The 2025 COS Impact Report is now live! From open infrastructure to research initiatives, policy engagement, and global partnerships, see what COS accomplished over the past year to advance transparent, rigorous, and accessible research.

🔍 Check out the report: www.cos.io/impact

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: TOP 101: An Overview of the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. The Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines (TOP) is a policy framework that can provide specific recommendations for journals, research funders, universities, and researchers about practices that are designed to increase the verifiability of empirical research claims. TOP was updated in 2025 and contains three main parts: Research Practices, Verification Practices, and Verification Studies. This webinar will include an overview of these components and how TOP’s tiered and modular structure makes it applicable to a diverse community of researchers and policymakers. This webinar is part of COS’s ongoing campaign to demonstrate implementations of our Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines (https://bit.ly/top-guidelines), grounding our policy framework in real-world examples. If you have feedback, implementation stories, or lessons learned from working with TOP, get in touch with us at top@cos.io.

📋 TOP 101: An Overview of the Transparency & Openness Promotion Guidelines
April 1, 11 AM ET

Learn about the TOP framework, which provides recommendations for journals, funders, universities, & researchers about practices that can increase verifiability of research claims.

A micro-panel data analysis of residential energy demand ... Stylized representations of actually diverse populations of pr...

"A micro-panel data analysis of residential energy demand in Germany", a Research Plan in @cos.io Lifecycle Journal, is under review at @researchhubf.bsky.social. You can be part of the evaluation process, but hurry, bounty closes in 4 days! www.researchhub.com/paper/110835...

Introducing COS’s 2026–2028 Strategic Plan: Advancing Lifecycle Open Science The Center for Open Science (COS) has released its 2026–2028 Strategic Plan, outlining a focused, three-year direction for advancing openness, integrity, and trustworthiness in research.

COS has released its 2026–2028 Strategic Plan, outlining a focused direction for advancing openness, integrity, and trustworthiness in research. This plan aligns our work around Lifecycle Open Science (LOS)—research with publicly accessible plans, contents, and outcomes.

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Reversal or no reversal, that is the question – A concept... Reading direction is a central determinant of spatial–numerica...

Lifecycle Journal pub "Reversal or no reversal, that is the question – A conceptual replication of cross-cultural spatial-numerical associations" is under review at @researchhubf.bsky.social 2 days left on the bounty if you want to be part of the evaluation! www.researchhub.com/paper/105961...

Consciousness and emotions in non-human animals: Are layp... Consciousness and the ability to experience affective states a...

"Consciousness and emotions in non-human animals: Are laypeople more or less skeptical than experts?", a Research Plan in @cos.io Lifecycle Journal, is under review at @researchhubf.bsky.social. You can be part of the evlauation process, bounty closes in 3 days: www.researchhub.com/paper/105979...

Motivated reasoning in sustainable consumption: A partisa... This project studies whether politically congruent environment...

"Motivated reasoning in sustainable consumption: A partisan environmental framing experiment", a Research Plan published in Lifecycle Journal, is under review with @researchhubf.bsky.social. Check it out if you'd like to be part of the evaluation process! www.researchhub.com/paper/105997... @cos.io

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...

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...

“Just Noticeable” Differences in Pay: A Systematic Review... Compensation is of critical importance to organizations. Howev...

"“Just Noticeable” Differences in Pay: A Systematic Review of Past Accomplishments and Future Opportunities", an Outcomes Report in Lifecycle Journal, is under review with
@researchhubf.bsky.social Check it out if you'd like to be part of the evaluation process! www.researchhub.com/paper/961814...

Portland: “Challenge accepted.” 🐸🐔

Two open positions on COS's research team!

Project Coordinator: Undergraduate degree in research, or equivalent experience ats.rippling.com/cos-careers/...

Program Manager: 10 yrs of project management experience or 2+ program management ats.rippling.com/cos-careers/...

Please share w/colleagues

We are about a month away from releasing a complete refresh of the OSF user interface. The team has been working on this for a very long time, and we are very excited to be able to share it soon. A preview picture:

You might be interested in checking out the work @whaleactually.com @cos.io is doing on Registered Revisions bsky.app/profile/whal...

Exciting news! @metaror.bsky.social has joined Lifecycle Journal's growing list of evaluation service partners, & will review & assess metaresearch submissions.

