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Bullied into Bad Science: Leading individuals and institutions in adopting open practices to improve research rigour

We are early career researchers (ECRs) concerned about the desperate need for publishing reform to increase transparency, reproducibility, timeliness, and academic rigour of the production and dissemination of scholarly outputs (see Young et al. 2016, Smaldino & McElreath 2016). 

We have identified actions that institutions and managers can take to better support ECRs:
1) Sign DORA
2) Positively value a commitment to open practices that keep profits inside academia
3) Endorse publishing only in 100% open access journals
4) Endorse posting preprints
5) Endorse publishing data
6) Educate researchers
7) Increase transparency
8) Make all postdocs voting members of their institutions

Sign the #BulliedIntoBadScience petition at http://bulliedintobadscience.org 

*Note: 'science' = 'research' and researchers from all fields are welcome

Use this Google group to connect with others with similar values, evaluate ideas, and get support. For example, if you feel like you are being pressured to act against your ethics in the process of reviewing a paper, when your paper is in review, or when you are on a committee, then post to the group and seek advice on how to handle the situation.