In 2024, ASAPbio ran a poster competition encouraging the transparent and early sharing of data, ideas and protocols.
Early dissemination is vital in times of emergency, such as global pandemics. But even outside of these situations, earlier sharing of work accelerates scientific discovery. We’ve seen the scientific community increasingly embrace the rapid release of research with preprints, but we’ve yet to see much dissemination of early-stage ideas and results. In an effort to shift current publishing practices so that all forms of scientific research are shared, we invited submissions to the ASAPbio 2024 poster competition.
We received 19 submissions from across the world. The majority (41%) were hosted on Zenodo, followed by 29% on Science Open. Figshare only hosted 5.9% of submissions with the remaining being on OSF (11%) or other platforms (11%).
Announcing the winners!
After a difficult judging period due to the many high quality entries, we are happy to announce that the two winners are:
- AmirAli Toghani from The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK
- Johannes Kersting from the Technical University, Munich
We had a number of excellent submissions from The Sainsbury Lab, reflecting the benefits of a departmental and institutional approach to embedding open science principles. Ultimately, AmirAli was chosen to showcase a strong prototype for the full open journey, from very early transparent sharing right through to open publishing. Johannes, had an equally impressive commitment to openness and was the poster scored most consistently highly across the judges.
Special mention
In addition to the two winners, we would like to highlight Sally Kong (Genspace) for their entry which impressed the judges in its commitment to transparency and openness whilst being our only academia-independent submission.
We’d like to thank all of the submitters. The quality of submissions and commitment to open science were very impressive.