DORA

‼️ Global call 🌍 DORA is seeking new Steering Committee members! We especially welcome applications from Africa, Asia, and Latin America/Caribbean.
Help shape the future of responsible research assessment.
Submit your self-nomination by October 31: forms.gle/rqjCBeFbPHak...

‼️ Global call 🌍 DORA is seeking new Steering Committee members! We especially welcome applications from Africa, Asia, and Latin America/Caribbean.
Help shape the future of responsible research assessment.
Submit your self-nomination by October 31: forms.gle/rqjCBeFbPHak...

A person holding a publication titled "A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations" by DORA, in front of a bookshelf.

The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) has released “A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations”, designed to help research performing organizations.
ℹ️ Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gSzFA6

@dorassessment.bsky.social

How money, politics and technology are redefining the PhD experience in 2025 Nature’s global survey of 3,785 doctoral students shows satisfaction has recovered from pandemic lows, but harassment and inadequate supervision remain widespread.

Nature surveyed 3,785 PhD candidates from around the globe, exploring everything from supervision practices to workplace concerns. The results offer a window into how today’s doctoral researchers are adapting to the rapidly changing circumstances in STEM.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨 Registration is OPEN!

Join us in Vancouver for the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity (#WCRI2026), May 3–6, 2026.

🌍 All disciplines, all career stages

📍 Venue: The Westin Bayshore

🔗 Register now + book your stay: wcri2026.org/registration/

Upcoming Event from The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine: Rethinking Researcher Assessment and Incentives at US Academic Institutions https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/45044_10-2025_rethinking-researcher-assessment-and-incentives-at-u-s-academic-institutions-a-workshop

Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program — Open Research Community Accelerator The Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA), with generous support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is pleased to launch the Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program.  The program aims to...

🚀 Applications are OPEN for the 2nd round of the ORCA Catalytic Awards!

With support from the @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social ORCA is offering $15,000 per project to grow a culture of #OpenScience #OpenScholarship at traditionally under-resourced U.S. institutions.

🔗 Learn more: orcaopen.org/work/cap

EMBO is a co-author and founding signatory of @dorassessment.bsky.social.

We are pleased to announce that Sandra Bendiscioli will succeed Bernd Pulverer as EMBO’s representative on the DORA Executive Board. #ResponsibleResearchAssessment #research 🧪

The Festival of Hidden REF starts one week from today 🎉

You can still grab tickets to watch remotely on Day 2:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-festiv...

Meet our new Executive Board members Sandra Bendiscioli (@embo.org), Roheena Anand (@plos.org), and Stuart Lane (@snsf.ch)! They join our Steering Committee Chairs to provide strategic oversight, shaping DORA’s long-term priorities and activities. Short bios on our blog 👉 sfdora.org/2025/09/30/n...

2025 Events — International Open Access Week

Get out your calendar! It's time to fill it up with #OAweek events. We have a map where you can search by type, location & language to find an #OpenAccess activity near you. It's not too late to submit your event: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... www.openaccessweek.org/events

OA Week 2025: Who owns our knowledge? Event 1 | Open Access Australasia

Have you registered for any webinars for #OAWeek2025?
OAA as three webinars featuring regional and international speakers - Event 1 👇
The politics of knowledge: Who controls the story and who has access to it?
🗓️ Tuesday October 21
oaaustralasia.org/events/oa-we...

Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - Request for input - Crossref Lots of exciting innovations are being made in scientific publishing, often raising fundamental questions about established publishing practices. In this guest post, Ludo Waltman and André Brasil disc...

We need good practices for DOI registration for publish-review-curate platforms like @metaror.bsky.social and others.

@andre-brasil.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about this: doi.org/10.64000/76j...

Together with @crossref.bsky.social we hope to receive input from the community on this issue!

Interested in updating US academic hiring and promotion to better recognize #OpenScience #TeamScience #CivicScience & more? Please join us for this informational session next week!

Co-creating a Practical Guide for Research Funding Organizations | DORA Our Funders Group Q3 meetings focused on special co-creation sessions focused on a new resource: “A Practical Guide for Implementing RRA for Research Funding Organizations”.

🔛 We're co-creating a Practical Guide for Responsible Research Assessment (RRA) for Research Funding Organizations, in partnership with the Global Research Council RRA Working Group and @scienceeurope.org !
📘 Learn more about the guide and our co-creation meetings 👉 sfdora.org/2025/09/23/p...

My career switch from psychologist to open-science advocate Kelly Cobey’s early career experiences sparked a campaigning zeal, now focused on predatory publishing and responsible research assessment.

🎙️ DORA Co-Chair Kelly Cobey shares her journey in Nature: from psychologist to open science advocate.
Her story and work reminds us that reform is not only possible, it’s essential 👏
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #MaddoxPrize @senseaboutsci.bsky.social

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.

This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Moving OA Forward Focus Sessions: The relevance of Open Research Information. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the mee... Key research data and analytics—such as publication metadata, citation counts, and funding information—are often locked behind paywalls, creating a “black box” that limits transparency, accountability...

