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Our mission is to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research.
New preprint from COS and @ip4os.eu: a summary of a small circle meetup on open science held at the Metascience Conference in London (1 July 2025). It captures key themes of the discussion—open science priorities, policy developments, and what's on the horizon.
Read more: osf.io/preprints/me...
Read more: osf.io/preprints/me...
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December 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
New preprint from COS and @ip4os.eu: a summary of a small circle meetup on open science held at the Metascience Conference in London (1 July 2025). It captures key themes of the discussion—open science priorities, policy developments, and what's on the horizon.
Read more: osf.io/preprints/me...
Read more: osf.io/preprints/me...
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🔙 On 1 July 2025, #IP4OS and @cos.io hosted a Small Circle Meetup in London at the Metascience Conference.
🔎 A new report captures the discussions, focusing on today’s open science priorities, recent policy developments, and what needs to happen next. Find the report here: zenodo.org/records/1797...
🔎 A new report captures the discussions, focusing on today’s open science priorities, recent policy developments, and what needs to happen next. Find the report here: zenodo.org/records/1797...
December 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
🔙 On 1 July 2025, #IP4OS and @cos.io hosted a Small Circle Meetup in London at the Metascience Conference.
🔎 A new report captures the discussions, focusing on today’s open science priorities, recent policy developments, and what needs to happen next. Find the report here: zenodo.org/records/1797...
🔎 A new report captures the discussions, focusing on today’s open science priorities, recent policy developments, and what needs to happen next. Find the report here: zenodo.org/records/1797...
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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.
December 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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/ Using data from the first wave of the Global Flourishing Study, researchers set out to understand how childhood experiences affect adult community participation across societies.
🔗 Read the study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔗 Read the study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Childhood experiences and adult community participation in secular and religious contexts in 22 countries - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Childhood experiences and adult community participation in secular and religious contexts in 22 countries
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December 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
1/ Using data from the first wave of the Global Flourishing Study, researchers set out to understand how childhood experiences affect adult community participation across societies.
🔗 Read the study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔗 Read the study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Very happy to have received a replication grant from NWO! We will be reproducing power analyses of large scale replication projects, to learn how to improve power analyses, and increase quality control in large team Science projects! www.openscience.nl/en/news/27-s...
27 studies re-examined | Open Science NL
Open Science NL has awarded funding to 27 applicants to replicate earlier studies. They will reanalyse original data, repeat experiments, and replicate studies with slight variations to the original…
www.openscience.nl
December 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Very happy to have received a replication grant from NWO! We will be reproducing power analyses of large scale replication projects, to learn how to improve power analyses, and increase quality control in large team Science projects! www.openscience.nl/en/news/27-s...
Stop by the Center for Open Science (COS) booth in the Open Science pavilion at #AGU25 to learn about the OSF—a free, open source project management and collaboration platform that supports the entire research lifecycle. (And ask us for a coveted COS tote bag! 🛍️)
December 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Stop by the Center for Open Science (COS) booth in the Open Science pavilion at #AGU25 to learn about the OSF—a free, open source project management and collaboration platform that supports the entire research lifecycle. (And ask us for a coveted COS tote bag! 🛍️)
🆕 on the COS blog - Building the Open Science Ecosystem: A Recap & Future Vision
As 2025 comes to an end, we're reflecting on how far the OSF Open Science Ecosystem initiative has come, celebrating what we accomplished, & looking ahead to future opportunities.
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As 2025 comes to an end, we're reflecting on how far the OSF Open Science Ecosystem initiative has come, celebrating what we accomplished, & looking ahead to future opportunities.
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Building the Open Science Ecosystem: A Recap and Future Vision
The Center for Open Science (COS) reflects on what the OSF Open Science Ecosystem (OSE) initiative accomplished in 2025 and plans for the coming year.
www.cos.io
December 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🆕 on the COS blog - Building the Open Science Ecosystem: A Recap & Future Vision
As 2025 comes to an end, we're reflecting on how far the OSF Open Science Ecosystem initiative has come, celebrating what we accomplished, & looking ahead to future opportunities.
Read more:
As 2025 comes to an end, we're reflecting on how far the OSF Open Science Ecosystem initiative has come, celebrating what we accomplished, & looking ahead to future opportunities.
