Starting at 9:30am "Following reports that the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is facing significant cost pressures, the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee will hold a one-off evidence session exploring scientific research funding" 🔭 committees.parliament.uk/event/26683/...

Crossref is great for journal articles, and datacite is great for datasets and software. Bibtex is good for citations, but not as detailed. I really tried to avoid it, but I've been forced into creating a 15th standard to rule them all :( Let me know if there's something I've missed. #schema

The Invisible Hand of Peer Review by Stevan Harnad came out nearly 30 years ago and was such a significant contribution at that time. Revisiting it shows also how prescient it was. Definitely worth reading by anyone interested in #PeerReview #Preprints #ScholarlyCommunication #ScholarlySkywriting

Good start the week read - Steve Harnad on open access (in general) and LLMs katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

👉Five Ways to Spot when a Paper is Fraud ...sleuths tips at @nature.com #researchintegrity

Very important presentation on how AI can exacerbate the inequities that are already huge in the global scholarly communication system. #r2rconf

Our AI only "sees" Western, English speakers. 93% of training data for #GPT is in English. Is AI democratizing access to scholcomm OR encoding colonialism at scale. (SR NOTE: TLDR - my vote is the latter). #NikeshGosalia #R2RConf

"Everyone deserves to be seen" re: AI. Commerce or equity? Efficiency or justice? AI that only works for 20% of researchers is NOT neutral. You have choices around HOW you use it. How YOU use it matters: #NikeshGosalia #R2RConf

A brilliant presentation by @nikeshgo.bsky.social from @cactusglobal.bsky.social #r2rconf Outlining the many ways in which AI amplifies the biases built into scholarly publishing.

3. And here's an earlier thread based on the preprint that led to this paper. This thread explains what are up to in the paper and the logic behind the peer review meltdown cycle.

2. Here's a short Q&A from the UW Press office where we talk about the paper and its message:

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology. We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

Great #SciComm advice: 'I’ve realised that simple language goes much further, whether I’m speaking to patients or to scientists.The goal is to be understood ... speaking more clearly doesn’t mean dumbing the science down, it is learning how to make science more relatable' #PhDchat #ECRchat

Manuscript checks are a time-consuming and oft overlooked aspect of the publication process [no reviewers do not "do all the work"...]. Automating these should reduce costs, but how good is the software? doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Also, the many times non-affiliated scholars make solid contributions to the scholarly literature. No need for them to be lone geniuses. Given that HE produces more scholars than there are HE positions for them to occupy, their contributions shouldn’t be arbitrarily shut out for lack of affiliation.

We were wondering where you were! Yes the correct tag is #R2RConf, but #R2R2026 is worth a quick search, folks.....

Researcher to Reader Conference #R2RConf starts today, great program @r2rconf.bsky.social facilitates dialogue between all those involved in scholarly communication, incl researchers, funders, librarians, publishers so a very valuable forum #ScholarlyCommunication #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity

This is a new phenomenon and business model exploiting gaps in publishing. The cartel uses fake names to produce AI-written or plagiarised papers. Reference lists contain 100s of paid entries.If papers are retracted, no real authors are punished, and citations still count, even from retracted papers

An evaluation and certification system for scientific journals is proposed, building on the growing concept of journal accreditation #ScholarlyPublishing #JournalPublishing #JournalAccreditation

Weekend reads: CDC’s ‘unethical’ vaccine trial; The Lancet ‘refuses to retract’ letter; on the methods used to correct science

So… IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/11/s...

#R2RConf is just 15 days away and registrations are higher than any year except Hybrid2023 But room for more: 24-25 Feb, London And there are still some FREE tickets available for new people who work in academia. r2rconf.com/why-register/ r2rconf.com/r2r-registra...

Biscuit flavour: sea salt and brown butter All biscuits decorated by hand using royal icing food colouring gels, edible lustres, and vodka. You can find out more about the Secrets of the Thames exhibition here: www.londonmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/sec...

