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Blog Category: Guest posts

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2024 in Review: Empowering open science through the Review and Curate Network

Guest post written by Roseline Dzekem Dine (2023 ASAPbio Fellow) 2024 was transformative for the Review and Curate Network, as we championed open science, preprint sharing, and collaborative peer review in Rwanda and across Africa. This year, we launched impactful programs and saw significant milestones that reflected our mission to foster transparency and inclusivity in research.
Mar 11, 2025
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India’s Young Investigators’ Meeting: A perspective

This is a guest post by Binay Panda (2024 ASAPbio Fellow), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (https://www.binaypandalab.org/). I spoke at the 17th Young Investigators’ Meeting (YIM) in Agra, India.
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Flowchart illustrating the process of organizing crowd reviews for a preprint. It includes steps from selecting a preprint, emailing reviewers, gathering comments, and posting a reviewed version, all within a 14-day timeline, leading to public posting.

A sneak peak inside the ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review initiative

This blog post was co-written by Jonny Coates and 2024 ASAPbio Fellows; Josie, Jade & Lamis It’s peer review week and to celebrate, we are releasing a preview of one of the 2024 ASAPbio Fellows projects focused on investigating the ASAPbio Crow... Since 2021, ASAPbio has been running its own version of crowd preprint review.
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A hands-on preprint workshop

This blog post was written by Aneth Bella David, a 2023 ASAPbio Fellow, and reports on a recently completed community project. The landscape of scholarly communication is rapidly evolving, with preprints emerging as a transformative tool for research dissemination worldwide.
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Webpage showcasing Gracielle Higinos academic publications. Includes titles, authors, and categories for studies on ecological genetics, conservation biology, and information systems in science. Publications are dated June and July 2024.

A crowdsourced kind peer review guide for ECRs in Ecology and Evolution

This is a post written by Gracielle Higino about her community project that was funded in 2023. I was tired of hearing students and colleagues sharing their bad experiences with reviewers.
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Empowering Researchers: Leveraging Preprints for Academic Advancement

Guest post by; Doherty Funmilayo PhD, Atoyebi Abdulwakeel O., Balogun Peter, Aguh Anthony and Adamolekun Emmanuel  A hybrid training titled “Empowering Researchers: Leveraging Preprints for Academic Advancement” was organized by Yaba College... The significant event brought together participants in research, and academia, both physically and virtually, to unlock the transformative potential of preprints – a revolutionary tool that promises to accelerate the dissemination of knowledge and ...
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