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Open archive of social science. Free. Academy owned. Posts by director Philip N. Cohen. Say it: so-SHAR-kive (soʊʃɑrkaɪv). Website: socarxiv.org. New papers post at: https://bsky.app/profile/socarxivbot.bsky.social

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hello, Bluesky! Migrating from the bad place. Tag me for reskeets of your new papers on SocArXiv, ask for help with the site, say hello, etc.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 1d

We may take advantage of ORCID’s trust markers program in the future and require additional elements on the ORCID record.

We love independent scholars, but a disproportionate share of non-research, spam, and AI-generated submissions come from independent scholars, many of whom do not have ORCIDs
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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 1d

We are not requiring additional verification or trust markers (such as email or employer verification), just an account that lists the author’s name. It’s not a foolproof identity verification, obviously, but it adds a step for scammers, and also helps identify pseudonymous authors.
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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 1d

New policy at SocArXiv: We now require the submitting author to have an ORCID linked from the OSF profile page, with a name that matches that on the paper and the OSF account.
@orcid.org @cos.io
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 4d

"Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request." (Or: you keep saying these words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean)

Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 4d

My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

LnuOpen | Meta-Psychology

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 4d

Does your department or institute have a working paper series you want to archive properly, with assigned DOIs, versioning, and the ability to link journal versions as needed? Also, it's free. And we'll host your old papers, too. Get in touch! socarxiv at gmail dot com.

kermit the frog is talking on a phone and saying call me

ALT: kermit the frog is talking on a phone and saying call me

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 4d

Also: We host the Stone Center Working Paper Series
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/research-dat...

Stone Center Working Paper Series - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

yes

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 4d

Did you know: SocArXiv hosts the working paper series for the Association of Population Centers
www.popcenters.org/research/ass...

Association of Population Centers ArXiv (APCA)

Visit the post for more.

www.popcenters.org

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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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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.

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ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social · 7d

We believe preprints and open peer review are central to reducing publishing expenses. 💰📝

We have crafted a response to NIH Request for Information on “Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs,” where you can learn about the details of our recommendations. buff.ly/v9I0i9v

ASAPbio Response To NIH Request For Information On “Maximizing Research Funds By Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs” (NOT-OD-25-138) – ASAPbio

NIH seeks to reduce its publishing expenses, while encouraging high quality research, in order to be good stewards of its limited public funding. Certainly,

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Rippling Ideas @ripplingideas.bsky.social · 7d

A new PI’s guide to promoting open science and preprints in your lab

Download the guide Provided under a CC-BY licence.

A new PI’s guide to promoting open science and preprints in your lab

Download the guide Provided under a CC-BY licence.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 7d

Paper accepted ✅
Preprint shared ✅
Reader engagement unlocked

Matthias Collischon 🇺🇦🇪🇺 @mcollischon.bsky.social · 7d

New paper accepted in Soziale Welt! In this research note, I provide some practical guidelines for researchers investigation gender differences what one needs to think about in terms of sample selection and empirical specification used and its implications for the findings.

SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 7d

Any submission rule we make will be ingested by LLMs and used to make AI slop submissions that comply. However, it is helpful for us when authors accidentally leave in the ChatGPT comments.

Please take such work elsewhere.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 8d

As we say: The conversation gets better when someone says, "Where's your paper?" And the answer is: "Here."

SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 8d

The number of people who will respond to "Ask me for a copy" is a tiny fraction of those who would love to click on a non-paywalled link. Don't make people ask. SocArXiv is free to share, free to read, non-profit, academy-owned at a public university. Hello! Thanks for sharing.

Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 8d

It's great some authors will share their work if you email them for a pdf.

But this isn't a good use of your time, or theirs.

I do think academics have more important things to do than a system where they reply one by one to every potential reader who wants to read beyond the abstract.

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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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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 12d

Children’s genetics and family dynamics: An evocative effects analysis of the Norwegian Mother-Father-and-Child Study
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
@socarxiv.bsky.social preprint co-auth by Associate Member Evelina Akimova & @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @melindacmills.bsky.social

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 11d

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 11d

My new article with James Messerschmidt just came out in @femininities.bsky.social building on Raewyn Connell's theorization of "emphasized femininity."

I'm including a link here and quoting the @socarxiv.bsky.social's bot sharing our preprint online as well.

brill.com/view/journal...

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 13d

Plan U, for universal, is the necessary standard. Post everything as a preprint at or before point of submission. Then publish in any journal you want but never pay exorbitant APCs.

Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 13d

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 13d

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 14d

Periodic reminder: SocArXiv does not permit withdrawal of papers because a journal requires it. Once posted, your paper is part of the scholarly record, and the DOI system requires it to remain available at the same address. You can review our withdrawal policy here: docs.google.com/document/d/1....

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Kohli Foundation for Sociology @kohli-sociology.bsky.social · 14d

📣𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗 𝗖𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗬

November 5, 2025
at the European University Institute, Fiesole/Florence

Join us in honoring Peter Bearman (Kohli Prize) and SocArXiv (Infrastructure Prize for Sociology)!

@eui-eu.bsky.social @socarxivbot.bsky.social @philipncohen.com @incitecolumbia.bsky.social

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 20d

Knowledge Commons hcommons.org is a wonderful service to trust for archiving and distributing your work. For social sciences, we're here, too. We work for the scholarly community. At Academia.edu, the scholarly community works for them.

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 20d

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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