Queen Saikia, PhD
@qsaikia.bsky.social
Researcher | Policy Worker | Open Science advocate (she/her)
📍Coventry, UK
📍Coventry, UK
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We are very pleased to have received the 2025 SIPS Commendations for our ReproducibiliTea reading lists rpt-rl.netlify.app and ReproducibiliTea podcast soundcloud.com/reproducibil... ✨
We are very pleased to announce the 2025 Awards Winners for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science.
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July 2025
By Joanna Rutkowska, SIPS Awards Committee Chair
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July 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
We are very pleased to have received the 2025 SIPS Commendations for our ReproducibiliTea reading lists rpt-rl.netlify.app and ReproducibiliTea podcast soundcloud.com/reproducibil... ✨
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A bold step for open research 🟨🟪👣
Wellcome has joined the Barcelona Declaration. A big move from one of the world’s leading research funders. With persistent identifiers and open metadata policies, they’re helping shift how research is recognized and rewarded.
🔗 wellcome.org/news/wellcom...
Wellcome has joined the Barcelona Declaration. A big move from one of the world’s leading research funders. With persistent identifiers and open metadata policies, they’re helping shift how research is recognized and rewarded.
🔗 wellcome.org/news/wellcom...
Wellcome announces suite of open research measures | News | Wellcome
John-Arne Røttingen, Wellcome’s chief executive, made a series of announcements regarding the global health research foundation's open research methods
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July 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A bold step for open research 🟨🟪👣
Wellcome has joined the Barcelona Declaration. A big move from one of the world’s leading research funders. With persistent identifiers and open metadata policies, they’re helping shift how research is recognized and rewarded.
🔗 wellcome.org/news/wellcom...
Wellcome has joined the Barcelona Declaration. A big move from one of the world’s leading research funders. With persistent identifiers and open metadata policies, they’re helping shift how research is recognized and rewarded.
🔗 wellcome.org/news/wellcom...
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I can finally share my plans to launch my own consulting/advocacy organisation focussed on preprints, trust in research and improving academic culture!
Introducing Rippling Ideas:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/introd...
Introducing Rippling Ideas:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/introd...
Introducing Rippling Ideas
This has been in the works for what feels like an eternity. But the time has come to introduce the thinking behind Rippling Ideas, what it is and what it will be producing in the near future.
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July 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I can finally share my plans to launch my own consulting/advocacy organisation focussed on preprints, trust in research and improving academic culture!
Introducing Rippling Ideas:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/introd...
Introducing Rippling Ideas:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/introd...
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📢 Our new study challenges the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing! Read the preprint: Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe. doi.org/10.31235/osf...
OSF
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June 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
📢 Our new study challenges the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing! Read the preprint: Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe. doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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🔹 New episode of the ReproducibiliTea Podcast 🔹
Sarah Sauvé and William Ngiam @willngiam.bsky.social chat to Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social from Vassar College and the creator of jsPsych @jspsych.org.
🎧Listen now: soundcloud.com/reproducibil...
Sarah Sauvé and William Ngiam @willngiam.bsky.social chat to Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social from Vassar College and the creator of jsPsych @jspsych.org.
🎧Listen now: soundcloud.com/reproducibil...
S4E6 Creating Open-Access Scientific Software with Josh de Leeuw (jsPsych)
In this episode, Sarah and Will chat to Josh de Leeuw from Vassar College and the creator of jsPsych. We chat about the history of jsPsych, the unseen process behind creating open-access scientific so
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March 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
🔹 New episode of the ReproducibiliTea Podcast 🔹
Sarah Sauvé and William Ngiam @willngiam.bsky.social chat to Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social from Vassar College and the creator of jsPsych @jspsych.org.
🎧Listen now: soundcloud.com/reproducibil...
Sarah Sauvé and William Ngiam @willngiam.bsky.social chat to Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social from Vassar College and the creator of jsPsych @jspsych.org.
🎧Listen now: soundcloud.com/reproducibil...
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Understanding open science @unesco.org doi.org/10.54677/UTC...
March 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Understanding open science @unesco.org doi.org/10.54677/UTC...
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My very first guest appearance on a podcast with @tieke.bsky.social and others on research and Indigenous rangatahi. Thanks Queen and @reproducibilitea.org for the opportunity
▶️ New episode of the ReproducibiliTea podcast
Why is Indigenous health research so crucial, especially for adolescents? What are the systemic challenges researchers face, and how can we push for openness, transparency, and equity in health research?