Read more:
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The third interview discussing preprints in the Global South features Alex Mendonça (interviewed by the 2025 ASAPio Fellow Tolulope Ogunniyi), who discusses the important work of @scielo.org Preprints in improving preprint submission and sharing across Latin America—particularly in Brazil.
Preprints in the Global South: An Interview with Alex Mendonça
This interview highlights insights from Alex Mendonça, who discusses the important work of SciELO Preprints in improving preprint submission and sharing across Latin America—particularly in Brazil.…
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December 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The third interview discussing preprints in the Global South features Alex Mendonça (interviewed by the 2025 ASAPio Fellow Tolulope Ogunniyi), who discusses the important work of @scielo.org Preprints in improving preprint submission and sharing across Latin America—particularly in Brazil.
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Very much enjoyed last week's meeting in Cambridge about the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model for scholarly publishing. There were lots of highly inspiring discussions, including an important discussion about strengthening coordination between initiatives in this area.
asapbio.org/reimagining-...
asapbio.org/reimagining-...
Reimagining Scholarly Publishing: Outcomes From A Public Forum To Discuss The Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) Publishing Model – ASAPbio
At a meeting held on the 3rd December 2025 at Kings College, Cambridge over 50 delegates, comprising researchers, publishers, librarians, research funders and
asapbio.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Very much enjoyed last week's meeting in Cambridge about the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model for scholarly publishing. There were lots of highly inspiring discussions, including an important discussion about strengthening coordination between initiatives in this area.
asapbio.org/reimagining-...
asapbio.org/reimagining-...
GREI is hosting a 3-part webinar series on data sharing in early 2026! Each session offers an overview of practical tools & stories from NIH-funded researchers who leverage generalist repositories to facilitate data reuse & increase the visibility of their work.
💻 Register: cos-io.zoom.us/webin...
💻 Register: cos-io.zoom.us/webin...
December 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
GREI is hosting a 3-part webinar series on data sharing in early 2026! Each session offers an overview of practical tools & stories from NIH-funded researchers who leverage generalist repositories to facilitate data reuse & increase the visibility of their work.
💻 Register: cos-io.zoom.us/webin...
💻 Register: cos-io.zoom.us/webin...
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The second interview in our series "Preprints and the Global South" features Prof. To Thi Mai Huong from the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, interviewed by the 2025 ASAPbio Fellow Jimeng Li, a PhD student from Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.
Preprints and the Global South: An Interview with To Thi Mai Huong
Jimeng Li, a PhD student from Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, interviews Prof. To Thi Mai Huong from the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (also called Vietnam – France…
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December 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The second interview in our series "Preprints and the Global South" features Prof. To Thi Mai Huong from the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, interviewed by the 2025 ASAPbio Fellow Jimeng Li, a PhD student from Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.
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New #NIH prize competition to identify areas of biomedical science that can benefit from replication and to recognize past replication efforts to further promote the importance of research replication:
www.challenge.gov?challenge=re...
Submission deadline is in one month!
www.challenge.gov?challenge=re...
Submission deadline is in one month!
Challenge.gov
Challenge.gov is the official government website supporting prize challenges and prize competitions that are sponsored by the US federal government. Here federal agencies provide prize awards to publi...
www.challenge.gov
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
New #NIH prize competition to identify areas of biomedical science that can benefit from replication and to recognize past replication efforts to further promote the importance of research replication:
www.challenge.gov?challenge=re...
Submission deadline is in one month!
www.challenge.gov?challenge=re...
Submission deadline is in one month!
💡 Check out these highlights from the Open Science Conference 2025! Over 200 participants from 27 countries came together in Hamburg and online for this year's conference, which explored the relationship between open science and AI.
www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/2025/12/open...
www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/2025/12/open...
Open Science Conference 2025: Shaping a Bright Future for Open Science and AI | ZBW MediaTalk
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December 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
💡 Check out these highlights from the Open Science Conference 2025! Over 200 participants from 27 countries came together in Hamburg and online for this year's conference, which explored the relationship between open science and AI.
www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/2025/12/open...
www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/2025/12/open...
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Rapidly-growing research and data demands have prompted many institutions to develop cross-functional models that combine the strengths of libraries, IT, research computing, and research administration.
