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Fellow researchers: Use my data! 📢 The whole point of the journal Scientific Data is to validate and share datasets for other researchers to use. It's all available on the Open Science Framework: doi.org/10.17605/OSF... @cos.io

The use of impact factors in the evaluation of researchers has contributed to the distortion of scientific publishing practices and research practices, noted France's CNRS as it walked away from Web of Science, using $$$ saved to promote #OpenScience & #OpenData. www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...

The image is an infographic titled "Open science creates economic value through reuse at scale," by PLOS. It highlights four benefits of reuse: prevents duplication of effort, accelerates research processes, compounds benefits through network effects, and enables reuse across sectors. The left side features a flowchart illustrating reuse from a single research output. On the right, a text box emphasizes that open science can enhance productivity and strengthen long-term performance when done correctly. A final note states, "Publishing is a vital part of the infrastructure that enables reuse at scale.

Open Science isn’t just a values choice. It’s an economic one.

We are sharing a new independent report by @technopolis-group.com on the economic benefits of #OpenScience and what drives value when research outputs are designed for reuse at scale: plos.io/4rdAxCY

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: TOP 101: An Overview of the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. The Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines (TOP) is a policy framework that can provide specific recommendations for journals, research funders, universities, and researchers about practices that are designed to increase the verifiability of empirical research claims. TOP was updated in 2025 and contains three main parts: Research Practices, Verification Practices, and Verification Studies. This webinar will include an overview of these components and how TOP’s tiered and modular structure makes it applicable to a diverse community of researchers and policymakers. This webinar is part of COS’s ongoing campaign to demonstrate implementations of our Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines (https://bit.ly/top-guidelines), grounding our policy framework in real-world examples. If you have feedback, implementation stories, or lessons learned from working with TOP, get in touch with us at top@cos.io.

Happening March 11! TOP 101: An Overview of the Transparency & Openness Promotion Guidelines

Learn about the TOP framework, which provides recommendations for journals, funders, universities, & researchers on practices that can increase verifiability of research claims.

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It's FReD Friday AND #LoveReplicationsWeek, so here is a recap of what has been going on with the FORRT Replication Database. In 2024, we published the paper on our dataset with 99 (!) authors. But this was only the beginning. doi.org/10.5334/jopd.101

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE IS EXCITED TO WELCOME EARTHDAY.ORG AS AN ENDORSER OF OUR NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION ON MARCH 7TH!

Stand Up for Science is excited to welcome EARTHDAY.ORG (@earthdayorg.bsky.social) as an endorser of our National Day of Action on March 7th!
Join us: standupforscience.net/march7

#science
#standupforscience
#rally
#March7
#savescience

@jorowags.bsky.social & @lililazarevic.bsky.social are now presenting the Collaborative Replication and Education Project (CREP). At CREP, students are supervised and conduct direct replications that are then published as data or reports: www.crep-psych.org

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: TOP 101: An Overview of the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. The Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines (TOP) is a policy framework that can provide specific recommendations for journals, research funders, universities, and researchers about practices that are designed to increase the verifiability of empirical research claims. TOP was updated in 2025 and contains three main parts: Research Practices, Verification Practices, and Verification Studies. This webinar will include an overview of these components and how TOP’s tiered and modular structure makes it applicable to a diverse community of researchers and policymakers. This webinar is part of COS’s ongoing campaign to demonstrate implementations of our Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines (https://bit.ly/top-guidelines), grounding our policy framework in real-world examples. If you have feedback, implementation stories, or lessons learned from working with TOP, get in touch with us at top@cos.io.

Happening March 11! TOP 101: An Overview of the Transparency & Openness Promotion Guidelines

Learn about the TOP framework, which provides recommendations for journals, funders, universities, & researchers on practices that can increase verifiability of research claims.

💻

You can still register for the #LoveReplicationsWeek events, including today’s lunch talk on how to obtain your reproducibility certificate using CODECHECK ✅

Register here: forrt.org/LoveReplicat...

Hi there, please email our Support team at support@osf.io and supply the URL of the paper with a brief summary of your issue, and they will look into this. Thanks!

It's Love Replications Week! Check out our Q&A with the editors of @r2journal.bsky.social below ⤵️

And learn more about all of the great Love Replications Week virtually programming here ➡️ forrt.org/LoveReplicat...

Japan Adopts France’s Open Science Monitor Model
(via @ouvrirlascience.bsky.social) www.ouvrirlascience.fr/japan-adopts... & via #NII (Japan) www.nii.ac.jp/en/news/rele... #openscience

It's Love Replications Week! Check out our Q&A with the editors of @r2journal.bsky.social below ⤵️

And learn more about all of the great Love Replications Week virtually programming here ➡️ forrt.org/LoveReplicat...

The updated Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) flowchart offers clearer guidance and a more streamlined decision pathway to help researchers, librarians, and support teams choose the most appropriate generalist repository for their data.

