Focusing on removing expert panels towards the end of the process instead of reducing the load at the front end where AI could help? … 🤨

Alchemist Review Launches Journal Fit Feature to Accelerate Triage

We’re excited to share that @ioppublishing.bsky.social is expanding Alchemist Review across most of its proprietary journal portfolio, continuing a collaboration focused on solving real editorial challenges.

What if your editors could identify strong-fit manuscripts in seconds? At @stmassoc.bsky.social Innovation Day this week, we showed how Journal Fit scores manuscripts across novelty, scope, rigor & impact - helping editors spot high potential papers and misaligned submissions instantly. #STMLondon

📣 Journal Fit is here! Instant manuscript fit scores so editors spend more time on high potential papers & less on ones that are off-scope. Every submission gets scored across Novelty, Scope Relevance, Rigor & Impact. Demo @ STM London next week! blog.hum.works/posts/alchem...

Most publishers guess what resonates with authors. Karger's team used behavioral data to know—then optimized relentlessly. The result? 4.5X ROI, 3X higher CTRs, and 1,100+ manuscript submissions directly influenced. Case study: blog.hum.works/posts/karger...

@kargerpublishers.bsky.social is proving that author marketing isn't just "nice to have." It's a revenue driver. The secret? AI-driven campaigns that met researchers at the right moment w the right message.

The options range from "do nothing” to “add options to opt out of just AI Overviews”…

AI built on bad metadata is just expensive chaos. Taxonomy is either your secret weapon or your Achilles heel in 2026...

"Peer Review: Human Judgment with AI Speed!" ... And we're always saying that! @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social Alchemist Review is dropping some exciting new features to help editors make smart decisions, faster in December. Stay tuned! scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/20/r...

CLUTCH is now using Alchemist Engage to power smarter audience intelligence for their clients 🚀 blog.hum.works/posts/clutch...

Taxonomy is the foundation that makes everything else possible: Better search, smarter engagement, and the intelligence that fuels your editors and marketers to make confident decisions. blog.hum.works/posts/are-yo...

"No publisher will survive five years from today if they don't have data. I don't care how well you edit and publish books. If you don't have data, you will make wrong decisions."

Everyone is racing to add flashy AI to their publishing stack. But if you skipped the foundation work, you're building your house on sand. Taxonomy isn't sexy, but it powers your shinier AI features and makes them most effective.

If your research can't be found, parsed, and synthesized by the tools researchers actually use, it’s virtually invisible. Here's what it means to be answer ready: blog.hum.works/posts/when-c...

Speed vs. quality in reviewer selection? We believe editors shouldn't have to choose. We're excited to announce that Hum is working with Signals to deliver fast, accurate, and trustworthy reviewer recommendations.

AI is stepping in to help publishers tackle the surge in fraudulent scientific papers. From spotting fake authors to detecting AI-generated text, automated tools are reshaping how journals protect research integrity. But is tech enough to fix a broken system?

Readers don't browse anymore. They interrogate. "What's the latest guidance?" "Which methodology should I use?" "How does this affect my work?" If your content isn't answer-ready, it's invisible—to AI systems & to readers. What scholarly publishers need to know → blog.hum.works/posts/when-c...

Biology has always been about connections. Now, the content is, too. Using Alchemist Engage, @biologists.bsky.social is turning 100+ years of biology research into personalized discovery experiences for scientists worldwide. See how AI is deepening their impact: blog.hum.works/posts/the-co...

The Company of Biologists Selects Hum’s Alchemist Engage for AI-Driven Engagement

🔬🧫 Excited to team up with The Company of Biologists. Alchemist Engage fuses real-time audience signals with 100 years of biology to serve laser-focused recs, calls for papers, & outreach. Discover how @biologists.bsky.social is using AI to accelerate breakthroughs ➡️ blog.hum.works/posts/the-co...

AI is stepping in to help publishers tackle the surge in fraudulent scientific papers. From spotting fake authors to detecting AI-generated text, automated tools are reshaping how journals protect research integrity. But is tech enough to fix a broken system?

Thrilled to see Annex Business Media featured in @amediaoperator.com's latest article for "Own The Topic"—their AI-enabled approach to contextual advertising. Annex is using Alchemist Taxonomy to unlock engagement patterns across their entire portfolio... www.amediaoperator.com/news/ai-trac...

Taking a well-earned break from the @buchmesse.de bustle with our friends from Grounded AI and Clarivate. Here's to innovation, collaboration, and good company! 🍺 Prost!

