Center for Open Science
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Our mission is to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research.
⏰ REMINDER: Scheduled OSF Maintenance
OSF will be down for maintenance this Saturday, November 16th from 11 am-7 pm ET / 16:00-00:00 GMT. We're continuing to improve page load times across the platform. Thank you for your patience!
OSF will be down for maintenance this Saturday, November 16th from 11 am-7 pm ET / 16:00-00:00 GMT. We're continuing to improve page load times across the platform. Thank you for your patience!
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
⏰ REMINDER: Scheduled OSF Maintenance
OSF will be down for maintenance this Saturday, November 16th from 11 am-7 pm ET / 16:00-00:00 GMT. We're continuing to improve page load times across the platform. Thank you for your patience!
OSF will be down for maintenance this Saturday, November 16th from 11 am-7 pm ET / 16:00-00:00 GMT. We're continuing to improve page load times across the platform. Thank you for your patience!
🔧 OSF Maintenance Notice
OSF will be down for maintenance this Saturday, November 16th from 11 am-7 pm ET / 16:00-00:00 GMT. We're continuing to improve page load times across the platform. Thank you for your patience!
OSF will be down for maintenance this Saturday, November 16th from 11 am-7 pm ET / 16:00-00:00 GMT. We're continuing to improve page load times across the platform. Thank you for your patience!
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🔧 OSF Maintenance Notice
OSF will be down for maintenance this Saturday, November 16th from 11 am-7 pm ET / 16:00-00:00 GMT. We're continuing to improve page load times across the platform. Thank you for your patience!
OSF will be down for maintenance this Saturday, November 16th from 11 am-7 pm ET / 16:00-00:00 GMT. We're continuing to improve page load times across the platform. Thank you for your patience!
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"Adopting this framework will help overcome resource limitations, enabling research labs and individuals to design and replicate medical devices at an affordable cost."
Read Dara Obademi's insights on the development of Open Healthware in the Sub-Saharan African region.
oshwa.org/announcement...
Read Dara Obademi's insights on the development of Open Healthware in the Sub-Saharan African region.
oshwa.org/announcement...
November 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"Adopting this framework will help overcome resource limitations, enabling research labs and individuals to design and replicate medical devices at an affordable cost."
Read Dara Obademi's insights on the development of Open Healthware in the Sub-Saharan African region.
oshwa.org/announcement...
Read Dara Obademi's insights on the development of Open Healthware in the Sub-Saharan African region.
oshwa.org/announcement...
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2/ The Global Flourishing Study is a multi-year collaboration between @harvard.edu @gallup.com @cos.io @baylor.bsky.social with over 200,000 participants across 22 countries, supported by TWCF.
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
2/ The Global Flourishing Study is a multi-year collaboration between @harvard.edu @gallup.com @cos.io @baylor.bsky.social with over 200,000 participants across 22 countries, supported by TWCF.
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1/ Analysis of the first two waves of the #GlobalFlourishingStudy found that freedom to pursue what is most important was one of the biggest indicators of flourishing, but that overall, flourishing declined between the two waves.
Read the study: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Read the study: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
1/ Analysis of the first two waves of the #GlobalFlourishingStudy found that freedom to pursue what is most important was one of the biggest indicators of flourishing, but that overall, flourishing declined between the two waves.
Read the study: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Read the study: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
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CLOCKSS = global collaboration:🏛 Libraries and🏢 Publishers working together to preserve the scholarly record. Built on LOCKSS = world-leading opensource digital preservation software. Join us? clockss.org/join-clockss/
Join CLOCKSS - CLOCKSS
Join the CLOCKSS community of world leading libraries and publishers. Together we preserve scholarship for future generations.
clockss.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
CLOCKSS = global collaboration:🏛 Libraries and🏢 Publishers working together to preserve the scholarly record. Built on LOCKSS = world-leading opensource digital preservation software. Join us? clockss.org/join-clockss/
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1/ A study examines whether childhood characteristics—like health, relationships, abuse, religion & gender—are associated with alcohol use in adulthood, using data from TWCF supported #GlobalFlourishingStudy by @harvard.edu @gallup.com @cos.io @baylor.bsky.social
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Childhood Predictors of Weekly Alcohol Use in Adulthood: A Cross-National Analysis - Journal of Child and Family Studies
This study presents a cross-national analysis of the childhood antecedents of alcohol use in adulthood across 22 diverse countries included in the first wave of the Global Flourishing Study. The study...