Some mudlarking finds survived for centuries in the muddy banks of the River Thames. Others are freshly baked tasty snacks. 🍪 This biscuit (cookie) set recreates ten of the 350+ mudlarked objects in London Museum's Secrets of the Thames exhibition. The exhibition closes on 1 March. Don’t miss it!

Our new paper, with colleagues from the Strategic Council of the National Academies, offers an integrative framework of the several components that contribute to making research findings trustworthy including ethics, methodology, transparency, inclusion, assessment, etc www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Always happy to support model organism communities on @bsky.app - re-sharing this for any #Arabidopsis researchers out there (just thought I'd plant it in your feeds...)

R2R @r2rconf.bsky.social Lightning Talks Announced - will be 17, each 5 minutes Researcher to Reader Conference — London — 24-25 February 2026

“People are already using AI for research assessment, but guidelines for its ethical and equitable use are scarce. Consequently, how AI is used for the REF is something of a Wild West. A standardized approach underpinned by good governance and common tools is urgently needed.” #ResearchAssessment

Excellent post, many important points made, including “… credit is the engine of the system. Without it, data sharing becomes either altruism or compliance. And compliance has a predictable failure mode: it optimises for the minimum required output.”

I wrote a blog for the Meta-Research Center expressing my infinite frustration about not getting data. What else is new, you might think? Well, I added an extra layer of annoyance directed at the journals who do NOTHING to enforce promised data sharing. metaresearch.nl/blog/2026/2/...

'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3

Facts on peptides erictopol.substack.com/p/the-peptid...

This 💯! Especially important if there is ever a #researchintegrity or #publicationintegrity challenge or investigation

This is a fantastic conference for anyone involved in research and/or its communication #R2RConf

My PI is not offering any support or guidance on my PhD project, what should I do? #PhDchat

I've just updated my preprint on short personal reviews of novels on #ResearchIntegrity , which now covers 35 titles. bit.ly/409E5ff Please attend me to novels which you believe to belong to this list, but are not yet included.

Welcome back! #ResearchIntegrity

History is a great teacher. In this piece our own @heidiledford.bsky.social looks at what we can learn from what happened in Japan when vaccine support was withdrawn and how the government is now working to reverse the effects 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Do you study disinformation or want to start working in that area? Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more. disinfoinstitute.org

I used to blog my reading of papers on #ResearchIntegrity training and here's my little inexpert grumble (as a practitioner) about people who write about Research Integrity training (or possibly any sort of training!) researchintegritytraining.wordpress.com/2022/02/02/1...

I really admire the work of this team, on an ongoing basis. They provide numbers and evidence for research integrity concerns that we have been seeing for quite a few years. And so many academics seem to prefer to ignore the issues and continue to support predatory-like publishing. 👏⬇️

Why scholarly publishing needs a neutral governance body for the AI age #ScholarlyPublishing #Research #AI #GenAI #WCRI2026 #WCRI www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi...

If you've ever wondered about the infrastructure behind the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, check out this teardown ➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...

Endogeny: the practice of a guest editor publishing a non-editorial article in their own special issue Important ‘special issue endogeny’ dataset of >100,000 guest-edited collections with nearly 1 million papers has been created and analysed, with some jaw-dropping results 1/2 #PublicationIntegrity

🎉 Today is the birthday of Professor Archibald Cochrane, a Scottish medical researcher who greatly influenced the development of epidemiology, the study of how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why. Find out more about him and the development of our logo here👇

Very good essay @profcarlrhodes.bsky.social & Martina Linnenluecke describe a set of overlapping trends in academic research publication reinforcing one another to create “a downward spiral into junkification” #AcademicPublication #AcademicPublishing #PublicationIntegrity #ResearchIntegrity

New Year, new #Bluesky user? Interested in #ResearchIntegrity & looking to connect with others on @bsky.app? Here are two #StarterPacks covering people connected with research integrity & there's still space so please share suggestions or wave to be added! go.bsky.app/QN5upY5 go.bsky.app/5NJ9Z4N

Weekend reads: Evaluating the benefits of open science, a misconduct investigation in Korea, and what we lose in outsourcing reviews to AI

A tape measure, a metal detector and a spirit level: 25 surprisingly useful things you can do with your phone