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

Writing is thinking - a short but memorable thread.

Fascinating article from @uk.theconversation.com on how ‘words of the year’ are chosen!

#PublicGoodCuration an important concept. This guide from @senseaboutsci.bsky.social & @sagepub.com an important step in developing a framework to help not just the public but other specialists and curators distinguish reliable information from the rising tide of misinformation & disinformation.

Thank you @apaterlini.bsky.social and @plantteaching.bsky.social for sharing our website. We're always on the look out for more UK opportunities to add to the list, so if anyone knows of anymore we should include, please let us know!

I was in a meeting where we talked about summer projects for undergraduates interested in plant science, & someone shared this link 💚 @apaterlini.bsky.social Some deadlines are as early as January, so pass this on to those who might be interested! www.plantsciencefutures.org.uk/work-experie...

Great report of last week's Publish-Review-Curate meeting in Cambridge. See also coar-repositories.org/news-updates.... @coar-repositories.bsky.social

Hanging out with activist librarians is always fun, and the COAR Publish/Review/Curate meeting was productive anil.recoil.org/notes/coar-prc

As we reflect on the past 100 years, one thing becomes clear: the impact we have had on the communities we serve is only possible because of our inspiring and motivated staff. Read more about the people behind the Company here: bit.ly/44nyx2r

We could not agree more! Our infrastructure is ready for everyone to use and start adding these funding connections en masse. Thanks Hans, Katharina, and Zoe, for highlighting this important need! 🙏🏼

“We need to build a system that truly serves the global pursuit of knowledge.” Diversify how research is disseminated, support & recognise different research outputs & credible, scalable alternative publishing platforms - applies beyond the traditional publishing industry #researchdissemination

As of December 10th, 2025, the arXiv Mathematics section will no longer accept institutional email addresses (i.e., an email address associated with an academic or research institution) as the sole qualifier for an automatic endorsement for new authors. blog.arxiv.org/2025/12/10/u...

And we're off! UUK's Research & Innovation conference with panels on REF2029 are now underway, as pause transitions into the forward march toward November 2028, and beyond. 1/n

Highly recommend this piece from @lizziegadd.bsky.social and @bedforms.bsky.social on the new report on #GenerativeAI and #REF2029 wonkhe.com/blogs/before... "The challenge, now, is to ensure that its integration reflects sector values, not just technological possibility."

Springer Nature retracting papers based on bonkers dataset www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e... Good. #autism

Two interesting days on #researchintegrity starting: STM @stmassoc.bsky.social Innovation & Integrity Days 9-10 Dec ‘Building Tomorrow’s Research Integrity Framework’ #STMinLondon stm-assoc.org/events/stm-i...

RESOURCE: training materials for all things Open oercommons.org/hubs/ukrn

🗣️ New ORCID Feature for Journal Editors: Editorial Service This new activity allows publishers, including journals or other research publication organizations, to add #TrustMarkers to #ORCID records via the validated #EditorialService data. More on the blog: https://wp.me/pcE4o3-9kO#TrustMarkers#ORCID#EditorialService#Researchsky

Great post highlighting the challenges libraries are facing and the diverse and immensely valuable support they provide across research institutions and beyond (which I know from experience researchers and others may not be aware of) #UKSGForum2025 #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics

Happy Advent! !!!🎄✨ Welcome to a new edition of the Research Integrity Advent Calendar. Each day brings a small challenge: spot the problem, detect inconsistencies, and sharpen your skills. Enjoy the season and the daily puzzles! Day 1. papermills.tilda.ws/advent2025

This is a staggering cool JWST image of one of the most terrifying star systems I have ever seen. Apep is a monster… *three* monsters, actually, and blasting out radiation and dust and junk at speeds to freeze the soul. Read all about it! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-ridiculo... 🔭 🧪

See what @crossref.bsky.social has been up to for the past 25 years, a really interesting read: www.crossref.org/blog/crossre...

