{"id":3177,"date":"2023-06-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pl-asapbio.local\/crowd-review-2023\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:30:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:30:47","slug":"crowd-review-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/crowd-review-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowd preprint review is back! Sign up to participate in one of several groups led by ASAPbio Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in honing your peer review skills while providing valuable feedback to preprint authors? Then join one of our preprint review crowds!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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. This year our crowd preprint review activities will include several groups that will provide feedback on preprints in the following areas:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Molecular, cellular and computational neurobiology: focus on neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration in addition to computational, theoretical and data-driven approaches in understanding brain function. <\/li>\n<li>Cancer biology: Biochemical, molecular and cellular studies in relation to cancer&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Meta-research: Practices, policies &amp; infrastructure on open science and scholarship e.g. preprints, open access, open education, research impact<\/li>\n<li><strong>New! <\/strong>Metabolism: Regulation of metabolic homeostasis and pathophysiology of metabolic diseases, from cell biology to integrative physiology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-24.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-24.png\" alt=\"Flow diagram showing crowd review. Crowd lead selects preprints, emails crowd, who then comments on the preprint via gDoc for 14 days. The crowd then closes the commenting, synthesizes comments, and facilitates the posting of the public review.\" class=\"wp-image-8880\" width=\"751\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-24.png 1001w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-24-300x80.png 300w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-24-768x206.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p>Each of the crowd will be led by ASAPbio Fellows, who will circulate preprints for input by a group of researchers interested in contributing feedback (\u2018the crowd\u2019). Each crowd will review a new preprint every two weeks. Preprints will be circulated to the group; crowd members can then comment on the full paper or parts of the study. Commenting will take place via a private collaborative Google document. After the 14-day commenting period, the leads will create a synthesis of the comments for public posting on PREreview; this will also be added to <a href=\"https:\/\/sciety.org\/groups\/asapbio-crowd-review\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sciety<\/a>, the aggregator of preprint evaluations. You can read more about crowd preprint review and how we will interact with crowd reviewers at <a href=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/crowd-preprint-review\">asapbio.org\/crowd-preprint-review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The activities will start in June and run for the remainder of 2023. We hope that this format will encourage broad participation in preprint feedback, particularly by early career researchers who are often underrepresented in journal review.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Get involved<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScOR3oM_9OOhRKxjQvupN8YLtaGImOfKskkllrveTWIqrJUVg\/viewform?usp=sf_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join our crowd preprint review activities<\/a> to develop your reviewing skills and help us build trust in preprints. We invite cell biologists, neuroscientists, cancer biologists and meta-researchers to sign up for participation as crowd preprint reviewers.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-accent-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScOR3oM_9OOhRKxjQvupN8YLtaGImOfKskkllrveTWIqrJUVg\/viewform?usp=sf_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up as a crowd preprint reviewer <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-accent-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/prereview.org\/clubs\/asapbio-neurobiology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neurobiology reviews<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-accent-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/prereview.org\/clubs\/asapbio-cancer-biology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cancer biology reviews<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-accent-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/prereview.org\/clubs\/asapbio-metabolism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metabolism reviews<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-accent-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/prereview.org\/clubs\/asapbio-meta-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meta-research reviews<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2023 crowd leads<\/h2>\n<p>This year each crowd will be led by our 2023 ASAPbio Fellows.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Molecular, cellular &amp; computational neurobiology<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/dt_team\/anna-oliveras\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_20220320_131504-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8715\" width=\"153\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_20220320_131504-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_20220320_131504-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_20220320_131504-2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_20220320_131504-2.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/dt_team\/anna-oliveras\">Anna Oliveras<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bhargy-Sharma-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bhargy-Sharma-2-977x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8691\" width=\"193\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bhargy-Sharma-2-977x1024.jpg 977w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bhargy-Sharma-2-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bhargy-Sharma-2-768x805.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bhargy-Sharma-2-1466x1536.jpg 1466w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bhargy-Sharma-2-1955x2048.jpg 1955w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/dt_team\/bhargy-sharma\">Bhargy Sharma<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kamaldeep-Singh-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kamaldeep-Singh-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8568\" width=\"212\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kamaldeep-Singh-2.jpeg 566w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kamaldeep-Singh-2-300x289.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/dt_team\/kamaldeep-singh\">Kamaldeep Singh<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Cubero_photo_WhiteShirt-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Cubero_photo_WhiteShirt-2-973x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8675\" width=\"194\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Cubero_photo_WhiteShirt-2-973x1024.jpg 973w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Cubero_photo_WhiteShirt-2-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Cubero_photo_WhiteShirt-2-768x808.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Cubero_photo_WhiteShirt-2.jpg 1393w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/dt_team\/ryan-john-cubero\">Ryan Cubero<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Cancer biology<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20230402-WA0030-2-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20230402-WA0030-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8595\" width=\"184\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20230402-WA0030-2-2.jpg 669w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20230402-WA0030-2-2-283x300.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/dt_team\/garima-jain\">Garima Jain<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ArpitaGhosh-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ArpitaGhosh-2-1022x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8572\" width=\"196\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ArpitaGhosh-2-1022x1024.jpg 1022w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ArpitaGhosh-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ArpitaGhosh-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ArpitaGhosh-2-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ArpitaGhosh-2-1534x1536.jpg 1534w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ArpitaGhosh-2.jpg 2012w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/dt_team\/arpita-ghosh\">Arpita Ghosh<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Meta-research<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/headshot-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/headshot-2-932x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8685\" width=\"188\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/headshot-2-932x1024.jpg 932w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/headshot-2-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/headshot-2-768x844.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/headshot-2-1398x1536.jpg 1398w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/headshot-2.jpg 1816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/dt_team\/stephen-gabrielson\">Stephen Gabrielson<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Metabolism<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/profile_pic_pablo_2019_crop2-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/profile_pic_pablo_2019_crop2-2-1024x807.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4910\" width=\"213\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/profile_pic_pablo_2019_crop2-2-1024x807.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/profile_pic_pablo_2019_crop2-2-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/profile_pic_pablo_2019_crop2-2-768x605.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/profile_pic_pablo_2019_crop2-2-1536x1211.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/profile_pic_pablo_2019_crop2-2-2048x1614.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/profile_pic_pablo_2019_crop2-2.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/profile_pic_pablo_2019_crop2-2.jpg 390w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/profile_pic_pablo_2019_crop2-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/profile_pic_pablo_2019_crop2-2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/profile_pic_pablo_2019_crop2-2.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/dt_team\/pablo-ranea-robles\">Pablo Ranea-Robles<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more about our crowd preprint review and check for updates at <a href=\"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/crowd-preprint-review\">asapbio.org\/crowd-preprint-review<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in honing your peer review skills while providing valuable feedback to preprint authors? Then join one of our preprint review crowds!&nbsp; Following our two previous cycles of preprint review [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asapbio-news","category-preprint-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3187,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions\/3187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}