link.springer.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
1/ A study examines whether childhood characteristics—like health, relationships, abuse, religion & gender—are associated with alcohol use in adulthood, using data from TWCF supported #GlobalFlourishingStudy by @harvard.edu @gallup.com @cos.io @baylor.bsky.social
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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It's HERE... World Digital Preservation Day 2025!! We are excited to kick off #wdpd2025 with our traditional opening blog from #dpc Executive Director William Kilbride, writing from the #ipres2025 conference in Aotearoa New Zealand - one of the first places in […]
[Original post on digipres.club]
[Original post on digipres.club]
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
It's HERE... World Digital Preservation Day 2025!! We are excited to kick off #wdpd2025 with our traditional opening blog from #dpc Executive Director William Kilbride, writing from the #ipres2025 conference in Aotearoa New Zealand - one of the first places in […]
[Original post on digipres.club]
[Original post on digipres.club]
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Join us on 7 November at 14:00 UTC for our #OpenScience First Fridays webinar featuring Veronique Kiermer, Chief Scientific Officer of PLOS, discussing “Can we redefine publishing beyond the article and beyond the APC?”
Register using the QR code below, or at
globalyoungacademy.net/open-science...
Register using the QR code below, or at
globalyoungacademy.net/open-science...
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Join us on 7 November at 14:00 UTC for our #OpenScience First Fridays webinar featuring Veronique Kiermer, Chief Scientific Officer of PLOS, discussing “Can we redefine publishing beyond the article and beyond the APC?”
Register using the QR code below, or at
globalyoungacademy.net/open-science...
Register using the QR code below, or at
globalyoungacademy.net/open-science...
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Happy World Digital Preservation Day 2025! 🎉
The #WDPD2025 theme this year asks the question #WhyPreserve ❔
Join the conversation online & watch the Why Preserve? video from @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy 📽️
👉 www.dpconline.org/news/launch-...
The #WDPD2025 theme this year asks the question #WhyPreserve ❔
Join the conversation online & watch the Why Preserve? video from @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy 📽️
👉 www.dpconline.org/news/launch-...
November 6, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Happy World Digital Preservation Day 2025! 🎉
The #WDPD2025 theme this year asks the question #WhyPreserve ❔
Join the conversation online & watch the Why Preserve? video from @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy 📽️
👉 www.dpconline.org/news/launch-...
The #WDPD2025 theme this year asks the question #WhyPreserve ❔
Join the conversation online & watch the Why Preserve? video from @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy 📽️
👉 www.dpconline.org/news/launch-...
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The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time.
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
Check Research Outputs for Best Practices
A modular, extendable system for automatically checking research outputs for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.
scienceverse.github.io
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time.
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
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Can we improve peer review? We think we can! Check out an experiment I helped with as part of @solvingforsci.bsky.social 's mission to make science better.
And if you don't want to read the whole bioRxiv manuscript, here's an overview of the main findings:
solvingfor.org/news-posts-d...
And if you don't want to read the whole bioRxiv manuscript, here's an overview of the main findings:
solvingfor.org/news-posts-d...
November 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Can we improve peer review? We think we can! Check out an experiment I helped with as part of @solvingforsci.bsky.social 's mission to make science better.
And if you don't want to read the whole bioRxiv manuscript, here's an overview of the main findings:
solvingfor.org/news-posts-d...
And if you don't want to read the whole bioRxiv manuscript, here's an overview of the main findings:
solvingfor.org/news-posts-d...
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Great post this week from @lisalibrarian.bsky.social that hopes to clear up some of the confusions around Creative Commons licenses and the use of such content for AI training. This speaks to the ongoing failure of the publishing and OA communities to make clear just what these licenses mean
Can a CC License Constrain Fair Use or Other Copyright Limitations or Exemptions? - The Scholarly Kitchen
Creative Commons (CC) licenses expand, not restrict, the permissible uses of copyrighted works.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Great post this week from @lisalibrarian.bsky.social that hopes to clear up some of the confusions around Creative Commons licenses and the use of such content for AI training. This speaks to the ongoing failure of the publishing and OA communities to make clear just what these licenses mean
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We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Rob Chavez gives the helpful/correct answer below, but here's another thought:
Your preprint gets to be your director's cut. Put that baby on OSF or Zenodo and add a link in your figure caption.
