Michael Markie
All things Open Science/Open Data/Open Research. Head of Innovation Initiatives at eLife, Director of Community at ICOR
- Reposted by Michael Markie2025 was a big year for us: @semble.so went from concept to working product, with 150 users in 2 months, a public API, and the wonderful atproto community already helping us build into the Atmosphere. We also co-launched @atproto.science and @cairos.network. Here's our year in review and what's next
- Reposted by Michael MarkieLearn about #preprints & accelerating #OpenAccess to research in our story featuring HHMI, Gates & Astera. @hhmi-science.bsky.social, @madubs.bsky.social, @gatesfoundation.bsky.social, @openaccessmaven.bsky.social, @asterainstitute.bsky.social, @pracheeac.bsky.social sparcopen.org/impact-story...
- Reposted by Michael MarkieNew #NIH prize competition to identify areas of biomedical science that can benefit from replication and to recognize past replication efforts to further promote the importance of research replication: www.challenge.gov?challenge=re... Submission deadline is in one month!
- Reposted by Michael MarkieVery much enjoyed last week's meeting in Cambridge about the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model for scholarly publishing. There were lots of highly inspiring discussions, including an important discussion about strengthening coordination between initiatives in this area. asapbio.org/reimagining-...
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- Reposted by Michael Markie@scietyhq.bsky.social is bringing scholarly discussion to the open social web! Through NLnet-funded work w/Bonfire, we’re linking preprint discovery & federated platforms like Mastodon & Bluesky. Bonfire v1 is live & crowdfunding: indiegogo.com/en/projects/... Community-first, ad-free #OpenSource
- Reposted by Michael MarkieNature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
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- Reposted by Michael MarkieI am really proud that eLife have published this paper. It is a very nice paper, but you need to also read the reviews to understand why! 1/n
- "The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition". Intuitive cell types are found in random artificial networks using the same selection criteria neuroscientists use with actual data. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1/2
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- Reposted by Michael Markie🎈 Time flies! Exactly one year ago today @rorinstitute.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social launched MetaROR, a platform to publish metaresearch through the publish-review-curate approach. Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers. [1/3]
- Join us for the @icoropen.bsky.social webinar recapping the meeting, ‘From Tools to Adoption: A Path to Modular & Interactive Scientific Publishing’. Come find out how we could potentially pivot from the PDF & print based publishing... Registration details: incentivizingopen.org/2025/11/from...
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- Reposted by Michael MarkieRoRI's MATTHEW project has a new reviewed preprint in @elife.bsky.social, studying the Matthew effect and early-career setbacks in research funding across 14 programmes and 6 funders ⬇️
- 📢 New reviewed preprint, published by @elife.bsky.social at doi.org/10.7554/eLif.... We study two effects in science funding across 14 different funding programmes from 6 research funders across Europe and North America: (1) The Matthew effect; and (2) and the early-career setback effect. 🧵1/8
- Reposted by Michael MarkieWe just posted an impact story on policies at HHMI, Gates & Astera promoting #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenData. Powerful signals to other funders to accelerate discovery in science. Well done @madubs.bsky.social @openaccessmaven.bsky.social @pracheeac.bsky.social! sparcopen.org/impact-story...
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- Reposted by Michael MarkieRapid Science, Stratos, and ICOR response to the NIH RFI on publishing costs. "It is only through convergence of ideas and collective action that we will achieve a dynamic paradigm that will accelerate the benefits of our collective investment in science." incentivizingopen.org/2025/09/rapi...