🎧 Listen now: soundcloud.com/reproducibil...
Why is Indigenous health research so crucial, especially for adolescents? What are the systemic challenges researchers face, and how can we push for openness, transparency, and equity in health research?
🎧 Listen now: soundcloud.com/reproducibil...
February 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My very first guest appearance on a podcast with @tieke.bsky.social and others on research and Indigenous rangatahi. Thanks Queen and @reproducibilitea.org for the opportunity
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▶️ New episode of the ReproducibiliTea podcast
Why is Indigenous health research so crucial, especially for adolescents? What are the systemic challenges researchers face, and how can we push for openness, transparency, and equity in health research?
🎧 Listen now: soundcloud.com/reproducibil...
Why is Indigenous health research so crucial, especially for adolescents? What are the systemic challenges researchers face, and how can we push for openness, transparency, and equity in health research?
🎧 Listen now: soundcloud.com/reproducibil...
February 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
▶️ New episode of the ReproducibiliTea podcast
Why is Indigenous health research so crucial, especially for adolescents? What are the systemic challenges researchers face, and how can we push for openness, transparency, and equity in health research?
🎧 Listen now: soundcloud.com/reproducibil...
Why is Indigenous health research so crucial, especially for adolescents? What are the systemic challenges researchers face, and how can we push for openness, transparency, and equity in health research?
🎧 Listen now: soundcloud.com/reproducibil...
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Indirect costs at the NIH – a good explainer from @stuartbuck.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/goodscie...
Indirect Costs at NIH . . .
I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, but NIH-world was hit with a doozy of a policy announcement on Friday night:
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February 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Indirect costs at the NIH – a good explainer from @stuartbuck.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/goodscie...
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NIH intramural researchers are being told they're not allowed to post preprints. To raise awareness of the vast research affected, and show support for our colleagues, we're making a thread of past NIH IRP preprints.
✴️ 1 like/repost == 1 preprint ✴️
‼️Please share‼️
https://buff.ly/3PTy6oL
✴️ 1 like/repost == 1 preprint ✴️
‼️Please share‼️
https://buff.ly/3PTy6oL
Richard Sever (@richardsever.bsky.social)
NIH staff told they can submit papers to journals but not preprints. "a short pause to allow the new team to set up a process for review and prioritization" <- review by whom...? …
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January 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
NIH intramural researchers are being told they're not allowed to post preprints. To raise awareness of the vast research affected, and show support for our colleagues, we're making a thread of past NIH IRP preprints.
✴️ 1 like/repost == 1 preprint ✴️
‼️Please share‼️
https://buff.ly/3PTy6oL
✴️ 1 like/repost == 1 preprint ✴️
‼️Please share‼️
https://buff.ly/3PTy6oL
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On today at 3pm!
We launched MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) with @aimosinc.bsky.social to make peer review more efficient and more rewarding.
Join us TOMORROW for our launch seminar to learn more about the vision behind it.
🕓 15:00 GMT / 16:00 CET
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducin...
Join us TOMORROW for our launch seminar to learn more about the vision behind it.
🕓 15:00 GMT / 16:00 CET
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducin...
November 26, 2024 at 11:47 AM
On today at 3pm!
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🔍 Paid opportunity with FORRT! Join us to expand the world’s largest replication database.
Supported by @cos.io, we seek researchers to input entries, validate data, and support #OpenScience - 100% remotely. 🌐 Apply now! bit.ly/fred_apply #ResearchJobs
Supported by @cos.io, we seek researchers to input entries, validate data, and support #OpenScience - 100% remotely. 🌐 Apply now! bit.ly/fred_apply #ResearchJobs
November 20, 2024 at 4:41 PM
🔍 Paid opportunity with FORRT! Join us to expand the world’s largest replication database.
Supported by @cos.io, we seek researchers to input entries, validate data, and support #OpenScience - 100% remotely. 🌐 Apply now! bit.ly/fred_apply #ResearchJobs
Supported by @cos.io, we seek researchers to input entries, validate data, and support #OpenScience - 100% remotely. 🌐 Apply now! bit.ly/fred_apply #ResearchJobs
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Check out our new #OpenResearch Hub, launched this morning researchculture.leeds.ac.uk/open-researc...
Launch event for the Open Research Champions and #OpenResearch Hub with Professor Nick Plant. Great to see so many colleagues here on a cold Monday morning 🥶
November 18, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Check out our new #OpenResearch Hub, launched this morning researchculture.leeds.ac.uk/open-researc...
