Dear Colleagues,
Data Umbrella has this upcoming webinar, which is free and open to the public.
- Title: PREreview: Transforming Peer Review with Researchers, for Communities
- Date: Thurs, Jan 29, 2026
- Time: 12pm PT / 3pm ET
- Registration options:
- Cost: Free
PREreview: Open preprint reviews. For all researchers.
This session introduces participants to PREreview, a community-driven platform designed to make peer review more open, inclusive, and equitable. We'll explore the current research publishing landscape-from preprints to common challenges in traditional peer review-and discuss why transparent, community-centered reviewing matters.
Participants will learn how PREreview connects with open-source infrastructure and platforms like ORCID and Zenodo, see a demo of how to review manuscripts and datasets, and gain practical tools from the Open Reviewers workshop to write constructive, socially-conscious reviews. We'll also share upcoming developments, ways to get involved, and how to engage through programs like PREreview Champions.
Speaker: Daniela Saderi
Daniela Saderi, Ph.D. - ORCID: 0000-0002-6109-0367 - Dr. Daniela Saderi is the Co-founder and Executive Director of PREreview, a non-profit advancing open, community-centered peer review of early research objects by supporting researchers and experts-especially early-career and historically excluded scholars.
She earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Oregon Health & Science University in 2019, studying auditory processing in mammals, and was a 2018–2019 Mozilla Fellow for Open Science. Daniela envisions a scholarly ecosystem grounded in trust, care, and collective wisdom, where knowledge flows freely as a shared inheritance rather than a commodity.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniela-saderi/
GitHub: https://github.com/dasaderi
This event will be recorded and placed on our YouTube. We usually have it up within 24 hours of the event. Subscribe to our YT to receive notifications: https://www.youtube.com/c/DataUmbrella/