Pavithran Narayanan

How we are approaching AI at openRxiv - new blog post prompted by growing adoption by researchers, submission patterns, and questions from the community openrxiv.org/approach-to-... 1/n

Read this fantastic @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social post by @jacoates.bsky.social! I think superimposing Richard Poynder's thoughts about the OA movement with the preprint movement is superb 👌. #Preprint #PRC #OpenAccess #PeerReview #Publishing scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/14/g...

Thomas and Denis are great people, deeply passionate about the diamond OA community and the work they do! #Librarians - do attend the call & I'm sure you'll have a great time! :) @peercommunityin.bsky.social #OpenScience #DiamondOA #OpenAccess

Today we published the Strategic Plan that will shape PREreview’s work over the next three years. By 2029, we aim to shift norms in research assessment so they reflect the values of equity, openness, and care. 👉 Read our 3Y Strategic Plan: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

At @unileiden.bsky.social we are proud to launch our Strategic Publication Framework! www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/12... We are revisiting our publication practices, strengthening our commitment to open science, and aligning our publication choices and recognition and reward policies.

Great to see that cOAlition S is going to enhance its "focus on sustainable and equitable models, such as PRC, diamond open access and preprints". This aligns with some of the work we are doing at @cwts.nl and in @rorinstitute.bsky.social.

✍️ Advance the Culture of Peer Review with Preprints!🚀 Tips for researchers: ✨ Request reviews and feedback for your next preprint ✨Write preprint reviews ✨Agree to review preprints ✨Convert journal clubs to a preprint review club ✨List preprint reviews on your lab website

💯this: "Community is not a nice-to-have; it is the foundation of lasting cultural change" - This article presents a fantastic read on the need for community efforts for Open Science to progress! #Community #OpenScience #Engagement #Culture #Change #Academia www.themodernpeer.com/the-loss-of-...

It was a pleasure to share my thoughts on Open Access through the #LinkedIn profile of Trevor Mundel, President of Global Health, Gates Foundation, on account of #OAWeek! @openaccessmaven.bsky.social @sparcopen.bsky.social #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenResearch www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

"The story of diamond #OA is still being written. Its rise reflects a powerful shift toward scholarly communication as a public good.. But... ideals alone cannot sustain journals." Great post on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social by my fellow chef Maryam Sayab scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/15/d...

"All solutions need not scale to inspire and instruct"! 💯

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@ludowaltman.bsky.social @andre-brasil.bsky.social & @crossref.bsky.social are requesting input on #DOI registration for P-R-C model!

Speaks for the impact that @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social & @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social have come to have on the field! And the exemplary work led by @richardsever.bsky.social @johninglis.bsky.social - both very much deserving of The Royal Society Research Culture Award 2025!

This is interesting - it'll make institutions take more (almost complete) responsibility for integrity issues but they may also want to invest significant money (& possibly human resource) to make these checks available for everyone!

Very much befitting - many congratulations @richardsever.bsky.social & @johninglis.bsky.social! 👏👏👏

"Self-citation requests can turn peer review into a transaction rather than an objective critique of the article" - @aidybarnett.bsky.social in his OSF @cos.io preprint! #PeerReview #SelfCitation #Preprint #OSF osf.io/preprints/os...

Wishing @tracykteal.bsky.social & team @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social @openrxiv.bsky.social the best - Let "Speed of Science" be the phrase of the year! :)

All of this underscores the point above: if we want to truly make research open, and avoid public misunderstanding—we need to actually consider the public (and the journalists who share research with them) in our approach to #openscience, preprints and otherwise.

I am deeply concerned about the research integrity issues we are seeing right now. Including around preprints, but also science more broadly. But I am equally concerned that our fears about misinformation will lead us toward an even more closed, exclusionary science system.

Again, concerns about research integrity and openness go beyond preprints. We saw this in our study of journalists and their use/perceptions of predatory journals, which participants associated with #openaccess: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... [Still a preprint, but accepted at Journalism Practice]

"LLMs are being used in problematic ways with preprints. But they are also clearly being misused within peer review itself"! 💯 #LLM #Preprints #PeerReview

(You can read a sum up of this argument on the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social — co-authored with @nataschachtena.bsky.social and @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca) blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Some key perspectives on this 🧵: I love the comment in Robert's article about the stakeholders "missing" from debates about #openscience. Beyond scholarly societies, journalists, #scicomm professionals, and the public need to be included in these conversations. f1000research.com/articles/12-...

🔊Four weeks to go until OpenFest 2025! 🥳Join us ONLINE for sessions on building diverse and inclusive research cultures, recognition practices, publishing ecosystems, open research communities, and libraries. Full programme and registration links below:

Great initiative by Wiley! The publisher has started marking retracted papers in reference lists. When you click on the retraction notice, you can also see the date and reason for the retraction. All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.

Any suggestions/recommendations for a tool that would allow the audience at a conference to ask questions, but... a. Those could only be seen by a moderator, with the relevant app and permissions (so that the moderator would ask the question on the person's behalf) b. can be asked anonymously Thx!

A lot of people & organizations to thank for this shift! @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social @richardsever.bsky.social @johninglis.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social @jessicapolka.bsky.social @prereview.bsky.social @neurosarda.bsky.social @reviewcommons.org @embo.org @elife.bsky.social, etc., etc. etc.! 👏

So well put by (shall I say, the one & only? 😄) @richardsever.bsky.social! #Preprints #PeerReview #ScientificPublishing

IMO the fact alone that something claims to be "peer-reviewed" is fairly meaningless, so much do standards vary. One can have some faith based on knowledge of individual journals' processes but if you don't know anything about the journal, then... 1/n

@fionahutton.bsky.social @drpeterrodgers.bsky.social @damianpattinson.bsky.social: @doaj.bsky.social & @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy have called for suggestions/comments from the community w.r.t. some fundamental questions on #indexing criteria! #SciPub blog.doaj.org/2025/07/09/w...

Thanks for the shout out! We work closely with the relationship between research assessment and scholarly communication, and our last guest blog posts by @metaror.bsky.social, @f1000publishing.bsky.social and @elife.bsky.social explore these connections, innovations in publishing and peer review

"Unlike traditional publishing, (the eLife) model doesn’t leave your work waiting for months only to end in rejection ... It accelerates sharing of results and helps keep your research moving forward ... preprint submission also ensures your work is immediately accessible to scientific community"

“Publish first, evaluate continuously…That’s how science actually happens”. A better casting of the PRC model from @madubs.bsky.social at Royal Society #FutureSciPub

I want to create a "Behind the Paper"-like perspective article for CSH Protocols, where authors would succinctly summarize a recent methods paper they've published in any journal. This can provide a bit more context & is a way for authors to directly connect with the community. Interested? Lmk!

Excited to share the first published papers in Lifecycle Journal! In this new, transparent model, research is published before undergoing evaluation—putting publishing & evaluation in the control of the scholarly community. 📄 Read: lifecyclejournal.org/publications/ 🖋️ Submit: osf.io/registries/l...

We @asapbio.bsky.social are planning some work on evaluating the community friendliness of preprint servers. Which factors matter to you, the community? For me = strong governance, transparent policies, good metadata, non-profit stewards, open licensing.

This loss hits particularly hard. Join us in ✊ back by ✒️ the Declaration to #DefendResearch against US Govt Censorship. Defendresearch.org is working to 📚 the public on the dangers of #censorship. All welcome irresp discipline, geography, expertise #StandUpForScience tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f