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Marcin Miłkowski @milekpl.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Tired of Kindle annotations living in separate files?

Built Kindle PDF Annotator to embed your highlights & notes directly back into PDFs.

Finally share annotated PDFs with colleagues and integrate with Zotero again.

Open source: https://github.com/milekpl/kindle-pdf-annotator #python #kindle

The dialog box of the Kindle PDF Annotator

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Community for Rigor @comm4rigor.bsky.social · 1d

Interested in testing our scientific rigor training materials? Email us at [email protected]

We have three units in beta, ready for testing, and they come in 3 versions: for individuals, small group meetings, and class lecture.

Join us and learn more at C4R.io/join

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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Publish, Review, Curate: Turning scholarly publishing on its head – COAR https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/publish-review-curate-turning-scholarly-publishing-on-its-head/

Publish, Review, Curate: Turning scholarly publishing on its head

Tired of long delays, expensive fees, and a lack of transparency about editorial decisions when publishing your articles? Join us at Cambridge University on December 3rd for an in-depth discussion …

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 5d

I know people are submitting AI-generated papers and some are AI-assisted, but…

There were 26,646 new submissions to arXiv in September 2025.

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 5d

Did you know that our Open Reviewers Toolkit is now available in Portuguese (also in English and Spanish)?

You can find these guides and more on our Resources page: prereview.org/resources

Let us know your preference for what languages we should prioritize next here: forms.gle/KwL51vinhYCN...

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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · 5d

Super exciting work, and a bonus to see a major university research department promote an exciting @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint rather than wait 9-12 months for the final version 👏🏽

@asapbio.bsky.social

Harvard Med Cell Biology @harvardcellbio.bsky.social · 5d

Historically, viruses were thought to primarily use host cell's translational machinery. New work from @harvardcellbio.bsky.social faculty Amy Lee reveals that a giant DNA virus encodes its own IF4F initiation complex, suggesting an unexpected evolutionary innovation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Giant DNA viruses encode a hallmark translation initiation complex of eukaryotic life

In contrast to living organisms, viruses were long thought to lack protein synthesis machinery and instead depend on host factors to translate viral transcripts. Here, we discover that giant DNA virus...

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Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 6d

This includes the OSF preprint servers, @metaarxivbot.bsky.social, @socarxivbot.bsky.social, @psyarxivbot.bsky.social, and more.

Center for Open Science @cos.io · 6d

🚧 Downtime Reminder 🚧

OSF will be offline Sat., October 4 from 9am–~5pm ET while we deploy the updated OSF interface.

Saved content will remain available, but be sure to save in-progress wiki edits, preprints, & project drafts beforehand & close any open tabs.

More info:

Coming Soon: A New Look for OSF

In early October 2025, the Open Science Framework (OSF) will launch a refreshed design that makes the platform easier to navigate and use. The update modernizes the interface and improves performance, while preserving the familiar workflows that users are accustomed to.

www.cos.io

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 6d

Another record month for bioRxiv - and further evidence the pandemic spike+dip was just that and growth continues. Thanks to all involved and that includes 🫵

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preLights @prelights.bsky.social · 8d

Our latest ‘call for preLighters’ closes tonight!

Interested, but didn’t find the time to write an application? Expressions of interest are also welcome – just email us at [email protected]

Why join? See what other preLighters have to say…⬇️👀

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 8d

Don't let minor submission errors delay the publication of your research! 📝 🔬

Remember to check the full guidelines when submitting the manuscript to PsyArXiv (buff.ly/M3cRBW2).

Below, we also have a few friendly reminders!

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Gabriel Stein @gabestein.com · 8d

One week until our virtual panel on how the open science and media communities can adapt to changes in our information ecosystem to (re)build trust in research. I hope it'll be the start of a much-needed longer conversation.

Don't miss it! Register here: shorensteincenter.org/new-event/ca...

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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 8d

Great news-- @felixthoemmes.bsky.social to be the next EiC at AMPPS! See below for information about joining his team.

