe errors. Since GPT-6 Astra came out, I'm now getting several bug reports daily.

Ever since this happened, I have never given journals sole ownerhip of my supplemental materials .. eiko-fried.com/blog/supplem...

Supplementary materials fail | Eiko Fried

A few months ago, we published a new paper Fried, E. I., van Borkulo, C. D., Cramer, A. O. J., Boschloo, L., Schoevers, R. A., & Borsboom, D. (2017). Mental disorders as networks...

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Journals should stop offering to store supplemental information. Everything that is shared with a paper should have it's own DOI, and live in a proper repository. As authors, link to files (e.g., Zenodo), but never add them as supplemental files.

Looking forward to the public launch of the PRC Alliance - hope you can join us!

Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) Alliance@prcalliance.bsky.social · 2w ago

📢Save the date for the PRC Alliance launch! The PRC Alliance, an initiative that brings together organizations working to accelerate the adoption of the Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) model, will officially launch on Oct 28th! Learn more and register: publish-review-curate.org/2026/09/07/l...

You can now update bioRxiv/medRxiv preprints with funding information after the fact. Authors often omit/don't have all funding info when submitting, but funders understandably want it there. This solves the problem without requiring you to submit a whole new paper. openrxiv.org/updating-fun...

Updating funder information on preprints - openRxiv

For the past year, bioRxiv and medRxiv authors have been able to include funder information with their preprints. This can be entered in a dedicated field during the submission process, using Research...

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Preregistrations are increasingly common, but getting them right isn’t always straightforward. Join us for the Preregistration F*ck Up Night at #DGPs2026 on Sep 6, at 7PM in Luxembourg! An initial round of drinks is kindly sponsored by @improvingpsych.org. 🔗 Register here: buff.ly/pmvpkjf

This is the last month of activity for the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp). September 30, 2026, will be the last day of tagging and updates. The Harvard instance of #TagTeam -- the #OpenSource tagging platform on which OATP ran -- will start winding down soon after. But the code […]

Can you imagine a world where publishing is not a secretive black box, but a transparent process? This is one of the PRC Alliance's goals! Follow us on this journey! Learn more 👉 publish-review-curate.org/benefits-of-...

We’re so close to a solution! Most unis have an institutional repository. If outputs were always published on the lead author’s repo, learned societies reviewed and curated them, their overlay journals just pointed at them, and everything had a DOI, what would we need commercial publishers for?

ASAPbio is excited to co-lead this initiative with @coar-repositories.bsky.social We recommend following the page to learn more about Publish-Review-Curate model of scholarly publishing and the PRC Alliance!

Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) Alliance@prcalliance.bsky.social · last mo.

Have you heard of the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model of scholarly publishing? PRC reimagines scholarly publishing by breaking the traditional publishing process into independently executable stages: ✨publish, ✨review, and ✨curate.

AI for metascience data extraction, AI for peer review, AI for forensic auditing, AI for rigor-checking, AI for sleuthing, AI for replication, AI for lit review..... today's AI is making so much possible now! Apply to attend this online conference for free here: forrt.org/ai-metascien...

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Register for the FORRT AI in Metascience Online Conference, 28–30 September 2026. Online and free to attend.

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The @kcommons.bsky.social team is very excited to be working with the @prcalliance.bsky.social to rethink scholarly communication from the ground up. Very much looking forward to more!

Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) Alliance@prcalliance.bsky.social · last mo.

Have you heard of the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model of scholarly publishing? PRC reimagines scholarly publishing by breaking the traditional publishing process into independently executable stages: ✨publish, ✨review, and ✨curate.

I saw from @kfitz.info today that @kcommons.bsky.social is working with PRC. I think this is a great direction and I'm looking forward to seeing what my former colleagues there will produce.

What is PRC?

The Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) model re-imagines scholarly publishing by breaking the traditional publishing process into three distinct, independently executable stages: publish, review, and cu…

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My ordered beta regression paper has now reached over 5k downloads on OSF: osf.io/preprints/so... I'd like to thank all of the readers 🫶 and also academic publishing companies by making it so darn hard to access the published version. As an FYI, the OSF version is *exactly* the same.

Just a reminder that posting code/materials on your personal website is not a long term solution and not compliant with most sharing standards. I've run into two papers today from the same lab that uses this practice, all the links are broken. Will wait for replies to emails I guess....

Follow to learn more about PRC and the PRC Alliance!

Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) Alliance@prcalliance.bsky.social · last mo.

Have you heard of the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model of scholarly publishing? PRC reimagines scholarly publishing by breaking the traditional publishing process into independently executable stages: ✨publish, ✨review, and ✨curate.

🌟 Final month to nominate projects for the 2026 SORTEE Commendation Awards! Know a project promoting Open Science in ecology & evolution, such as workshops, tools, repositories, outreach & more? Projects can be local or global, team-based or individual. sortee.org/awards/

Community support for more rapid & transparent scholarly communication models is growing. But as @jpflores.rbind.io argues, research assessment needs to recognize and reward this shift. The PRC Alliance aims to raise the visibility and status of this model. Learn more & join: bit.ly/3U467YV

Join the Alliance

Membership in the Alliance is open to organisations and initiatives working together to share knowledge and accelerate the adoption of the Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) model of scholarly publishin…

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jp flores (he/him)@jpflores.rbind.io · last mo.

4/7 Our call to action is simple: Publish, Review, & Curate Publish research openly. Groups like @asapbio.bsky.social have helped show what a preprint-first future can look like. Review it openly and constructively. @prereview.bsky.social is helping build that culture. Then curate what matters.

7/7 If we want scientists to stop chasing journal prestige, we have to stop rewarding them for chasing journal prestige. Change the incentives, and the culture can follow. @hannaherf.bsky.social and I make the case in @sciencepolitics.bsky.social: sciencepolitics.org/2026/08/17/s...

Science Doesn't Need Better Journals. It Needs Better Incentives. - Science Politics

Journal prestige shapes what science gets done, how fast it moves, and whose work gets seen. Pushing institutions to engage in open science can make the system more equitable.

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Please apply and share with those who you think would make great contributions. Methodology experts and those who want to advance open science policies are welcome!

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

📢 COS seeks volunteers for the Transparency & Openness Promotion (TOP) Advisory Board The Board provides guidance and oversight for the TOP Guidelines—a policy framework designed to increase the verifiability of empirical research Apply or nominate a colleague by Sept. 21: