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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🧠 Happening TODAY (17:00 CEST): Our CSO, Prof. Oded Rechavi, speaks at the joint @sfn.org - @fens.org webinar, discussing the ethical questions surrounding AI, its impact on scientific publishing, and how it may shape the future direction of neuroscience research. To register: buff.ly/sDZ00Gz

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Join the webinar on Neuronline “AI and the Making of Neuroscientific Knowledge” - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies

Registration is open for the FENS Committee on Higher Education and Training (CHET) and SfN Neuroscience Training Committee (NTC) webinar, “AI and the Making of Neuroscientific Knowledge”…

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

New @science.org feature: About a quarter of AI’s criticisms are missed by human reviewers. Does that mean we should trust AI to replace human judgement? Only if it’s fit for purpose. Read how Science gets real about the current state of AI in peer review. tinyurl.com/5n6bewkv

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Can AI help solve the peer-review crisis? Here are its promises and pitfalls

Amid a shortage of human reviewers, tests indicate AI can assist—but is not a savior

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

He ran Blogger for half a billion readers a month at Google. Now Guy Ronen, QED's VP of Product, is tackling something harder: "We want to help scientists validate research and push scientific discovery forward," he told Pulse 2.0. → tinyurl.com/34suy8dh (Insights Feed launches soon 👀)

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We asked webinar attendees which AI tools they use for grant review.* 52% ChatGPT · 40% Claude · 33% QED Science · 17% Gemini. Researchers aren't picking one tool. They're building their own mix around the grant process. Full summary → tinyurl.com/3aa78jf5 *Multiple answers allowed.

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Would your proposal survive a reviewer's first read? The takeaway from last week's webinar (and more) were turned into a practical checklist: step-by-step pre-submission review and specific guidance for 2026–2027 ERC applicants. 📥 Download → bit.ly/4xYf0Sm

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"If you write your risk section as a straight line, it looks naive." Dr. Angela Andersen, Co-Founder, Life Science Editors. Every reviewer knows science is messy. Your proposal should show you know it too. Full recording here: bit.ly/4giP5Pu

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Today's webinar on grant review wrapped with a packed Q&A - the biggest themes: responsible AI use and keeping scientific judgment with the researcher. Recording + full Q&A available next week. Thank you @angelaandersen.bsky.social and Prof. Barak Rotblat 🎓 🔔 Follow to get notified.

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

900+ researchers have already registered for our webinar. Join us this Thursday. Learn how to find weaknesses in your grant, strengthen feasibility and use AI as a critical reader without treating it as the scientific authority. 📅 Aug 20 ⏰ 11 AM ET 🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/ywn6evs8

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

What if the biggest problem in peer review is what never makes it into the paper? Our CEO Niv Mastboim on failed experiments, missing controls, and incomplete evidence, and why scientific review needs a fuller picture. 🎥👇

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

What if the biggest problem in peer review is what never makes it to the paper? Our CEO Niv Mastboim on failed experiments, missing controls, and incomplete evidence, and why scientific review needs a fuller picture. 🎥👇

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Happy to see the results of our cooperation with @elife.bsky.social. In this pilot, eLife reviewers used QED’s claim-mapping technology and rated 80% of the comment-to-claim assignments as accurate. Clear evidence that structured AI and expert judgment can work together.

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Check out this recent interview of our CEO, Niv Mastboim on Nature. Special thanks to @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social for a great article.

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Nature spoke with our co-founder and CEO, Niv Mastboim about how QED Science evaluates scientific work based on originality and validity, independently of author identity, institution, or publication venue. bit.ly/4wj2Xhk

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

You've read your grant proposal so many times you can't see it anymore. That means you can’t see the unclear framing, logic gaps, or structural weaknesses that are exactly why strong science gets rejected. Join us on Aug 20 to learn how to find these weaknesses before a panel does. bit.ly/4gbtTKZ

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: How to Find Weaknesses in Your Grant Before Reviewers Do. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Submitting an ERC Advanced Grant by August 27? Get a critical second pass on your proposal while there is still time to strengthen it. In this practical live webinar, Dr. Angela Andersen, Prof. Barak...

