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Vanessa Fairhurst @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social · 22d

Join our @prereview.bsky.social Champions Team & @elife.bsky.social Ambassadors this @peerreviewweek.bsky.social to collaboratively review this #preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2023...

When: Fri, Sep 19 at 3pm UTC
Where: Zoom, register at: bit.ly/Sep19-Live-R...

#PRW2025

Header with red background and white text that says “Preprint Live Review,” Sep 19, 2025, at 15:00 UTC.” Underneath against a white background in black text that says: “Join us for a constructive discussion of: Comparing the outputs of intramural and extramural grants funded by National Institutes of Health, DOI: doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.09.566298. Register: bit.ly/Sep19-Live-Review.” At the bottom are the logos for PREreview Champions, Peer Review Week and eLife Ambassadors.

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Vanessa Fairhurst @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social · 28d

I'm at the #Pubmet2025 conference this week in Zagreb, Croatia. Looking forward to talking about all things open science and you catch me in this morning's session on Research Quality, Peer Review, and Assessment where I will be talking about our approach to peer review at @prereview.bsky.social!

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Vanessa Fairhurst @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social · Jul 14

I’m back in London today and tomorrow at the Future of Scientific Publishing conference at The Royal Society on behalf of @prereview.bsky.social. If you’re also here and want to connect and chat, particularly about #preprintpeerreview, reach out!

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Vanessa Fairhurst @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social · Jul 9

@prereview.bsky.social are back at the @force11.bsky.social Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI) with our Open Reviewers Workshop!

Join us online on July 22, 23 & 24 at 8-10am Pacific Time (UTC-7)
More info & registration at whova.com/portal/regis...
We hope to see you there!

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Vanessa Fairhurst @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social · Jul 8

Come and join our team!

PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · Jul 8

📢 WE ARE HIRING! Join PREreview as our new Communication and Engagement Officer!

Are you an adept communicator & care about driving transformational change in scholarly comms? Then consider joining our team! Deadline July 21st.

Learn more and apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/prereview/jo...

Communications and Engagement Officer

Remote

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Vanessa Fairhurst @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social · Jul 2

I'll be part of a panel session at 11.30am in LG04, UCL 26 Bedford Way today at #metascience2025 talking about #traininginpeerreview with @prereview.bsky.social. If you're also here, please come along, join the conversation, and hear about innovations in preprint peer review and curation!

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Vanessa Fairhurst @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social · Jul 1

Are you at #Metascience2025? Come and chat with me during lunch and the poster session this evening about all things open, preprint peer review!

You can also find my poster on Zenodo here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

@prereview.bsky.social #peerreview #metascience #inclusivityinpeerreview

A poster about PREreview: Where human centred technology meets community engagement to transform peer review. The poster highlights 3 key features of PREreview's work including their training program and open resources, their open preprint review platform, and the PREreview Champions Program.

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · Jun 27

Full Webinar Now Available on YouTube!

Watch Now on YouTube: youtu.be/W6VItQwmdr4?...

Special thanks to PREreview's Head of Community, @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social and PREreview Champion 2025 Roseline Dzekem Dine for their insightful contributions!

PAPERI Webinar Series | PREreview: Open Preprint Review for All Experts

YouTube video by Pan-African PGS Education and Research (PAPERI)

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Vanessa Fairhurst @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social · Mar 31

I'm at the Minoritised Life Scientists Future Forum today. You can find me at poster stand 118 where you can learn all about @prereview.bsky.social & how we support disadvantaged scientists to find a voice, train, and engage in peer review. Come along and say hello (I also have stickers!) 👋 #MLSFF25

A poster image depicting information about prereview.org, a platform dedicated to open preprint review for all researchers. The poster is in black and uses red to highlight sections including a sentence in the middle which reads ‘We support and empower diverse and historically excluded communities of researchers, particularly those at the early stages of their career to find a voice, train and engage in peer review’

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · Feb 26

📢 @prereview.bsky.social & @jmirpub.bsky.social have been joining forces to improve scholarly peer review! Learn more about Live Reviews, how we’ve partnered to bring them to you, and how you can join researchers globally to improve a preprint together: bit.ly/collaborative-live-reviews

#livereview

Live Reviews: A New Era of Transparent, Inclusive, and Collaborative Peer Review

Illustration credit: Lorraine Chuen, developed in 2019 for PREreview - CC BY 4.0Have you ever envisioned a peer review process that is more transparent and collaborative? Imagine a setting where autho...

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · Feb 12

This is our final call for applications for our PREreview Champions Program!

APPLICATION: bit.ly/PREreview-Champions-2025-apply
DEADLINE: Monday, February 17

We especially welcome applicants from Latin America in line with our localization and translation work and encourage you to share this app!

Announcing the 2025 PREreview Champions Program!

At PREreview, we work to support and empower systematically disadvantaged researchers to help them find a voice, train, and engage in open, equitable, collaborative peer review. As such, we are…

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Vanessa Fairhurst @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social · Feb 4

Come and help us transform the peer review system for the better! This program was a great success last year (you can read more about that here: content.prereview.org/champions-20...) and I'm really looking forward to working with this year's cohort! Read more and apply👇

PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · Feb 4

There's still time to apply for our 2025 Champions Program! Are you familiar with our work at PREreview and passionate about helping others learn about & participate in preprint peer review? Then read more & apply here: content.prereview.org/2025-prerevi...

