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Daniel Evanko

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Director of Journal Operations at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). Opinions my own.

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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The estimate that 10% of cancer papers could be from paper mills is somewhat shocking, but less so when country of origin and rate of increase in paper output by country relative to global output is taken into account. Nice to see AACR journals with the lowest percentage of suspect papers.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The new COPE guidelines on retraction that lists “undisclosed involvement of AI” as a form of misrepresentation that could cause a loss of confidence in the work that justifies retraction will almost certainly act as an incentive to disclose.
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Certainly from some authors.
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I don’t think the requirements will change much in the near future but I expect some efforts to confirm the validity of the AI-use disclosures.
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Nice to see this article in Science about our work at AACR.
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I was surprised to see that a firm claims to have essentially solved the issue of detecting when there‘s LLM-generated text in content. But researchers at Pangram Labs say they have, claiming false-positive rates of 1 in 10,000. www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com | @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social
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AI tool detects LLM-generated text in research papers and peer reviews
Authors and peer reviewers are failing to disclose the use of LLMs despite journal policies limiting their use.
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Pangram does retrain regularly. It seems that usually there is little change between model releases, but sometimes there is a substantial change in a model’s output that makes the retraining critically important.
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Society for Scholarly Publishing @scholarlypub.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Guest Post – Code Plagiarism and AI Create New Challenges for Publishing Integrity - The Scholarly Kitchen
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Guest Post – Code Plagiarism and AI Create New Challenges for Publishing Integrity - The Scholarly Kitchen
This post explores author, reviewer, and publisher ethics and responsibilities related to the use of AI in coding and publishing research software.
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Yes but writing is not the rate limiting step, completing a publishable research study is. The writing can be completed in under a week w/o AI. The study takes months and often years. So speeding up the writing will not increase the load on reviewers as long as journals filter out the junk first.
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Interesting, but your premise appears to ignore the time required to actually do the research, what the underlying cause(s) of the recent increase in submissions is, or whether ethical use of AI could aid editorial/peer review more than it aids creation of legitimate research outputs.
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The Economist @economist.com · 18/07/2025
Because cancer is not one illness, but a whole category, much of the progress in fighting it has come not from big breakthroughs, but thousands of smaller advances
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The world is winning the war on cancer
Progress has been remarkable. Death rates are down substantially, and are likely to fall further
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Looking forward to presenting this work at #PRC10. Use of genAI by authors and reviewers is increasing rapidly and the ability to measure it with high sensitivity and a false positive rate <0.1% is invaluable for tracking usage.
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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) @theaacr.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Today, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) called on Congress to reject the Administration's nearly 40% cut to the NIH budget and allocate a bipartisan funding increase to $51.3 billion for the agency to accelerate progress for patients. www.aacr.org/about-the-aa...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Overall, cancer cases and deaths in the US are continuing a slow decline acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Who’s with me? #PeerReview ensures the integrity of scientific knowledge. Science isn’t social media, and it’s dangerous to treat it as such. For this reason, I believe preprints serve an anti-science agenda & threaten our fields. Check out my editorial in @ScholarlyKitchen.bsky.social. 🧪 #SciPub
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Guest Post:  Preprints Serve the Anti-science Agenda – This Is Why We Need Peer Review - The Scholarly Kitchen
Science is built on a foundation of rigor and credibility. Preprints are adding to the crumbling of that foundation, which is already under attack by anti-science political agendas.
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Charlie Brown @crankey1.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
LEAKED: Heard Island tariff response strategy meeting! #auspol #heardisland
Let's hit em and hit em where it hurts boys, now get out there and do your worst
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The Economist @economist.com · 03/04/2025
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/t... via
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Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump
Cancer research has had bipartisan support. But Trump administration budget cuts and delays threaten to reverse progress of recent years, experts say.
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"The [...] administration’s threat to dramatically reduce or delay funding for the NIH [...] represents a crushing blow not only to the development of future #cancer therapies, but to all of medical research. Without previous funding, I would not be alive today." www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...
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Sacramento doctor: If not for NIH funding, I wouldn’t have survived my leukemia diagnosis | Opinion
“My survival is based on research. With limited NIH funding, I fear that my life, and the lives of others, will be left without hope.”
