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Three topics jumped out in Open Science news this week: open peer review, calls for conference posters, and FORCE2015 meeting summaries.

Open Review

• A new version of the Open Science Peer Review Oath is now up. Based on reviewers’ and commenters’ feedback, the new version is much more succinct.
• Related: Daniel Katz blogged about open peer review, and the Open Peer Review Oath article.
• What would happen if grant reviews were made public? Chris Woolston summarizes for Nature News.
• In his Reddit Science AMA, Michael Eisen touched upon his ideal peer review method. While he leaves anonymity as option, he clearly favours post-publication peer review.

Call for open science-themed abstracts for upcoming meetings

• The ISMB ECCB 2015 meeting has a new category for posters: Open Science and Citizen Science. They’re now open for submission.
• The 15th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business also has a category about Open Science, and is open for submission.

FORCE2015 summaries

• Summary of the FORCE2015 meeting by Danny Kingsley
• Winning FORCE2015 poster by Utrecht University librarians Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Bosman is on Figshare. They also blogged about the meeting (in Dutch).
• The image below is part of FORCE2015 livescribing wall, by Jongens van de Tekeningen, showing a few of the talks, including Rebecca Lawrence’s talk about our living figures, which won second prize in the Vision talks section. You can find Rebecca’s slides on F1000 Posters.