Bodo Stern

HHMI Chief of Strategic Initiatives. Opinions are my own.

[HHMI @hhmi_science]

HHMI Chief of Strategic Initiatives Bodo Stern writes in the LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog about Nature's recent decision to publish peer review reports. "True transparency in peer review must begin at the outset," he writes, "not as an afterthought to editorial gatekeeping."

Read more: https://t.co/1pitUj4SYZ

[Bodo Stern @bodostern]

Lots of food for thought and action in this report. Consultation revealed that researchers support preprints and open peer review but are not sufficiently incentivized to adopt these practices.
https://t.co/jJtrRsWkZE

[cOAlition S @cOAlitionS_OA]

.@cOAlitionS_OA is pleased to welcome the release of a report detailing the findings of a global consultation with the research community about the “Towards #ResponsiblePublishing” proposal.
https://t.co/Wz02BCJy5N
#OpenAccess #Plan_S #OpenScience #ScholComm

[DORA @DORAssessment]

“If we shouldn’t use Impact Factors, what should we use instead?”

Today, DORA is releasing new guidance on research indicators, including Journal Impact Factor, citations, h-index, altmetrics, and more. 🧵1/3

https://t.co/rgpyErBGTx

[HHMI @hhmi_science]

⚡ Excited to announce Spyglass, a new open-source framework from Loren Frank’s HHMI lab at @UCSF. With standardized formats and open-source tools, Spyglass promotes data shareability and reproducibility. 🙌

Read more: https://t.co/h4U3zPPlxG 👈

[Bodo Stern @bodostern]

@maw_tweets Oh no, Michele. My heart ad thoughts are with you

[Bodo Stern @bodostern]

As part of DORA's 10th anniversary celebration @leslievosshall, @AnnaHscientist and I will discuss ideas and emerging plans to de-emphasize journal names in the assessment of HHMI researchers.

[HHMI @hhmi_science]

We are celebrating @DORAssessment’s 10th anniversary!

Join us for a webinar on de-emphasizing journal names in HHMI researcher assessment on Tuesday, May 16, at 11:00 a.m. ET.

Register now! 🔗 https://t.co/c2Vj1IrvHw

[Bodo Stern @bodostern]

@fraser_lab @JCIM_JCTC I am secretly hoping that a newly invited reviewer, who is asked to replace your 'rescinded' review, will say: 'I really like the review on bioRxiv, and have nothing to add'.

[ASAPbio @ASAPbio_]

Would you like to improve the culture of #PeerReview?
Read our latest preprint to find out how to join us in #RecognizingPreprintReview!

https://t.co/45Pz8CCX1V

[Michele Avissar-Whiting @maw_tweets]

It has been a real joy to join forces with @OA_Works to make sense of the great morass of publication data! 🥂

[eLife - the journal @eLife]

Our Board of Directors has issued a public statement of support today for eLife’s new publishing model. You can read the letter below. https://t.co/L20GZASpxP

[HHMI BioInteractive @BIOINTERACTIVE]

How do otters affect eagles? Our new Keystone Species Interactive highlights different keystone species around the world from a variety of trophic levels and ecological roles, and connects understanding keystone species with ongoing conservation efforts. https://t.co/9LSiPx0yiJ

[Bodo Stern @bodostern]

@cOAlitionS_OA created the 'transformative journal' model to help publishers transition to open access. It was always meant to be a transition model. Today @cOAlitionS_OA announced that it will stick to the original timeline and end support for transformative journals by 2025.

[cOAlition S @cOAlitionS_OA]

.@cOAlitionS_OA confirms that financial support for Transformative Agreements and Journals will end after 2024. Instead, funders will direct their efforts to innovative and community-led #OpenAccess publishing initiatives.
https://t.co/OI0QIhDvL7 #Plan_S

[Bodo Stern @bodostern]

@DORAssessment turns 10 this year. Congratulations, @DORAssessment! There's a lot to celebrate and a lot to do in the next 10 years!

[DORA @DORAssessment]

📢Announcing DORA’s 10th Anniversary Celebration #DORAat10 in May 2023!
🌐We're hosting two plenary sessions on the past & future of research assessment, & we're also inviting YOU to organize an event on research assessment along with us!
📋Learn more: https://t.co/bKLlBpDXnx

[Bodo Stern @bodostern]

'HHMI enthusiastically supports @eLife's new model’
https://t.co/xlP3BMBmQY

[Bodo Stern @bodostern]

@HHMINews is excited to support and host this meeting on recognizing preprint peer review.

[ASAPbio @ASAPbio_]

Today, we're excited to announce a meeting co-organized with @HHMINEWS and @EMBO at @JaneliaConf to promote recognition for open dialog on preprints. Learn more and register to watch the livestream on December 1-2: https://t.co/ez9VNSakQH
🧵

#RecognizingPreprintReview

[Bodo Stern @bodostern]

@mctucsf @PracheeAC @eLife In the current publishing system you don't know who acted virtuously and who deserves credit for making a study rigorous, authors or peer reviewers. In the @eLife model both sides are more accountable for their contributions.

[Bodo Stern @bodostern]

interesting and informative thread on peer review.

[Bodo Stern @bodostern]

@frazierarchive @hholdenthorp @eLife @mbeisen Filtering of scientific articles is important but on top of and not instead of a publicly available scientific discourse. The @eLife evaluative summaries and standardized language are aiming to provide such curation signals - they build on and don't replace scientific discourse.

[Bodo Stern @bodostern]

@BerndPulverer @Bazzoid @fraser_lab @eLife @EMBOPress @biorxivpreprint In my opinion only the second solution - attaching reviews to preprints - solves the problems with journal peer review. Transferring reviews of rejected papers to other journals just tries to make the broken system of journal cascades work more smoothly.

[Bodo Stern @bodostern]

Congratulations to the @eLife team! After introducing consultative peer review 10 years ago and limiting peer review to preprints in 2020, you have done it again: removing the editorial accept - reject decision is a major step towards a healthier scientific publishing system.

[eLife - the journal @eLife]

Today, we’re introducing a new model that eliminates accept/reject decisions.

By publishing every paper with eLife reviews as a Reviewed Preprint, we plan to restore autonomy to authors, ensuring that they will be judged by what, not where, they publish. https://t.co/OAsiOVFStI

[Bodo Stern @bodostern]

@ewjwallace @hholdenthorp I think it is the most important experiment in publishing since open access. For it to succeed it needs buy-in from the community and that involves the recognition that scholarly peer review is so much more than consultancy on an editorial accept-reject decision.