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blog.datadryad.org“The Cost of Knowledge” and what it means for Open Data at Dryad | Dryad newsThe theme of Open Access Week 2026 “The Cost of Knowledge” speaks to an issue close to Dryad, and one that is at the forefront of current discourse: Appropriate funding for research infrastructure.

#OpenAccess applies to more than just articles. This #OAweek, as we think about the cost of knowledge, it's important to think about the infrastructure that makes open possible, and how we keep it alive. 🧪 READ MORE ⤵️ blog.datadryad.org/2026/10/20/t...

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Data and code from: Dipteran flight diversity is shaped by aerodynamic constraints, scaling, and evolutionary trade-offs 🧪 📊Dataset: bit.ly/4AhYlKX 🤓Article in @plosbiology.org: bit.ly/3UNsNxe #biology #biomechanics #openaccess #opendata #physiology #flies #diptera

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Day 1 of #PIDfest! @crossref.org

Don't miss Dryad's Audrey Hamelers at #PIDFest this week: "From Silos to Ecosystems: Connecting Digital Objects with Common PIDs to Improve Discoverability Across Generalist Repositories" Oct. 29, 12:00 noon CET / 4:00 PST bit.ly/4isEu4q #opendata #datapublishing #datasharing #PIDfest26

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Morphological evolution of respiratory structures in Brissopsis (Echinoidea) over the past 40 million years - new fossils from the Western Pacific onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday #PapersinPalaeontology @datadryad.bsky.social

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What stimulates regeneration programs in animals? @kenposs.bsky.social &co show that mutations causing #developmental defects activate #regeneration responses that buffer the deleterious effects of congenital disease in #zebrafish embryos. 🧪 buff.ly/jhUAiBu

How do essential research infrastructures survive when the financial support and intangible rewards of research are still disproportionally tied to traditional journal publishing? 🧪 blog.datadryad.org/2026/10/20/t... #opendata #openaccess #openaccessweek #OAweek #openscience #scholcomm

blog.datadryad.orgNow hiring: Data Curator (full-time, remote, India) | Dryad newsDryad is recruiting a full-time Data Curator to join our growing India-based team and help drive and maintain the highest standards for research data curation and data publication.

We're hiring a full-time Data Curator to join our growing India-based team and help drive and maintain the highest standards for #opendata publication blog.datadryad.org/2026/10/21/d... #scholcomm #jobs #jobopportunities #openscience #openaccess

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Issue 67 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ Building R Packages for Maintaining Data @digiresacademy.bsky.social ➡️ What is Missing Data? @icpsr.bsky.social ➡️ Laying a Foundation for Meaningful Data Sharing @datadryad.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

rdmweekly.substack.comRDM Weekly - Issue 067A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

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We have published our new research data policy today. This UKRI-wide policy updates and harmonises our expectations for responsibly managing and sharing research data so it is findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) and as open as possible, and as closed as necessary. Read more ⬇️

ukri.orgUKRI publishes new research data policyUK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has today published its new research data policy.

Invest in Open Infrastructure

The 2026 State of Open Infrastructure Report is here. Among the findings: 1) Infrastructure is key to supporting #researchintegrity 2) Supporting infrastructure supports reproducibility & trust FULL REPORT by @investinopen.bsky.social ⤵️ bit.ly/3U1VJ42 #scholcomm #openaccess #opendata #openscience

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IOI's 2026 State of Open Infrastructure report is out! We analyzed $663M in grant funding over 25 years. Only 29% went directly to open infrastructures, & just 10% to maintenance. Funding is concentrated among a handful of funders, leaving single points of failure investinopen.org/state-of-ope...

