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Crowd preprint review is back! Sign up to participate in one of several groups led by ASAPbio Fellows

Interested in honing your peer review skills while providing valuable feedback to preprint authors? Then join one of our preprint review crowds!  Following our two previous cycles of preprint review activities, we are thrilled to announce that ASAPbio will host more crowd preprint review activities in 2023.
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A woman with long, wavy hair smiles at the camera. The text above reads: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - bioRxiv with a yellow COVID-19 notice. The article title is about Woronin bodies and endosomes in Aspergillus nidulans.

Sharing negative results via a preprint: A conversation with Livia Songster

This is the third in our series of posts highlighting the winners of the ASAPbio competition ‘Make your negative result a preprint winner,’ which celebrates the value of using preprints to share negative and inconclusive scientific resu... In this post, we hear from Livia Songster (University of California San Diego), the first author of the preprint ‘Woronin bodies move dynamically and bidirectionally by hitchhiking on early endosomes in Aspergillus nidulans‘.
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An announcement for the ASAPbio competition encouraging sharing of negative research results. Beside it, a screenshot from bioRxiv mentioning a COVID-19 disclaimer and a study on data sources related to brain function.

Sharing negative results via a preprint: a conversation with Lilya Andrianova

This is the second in our series of posts highlighting the winners of the ASAPbio competition ‘Make your negative result a preprint winner,’ which celebrate the value of using preprints to share negative and inconclusive scientific resu... In this post, we hear from Lilya Andrianova (University of Exeter Medical School & University of Glasgow), the first author of the preprint ‘No evidence from complementary data sources of a direct projection from the mouse anterior cingulate co...
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A smiling bearded man with glasses stands outdoors in front of leafy trees. To the right, a screenshot of a bioRxiv research article titled Antimicrobial peptides do not directly contribute to aging in Drosophila, but improve lifespan by preventing dysbiosis.

Sharing negative results via a preprint: A conversation with Mark Hanson

Last week we announced the winners of the ASAPbio competition ‘Make your negative result a preprint winner’, a project by a group of ASAPbio Fellows that aimed to celebrate the value of using preprints to share negative and inconclusive scientifi... We have talked to the authors of the winning preprints to learn more about their work and their motivation to post their results as a preprint.
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Job posting: Associate Director at ASAPbio

As of 2023-05-11, this posting is now closed. Join us to help make scholarly communication in the life sciences more open and efficient by catalyzing cultural change around the use of preprints, transparent review, and other advances in scholarly communication!
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“Advancing the Culture of Peer Review with Preprints” – a Call to Action

Today, we’re happy to share a preprint written by a subset of the participants in December’s Recognizing Preprint Peer Review Meeting hosted by ASAPbio, HHMI and EMBO. It’s an exciting time for preprint review, with new services, models, and policies providing the foundation for a growing ecosystem.
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