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(1/2) For the 2nd question, I feel we need an entirely different assignment type like "Reviewed Preprint" or "Assessed Preprint" (for reviewed preprints with editorial assessment)! @ludowaltman.bsky.social @andre-brasil.bsky.social @rorinstitute.bsky.social @crossref.bsky.social @elife.bsky.social

@ludowaltman.bsky.social @andre-brasil.bsky.social & @crossref.bsky.social are requesting input on #DOI registration for P-R-C model!

Speaks for the impact that @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social & @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social have come to have on the field! And the exemplary work led by @richardsever.bsky.social @johninglis.bsky.social - both very much deserving of The Royal Society Research Culture Award 2025!

This is interesting - it'll make institutions take more (almost complete) responsibility for integrity issues but they may also want to invest significant money (& possibly human resource) to make these checks available for everyone!

Very much befitting - many congratulations @richardsever.bsky.social & @johninglis.bsky.social! 👏👏👏

"Self-citation requests can turn peer review into a transaction rather than an objective critique of the article" - @aidybarnett.bsky.social in his OSF @cos.io preprint! #PeerReview #SelfCitation #Preprint #OSF osf.io/preprints/os...

Wishing @tracykteal.bsky.social & team @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social @openrxiv.bsky.social the best - Let "Speed of Science" be the phrase of the year! :)

(1/2) Interesting proposal by @rnls.bsky.social @f1000publishing.bsky.social for @nisoinfo.bsky.social ("or a similar neutral entity") to standardize a framework for #verifications & #checks of #preprints, journal articles and other published output! #Trust journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

All of this underscores the point above: if we want to truly make research open, and avoid public misunderstanding—we need to actually consider the public (and the journalists who share research with them) in our approach to #openscience, preprints and otherwise.

I am deeply concerned about the research integrity issues we are seeing right now. Including around preprints, but also science more broadly. But I am equally concerned that our fears about misinformation will lead us toward an even more closed, exclusionary science system.

Again, concerns about research integrity and openness go beyond preprints. We saw this in our study of journalists and their use/perceptions of predatory journals, which participants associated with #openaccess: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... [Still a preprint, but accepted at Journalism Practice]

"LLMs are being used in problematic ways with preprints. But they are also clearly being misused within peer review itself"! 💯 #LLM #Preprints #PeerReview

(You can read a sum up of this argument on the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social — co-authored with @nataschachtena.bsky.social and @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca) blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Some key perspectives on this 🧵: I love the comment in Robert's article about the stakeholders "missing" from debates about #openscience. Beyond scholarly societies, journalists, #scicomm professionals, and the public need to be included in these conversations. f1000research.com/articles/12-...

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Great initiative by Wiley! The publisher has started marking retracted papers in reference lists. When you click on the retraction notice, you can also see the date and reason for the retraction. All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.

(1/2) @maddipow.bsky.social draws an interesting comparison here regarding #PeerReview. I think this could really benefit bad reviews but probably not rogue reviews - the latter consisting of bias, rudeness & deliberate mishandling! One thing it underscores - Peer review training is essential!

Any suggestions/recommendations for a tool that would allow the audience at a conference to ask questions, but... a. Those could only be seen by a moderator, with the relevant app and permissions (so that the moderator would ask the question on the person's behalf) b. can be asked anonymously Thx!

A lot of people & organizations to thank for this shift! @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social @richardsever.bsky.social @johninglis.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social @jessicapolka.bsky.social @prereview.bsky.social @neurosarda.bsky.social @reviewcommons.org @embo.org @elife.bsky.social, etc., etc. etc.! 👏

So well put by (shall I say, the one & only? 😄) @richardsever.bsky.social! #Preprints #PeerReview #ScientificPublishing

IMO the fact alone that something claims to be "peer-reviewed" is fairly meaningless, so much do standards vary. One can have some faith based on knowledge of individual journals' processes but if you don't know anything about the journal, then... 1/n

@fionahutton.bsky.social @drpeterrodgers.bsky.social @damianpattinson.bsky.social: @doaj.bsky.social & @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy have called for suggestions/comments from the community w.r.t. some fundamental questions on #indexing criteria! #SciPub blog.doaj.org/2025/07/09/w...

Thanks for the shout out! We work closely with the relationship between research assessment and scholarly communication, and our last guest blog posts by @metaror.bsky.social, @f1000publishing.bsky.social and @elife.bsky.social explore these connections, innovations in publishing and peer review

"Unlike traditional publishing, (the eLife) model doesn’t leave your work waiting for months only to end in rejection ... It accelerates sharing of results and helps keep your research moving forward ... preprint submission also ensures your work is immediately accessible to scientific community"

As I move towards launching my own org, if you've previously collaborated or worked with me & you'd be willing to provide a short testimonial for my website would you please get in touch? I'll be focussing on preprints, academic culture & trust in research Huge thanks to anyone who does so!