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BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

Just how much research data has been published on Dryad? Dryad is home to 71,000+ data publications made up of >66 million files from 299,907 researchers from around the world... All freely available to access, share, reanalyze, and ruse. 🧪 #opendata #openaccess #openscience #datasharing

Catch up with us at #RDA27! Dryad Executive Director Jennifer Gibson will attend the conference Oct. 6-8 in London. 🧪 #opendata #FAIRdata #datasharing #scholcomm

The key to successful #datasharing? Preparation. “The main effort was not uploading the files themselves, but organizing and documenting the data so that someone outside our group could understand what each file represented,” said researcher Pradip K. Bera bit.ly/4z1arqX #openaccess #opendata

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The Duntulm sauropod tracksite & environmental partitioning in Middle Jurassic dinosaurs on the Isle of Skye, Scotland onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology @datadryad.bsky.social

NEW: "Data from: Regulative synthesis of capsular polysaccharides in the pathogenesis of Streptococcus suis" 📊DATASET: datadryad.org/dataset/doi:... 🔎ARTICLE IN @elife.bsky.social: elifesciences.org/articles/101... #biology #opendata #virolgoy #microbiology #openscience #openresearch

blog.datadryad.orgLaying a foundation for meaningful data sharing | Dryad newsFor Dr. Pradip K. Bera organization and planning are both the major challenge and the key to effective data sharing.

22 Sept

For Dr. Pradip K. Bera organization and planning are both the major challenge and the key to effective data sharing. 🧪 READ MORE ⤵️ blog.datadryad.org/2026/09/22/l... #opendata #openscience #physics #mechanicalengineering

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22 Sept

Issue 63 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ @datadryad.bsky.social Gives Researchers due CRediT ➡️ Shared Research Materials in Psychology are Widely Downloaded but Often Difficult to Reuse @dsquintana.bsky.social ➡️ Intro to Vibe Coding in R & RStudio and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

rdmweekly.substack.comRDM Weekly - Issue 063A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

bit.lyA new diminutive temnospondyl from the Carboniferous-Permian boundary of Germany | Journal of Paleontology | Cambridge CoreA new diminutive temnospondyl from the Carboniferous-Permian boundary of Germany - Volume 100 Issue 2

18 Sept

NEW species alert: "Morphological character matrix of Melanerpeton kuselense," new species of dissorophoid temnospondyl 🧪 Dryad dataset: bit.ly/4yGigSF Article in Journal of Paleontology: bit.ly/3Vighph #opendata #fossil #fossilfriday #paleontology @paleosoc.bsky.social

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18 Sept

Re-interpretation of oral anatomy of Silurian heterostracan Athenaegis chattertoni from Northwest Territories, Canada onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #FossilFriday @agneselanzetti.bsky.social @palaeostephan.bsky.social @euphanerops.bsky.social @lisaschnetz.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social

16 Sept

Dryad's quarterly dataset highlights come out this month. Here's a sneak peak at some of what's included...👀 "Data from: Random heteropolymers as enzyme mimics" 🧪 Data on Dryad: bit.ly/4rhDzaL Article in @nature.com: bit.ly/4yJH7Ft #Materialscience #engineering #opendata #datasharing #chemistry

15 Sept

✅ CRediT where credit is due... Beginning this September, Dryad adopted a subset of CRediT to better define author contributions to the datasets we publish. 🧪 blog.datadryad.org/2026/09/15/d... #openaccess #openscience #openresearch @nisoinfo.bsky.social

10 Sept

It's #Ento26 and we're featuring data published through our partnership with @royentsoc.bsky.social Today, thats... "Data from: Defecation in preparation for ecdysis drives microplastic clearance in cricket nymphs" 🧪 🔹Dryad Dataset: bit.ly/3UL9c0n 🧵⤵️

bit.lyDefecation in preparation for ecdysis drives microplastic clearance in cricket nymphsIn preparation for ecdysis, cricket nymphs cease feeding and gradually clear their gut contents via frass production, which removes most ingested MPs from their digestive tract. Following exoskeleta...

10 Sept

🔹@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🔹Article in "Physiological Entomology": bit.ly/4A2xyTm 🧪 #openscience #openresearch #opendata #entomology #biology #crickets

bit.lyA phylogeny of the aquatic moth subfamily Acentropinae (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)We created a strongly supported evolutionary tree of the aquatic moths, Acentropinae, using 360 genes. We found that Acentropinae is comprised of two tribes, Argyractini and Acentropini, with Nymphu.....