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is looking to fill a new publications position of Editorial Ethics Manager to oversee #ResearchIntegrity and #ImageForensics cases related to #CancerResearch manuscripts and articles at our ten journals. careers-aacr.icims.com/jobs/1702/ed...
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Career Opportunities | AACR | About Us
The AACR offers a unique opportunity for the qualified individual to make a difference in cancer research by becoming part of its committed staff..
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.
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A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Meet Gracie Himes, age 20. Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines. On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
You are correct that the current policies at virtually all journals regarding immediate public access of the author manuscript through green OA don’t satisfy upcoming US funder requirements. The embargo period will need to be eliminated, but I doubt any will do so until required.
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
None of the public access plans released by US funding agencies in response to the Nelson memo require gold open access, only immediate public access. So this requirement was not expected to negatively impact societies in a substantial way.
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
MBoC announced in December that it doubled submissions from members. www.ascb.org/society-news...
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More members are publishing with MBoC, ASCB's flagship journal  - ASCB
Dear ASCB Community,   Since the introduction of guaranteed peer review as an ASCB member benefit in early 2024, submissions to Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) from ASCB members have doubled! Thi...
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Jan Aerts @janaerts.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
If you're a biologist interested in data visualisation, check out the vizbi conference www.linkedin.com/events/vizbi... #omics
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VIZBI 2025: 15th international meeting on Visualising Biological Data | LinkedIn
VISUALIZING BIOLOGICAL DATA. Join us 8-11 April online or in-person at the University of Cambridge for VIZBI 2025, the 15th international meeting on Visualising Biological Data. Pre-register now at ht...
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Very happy to see AACR's new guaranteed peer review benefit to reward reviewers highlighted in today's "the Brief" @brieferyet.bsky.social. They incorrectly state that Cancer Discovery "is seemingly excluded from the offer." We will add a table to clarify journal-specific details.
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David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Yikes! Peer review is critical for the integrity of our science, and outside experts are always needed to vet new grant proposals. By moving this all in-house at NIH, we lose scientific independence & make it easy for the government to determine what research should be funded. 🧪 #PeerReview
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NIH centralizes peer review to improve efficiency and strengthen integrity
The proposed approach is expected to save more than $65 million annually.
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This claim sounded absurd to me so I checked our 2024 reviewer activity. 25.1% of reviewers provided 50% of reviews to our 10 journals last year. This counts initial reviews only, not re-reviews. I'd really like to see where this writer got this 'fact'. A >2-fold diff shouldn't be normal variation.
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Federal judge blocks change in NIH indirect cost recovering rates, saying it would jeopardize public health. Read about it here: www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. judge blocks NIH’s plan to slash overhead cost payments
Injunction allows universities to keep receiving billions to recover costs of supporting federal research on campus
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
AACR journals launch Guaranteed Peer Review. This new benefit for reviewers who are AACR members allows them to bypass editorial desk rejection and go straight to peer review. Over 700 reviewers from 2024 were notified of their eligibility. #PeerReview #SciPub #AACR aacrjournals.org/pages/guaran...
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Guaranteed Peer Review | American Association for Cancer Research
Guaranteed Peer Review | American Association for Cancer Research #flexframe { display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: space-between; align-items: stret...
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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) @theaacr.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The AACR is deeply concerned that the Administration’s recent actions are threatening NIH and its mission to accelerate progress for patients with cancer and other diseases that afflict millions of Americans. Read our statement: buff.ly/4gRXNB8
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
NIH staff told they can submit papers to journals but not preprints. "a short pause to allow the new team to set up a process for review and prioritization" <- review by whom...? www.science.org/content/arti... ht @philipncohen.com 1/2
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NIH memo addresses ‘confusion’ about restrictions imposed by Trump, easing some concerns
Memo from acting director to staff allows some purchasing, and suggests travel and study sections could soon resume
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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Exactly. I've said this countless times re: responding to reviewers. t.co/IX2doZkNbR
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
But I guess journals that want to accept and publish the initial submitted version of the manuscript without any revisions would require that it be provided in the format they need for typesetting/layout.
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I doubt most journals require this for the version going to reviewers anymore. Many encourage authors to submit a file formatted to facilitate review. For later versions, a doc without figures is often required for processing purposes. A system-generated pdf then has the figures at the end.