Your preprint gets to be your director's cut. Put that baby on OSF or Zenodo and add a link in your figure caption.
"Journal style does not allow 3-dimensional figures. Please rework Figure 5 into a figure with only 2 axes if possible"
a man in a suit and tie is smoking a cigarette while sitting in an airplane .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smoking a cigarette while sitting in an airplane .
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Rob Chavez gives the helpful/correct answer below, but here's another thought:
Your preprint gets to be your director's cut. Put that baby on OSF or Zenodo and add a link in your figure caption.
Your preprint gets to be your director's cut. Put that baby on OSF or Zenodo and add a link in your figure caption.
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📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v
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
peercommunityin.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v
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Check out the last myth of our myth-busting series created by the amazing ASAPbio Resident Xiuqi "Jade" Li!
❌ Myth 4: Posting a preprint online means I don’t need to think about copyright or licensing
✅ Truth: Copyright is automatic, and licensing is an active choice.
buff.ly/lJZ1K3m
❌ Myth 4: Posting a preprint online means I don’t need to think about copyright or licensing
✅ Truth: Copyright is automatic, and licensing is an active choice.
buff.ly/lJZ1K3m
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October 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Check out the last myth of our myth-busting series created by the amazing ASAPbio Resident Xiuqi "Jade" Li!
❌ Myth 4: Posting a preprint online means I don’t need to think about copyright or licensing
✅ Truth: Copyright is automatic, and licensing is an active choice.
buff.ly/lJZ1K3m
❌ Myth 4: Posting a preprint online means I don’t need to think about copyright or licensing
✅ Truth: Copyright is automatic, and licensing is an active choice.
buff.ly/lJZ1K3m
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What if research infrastructures were open by design — built for transparency, collaboration & inclusion from day one?
IOI's Katherine Skinner , Laurel Haak, and @kristenratan.bsky.social
explore how to engineer openness into research systems.
investinopen.org/blog/enginee...
IOI's Katherine Skinner , Laurel Haak, and @kristenratan.bsky.social
explore how to engineer openness into research systems.
investinopen.org/blog/enginee...
Engineering Open by Design into Research Infrastructures
We share a publication co-authored by IOI's Katherine Skinner, describing a framework to embed open principles directly into infrastructure development.
investinopen.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
What if research infrastructures were open by design — built for transparency, collaboration & inclusion from day one?
IOI's Katherine Skinner , Laurel Haak, and @kristenratan.bsky.social
explore how to engineer openness into research systems.
investinopen.org/blog/enginee...
IOI's Katherine Skinner , Laurel Haak, and @kristenratan.bsky.social
explore how to engineer openness into research systems.
investinopen.org/blog/enginee...
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A year ago, @tandfresearch.bsky.social teamed up with DataSeer to investigate #OpenScience behavior across their portfolio. Now results are in — and they’re higher than expected.
Read the full report ▶️ insights.taylorandfrancis.com/research-imp...
#scisky #scholcomm #scholcomms #openaccess
Read the full report ▶️ insights.taylorandfrancis.com/research-imp...
#scisky #scholcomm #scholcomms #openaccess
Moving the needle on open data: A new study from Taylor & Francis
Analysis of Open Research activity on Taylor & Francis journals, supported by the AI-solution provider DataSeer.
insights.taylorandfrancis.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A year ago, @tandfresearch.bsky.social teamed up with DataSeer to investigate #OpenScience behavior across their portfolio. Now results are in — and they’re higher than expected.
Read the full report ▶️ insights.taylorandfrancis.com/research-imp...
#scisky #scholcomm #scholcomms #openaccess
Read the full report ▶️ insights.taylorandfrancis.com/research-imp...
#scisky #scholcomm #scholcomms #openaccess
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For Maris Vainre & coauthors, sharing their preprint led to coverage in New Scientist, 1,800+ downloads, & invites to discuss their work.
Their study explores whether people in certain professions are more or less satisfied with their jobs & lives. Read more in our Q&A!
