ASAPbio
@asapbio.bsky.social
Biologist-driven non-profit promoting transparency and innovation in life sciences communication
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Find us on different networks 👉 https://linktr.ee/ASAPbio
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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...
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...
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February 12, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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?
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?
PubPeer - Search publications and join the conversation.
PubPeer enables scientists to search for their publications or their peers publications and provide feedback and/or start a conversation anonymously.
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February 9, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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?
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
💪 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
February 6, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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
💪 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
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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✨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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FAST Principles – ASAPbio
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February 5, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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.
asapbio.org/focus-areas/...
✨Focused: Tackle the science, not the person.
✅Appropriate: Keep it respectful and bias-free.
🎯Specific: Provide actionable insights.
🌐Transparent: Be open about your role.
asapbio.org/focus-areas/...
📣 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.
Register 👇️
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ASAPbio and @prereview.bsky.social staff will discuss peer review crowds and clubs, PREreview platform & more.
Register 👇️
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February 5, 2026 at 11:29 AM
📣 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.
Register 👇️
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ASAPbio and @prereview.bsky.social staff will discuss peer review crowds and clubs, PREreview platform & more.
Register 👇️
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💡 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
📖 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
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.
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February 2, 2026 at 2:03 PM
💡 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
📖 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
Below you can find several tips, some of which will only take 5 minutes! ⏲️
#OpenScience
January 30, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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
Below you can find several tips, some of which will only take 5 minutes! ⏲️
#OpenScience
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:
The program will help you to:
✴️develop your reviewing skills
✴️support trust in preprints
Learn more and sign up:
Crowd Preprint Review – ASAPbio
Join ASAPbio's community of preprint reviewers to provide valuable feedback on life science research and help advance open science.
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January 29, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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:
The program will help you to:
✴️develop your reviewing skills
✴️support trust in preprints
Learn more and sign up:
🔓 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.
ASAPbio, in partnership with @creativecommons.bsky.social, has engaged with research funders to further policy alignment toward a standard Preprint Policy Framework.
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.
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January 28, 2026 at 2:04 PM
🔓 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.
ASAPbio, in partnership with @creativecommons.bsky.social, has engaged with research funders to further policy alignment toward a standard Preprint Policy Framework.
🚀 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."
RR\ID is "an open-access overlay journal that accelerates peer review of important infectious disease-related research preprints."
Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases
RR\ID is an open-access overlay journal that accelerates peer review of important infectious disease-related research preprints.
rrid.mitpress.mit.edu
January 27, 2026 at 1:03 PM
🚀 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."
RR\ID is "an open-access overlay journal that accelerates peer review of important infectious disease-related research preprints."
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We feature:
✨valuable resources
✨jobs and opportunities
✨news from ASAPbio and the community interested in improving scholarly communication
January 26, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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Then sign up for the ASAPbio newsletter! buff.ly/vvsJyl8
We feature:
✨valuable resources
✨jobs and opportunities
✨news from ASAPbio and the community interested in improving scholarly communication
Then sign up for the ASAPbio newsletter! buff.ly/vvsJyl8
We feature:
✨valuable resources
✨jobs and opportunities
✨news from ASAPbio and the community interested in improving scholarly communication
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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.
We would like to extend a warm welcome to the six new members of the ASAPbio Board of Directors!
Let's welcome @amamotoryoji.bsky.social, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Stefano Bertozzi, @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, and @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy!
Let's welcome @amamotoryoji.bsky.social, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Stefano Bertozzi, @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, and @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy!
January 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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.
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Looking forward to promoting preprinting!
We would like to extend a warm welcome to the six new members of the ASAPbio Board of Directors!
Let's welcome @amamotoryoji.bsky.social, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Stefano Bertozzi, @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, and @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy!
Let's welcome @amamotoryoji.bsky.social, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Stefano Bertozzi, @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, and @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy!
January 13, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Looking forward to promoting preprinting!
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Very much looking forward to working with these great colleagues in the Board of Directors of ASAPbio!
We would like to extend a warm welcome to the six new members of the ASAPbio Board of Directors!
