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Peer Community In
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A free recommendation process of scientific preprints based on peer reviews: https://peercommunityin.org A diamond open-access journal: https://peercommunityjournal.org Follow @peercomjournal.bsky.social !
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Jan 9
There are now 19 thematic PCIs but many disciplines remain to be covered! We are therefore making a call for the creation of new thematic PCIs and giving some information on how to start:
Call for the creation of new PCIs - Peer Community In
Here is the list of the different Peer Communities In already created, hosting recommendations and peer-reviews of preprints and ready to receive your submissions
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 1d
Many thanks to the University of Graz for joining the PCI supporters in 2025!✨
www.uni-graz.at/en/
Universität Graz – We work for tomorrow - Universität Graz
Lösungen für die Welt von morgen entwickeln – das ist unsere Mission. Erfahre mehr über die Universität Graz, unsere Forschungsprofil und Studienangebot
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Peer Community Journal @peercomjournal.bsky.social · 9d
Last Friday, we published the 500th article of Peer Community Journal! 🥳
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 15d
We are delighted to have Durham University as one of our supporters this year. Thank you!💐
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 19d
Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s
PCI Webinar-Dorothy Bishop-How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 21d
Register now for #SORTEE2025 conference!

We thank our sponsors (@asn-amnat.bsky.social, @cdnsciencepub.com, @datadryad.bsky.social, @peercommunityin.bsky.social, @royalsociety.org, @sse-evolution.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social) who are eligible for free registration.
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · Aug 1
📷 The 2025 SORTEE conference program is now online!

Visit sortee.org/upcoming/ to register and explore the exciting lineup of various sessions.

#SORTEE2025

If you know a great open science project, now is the time to nominate it for a SORTEE Award www.sortee.org/awards/
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Jonny Coates @jacoates.bsky.social · 24d
Hot off the heels of our what is a preprint video is our what is preprint peer review video!

Featuring @prelights.bsky.social @prereview.bsky.social @reviewcommons.org, @elife.bsky.social & @peercommunityin.bsky.social

#peerreview #preprint #scipub
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Rippling Ideas @ripplingideas.bsky.social · 24d
Are you unsure what preprint peer review is? Or how to get started reviewing preprints?

Wonder no more! Our latest 5 min video explains all 📽️

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What is preprint peer review?
You know what a preprint is but what is preprint peer review and how does it work? How is that different from journal organised peer review? We’ll answer these questions and explore the variety of preprint review services, highlighting the ones we most recommend. To learn more, visit https://rippl
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 22d
PCI is featured in this Nature News post, which presents some ideas to help fix the peer-review system: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The peer-review crisis: how to fix an overloaded system
Journals and funders are trying to boost the speed and effectiveness of review processes that are under strain.
www.nature.com
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 26d
It is next week! Have you registered yet?
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Aug 22
📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit:
PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In
The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 28d
💡 PCI recently took part in a CSE webinar focusing on the publish-review-curate model. Read about the discussions and discover innovative strategies for decentralized publishing at:
www.csescienceeditor.org/article/new-...
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Sep 4
You must be thinking of a different platform. PCI psychology (psych.peercommunityin.org) has only been launched very recently, and there aren't yet any public peer reviews to read (these are only made public upon recommendation).
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ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social · Aug 26
ICYM ASAPbio seeks new board members to support our mission of driving positive change in science communication!🚀

🤝 Board members are involved in strategic planning, participate in decision-making, and engage the community to help connect ASAPbio to contacts who can help us achieve our mission.✍️ 🔬
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Aug 28
We are thrilled to announce that PCI is now supported by the University of Bern (www.unibe.ch/index_eng.html)! 💫
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Aug 26
PCI Ecology and PCI Evolutionary Biology have recently launched a team of data editors who are implementing the SORTEE guidelines for new submissions. Other PCIs may join soon. Expressions of interest from potential new data editors are welcome!
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Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · Aug 15
🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵
The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Aug 22
📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit:
PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In
The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Aug 22
Many thanks to Karlstad University for becoming a supporter of PCI this year (www.kau.se/en)%F0%9F%98...!
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Aug 19
The Association for Psychological Science and its journal AMPPS recently spotlighted PCI in two news articles💫!! You can find them here: www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... and here: www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Community Peer Review Initiative in Psychological Science Has Launched
PCI Psychology, an emerging community within the broader Peer Community In framework that aims to transform peer review in academic publishing, is open for submissions.
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Barbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her) @barbaraclass.bsky.social · Aug 15
Check out the SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code checks in E&E journals 🤩! We have been implementing these at @peercommunityin.bsky.social and we hope others will follow suit. Also very interesting from an author's perspective 😉
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Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · Aug 15
🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵
The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Aug 12
PCI is at the Ecology & Behaviour 2025 @ecobhvr2025.bsky.social conference this week! If you're curious about the PCI initiative, Barbara Class will be happy to answer any questions you may have on Wednesday morning ☕
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Jul 24
Many thanks to the University of Göttingen for supporting PCI in 2025! 🤩
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/1.html
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Jul 17
Stockholm University (@stockholm-uni.bsky.social) is joining the ranks of PCI's new sponsors for 2025! 😊
www.su.se/english/
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Jul 15

Also, did you know that the COAR Notify Protocol allows submitting preprints directly to PCI from HAL or Digital CSIC? The process is explained here: peercommunityin.org/2024/01/15/s... and here: peercommunityin.org/2024/09/18/d...
Simplified Preprint Submission to PCI from HAL - Peer Community In
PCI Recommenders manage the evaluation of articles in the same way as associate editors do at journals.
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Jul 15
Why link preprints and their peer reviews? Read this post from Kathleen Shearer (COAR @coar-repositories.bsky.social): coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
How innovative new practices are helping transform scholarly publishing
Image: © Fernando Rincon | iStock Kathleen Shearer, COAR Executive Director In today’s fast-paced world where new discoveries emerge at an ever-increasing rate, delays of 12–24 months in accessing …
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Jul 11
PCI is proud to welcome the Universidade do Minho - Unidade de Serviços de Documentação e Bibliotecas (USDB) as one of its new supporters 🥳
www.usdb.uminho.pt/pt
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Jul 9
Explore how PCI is spotlighted in this Le Monde piece, which outlines the challenges in academic publishing and discusses alternative paths. The full article (for subscribers): buff.ly/sGnBWp8. #ScholarlyPublishing #LeMonde
Le monde des revues scientifiques au bord de l’asphyxie
Plus de trois millions d’articles sont publiés chaque année dans les revues scientifiques, les chercheurs étant incités à les multiplier pour se distinguer. Une logique économique perverse s’est…
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Jul 4
Biology Open's editorial on a decade of preprints in biology. Check it out here:
journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...
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