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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 2d

📣 This week we opened up our 📊 Public Data Dashboard to celebrate community members’ collective contributions to open peer #preprint review and to demonstrate PREreview’s growth and impact over the years.

Check it out: stats.prereview.org

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

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 10d

Você sabia que nosso Kit de Ferramentas para Availadores(as) Abertos(as) agora está disponível em português (e também em inglês e espanhol)?

Você pode encontrar esses guias: prereview.org/resources

Conte-nos sua preferência sobre quais idiomas devemos priorizar: forms.gle/KwL51vinhYCN...

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 10d

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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Charlie Hale @charleshale.bsky.social · 24d

@prereview.bsky.social is a great model for broadening participation in the review process!

bioRxiv & medRxiv @biorxiv-medrxiv.bsky.social · Sep 11

Community Reviews are science in real time!
Check out this new and recent example of open feedback in action: Hale et al.’s preprint got reviewed by a community-organized group through PREreview and then the authors replied to it.
📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#OpenScience #Preprints #CommunityReview

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you, Charlie! ❤️

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 16d

So cool, love this! #AcademicSky #ResearchData #PeerReview

PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 16d

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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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you, Stefanie! ❤️

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 16d

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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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 19d

🤲 HELP: We are seeking feedback from the community to inform us on what language we may tackle next in our path to multilingualism.

Please fill out this very short survey: bit.ly/next-language

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 19d

You can always sign up to receive the newsletter via email here: bit.ly/PREreview-ne...

PREreview newsletter sign-up | PREreview

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 19d

September is well underway, and over here in the UK, where your PREreview newsletter author, @vanessafairhurst.bsky.social, lives, the change of the season is in the air.

Wherever you are in the world, may this month bring you balance, renewal, and connection.

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PREreview September 2025 Newsletter

September is well underway, and over here in the UK, where your PREreview newsletter author, Vanessa, lives, the change of the season is in the air. Wherever you are in the world, may this month bring...

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James Fraser @fraserlab.com · 20d

My colleague Joe Bondy-Denomy and I wrote a brief comment on the @brianhie.bsky.social @arcinstitute.org preprint on bacteriophage generation: prereview.org/reviews/1717...

tldr: would be nice to have baselines of successful assembly+resistance from lightweight models to test importance of genAI!

PREreview of “Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models”

Authored by James Fraser and Joseph Bondy-Denomy

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you for the shout-out, @charleshale.bsky.social!

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FORM @forumforopen.bsky.social · 23d

Most researchers will #PeerReview, but few get formal training.

Our Peer Review 101 workshop with @prereview.bsky.social gave practical tips to:
🔹Write clear, constructive reviews
🔹Reduce bias
🔹Build your profile through open #preprint review

🔗Watch it here: shorturl.at/ppyzf
#OpenScience #PRW2025

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 25d

PT-BR: Atingimos nosso primeiro marco de tradução! content.prereview.org/celebrating-...

Estamos priorizando idiomas para nossa próxima rodada de localização e tradução.
Responda a esta breve pesquisa para nos ajudar a decidir em quais idiomas trabalhar em seguida: forms.gle/KwL51vinhYCN...

Celebrating PREreview’s first localization and translation milestone

This week, with help from the team from A Simple Translation and community members like you, we completed our initial round of localizing and translating PREreview.org into Brazilian Portuguese and La...

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 25d

ES: ¡Hemos alcanzado nuestro primer hito de traducción! content.prereview.org/celebrating-...

Estamos priorizando los idiomas para nuestra próxima ronda de traducción.
Completa esta breve encuesta para ayudarnos a decidir en qué idiomas trabajaremos a continuación: forms.gle/KwL51vinhYCN...

Celebrating PREreview’s first localization and translation milestone

This week, with help from the team from A Simple Translation and community members like you, we completed our initial round of localizing and translating PREreview.org into Brazilian Portuguese and La...

content.prereview.org

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 25d

EN: We have reached our first translation milestone! content.prereview.org/celebrating-...

We are prioritizing languages for our next round of localization and translation and need your help.
Complete this brief survey to help us decide which languages to work on next: forms.gle/KwL51vinhYCN...

Celebrating PREreview’s first localization and translation milestone

This week, with help from the team from A Simple Translation and community members like you, we completed our initial round of localizing and translating PREreview.org into Brazilian Portuguese and La...

content.prereview.org

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Preprints.org @preprints.bsky.social · 25d

We're honored to introduce Dr. Daniela Saderi, Co-founder and Executive Director of PREreview @prereview.bsky.social, as a keynote speaker for our upcoming webinar!

She will share her perspective on "Holding Change in Scholarly Peer Review." 👉 Don't miss it and register now: buff.ly/PG2Xf7x

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 26d

Still time to join our collaborative Live Review this @peerreviewweek.bsky.social on Thursday 18th September at 3pm UTC in collaboration with @jmirpub.bsky.social

More information & register here: bit.ly/sep18-LiveRe...

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Jonny Coates @jacoates.bsky.social · 28d

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

Rippling Ideas @ripplingideas.bsky.social · 28d

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 📽️

youtu.be/bd8QRNm69P4

Subscribe to our newsletter for more: bit.ly/RIsub

#scicomm #preprints

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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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you @jacoates.bsky.social and @ripplingideas.bsky.social for creating this great video! 👏 🌱

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 27d

🌱 Open science orgs are stronger together 💪

Together with @carpentries.carpentries.org, OLS , @ropensci.org, @pyopensci.org we are convening to move from Surviving → Thriving.

Read how we’re charting a sustainable, collective path forward: content.prereview.org/from-survivi...

#OpenScience

Logos of the five participating organizations (top to bottom: The Carpentries, PREreview, rOpenSci, OLS, pyOpenSci) enclosed in grey ovals along the border of a larger grey circle. Inside the circle at the top is text in all caps spelling “STRONGER TOGETHER.” Below that is an image of several arms and hands closed in a fist. At the bottom of the image is text spelling “Building resilience in open science starts with collaboration” with the words “resilience” and “collaboration bolded.

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · Sep 11

There is still time to submit your response—deadline September 15.

Read more about it and fill out the form here grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-25-138: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs NOT-OD-25-138. NIH

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · Sep 11

Today we responded to the NIH Request for Information on publication costs, peer review, and publishing best practices.

Transformative change won’t come from simply shifting who pays fees—it will come from grassroots action and top-down reform of what we value & reward.

zenodo.org/records/1710...

PREreview response to the NIH NOT-OD-25-138 Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs

This document was submitted by PREreview on September 11, 2025 in response to the NIH NOT-OD-25-138 Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs (RFI). I...

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SciELO @scielo.org · Sep 10

🧪Confira a gravação do webinário em vimeo.com/1113296555

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