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What was new in open science this week?

• CGIAR is running a competition “to find new, enticing and innovative online ways to present CGIAR research facts, figures and open data sources”.
• After the Open Source Pharma conference, attendees launched a Thunderclap to draw more attention to the need for open source drug development.
• The CASRAI Peer Review Services Working Group would like your feedback on their recommendations to include peer review reports as scientific output in ORCID. (In other words: this is a step toward formal recognition of peer review as academic output.)
• After last week’s letter to AAAS, a (partially overlapping) group of researchers has now also sent a letter to SfN to ask for more openness in their new open access journal.
• The deadline for proposals for MozFest is extended by one week, to August 29. There’s still time to get a proposal in!
• Leslie Chan has uploaded his slides on a recent talk called What is Open Science and what role does it play in Development? Embedded below.