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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 5h
We matched #PaperMill publication offers for >4K unique titles/topics f/ >200 social media channels w 2,062 papers in 366 @IEEEorg conference proceedings, coauthored by >7.5K researchers from >2K institutions/companies in 56 countries www.tandfonline.com/... #AnnaAbalkina Taylor & Francis Research
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 17h
TRACE (Trusted Retrieval & Attribution for Content Ecosystems) aims to accelerate development of technical infrastructure needed to improve trustworthiness of AI systems in scholarly communication. @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social @nisoinfo.bsky.social
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
arXiv now limits submitters to up to 2 submissions per month, w a limit of 3 total active submissions at any time, to equitably distribute volunteer moderators’ time across arXiv authors and protect the corpus from a sharp increase in inappropriate submissions
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Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy
arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As machines become better at - Processing - Remembering - Acting We need to become better at - Perceiving - Learning - Questioning, remembering that representation is never the scholarship itself @ashutoshg.bsky.social @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The gold standard for science resides not in any single set of requirements but in the values, commitments, and conduct of a scientific enterprise dedicated to rigor, transparency, intellectual honesty, independent scrutiny, & cumulative learning. www.nejm.org/doi/ful... @hsph.harvard.edu NEJM.org
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Vita is the latest English-language journal launched in China in a national effort to create prestigious journals to compete w Western titles. Vita is Open Access, with costs underwritten by journal funders and no author-processing charges (APCs) www.nature.com/artic... Nature
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Chinese-owned science journal created to rival the best
Nature - Newly launched Vita is part of a broader government plan to give China a bigger say in what counts as high-quality science.
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An international constellation of suspicious academic academies and societies has sprouted up recently with the apparent goal of building a facade of legitimacy, then using the image to sell memberships & awards to early-career researchers, particularly in China Max Kozlov Nature
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Meaningful progress on improving reproducibility requires aligning validation claims w suitable methods standards, embedding it prospectively in the research lifecycle, and building validation capacity and incentive reform www.nature.com/artic... #RainuKaushal Weill Cornell Medicine Nature
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Reproducibility in biomedical research
Nature Medicine - Reproducibility is a foundational principle of trustworthy science, but reproducible research practices are not consistently implemented. This Review summarizes the current...
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
STM has issued Medical Data Sharing Guidance that publishers could consider adding or adapting to their #DataSharing policy information for medical and health science researchers when they publish in academic journals Learn more at s3.eu-west-2.amazona...
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
High-confidence MAs use prospectively reg’d protocols, independent reviewers, high-qual RCTs, w enough events for precise meaningful estimates w consistent effects + heterogeneity that's low or clinically/statistically explicable www.thelancet.com/jo... Harlan M. Krumholz The Lancet
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The #NIH and #NLM have unveiled a new tool to help biomedical researchers search the scientific literature and learn whether a finding has been replicated by other groups Learn more at linkeddiscoveries.nc... and at www.science.org/cont... @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social @science.org
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
High-confidence MAs use prospectively reg’d protocols, independent reviewers, high-qual RCTs, w enough events for precise meaningful estimates w consistent effects + heterogeneity that's low or clinically/statistically explicable www.thelancet.com/jo... Harlan M. Krumholz The Lancet
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Science progresses not only by confirming what we already know, but by recognizing what we have not yet learned to expect. #PeerReview should be designed to protect that possibility @peerreviewweek.bsky.social @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In July, the prediction market platform #Kalshi and data company #AppliedXL began a pilot market listing binary yes/no contracts on whether named late-stage RCTs meet their preregistered primary end points. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @akesselheim.bsky.social @science.org
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Ban bets on unfinished clinical trials
In July, the prediction market platform Kalshi and data company AppliedXL began a pilot market listing binary, yes-or-no contracts on whether named late-stage clinical trials meet their preregistered ...
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#PeerReview should evaluate not if a paper is the final word but what it establishes, what is uncertain, & whether its reasoning & evidence are sound, transparent, & defensible enough to support further examination @ashutoshg.bsky.social @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social @peerreviewweek.bsky.social
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#Paper2Agent can now transform static research papers into an active AI agent — a virtual corresponding author that answers questions, applies the paper’s methods to new data, collaborates with other paper agents, making reproducibility easier to assess www.nature.com/artic... Nature
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Turning scientific research papers into interactive AI agents
Nature - A virtual corresponding author prompted in natural language can explain and reproduce a paper’s analyses.
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#Paper2Agent is an automated framework that converts research papers into AI agents in a process that encapsulates a paper’s key contributions through an MCP server, then links the server to LLM-based agents for natural language querying and autonomous execution. www.nature.com/artic... Nature
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Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents
Nature - Paper2Agent converts research papers into interactive artificial intelligence agents by turning manuscripts, code and data into model context protocol-based tool-invoking systems that...
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
On @prereview.bsky.social, anyone w an ORCID id can #PeerReview #preprints across >30 preprint servers & a number of data repositories per @neurosarda.bsky.social & @alicemeadows.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/09/16/k... @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social cc: @peerreviewweek.bsky.social
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PREreview: Open preprint reviews. For all researchers.
