OpenScholar

Shaping the future of how research is seen, found, and funded.

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Research visibility isn't a meritocracy — it's an attention economy.

We want to fix that. If you do too, check out our pilotResearch visibility isn't a meritocracy — it's an attention economy.

We want to fix that. If you do too, check out our pilotResearch visibility isn't a meritocracy — it's an attention economy.

We want to fix that. If you do too, check out our pilotResearch visibility isn't a meritocracy — it's an attention economy.

We want to fix that. If you do too, check out our pilotResearch visibility isn't a meritocracy — it's an attention economy.

We want to fix that. If you do too, check out our pilot.

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What modern research infrastructure looks like:

→ OS Research Hubs: AI-generated researcher profiles, current and equal across faculty.
→ OS Match: fit-based funding discovery, surfacing what alerts can't.

Pilot open: https://t.co/mXM5ApCq56

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What our 90-day pilot delivers:
→ 10 Research Hubs
→ 3 Match rounds, up to 450 fit-matched funding opportunities
→ Decision-grade data on your faculty

$5K, applied to your institutional license.

https://t.co/fazJB5kJ3M

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Real outcomes. Decision-ready data. On your own researchers, across 90 days.

Our CEO explains what piloting infrastructure built for modern research actually delivers.

Start a pilot: https://t.co/zpdEEssgBo

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Research infrastructure should reduce those gaps. Not create them. It's time for it to evolve, too.

The pilot is open: https://t.co/zpdEEssgBo

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The infrastructure underlying modern research didn’t break overnight.

Research evolved. The systems that support it stayed the same. And the costs accumulated quietly over time, in ways that are diffuse and difficult to see.

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And when costs are hard to measure, they’re easy for institutions to normalize and absorb.

Collaborations that don't form.
Funding pipelines that narrow.
Opportunities that never reach the right researchers.
Research and talent that goes unrecognized.

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Fit-based matching uses what today's tools can't see: a picture of each researcher's actual work.

OS Hubs is the picture. OS Match fits it to the right funding.

Our pilot is the window is open now.

Read the essay: https://t.co/Uh5alV5dkZ
Start a pilot: https://t.co/zpdEEssgBo

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Published today: Researchers don’t need more funding. They need the right funding.

Discovery tools were built around the question: What funding exists? And for years, the answer to that question was scarce enough that knowing what was available was a real advantage.

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But that’s changed. Availability has been answered.

What hasn’t is fit.

Availability answers whether there are active opportunities related to a given topic. Fit answers which of the thousands of opportunities is a match for what this researcher is actually doing.

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Alerts flood inboxes with near-misses. Researchers spend hours filtering noise that should be fueling proposals. Non-obvious opportunities go undiscovered in the sheer volume.

It's time to rethink the model.

The pilot is open. https://t.co/zpdEEssgBo

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Grant alerts and funding discovery tools are answering the wrong question.

They've been built around the premise: What funding exists? But that question has been answered—so well, in fact, that it has created a new problem.

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Asking faculty to fix the gap by being better self-publicists just reproduces it.

Infrastructure that levels visibility for every researcher is what actually works.

Our 90-day pilot: 10 researchers, 450 high-confidence funding matches, $5,000 that applies to your license.

Start: https://t.co/uaMoJOjwy2

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Look at your institution's most-cited researchers. On the whole, they share something—and it isn't that their research is better.

Today's essay: the attention economy underneath every institution's research presence.
🔗 https://t.co/0oZcnUgMiR

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What we have isn't a meritocracy. It's an attention economy. A filter that picks up on signals having little to do with the work:

⚪ Time
⚪ Admin support
⚪ Comfort with self-promotion
⚪ Field-level norms

Visibility produces visibility. Attention attracts attention.

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Research no longer lives in one place. OS Research Hubs and OS Match are what we've built for it.

Our CEO @JessDrislane explains.

Pilot is open: https://t.co/zpdEEssgBo

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Today we also opened our 90-day pilot of OS Research Hubs and OS Match, ahead of our July launch.

10 researchers. 3 rounds of matching. Up to 450 funding opportunities. $5K — applies to your institutional license.

Start: https://t.co/wHlEqA1Nfh

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Just published: why institutional systems have fallen out of step with how research actually happens — and who's absorbing the cost. https://t.co/FDzsZCNjOC

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Three places the cost lands:

→ Faculty burden: uncompensated time as web publisher
→ Equity gaps: self-publishers stay visible; the rest don't
→ External visibility: outsiders piece together stale profiles and Google snippets

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Research doesn't live in one place anymore.

Publications in PubMed. Data in Figshare. Code on GitHub. Trials in registries. A CV in a Word doc. A faculty profile three years behind. An ORCID record that might be current. A personal site from 2019.

Each of those platforms is doing real work. None was built to answer "what is this researcher actually doing?" for anyone who wants to know.

The tools institutions rely on to represent faculty have quietly fallen out of step with how research actually happens. That mismatch is no longer just an inconvenience — it's a cost.

More on this next week.