“Publish first, evaluate continuously…That’s how science actually happens”. A better casting of the PRC model from @madubs.bsky.social at Royal Society #FutureSciPub

I've been setting a community to give peer support to folks doing Library or Scholarly Communications research whilst working in the field (rather than for full time academics). We've got a discord server and there are exciting things coming. If you'd like to join the server - let me know.

I want to create a "Behind the Paper"-like perspective article for CSH Protocols, where authors would succinctly summarize a recent methods paper they've published in any journal. This can provide a bit more context & is a way for authors to directly connect with the community. Interested? Lmk!

I could really do with a few brilliant folks who'd be up for chatting ~1x a month/every 2 months in a mentorship capacity. Could really do with someone independent to talk to for advice & guideance. Equally, if anyone in my network would like me to act in this capacity for you do reach out!

Excited to share the first published papers in Lifecycle Journal! In this new, transparent model, research is published before undergoing evaluation—putting publishing & evaluation in the control of the scholarly community. 📄 Read: lifecyclejournal.org/publications/ 🖋️ Submit: osf.io/registries/l...

Open Access people - is there a list/database anywhere that notes when hybrid journals have flipped to Gold? 🟩

We @asapbio.bsky.social are planning some work on evaluating the community friendliness of preprint servers. Which factors matter to you, the community? For me = strong governance, transparent policies, good metadata, non-profit stewards, open licensing.

This loss hits particularly hard. Join us in ✊ back by ✒️ the Declaration to #DefendResearch against US Govt Censorship. Defendresearch.org is working to 📚 the public on the dangers of #censorship. All welcome irresp discipline, geography, expertise #StandUpForScience tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f

LATEST: from yours truly. The brief was large and the word count small. I hope the point is clear! theconversation.com/show-your-wo...

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

(1/3) This @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social post by @9thprime.bsky.social gave me a tangential thought: what if #ResearchIntegrity matters are considered as matters of "security"? "Research Security" if we may fancy? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/05/s...

It’s Not too Late for Open Access in India | Katina Magazine https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2024/its-not-too-late-for-open-access-in-india

A very important thread here by @samuelmoore.org! Not just semantics but a very practical issue highlighted here. But is the problem only in its definition or with the name itself? 🤔 @neuralreckoning.bsky.social #Preprints #ScholarlyPublishing #Science

With @elife.bsky.social once again making a bit of news, let’s take a moment to actually look at the reality of the impact factor (IF) and web of science (WoS) indexing. A 🧵 1/17

"... continue to treat eLife papers with the same level of trust and prestige as they always have"? Does @elife.bsky.social actually want people to treat with a level of prestige?! 🤔 #eLife #Publishing #ReviewedPreprints elifesciences.org/inside-elife...

Research integrity and pub-ethics investigations are different. The former investigates culpability, whereas the latter focusses on the reliability of the scholarly record. Swift corrective action is only possible if we decouple culpability from reliability when investigating pub-ethics concerns.

Web of Science (WOS) indexes a subset of journals based on assessment of the quality of their peer review (how well a journal ‘validates’ work). Indexing means the journal appears in WOS & gets an Impact Factor (IF, roughly the average n of times articles in that journal are cited in two years. 1/n

Such a poignant account of the life of Douglas Prasher, who first cloned #GFP. These people exist too! Thanks to @venkramaswamy.bsky.social for sharing this! www.discovermagazine.com/mind/how-bad...

JXB Editorial Internships – Call for Applicants academic.oup.com/jxb/pages/ed... The aim of these internships is to provide early career researchers with experience of scientific publishing from the editorial side. #PlantScience #AcademicPublishing #PlantSciJobs

Follow your favourite #bioRxiv titles on social media! #Science

💯 This was exactly my thought earlier with respect to some other thing. Lab heads have a huge task in shaping the lab culture but it's up to everyone to sustain it and ensure to hand it down the line!

Important letter about citation bias, published in @ThePlantCell by Pandey and Burch-Smith, with good recommendations. "We also acknowledge the authors who continuously under-cite us" 🔥🔥 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... #PlantScience

Very noble of @nature to publish this. Looking forward to retractions or expressions of concern on these mysterious papers. Don’t you think you owe this to your readers instead of cashing in even more on the crap you have published? £$€₩¥ #NatureRipoffs #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The email I just sent to when they asked me to join their editorial board. Fuck these clowns.