🏛️ Four institutions reflect on building cross-campus collaborations:
🏛️ Four institutions reflect on building cross-campus collaborations:
It Takes a Campus: Building Cross-Campus Collaborations to Support Research Computing and Data Needs
The Center for Open Science brought together librarians and research professionals for a webinar on how institutions develop cross-campus models to meet evolving research and computing data needs. The event featured speakers from OSF Institutions members Duke University, Princeton University, and UC Berkeley, as well as NC State University.
www.cos.io
December 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Rapidly-growing research and data demands have prompted many institutions to develop cross-functional models that combine the strengths of libraries, IT, research computing, and research administration.
🏛️ Four institutions reflect on building cross-campus collaborations:
🏛️ Four institutions reflect on building cross-campus collaborations:
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We just preprinted a huge meta-meta-analysis examining the effects of exercise on cognition, memory, and executive function
In short
- 2239 effect sizes
- extreme between-study heterogeneity
- extensive publication bias
- some subgroup/exercise-specific effects
More below (doi.org/10.31234/osf...)
In short
- 2239 effect sizes
- extreme between-study heterogeneity
- extensive publication bias
- some subgroup/exercise-specific effects
More below (doi.org/10.31234/osf...)
OSF
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December 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
We just preprinted a huge meta-meta-analysis examining the effects of exercise on cognition, memory, and executive function
In short
- 2239 effect sizes
- extreme between-study heterogeneity
- extensive publication bias
- some subgroup/exercise-specific effects
More below (doi.org/10.31234/osf...)
In short
- 2239 effect sizes
- extreme between-study heterogeneity
- extensive publication bias
- some subgroup/exercise-specific effects
More below (doi.org/10.31234/osf...)
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New paper! @william-dinneen.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Yiqing Xu and I use GPT to code 91k articles from 174 polisci journals (2003–2023)and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations. How has the credibility revolution reshaped the discipline? doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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December 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
New paper! @william-dinneen.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Yiqing Xu and I use GPT to code 91k articles from 174 polisci journals (2003–2023)and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations. How has the credibility revolution reshaped the discipline? doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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🚧 OSF Planned Maintenance
The OSF will be unavailable today (Wednesday, December 10) from 7:00–10:00 p.m. ET / 00:00–03:00 UTC (Thursday, December 11).
The OSF will be unavailable today (Wednesday, December 10) from 7:00–10:00 p.m. ET / 00:00–03:00 UTC (Thursday, December 11).
December 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
🚧 OSF Planned Maintenance
The OSF will be unavailable today (Wednesday, December 10) from 7:00–10:00 p.m. ET / 00:00–03:00 UTC (Thursday, December 11).
The OSF will be unavailable today (Wednesday, December 10) from 7:00–10:00 p.m. ET / 00:00–03:00 UTC (Thursday, December 11).
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Search for papers on reproducibility, replicability, or robustness and you’ll find plenty of results—and plenty of inconsistency in how those terms are used.
A new COS blog by Brian Nosek shares SCORE’s working definitions and links to a short preprint with more detail.
www.cos.io/blog/increas...
A new COS blog by Brian Nosek shares SCORE’s working definitions and links to a short preprint with more detail.
www.cos.io/blog/increas...
Increasing Precision of Terms Related to Reproducibility and Replicability
Search OpenAlex for reproducibility studies and you will find many papers. Search for replicability studies. Same. Search for robustness studies. Same. A lot of research has been done on these topics ...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Search for papers on reproducibility, replicability, or robustness and you’ll find plenty of results—and plenty of inconsistency in how those terms are used.
A new COS blog by Brian Nosek shares SCORE’s working definitions and links to a short preprint with more detail.
www.cos.io/blog/increas...
A new COS blog by Brian Nosek shares SCORE’s working definitions and links to a short preprint with more detail.
www.cos.io/blog/increas...
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💻🤖 What does it mean to be "machine-first FAIR"? And how can this benefit research conducted by (and for) humans?
Our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel, shares why we need to embrace the #AI research revolution with open & #FAIRdata.
🔗 Read his post: https://ow.ly/e7oe50XAtht
#AcademicSky
Our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel, shares why we need to embrace the #AI research revolution with open & #FAIRdata.
🔗 Read his post: https://ow.ly/e7oe50XAtht
#AcademicSky
December 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
💻🤖 What does it mean to be "machine-first FAIR"? And how can this benefit research conducted by (and for) humans?
Our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel, shares why we need to embrace the #AI research revolution with open & #FAIRdata.