9 Sept

It's #Ento26 and we're featuring datasets published through our partnership with @royentsoc.bsky.social, starting with... "Data from: A phylogeny of the aquatic moth subfamily Acentropinae" 🧪 #Dataset on Dryad: bit.ly/4ytPYe9 Article in "Systematic Entomology" bit.ly/4xkg4z7 #entomology

8 Sept

Did you know the Royal Entomological Society sponsors Dryad data publication for RES journal authors? 🧪 Start your data submission ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ datadryad.org/sessions/cho... #Ento26 #entomology #scholcomm #openscience #openresearch #opendata #datasharing #biology @royentsoc.bsky.social

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28 Aug

Is Coccodontoidea valid? Systematic placement of the armoured Lebanese pycnodonts within Pycnodontiformes & utility of homoplasy in resolving relationships using cladistic principles onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday @datadryad.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

bit.lyDryad releases 2025 annual report: Enhanced service, robust partnerships, and rising data publications | Dryad newsIn July Dryad released its annual report for the 2024/2025 fiscal year. It was in many ways a watershed year for the organization. The fiscal year ending in June 2025 saw Dryad’s evolution into a serv...

26 Aug

In July Dryad released its annual report for the 2024/2025 fiscal year. Among the updates: enhanced service, a new business model, and a rise in data submissions. 🧪 READ MORE ➡️ bit.ly/3SpFWLP #opendata #dataavailability #openscience #openresearch #datasharing #openresearch

21 Aug

"Data and code from: The genus Coryphodon in Europe: Contribution of the new exceptional material from Le Quesnoy (northern France, early Eocene, MP7)" 🧪 🔍 Explore the dataset: bit.ly/4gHTQCa 📖 Read the article @thepalass.bsky.social : bit.ly/4qz7Cuq #Paleontology #fossil #fossilfriday

metadatagamechangers.comA Decade of FAIR Metadata — Metadata Game ChangersIt has been a decade since the creation of the FAIR Principles and DataCite Metadata Schema Version 4. Which repositories have improved their metadata to address the FAIR Principles during this decade...

19 Aug

Researchers Ted Habermann and Erin Robinson are taking a closer look at how public data measures up to #FAIRdata standards. Dryad had some of the most complete metadata of the 595 repositories sampled, and was the only major generalist repository in the top 25. 🧪 bit.ly/4xTWGKj #opendata

14 Aug

"Data from: Divergent feeding biomechanics in Late Cretaceous marine reptiles from the Western Interior Seaway" 🧪 📊 Dataset: datadryad.org/dataset/doi:... 📖 Article in Paleontology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #fossil #fossilfriday #paleontology #biology #cretaceous

medium.comListening, Learning, Evolving: Four Years of GREI Community EngagementOver the past four years, GREI has prioritized listening to its community to guide and strengthen its work. Through community feedback…

11 Aug

"Data and code from: Blood-derived dietary protein promotes sleep in the mosquito Aedes aegypti" 🧪 🔎 Dataset: datadryad.org/dataset/doi:... 📖 Article in eLife: doi.org/10.7554/elif... @elife.bsky.social #biology #mosquito #sleep @tamu.bsky.social

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30 July

📖 New blog from the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI), comprised of 7 generalist repositories including OSF. Learn how community feedback has shaped GREI priorities, resources, and initiatives—helping advance solutions for data sharing, discovery, and reuse:

blog.datadryad.orgNew at Dryad: We’re recruiting a Partnership Development Manager (Remote) | Dryad newsDryad is seeking a Partnership Development Manager to expand the global community of institutions, publishing organisations and academic societies leveraging our world-class service for data publishin...

