Katie Corker
Executive Director ASAPbio, promoter/enthusiast of all things open science
- Reposted by Katie CorkerBeen on multiple search committees For me (personally so YMMV)…I basically dismiss everything that’s labeled *submitted* unless there’s a preprint I can read
- You can read more about that experience here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Katie CorkerIf you want to apply the FAST Principles in practice, you can join a Crowd of researchers who collaboratively review preprints in Cell Biology and Meta-research! Learn more and join the Crowd Preprint Review! buff.ly/Ri8ZBQR
- Reposted by Katie CorkerElevate Preprint Feedback with FAST Principles! ✨Focused: Tackle the science, not the person. ✅Appropriate: Keep it respectful and bias-free. 🎯Specific: Provide actionable insights. 🌐Transparent: Be open about your role. asapbio.org/focus-areas/...
- Reposted by Katie CorkerAustralia: NHMRC, MRFF adopt open science policy (free to read): www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...
- Reposted by Katie CorkerScientific publishing is still organized around bundles built for print. We use music’s shift from albums to streaming to argue why access and unbundling aren’t enough. Shared standards are the missing layer for reusable, trustworthy science. articles.continuousfoundation.org/articles/how...
- Access removes locks. Structure creates movement. Why modular science changes everything. We unpack it here 👇 articles.continuousfoundation.org/articles/how...
- Reposted by Katie CorkerAfter last year's successful refresh of the BES Reproducible Code guide (www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...), this year we're going to refresh the Data Management guide (www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...). Exciting! See below for how to get involved...
- Reposted by Katie Corker📅 Mark your calendars for #SIPS2027! The 2027 SIPS conference, organized in collaboration with the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science @aimosinc.bsky.social, will be held in November at the University of Melbourne, Australia. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
- Still snowy ❄️
- Reposted by Katie Corker"Why Open Research and Responsible Research Assessment Matter and how we can make them happen?". An invite to the #Irish research community to join us in person for the ABOARD capstone event at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, on March 27. Register now 👉 app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/eve...
- Reposted by Katie CorkerWe just posted some helpful tips on searching for preprints on psyarxiv: blog.psyarxiv.com/2026/01/27/h... Truncation and fuzzy matching should be especially helpful for lit reviews. Keep posting your preprints to psyarxiv ❤️
- Reposted by Katie Corker📚 On this International Day of Education, we’re excited to share that DORA is launching an introductory course on Responsible Research Assessment in February 2026! An online, self-paced course on the basics of RRA, open to all career stages. Watch this space! 🧐
- Reposted by Katie CorkerIt's only a week away to the TCC Africa Webinar "Reframing University Rankings: Visibility, Open Science & Global South Leadership." Our PM Giovanna Lima will share about the interplay between responsible assessment and rankings. You can register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- Reposted by Katie CorkerWe go around the room with 5 questions. 1) What did you like about the paper? 2) What did you learn? 3) What would you like to understand better? 4) What would you like to see to improve the paper? 5) What ideas did this spark for your research?
- Reposted by Katie CorkerEarlier this week, a #policy workshop was held at EMBO with members of our scientific community to reflect on how #research and researchers are assessed across our funding schemes. This workshop is part of EMBO’s commitment to DORA, CoARA and to advancing #ResponsibleResearchAssessment. 🧪
- Reposted by Katie Corker10/🧵 If you’re interested in: - using RegCheck, - stress-testing it, - identifying bugs, - or formally evaluating its performance, I’m very happy to talk. App: regcheck.app Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2601.13330 Code: github.com/JamieCummins...
- Reposted by Katie Corker7/🧵 All of this and more is detailed in our new preprint, also available today. You can read all about RegCheck here, including our ongoing work to comprehensively evaluate its performance. w/ @bethclarke.bsky.social @ianhussey.mmmdata.io and @malte.the100.ci arxiv.org/abs/2601.13330
- Reposted by Katie Corker6/🧵 I have also added integration with the ClinicalTrials.gov API. You can now provide a ClinicalTrials.gov identifier and RegCheck will automatically retrieve the registration.
- Reposted by Katie CorkerHere ya go!