🔗 Read his post: https://ow.ly/e7oe50XAtht
#AcademicSky
Our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel, shares why we need to embrace the #AI research revolution with open & #FAIRdata.
🔗 Read his post: https://ow.ly/e7oe50XAtht
#AcademicSky
Rapidly-growing research and data demands have prompted many institutions to develop cross-functional models that combine the strengths of libraries, IT, research computing, and research administration.
🏛️ Four institutions reflect on building cross-campus collaborations:
🏛️ Four institutions reflect on building cross-campus collaborations:
It Takes a Campus: Building Cross-Campus Collaborations to Support Research Computing and Data Needs
The Center for Open Science brought together librarians and research professionals for a webinar on how institutions develop cross-campus models to meet evolving research and computing data needs. The event featured speakers from OSF Institutions members Duke University, Princeton University, and UC Berkeley, as well as NC State University.
www.cos.io
December 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Rapidly-growing research and data demands have prompted many institutions to develop cross-functional models that combine the strengths of libraries, IT, research computing, and research administration.
🏛️ Four institutions reflect on building cross-campus collaborations:
🏛️ Four institutions reflect on building cross-campus collaborations:
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Hot off the presses this morning! Check out the @amstatnews.bsky.social report on the nation's data! Can't wait to read more.
The Nation's Data at Risk - 2025 Report
America’s federal statistical system is in imminent danger. Without immediate actions, the system may not deliver on its missions due to a combination of declining survey response rates, gaps in…
www.amstat.org
December 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Hot off the presses this morning! Check out the @amstatnews.bsky.social report on the nation's data! Can't wait to read more.
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We are organizing our #ILoveMethods26 workshop! Sign up here: forms.gle/JcG93NU6NNSj.... Find more information: excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods....
December 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We are organizing our #ILoveMethods26 workshop! Sign up here: forms.gle/JcG93NU6NNSj.... Find more information: excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods....
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COS has initiated the process of incorporating as an International Non-Profit Organization in Brussels. We are excited to strengthen our partnerships with mission-aligned individuals and organizations in the EU. See the blog post for more information.
Over the past decade, COS has worked closely with partners across Europe. We’re now starting the process of establishing a formal presence in the EU to deepen that collaboration while continuing to support researchers worldwide.
Read more: www.cos.io/blog/expandi...
Read more: www.cos.io/blog/expandi...
Expanding Our Work in the EU: An Update on COS's Next Steps
Today, we’re sharing an update on the steps we’re taking to establish a formal presence in the European Union in Brussels, Belgium and how we hope to collaborate with partners in the EU, Europe, and b...
www.cos.io
December 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
COS has initiated the process of incorporating as an International Non-Profit Organization in Brussels. We are excited to strengthen our partnerships with mission-aligned individuals and organizations in the EU. See the blog post for more information.
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Video and slides are also available on the Open Science Framework: osf.io/b35ge/ (under "Files" tab)
Structure:
- Open Science and @cos.io
- Getting started
- Discover content and search
- Sharing content: General
- Research project example
- Pre-registrations
Structure:
- Open Science and @cos.io
- Getting started
- Discover content and search
- Sharing content: General
- Research project example
- Pre-registrations
December 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Video and slides are also available on the Open Science Framework: osf.io/b35ge/ (under "Files" tab)
Structure:
- Open Science and @cos.io
- Getting started
- Discover content and search
- Sharing content: General
- Research project example
- Pre-registrations
Structure:
- Open Science and @cos.io
- Getting started
- Discover content and search
- Sharing content: General
- Research project example
- Pre-registrations
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Workshop I gave for the Chinese University of Hong Kong now online:
"Towards Collaborative and Open Research: Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework"
Technical walkthrough of the Open Science Framework after their UI refresh.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4w...
"Towards Collaborative and Open Research: Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework"
Technical walkthrough of the Open Science Framework after their UI refresh.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4w...
Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework | CUHK library
YouTube video by Gilad Feldman
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December 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Workshop I gave for the Chinese University of Hong Kong now online:
"Towards Collaborative and Open Research: Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework"
Technical walkthrough of the Open Science Framework after their UI refresh.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4w...
"Towards Collaborative and Open Research: Data Management and Project Workflows with the Open Science Framework"
Technical walkthrough of the Open Science Framework after their UI refresh.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4w...