Three steps that can help CRediT (Contributor Role Taxonomy) remain effective and achieve its promise. #Contributorship #Authorship

AlphaFold is five years old — these charts show how it revolutionized science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A great conference in London in February for anyone interested or involved in communicating research. I enjoyed many times and helped out on the advisory board for a couple of years

We have an amazing opportunity for Early-Career Researchers to join our Board of Directors! We're looking for someone with experience in leading #OpenScience projects to support and lead eLife in our mission to change research communication. 🔗 buff.ly/SZgtgVv

Posting from the next workshop: Image Integrity in Research: Detecting Manipulation and Embedding Trustworthy Practices, led by Matt McCoy @proofigai.bsky.social , who shows a 'Hype cycle of his career" 😂 LLM as a tool -> LLM as an analyst -> LLM as a scientist? github.com/HKUST-KnowCo... #AIMOS2025

Great and detailed live posting from bsky.app/profile/elis... from #IRICSydney the International Research Integrity Conference, 16-18 November 2025, Sydney, Australia #ResearchIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #PublicationEthics

Weekend reads: Debunking ‘When Prophecy Fails’; ‘Godfather of AI’ first to reach 1 million citations; ‘Cake causes herpes?’

Kevin Mitchell tells it as it is. There nothing there! We're easily captured by a simple narrative for an incredibly complex etiology. www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/goi...

#EvidenceWeek in Parliament is such an important initiative, bringing together the public, researchers and parliamentarians to discuss how evidence is used at Westminster. Includes training sessions for parliamentary staff on how to handle and interpret evidence – crucial step in the briefing of MPs

“Science has recently been the professed interest of just a handful of MPs… But this year, something has changed.” Our Director Tracey Brown explores Parliament's growing interest among MPs in science and research, and how #EvidenceWeek helps bridge the gap between policymakers and researchers.

The future belongs to those who listen, think, and imagine together. At #BeijingForum2025, the world comes together to search for common ground in the age of digital intelligence. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/0CO25r8Pdk... #PekingUniversity #EduSky #AcademicSky

Computer scientist Yoshua Bengio talks about his efforts to identify — and address — the risks posed by AI go.nature.com/49b93II

Getting Rosalind Franklin’s story right is crucial, because she has become a role model for women going into science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our guest post on the @silverchairnews.bsky.social blog explores how AI can make editorial work more sustainable — complementing & supporting editor strengths while reducing the tedious & repetitive aspects www.silverchair.com/news/ai-powe... #scholcomm #scholcomms #scisky #openaccess #openscience

Doing a PhD can feel like wandering through a forest with no map. You’re constantly questioning whether you’re smart enough, working hard enough or heading in the right direction. If you’re feeling this way, you’re not alone. More importantly, you’re not broken. patthomson.net/2025/10/25/b...

Nov 7th is the birthday of both Lise Meitner & Marie Curie. Of the 13 chemical elements named directly after real people (not mythological figures) only two are named after women: meitnerium and curium (the latter of which is named in honour of both Marie & her husband) #chemsky 🧪

If you’re flying in the US tomorrow & worried about delays or cancellations I just found this handy resource www.flightaware.com/live/cancell...

Born #OnThisDay in 1867 was Marie Skłodowska–Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two disciplines: Physics for her work on radioactivity, and Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium. #WomenInSTEM

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

Full Programme for #R2RConf (London, 24-25 Feb) available r2rconf.com/r2r-conferen... Keynote, Debate, Presentations, Panels, Roundtables, Case Study and Workshops Plenary: 8½ hrs, Workshops: 3 hrs, Networking: 5½ hours crammed into 2 days! Discounts & 50 free tickets for Academics & Librarians

Important image dataset #FHIBE obtained with informed consent, compensation, safety measures, bias reduction and collection cost transparency, demonstrating that “implementing core ethical considerations in practice is possible”. #ethicaldatacollection

Mathematicians have finally found an exception to a geometric rule long thought unbreakable. https://scim.ag/4oosAtN

Guest Post — A Systems Approach to Research Publishing: From Fragmentation to Cohesion scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/05/g...

Some exciting news – as of December 1, I will be taking the reins as the Executive Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. www.cshl.edu/cshl-press-n...

I've been reading @andrewmaynard.net and Jeffrey Abbott's book on AI and the Art of Being Human. It prompted me to question myself about what makes me human occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...

And just incase anyone is under the impression that Hopper also invented the term "computer bug" because of a real moth found in her computer, alas no, that is a well-loved myth.👇

Weekend reads: Another CDC journal in trouble; Web of Science company endorses Iraq awards; on the scarcity of peer reviewers