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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 9d
The PCI-PCJ 2025 recap is here! ✨ Dive into the events of 2025 👀: peercommunityin.org/2026/01/07/p... Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to an amazing year! 🙏 #PCI2025 #Highlights
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The Psychology Research Institute (INPSY) joined the ranks of PCI supporters in 2026. Many thanks to them! 🙏 inpsy.fss.muni.cz/en
January 21, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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PCI warmly thanks CREAF (@creaf.cat) for their support ☺️ !
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CREAF supports Peer Community In, a scientific organisation for open access
El CREAF dona suport a l'organització científica Peer Community In, dedicada a difondre recerca i coordinada per la pròpia comunitat científica. La vinculació del centre parteix de la proposta de…
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January 20, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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The PCI-PCJ 2025 recap is here! ✨ Dive into the events of 2025 👀: peercommunityin.org/2026/01/07/p... Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to an amazing year! 🙏 #PCI2025 #Highlights
January 15, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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A first recommended read for this new year, 'Rising Publication Costs Strain Researchers' in The Scientist (featuring PCI 😎): www.the-scientist.com/rising-publi...
January 13, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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Did you know that you can now directly submit your preprints hosted on DIGITAL.CSIC to PCI? Check out the short video from CSIC's Library and Archive Network: www.youtube.com/shorts/tWQgs.... For more information, visit: peercommunityin.org/2024/09/18/d....
Solicitud en DIGITAL.CSIC de revisión por pares a Peer Community in (PCI)
Video informativo sobre el servicio de revisión por pares de Peer Community in (PCI) para documentos depositados en el repositorio institucional, DIGITAL.CSIC Descarga el folleto en:…
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December 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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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.

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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
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December 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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The French Society for Bioinformatics (SFBI) also joined our supporters in 2025!! 🤩 www.sfbi.fr/en/
Home | SFBI Société Française de Bioinformatique
The SFBI is the French learned society for bioinformatics. It aims to promote interdisciplinary research at the interface of biology, computer science, mathematics, statistics and physics, and to…
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December 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Happy to hare that the preprint I was advertising below has been published by the Journal of Evolutionary Biology:

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Thanks @jevbio.bsky.social for supporting responsible publishing!
December 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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PCI Statistics and Machine Learning (@pcistatml.bsky.social) is now open for submissions!!
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For an updated list of all the thematic PCIs, visit peercommunityin.org/current-pcis/
PCI Statistics and Machine Learning
Peer Community in Statistics and Machine Learning
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December 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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In case you have missed Simine Vazire's excellent webinar yesterday, here is the link to watch it online: youtu.be/_vb1CNwC3CM Thanks again @simine.com for staying up so late and thanks to the audience for the great questions!
PCI Webinar series #13 - Simine Vazire - Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis
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December 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.
The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'
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December 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Since AI slop is again all over Scientific Reports, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing.

Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this?

Background readings:
Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy
An obviously AI-generated figure with AI slop and fake text all over it, recently published in Scientific Reports.
November 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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The first article recommended by @psych.peercommunityin.org is now published in PCJ!!
December 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Save the date on December 1st!
peercommunityin.bsky.social Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Nov 5
📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v
PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In
The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In
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November 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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1/ cOAlition S announces its 2026–2030 strategy, guided by a refreshed, shared vision: a scholarly communication system that enables rapid, open, transparent & equitable sharing of trustworthy scientific knowledge.
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#OpenScience #ScholarlyComm #Plan_S #OpenAccess
cOAlition S Strategy 2026-2030
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Did you know that PCI is now endorsed by 35 societies and networks? Recently, the German Psychological Society has joined as one of our newest supporters! 🙏
www.dgps.de/en/about-dgps/
DGPs - About DGPs
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie e.V. (DGPs) ist eine Vereinigung der in Forschung und Lehre tätigen Psychologen und Psychologinnen. Die DGPs erstrebt die Förderung und Verbreitung der…
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November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v
PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In
The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In
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November 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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We sincerely thank Erasmus University Rotterdam for their support in 2025 via the Erasmus Diamond Open Access Fund 🙏
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November 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) has released “A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations”, designed to help research performing organizations.
ℹ️ Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gSzFA6

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A person holding a publication titled "A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations" by DORA, in front of a bookshelf.
October 22, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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We posted a short #OAWeek blog post yesterday, highlighting ways in which @uoylibrary.bsky.social supports external, community-led open research initiatives, including @openbookcollective.bsky.social, @peercommunityin.bsky.social , @oapenbooks.bsky.social and @proghist.bsky.social 👇
Open Access Week 2025: Supporting a community-aligned open research ecosystem – The Library, Learning, Archives and Wellbeing Blog
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October 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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On November 4th, PCI will participate in the Open Access Week hosted by the Institut Polytechnique de Paris! For more information, visit www.ip-paris.fr/en/news/open...
Open Access Week 2025
From November 4 to 12, 2025, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris will host its second Open Access Week. This international event promotes open science practices and raises awareness among the…
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October 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Great news for #replication #research. We have our own journal now! www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/in... #openscience @flavioazevedo.bsky.social
A Community Model for Rigorous and Inclusive Scholarship: Inaugural Editorial of Replication Research (R2) | Replication Research
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October 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Curious about becoming a PCI Psych recommender, but not sure if you should? Here's a short video with some reasons why it might be time to sign up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BDr... #PsychSciSky #SciPub
Why be a recommender for a PCI?
The project "Peer Community in (PCI)" (https://peercommunityin.org/) has been launched in January 2017 and now counts 11 communities: PCI Evolutionary Biology (https://evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/),…
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October 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Well done Historical Biology! 🥳
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October 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM