ASAPbio

This week @katiecorker.bsky.social (ASAPbio), @neurosarda.bsky.social, Chris Wilkinson
(PREreview), @pranea.bsky.social and Roseline Dzekem Dine (PREreview Club Leads) will meet to discuss the ins and outs of doing open peer review as part of a team.

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Congratulations to all PREreview Champions!

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: A Team Effort: Why and How to do Open Collaborative Peer Review. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Join us for the March 2026 ASAPbio community call where we'll discuss the ins and outs of doing open peer review as part of a team. ASAPbio staff and PREreview staff will come together and discuss pee...

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❔️ 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!

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✨️ Connect with like-minded peers and colleagues interested in improving scholarly communication!
✨️ Stay updated on trends in life science research & communication
✨️ Learn how to contribute to open science in your own community

Join the ASAPbio Community!
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Peer Review Resource Center – ASAPbio Find comprehensive resources and best practices for transparent, constructive peer review of life science research.

Open & transparent preprint review means:
✅Faster feedback
✅Crediting reviewers for their contributions
✅Public, constructive discussion

Are you new to preprint peer review and unsure where to begin? Check out the ASAPbio Peer Review Resource Center to learn more!

DORA has launched an introductory course on responsible research assessment! 🤩
🤓 What is it? A free online self-paced course
❓ Who is it for? Anyone who wants to learn more about the basics of research assessment, regardless of career level or discipline
🌐 Explore the course 👉 bit.ly/DORA-Intro-C...

📣 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🤝

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Join us at the next OpenCon Librarian Community Call on March 10 at 12PM ET/9AM PT for a talk by Katie Corker, Executive Director of @asapbio.bsky.social , who will introduce an innovative model of scholarly communication called Publish-Review-Curate (PRC). www.opencon.community/march_2026_l...

Early Career Researchers are highly encouraged to join!
Learn more 👉
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Crowd Preprint Review – ASAPbio Join ASAPbio's community of preprint reviewers to provide valuable feedback on life science research and help advance open science.

📣Calling on all researchers interested in meta-research (practices, policies & infrastructure on open science and scholarship, e.g., preprints, open access, open education, research impact).
Join ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review and contribute to collaborative preprint review.
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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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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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The Cost of Confusion: Dispelling Myths about the NIH Public Access Policy and Article Processing Charges Last July, the NIH issued an RFI on limiting direct spending on article processing charges (APCs). Over 900 public responses offered valuable perspectives but also exposed widespread misconceptions ab...

For those navigating new NIH requirements, SPARC's @corinnaturbes.bsky.social & co-author Christopher Steven Marcum explain the realities. Top of list: Authors can comply at zero cost by depositing their author accepted manuscript directly into PubMed Central. upstream.force11.org/cost-of-conf...

Let's build a stronger, more transparent evaluation system for science!🎓💪
PubPeer Foundation is awarding $1,000💰 for selected PubPeer comments that provide significant, original contributions to scientific discussions.
Everyone is welcome to join!
Curious to learn more?

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

If you want to apply the FAST Principles in practice, you can join a Crowd of researchers who collaboratively review preprints in Cell Biology and Meta-research!

Learn more and join the Crowd Preprint Review!
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FAST Principles – ASAPbio

Elevate Preprint Feedback with FAST Principles!
✨Focused: Tackle the science, not the person.
✅Appropriate: Keep it respectful and bias-free.
🎯Specific: Provide actionable insights.
🌐Transparent: Be open about your role.
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📣 Join us on March 5th for the Community Call, where we'll discuss the ins and outs of doing open peer review as part of a team. 🤝
ASAPbio and @prereview.bsky.social staff will discuss peer review crowds and clubs, PREreview platform & more.

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Preprint Highlight: “A Guide To Preprinting For Early Career Researchers” – ASAPbio A scientist-driven nonprofit accelerating discovery by promoting innovation and transparency in life science communication through preprints and open peer review.

💡 Thinking about preprinting but unsure where to start?
📖 Check out “A Guide to Preprinting for Early Career Researchers”:
🔍 What preprints are & their relevance across disciplines
💬 Tips for discussing preprints with co-authors
✅ Preprint submission checklist

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

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

Crowd Preprint Review activities are about to start, but you can still join! We invite cell biologists and meta-researchers to sign up as Crowd Preprint Reviewers.

The program will help you to:
✴️develop your reviewing skills
✴️support trust in preprints

Learn more and sign up:

Advancing Openly Licensed Preprints: Aligning Across A Standard Preprints Policy Framework – ASAPbio Keep up to date on open scholarly communication! Check out what’s new on the blog.

See the results of our work and, if you are a research funder, contact us to join this initiative!
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Advancing Openly Licensed Preprints: Aligning Across A Standard Preprints Policy Framework – ASAPbio Keep up to date on open scholarly communication! Check out what’s new on the blog.

🔓 Open practices for preprints, including open licensing, are crucial for rapid and equitable sharing of scientific research.

ASAPbio, in partnership with @creativecommons.bsky.social, has engaged with research funders to further policy alignment toward a standard Preprint Policy Framework.

Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases RR\ID is an open-access overlay journal that accelerates peer review of important infectious disease-related research preprints.

They describe their process as “curate, review, publish."
💠Preprints are curated to select those for review,
💠Selected peer reviewers review the manuscript
💠Reviews are made public, so everyone can use them to help them assess the strength of the evidence presented in the study.

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Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases RR\ID is an open-access overlay journal that accelerates peer review of important infectious disease-related research preprints.

🚀 We are excited to see many initiatives that are working hard to publicly assess preprints. 🚀Today, we want to highlight one of them-- @rapidreviews-id.bsky.social !
RR\ID is "an open-access overlay journal that accelerates peer review of important infectious disease-related research preprints."

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I am elated and honored to be joining the @asapbio.bsky.social board of directors with these illustrious colleagues to continue the hard work of advancing preprints In scholarly communication.

Looking forward to promoting preprinting!

Very much looking forward to working with these great colleagues in the Board of Directors of ASAPbio!