It's that time of year when the JIFs are out. Over-reliance on it fuels integrity risks like papermills & fraud. Everything is connected! Join us in shifting the focus from venue prestige to merit. Explore RRA resources & course: sfdora.org/reports/ & bit.ly/DORA-Intro-Course

💥New post | For open research to work, research institutions and publishers need to collaborate ✍️ Heidi Ormstad, @rnls.bsky.social & @roeggen.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing #OpenResearch #ResearchIntegrity

For open research to work, research institutions and publishers need to collaborate - LSE Impact

The unique expertise of research institutions and publishers mean that any resolution to research integrity issues can only be achieved through collaboration.

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"Improving repeatability requires reforms in professional evaluations and funding practices to incentivize researchers to prioritize rigor and quality over the quantity of papers they publish, Cobey says.” Read more on repeatability from our Co-Chair and others, by @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social 👇

Jeffrey Brainard@jeffreybrainard.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The credibility of scientific journal articles might be bolstered if they carried a score capturing their rigor, such as whether the findings could be replicated. But constructing a telltale indicator of replicability remains a challenge. #openscience @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Sharing my thoughts I gave at @royalsociety.org event on Future of Scholarly Publishing: the research assessment system hinders innovative publication models that address our biggest problems in research, & 3 steps to address it via @dorassessment.bsky.social | share.google/98RlsEVxpFqF...

The research assessment ecosystem hinders innovative publication models that address our biggest problems in research | DORA

The innovative F1000Research open research publishing model was launched in 2012 and was born out of a desire to start again, thinking about the technology and tools at the time and redesigning how we...

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Rabeacca Lawrence of #DORA puts her finger in the same wound: scientific misconduct is due to the research system. Open science and a change in research assesment can help improve research and reproducibility! #SciSoc2025 #EMBL #openscience #opensource #CoARA

@rnls.bsky.social kicks off our event Implementing Responsible Research Assessment in India! 🤩 Eminent scholars and policymakers Prof. K. VijayRaghavan, Prof. S. C. Lakhotia and Dr Michael Arentoft will share their insights in a panel co-moderated with Dr Moumita Koley. #ResearchAssessment #India

Excited to see my piece live on 'The need for verification markers on published content' that summarises my @nisoinfo.bsky.social 2024 talk, that explores & proposes a need for standards on integrity labelling for all published research tinyurl.com/nt9ujk73 #integrity #preprints #trustmarkers

The need for verification markers on published content - Rebecca Lawrence, 2025

Ethics and integrity cases in submitted manuscripts is becoming an increasingly common problem, whilst retractions continue to grow at a rapid rate. These cases...

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We are excited to have Emmanuel Boakye (African Reproducibility Network), Henk Kummeling (Utrecht University, CoARA), and Andiswa Mfengu (PhD) (University of Cape Town) sharing perspectives for the Africa&Europe launch, hosted by DORA Vice-Chair @rnls.bsky.social. Register at bit.ly/Africa-Europ...

Now with the celebratory video and energetic music our launch asks for! 🥳 As we previously shared, the Guide reflects the hard work of many contributors - thank you to all involved! It will be launched by fab speakers in panels with Chairs Kelly Cobey, @ginnybarbour.bsky.social & @rnls.bsky.social

Join our panel Implementing RRA in India! 🇮🇳 Global perspectives, national priorities, and practical pathways forward by @rnls.bsky.social, Dr Moumita Koley, Prof. K. VijayRaghavan, Prof. S. C. Lakhotia & Dr Michael Arentoft. 🗓️ June 6, 2025 🕒 3 pm IST 📍 Online 👉 Register now bit.ly/RRA-in-India

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science

48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

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Science is Under Siege: The Open Science Community Must Act and Lead by Example upstream.force11.org/open-science...

Science is Under Siege: The Open Science Community Must Act and Lead by Example

Worldwide, science is under attack by anti-scientific movements. The new US administration has thrown the entire academy into chaos, threatening global health. This article is a call for the open scie...

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Non-voters awaken, four months too late.

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social · 2y ago

For those Democrats who are waiting for public opinion to change, you can stop now.

✒️ A shout-out to the contributors: @ginnybarbour.bsky.social, Caitlin Carter, @jacoates.bsky.social, Kelly Cobey, @katiecorker.bsky.social, @lizziegadd.bsky.social, @msphelps.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, Eva Méndez, Cameron Neylon, @jpolonen.bsky.social, Bodo Stern, & @ludowaltman.bsky.social

Criteria for Bibliographic Databases in a Well-Functioning Scholarly Communication and Research Assessment Ecosystem

Bibliographic databases should support innovation and experimentation. Here, we offer four criteria for innovation-friendly bibliographic databases. We urge the global research community to use databa...

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I don't understand why such actions are being taken by science orgs. At @cos.io we cannot meet our mission to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research WITHOUT improving Inclusion->offer respect and access Equity->adapt to people's needs Diversity->for everyone Fold on that? No

Cooper Battle@chbattle.com · 2y ago

Extremely disappointed to see HHMI decide to kill their Inclusive Excellence program, including terminating the current IE3 awards to over a hundred institutions effective this year in the middle of a 6-year grant. I was hoping HHMI (and other private funders) would continue to lead the way.

Innovation in scholarly comms & uptake of new models are hampered by scholarly infrastructures continuing to use increasingly outdated approaches. This collectively authored piece recommends 4 criteria for innovation-friendly bibliographic databases upstream.force11.org/criteria-for...

Really pleased to now be on BlueSky and looking forward to being able to move back to constructive discussions, as we used to be able to do on Twitter. Really great to see the acceleration of people now moving across to this platform.