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Their study explores whether people in certain professions are more or less satisfied with their jobs & lives. Read more in our Q&A!
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Q&A with Maris Vainre: Job Satisfaction and the Power of Preprints
For Maris Vainre and her team, sharing their preprint led to media attention, high downloads, and invites to discuss their findings. She shares what inspired the study, how preprints accelerate scientific progress and real-world impact, and more.
www.cos.io
November 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
For Maris Vainre & coauthors, sharing their preprint led to coverage in New Scientist, 1,800+ downloads, & invites to discuss their work.
Their study explores whether people in certain professions are more or less satisfied with their jobs & lives. Read more in our Q&A!
🏢
Their study explores whether people in certain professions are more or less satisfied with their jobs & lives. Read more in our Q&A!
🏢
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Finding it confusing licensing your work?
@asapbio.bsky.social have created an FAQ covering the basics and commercial uses, supporting you to make an informed choice.
#OpenAccess #OpenScience #PhDsky
@asapbio.bsky.social have created an FAQ covering the basics and commercial uses, supporting you to make an informed choice.
#OpenAccess #OpenScience #PhDsky
The licensing choice you make depends on you. To make an informed decision, we encourage you to watch the video!
You can also refer to the ASAPbio licensing FAQ to learn more buff.ly/Tv7w7RM
You can also refer to the ASAPbio licensing FAQ to learn more buff.ly/Tv7w7RM
Licensing FAQ – ASAPbio
Keep up to date on open scholarly communication! Check out what’s new on the blog.
buff.ly
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Finding it confusing licensing your work?
@asapbio.bsky.social have created an FAQ covering the basics and commercial uses, supporting you to make an informed choice.
#OpenAccess #OpenScience #PhDsky
@asapbio.bsky.social have created an FAQ covering the basics and commercial uses, supporting you to make an informed choice.
#OpenAccess #OpenScience #PhDsky
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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has generously awarded us funding to secure our own storage. This critical processing space will be instrumental in ensuring that large datasets can be temporarily stored, curated, and described.
Thank you, MacArthur Foundation, for your support!
Thank you, MacArthur Foundation, for your support!
Data Rescue Projects receives support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to support data rescue efforts
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Since launching in February 2025, the Data Rescue Project has grown substantially. At this point, the DRP has enabled the rescue of more than 1,000 datasets from US Federal…
www.datarescueproject.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has generously awarded us funding to secure our own storage. This critical processing space will be instrumental in ensuring that large datasets can be temporarily stored, curated, and described.
Thank you, MacArthur Foundation, for your support!
Thank you, MacArthur Foundation, for your support!
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How are national systems for assessing publicly funded research evolving? That's the question our latest article poses.
Reviewers consider the work "valuable and timely", noting its relevance to reform initiatives like @coarassessment.bsky.social
👇 Read the assessment, reviews & full article here
Reviewers consider the work "valuable and timely", noting its relevance to reform initiatives like @coarassessment.bsky.social
👇 Read the assessment, reviews & full article here
A new typology of national research assessment systems: continuity and change in 13 countries
metaror.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
How are national systems for assessing publicly funded research evolving? That's the question our latest article poses.
Reviewers consider the work "valuable and timely", noting its relevance to reform initiatives like @coarassessment.bsky.social
👇 Read the assessment, reviews & full article here
Reviewers consider the work "valuable and timely", noting its relevance to reform initiatives like @coarassessment.bsky.social
👇 Read the assessment, reviews & full article here
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Interesting thought: "Instead, when the journal requires ‘honest signals’ of research integrity — time-consuming actions like sharing data and code, including RRIDs for reagents, or using ORCIDs — then helping authors to comply with these prior to initial submission accomplishes several good things"
Manuscript Submissions Are Up! That’s Good, Right? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/04/m...
Manuscript Submissions Are Up! That’s Good, Right? - The Scholarly Kitchen
Publishers have led themselves into a mess by focusing on rising submissions as a positive indicator of journal performance.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Interesting thought: "Instead, when the journal requires ‘honest signals’ of research integrity — time-consuming actions like sharing data and code, including RRIDs for reagents, or using ORCIDs — then helping authors to comply with these prior to initial submission accomplishes several good things"
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Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
November 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM