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Sign up to be a crowd preprint reviewer!
✴️ develop your reviewing skills
✴️ support trust in preprints

We invite cell biologists, microbiologists, immunologists, and meta-researchers to sign up as crowd preprint reviewers.

Join us on September 18 for a panel discussion on various experiments within science publishing!
We will hear about their publishing experiments from @meganhoch.bsky.social from @arcadiascience.com, @gabestein.com from PubPub, and @alexandrafreeman.bsky.social from Octopus.

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✴️ Would you like to be a leader in open #PeerReview?
✴️ Would you like to support #OpenScience and preprints?
...then join us and become Crowd Preprint Review Lead!

More information and the signup form below 👇

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Need an idea for your next Journal Club? Discuss a #preprint!
💪 Help the authors strengthen their work
🗣️ Discuss science as it happens
🥼 Help raise your and your group’s profile
📰 No restrictions on papers to include
🧪 Focus on the science
#OpenScience

Crowd Preprint Review – ASAPbio Join ASAPbio's community of preprint reviewers to provide valuable feedback on life science research and help advance open science.

ASAPbio is looking to recruit long-term Crowd Leaders for #preprint review activities.
The goal is to create a space for researchers to give feedback on preprints and support public reviews.
More information can be found at

Crowd Preprint Review – ASAPbio Join ASAPbio's community of preprint reviewers to provide valuable feedback on life science research and help advance open science.

Great opportunity (especially for Early Career Researchers) to:
☑️ develop reviewing skills,
☑️ join a community of like-minded individuals,
☑️ support trust in preprints

Sign up to be a crowd preprint reviewer!

YouTube video by ASAPbio Replacing Academic Journals with Bjorn Brembs

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We are recruiting both reviewers and crowd leads.

📝 We aim to produce 10 preprint reviews per crowd between October 2025 and July 2026.

📅 We have a rolling application window, but we encourage everyone to apply by August 25 for best consideration!

Learn more and apply 👇
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We will be hosting multiple groups that will collaboratively review preprints in:
✨Meta-research (Practices, policies & infrastructure on open science and scholarship)
✨Cell and molecular biology
✨Microbiology
✨Immunology

We are particularly encouraging early career researchers to participate.

📣 We are pleased to announce that recruitment for 2025-26 Crowd Preprint Reviewers & Leads is open!

📝 The goal of the Crowd Preprint Review initiative is to provide an engaging environment for researchers to participate in giving feedback on preprints and support public reviews of preprints.

We will be hosting multiple groups that will collaboratively review preprints in:
✨Meta-research (Practices, policies & infrastructure on open science and scholarship)
✨Cell and molecular biology
✨Microbiology
✨Immunology

We are particularly encouraging early career researchers to participate.

📣 We are pleased to announce that recruitment for 2025-26 Crowd Preprint Reviewers & Leads is open!

📝 The goal of the Crowd Preprint Review initiative is to provide an engaging environment for researchers to participate in giving feedback on preprints and support public reviews of preprints.

Excellent work to show alignment with funder preprint policies! Keeping the work going in the #openscience and #openoutput space. #preprints #funderpolicies

Another step in growing support for preprinting: ASAPbio and Creative Commons have launched the Preprint Policy Framework, offering a systematic overview of preprint policies of several research funders.

Funders and institutions interested in adopting the Framework are welcome to contact ASAPbio.

Congratulations to @asapbio.bsky.social & @creativecommons.bsky.social! Really excited to see this critical project on funder and organizational preprint policies come together.

Direct and simple #postdocvoice #academia

Preprints have helped researchers take control of dissemination of their work, but there is a ways to go.
Institutions, please prevent certain corporate publishers from wresting back control, and set the foundation for further open dissemination by adopting these recommendations! #openaccess

This item 👇🏾 in the new @asapbio.bsky.social Preprint Policy Framework is a game changer! Had a chat on this topic last week with a researcher.

"Authors retain copyright of their preprint (unless waived through a CC0 public domain dedication or other arrangements like U.S. government work)."

Proud to support the new Preprint Policy Framework from @asapbio.bsky.social & @creativecommons.bsky.social that advances open, reusable, and rigorous research communication. A key step toward faster, fairer science.

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⚠️ Happening tomorrow! ASAPbio Community Call: Replacing Academic Journals ⏰

Our speaker will discuss the problems with the current academic journal system and the potential solutions to replacing this broken system.

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Preprint Resource Center – ASAPbio Access comprehensive guides, tools, and best practices for publishing and engaging with preprints in the life sciences.

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#Preprint fact-checking
🥇 Scoop protection: Allow you to establish priority
📰 Journal compatible: Many journals operate policies
compatible with preprints
💪 Preprints are good quality
🛣️ Smoother path to publication: Many journals allow preprint transfers
from servers

The current academic publishing system is expensive and outdated. What can be done about it?
Join us for a critical conversation on how we can build an open, community-led alternative.

#OpenScience
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Thank you to the Gates Foundation and @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org, @asterainstitute.bsky.social, @embl.org, @hhmi.org, the Michael J. Fox Foundation, @simonsfoundation.org, @templetonworld.bsky.social, and the Wellcome Trust for your involvement in this project!

.@asapbio.bsky.social and @creativecommons.bsky.social are pleased to announce the launch of the Preprint Policy Framework that aims to align funder and organizational policies, promoting open, reusable, timely, and rigorous research communication.
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Join us for the Community Call, where we will discuss the actionable roadmap to replace traditional journals with open, interoperable systems, governed by researchers, not corporations.

✅ Open standards
✅ Interoperable tools
✅ Scholar-led governance
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Why should you care about #preprints?

If you upload your manuscript as a preprint, you can:
✅ Claim priority of discovery
✅ Increase citations of your article
✅ Receive feedback and improve your manuscript
✅ Use it as proof of your productivity

We’ll explore:
✅ The case for replacing journals
✅ What a decentralized scholarly publishing network could look like
✅ How funders and institutions can lead this transformation

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