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Open Science Nerd, data scientist, actual scientist, persistent unique identifier aficionado. My opinions are my own!

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ABandrowski @abandrowski.bsky.social · Dec 3

Persistent Identifiers like @rrids.bsky.social are part of FAIR!
Read all about it!
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Persistent Identifiers for Instruments and Facilities: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities

Objective: Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are central to the vision of open science described in the FAIR Principles. However, the use of PIDs for scientific instruments and facilities is decentralized...

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ABandrowski @abandrowski.bsky.social · Aug 27

Kicking off the Community for Rigor's C4R25 Conference -the only conference focused on scientific rigor! Join me on Monday, September 8 at the UPenn campus. REGISTER Today at c4r.io/conference<http://c4r.io/conference>

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ABandrowski @abandrowski.bsky.social · Aug 26

LOL yes mice, rats and even lowly flies are probably in dire need of acknowledgement and persistent identifier based citations. Does this drive improvements in reproducibility of papers? Yep, if you can find the "ingredients" in a recipe you are more likely to be able to make it.

ABandrowski @abandrowski.bsky.social · Aug 15

Have you wondered why mice don't have an impact factor? Here is a paper that explores how such a thing could be built!

Do organisms need an impact factor? Citations of key biological resources including model organisms reveal usage patterns and impact

August 13, 2025
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Do organisms need an impact factor? Citations of key biological resources including model organisms reveal usage patterns and impact

Research resources like transgenic animals and antibodies are the workhorses of biomedicine, enabling investigators to relatively easily study specific disease conditions. As key biological resources,...

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ABandrowski @abandrowski.bsky.social · Aug 15

...and the companion paper is actually out at the same time... Ten simple rules for leading a many-author non-empirical paper
Tracey L. Weissgerber ,Natascha Drude,Rima-Maria Rahal,Friederike E. Kohrs
Published: August 14, 2025
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Ten simple rules for leading a many-author non-empirical paper

Many-author non-empirical papers include recommendations or consensus statements, catalogs of ideas, roadmaps for future research, calls to action, or “how to” articles. These papers have great potent...

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ABandrowski @abandrowski.bsky.social · Aug 15

Paper just out! Ten simple rules for being a co-author on a many-author non-empirical paper
Friederike E. Kohrs ,Natascha Drude,Anita Bandrowski,Tracey L. Weissgerber
Published: August 14, 2025
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Ten simple rules for being a co-author on a many-author non-empirical paper

Many-author non-empirical papers include “how to” articles, recommendations or consensus statements, roadmaps for future research, catalogs of ideas, or calls to action. These papers benefit the resea...

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Nature @nature.com · Jul 31

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

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CURIOSS @curiossorg.bsky.social · Jul 25

A huge thanks to Anita Bandrowski of #SciCrunch & @rrids.bsky.social for the fantastic Deep Dive into Research Resource IDentifiers - #RRIDs.

An increasing number of journals are requesting that researchers use RRIDs - particularly in #biomedicine.

📺 youtu.be/oAAvrFiDMoM

#AcademicSky #opensource

Research Resource IDentifiers (RRIDs) and the RRID Portal

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ABandrowski @abandrowski.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thanks for posting this. I just hope that the RRID system can help CURIOSS

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Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · Jul 22

We can easily solve the problem of LLM-generated nonsense papers by requiring them to be typeset on a typewriter, with hand-written equations, and submitted to journals by mail.

Screenshot of Einstein's manuscript
https://ilorentz.org/history/Einstein_archive/Einstein_1914_typescript/index.html#Einstein_1914_07.html

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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · Jul 11

#FossilFuelsMachineryTurboChargingExtremeWeatherEvents

#TexasFloods

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ABandrowski @abandrowski.bsky.social · Jul 8

Why is la not in total gridlock?

ABandrowski @abandrowski.bsky.social · Jul 7

Wow need to put this in my next paper! If the reviews are lazy then it is on them

ABandrowski @abandrowski.bsky.social · May 22

This lovely paper argues that authors should adopt #RRIDs and other standard Persistent Identifiers for all life sciences studies, thank you! We could not have said it better! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

The IBEX Imaging Knowledge-Base: A Community Resource Enabling Adoption and Development of Immunofluoresence Imaging Methods

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ABandrowski @abandrowski.bsky.social · May 22

Are you notified when we post from @rridrobot.bsky.social with your handle, like this post: bsky.app/profile/rrid...

RRID Robot @rridrobot.bsky.social · May 21

A paper using RRID:AB_1107773 from @bioxcell.bsky.social was just published in Cell. We value the author's support of reproducibility. #STMpublishing #reproducibility #ReproducibleResearch

Macrophages direct location-dependent recall of B cell memory to vaccination

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ABandrowski @abandrowski.bsky.social · May 22

@bioxcell.bsky.social are you notified when we post from @rridrobot.bsky.social about your antibodies?

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · Apr 18

#MedicaidCutsKillUs

Medicaid is not just for those in poverty, which is so important. It funds most nursing home care, 40% of births, and 38% of children's health care.

Tell the Republicans in Congress not to cut Medicaid to fund billionaire tax breaks!

Medicaid covers

41% of all US births

61% of long term care

38% of health care for children

Now Republicans want to cut Medicaid to pay for tax breaks for billionaires

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Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 21

The videos for the presentations given at our "Cell lines in the 21st century symposium" are now available on YouTube, They are listed on our educational resource page: https://www.cellosaurus.org/educational_resources.html

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · Apr 13

Bernie Sanders made a surprise appearance at Coachella 2025 last night.

So he went from the LA rally to Coachella. He's 83 and fighting like this. This should be an inspiration to all of us. If he can do this, we can all do a little more.

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Elizabeth McKenna @elizsmckenna.bsky.social · Apr 2

The April (and #AACR25) issue of Cancer Discovery is now online! The cover features work by Ling Cai, Nia Hammond, @faubert.bsky.social, @rjdlab.bsky.social & colleagues showing high glucose contribution to the TCA cycle is a feature of aggressive NSCLC - more here: aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...

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AnneE @anneebme.bsky.social · Mar 31

This is one fugly white boy!!!

4thparty.bsky.social @4thparty.bsky.social · Mar 31

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · Mar 29

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:

Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · Mar 29

Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money, an EARNED benefit!

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ABandrowski @abandrowski.bsky.social · Mar 25

Can someone just hack that platform so that we can all learn what they are saying, not just the Russians and the Chinese?

ABandrowski @abandrowski.bsky.social · Mar 20

Have you ever wondered why information in tables is so difficult to pull out of PDF files? Our paper on this topic was just released by the journal of BigDataMining, which may have editors who do not pass the Turning test, but at the reviewers were great. Thank You!
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Automatic detection and extraction of key resources from tables in biomedical papers - BioData Mining

Background Tables are useful information artifacts that allow easy detection of missing data and have been deployed by several publishers to improve the amount of information present for key resources...

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