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
To ensure we’re protecting the time and service of editors & reviewers, we need a system to ease the tension b/ volume, speed, & quality in a way that protects editorial judgment & preserves research integrity. @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social @silverchairnews.bsky.social @peerreviewweek.bsky.social
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Per @alicemeadows.bsky.social: We don’t talk enough about the ethos of #PeerReview, why it’s a critical part of being a scholar/scientist — conversations about capacity likewise overlook its impact. importance as a form of community service @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social @peerreviewweek.bsky.social
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@cos.io's #OSF will no longer accept new code, data after 16 Nov. Available files will remain but users will no longer be able to upload new materials, and all existing private files will be made public after the change www.nature.com/artic... Dalmeet Singh Chawla Nature Brian Nosek
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Popular open-science platform to stop hosting data and code amid funding concerns
Nature - Changes to the Open Science Framework’s policies will come into effect in November, forcing researchers to reconsider their workflows.
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
NEJM AI is piloting a “fast track” accept-or-reject decision w/in 7 d based on AI analysis + human review. An editor performs full human review, then other editors debate the human + AI reviews to decide on publication www.science.org/cont... Jeffrey Brainard @science.org
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Taylor & Francis Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Our next webinar takes place in just a few weeks, and you're invited to attend! 🧑‍💻 💡 Open research and the future of publishing 📆 Weds, 16 September 2026 📍 Online, 7am & 4pm BST Register for free here: spr.ly/6003B1aroZ
Live webinar: "Open research & the future of publishing" with Matt Cannon, Associate Director of Open Science Programmes at Taylor & Francis. Headshot of smiling man. Wed 16th Sept 2026, 7am BST & 4pm BST. Green-blue background. You're invited.
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Sessions will explore topics such as translating industry principles into policy + advocacy; navigating the evolving role of editorial judgment in an increasingly AI-enabled environment; preserving publication quality and research integrity @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social @scholarlypub.bsky.social
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 04/09/2026
"People with relevant competing interests, particularly financial ones, should not be members of clinical or public policy guideline committees." @kamranabbasi.bsky.social on why the notion that transparency alone is enough hasn’t stood the test of time
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The £50m case for eliminating financial interests from clinical guidelines
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The true measure of a successful pragmatic RCT is the extent to which it gives decision-makers—evidence they can use to decide whether and how to adopt an intervention across the diverse, imperfect contexts in which real-world care occurs. jamanetwork.com/jour... Alison Huang, MD JAMA
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Even the best AI detection tools do not distinguish well between AI-generated and AI-enhanced content @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Lancet’s new guidance encourages researchers to consider disability throughout the research process in all studies, & encourages authors to include people with disabilities in all stages of research, including disability-disaggregated analyses where appropriate www.thelancet.com/jo...
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The decade of work behind persistent identifiers, structured metadata, and shared vocabularies was, whether we envisioned it as such or not, preparation for non-human readers scholarlykitchen.ssp... Chris Reid The Scholarly Kitchen
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Guest Post — Your Next Reader Is a Machine, and We Are Ready - The Scholarly Kitchen
Machine readers replacing human readers can sound like a threat. Today's post argues that our community is well prepared to face these challenges and seize the opportunities.
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Social media promised to be a democratic upgrade—faster, broader, more interactive. AI-generated threads about medicine risk becoming the new passive lecture: authoritative in tone, effortless in production, shallow in substance. www.acpjournals.org/... UTSWIM @annalsofim.bsky.social
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Taxpayer-funded research must be freely available while protecting the role of publishers and allowing scientists to focus on high-quality science vs navigating differences between federal requirements & publisher expectations. jamanetwork.com/jour... Cary Gross @jamainternalmed.com
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In a study of NIH-funded grants and associated published studies in FYs 2022-25, the maximum total additional annual cost to comply w the 2025 NIH public access policy was estimated at $104.1M. jamanetwork.com/jour... Ryan Coute @jamainternalmed.com
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Confusion b/ public vs open access has created an opening for publishers w hybrid-model journals to charge readers to read and NIH-funded authors to deposit to PMC for public access compliance (pay-to-comply models) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @adammarkovitz.bsky.social @jamainternalmed.com
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Public Access, Open Access, and the Need for NIH Governance
This Viewpoint discusses the confusion between public access and open access, pay-to-comply publisher practices, and the steps that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) must take to fill this gap a...
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 21/08/2026
"We estimate that $15.08 billion (in 2025 USD) was spent globally on APCs between 2019 and 2025. Adjusted for inflation, annual spending quadrupled from $0.9 billion in 2019 to $3.7 billion in 2025, with >85% concentrated among a few large publishers."
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Estimating global article processing charges paid to 14 publishers for open access between 2019 and 2025
This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to 14 publishers for open access (OA) between 2019 and 2025. APCs are charged for publishing in fully ...
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A study id’d 2,062 papers in 366 #IEEE conference proceedings (23.5% of a conference’s papers) co-authored by >7500 researchers from >4K affiliations in 56 countries whose titles had been offered for sale on social media arxiv.org/abs/2604.2... #papermills Anna Abalkina arXiv
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Opening Pandora's box: Paper mills in conference proceedings
Paper mills are a growing threat to the integrity of science, yet their penetration in conference proceedings remains underexplored despite conferences being more important than journals in some...