Under LJ's innovative model of scholarly communication, research is published first, then openly reviewed.

🔎: lifecyclejournal.org/about/

Now available in final form without the "uncorrected proof" background image disrupting your pleasure reading.

🧪BREAKING: NIH has laid out 5 options for funding publications costs on grants (yes, FIVE!). This is hugely impactful.

Make your opinions known by September 15, fellow scientists.
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grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

🗣️ ICYMI: Lifecycle Journal is open for submissions!

Learn more: lifecyclejournal.org/submission-g...

@cos.io also recently launched a journal that puts a whole project from conception to publication (including multi-stage review) in one place called the Lifecycle Journal.

If Registered Revisions is like a mini registered report, Lifecycle Journal is like a mega one.

lifecyclejournal.org

Hi folks! Want to reintroduce a thing I'm leading at @cos.io: the Registered Revisions (meta) Trial.

This project about new peer review policy and a WILD new way of doing actionable evidence generation via RCTs. A LOT of RCTs.

Now piloted and ready for the main stage, and looking for partners! 🧵👇

The evaluations were timely, thorough, and public... I have been encouraging colleagues to submit work to [Lifecycle Journal and will continue doing so. This initiative can benefit our field substantially. Lifecycle Journal author Julian Keith, Ph.D Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina

Our goals should be to build a scientific psychology that is on a trustworthy foundation. Scientists should be rewarded for conducting rigorous research, regardless of the outcomes of studies, and all aspects of the work should be available to other scientists who can build on the work. Lifecycle Journal author Julian Keith, Ph.D Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Lifecycle Journal offers a new way to share and evaluate research: open, accountable, and designed to support rigorous work across the full research lifecycle. Dr. Keith’s experience highlights how diverse evaluations and a transparent publishing process can advance scientific progress.

A Shared Challenge: Evaluating AI’s Impact on Open Research Infrastructure OSF was designed to make open scholarship possible and easy to adopt, while upholding the values of transparency, credibility, and accountability. As we navigate the evolving role of AI in research, COS remains focused on strengthening open research infrastructure and helping communities embed open practices that foster rigor and trust.

The OSF was designed to make open scholarship possible and easy to adopt. As the role of AI in research continues to evolve, COS is assessing how our infrastructure can deter AI misuse and help researchers share their work in transparent, responsible ways.

🔗 Read more:
www.cos.io/blog/eval...

At this year's Open Science Conference in Hamburg we will bring into focus the intersection between Open Science and AI. On-site as well as online participation are possible. Register now! Further information and registration: www.open-science-conference.eu #OSC2025

How does the process of explaining affect one’s beliefs? People routinely try to explain claims of fact (why a food is ...

"How does the process of explaining affect one’s beliefs?", a Research Plan submitted to Lifecycle Journal, is now under review with @researchhubf.bsky.social. Go check it out if you'd like to be part of the evaluation process! www.researchhub.com/paper/943858...

Transforming research communication: Innovations in publishing, peer review, and curation YouTube video by ASAPbio

For those who missed it at #Metascience2025, @katiecorker.bsky.social kindly recorded our session on "Transforming research communication: innovations in publishing, peer review, & curation" and you can check it out here: youtu.be/6d-LJYbNBmE

Yes, definitely! I will be in and out the next couple weeks so I’ll reach out end of July

Check out @rouhiroo.bsky.social posts for a great overview of our session on transforming scholarly communication in case you missed it at #metascience2025

@andre-brasil.bsky.social walked us thru @metaror.bsky.social and now @clancyny.bsky.social explaining @cos.io #LifecycleJournal - shift rewards away from pubs to rewarding rigorous science itself; all process/outputs are meaningful contributions #academicsky #sciencesky #science

#metascience

I’d love to talk to you about paper check for Lifecycle!

Anyone interested in hearing more about Lifecycle Journal @cos.io and transforming scholarly communication, please check out #metascience2025 session T5.7 tmo where I'll be joining @elife.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social @prereview.bsky.social @metaror.bsky.social and @hhmi.org in a panel discussion

I'll be at #Metascience2025 next week representing Lifecycle Journal and @cos.io I'm looking forward to seeing everyone there, lmk if you want to meet!