#peerreview #PREreview-champions

Announcing the 2025 PREreview Champions Program!

At PREreview, we work to support and empower systematically disadvantaged researchers to help them find a voice, train, and engage in open, equitable, collaborative peer review. As such, we are excite...

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · Jan 21

Welcome to 2025 and the first PREreview newsletter of the year! 🥳 Inside, we’ve got some exciting updates, engaging opportunities, and even more events that we’d like to share: content.prereview.org/prereview-ja...

#prereview #monthlynewsletter #prereviewchampions

🎊 PREreview January 2025 Newsletter 🎊

Welcome to the first PREreview newsletter of the 2025 🥳Inside, we’ve got exciting updates, engaging opportunities, and even more events in store.

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · Jan 16

Today, we published our ☀️2024 Annual Report!🌕

To learn more about our achievements and our renewed commitment to work in community to shape a more equitable, open, and transparent scholarly evaluation landscape, check out our full report here: zenodo.org/records/1467....

#PREreview #annualreport

2024: A Year of Expansion and Introspection

Today we published our 2024 Annual Report, sharing our achievements from last year and renewing our commitment to work in collaboration with you to shape an equitable, open, and transparent scholarly ...

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Vanessa Fairhurst @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social · Jan 14

I greatly enjoyed working with our PREreview Champions last year and this year we have improved the program to make it even better! I can't wait to work with our 2025 Champions and see what they go onto achieve. For more information and how to apply see here: content.prereview.org/2025-prerevi...

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Vanessa Fairhurst @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social · Dec 5

Very excited to welcome Grace Park to the community team at PREreview (now we can officially call it that!) to implement a more comprehensive communications strategy aimed at fostering truly meaningful engagement with our diverse and global community 🫶

PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · Dec 5

We have a new member of the PREreview Team! 🎉
We welcome Grace Park as our new Communications & Engagement Officer.
Read more about Grace's background and what they are most excited about in their new role here: content.prereview.org/welcome-grace/

Please join us in welcoming Grace!

Welcome Grace!

This week the PREreview Team is very excited to welcome Grace Park as the new Communications and Engagement Officer! In this new role, Grace will play a crucial role in clearly and effectively communi...

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Vanessa Fairhurst @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social · Nov 26

Happy to chat, come and say hello at the breaks!
If you want join in online, you can find the programme and video streaming links here: site.uit.no/muninconf/pr...

Programme - Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing

This is the programme for the 19th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing 2024. All presentations will take place in Auditoria 1 and 2 (see information about the conference venue). Registration, po...

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Vanessa Fairhurst @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social · Nov 26

I'm in beautiful, snowy Tromsø this week for #Munin2024 at UiT- The Arctic University of Norway, the northernmost university in the world! I'll be part of a panel on bringing more equity & transparency to #peerreview tomorrow on behalf of @prereview.bsky.social.

A photo of Tromsø, Norway in the snow with cityscape and mountain in the background.

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · Oct 31

🎉 We're celebrating a milestone at PREreview.org! 🚀
1,000 PREreviews published! A huge thanks to our amazing community for driving transparency and collaboration in peer review. Here’s to empowering and amplifying even more diverse voices in research evaluation!
#openresearch
#openpeerreview

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Vanessa Fairhurst @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social · Oct 25

It's been very uplifting and heartwarming to hear some of the comments from our PREreview community members this #OAWeek. (Check out the linked thread below!)

Really proud of what we have achieved so far at PREreview and excited for what's next!

PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · Oct 23

It's #OAWeek this week & the theme of 'Community Over Commercialization' is one we care deeply about at PREreview. We will always strive to prioritize open scholarship & best serve the needs of our growing community.
#OAWeek24 #CommunityOverCommercialization

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Vanessa Fairhurst @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social · Sep 24

Au revoir Paris!

An engaging couple of days on behalf of @prereview.bsky.social at the Paris Conference on Open Research Information for the signatories and supporters of barcelona-declaration.org. Lots of interesting discussion and exciting plans for the future, onwards!

An image of the Paris skyline with the Eiffel Tower in the distance.

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · Sep 23

🌟We need your help to make PREreview better!🌟
Have your say this #peerreviewweek in our short (<10 min) community survey & share your experiences using PREreview as a valued member of our community. Your feedback is vital in shaping the future of our work. Thank you! bit.ly/PREreview-Su...

Help us make PREreview better for you in our 2024 Community Survey

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Vanessa Fairhurst @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social · Sep 18

I'll be representing @prereview.bsky.social in Paris next week for the inaugural the Paris Conference on Open Research Information (barcelona-declaration.org/conference/).

If you're also attending and would like to connect, then please let me know!

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Vanessa Fairhurst @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social · Jul 9

Tomorrow is your last chance to register for the 2024 Force11 Scholarly Communications Institute (#FSCI) & the #FORCE11 Conference! @prereview.bsky.social 's Daniela Saderi and I will be leading a workshop on ethical peer review. Learn more and register today: force11.org/fsci/post/co...

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