Let's welcome @amamotoryoji.bsky.social, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Stefano Bertozzi, @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, and @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy!
Let's welcome @amamotoryoji.bsky.social, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Stefano Bertozzi, @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, and @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy!
January 13, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Very much looking forward to working with these great colleagues in the Board of Directors of ASAPbio!
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Excited and honored to be joining the ASAPbio Board of Directors! Preprints and the early circulation of research have been central to my research for some time, and I’m really looking forward to contributing to this work alongside such a thoughtful group of colleagues.
We would like to extend a warm welcome to the six new members of the ASAPbio Board of Directors!
Let's welcome @amamotoryoji.bsky.social, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Stefano Bertozzi, @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, and @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy!
Let's welcome @amamotoryoji.bsky.social, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Stefano Bertozzi, @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, and @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy!
January 13, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Excited and honored to be joining the ASAPbio Board of Directors! Preprints and the early circulation of research have been central to my research for some time, and I’m really looking forward to contributing to this work alongside such a thoughtful group of colleagues.
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@asapbio.bsky.social are devoted champions of innovation in #OpenScience.
They provide a range of events, information, and initiatives around preprints and peer review for you to get stuck into, such as their Fellows training program and Local Hubs!
asapbio.org
They provide a range of events, information, and initiatives around preprints and peer review for you to get stuck into, such as their Fellows training program and Local Hubs!
asapbio.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
@asapbio.bsky.social are devoted champions of innovation in #OpenScience.
They provide a range of events, information, and initiatives around preprints and peer review for you to get stuck into, such as their Fellows training program and Local Hubs!
asapbio.org
They provide a range of events, information, and initiatives around preprints and peer review for you to get stuck into, such as their Fellows training program and Local Hubs!
asapbio.org
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We’re so grateful for ASAPbio’s leadership and partnership! Your work to raise awareness and understanding of preprints, champion community voices, and collaborate to advance preprint-forward policies so powerfully complements PREreview’s focus on equitable, community-driven preprint peer review 🙌
January 7, 2026 at 5:31 PM
We’re so grateful for ASAPbio’s leadership and partnership! Your work to raise awareness and understanding of preprints, champion community voices, and collaborate to advance preprint-forward policies so powerfully complements PREreview’s focus on equitable, community-driven preprint peer review 🙌
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I am glad to be part of this effort.
Plenty of challenges to examine and address in scientific publishing and communication.
Plenty of challenges to examine and address in scientific publishing and communication.
We would like to extend a warm welcome to the six new members of the ASAPbio Board of Directors!
Let's welcome @amamotoryoji.bsky.social, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Stefano Bertozzi, @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, and @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy!
Let's welcome @amamotoryoji.bsky.social, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Stefano Bertozzi, @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, and @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy!
January 13, 2026 at 12:17 PM
I am glad to be part of this effort.
Plenty of challenges to examine and address in scientific publishing and communication.
Plenty of challenges to examine and address in scientific publishing and communication.
We would like to extend a warm welcome to the six new members of the ASAPbio Board of Directors!
Let's welcome @amamotoryoji.bsky.social, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Stefano Bertozzi, @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, and @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy!
Let's welcome @amamotoryoji.bsky.social, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Stefano Bertozzi, @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, and @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy!
January 13, 2026 at 11:29 AM
We would like to extend a warm welcome to the six new members of the ASAPbio Board of Directors!
Let's welcome @amamotoryoji.bsky.social, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Stefano Bertozzi, @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, and @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy!
Let's welcome @amamotoryoji.bsky.social, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Stefano Bertozzi, @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, and @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy!
🚀 We want to give a big shoutout to our friends at @prereview.bsky.social who work tirelessly to promote the constructive and open peer review of prepints! 👏
PREreview works with many like-minded organizations and preprint servers to "bring more equity and transparency to scholarly peer review."👏
PREreview works with many like-minded organizations and preprint servers to "bring more equity and transparency to scholarly peer review."👏
PREreview: Open preprint reviews. For all researchers.
See preprints with a PREreview.
