European alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Office launches on 9 June: free, open source and online, using existing building blocks. An important step in freeing ourselves from US control. www.zdnet.com/article/euro...

Reproductive BioMedicine Online invite you to the journal’s RGE Prize edition of our quarterly webinar series, held in collaboration with the International IVF Initiative. Join us Tuesday 9th June, 2026, at 3pm EST/ 8pm UK/ 9pm CET. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 1/5

This is an excellent policy long overdue. It is wild that publishers have been doing things like simply tidying up fabricated (hallucinated, blegh) references and carrying on with the paper. Good to see this first step of properly dealing with botted papers

Fantastic news! Congratulations Iryna. A marvelous addition and unique perspective to add to the COPE Council.

Absolutely superb session tonight. Fascinating talks and fantastic speakers. Will have the video up on the RBMO youtube channel in a week or so. if you have nay interest in public health family planning, fertility and population demographics, this will be for you. Some clips in this thread >>>

I am looking forward to this. The EASE Summer Symposium is starting to take shape. It is going to be a superb event, with some choice sessions over several days - and this satellite event to get things off to an early start!

Olivia always on the sharpest point

Polanski’s responses in this interview are absolute class. The Sky presenters coming from a place of incredibly aggressive bad faith, dealt with in the way we always dream of such disingenuous and biased questioning being deal with.

Journal editors and publishers, do check out this course! There are few, if any, quite like it; comprehensive, interactive and very practical.

Another interesting article of scientific and social advances from RBMO today! Among other aspects, it touches on the way IVF technology is assisting space research, which in turn provides new information for IVF tech and treatments on Earth.

this is 100% right. Glad to be seeing a lot more of these more sober sensible takes so far this year. Now to go to LinkedIn to give this a bump there too, where it is even more sorely needed than here.

Insert *Pretends to be shocked* meme

Adding this to my toolbar for quick reference. I don’t expect I’ll be the first to notice such things in any papers, but I’ll keep it to hand just in case.

It is very noticeable, and I do very much care. You will lose my interest and confidence in a nanosecond.

Good to see this article has a cautionary note already. I expect it will be retracted in due course. Shocking that this has made it to publication. It does not help, of course, that publishers keep hemming and hawing around GenAI instead of shutting it down. Mixed messages only invite this stuff.

What a company. This is indeed who you’re supporting when you use ChatGPT.

‘Token karaoke’ and ‘hobo tech’ are great

A lot of very useful and detailed resources for everyone from the novice to seasoned (and jaded) peer reviewer!

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

We are excited to reveal the first of our plans towards our next online conference. Help us choose the theme for conference sessions by voting for your favorite from three shortlisted options suggested by our Council. bit.ly/ease2026poll

A magnificent and most-needed paper

This survey will help us better understand - global activity around board management, - policies and processes for managing Ed Boards; - public information on role profiles and requirements; - regularity of performance reviews and more Please do take the time to provide your experiences

Catch up with the latest EASE news, valuable resources for Editors and Peer Reviewers, recent publications from European Science Editing and more, in the bi-monthly newsletter, EASE Update.

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?