4 Aug

Passionate about open science and open data? Join the team at Dryad! We're searching for a remote Partnership Development Manager to help build our network of societies, publishers & institutions. 🧪 bit.ly/4xeizDC #publishingjobs #scholcomm #scholcomms #opendata #openscience #openaccess

30 July

Open infrastructures like Dryad have a vital role to play in upholding research standards, saving researcher time and effort, and publishing and preserving vital research outputs. Catch up with our latest work, and learn about what's coming next from Dryad. READ MORE ⤵️ bit.ly/4q7xs8F #opendata

28 July

It's day three of #ESA2026. Today, we're featuring "Data from: Spatial and temporal dynamics of a bark beetle outbreak in the Eastern European Alps" 🧪 📊 Explore the dataset on Dryad: bit.ly/45qSqFH 📖 Read in the article in "Ecosphere": bit.ly/3TsOm58 #forest #trees #agriculture #ecology

27 July

Dryad is seeking a Partnership Development Manager to expand the global community of institutions, publishing organization and academic societies. blog.datadryad.org/2026/07/27/n... #publishing #publishingjobs #scholcomm #scholcomms #opendata #openscience #openaccess #openreesarch

27 July

For day two of #ESA2026 we're featuring "Zone Matcher: A climate-based web application for deployment and assisted migration of forest trees" 🧪 📊 Dataset on Dryad: bit.ly/4hzFrZC 📖 Article in "Ecosphere": bit.ly/4fzda2O #ecology @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social #forestry #climate #climatechange

26 July

In honor of #ESA2026, we're sharing some of the datasets published on Dryad through our partnership with @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social. 🧪🌳 The first is "Wood densities for 750 species from central Panama" 📈 Dataset: bit.ly/4wkt5ct 🔎 Article: bit.ly/4h46rjX #ecology #trees #forestry

26 July

Did you know: Ecological Society of America partners with Dryad to sponsor data publication for their authors? #ESA2026 #ecology #opendata #openscience #openresearch #researchintegrity #data #datasharing @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @esajournals.bsky.social

26 July

Researchers in seven ESA journals can publish data on Dryad free-of-charge. ✔ Earth Stewardship ✔ Ecological Applications ✔ Ecological Monographs ✔ Ecology ✔ Ecosphere ✔ Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment ✔ The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America

24 July

As #ISBE2026 comes to an end, here's a little data for the trip home. 🛫 "Bees attend primarily to aversive costs, not pollen rewards, to avoid exploitation by floral mimics" 🧪🐝 📊 Data on Dryad: bit.ly/4vKVnvy 📖 Preprint on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: bit.ly/3ThBnDu #ecology #bees

23 July

Just one more day of #ISBE2026. Today we're featuring "Data from: Wind alters plant-pollinator community structure, bee foraging rate & movements between plants" 🧪 📊 Data on Dryad: bit.ly/4w4RSk1 📖 Article in @behavecol.bsky.social: bit.ly/4yCOv6c #ecology #opendata #behavioralecology

22 July

For #ISBE2026 day 3, we're sharing "Data from: A phantom decoy shifts wild Forager decisions in a natural environment" 🧪 📊 Data on Dryad: bit.ly/4yzcval 📖 Article in @behavecol.bsky.social: bit.ly/44MSuzo #ecology #opendata #openresearch #openscience #behavioralecology

21 July

For #ISBE2026 day 2, explore "Data from: Navigating danger: How environmental cues and individual traits shape breeding dispersal in the endangered common eider" 🧪 📊 Data on Dryad: bit.ly/4b0PGCj 📖 Article in @behavecol.bsky.social: bit.ly/4yuoGFr #ecology #opendata #behavioralecology

20 July

In honor of #ISBE2026 we're featuring community datasets. First is "Data from: Body condition reveals hidden correlations between co-infection and behavior in sunfish" 🧪 📊 Data: bit.ly/4psQ16R 🔍 📖 Article @behavecol.bsky.social: bit.ly/45dh4tm #ecology #opendata #openscience #behavioralecology

20 July

#ISBE2026 begins today. To celebrate the congress, we're sharing some of the latest Dryad datasets linked to society journal articles...while wishing we were in Turin too!