Hello, Vanessa here, PREreview Head of Community. It’s warming up over here in the UK, but wherever in the world you are, I hope your July has got off to a bright start! We have lots to share in this month’s newsletter, including an opportunity to join our team, how we’d love your help to make PREreview more globally accessible, new collaborations, and more ways to get involved!
We're hiring
Join PREreview as our new Communications and Engagement Officer!
Are you an experienced and adept communicator who cares about driving transformational change in scholarly communications? Then consider joining our team!
The application deadline is July 21, with a preferred start date of October 1.
Making PREreview.org more inclusive and globally accessible
We have added our new language picker to PREreview.org! Now you can switch between Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and US English on our homepage and throughout our preprint review workflow. More pages will be available in these languages soon, and next year we’ll work to add translations of more languages to the site.
Check out our latest weeknote or click on one of the links below to register for upcoming office hours. We’ll be helping community members learn how to use Crowdin to help us suggest and review translations in Latin American Spanish (LA ES) and Brazilian Portuguese (BR PT) on PREreview.org.
- PREreview + Crowdin Office Hours 1 - 15 July 2025 - 9 AM ET / 13:00 UTC
- PREreview + Crowdin Office Hours 2 - 24 July 2025 - 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET / 16:00 UTC
You can also watch one of our CrowdIn demo videos in English, Latin American Spanish, or Brazilian Portuguese.
Peer Review ‘Modular Style’
What if peer review wasn’t a final hurdle, but an ongoing conversation?
We’ve partnered with Continuous Science Foundation to launch our “Peer Review, Modular Style” Working Group. We’re looking for curious, committed individuals to help shape what modular peer review could look like in practice. If you're open-minded, collaborative, and not afraid to challenge the status quo, we want you with us.
Time commitment: 2–3 hours per month (virtually)
What’s involved: Rolling up your sleeves, sharing ideas, and co-creating new models of trust, transparency, and reuse in peer review.
Sound like you? Apply to join us and help us build what’s next.
Join our next Live Review!
PREreview and JMIR Publications will be hosting our next Live Review event on July 25, 2025 at 15:00 UTC (check your local time here), where we will be reviewing:
'Phase-Space Dynamics Reveal Structured and Chaotic Motility in Human Sperm via DTW Clustering’ by Athanasia Sergounioti, Efstathios Alonaris, Dimitrios Rigas.
DOI: doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.13.653743
Read the preprint in advance, and register to join us. We look forward to seeing you there!
Highlights from the Slack Community
- Meredith shared that the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has reopened applications for one of their Open Science Fellow positions!
- Daniela recommended a 5-week course on Reimagining Research — Pause and Effect.
- Vanessa shared that The Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University has announced a funding opportunity for civic science media projects. Funding call closes Aug 31.
- Ivan said hello and shared information about Bonfire Networks and their work with the open science community to co-design features that bridge research and social networking. Learn more and respond here.
- Healing Equity has a new Building Bridges Cohort Program - a deep, facilitated experience where you’ll strengthen the real skills it takes to lead across difference. Applications by Aug 1st.
- Vanessa shared a special edition newsletter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) featuring PREreview Director & Co-Founder, Daniela Saderi.
- Check out this comprehensive and user-friendly tool for facilitators!
- Vanessa shared her poster about PREreview from the Metascience 2025 conference.
- Jay would like to know if anyone else is going to the First Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship in October? Connect with Jay if so!
- Read ‘How academia’s ‘lone wolf’ culture is harming researcher mental health’
- Daniela shared an opportunity to share your stories and experiences to help shape the future of scholarly communication with Composable Science.
- We had our first reviews published by folks using the site in Spanish and Portuguese!
If you have stories to share, interesting articles you have read, events you’ve heard about or are attending, tips, tricks, or just an uplifting poem you’d like to share. Please know we would love to hear from you in the Slack Community!
Events
Upcoming events
- Jul 14/15 - Conference on the Future of Scientific Publishing - The Royal Society, London - in-person
- Jul 22 - 24 - FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI) 2025 - E05: PREreview Open Reviewers Workshop - online - register
- Jul 25 - PREreview x JMIR Publications Live Review - online - register
- Aug 13-15 - Open Science for Bioinformaticians Workshop - online - apply
- Sep 11 - 13 - Pubmet 2025 Conference - Zagreb, Croatia - in-person - register
Recent events
- May 15 - PREreview x JMIR Publications Live Review - published review
- May 21 - Open Reviewers Workshop with the eLife Ambassador team - online - resources
- May 21-22 - Conducting Ethical and Constructive Peer Review with PREreview: Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) conference - online
- Jun 24 - Council of Science Editors (CSE) webinar on Decentralized Science - online - slides
- Jun 26 - PREreview x JMIR Publications Live Review - review to be published soon.
- Jun 26 - PAPERI webinar ‘PREreview: Open Preprint Review for All Experts’ - recording
- Jun 30 - Jul 2 - Metascience 2025 conference - panel session ‘ Transforming research communication: Innovations in publishing, peer review, and curation’- in-person, London, UK - recording and poster about PREreview.
- Jul 10 - PREreview East Africa Webinar series - online - led by PREreview Champions Roseline Dzekem Dine & Michael Landi
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