Felix Thoemmes @felixthoemmes.bsky.social · 8d

Excited to share that I’ll be the incoming Editor of AMPPS. My first priority is building a diverse team of Associate Editors and Editorial Board members. If you’re interested, DM me or add your name via this super simple survey.
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 11d

Our dataset review workflow is now ready for testing 🎉
Try it out at sandbox.prereview.org! So far, this supports datasets from @datadryad.bsky.social
We’ll be supporting more repositories as we go. Email [email protected] with your suggestions.

Read more: content.prereview.org/prereview-pl...

PREreview platform news, 26 September 2025

We are back! After a brief summer break, it’s time for another weeknote from PREreview.org!

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Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 11d

There was a ScholCommLab paper last year that did a look at how preprint servers approach this problem currently that I found informative. I also expect this is an area where changes/maturation will be coming soon (given problems with AI slop that seem to be growing).

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 12d

1/ Starting next year, @hhmi.org will require all authors to share their research as preprints under a CC BY 4.0 license as part of its new Immediate Access to Research policy.
buff.ly/NrHlEKD

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Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 11d

The bits at the end about licenses and open data are also 👀👀

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Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 11d

It's interesting that they make the argument that quality is expensive. Actually it's selectivity that is expensive - if you reject 90% of what you're sent, the remaining 10% has to cost more. But selectivity is not the same thing as quality...

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 12d

We need good practices for DOI registration for publish-review-curate platforms like @metaror.bsky.social and others.

@andre-brasil.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about this: doi.org/10.64000/76j...

Together with @crossref.bsky.social we hope to receive input from the community on this issue!

Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - Request for input - Crossref

Lots of exciting innovations are being made in scientific publishing, often raising fundamental questions about established publishing practices. In this guest post, Ludo Waltman and André Brasil disc...

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Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 12d

Yes, in that you can post commentary freely on servers that allow it (which is good). No, in that just posting commentary doesn't enable clear linkage to the output being reviewed. Without a system like bioRxiv's comments/community reviews, later readers aren't alerted of the context/commentary.

Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 12d

To me the form is not so important (html, pdf, whatever), it's that blogs are transient (destined to fail eventually) and more importantly, they aren't linked back to the source. It's not easy for a casual reader to find the commentary later.

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Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 12d

I want this kind of back and forth to be somewhere that everyone can see it and enjoy it, in perpetuity. What if peer review worked more like this, in the open?

Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 12d

“On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure”
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/25/o...

“On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure” | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 13d

At @molbiosystems.bsky.social, we are giving away waivers at two large, broad-scope journals, to help people and make it easier to share exactly this type of work

Kif Liakath-Ali @kifla.bsky.social · 13d

Null & negative results ≠ failure. They’re essential—but still sidelined.

Proud to co-author this @plosbiology.org paper tackling systemic bias & calling for culture change.

ECRs pay the highest price for this biased culture!

Blog by @scurry.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ysc23wrx

#PublicationBias

Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results

Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. This Consensus View discusses the problem of such publication...

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Kif Liakath-Ali @kifla.bsky.social · 13d

Null & negative results ≠ failure. They’re essential—but still sidelined.

Proud to co-author this @plosbiology.org paper tackling systemic bias & calling for culture change.

ECRs pay the highest price for this biased culture!

Blog by @scurry.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ysc23wrx

#PublicationBias

Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results

Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. This Consensus View discusses the problem of such publication...

journals.plos.org

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Creative Commons @creativecommons.bsky.social · 14d

Encouraging researchers to select CC BY as the license of choice for preprints maximizes reuse and minimizes the complexity of navigating legal terms when sharing research.

Learn more about licensing preprints with CC BY: zenodo.org/records/1428...

Why use the CC BY license for preprints? A guide for researchers

Preprints are complete drafts of scientific research articles posted to an online repository before formal peer review. When you publish on a preprint server, you remain the copyright holder and can…

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Creative Commons @creativecommons.bsky.social · 14d

In January 2025, life science preprint servers @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social and @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social updated their license selector, placing CC BY at the top of the list. Just six months later, the number of CC BY-licensed preprints has increased for the first time in five years.

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