It’s finally time to say #PhDDone! A journey full of highs and lows. A journey well worth the risk, and one I’ll forever be grateful for!
Thanks to everyone I’ve crossed paths with, for every experience that brought me closer to this finish line! ☀️
Thanks to everyone I’ve crossed paths with, for every experience that brought me closer to this finish line! ☀️
November 13, 2024 at 10:54 PM
It’s finally time to say #PhDDone! A journey full of highs and lows. A journey well worth the risk, and one I’ll forever be grateful for!
Thanks to everyone I’ve crossed paths with, for every experience that brought me closer to this finish line! ☀️
Thanks to everyone I’ve crossed paths with, for every experience that brought me closer to this finish line! ☀️
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FYI @dorkatamas.bsky.social (and Chris, not on BlueSky afaik) produced our #OpenResearch case studies at UoL leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2022/12/09/o...
November 7, 2024 at 7:37 PM
FYI @dorkatamas.bsky.social (and Chris, not on BlueSky afaik) produced our #OpenResearch case studies at UoL leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2022/12/09/o...
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The new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation open access policy will go into effect in January 2025. This policy mandates preprints for all grantees, encourages preprint peer review, and removes funding for APCs.
Join us for a Q&A on the new policy.
https://buff.ly/477cPQ7
Join us for a Q&A on the new policy.
https://buff.ly/477cPQ7
November 3, 2024 at 7:15 PM
The new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation open access policy will go into effect in January 2025. This policy mandates preprints for all grantees, encourages preprint peer review, and removes funding for APCs.
Join us for a Q&A on the new policy.
https://buff.ly/477cPQ7
Join us for a Q&A on the new policy.
https://buff.ly/477cPQ7
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Started an #OpenResearch list. Please suggest accounts to add bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 2, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Started an #OpenResearch list. Please suggest accounts to add bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Are you an early-career researcher looking to contribute to an #openscience initiative? ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.bsky.social is looking for passionate volunteers to help build our grassroots community-based initiative. Announcement details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Application Announcement 2025
ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee: Application Announcement for 2025 We are extremely excited to announce that we are opening applications to join the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee at the beg...
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October 28, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Are you an early-career researcher looking to contribute to an #openscience initiative? ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.bsky.social is looking for passionate volunteers to help build our grassroots community-based initiative. Announcement details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Happening tomorrow in Geneva & online! All are welcome - whether you've just heard of #openscience & have no idea what it means or you're a seasoned pro, you're welcome to join us from anywhere via Zoom. DM for the link or check more details/other events on the @reproducibilitea.org calendar! ⚡
At next week's #hybrid #ReproducibiliTea we're having an introduction to #OpenScience for all those who are interested but have no idea where to start (we feel you, it can be daunting!). We welcome all curious folks to join, ask Qs, and offer tips. We learn best together! DM for link & pls share! 🧠
October 31, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Happening tomorrow in Geneva & online! All are welcome - whether you've just heard of #openscience & have no idea what it means or you're a seasoned pro, you're welcome to join us from anywhere via Zoom. DM for the link or check more details/other events on the @reproducibilitea.org calendar! ⚡
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🔵New Episode of the ReproducibiliTea Podcast🔵
@willngiam.bsky.social is joined by Jamie Moffa, a doctoral student in systems neuroscience. Jamie has been thinking and working in the science communication space, especially via the In Plain English podcast.
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@willngiam.bsky.social is joined by Jamie Moffa, a doctoral student in systems neuroscience. Jamie has been thinking and working in the science communication space, especially via the In Plain English podcast.
soundcloud.com/reproducibil...
S4E4 Science Communication (with Jamie Moffa, In Plain English Podcast)
In this episode, Will is joined by Jamie Moffa, a doctoral student in systems neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis. Jamie has been thinking and working in the science communication space
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October 30, 2024 at 8:32 AM
🔵New Episode of the ReproducibiliTea Podcast🔵
@willngiam.bsky.social is joined by Jamie Moffa, a doctoral student in systems neuroscience. Jamie has been thinking and working in the science communication space, especially via the In Plain English podcast.
soundcloud.com/reproducibil...
@willngiam.bsky.social is joined by Jamie Moffa, a doctoral student in systems neuroscience. Jamie has been thinking and working in the science communication space, especially via the In Plain English podcast.
soundcloud.com/reproducibil...