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- The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure 2.0 has been revised by the posse and is open for comment until the end of August. Thoughts and comments welcome. openscholarlyinfrastructure.org
- Reposted by Michael MarkieNow up in the #ISMBECCB2025 publishing track @mmmarksman.bsky.social is telling us about the @elife.bsky.social Publish Review Curate model. Our sister @gigabytejournal.bsky.social is grateful for their @scietyhq.bsky.social infrastructure to allow linking of their reviews to preprints
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- Reposted by Michael MarkieWhy link preprints and their peer reviews? Read this post from Kathleen Shearer (COAR @coar-repositories.bsky.social): coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
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- Check out our new website for eLife’s open technology. It showcases the work we are doing to provide essential ‘plumbing’ for open science publishing. Our mission is to also work with others to build an open ecosystem as a viable alternative to the status quo. elifetechnology.org
- Great to see the Practical Guide for #ResearchAssessment for RPOs. I hope it provides the impetus for concrete implementation of better research practices. RRA is vital for publishing innovation to thrive so it’s crucial that signatories of DORA are supported to take the next steps & make it happen.
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- Reposted by Michael MarkieI just published a blog post arguing that the reform movements for research assessment and scientific publishing need to better align their agendas. This is crucial for the success of both movements. www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/ass... @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social
- Reposted by Michael MarkieThe truth is that the scientific process is horribly inefficient and wasteful. But the solution is NOT cutting funds and it’s NOT top down guidance of what should be studied. Instead, we should revolutionize how we publish and improve peer review.
- Don’t forget your spot at the next ICOR meeting on 27th February focused on new paradigms in research communication. Speakers and perspectives from @gallseeker.bsky.social, @madubs.bsky.social, @katiecorker.bsky.social, Veronique Kiermer and Geoffrey Boulton. incentivizingopen.org/2025/02/the-...
- Reposted by Michael MarkieI wrote a thing for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. The attack on scientific infrastructure happening in the US shows that relying on any one country is not a good option for science. We need to start supporting and building international, decentralised infrastructure for science.
- Scientific data and independence are at risk: We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations that are resilient to political interference. By @neuralreckoning.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/policy/scien...
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- Reposted by Michael Markie1/ Meet the five new members of the eLife Board of Directors 👇 Today, we welcome Dinesh Natesan, Kamran Naim, Fiona Watt, Huda Zoghbi and Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan 🎉 buff.ly/4hIvlD7
- Reposted by Michael MarkieOur paper is now in the shape of a reviewed preprint on eLife @elife.bsky.social, with the reviewers' comments on full display. We plan to address these in the upcoming weeks/months, but so far I'm a big fan of this publishing model! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
- Join us for the next ICOR meeting. It will be a continuation of the “Future of Open Science Publishing” workshop, a precursor to a broader community discussion around a research communication system centred around open and collaborative practices. Register here: incentivizingopen.org/2025/02/the-...
- Thrilled to welcome @behrenstimb.bsky.social as our new Editor-in-Chief! Tim's passion for the PRC model and talent for inspiring others makes him a perfect fit to lead real change in the way research is reviewed and communicated. elifesciences.org/for-the-pres...
- Timely piece on bibliographic databases hindering publishing innovation. These databases have evolved into the defacto arbiters for evaluation and discovery and IMO have a duty to work with new publishing models and context that helps readers consume content upstream.force11.org/criteria-for...
- I’m excited to announce that I’ve started a new position at @elife.bsky.social as the Head of Innovation Initiatives. I’ve always admired eLife as an innovator, disruptor and force for change and I can’t wait to work on what is the most important experiment in academic publishing right now.
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- PUBLIC MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 November 13th (8am PST, 11am EST, 4pm BST, 5pm CEST) where the topic for the meeting will be "Harmonising Research Metrics and Indicators Across the Ecosystem". Please read our latest blog announcement to find out more. Join us! incentivizingopen.org/2024/10/harm...
- This is a great explainer for the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model. There can be different flavours of PRC, which is already happening, but there are some fundamental principles to each of the P-R-C stages which are important to understand osf.io/h7swt/
- 📢 NEW ICOR PUBLIC MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT. The topic is “Advancing Open Research through Metascience". Speakers include Moumita Koley, @jameswilsdon.bsky.social , @briannosek.bsky.social & @kristenratan.bsky.social Find out more and register for free: incentivizingopen.org/2024/09/adva...
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