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
4 Weeks Until Abstract Submission Deadline! PRC10 abstracts are due January 31. To submit your work and learn more, visit peerreviewcongress.org #peerreview #science #scientificpublication #researchethics #AIinMedicine @jama.com @bmj.com @nejm.org @thelancet.bsky.social
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International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication
Enhancing the quality and credibility of science.
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Good, but scary, update on recent GenAI advances by @emollick.bsky.social. PhD-level expertise now required to evaluate accuracy of some outputs. Nice point about using GenAI to introduce novel approaches for humans to investigate properly. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...
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What just happened
A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Fake or flawed studies are polluting systematic reviews in medicine and other fields - but how do you spot them? For Nature, I report on efforts to create a short checklist of red flags, and on the automated integrity tools emerging to help. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Giant study finds untrustworthy trials pollute gold-standard medical reviews
Two-year collaboration aims to create tools to help counter the tide of flawed research.
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I do have to say I was really impressed with how quickly and efficiently my requests for fixes to ROR records were handled. The quality of ROR has improved remarkably since it launched. Great work.
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Figured somebody must have added me to a starter pack when I received a sudden influx of followers today. Thanks for helping us find one another.
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The PRC10 abstract submission site is now open! Abstracts that report new research & findings w generalizable results that can improve scientific research will be given priority. Submit by Jan 31, 2025 at abstracts.peerreviewcongress.org Learn more at peerreviewcongress.org @jama.com @bmj.com
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International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication
Enhancing the quality and credibility of science.
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Lenny Teytelman @lteytelman.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A summary of the major developments and improvements on @protocolsio.bsky.social this year: youtu.be/xeDDwrdLsBw?....
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End-of-year message from Lenny Teytelman
YouTube video by protocolsio
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RRIDs.org @rrids.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Exciting #RRID news! We are now part of the #DataCite metadata schema. Yes you can use RRIDs to start tracking the datasets (#DOI) associated with your database (#RRID).
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DataCite Metadata Schema 4.6 includes RRIDs! — Research Resource Identifier
The DataCite Metadata Working Group. (2024) just released the new version of the DataCite Metadata and one of the things that it includes is RRIDs. DataCite Metadata Schema Documentation for the Pu...
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Tips for properly handling **tabular data** MUST READ for 🧪+ 📊 & kind of which my past self would have had this 😢 Part of the "Simple Rules" in @plos.bsky.social computational biology: PLoS Comput Biol 20(11): e1012604. doi.org/10.1371/jour... by Hertz MI, McNeill AS.
Above: hallmarks of well managed tabular data; Below, a negative examples. Contains examples how data should be presented in tables/dataframes to be fully reproducible and legible.
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Fake papers poisoning systematic reviews, genAI compromising Wikipedia. Is this an inevitable consequence of our move toward “town square”/“commons” approaches to authoritative information when it becomes too easy to appear to provide quality contributions? arxiv.org/html/2410.08...
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The Rise of AI-Generated Content in Wikipedia
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Jennifer Byrne @jabyrnesci.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
🧪The PRIMeR group is offering a research scholarship on metaresearch/ publication integrity. Applicants must be eligible to enrol as a domestic student at the University of Sydney (no international applicants, sorry) Applications close on 19 December 2024 Details: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
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Research Scholarship in Literature Reviews in Molecular Cancer Research
Up to $127,320 research scholarship for a PhD student to investigate problematic literature reviews in molecular cancer research.
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Daniel Evanko @evanko.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The biggest unanticipated effect was how much putting an explicit monetary cost on slow handling of papers encouraged staff to really work hard with all involved parties to overcome delays. This works wonders at a mission-driven nonprofit.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
V good @rickanderson.bsky.social on Clarivate, e-Life, & disruption for disruption's sake. "Because obviously, there’s no such thing as “change” in the abstract....only specific changes to specific things, which may be for the better or for the worse." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/11/27/d...
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Disruption As an End in Itself: eLife’s Suspension and DORA’s Response - The Scholarly Kitchen
DORA is outraged by Clarivate's decision not to fully index eLife or assign it an IF. But why?
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