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La Direction pour la Science Ouverte d’INRAE recrute un·e ingénieur·e d’études pour contribuer au pilotage de PCI

📄 Contrat : CDD 15 mois
🎯 Mission : Accompagner le développement et la coordination de PCI

Détails de l'offre : jobs.inrae.fr/ot-28928

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Please let us know your thoughts on PCI and Peer Community Journal (PCJ) by taking this five-minute survey! form.typeform.com/to/CO4KpWgi

Submit to PCI-friendly journals - Peer Community In The authors of a PCI-recommended article have the possibility to publish in a variety of journals, including a selection of PCI-friendly journals.

BiO joins Peer Community In as a PCI-friendly journal. Submit your PCI recommended preprint to BiO for a decision within five days. Find out more: peercommunityin.org/pci-friendly...

PCI Webinar#14 - Paolo Crosetto - Why publishing is becoming a burden for science and how to fix it

Many thanks to Paolo Crosetto (@paolocrosetto.bsky.social) for a great webinar yesterday!! For those who missed it, the recording is now available online: youtu.be/3PVPCacsF1U?...

The recording of the panel discussion on "Rethinking Peer Review" is available here: youtu.be/Icr04Gbvqj0?...
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Tomorrow!!

🧵 New paper out today in @peercommunityin.bsky.social Journal!

@joelpick.bsky.social et al. introduce the first standardised guidelines for data & code quality control in #ecology & #evolutionarybiology, on behalf of @sortee.bsky.social 🔓

doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

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🚨 Zoom Talk 🚨

Thu 19th 4pm CET I present the results of the strain (tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r) drain (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820) & PISS (arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563) papers at the Peer-Community In Webinar series.

Info: peercommunityin.org/pci-webinar-...

Let's debate the future of publishing together!

The journal @insectessociaux.bsky.social is now PCI-friendly! 🎉 Curious about what this means for authors and the journal? Be sure to check out this great interview with @jmeunierearwig.bsky.social to find out more!

The 14th PCI webinar is in 10 days ❗❗Details and registration at peercommunityin.org/pci-webinar-...

This week, PCI is attending the Researcher to Reader Conference 2026 (r2rconf.com) in London. Thomas Guillemaud joined a panel on independent peer review models, featuring Katherine Brown from The Company of Biologists, Peter Rodgers from eLife, and moderated by Jonny Coates of Rippling Ideas.

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

We are thrilled to announce Paolo Crosetto's presentation titled "The Drain of Scientific Publishing: Why Publishing Has Become a Challenge for Science and How It Can Be Improved" in our upcoming PCI Webinar on March 19th at 4 PM (GMT+1)!! 🤩
To learn more and sign up, please visit buff.ly/bxYWPCz

Resource landscape shapes the composition and stability of the human vaginal microbiota The vaginal microbiota is shaped by bacterial access to specific nutritional resources, influencing health outcomes. This study uses a resource-based model supported by clinical data to identify key e...

Just published in Plos Biology after being evaluated and recommended by PCI Ecology doi.org/10.1371/jour...
 The PCI recommendation and reviews are available here: doi.org/10.24072/pci...

Would you like to support #preprints 📰 but don't know how? Or maybe you don't have much time? ⏳
Below you can find several tips, some of which will only take 5 minutes! ⏲️
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Peer Community In - free peer review & validation of preprints of articles PCI is a non-profit open science organization of scientists to evaluate, recommend and publish research preprints in free open access

You could try peercommunityin.org ;-)

The Psychology Research Institute (INPSY) joined the ranks of PCI supporters in 2026. Many thanks to them! 🙏 inpsy.fss.muni.cz/en

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…

PCI warmly thanks CREAF (@creaf.cat) for their support ☺️ !
www.creaf.cat/en/articles/...

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

A first recommended read for this new year, 'Rising Publication Costs Strain Researchers' in The Scientist (featuring PCI 😎): www.the-scientist.com/rising-publi...

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:…

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....

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

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-...

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…

The French Society for Bioinformatics (SFBI) also joined our supporters in 2025!! 🤩 www.sfbi.fr/en/

Happy to hare that the preprint I was advertising below has been published by the Journal of Evolutionary Biology:

academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Thanks @jevbio.bsky.social for supporting responsible publishing!

PCI Statistics and Machine Learning Peer Community in Statistics and Machine Learning

PCI Statistics and Machine Learning (@pcistatml.bsky.social) is now open for submissions!!
statml.peercommunityin.org
For an updated list of all the thematic PCIs, visit peercommunityin.org/current-pcis/

PCI Webinar series #13 - Simine Vazire - Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis

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!

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'

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.

An obviously AI-generated figure with AI slop and fake text all over it, recently published in Scientific Reports.

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

The first article recommended by @psych.peercommunityin.org is now published in PCJ!!

For people in Asia and Australia/NZ and for those who cannot attend: the talk will be recorded ;-)