completely unacceptable to force people to click the thieving plagiarism slop box But again, perhaps another signal from publishers their complaints about 'piracy' have not been serious all along, and everyone should be SciHubbing to their hearts content.

I do really like Zoom as a platform, but the recordings are getting increasingly worse for having out of sync audio and video. little slow-downs in the video make it impossible to correct, it's so weirdly warped. It takes a lot of editing to cover over, and/or makes the recordings look so bad.

Calling all journal editors and managers interested in refreshing your strategies and updating approaches and skills to running your journals! The EASE Editor School starts in 1st October with extremely insightful and experienced trainers who know their game Full details in the link 👇🏽

had the chance to get out my SpotOn conference peer review paddles for the webinar last night. Didn't quite make use of them as I had intended, but still they made an appearance! webinar was great fun, and jam-packed full of information from all speakers. The recording will be up soon!

RBMO Live is Live! Feel free to jump in to our journal submission masterclass session! Come join the editorial team of @rbmonline.bsky.social for some behind-the-scenes insights and advice into writing high impact articles, ai, peer review and science editing! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Looking forward to this webinar a lot! It is open to anyone interested in submitting to top tier journals - especially in the IVF and fertility field, but not limited to those specialities. Tuesday 16th September! My part is on peer review - in time for @peerreviewweek.bsky.social

New in the Bookshelf section of the EASE Digest blog, we share a new study published in PNAS which provides further insights into the scale of the industrially-produced research papers from ‘paper mills’. @reeserichardson.bsky.social @jabyrnesci.bsky.social ease.org.uk/2025/08/frau...

Really great thorough work on illustrating the scale at which paper mills are operating. and to repeat myself on another wake up call - allowing the unfettered use of LLMs like ChatGPT etc without getting them watermarked and blocked is going to exacerbate this problem tenfold

Welcome to the new EASE Council! Great that everyone could attend the conference in person. An exciting auspicious start to their term.

I signed up for this. Interested to listen in on this discussion.

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Pope Oats VI

Bank holiday reading, in preparation for picking up one of these in a few weeks. Of course the social media book is like an expansion pack of the dog book, because I gather it’s not possible to have a puppy without the social media posting too 😃

I’m in Barcelona with @rbmonline.bsky.social for the #ivirmacongress2025 Today we have our 25th anniversary reception and the unveiling of a commemorative special issue - pictures to come! My schedule for today: www.linkedin.com/posts/reprod...

Look what’s arrived @maxhuibai.bsky.social! I am off to a conference tomorrow. Is that bad timing, or perfect?! #peerreview #reviewer2mustbestopped

Do I know anyone with full access to Altmetric that could run me a report to see all the news sources on this paper please? 🙏 www.altmetric.com/details/1760...

It is a real privilege to work with some of the world's most progressive researchers, and today RBMO published this article detailing groundbreaking techniques for remote-control IVF The skills and artistry of the people, and the development of technologies, in this field is really quite remarkable

for my ReproMed friends in my feed, a new specially selected Hot Topic from @rbmonline.bsky.social

Disappointed to see Overleaf pushing slop into people’s work. GenAi should really not be anywhere near any serious work. Not sure how many times it needs saying.

This webinar does look very interesting.

just seen the phrase 'a medley of LLMs'

It’s surprising this still needs to be said, but I see so much of it around, often from platforms promoting ethics or integrity, and yet they still use this unethical slop. So weird how far GenAi has infiltrated and persisted when it should have been dismissed long ago

If you read only one thing today, make sure it's this extremely important thread by @lonnibesancon.bsky.social !!!

Facebook memories reminding me that it was 3 years ago to the day that we launched the new @easeeditors.bsky.social design, logo, colour scheme and strategic plans. 36 months later, so far so good I think.

Really pleased to see the email with all the work I finished after midnight still sat in my outbox bumbling around waiting to send itself at 10:00 Really great.

I'm delighted to share our opinion on #papermills published in Nature. Science is flooded with papers from paper mills.Certain steps can be taken, but this is a challenge that neither universities nor journals are ready to face.Some use paper mills to their advantage. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

One authorship in the name of Alanis Morissette please Don’t cha think?

Indeed. I think they’re absolutely atrocious, and I consider that an overestimation of their reliability. I can’t imagine thinking they’re remotely useful.

Now please stay down 🙏🏽

That’s cool

I think part of the problem of the whole AI slop jockey culture is that its founded by sealioning reply guy tech bros,who think hounding people with repeated questioning as a superiority competition is perfectly reasonable and civil way to be - instead of being thoughtfully inquisitive

I suppose if you're a journal that allows the use of GenAI text and images you'll sting yourself on the criteria of publishing articles 'so conspicuously flawed that a journal with peer reviewers and an attentive editor would reject them' without anyone having to submit a dedicated paper. #zoinks

You'd have hoped the massive rat appendage paper would have got around enough for journal editors to know not to let GenAI images anywhere near research publications...but seems not. This Elsevier journal is full of them: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/euro...

I'm looking for musicians, artists, writers, filmmakers, etc. who are passionate about translating science to a broader audience. The field is at the intersection of geoscience, paleo, climate, biology, and conservation. This is a funded opportunity. Tag your favorite STEAM folks, please!

This will be a fun and interactive session for journal editors and managers. Need to tidy up a couple of spreadsheets for this, to make them presentable in public If you're interested in coming and have something specific you'd like me to show or check out, let me know.

Done this....and the Nature survey too. Nature one is pretty quick and simple. This one is more in depth, and more focused on comparative aspects between BSky and Twitter.

I hope they're not implying that the thing in the video is a cake

Great article @eggletonkim.bsky.social. Well worth a read if you’re in the frontlines of journal management, or have an interest in research publishing and wonder why the industry makes researcher jump through certain hoops, among other things!

Cassette culture and coffee culture combine in these beautifully presented small batch roasts from Taith coffee in Lewes.

I continue to find it baffling how supposedly legitimate publishers are embracing ai slop so hard, instead of helping to stop this unethical charlatanism. @springer1842.bsky.social now, charging authors for GenAI summaries of their own articles. futurism.com/springer-nat...

the skill and expense of copyediting is an incredibly hard circle to square for the sustainability of journals. everybody wants quality work, but it's increasingly hard to pay for it. Big Publishers especially guilty of cutting this cost hard - and no doubt they'll push AI and make matters worse

latest issue of RBMO insights is up! Usually I'd say it's for the #IVF #ReproductiveMedicine community, but this one might be of wider interest. It has a run down of key editorial and publication performance stats, in a rare chance to see some of the details that journals don't often share.

There have been a few more additions to my spreadsheet as to where UK-facing academic orgs are on social media as X declines. 319 entries so far. 318 on X (not all active now) 230 on LinkedIn 100 on @bsky.app 64 on Threads 42 on Mastodon 1/5 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

“The use of these programs does not serve your development as a thinker, writer and scholar” 💯 Anyone in intellectual or creative pursuits that uses these tools as shortcuts are defrauding themselves of the purpose of their vocation.

I very much agree with this perspective.

Quite a helpful reference

2000 is a very nice milestone to pass. Happy to have got my membership in early this year to contribute

When I say it once, I say it a thousand times

Hmmm. I feel like this can’t be as it seems and there must be a catch.

Fun and informative and interactive