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Blog Category: Guest posts

2025 ASAPbio Project: Assessing Data Sharing under Preprints: Value and Contribution of Data Repositories by Madeline Morrisson and Rachel Mtama

Assessing Data Sharing under Preprints: Value and Contribution of Data Repositories

Written by Madeline Josephine Morrisson1,2 & Rachel Mtama,3,4 Open science involves sharing work early and openly. However, there is more to a manuscript than simply the words on the page.
Dec 02, 2025
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2024 in Review: Empowering open science through the Review and Curate Network

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.
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A stylized open book with pages fluttering adorns a headshot of Binay Panda

India’s Young Investigators’ Meeting: A perspective

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.
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Flowchart illustrating the process of organizing crowd reviews for a preprint. It includes steps from selecting a preprint, emailing reviewers, gathering comments, and posting a reviewed version, all within a 14-day timeline, leading to public posting.

A sneak peak inside the ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review initiative

This blog post was co-written by Jonny Coates and 2024 ASAPbio Fellows; Josie, Jade & Lamis It’s peer review week and to celebrate, we are releasing a preview of one of the 2024 ASAPbio Fellows projects focused on investigating the ASAPbio Crow... ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review The theme of peer review week this year is “Innovation and Technology in Peer Review”.
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A diverse group of people stands outside a building, posing for a group photo on steps. They are dressed in a mix of formal and casual attire, smiling at the camera. The background features large windows and a door.

A hands-on preprint workshop

This blog post was written by Aneth Bella David, a 2023 ASAPbio Fellow, and reports on a recently completed community project. The landscape of scholarly communication is rapidly evolving, with preprints emerging as a transformative tool for research dissemination worldwide.
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Webpage showcasing Gracielle Higinos academic publications. Includes titles, authors, and categories for studies on ecological genetics, conservation biology, and information systems in science. Publications are dated June and July 2024.

A crowdsourced kind peer review guide for ECRs in Ecology and Evolution

This is a post written by Gracielle Higino about her community project that was funded in 2023. I was tired of hearing students and colleagues sharing their bad experiences with reviewers.
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