📖 medium.com/@blog-gre...

Building a Publishing Model for Replication: Q&A with the Senior Editors of Replication Research COS spoke with the senior editors of Replication Research—a community-led Diamond Open Access journal that supports reproduction and replication studies.

Replication Research (R2), a 🆕 community-led Diamond OA journal, makes replication studies more discoverable, publishable & rigorously evaluated—without subscription barriers or author fees. Ahead of #LoveReplicationsWeek, R2's senior editors shared their vision in our Q&A:

8 DAYS TILL SUFS NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION NATIONWIDE RALLY! TAKE BACK OUR SCIENCE!

The Take Back our Science Rally just 8 days away! Happening in Washington DC and all across the country! Join a local rally, or start your own pop-up rally! Details at standupforscience.net/march7

#standupforscience
#science
#March7

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Building a Publishing Model for Replication: Q&A with the Senior Editors of Replication Research COS spoke with the senior editors of Replication Research—a community-led Diamond Open Access journal that supports reproduction and replication studies.

Replication Research (R2), a 🆕 community-led Diamond OA journal, makes replication studies more discoverable, publishable & rigorously evaluated—without subscription barriers or author fees. Ahead of #LoveReplicationsWeek, R2's senior editors shared their vision in our Q&A:

Love replications week banner with a heart logo that is half a cogwheel and fountain pen.

Love Replications Week is next week: 2-6 March 2026! 🩷

There are short lunchtime talks and longer talks and workshops. I'll be presenting on "Reproducibility in the language sciences: What, why and how" together with Mara van der Ploeg from TROLLing on […]

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If progress is not to falter, students must be trained in open research The how and why of conducting transparent, rigorous, ethical research must be explicitly taught, say Madeleine Pownall, Charlotte Pennington and Flavio Azevedo

“Open research is about more than the tightening of analytical and methodological standards. The movement also invites us to reconsider how, and by whom, knowledge is created, shared and evaluated”

By @maddipow.bsky.social, @drcpennington.bsky.social, & @flavioazevedo.bsky.social

#MetaSci #OpenSci

A Year of Threats to Our Public Information — Data + Screening Tools Over the past year, the Trump administration has moved aggressively to remove public access to federal data, information, and tools. The fields of climate, health, environment, and justice have been p...

@publicenvirodata.bsky.social post summing up 2025. A year of threats, but also a year of resistance and hope.

screening-tools.com/blog/a-year-...

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.

Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles

go.nature.com/4ceKgVF

⚠️ ALERT: OSF Maintenance ⚠️

The Open Science Framework (OSF) will be down for scheduled maintenance between 7:00 PM-11:00 PM ET on Wednesday, February 25. Check status updates at:

We're excited to share that Tim Errington, Senior Director of Research at COS, was selected to serve on the newly-established Academic Advisory Board of the Global Research Initiative on Open Science (GRIOS)! 🌍

Global Research Initiative on Open Science Establishes its Academic Advisory Board (via @grios-openscience.bsky.social)
www.grios.org/global-resea... #openscience @cos.io

Dark gray banner with “LOVE REPLICATIONS WEEK” in bold white and gold text and a heart-and-gear logo below the text.

We ♥ Replications!

The OSC is excited to be a partner in the upcoming LOVE REPLICATIONS WEEK 2026: an online event where you can learn about doing reproduction and replication studies 📚

When? Next week! March 2-6, 2026
Find out more about the program and register here: forrt.org/LoveReplicat...

We're excited to share that Tim Errington, Senior Director of Research at COS, was selected to serve on the newly-established Academic Advisory Board of the Global Research Initiative on Open Science (GRIOS)! 🌍

Building a More Resilient Ecosystem for Publicly-Funded Research Data COS previously announced efforts to develop a community-driven strategic plan for long-term preservation, accessibility, and usability of federally-funded data. This post shares updates on the…

As a member of @cos.io effort to build a more resilient ecosystem (see link below if you missed it), we want to draw attention to the call for feedback. Be sure to share your thoughts with us by March 2, ahead of our next planning meeting, using the survey on the post!
www.cos.io/blog/buildin...

⏰ REMINDER: Applications for AREN's Local Network Leads program are open through March 16.

This program trains researchers & research professionals in #Africa to become #openscience leaders who can establish a community of practice at their institution.

Learn more & apply:

Join us on Thurs for funder perspectives on open science policy development. Register: cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi.... This session explores how funding orgs create, roll out, & manage open science policies that increase transparency in the research they support, aligned with their missions & values

Partnership with journals - MetaROR About Our Partner Journals About Our Partner Journals Leveraging reviews for streamlined journal submissions Leveraging reviews for streamlined journal submissions After peer review and editori...

🤝 MetaROR is happy to announce Replication Research as its new partner journal!

@r2journal.bsky.social is an interdisciplinary journal for replication research focusing on reproductions, close replications and conceptual replications.

👇 See our full list of partners on our website