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January 6, 2026 at 1:19 PM
🚀 We want to give a big shoutout to our friends at @prereview.bsky.social who work tirelessly to promote the constructive and open peer review of prepints! 👏
PREreview works with many like-minded organizations and preprint servers to "bring more equity and transparency to scholarly peer review."👏
PREreview works with many like-minded organizations and preprint servers to "bring more equity and transparency to scholarly peer review."👏
Did you know that the ASAPbio newsletter features not only ASAPbio news?
In the newsletter, we also gather:
✨ news from the Open Science community
✨ valuable resources
✨ jobs and opportunities, e.g., grants
& more!
Don't miss the January newsletter!
Sign up now! buff.ly/vvsJyl8
In the newsletter, we also gather:
✨ news from the Open Science community
✨ valuable resources
✨ jobs and opportunities, e.g., grants
& more!
Don't miss the January newsletter!
Sign up now! buff.ly/vvsJyl8
January 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Did you know that the ASAPbio newsletter features not only ASAPbio news?
In the newsletter, we also gather:
✨ news from the Open Science community
✨ valuable resources
✨ jobs and opportunities, e.g., grants
& more!
Don't miss the January newsletter!
Sign up now! buff.ly/vvsJyl8
In the newsletter, we also gather:
✨ news from the Open Science community
✨ valuable resources
✨ jobs and opportunities, e.g., grants
& more!
Don't miss the January newsletter!
Sign up now! buff.ly/vvsJyl8
🎄 ❄️ ⛄ Happy Holidays and Joyful New Year! 🥳 🎉
We will be back in January! Stay tuned!
We will be back in January! Stay tuned!
December 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
🎄 ❄️ ⛄ Happy Holidays and Joyful New Year! 🥳 🎉
We will be back in January! Stay tuned!
We will be back in January! Stay tuned!
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Very much enjoyed last week's meeting in Cambridge about the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model for scholarly publishing. There were lots of highly inspiring discussions, including an important discussion about strengthening coordination between initiatives in this area.
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Reimagining Scholarly Publishing: Outcomes From A Public Forum To Discuss The Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) Publishing Model – ASAPbio
At a meeting held on the 3rd December 2025 at Kings College, Cambridge over 50 delegates, comprising researchers, publishers, librarians, research funders and
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December 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Very much enjoyed last week's meeting in Cambridge about the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model for scholarly publishing. There were lots of highly inspiring discussions, including an important discussion about strengthening coordination between initiatives in this area.
asapbio.org/reimagining-...
asapbio.org/reimagining-...
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Summary of recent meeting to discuss the Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) publishing model.
To build on this momentum @coar-repositories.bsky.social & @asapbio.bsky.social will convene a working group to explore establishing a PRC Alliance
coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
#scientificpublishing
To build on this momentum @coar-repositories.bsky.social & @asapbio.bsky.social will convene a working group to explore establishing a PRC Alliance
coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
#scientificpublishing
Reimagining scholarly publishing: outcomes from a public forum to discuss the Publish, Review, Curate publishing model
Photo: PRC supporters’ workshop At a meeting held on the 3rd December 2025 at Kings College, Cambridge over 50 delegates, comprising researchers, publishers, librarians, research funders and …
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December 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Summary of recent meeting to discuss the Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) publishing model.
To build on this momentum @coar-repositories.bsky.social & @asapbio.bsky.social will convene a working group to explore establishing a PRC Alliance
coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
#scientificpublishing
To build on this momentum @coar-repositories.bsky.social & @asapbio.bsky.social will convene a working group to explore establishing a PRC Alliance
coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
#scientificpublishing
Seun Olufemi, a public health and biomedical researcher and an active advocate for open science, shares his experience with using preprints within his research workflow during the interview with 2025 ASAPbio Fellow FatimaElzhra Ali.
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Preprints in the Global South: An Interview with Seun Olufemi
Seun Olufemi, a public health and biomedical researcher and an active advocate for open science, shares his experience with using preprints within his research workflow. He explains that preprints…
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December 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Seun Olufemi, a public health and biomedical researcher and an active advocate for open science, shares his experience with using preprints within his research workflow during the interview with 2025 ASAPbio Fellow FatimaElzhra Ali.
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