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Randomized quality improvement (RQI) trials - pragmatic RCTs in health systems to see if a QI intervention increases std of care - require ethical oversight even if they’re not “research”, and monitoring to help decide when they should end www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... @annalsofim.bsky.social
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Randomized Quality Improvement Trials: An Overview and Proposed Framework for Ethical Oversight | Annals of Internal Medicine
Quality improvement (QI) is a routine part of health care delivery, but ineffective QI can have unintended consequences, waste resources, and paradoxically worsen health care quality. Randomized QI (R...
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Errors now propagate through knowledge systems faster than corrections can follow, increasingly through "synthetic consensus", where a claim's perceived credibility arises from repetition, aggregation, and recursive reproduction vs from independent empirical validation. @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
AI fact-checking tools remain unreliable arbiters of the scientific corpus. They make mistakes like humans do, which is why the quality of AI fact checkers must be processed manually with human oversight. www.nature.com/articles/d41... @stokel.bsky.social @nature.com
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AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors
The technology is proving adept at finding faults in decades-old papers and reference databases.
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Starting 2022 @snsf.ch stopped treating grant #PeerReview rankings as exact. Instead, a model id'd closely ranked proposals and sent them to a lottery. For proposals near the funding threshold, a financed project vs a rejected one were divided by chance www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com
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When the best decision is no decision: the rise of randomization in grant funding
If reviewers can’t reliably tell the difference between top grant proposals, why should they pretend they can? A new wave of funders is turning to lotteries to break the tie.
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
OSF is Changing! Starting Nov 16, 2026, no new projects or child components of existing projects can be created on OSF After Feb 19, 2027, all public and private OSF projects will become read-only Learn more at www.cos.io/osf-changes @cos.io @briannosek.bsky.social
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OSF Changes | Center for Open Science
We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Cognitive Responsibility Framework offers a practical vocabulary for deciding where AI can extend human cognition and where human responsibility must remain primary within the work and workflows of scholarly publishing. @ashutoshg.bsky.social @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
In the latest episode of @FNLM In Focus, former JAMA editor-in-chief George lundberg discusses the journal's history, the evolving role of #PeerReview, and how #AI is shaping the future of scientific publishing. Listen to Episode 4 at www.fnlm.org/podcasts !
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The PRC Alliance exists to standardize, promote Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) #PeerReview workflows across platforms. The model still lacks empirical evidence, best practice guidance scholarlykitchen.ssp... The Scholarly Kitchen @coar-repositories.bsky.social ASAPbio
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Guest Post - Do we need (r)evolution in peer review? - The Scholarly Kitchen
Whether peer review needs revolution or evolution may be the wrong question. The more pressing one is whether the academic community is prepared to let scientific ideas be published, contested, and refined in public, rather than behind closed doors.
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
'How the Internet Disrupted Science' tracks initiatives to disrupt science publishing in journals. It makes a broad (biased) argument to return to more tightly controlled, publisher-led models of communication and a rollback of open science initiatives. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org
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Change comes for science publishing paradigms
A pair of insiders cast recent efforts to increase access to research as problems, not progress
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Non-Western author names are often reordered to fit standard publishing conventions. What once seemed a niche indexing inconvenience is becoming a structural issue in global science www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com @imperial-pigeon.bsky.social
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James Bond, not Bond James: why scientific publishing must respect name order
Databases and submission systems are often inflexible. Can’t publishers do more on author names?
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Nature @nature.com · 03/08/2026
Review mills are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle? go.nature.com/4wIPjVW
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‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review wars
Review mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle?
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Between 2015-24, the mean annual growth rate of RCTs in China reached 21%; by '24, the # of investigator-initiated trials (an indicator of China’s clinical research capabilities) reached 6,423, 3x that of industry-sponsored trials nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com
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Growth in clinical research capability in China and impact on the pharmaceutical sector
Discover the world’s best science and medicine | Nature.com
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Three tips to avoid #AI image mistakes in science: 1. Check publishers’ rules 2. Don’t manipulate original data 3. Take responsibility www.nature.com/articles/d41... @sarahemilywild.bsky.social @nature.com @springernature.com
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Three tips to avoid AI image mistakes in science
Artificial-intelligence tools can be useful for brainstorming and creating graphics, but they can introduce errors. If you’re going to use them, here’s how to avoid problems.
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International Science Council (ISC) @sciencecouncil.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#CallForInput: 2nd round of consultation on a global reporting standard on AI disclosure. Deadline: 16 October 2026. council.science/our-work/ai-disclos…
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ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Preprint Services Directory is one of the most frequently used ASAPbio resources. We want to further improve it for users! Learn about the planned changes and voice your opinion! More in the blog post👇️
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Proposed Updates To Preprint Services Directory: Request For Comments – ASAPbio
ASAPbio is planning a refresh of its Preprint Services Directory (https://asapbio.org/preprint-servers/). Since 2020, ASAPbio has maintained the directory on
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