PREreview

White text over black background that reads: "Did you know? At PREreview you can find a variety of free and openly licensed resources to help guide you in writing your own peer reviews, training others, and collaborating to review research manuscripts. Most of them are translated into several languages!" Link to: www.prereview.org/resources To the right, a graphic design from OEWeek26 visuals kit.

On @oeglobal.bsky.social #OEWeek26 we want to spotlight the free & openly licensed materials available on PREreview to help develop your skills—and train others—in ethical & constructive peer review.

Check out our Open Reviewers Toolkit & many other open learning resources: prereview.org/resources

❔️ What are the benefits of public peer review?
❔️ How can early-career researchers engage in peer review?
❔️ How to use the PREreview platform for open peer review?

Learn the answers (& more) during the ASAPbio March Community Call!

Register now! 👉️

Headshots, names and countries of location for nine of the 2026 PREreview Champions

Headshots, names and countries of location for eight of the 2026 PREreview Champions

🎉 These are the 17 wonderful people who are becoming PREreview Champions this year!

🙌 Get to know them and join us in celebrating them:
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@prasakthi.bsky.social @iakankshagupta.bsky.social @sayab.bsky.social

📢 AREN Local Network Leads (LNLs) Training Program equips African researchers to establish and lead Open Science communities within their institutions.

PREreview staff will be running sessions on ethical and constructive peer review!

👉 Learn more and apply before March 16, 2026: bit.ly/4s19VWy

"Help design our new gratitude and recognition features" flyer. Feb 24, 2026 at 14:00 UTC or Feb 25, 2026 at 17:00 UTC. There is a QR code to a blog post on PREreview.org with more information about the calls.

💡 How do you think PREreview.org might better enable gratitude and reciprocity interactions between authors, reviewers, and readers?

🙌 Join one of our community design sprint calls on Feb 24 or Feb 25 to help us develop new features for the PREreview platform!

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📣 Join @katiecorker.bsky.social (ASAPbio), @thewilkybarkid.bsky.social, and @neurosarda.bsky.social (@prereview.bsky.social) on March 5th for the Community Call!

Speakers will discuss the ins and outs of doing open peer review as part of a team🤝

Register 👇️
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❣️ With deep gratitude, we also say farewell to @kristenratan.bsky.social who has served on our Advisory Committee for the past six years.

🙌 Please join us in welcoming Drs. @kirstiejane.bsky.social, Lamis Yahia Mohamed Elkheir, and @malvikasharan.bsky.social to the PREreview Advisory Committe!

bit.ly/AC-changes

Peer review in a team: How ASAPbio leverages PREreview to build a community of open preprint reviewers In this special guest blog piece, Katie Corker, Executive Director at ASAPbio, outlines ASAPbio Crowd Review Program’s innovative approach to research assessment and how it makes the most of PREreview...

We invited @katiecorker.bsky.social from @asapbio.bsky.social to share how they are leveraging PREreview to foster community-driven preprint review in our latest Community Features blog post.

👉 Read it and join us for a call about peer review as a team effort on March 5!

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🫶 Join us for a community design sprint about developing new features for gratitude and recognition!

We’d love to know what would make the PREreview platform more valuable to you.

🔸 Learn more and register for a call on Feb 24 or Feb 25!
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PREreview platform news, 13 February 2026 This week on the Product team, we continued gathering feedback about matchmaking on PREreview.org. We’re working with especially active PREreviewers to develop a feature that will make recommendations...

🗞️ Catch up on the latest weeknote from the PREreview Product team!

Learn all about our work to gather feedback about matchmaking, requests, and gratitude and recognition features on the site here 👇
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🆕 In the first piece of our new Community Features blog series, @rosariorogel.bsky.social & Francisco Silva-Garcés reflect on their PREreview Club’s experience using PREreview.org to do collaborative review of conference content.

👉 Read it in ES & EN:
bit.ly/CIbCA

Love Data Week branded flyer, with an invitation to "try out our dataset review workflow!" and PREreview's logo underneath.

PREreview joins #LoveData26 celebration with a strong commitment to encouraging open peer review of diverse research outputs, including datasets.

📊 Try out our modular review workflow for datasets here: prereview.org/review-a-dat...

Learn more: bit.ly/dataset-work...

@lovedataweek.bsky.social

💬 Catch PREreview at @nisoinfo.bsky.social Conference!

Join PREreview Champion Alum Kylie Yui Dan in discussing our efforts to transform scholarly communications at #NISOPLUS26.

🗓️ 17 Feb - 13:30 EST
📌Baltimore, MD
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PREreview February 2026 Newsletter Join Community Call on Feb 11. Modular Peer Review WG kick-off. PREreview experiments with matchmaking. Events, career opportunities, and more!

🎉 PREreview February 2026 Newsletter is out

Welcome Sol Ruiz to our team; PREreview Community Call coming up soon; Modular Peer Review WG kick-off; join new design sprints & experiments with matchmaking; events, opportunities, and more!

bit.ly/feb-2026-new...

Modular Peer Review Working Group A working group hosted by Continuous Science Foundation (CSF) and PREreview exploring how peer review can evolve in a modular publishing ecosystem.

🚀 To move beyond end-point peer review, PREreview & @continuous.foundation are co-leading the Modular Peer Review Working Group.

60+ people from diverse backgrounds and regions have joined this space for co-creation.