- Reposted by Katie CorkerLooking for data that the government is pulling down? We may have it backed up for you. Check our portal: portal.datarescueproject.org Know of data being taken down or worried about a data source? Let us know: baserow.datarescueproject.org/form/r7V1c44...
- I went to go look for Census data this morning and.... y'all. #econsky
- It's snowy here today!
- Reposted by Katie Corker👀In a few weeks' time we'll be launching our NEW catalogue of open research practices in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences - ~30 open research practices across AHSS disciplines that we've documented so far, with detailed descriptions, examples and resources.
- Reposted by Katie CorkerAfter a period of inactivity, we are reactivating this account as a primary channel for connecting with the research community. We'll be sharing new outputs, our latest guidance, and commentary on all things research integrity. Give us a follow and join the conversation💬
- Reposted by Katie CorkerPlease share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data! pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-…
- Funders - ever wondered what it might look like to implement the TOP guidelines? Here, COS shows how they've done so with the updated (2025) guidelines in their own work as a pass-through funder. Take aways? TOP is a modular, customizable framework that can be tweaked for a variety of settings.
- If you take a close read, you'll see that COS models the adaptability of the framework. They don't adopt the most stringent standards for every research practice, and that is OK! Good even! It's also a nice model of using TOP to assess one's current position and see where you want to go next.
- Reposted by Katie CorkerCrossref Grant IDs can now be included across all record types, helping create clearer, more reliable links between funding and research outputs. doi.org/10.64000/x7d4h-x3r11
- Reposted by Katie CorkerNew paper – and my first ✨Registered Report✨: Do hormonal contraceptives affect women’s sexuality? We studied both average effects and individual differences in effects using longitudinal data: doi.org/10.1177/2700...
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View full threadReposted by Katie CorkerIf you want to check out the full story: doi.org/10.1177/2700... And if you want the extended director’s cut: osf.io/u8ntf/overview Stay tuned, as we did the same analyses for effects of hormonal contraceptive use on well-being (with very different results!): rr.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
- Reposted by Katie CorkerOpen ≠ unprotected #OpenScience removes paywalls, not your rights. Copyright stays with you, and #CreativeCommons licenses help you decide how your work is reused. 🔗Learn more in our resource: shorturl.at/eEySw #FORM4Open #OpenAccess
- Reposted by Katie CorkerNominate someone for the 2026 edition of The Sarah Jones Award for exceptional contribution to fostering collaboration in #OpenScience! #OpenResearch Open to all, though a demonstration of contribution within the RDA @researchdataall.bsky.social community is of great importance.
- Reposted by Katie CorkerPreprints of pandemic potential - new historical piece from me on the history of bioRxiv/medRxiv, their role in the pandemic, and the way forward. 1/n journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
- Reposted by Katie CorkerLearn 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 Katie CorkerScientific findings will be shared with the public sooner in 2026, thanks to funders including the Howard Hughes Medical Institute @hhmi-science.bsky.social. HHMI's Immediate Access to Research Policy went into effect on Jan. 1, 2026. Details here: hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Imm...
- Reposted by Katie CorkerWe want your feedback – which evaluations merit the top award, and why? Total prize pool: $6600 www.unjournal.org/news/unjourn... Anonymous: coda.io/form/The-Unj...
- Reposted by Katie CorkerOne of the best ways for early-career researchers to create community within their department and effect change towards doing open and thoughtful research is to start a ReproducibiliTea journal club. We've distilled our network's experience into a set of simple rules to follow and get started!
- 📢 New preprint! Ten Simple Rules for Running a ReproducibiliTea Journal Club 🔗 doi.org/10.31222/osf... Our aim is to equip you as early career researchers with the tools needed to lead grassroots change in research culture. #reproducibility #openresearch #openscience #metasci #academicsky
- Reposted by Katie CorkerPaper Mills: a new threat to scientific publishing #PaperMill #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI @deevybee.bsky.social fullfact.org/technology/p...