Richard and Dustin's AI stunt doubles are warming up at the biergarten. (Their real versions will be at STM/Frankfurt Bookfair today-Thursday talking actual business. Come say hallo! 🍺) @stmassoc.bsky.social / @buchmesse.de

Science diplomacy and schnitzel? These are a few of our favorite things... We're sending Dustin to STM Frankfurt next week. If you'll be there too – let's connect! @stmassoc.bsky.social / #STMinFrankfurt

"The research community doesn’t necessarily want ‘peer review’ — it wants quality assurance, fraud detection, constructive feedback, ethical oversight, and credible validation." @innovationideas.bsky.social / @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social

Every year, more reviewers are saying no. The ones who say yes are getting overwhelmed. And the submissions keep climbing... blog.hum.works/posts/ai-to-...

Richard Bennett will be at @buchmesse.de Oct 15-16! Want to talk AI-powered journal fit, reviewer recommendations, or peer review workflows over a beer? 🍻 DM to meet up and see what's new in Alchemist Review.

After the last presentation ends, the real collaboration (sharing a large platter of Georgian dumplings!) begins. The perfect recipe to wind down an unforgettable Platform Strategies. #strategies25 💜

If AI makes research 10x faster, we'll need 200-300 million peer reviews annually. And, uh... there aren't enough PhDs on Earth to handle that workload. Time to get smarter about reviewer recruitment, not just faster at manuscript production.

Who wore it best? #Strategies25 @teopulvirenti.bsky.social

Here we go, Platform Strategies! #strategies25 Dustin passes the mic off to the brilliant @nataliejacobs.bsky.social for the keynote - Brace for Impact: Publisher & Technology Readiness 🚀

Hum is five years old! Here's what we've learned for the next five... blog.hum.works/posts/five-y...

Thrilled to expand our partnership with IEEE 🎉 Through a pilot of Alchemist Review, IEEE is exploring how AI can boost editorial efficiency while keeping human expertise at the center. Details: blog.hum.works/posts/ieee-l... #PeerReviewWeek

Alchemist Review takes the mainstage for #ALPSP2025 lightning sessions. @alpsp.bsky.social We squeezed quite a few spoilers of big things on the roadmap into that 7 minutes... 🤫

Dustin's impact on our company 📈📈📈📈 Dustin's commitment to the Hum shirt 📈📈📈📈📈 Keep an eye out for him at @alpsp.bsky.social in Manchester today. You'll never guess what he's wearing...

“We’re seeing increased submission volume in certain subject areas” said Gwen Weerts, @spie.org. “With this pilot, we’re hoping Alchemist Review can alleviate the workload on editorial teams, while keeping decisions firmly in the hands of human experts." Read more: blog.hum.works/posts/spie-t...

Alchemist Review is a finalist for the 2025 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing! ✨ Don't miss the lightning presentations from Hum and other awards finalists at @alpsp.bsky.social Annual Conference - beginning Wednesday at 4:15!

🏆 The ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing recognises something which is both innovative and of significant value to scholarly communication. #BLOG: in this latest blog, Laura Simis gives us more insight into Alchemist Review. ➡️https://buff.ly/UXDM283

"Leveraging Hum’s Alchemist Engage product, Emerald will unlock real-time, first-party insights and use them to orchestrate sophisticated, on-platform journeys for its global research community."

Emerald Selects Hum’s Alchemist Engage to Enhance On-Platform Researcher Communication

“Scholars just wanna have FUNds.” ✌️ Swing by @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social booth #14 to get the goodies. #PRC10

💜 Roaming the International Congress on Peer Review? You literally can’t miss us. (We’re very, very purple.) @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social #PRC10

👀 Editors: you already know the pain points. We’re building AI tools to fix them. Tell us what’s broken → Booth #14, @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social #PRC10

Since showing up with a friendship bracelet and a dream seems to be really working out for people... #Alchemist

Hum launched Liquid Intelligence - a limited edition IPA to celebrate all the other good things we've been brewing over here. On tap at Three Notch'd Charlottesville. (At 7.5% ABV - this is the rare case where our product actually makes users LESS intelligent the more they engage with it...)

2022: One AI session @ the International Congress on Peer Review 2025: Multiple AI sessions on Day 1 🚀 Find Hum at Table 14 in Chicago Sept 3-5 to learn more about how Alchemist Review is making the future of AI peer review a reality. @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social

We said "dress incognito for karaoke," and they showed up like... this.

Say hello to Hum’s new CEO! 🎉 Product visionary & co-founder Dustin Smith is stepping up to lead our AI journey. More smart data & bold ideas to come! Read more: blog.hum.works/posts/hum-na...