Guest post written by Roseline Dzekem Dine (2023 ASAPbio Fellow) 2024 was transformative for the Review and Curate Network, as we championed open science, preprint sharing, and collaborative peer review in Rwanda and across Africa. This year, we launched impactful programs and saw significant milestones that reflected our mission to foster transparency and inclusivity in research.

This is a guest post by Binay Panda (2024 ASAPbio Fellow), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (https://www.binaypandalab.org/). I spoke at the 17th Young Investigators’ Meeting (YIM) in Agra, India.

The ASAPbio community is undergoing a refresh for 2025. There will be clearer routes to getting involved in ASAPbio activities and a greater emphasis on our amazing community.

To kick off 2025, we at ASAPbio held our January community call on the topic of what’s next for ASAPbio’s strategic direction. If you weren’t able to make it, you can watch the recording (below).

Rapid, sweeping, and unprecedented changes in the research environment in the U.S. undermine scientific integrity and threaten human health in the immediate term, with the threat of mass layoffs and associated economic effects seemingly likely to soon follow.

In 2024, ASAPbio ran a poster competition encouraging the transparent and early sharing of data, ideas and protocols. Early dissemination is vital in times of emergency, such as global pandemics.