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Preprints boost research visibility, but institutional recognition is still lagging.
To celebrate #OpenAccessWeek, ASAPbio Fellows Josie Otto, Queen Saikia, Lamis Elkheir, Melissa Chim, and ASAPbio's @jacoates.bsky.social share key recommendations for improving preprint policies in academia!
To celebrate #OpenAccessWeek, ASAPbio Fellows Josie Otto, Queen Saikia, Lamis Elkheir, Melissa Chim, and ASAPbio's @jacoates.bsky.social share key recommendations for improving preprint policies in academia!
October 23, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Preprints boost research visibility, but institutional recognition is still lagging.
To celebrate #OpenAccessWeek, ASAPbio Fellows Josie Otto, Queen Saikia, Lamis Elkheir, Melissa Chim, and ASAPbio's @jacoates.bsky.social share key recommendations for improving preprint policies in academia!
To celebrate #OpenAccessWeek, ASAPbio Fellows Josie Otto, Queen Saikia, Lamis Elkheir, Melissa Chim, and ASAPbio's @jacoates.bsky.social share key recommendations for improving preprint policies in academia!
✨In honour of #OpenAccessWeek, we are thrilled to share our white paper outlining key recommendations for adoption and recognition of #preprints during graduation, hiring and beyond!
👉Read more
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👉Read more
zenodo.org/records/1398...
Institutional recognition for preprints; recommendations for policies and practices
This whitepaper addresses the increasing recognition of preprints in academic research, particularly within the biosciences, and offers comprehensive recommendations for institutional policies and pra...
zenodo.org
October 23, 2024 at 2:18 PM
✨In honour of #OpenAccessWeek, we are thrilled to share our white paper outlining key recommendations for adoption and recognition of #preprints during graduation, hiring and beyond!
👉Read more
zenodo.org/records/1398...
👉Read more
zenodo.org/records/1398...
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New Episode of the ReproducibiliTea Podcast!
@qsaikia.bsky.social and @willngiam.bsky.social are joined by @jacoates.bsky.social from @asapbio.bsky.social to discuss how preprints and preprint review can accelerate science!
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#OpenScience #metasci #academicsky
@qsaikia.bsky.social and @willngiam.bsky.social are joined by @jacoates.bsky.social from @asapbio.bsky.social to discuss how preprints and preprint review can accelerate science!
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#OpenScience #metasci #academicsky
S4E2 – Preprint Review with Jonny Coates from ASAPBio
In this episode, we welcome Queen Saikia as a host of the podcast! She and Will Ngiam are joined by Jonny Coates, Associate Director of ASAPBio, a non-profit organisation seeking to Accelerate Science
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September 19, 2024 at 5:57 AM
New Episode of the ReproducibiliTea Podcast!
@qsaikia.bsky.social and @willngiam.bsky.social are joined by @jacoates.bsky.social from @asapbio.bsky.social to discuss how preprints and preprint review can accelerate science!
soundcloud.com/reproducibil...
#OpenScience #metasci #academicsky
@qsaikia.bsky.social and @willngiam.bsky.social are joined by @jacoates.bsky.social from @asapbio.bsky.social to discuss how preprints and preprint review can accelerate science!
soundcloud.com/reproducibil...
#OpenScience #metasci #academicsky
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The ReproducibiliTea podcast is back! In our first episode, @helenagellersen.bsky.social and @willngiam.bsky.social chat with @nafisajadavji.bsky.social and Nele Haelterman from @repro4everyone.bsky.social about their efforts to provide training on reproducibility.
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S4E1: Reproducibility Training with Repro4Everyone with Nafisa Jadavji and Nele Haelterman
We welcome back the ReproducibiliTea Podcast with Will and Helena chatting to Nafisa Jadavji and Nele Haelterman about Reproducibility for Everyone (R4E), a community-led initiative to run reproducibi
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September 6, 2024 at 6:58 AM
The ReproducibiliTea podcast is back! In our first episode, @helenagellersen.bsky.social and @willngiam.bsky.social chat with @nafisajadavji.bsky.social and Nele Haelterman from @repro4everyone.bsky.social about their efforts to provide training on reproducibility.
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Ten simple rules for successful and sustainable African research collaborations:
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Ten simple rules for successful and sustainable African research collaborations
journals.plos.org
July 4, 2024 at 6:29 AM
Ten simple rules for successful and sustainable African research collaborations:
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...