We’re thrilled to announce that the 2021 cycle of the ASAPbio Fellow program is now open for applications. Interested in preprints? Looking to develop your own preprint initiative? Keen to connect with others interested in science communication? Then the ASAPbio Fellow program is for you! The ASAPbio Fellows program runs for six months and provides…
On January 14th, 2021, ASAPbio hosted the #PreprintsInThePublicEye: Challenges and Solutions in an Age of Misinformation event. With speakers from the worlds of preprints, academia, and journalism, the event sought to highlight the problem of misinformation and the misrepresentation of research in the context of preprints and COVID-19. We asked, how can we know what…
Blog post by ASAPbio Fellow Mafalda Pimentel Having to isolate due to a pandemic can also have some silver linings. Forcefully away from the bench, I had no more excuses to evade a question I had been increasingly interested in – how are preprints shaping the present and future of science? Not long after I…