@antiquity.ac.uk's editorial about peer review pros and issues, their internal process and options to improve peer-review in general, including @pciarchaeology.bsky.social ! We indeed correct most of the issues listed in the editorial with our free and transparent system doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

1/3 New recommendation: C. Lalopoulos, M. Konstantakis & P. Koutsabasis (2025). Designing a mobile digital application for the museum of Asia Minor culture: enhancing intangible cultural heritage through digital storytelling. V3 peer-reviewed & recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

1/3 New recommendation: Felix Riede (2025). The role of heritage databases in typological reification: a case study from the Final Palaeolithic of southern Scandinavia. V2 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @felixthehauskat.bsky.social 🏺🧪

1/3 New recommendation: Konstantakis, Kaza, Antonopoulou, Daskalaki, Gourtzioumi, Larentzakis & Iakovaki (2025). A 3D Digital Documentation Framework for the Early Helladic Cemetery of Asteria, Glyfada: Challenges and Innovations. V5 recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🏺

1/3 New recommendation: M. thor Straten, S. Strohm, J. Hilpert, @bserbe.bsky.social, T. Kerig, M. Renz (2025). A Network View on the Big Exchange Project: Integrating and Analysing Heterogeneous Datasets. v2 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Academia-friendly journals and responsible publishing "compare favourably" to non-responsible publishing "in terms of editorial and financial policy, while offering similar citation rates". No excuse to choose non-responsible journals anymore! :)

1/5 New recommendation: G. Pavlidis et al. (2025). Future-Proofing Heritage with ARGUS: A Multimodal Digital Twin Approach for Sustainable Preservation. V2 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

1/3 New recommendation: Antigoni Panagiotopoulou, Colin A. B. Wallace, Lemonia Ragia and Dorina Moullou (2025). Detection of temporal changes of the Omega House at the Athenian Agora. V2 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🏺

To stop the drain, do not hesitate to engage with #free #openscience, #preprints, @peercommunityin.bsky.social, #diamondOA journals, academia-friendly journals (dafnee.isem-evolution.fr) etc. THERE ARE SOLUTIONS !

Now published in the Peer Community Journal @peercomjournal.bsky.social - had a great experience with them: peer led, free, fast, and open-access. Would recommend! ✨️

1/3 New recommendation: Bonhomme, Bouby, Claude, Dham, @murielgrosb.bsky.social, Ivorra, Jeanty, Pagnoux, Pastor, Terral & Evin (2025) CNN and Outline Analyses for Archaeobotanical Studies of Domestication and Subspecific Identification. doi.org/10.1101/2023... @isemevol.bsky.social 🧪🏺🦣

1/3 New reco: Bédécarrats, Le Roy, Sayle, Blaizot, Couvrat, Gleize, @guillaume-leduc.bsky.social, Rottier & Goude (2025) Isobiography of the first farmers: effects of age-estimating referential and statistical models on reconstructing infant life. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🏺🦣

1/4 New recommendation: @ehmalatesta.bsky.social et al. (2025) Rethinking Caribbean Archaeology: Towards an ethical position for a truly decolonial practice. ver.3 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social osf.io/4ge5j

1/3 New recommendation: @feliciafricke.bsky.social & Laffoon J. E.‬ (2025) Osteological and Isotopic Analysis of Skeletal Remains at Fort Amsterdam, St. Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean. ver. 3 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/publicati... 🧪🏺

Looking for a place to submit your finished paper? We propose a totally free and transparent initiative! Made by archaeologists for archaeologists. Follow the steps below! 🏺🧪

1/3 New recommendation: Lien-Talks A. G. W. (2025). Heritage Data Governance in Regeneration: Lessons from England's High Street Heritage Action Zones. V3 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @alientalks.bsky.social

1/3 New recommendation: Luo Hongpeng & He Jie (2025). An Exploratory Framework of Land-Sea Movement Model for Early Austronesians Migration. V3 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🏺

PCI is featured in this Nature News post, which presents some ideas to help fix the peer-review system: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hot off the heels of our what is a preprint video is our what is preprint peer review video! Featuring @prelights.bsky.social @prereview.bsky.social @reviewcommons.org, @elife.bsky.social & @peercommunityin.bsky.social #peerreview #preprint #scipub

1/3 New recommendation: Miranda A. Evans‬ (2025) The Demodifier: a tool for screening modification-induced alternate peptide taxonomy in palaeoproteomics. ver.4 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪🏺🦣

The deadline has been extended to October 15 for your CAA2025 papers! Since the proceedings will go through our free and transparent process, do not forget that you *must* share data and scripts if you have some. Everything is explained here: 2025.caaconference.org/proceedings/ 🏺🦣🧪