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The closer you are to your grant proposal, the harder it can be to see what a reviewer will. Join our free webinar on August 20 to learn how to spot gaps in logic, unclear framing and unsupported claims before submission. 11 AM ET | 5 PM CEST Register: bit.ly/4gbtTKZ @angelaandersen.bsky.social

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Peer review was built for a world with fewer papers and more time. We're building for the world science has become. Grateful to The AIJournal for naming QED Science the top platform for 2026, and for recognizing that rigor and scale do not have to work against each other. bit.ly/4gzNANi

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

More than half of this year's top-scoring life science papers came from international teams. Even accounting for team size: international collaboration = 45% higher odds of hitting the top 1% (OR 1.45, p<0.001). Great science crosses borders. Read the research: bit.ly/4gxTY7K

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Most breakthrough science sits in preprints, unread. 57,455 last year alone. 574 exceptional. We found them. the-one-percent.qedscience.com

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QED — The most compelling preprints of 2025

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

An extraordinary example of the kind of original, technically powerful science The 1% was created to surface by @angelaandersen.bsky.social & her team, Congratulations! 🎉

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

12.9% of high-scoring papers ended up in lower-ranked journals. If journal rank has been our primary signal for scientific quality, what have we been missing? Read the methodology → bit.ly/4g48xQi #The1Percent #QEDScience

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🎉 Meet The 1%. Out of 57,455 bioRxiv life science preprints, QED Science selected 574 exceptional manuscripts through blind evaluation. The 1%: the-one-percent.qedscience.com Good science deserves to be seen. @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social @openrxiv.bsky.social @richardsever.bsky.social

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Tomorrow we publish the largest blind quality assessment of life science preprints ever conducted. 57,455 papers. No names. No institutions. Just the science. The 1% is coming. #The1Percent #QEDScience #Preprints

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We looked at 57,455 preprints. No names. No institutions. No reputations. Just the science❕ In 48 hours, we reveal The 1%. #The1Percent #QEDScience #Preprints

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Some scientists go all in for their work. June 24 we find out if it made a difference. 👀 Register to be the first to know: www.qedscience.com #The1Percent #QEDScience #Preprints

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A paper can be technically correct, statistically significant, and reproducible and still not generalize. In life science, the hard part is knowing what to trust. QED Science CTO Meir Maor on why life science needs a validity layer: www.qedscience.com/blog/life-sc...

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The case for a validity layer in life science research

When OpenAI recently announced that one of its models had disproved a long-standing conjecture in discrete geometry, the scientific community took notice...

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The biggest dataset in science may be the one that doesn't exist: failed experiments. Until we capture that knowledge, both scientists and AI systems are learning from a filtered version of reality. QED started from a simple idea: scientific validity and publication success are not the same thing.

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

We do not understand what we have made. "You can have a baby, you have no idea how you did it. That shares a lot of symmetries with what's going on now." @drmichaellevin.bsky.social in conversation with @odedrechavi.bsky.social Watch the full webinar → www.qedscience.com/blog/how-wil...

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Thousands of scientists use QED Science for manuscripts. We recently launched for grants. Meet our new Implementation Agent: it works directly in your document, suggests fixes, and applies changes you approve. Like track changes from a colleague. Join the waitlist now 👉 bit.ly/3Q7a8tS #GrantReview

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

AI agents can already scan the literature, analyze data, and generate hypotheses. Some predict they’ll revolutionize medicine. Others warn they’ll flood science. Tomorrow, @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and @odedrechavi.bsky.social discuss this topic. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

"Fishing expedition." "Mechanistic link unclear." "Insufficient preliminary data." "Scope overly ambitious." "Limited novelty." "Lacks meaningful departure from prior work." At some point you realize: you don't just need funding. You need a grant friend! 💙

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

AI can now read, write, and generate hypotheses. So what happens to science when machines start participating in it? @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and @odedrechavi.bsky.social discuss what AI may or may not change. Live webinar · May 28, 1:30 PM ET Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

NIH success rates are collapsing. The scariest part isn't the rejections. Bold ideas aren't disappearing. They arrive watered down. Because swinging big got too costly. Researchers aren't losing ambition. They're settling. qed for grants, so your science comes through. qedscience.com

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Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The ERC is the Champions League of research. Most don't make it through, not because science is weak, but because the system is overwhelmed. @odedrechavi.bsky.social in @timeshighered.bsky.social on what needs to change. Because your science should define your career. Not the rejection cycle! 🔁

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It doesn't have to be this way...

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Important announcement!!! 💫 Would you have a tooth pulled if it helped your chances to get an important grant funded? Absurd question, but the funding situation is so bad, that I bet some of you actually considered it for a second… keep your teeth! we created something that might help! 👇 (1/16)

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Scientists spend 100+ days a year writing grants. Almost none get funded. Not because the ideas are bad. The system is broken, and you fall in the cracks. Today we launched qed for grants: an AI reviewer that makes YOUR proposal stronger before you submit. Early access is open 🔒🩶 Link in comments

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

WOW! Couldn’t have wished for a better response! If you haven’t tried @qedscience.bsky.social yet, it works on pretty much anything you’re writing in biology and medicine.

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Michael Rera @michaelrera.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Just received my mouse(fly)pad from @qedscience.bsky.social

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DaganLab @daganlab.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

New preprint! We show that conjugation accelerates the segregation of #plasmid alleles -> horizontal transfer is a route for allele segregation in MGE evolution. Led by Lisa Hartmann, with @mariosanter.bsky.social &Nils Hülter. Naturally, reviewed by @qedscience.bsky.social! doi.org/10.64898/202...

Plasmid conjugation from a heteroplasmic donor

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Reviewers 5 months after the deadline when the editor sends urgent reminders to submit their reports

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Humanity is notorious for leaving problems for the next generations, but animals reveal the biology: C. elegans develop germline tumors if THEIR GRAND GRANDPARENTS’ cells fail to clear garbage from their body cavity… What the hell, you ask? Read our new preprint! 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

"AI is here to stay...From writing to reviewing...It is essential to engage with it [&] develop use cases that benefit the community...The clear winning option is use of AI review by authors prior to submission.” link.springer.com/article/10.1... via @tlemberger.bsky.social @odedrechavi.bsky.social

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How do authors want to use AI for review? - EMBO Reports

EMBO Reports - A survey of researchers who compared AI-generated scientific reviews with journal-agnostic human peer review reveals that they overwhelmingly prefer using AI as a self-checking tool...

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Pedro Beltrao @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This is such a great and timely survey on author's perception of peer review vs AI scientific review. A collaboration between @reviewcommons.org and @qedscience.bsky.social. The geek in me would have liked to see the distributions in the response scores ;). link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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How do authors want to use AI for review? - EMBO Reports

EMBO Reports - A survey of researchers who compared AI-generated scientific reviews with journal-agnostic human peer review reveals that they overwhelmingly prefer using AI as a self-checking tool...

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It’s finally out! Together with @embopress.org and @reviewcommons.org, we conducted a structured side-by-side comparison of human peer review and our AI scientific review (see thread 👇👇👇🔥).

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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Our joint study with EMBO is just out! We are proud to be at the forefront of this sea change. AI will reinforce the central role of scientists in this new era. Strong science should be seen! @embo.org @reviewcommons.org @tlemberger.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Jeffrey C. Erlich @jerlich.com · 17/02/2026

I just tried out Q.E.D. @qedscience.bsky.social on our recent preprint. I'm impressed. It's a little bit pedantic, but overall it identified the keys advances and limitations of the work and pointed me to some missed citations. I'm impressed!

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Just had a very nice online meet up with a bunch of hardcore users of @qedscience.bsky.social. It's amazing to have this support from the scientific community, to hear your ideas for new features & directions, and to learn how to improve based on your feedback - thank you! 🤟🍻

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