PCI Webinar Series: The talk of Richard McElreath's (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany) "A Guerrilla Approach to Scientific Workflow" is now online youtu.be/3kTy890wrAc

PCI Webinar Series - Richard McElreath - A Guerrilla Approach to Scientific Workflow

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Check out Paula Oset García's new blog post 'The reproducibility crisis in science: what’s going wrong and how to fix it'! ghentcorr.github.io/blog/2026/PC...

📢 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

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BiO joins Peer Community In as a PCI-friendly journal. Submit your PCI recommended preprint to BiO for a decision within five days. Find out more: peercommunityin.org/pci-friendly...

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The authors of a PCI-recommended article have the possibility to publish in a variety of journals, including a selection of PCI-friendly journals.

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Many thanks to Paolo Crosetto (@paolocrosetto.bsky.social) for a great webinar yesterday!! For those who missed it, the recording is now available online: youtu.be/3PVPCacsF1U?...

PCI Webinar#14 - Paolo Crosetto - Why publishing is becoming a burden for science and how to fix it

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The recording of the panel discussion on "Rethinking Peer Review" is available here: youtu.be/Icr04Gbvqj0?... #peerreview#academicpublishing

R2R 2026 - D2S1 - Rethinking Peer Review (Coates)

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Peer Community In@peercommunityin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This week, PCI is attending the Researcher to Reader Conference 2026 (r2rconf.com) in London. Thomas Guillemaud joined a panel on independent peer review models, featuring Katherine Brown from The Company of Biologists, Peter Rodgers from eLife, and moderated by Jonny Coates of Rippling Ideas.

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Peer Community In@peercommunityin.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 6mo ago

We are thrilled to announce Paolo Crosetto's presentation titled "The Drain of Scientific Publishing: Why Publishing Has Become a Challenge for Science and How It Can Be Improved" in our upcoming PCI Webinar on March 19th at 4 PM (GMT+1)!! 🤩 To learn more and […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

🧵 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]

🚨 Zoom Talk 🚨 Thu 19th 4pm CET I present the results of the strain (tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r) drain (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820) & PISS (arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563) papers at the Peer-Community In Webinar series. Info: peercommunityin.org/pci-webinar-... Let's debate the future of publishing together!

The journal @insectessociaux.bsky.social is now PCI-friendly! 🎉 Curious about what this means for authors and the journal? Be sure to check out this great interview with @jmeunierearwig.bsky.social to find out more!

Joël Meunier@jmeunierearwig.bsky.social · 5mo ago

An interview for the journal Insectes Sociaux (@insectessociaux.bsky.social), which's now PCI friendly (@peercommunityin.bsky.social) ! Happy to promote open science wherever it is possible. insectessociaux.com/2026/03/10/i...

The 14th PCI webinar is in 10 days ❗❗Details and registration at peercommunityin.org/pci-webinar-...

Peer Community In@peercommunityin.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 6mo ago

We are thrilled to announce Paolo Crosetto's presentation titled "The Drain of Scientific Publishing: Why Publishing Has Become a Challenge for Science and How It Can Be Improved" in our upcoming PCI Webinar on March 19th at 4 PM (GMT+1)!! 🤩 To learn more and […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

This week, PCI is attending the Researcher to Reader Conference 2026 (r2rconf.com) in London. Thomas Guillemaud joined a panel on independent peer review models, featuring Katherine Brown from The Company of Biologists, Peter Rodgers from eLife, and moderated by Jonny Coates of Rippling Ideas.

We are thrilled to announce Paolo Crosetto's presentation titled "The Drain of Scientific Publishing: Why Publishing Has Become a Challenge for Science and How It Can Be Improved" in our upcoming PCI Webinar on March 19th at 4 PM (GMT+1)!! 🤩 To learn more and sign up, please visit buff.ly/bxYWPCz

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Just published in Plos Biology after being evaluated and recommended by PCI Ecology doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Resource landscape shapes the composition and stability of the human vaginal microbiota

The vaginal microbiota is shaped by bacterial access to specific nutritional resources, influencing health outcomes. This study uses a resource-based model supported by clinical data to identify key e...

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Would you like to support #preprints 📰 but don't know how? Or maybe you don't have much time? ⏳ Below you can find several tips, some of which will only take 5 minutes! ⏲️ #OpenScience

The Psychology Research Institute (INPSY) joined the ranks of PCI supporters in 2026. Many thanks to them! 🙏 inpsy.fss.muni.cz/en

PCI warmly thanks CREAF (@creaf.cat) for their support ☺️ ! www.creaf.cat/en/articles/...

CREAF supports Peer Community In, a scientific organisation for open access

El CREAF dona suport a l'organització científica Peer Community In, dedicada a difondre recerca i coordinada per la pròpia comunitat científica. La vinculació del centre parteix de la proposta de…

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The PCI-PCJ 2025 recap is here! ✨ Dive into the events of 2025 👀: peercommunityin.org/2026/01/07/p... Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to an amazing year! 🙏 #PCI2025 #Highlights

A first recommended read for this new year, 'Rising Publication Costs Strain Researchers' in The Scientist (featuring PCI 😎): www.the-scientist.com/rising-publi...

Did you know that you can now directly submit your preprints hosted on DIGITAL.CSIC to PCI? Check out the short video from CSIC's Library and Archive Network: www.youtube.com/shorts/tWQgs.... For more information, visit: peercommunityin.org/2024/09/18/d....

Solicitud en DIGITAL.CSIC de revisión por pares a Peer Community in (PCI)

Video informativo sobre el servicio de revisión por pares de Peer Community in (PCI) para documentos depositados en el repositorio institucional, DIGITAL.CSIC Descarga el folleto en:…

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Very much enjoyed last week's meeting in Cambridge about the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model for scholarly publishing. There were lots of highly inspiring discussions, including an important discussion about strengthening coordination between initiatives in this area. asapbio.org/reimagining-...

Reimagining Scholarly Publishing: Outcomes From A Public Forum To Discuss The Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) Publishing Model – ASAPbio

At a meeting held on the 3rd December 2025 at Kings College, Cambridge over 50 delegates, comprising researchers, publishers, librarians, research funders and

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The French Society for Bioinformatics (SFBI) also joined our supporters in 2025!! 🤩 www.sfbi.fr/en/

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The SFBI is the French learned society for bioinformatics. It aims to promote interdisciplinary research at the interface of biology, computer science, mathematics, statistics and physics, and to…

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Happy to hare that the preprint I was advertising below has been published by the Journal of Evolutionary Biology: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-... Thanks @jevbio.bsky.social for supporting responsible publishing!

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology

Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

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New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6 #AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess doi.org/10.32942/X24...

PCI Statistics and Machine Learning (@pcistatml.bsky.social) is now open for submissions!! statml.peercommunityin.org For an updated list of all the thematic PCIs, visit peercommunityin.org/current-pcis/

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In case you have missed Simine Vazire's excellent webinar yesterday, here is the link to watch it online: youtu.be/_vb1CNwC3CM Thanks again @simine.com for staying up so late and thanks to the audience for the great questions!

PCI Webinar series #13 - Simine Vazire - Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis

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From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.

The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science

From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'

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Since AI slop is again all over Scientific Reports, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing. Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this? Background readings: Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy

The first article recommended by @psych.peercommunityin.org is now published in PCJ!!

Peer Community Journal@peercomjournal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Now published in PCJ, 1st article in the new #psychology section: Exploring potential bidirectional causality between psychotic experiences and religiosity in a UK longitudinal cohort study (ALSPAC).https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.654/

Save the date on December 1st!

Peer Community In@peercommunityin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v