PCI Archaeology was at @isba11.bsky.social in Turin last week! Stay tuned for new #openaccess biomolecular papers soon with full transparency in the editorial process! Thank you @matthewcollins.bsky.social and Marta Arzarello for sharing our initiative! @isbarchaeology.bsky.social 🧪🏺🦣

Make sure to register! The past webinars have been super interesting, and this one should be no different. 🧪 #openscience #peerreview #academicpublishing

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

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1/3 New recommendation: Kawano, K., @itagakim.bsky.social, Fujita, H., Yamamoto, R., Takeuchi, T. & Ochiai, H. (2025). Statistical image processing (Decorrelation Stretch) and deep learning (CycleGANs) to restore images of faded artworks. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪

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1/3 New recommendation: Zachary Batist‬ (2025) Locating Creative Agency in Archaeological Data Work. ver.2 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.17613/8eq... @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy 🏺🧪🦣

Delighted to be bringing you the following PAASTA community-led paper outlining our recommendations for best practices and open science in palaeoproteomics! Congratulations to the authors and for anyone keen to read the paper, it can be found #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

1/4 New recommendation: Marc THOMAS‬ (2025) fabryka: A web application for easily analysing & exploring the fabric of archaeological assemblages. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪 @umr5608traces.bsky.social

Coming soon! The proceedings from the @caaint.bsky.social 2023 including all the papers which have gone through our free and transparent peer-review and recommendation process! Very nice cover!

1/3 New recommendation: Igor P. Bajena (2025). OntPreHer3D: Ontology for Preservation of Cultural Heritage 3D Models. v2 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪

1/4 New recommendation: @ronaldvisser.bsky.social‬, K. Lambers, @aitchis1.bsky.social‬, A. Jutte, D. Rocks-Macqueen, L. vanderKnaap, I. Romanowska, T. Brughmans, J. Linssen, A. Pažout‬(2025) Lessons learned: creating tutorials to teach agent-based modelling to archaeologists. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

1/3 New recommendation: Cardillo, Marcelo & Carranza, Eugenia ‬ (2025) Applying statistical and causal modeling to interpret thermal alteration in observational lithic data. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🏺

Exciting news for archaeometallurgists! Historical Metallurgy is now a Category 1 PCI-Friendly journal! When recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social, your manuscript will be published as is if it fits the journal’s scope! 🧪🏺#Archaeology

Imagine if you make preprints and have them freely and transparently peer review with @peercomjournal.bsky.social ? 😇😇

The DAFNEE database of academia-friendly journals is now using OpenAlex instead of PubMed to find your papers for the author index. That's great especially for #archaeology since most are not indexed in PubMed. Go see the second tab on dafnee.isem-evolution.fr ! @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social 🏺🧪

Time to publish etically, and to let others know! 6/6 #EvolutionaryBiology #Ecology #Archaeology

Needless to say, the Peer Community In outperforms all of the major publishers on this criterion, despite a budget many orders of magnitude smaller - again illustrating that the big money we pay for publishing is not used for the good of science. (5/5) @peercommunityin.bsky.social

Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)

New preprint about open science in eco-evo! We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology

Our next event is "Demystifying Digital Field Recording", a free online panel exploring the hot topics in digital field recording! The panel takes place next Wednesday 23 July, 6pm AEST, make sure to register at the link: events.humanitix.com/demystifying...

😱 I did not hear about this before. If only people would acknowledge that making the full process of evaluation transparent would really help. All these suspected papers from paper mills: can we read the reviews, and the answers to reviewers etc? It would help a lot!

And still probably the proceedings will go through our free and transparent peer review system!

🚨 Call for Sessions is OPEN! 📍 CAA 2026 – Vienna 🗓️ Deadline: 17 August 2025 Got a great session idea in digital archaeology? We want to hear from you! 🔗 2026.caaconference.org/call-for-ses... #CAA2026 #CAAConf #DigitalArchaeology #CallForSessions

How we use game mechanics to explore and educate about archaeology in our board game Cultivaria- a thread. #archaeology #boardgame

Just learned today that all Nature's published research papers will now have their peer-reviews accessible! #openpeerreview is becoming mainstream! doi.org/10.1038/d415... But if you want to make it for free you can still come to us instead of this big commercial publisher... 😜

With mention of @peercommunityin.bsky.social , @peercomjournal.bsky.social and @pci-regreports.bsky.social ! Trying to change this system!

Thank you @unil.bsky.social and @ebcul.bsky.social !