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Paul Shannon

@bluerezz.bsky.social
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Head of Technology & Innovation for eLife and Sciety. Former VP Technology at 7digital, Agile Staffordshire Founding Member, Speaker, Author and Motorsport Fan (he/him)

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Paul Shannon @bluerezz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This was fun and incredibly productive. It genuinely kickstarted how we are all thinking about modular science and I made some great connections. Looking forward to meeting again next month.
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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
How to facilitate meaningful scholarly dialogue is a key challenge for the scientific publishing system going forward. Addressing this challenge needs to be accompanied by assessment reform, moving away from current practice of giving special status to peer-reviewed outputs relative to other work.
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Paul Shannon @bluerezz.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
After years of producing open-source software at eLife for our own publishing efforts and for use by the community, we've decided to showcase it all and talk more about opportunities to help in building open technology for open science, with a new website: elifetechnology.org
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eLife Technology
Powering real change in the way the research is shared and discovered. Discover how eLife Technology enhances open science with innovative technology, integrated services, and sustainable infrastructu...
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Sciety @scietyhq.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Preprint peer evaluation already happens here. In posts and in replies. But it’s disconnected from the scholarly record and how science gets credited. With support from NLnet, Sciety is working to recognise the crucial act of community curation 📝 blog.sciety.org/sciety-secur...
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Sciety secures funding from NLNet Foundation to help build discourse around preprints
At Sciety we're pioneering a new layer of open scholarly communication, one that captures informal conversations around preprints and makes them discoverable and reusable. Sciety has secured new…
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Michael Markie @mmmarksman.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Timely piece on bibliographic databases hindering publishing innovation. These databases have evolved into the defacto arbiters for evaluation and discovery and IMO have a duty to work with new publishing models and context that helps readers consume content upstream.force11.org/criteria-for...
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Criteria for Bibliographic Databases in a Well-Functioning Scholarly Communication and Research Assessment Ecosystem
Bibliographic databases should support innovation and experimentation. Here, we offer four criteria for innovation-friendly bibliographic databases. We urge the global research community to use databa...
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Sciety @scietyhq.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We're excited to share that evaluations from MetaROR, the free, open peer review platform for metaresearch by @rorinstitute.bsky.social & @aimosinc.bsky.social are now available on Sciety 🎉 👉 Follow MetaROR on Sciety to keep up-to-date with all new evaluation activity buff.ly/3Z5XWtN
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