Jessica Polka
@jessicapolka.bsky.social
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Open Science Program Director at Astera Institute Somerville, MA
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Getting more science into the world means publishing beyond papers. There’s no one-size-fits-all answer, but there are options to help researchers transcend the structure of traditional papers. See my analysis on Human Readable: asterainstitute.substack.com/p/science-tr...
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Come and find out about 🪄Alchemy, ✨Cosmik, 🕸Fylo, 📑MetaPages, 🔬SciSci, and 📊Stencila, and help us make them more useful tools for science 🧪 !
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Curious about new tools to manage scientific information? Join us at the Whitehead on Tuesday 1/28 2-4pm...💡 @ronent.bsky.social @iaincheeseman.bsky.social @nadjaohnadja.bsky.social #openscience
“New tools for managing scientific information”
Organized by Iain Cheeseman, PhD (Professor, Whitehead Institute) & Jessica Polka, PhD (Open Science Program Director, Astera Institute)

Tuesday, January 28, 2-4 pm, Whitehead Auditorium

New developments in AI, knowledge graphs, and open science enable researchers to organize, visualize, and synthesize information in new ways. In this session, we’ll hear from creators of innovative tools for openly sharing scientific information about how they can improve your scientific workflows. This is a great opportunity to get hands-on exposure to new tools to benefit your research, as well as to learn about additional career opportunities and directions in the computational tool development space.

Speakers
Saif Haobsh (Astera): Fylo - AI-powered knowledge graphs
Ronen Tamari (Astera): Cosmik - Transforming social media into a collective sensemaking layer for science
Roy Kishony (Technion): Autonomous LLM-driven research from data to human-verifiable research papers
Nadja Oertelt (Center for Open Science): Open Science Framework - a free, open platform to support your research and enable collaboration
SJ Klein (Public AI, Underlay, and Wikipedia)
jessicapolka.bsky.social
Excellent post-mortem of peer-review.io - why is it so hard to disrupt peer review?

👥 social pressure to review
⚖️ need for moderation
🔑 reputational lock-in

Would love to see more scholcomm experiments report learnings like this!

theroadgoeson.com/crowdsourcing-… ht Subbiah Arunachalam
https://theroadgoeson.com/crowdsourcing-…
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An amazing opportunity to shape the future (and present) of scientific communication. Advance discovery. Do right by science and scientists. Make a positive and tangible difference. ASAPbio is an incredibly effective and robust organization that is looking for a new leader. Apply today!
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After 8+ incredible years at ASAPbio, I am beginning a new chapter as Open Science Program Director at Astera Institute later this month. So, we're looking for new leadership: please share the posting with people passionate about open science!
Job posting: Executive Director of ASAPbio (deadline Feb 19)
Join us to make scholarly communication in the life sciences more open and efficient by catalyzing cultural change in scholarly communication, for instance around the use of preprints and other interi...
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After 8+ incredible years at ASAPbio, I am beginning a new chapter as Open Science Program Director at Astera Institute later this month. So, we're looking for new leadership: please share the posting with people passionate about open science!
Job posting: Executive Director of ASAPbio (deadline Feb 19)
Join us to make scholarly communication in the life sciences more open and efficient by catalyzing cultural change in scholarly communication, for instance around the use of preprints and other interi...
asapbio.org
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Whelp, Living Pixel went and did it! twitter.com/LPixSoln/sta...
With this script for TamperMonkey: gist.github.com/CAYdenberg/9...
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+ Flatland!

Thanks for a fun conversation!
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New episode!

I talked to @jessicapolka.bsky.social about preprints, peer review (& why we should publish them), @asapbio.bsky.social, how Jessica got into her line of work, what that works entails on a daily basis, the joys of pipetting, and much more.

Thanks Jessica for being a guest!

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A browser extension that blocks journal names (on pubmed or the whole web) so researchers can focus on evaluating research itself without quality proxies

Does it exist? Is anyone working on this?
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You do not need private emails when leaders of the movement are publicly tweeting about the motivation behind their actions.
Rufo tweet about abolishing "the DEI bureaucracy" Rufo tweet about "abolishing DEI ideology"
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Just as not all preprint servers are suffixed w/ "Rxiv" not everything ending in "Rxiv" is a preprint server. Case in point - searchRxiv is a database for search strings! Interesting concept www.cabidigitallibrary.org/journal/sear...
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Abel Packer closes #scielo25, saying the future is publish first, assess later with open peer review 🤩
Abel Packer speaking at a podium
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Wonderful discussion at #scielo25 today!

TLDR for my slides:

Preprints…
🟰Promote equity by lowering barriers to dissemination
💬Enable new forms of dialog
⚖️Support reinventing assessment
🔓With reviews, are dynamic OA

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v2 SciELO 25 2023 Jessica Polka
Jessica Polka Executive Director, ASAPbio mas.to/@ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social mastodon.social/@polka @jessicapolka.bsky.social Preprinting to broaden scholarly dialog These slides: tinyurl.com/scielo...
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Congress is trying to stop the Biden administration’s directive to make federally funded research articles free to read, and Mayank Chugh and I have ~opinions~
Congress could stop free public access to government-funded research
Every year, Americans invest hundreds of billions in federal research that they can’t access.
www.statnews.com
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eLife's new model accelerates access to peer-reviewed research! Refereed preprints are made public in 79 days vs 170 days to publication w/old model. Via Fiona Hutton at the @asapbio.bsky.social community call @elife.bsky.social
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Publishing industry reps have argued that the EU Council's proposed "no pay" publishing model is unrealistic. But there are already 4 functioning roads to making this vision a reality:

💎 Diamond OA journals
🪙 Publishing platforms
👁️ Preprints + peer review
🔓 Subscribe to open
EU council ‘no pay’ publishing model is realistic
This post originally appeared on Olivier Pourret's blog and in Indonesian on Dasapta Erwin Irawan's blog. Authors Olivier Pourret - UniLaSalle, Beauvais, France - [email protected] - ORC...
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Do you support #Preprints? If you want to show your support, you can get these stickers from @jessicapolka.bsky.social and ASAPbio.org here:
https://asapbio.org/stickers

#Publishing #OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #ResearchPublishing #AccelerateScience
The ASAPbio sticker collection to support preprints. The individual stickers say "I post preprints", "I read preprints", "I cite preprints" and "I review preprints". There's also a note from Jessica Polka saying "Marc, I hope you enjoy these! Thanks! Jess"
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Research should never be behind a paywall. But now there's a bill in the House that will restrict access to scientific work we pay for with our taxes. 

Take action for #taxpayeraccess: https://sparcopen.org/our-work/oppose-section-552-that-will-block-taxpayer-access-to-research/
Photo of me making a stank face at "Sec 552" written on a post it note, wearing a tshirt that says "Unlock tomorrow" with the open access logo, an open padlock