Take a look at their first session outputs and follow along👇
bit.ly/modular-wg

PREreview platform news, 30 January 2026 Welcome to a new year of weeknotes from the Product team at PREreview.org! Thanks for taking the time to catch up with us. What’s new at PREreview?This week, we’ve been working on a new approach to ma...

📢 Check out our first weeknote of 2026!

Find out what the PREreview Product team has been working on and discover ways to help us improve initiatives like matchmaking in the new year.

content.prereview.org/prereview-pl...

PREreview Community Call promotion flyer. "Join us on this journey. Participate in our Community Call and help us guide what comes next... February 11, 2026 - 16:00 UTC". A qr code to the right leads to a Zoom registration form. There are concentric red circles around the qr code, representing expansion and dialogue.

📆 YOU ARE INVITED to join our next 60-minute Community Call on February 11 at 4pm UTC.

During the call we will share PREreview’s three-year strategic goals and take in your feedback to help us guide what comes next.

👉 Register to contribute your valuable insight: bit.ly/4sGYW5H

Welcome Sol! The PREreview Team is thrilled to welcome our newest team member - María Sol Ruiz as Champions Fellow! This is a new, part-time position to provide support to the wider team, and the 2026 PREreview Ch...

🎉The PREreview team is delighted to welcome María Sol Ruiz!

As a Champions Fellow, she will be supporting the coordination of our community-facing initiatives.

🙌 Read more about Sol's background and what she is most excited about joining us: content.prereview.org/welcome-sol/

“Did you know?” announcement for bioRxiv. The text says “bioRxiv makes it easy to request feedback from community initiatives straight from your Author Area!” Below, a screenshot of the link to “Request Community Feedback” from the bioRxiv Author Area and a graphic showing a manuscript with an arrow pointing to the logo for prereview.org. The footer says: “bioRxiv and medRxiv are preprint servers of openRxiv.”

You can request feedback on your preprints directly from the bioRxiv Author Area > “Request Community Feedback.” Current offering: @prereview.bsky.social. Take the initiative to get feedback on your work!

ℹ️ connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/12...

#OpenScience #communityreviews #bioRxiv #openrxiv

"You are needed to create the future we envision for knowledge sharing and evaluation. Register for our next Community Call to contribute your valuable insight" in white over red background. Graphic of two hands holding a heart in the middle of the page, underneath the text. PREreview contact information: "mailto:community@prereview.org". PREreview social media links on the bottom right.

The change we seek cannot—and must not—be carried by a single person, organization, or industry alone. YOU ARE NEEDED to create the future we envision for knowledge sharing and evaluation.

👉 Register for our Community Call on February 11 to contribute your valuable insight: bit.ly/4sGYW5H

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During that time, we will focus on advancing these initiatives 👇

"PREreview 2025 Annual Report" header on top-right corner. An inverted red trapezoid shape representing the path opening in front, with a QR code on the bottom leading to the PREreview Strategic Plan in Zenodo. "There's an exciting road ahead!" title at the bottom of the page

Today we published the Strategic Plan that will shape PREreview’s work over the next three years. By 2029, we aim to shift norms in research assessment so they reflect the values of equity, openness, and care.

👉 Read our 3Y Strategic Plan: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

🔜 There’s still time to join our PREreview and @jmirpub.bsky.social collaborative #livereview!

📍 Register now: bit.ly/live-review-jan-23

#reviewtogether

📢 Compartimos esta gran oportunidad de desarrollo profesional para personas de Latinoamérica que estén vinculadas a comunidades de #cienciaabierta y #software de investigación sostenible.

❗ Las postulaciones cierran el 20 de febrero de 2026

[Online] PREreview: Transforming Peer Review with Researchers, for Communities, Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 12:00 PM | Meetup This session introduces participants to PREreview, a community-driven platform designed to make peer review more open, inclusive, and equitable. We’ll explore the current r

📢 @dataumbrella.org webinar is featuring PREreview!

Join us to explore the current research publishing landscape and discuss why transparent, community-centered reviewing matters. We’ll also share upcoming PREreview features and ways to engage.

👉 Register: www.meetup.com/data-umbrell...

2025: A year of collective resolve and growing momentum Today, we published our 2025 Annual Report, sharing our achievements from last year and renewing our commitment to work in collaboration with you to shape an equitable, open, and transparent scholarly...

Special thanks to @row1.ca , @tracykteal.bsky.social , Roseline Dzekem Dine, @rosariorogel.bsky.social and Noemi Gonzalez-Rocha for their contribution to our Annual Report!

👉 Learn more: content.prereview.org/2025-annual-report

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PREreview is honored and grateful to work alongside community members, funders, and partners who are helping advance open knowledge for the benefit of all ❣️

Two charts, one at the top of the page plotting the number of PREreviews published each year from 2021-2025 connected by a red line, and another below plotting the number of PREreviews published in Latin American Spanish (red) and Brazilian Portuguese (black) published in the same time frame.

Expanding access was a major focus last year. By translating and localizing PREreview’s websites and resources into LA Spanish & BR Portuguese, we saw double- and triple-digit growth across key indicators 👇

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🌟We’re excited to share PREreview’s 2025 Annual Report, celebrating a year of collective resolve and growing momentum in transforming how research is shared and evaluated.
Read full report: zenodo.org/records/1818...