Dryad community update: October 2025 highlights

We’re excited to share the latest advances in Dryad data curation, publication, and preservation with you.

  • Discover what’s in a README — the simple but powerful metadata tool that helps make reuse possible.

  • Share data sooner with bioRxiv and Dryad! Beginning in September, a new integration lets authors upload datasets to Dryad as part of the preprint-posting workflow — helping to make open science best practice simple.

  • Dryad Senior Data Curator Molly Hirst was recently interviewed by the Data Curation Network. Get to know Molly!

Sustaining Open Data Infrastructure

Hear Dryad Executive Director Jennifer Gibson and Karl Benedict, recently retired from the University of New Mexico, one of Dryad’s long-time partner organizations, discuss Dryad’s community-driven approach to sustaining Open Data infrastructure with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). Watch now!

Feedback and questions are always welcome, to hello@datadryad.org

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