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jacoates.bsky.social
Leading advocate for preprints, integrity, community & improved research culture | Host Preprints in Motion podcast | Immunologist | https://linktr.ee/jacoates
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Sub-tweet. I'm all for denouncing the pseudoscience of Lysenko. But I suggest Brian Nosek starts defending science by denouncing Schooler and Bem. forbetterscience.com/2024/10/30/d...

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

"Most research[...]is publicly funded, with researchers providing this content, and peer review and editorial services to publishers, largely free of charge, while at the same time being charged to read and publish[...]This situation has now reached the point where this is financially unsustainable"

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is the inevitable path of the APC model. For-profit and values-misaligned publishers are bad for science and society. So what can you do? Here are 4 things.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Anyone can do post-publication peer review. Anyone can be a steward of the scientific literature. Anyone can do forensic metascience. Anyone can sleuth. That's why we are launching COSIG: the Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides, an open source resource for all of the above. cosig.net

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

This is such a vital resource for the Drosophila community and so much fundamental research. #saveflybase www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request emergency funding: "As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost" => please donate! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

I've been made redundant and will be leaving ASAPbio in November. I'd like to not have my life up in the air that long so I'm looking for something new more immediately. Any help would be enormously appreciated as I'd hate to leave the preprint/OS space.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

📣📣📣 Call for ORCID Board and ORAC nominations! 📣📣📣 🗓️ Nominations due 27 June ➡️Learn more about ORCID Member-Director Board seat: https://shorturl.at/bUpR1 ➡️Learn more about the ORCID Researcher Board Seat and ORCID Researcher Advisory Council seat: https://shorturl.at/jjxXG

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I've been made redundant and will be leaving ASAPbio in November. I'd like to not have my life up in the air that long so I'm looking for something new more immediately. Any help would be enormously appreciated as I'd hate to leave the preprint/OS space.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump admin is eliminating research through cuts to the #NIH and #NSF. In this op-ed, @mayankchugh.bsky.social & @jacoates.bsky.social urge a shift to open science: a model based on transparency, equity, and free access to research. . Learn more in The Scientist. ⤵️

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The biggest reason we don't actually have a "replication crisis" is that science is a process of advancing what's working, and not fixing what hasn't. Sometimes it's slow, and we backtrack a bit. But it's never stalled. That said, the strain on scientific publishing is generating a lot of crap.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

There is no "science-wide replication crisis" because every word in that phrase carries unfounded assumptions. 🧵 1. There is no evidence that progress has generally stalled in the sciences. Also, no one has actually tried to estimate replicability across fields.

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

I've called for the open science/metascience community to act against this (www.the-scientist.com/open-science...). But I do fear many will use this to fundraise instead. There's been a lot of silence & in some cases capitulation from places I wouldn't have expected.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I think the current state of social science research is pretty bad and I wrote something for @asteriskmag.bsky.social about it. asteriskmag.com/issues/10/ca...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

This is why we have peer review, congress wanted to have oversight of funding & science/NSF didn't want that. My point being that a large response worked then so probably worth doing. Although I have no hope anyone in the US admin cares to listen to reason in any form.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Been shouting this for a while now....Seemingly to my own detriment as this does not make me friends. It is 100% the right thing to do and ensure we're at least discussing this.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

My friend and fellow Swiftie @chiaramasnovophd.bsky.social's story: "Molecular biologist Chiara Masnovo spent weeks filling out an application for a research fellowship earlier this year — taking it over the finish line as she was 38 weeks pregnant and starting a new job."

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

"to run a contest that you end up not funding as a private organization at this time is… both extremely wasteful of these people’s time, and just devastating in terms of morale." I spoke with @aniloza.bsky.social at STAT today about HHMI's decision not to fund this round of Hanna Gray applicants.

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

🔊OpenFest is the annual open research event organised by Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam universities. Our theme this year is Open Research & Equity, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion. The call for proposals is now open - details on the link below. Please share! www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

I've said it enough but I cannot recommend this any more highly. It's a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in preprints and metascience. I wish this was live when I was looking for postdocs.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Not read it yet but the headline + blurb alone are exactly my experience & thoughts. 2 postdocs and beyond I would say is detrimental as you are largely stuck to entry level roles which under pay and devalue your career to that point. www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/im-tir...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

I’m urgently seeking a new role. If you’re in the preprint/open science/academic culture space then I am the perfect person to join your team. Here's some reasons why 🧵 1/9

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment