📅 How is AI reshaping peer review? Join the AI Publishing Collective, hosted by BCS Women & BCS Publishing, for insights on efficiency, fairness, and research integrity. Speakers: Chris Leonard, Sam Parker, Leslie McIntosh. Mon, September 22, 6 - 8:30pm London 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1642733864...

Maverick’s copywriting services help scholarly publishers use the written word to reach their audience in a variety of ways. Learn more and see examples in our new blog post “Get the Message Out with Maverick’s Copywriting Services” bit.ly/3UZ3NzC

A new post for Maverick’s Insider blog provides complete details of our Interim Placement services, including examples of how we’ve solved staffing challenges for numerous publishers. Read “Solve Staffing Challenges with Interim Support” bit.ly/3JkuBb1

New issue of PubTech Radar Scan: pubtechradar.substack.com/p/pubtech-ra... Covers: Wiley’s journal migration to Research Exchange, Trusted Reviews scraping incident, IOI 2025 report on open infrastructure, call for US adoption of DOIs and ORCIDs, Crossref systems moving to the cloud...

Has anyone launched a Diamond Open Access Journal that is open for humans, but charges fees for AI re-use rights?

Initial thoughts about ChatGPT 5. There is a certain 'shock of the new', it's a bit like getting a new colleague that you need to get to know - some of the shortcuts I used/lazy prompts no longer work. It's very fast - so fast I find myself doubting the responses. Overall experience so far is 👎.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS––Got a #metadata story, case study, or insight to share? Flash talks and posters are part of our Annual Meeting and Board Election. Submit by 20 Sept. All languages welcome! https://bit.ly/Crossref2025-CFA

Tim Vines, founder of @dataseerai.bsky.social, has been thinking about the future of research publishing for some time. His latest idea, what if publishers created AI-optimized versions of research articles and sold them as premium subscriptions?

[Blogged] The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search - From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...

Enjoyed this podcast from @nikeshgo.bsky.social, interviewing Kent Anderson and Joy Moore, co-authors of How the Internet Disrupted Science. Lots I don't agree with but interesting challenges - need to read the book when it comes out. music.youtube.com/watch?v=MrF6...

Fascinating - sources that are ok/not ok to use for third-party RLHF training of Anthropic’s models. More at: www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-su...

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This is a really exciting metadata development. Collaborative stewardship and distributed assertion models are the right way to go and some smart people are working on it.

Gotta love economists. This is from a paper about researcher views on open peer review:

Interesting insight from Dustin Smith @humworks.bsky.social about the need for orchestration infrastructure that connects AI models, prompts, data, and interfaces to allow publishers to harness AI: blog.hum.works/posts/the-al...

Cabells, the US-based academic intelligence firm, has announced the launch of CompassAI, an AI tool to assist researchers in selecting appropriate/avoiding predatory publications: blog.cabells.com/2025/07/23/p...

New issue of Pub Tech Radar Scan: open.substack.com/pub/pubtechr... Lots in this issue, new launches include Sleuth AI, Featured Notebooks in NotebookLM, LLM Citation Verifier, and CC Signals from Creative Commons.

New blog post. How to investigate with Oversight clearskiesadam.medium.com/red-alert-ho...

Things will get really interesting with @cometadata.bsky.social in the mix!

BMJ Best Practice put their tool up against ChatGPT and Grok in real clinical scenarios, and (unsurprisingly) their carefully curated, evidence-based guidance came out well ahead. The AIs sounded convincing, but missed the nuance, depth, and safety insights. 👉 bestpractice.bmj.com/info/us/blog/

Florent Daudens’ latest post on LinkedIn highlights how Google’s NotebookLM partnerships with The Economist, The Atlantic and other premium publishers aren’t just experiments, they’re likely previews of how we’ll engage with information in the years ahead.

Adam Hyde’s gloriously sprawling, passionate love letter to a decade of building open, collaborative publishing tools is well worth a read: www.linkedin.com/pulse/ten-ye...

🧠 Curious how XML automation and AI are reshaping scholarly publishing? Join industry legends at @scholarlypub.bsky.social's free Innovation Showcase on July 24: customer.sspnet.org/Portal/iCore...

Are you a researcher? Are you using any AI tools to process your raw data other than the usual (chatGPT, Gemini, Claude)? If so, what?

My experience is really mixed with ChatGPT o3 & I think it’s getting worse, occasionally I get excellent 100% real references, usually I get a mix of mostly real with a lot of bad links to other papers, sometimes, esp if I ask a source, 100% made up.

Fame at last! Really touched to get a shoutout from @georgewalkley.com during his fantastic talk, AI: Threats and Opportunities for Publishers, at the PLS conference today. Great insights and perspectives. Link to AI in academic publishing case studies list: coda.io/d/AI-Powered...