Very excited about the partnership between @barcelonadori.bsky.social and @oa2020.org to work together on advancing openness of publication metadata in publisher negotiations!

Interested to learn more? Join next Thursday's OA2020 webinar.

Registration: eu02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@cwts.nl

Computer screen showing the peer review portion of an ORCID record. Text: ORCID Celebrates #PeerReviewWeek

🎉 Happy #PeerReviewWeek!

⚙️ While #ORCID members can write peer review data to researcher records (with researcher permission), researchers always maintain control over the visibility of their reviews. 👉

https://support.orcid.org/hc/en-us/articles/360006971333-Peer-Reviews

#Researchsky

🔊 Call for translators #OSFair2025

The Publication Facts Label #PFLabel is ready for production release (OJS v3.3-3.5) in 9 languages but is 496 words short en français. Can you help?

Learn more: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/03/p...

Thanks for sharing @elegiglia.bsky.social!

#OpenJournalSystems

Our preprint on our translations of CRediT into 36 languages. We've come a long way with this project! osf.io/preprints/me... If you know of non-English academic journals that don't have a policy on saying who did what, get in touch - CRediT may be part of the answer.

Open access in India: A trajectory of opportunities, missteps, and future potential Open access (OA) has become inevitable in global scholarly communication, yet its development in India reflects a mix of progress, setbacks, and untapped potential. This talk will examine the global r...

📣 The first research seminar of the season! Madhan Muthu will talk about "Open access in India: A trajectory of opportunities, missteps, and future potential".

🎧 Make sure to join!

📅 Friday, 26.9.2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CEST)
📌 Online & at CWTS

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

We're kicking off "Localising the Global: Towards Responsible Research Assessment in Brazil" 🇧🇷 A whole day discussing with researchers, universities and funders on how to advance RRA principles! @rnls.bsky.social now presenting on why RRA matters. Thanks @uspoficial.bsky.social for hosting us!

Bright orange poster with bold white and black text announcing the COPIM conference. Capitalised white text on the right hand side reads 'SAVE THE DATE'. Event titled 'What Next for Community-Led Open Access Books?' will be held in person and online on 26–27 February 2026 at Loughborough University Campus in London

📣 Save the date!

Join @copim.bsky.social to explore the future of community-led #OA books at #CopimConference2026

🗓️ 26–27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University, London (plus online)
📲 More info, including registration details, to follow next month!

NISO Plus 2025 Global/Online 2025 has been a year of disruption and uncertainty for many, and now more than ever, it’s important to remind ourselves that we’re part of a community. Our annual NISO Plus Global/Online conference, h...

#DOAJ's Dominic Mitchell is part of a panel at this year’s NISO Plus 2025 event @nisoinfo.bsky.social
Do We Need an Open Access Standard for Journals?
🔸Sept. 16
🔸11-12:15 EST (16-17:15 BST)
#NISOPlus25 #OpenAccess #DiamondOA
@latindex.bsky.social
@eudch.bsky.social
niso.plus/niso-plus-20...

Center for Open Science and African Reproducibility Network Partner to Advance Open Scholarship Practices in Local Contexts The Center for Open Science (COS) is committed to increasing the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research. Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the Scaling Machine Assessments of Research Trustworthiness (SMART) competition exemplifies this mission by exploring innovative methods to predict the replicability of scientific findings using algorithms. This work expands the work from the Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) program. Central to this effort is a partnership with the Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT) and its resource, the FORRT Replication Database (FReD).

🌐 COS & the African Reproducibility Network (AREN) are partnering to advance open scholarship!

The partnership will support AREN’s training program, expand opportunities for scholars in Africa to engage with OSF, & cross-promote activities to connect scholars

📑 Read more:

A great reminder and creative expression from @barcelonadori.bsky.social! The seasons are changing, and so are the diverse needs of our communities, and we are here every step of the way!

#OpenAccess #OpenResearch #OpenScience #OpenData #OpenInfrastructure

Open Education 101 Session 3: Open Education in the Current Moment - SPARC This session will explore how open education intersects with major trends shaping higher education today. Topics will include shifts in course material billing models (e.g., “Inclusive Access”), the r...

Reminder: Tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept. 10 @ 2pm ET tune into our next OE 101 session on #OpenEd & #HigherEd trends. It's not too late to register: sparcopen.org/event/open-e...

Our partnered project 'Breaking Barriers in Research Funding Applications: Evaluating Narrative CVs and Co-designing Solutions' has come to an end! Thanks @edicaucus.bsky.social @daphnejacksontr.bsky.social University of Surrey. Here's an overview of what we have been working on and our key findings

1 week left to apply to join us in Münster from 22–24 October 2025 for the Making Replications Count Hackathon! 🤩 - a fully funded, three-day event to dedicated to building tools that make replication studies easier to find and use!
Apply by 7 Sept ➡️ indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco1