Instead of scholarly communication or academic publishing, this week we share on and off topic content we have enjoyed this year. Plus @grnr25.bsky.social shares some lessons learned @jontreadway.bsky.social @sarahgreaves18.bsky.social @roobina.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/scholarl...

The U.S. Office of Research Integrity has been relatively quiet in 2025, releasing just two misconduct findings with only two weeks remaining in the year — the fewest the office has released since at least 2006. ORI typically releases an average of about 10 findings a year.

Last week I attended the #STMInnovation and #STMIntegrity days in London. I believe the scholarly research ecosystem needs to change in a pretty substantial way if we're to face in to the societal threats that have emerged. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/12/17/w...

Very much enjoyed last week's meeting in Cambridge about the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model for scholarly publishing. There were lots of highly inspiring discussions, including an important discussion about strengthening coordination between initiatives in this area. asapbio.org/reimagining-...

Latest post by @jontreadway.bsky.social explores what the shortlist and winners of the Vesalius Innovation Award say about changes in the research workflow system. open.substack.com/pub/scholarl...

📣 On demand: Watch our webinar with Research Information and see how publishers can scale #ResearchIntegrity checks with the Dimensions Author Check API. Presented by Dr Leslie McIntosh & Tyler Ruse. 🔗 See the webinar now: https://ow.ly/Rfzf50XGcff #ResearchIntegrity#scholcomm

Will AI help or hinder the Publish, Read, Curare model? New post from @sarahgreaves18.bsky.social for our Substack 👇 open.substack.com/pub/scholarl...

🚀 Big news for open research information! From 2026, @cnrs.fr will no longer have institutional access to Web of Science. This move aligns with the vision of the Barcelona Declaration and shows how institutions can operationalise the transition to open systems. 🔗 www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...

This afternoon, I will give a public lecture about #ResearchIntegrity and #ImageForensics, at the University of Bern, CH, where I will receive an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science tomorrow. Thank you for your support ❤️

🚨 Webinar Alert 👉 Dec 4 @ 10am ET What does #GenAI do well and where does it fail without supporting tech? We’ll explore how knowledge graphs, symbolic reasoning & more can help GenAI! 🔗 Register: https://ow.ly/QGVI50Xx7y3

How much further can consolidation go in scholarly publishing, and could winds of change blow in from elsewhere to reshape the market, perhaps even ‘disrupt’ the way things are done? Latest by @roobina.bsky.social 👇 open.substack.com/pub/scholarl...

Excellent start to #Munin2025 with the panel on open #metadata with perspectives from @barcelonadori.bsky.social, @doaj.bsky.social, @oa2020.org, @pkp.sfu.ca and SCOAP3 @cern.bsky.social. Followed by the beautiful sight of the final sunset of the year from UiT Campus

Fascinating post by @jontreadway.bsky.social this week about the 'Chuna Cycle' and how well it could map onto academic publishing. Find out more 👇

Scholastica & Maverick Release New Survey Report: Tech Needs of Small and Medium Publishers

The @ama-assn.org will cease publication of its ethics journal at the end of this year.

Is there a major health crisis coming for STM publishing? @sarahgreaves18.bsky.social shares her thoughts on the @stmassoc.bsky.social day that runs adjacent to the Frankfurt Book Fair: 👇 open.substack.com/pub/scholarl...

Amid growing financial pressure, exacerbated by the increasing dominance of open access, learned societies face a defining moment. Leveraging their community could be the answer. By @grnr25.bsky.social 👇 open.substack.com/pub/scholarl...

To round off the week, we bring this quick update on research security, since our post on Tuesday. Written by @roobina.bsky.social about an announcement from the @ec.europa.eu and a report by @scienceeurope.org open.substack.com/pub/scholarl...

This is something I have thought about a lot over the last couple of years, especially since 2022. The Great Pullback: Why Academic Social Media’s Fragmentation Matters @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/29/g... 1/12

✅ More transparency online. As of today, researchers can access data from the biggest online platforms. Why? To study their societal impact and address risks like illegal content and scams – making the online world safer, especially for minors. → link.europa.eu/RMdwCV

This week, @roobina.bsky.social takes a look at research security and how it could create tensions with open science and open data: 👇 open.substack.com/pub/scholarl...

1/2 Moving funding metadata forward: highlights from our round table (co-organized with @crossref.bsky.social) New blog by @hldejonge.bsky.social , based on Working Group 3 (Funding Metadata) • ~25% Crossref records have funding info ⬇️

2/2 • 45 funders using Grant IDs (250k+ links) • Standardisation + coordination = faster progress🔗 Read: barcelona-declaration.org/news/2025102... #FundingMetadata #OpenScience #OpenResearchInformation

What might it mean to publish research with no human in the loop? @jontreadway.bsky.social post investigates four possible avenues and explores which seem more likely: open.substack.com/pub/scholarl...

Printing and cake! We can get behind that!! 🍰

There is considerable discussion about the (lack of) openness of metadata of journal articles, but how do preprint servers perform in terms of openly available metadata? @neesjanvaneck.bsky.social and I report our findings in a new @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social blog post doi.org/10.59350/te7....

Quick drop by @jontreadway.bsky.social on a news article about how a more transactional world could affect scholarly communications. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/scholarl...

Interesting post from @altmetric.com about the rise of podcasts and the citations they contain.

The arrival of AI and the speed it is changing our working lives is astonishing. @sarahgreaves18.bsky.social investigates the adoption of AI tools into academic publisher workflows, attitudes towards them & lessons from book publishing. open.substack.com/pub/scholarl...

5 million of them are about research

An interesting summary of AI tools in scholarly publishing. Well worth a read! Thanks @phillbjones.bsky.social

Our first post is live! In our daily lives it can be hard to find time to stop and discuss the vast changes occurring in scholarly communication, research practices and academic publishing. We wanted to make time and engage our community to gain insights. Join us! 👇 open.substack.com/pub/scholarl...