The web is no longer an open picnic for AI. Cloudflare’s new Pay-Per-Crawl feature lets publishers charge bots per request, dusting off the HTTP 402 code and handing creators more control: blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...

A phenomenally good round-up, and not just for linking to my recent podcast with @smellinsconsulting.bsky.social 😀

New issue of PubTech Radar: open.substack.com/pub/pubtechr... New launches include Cashmere, Wax, ScholarlyTrendSpotterGPT, Papercheck, Reviewer Three, JSTOR Seeklight, and FAIA.

This is deeply sad news, especially for all the staff who have been immediately laid off. Please get in contact, and we'll all do our best to share your stories and try to help get you placed in a new role. PubPub had many exciting ideas and still... funding. www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2025...

'AI-generated reviews often suffer from five key weaknesses. They rely on vague...language. They misrepresent the paper’s scope....They flag issues that have already been addressed. They exhibit inconsistent or contradictory logic. And they lack the...nuance of a thoughtful human reviewer.' 1/2

🚨 30 People to Follow at the Intersection of AI and Academic Publishing - who have I missed or forgotten to include? www.linkedin.com/pulse/30-peo...

@georgewalkley.com explains how AI impacts copyright, creativity, and accessibility in publishing. I enjoyed listening to this. It’s a clear summary of where we stand with AI in publishing today: www.simonmellins.com/podcast/epis...

Built in 90 mins at the AI Engineer World’s Fair 🧠⚙️, ReviewerThree.com is a multi-agent peer review platform offering instant AI feedback on research papers. [Discovered via @hoohar.bsky.social newsletter Scalene]

📝 Wax.is is a new open-source doc editor for teams. It has real-time editing, sharing, PDF generator, comments, Word import & an AI designer, assistant, and knowledgebase (all AI tools are optional, off by default). Read about it here: www.robotscooking.com/announcing-w..., try it here: app.wax.is

Another great issue of Scalene - LLMs that surface implicit norms, blockchain-inspired review model, the equilibrium effects of LLM reviewing, James Heathers’ Medical Evidence Project & more: scalene-peer-review.beehiiv.com/p/scalene-37... #Scalene #PeerReview

Should LLMs be used to review papers? AAAI is piloting LLM-generated reviews this year. I wrote a blog post arguing that using LLMs as reviewers can have bad downstream consequences for science by centralizing judgments about what constitutes good research. bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...

New issue of PubTech Radar: Covers open infrastructure struggles, SciPost’s funding call, phishing scams targeting publishers, launches (Medical Evidence Project, DocuMark, Preprint Watch, Vibe Coding workshops, 2nd Opinion, and eLife’s new site)... pubtechradar.substack.com/p/pubtech-ra...

Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’ Thrilled to announce this new $900,000 project headed by @jamesheathers.bsky.social

📣 Have your say 📣 We want to hear what you want from @alpsp.bsky.social training courses. Please fill in this short survey to help us plan and meet publishers' needs. forms.monday.com/forms/c59a77...

Unbound/Boundless is, sadly, going to be a case study of shockingly poor publishing practice for a decade or more.

Should news publishers buy the Chrome browser? This idea from substack.com/@futuremedia... is easy to dismiss, but it raises an important question: who controls the distribution layer of the web? I love the ambition behind this question.

🤖 David Worlock explores AI’s impact on publishing—death, revolution or oblivion? I argue it’s not disintermediation we’re seeing, but new intermediation, with Big Tech and AI stepping in. David’s post: www.davidworlock.com/2025/05/ai-a... My response: substack.com/profile/2546...

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If AI can generate both the answers and the interface on the fly, does the case for building traditional library websites and maintaining complex database platforms look shaky? www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-dis...

My course is now open for registration again. Join over 50 librarians and Researchers who have already registered!

Bluesky by the Numbers: bsky.jazco.dev/stats Summary: 🚀 User growth? Massive. 💤 User activity? Dwindling. 🔍 Moderation? A work in progress. 💡 Innovation? Strong and steady.

New issue of PubTech Radar: open.substack.com/pub/pubtechr... Usual mix of news, launches (ReviewerZero, AI-Powered Publishing: use cases), Research assistants, AI updates, longer reads, & a farewell to Einar Fredriksson.

A recap of our AI in Publishing meetup, co-hosted by Cambridge AI and the AI Publishing Collective. Ivy Cavendish (Springer Nature) opened with a talk on when not to use AI. www.linkedin.com/pulse/event-...

Thomas Heldrup coaxes Meta's Llama 4 into channeling its inner J.K. Rowling: www.linkedin.com/posts/thomas... Fair use or the Forbidden Forest of copyright infringement?