Jonny Coates
Twitter/BSky: @JACoates
Associate Director, ASAPbio
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ASAPbio; preprints & community-focussed advocacy
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ASAPbio is a researcher-driven, non-profit working to make life sciences communication faster & more transparent
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Our funders and advisors
ASAPbio Board
Ludo Waltman (President)
Gautam Dey (Vice President)
Iain Cheeseman (Treasurer & Vice President)
Jennifer Lin (Secretary)
Thabiso Motaung
R. Dyche Mullins
Kleber Neves
Kristen Ratan
ASAPbio staff
Katie Corker (Executive Director)
Jonny Coates (Associate Director)
Anna Drangowska-Way (Contractor, comms)
Bonnie Jacobs (Contractor, design)
Jessica Polka (Consultant, previously Executive Director)
https://asapbio.org/about-us
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ASAPbio places community at the core of our values
Focus on researchers
Openness, equity, inclusion, and accessibility
Respect, empathy, and collaboration
Experimentation and adaptation to evidence
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ASAPbio
Active researchers
Fellows program
Community!
Preprint stakeholders
Listening!
Evidence
Evidence
Meetings & workshops
Convening
Slack
facilitating
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Progress
>180 Fellows across 6 continents
>1000 community members
We promote conversations beyond academia
We produce vital FAQs and resources
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Progress
These activities enable other services to focus on delivering their goals
We were at the centre of preprints & COVID-19
We facilitate advances in preprint peer review
We experiment with advances in academic practice
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Challenges - community
Engagement & incentivisation of community members
Globalisation
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Challenges - organisational
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Challenging traditional publishers whilst remaining relatively neutral
Balance of innovation and incremental progress
Small team with limited time/resources
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What have we learned?
Empower those within the community
Convening & providing space for stakeholders
Within organisations
People first; always & in every context!
People first approaches require active listening
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Future
Expand our global reach
Offering thought leadership and resources for funders & policy makers
Meaningful, real, change centered on preprints
NOT just post more preprints
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Future
Continued focus on life sciences
Community at the core
Tip the scales to science-first
Thank you!
ASAPbio staff
Katie Corker
Anna Drangowska-Way
Jessica Polka
ASAPbio Board
Ludo Waltman
Iain Cheeseman
Gautam Dey
Jennifer Lin
Thabiso Motaung
Kristen Ratan
Dyche Mullins
Kleber Neves
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When you all leave here at the end of the week I want you to embed community in your own values so that every decision you make from here on has community at its core