- Reposted by Katie Corker📣 FREE WEBINAR - Join Neuromatch for a workshop on using #GitHub and sharing reproducible workflows with Deborah Khider from #LeapFROGS, a platform for FAIR science practice and publishing. 📅 Thursday, January 15 ⏰ 4:00–5:30 PM UTC Learn more here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #OpenScience
- Reposted by Katie CorkerPreprint on PANDORA by Aslan Abivardi: A massive archive of UK Biobank brain imaging from 82K subjects. For each of 98 sub-modalities (e.g., FA from dMRI), the images are collated into a convenient subjectsXvoxels HDF5 file. pages.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/pandora/web/ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Katie CorkerKitchen Essentials: An Interview with Tanja Niemann of Érudit / Une Entrevue avec Tanja Niemann d’Érudit scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/07/k...
- Great opportunity for an open science data archivist in the DC area! I was able to work with this team in 2024 through some contract work, and I highly recommend them. Please share.
- Pew Research Center just posted a brand new opening for a Data Archivist! This is a 2-year, grant-funded position housed within the methods team (the best team obv). Check out the link below for a full description and to apply! #openscience
- Reposted by Katie CorkerI don't know enough to have my own view on this paper or response, but to me this is science social media at its best: doing post publication peer review of papers that make big claims. Bravo @alexanderhuth.bsky.social
- Reposted by Katie CorkerAdversarial collaborations are one way to do this, but we should see it as part of a new and better way of doing science that I talk about in this article. We should judge scientific results by the degree of thorough and transparent scrutiny they have received. thesamovar.github.io/zavarka/tran...
- Reposted by Katie CorkerExtremely excited & proud to share our new preprint - we provide for the first time a single cell map of the mouse brain across sex, the estrous cycle, and peripartum! Data are 🔥 👇 "Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Katie CorkerHappy arxiv:2601 to all who celebrate! 😉🎉🔬 We are so thankful for everyone who uses arXiv everyday to share and discover new research. Happy new year to all - here's hoping for a 2026 full of #openaccess science & lots of new discoveries.
- Reposted by Katie Corker“At LSA, we explicitly welcome negative data and null results, & we include it online in the journal’s policy about submitting. This was baked into the founding of our journal; we think it’s a matter of scientific integrity, of reducing wasted research efforts, & of lowering barriers to publication”
- Giving the gift of negative data 🥰 Since I joined @lsajournal.org I have handled several stellar manuscripts that report null results. These papers do very well and reviewers almost always appreciate them! Thanks @rockefeller.edu news team for the article! www.rockefeller.edu/news/38829-t...
- Reposted by Katie CorkerNSF bio hour - NSF BIO lost 40% of its staff 😑
- Reposted by Katie CorkerI've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...
- Reposted by Katie Corker📣 Calling all early career #neuroscientists! @thetransmitter.bsky.social & Neuromatch are teaming up to better understand how to support #EarlyCareer Researchers. Whether you're a student, postdoc, or launching your career, we want to hear from you. ➡️ www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
- Reposted by Katie CorkerVery 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-...
- Reposted by Katie CorkerThere seems to be a decrease in the coverage of affiliation metadata in #OpenAlex, particularly with regard to journal articles published by Elsevier since 2024. Only around 6% of Elsevier articles published in 2025 have affiliation metadata. subugoe.github.io/scholcomm_an...
- Reposted by Katie CorkerChange can feel slow while it’s happening, but the contemporary landscape looks very different from even a few years ago. bit.ly/4oSkv09 #openaccess #openresearch #openscience
- Reposted by Katie CorkerThe Department of Psychology @uzh-ch.bsky.social has an open position for a tenured Lecturer (Research) «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship» jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... #psychjobs
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- New #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 Katie CorkerJust had our first set of reviews from @pci-regreports.bsky.social for our proposed study on RT during GLP-1-RA treatment. Probably the most constructive and useful set of reviews I have ever had... and having them before starting the study makes them even better! 11/10 would recommend!
- Reposted by Katie CorkerWe have made public #openscience materials from the Münster Center for Open Science, specifically flyers and cheatsheets on #OpenAccess, #OpenData, and #Preregistration. Flyers are already on Zenodo, Cheatsheets will follow: zenodo.org/communities/muecos/ and lukasroeseler.github.io/MueCOS-Infom...