Our colleague @drachiarelli.bsky.social will be attending APE 2026 in Berlin next week. Looking forward to discussions on academic publishing and connecting with industry leaders. If you’d like to connect during the event, get in touch! #APE2026 #AcademicPublishing #ScholarlyCommunication

We have been reflecting on an exciting 2025 for Research Consulting - here's our end of year review. Huge gratitude to our clients, associates and everyone who participated in our consultations! www.research-consulting.com/looking-back...

It was a great pleasure (as ever) to work with the Global Biodata Coalition on this!

A lot of #scholcomm #publishing startups focus on using #AI to detect bad manuscripts at the point of review. Publishing is a late stage step in the scholalry supply change. Trying to detect what has happened at each upstream step is a fool's errand. The whole chain needs hardening #STMinnovation

We’ve published the first edition of Research Consulting Insights, our new quarterly roundup including updates on recent projects and studies, and a profile of our colleague Angharad Roberts. Read the full issue here: buff.ly/IvaYVLp

Our colleague, @dylanstoran.bsky.social will be heading to @stmassoc.bsky.social Integrity Day next week, where the focus is on building tomorrow’s research integrity framework. If you’re attending, let’s connect! #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicPublishing #Publishing #stminlondon

Our colleague @rschrobuk.bsky.social will be at the @stmassoc.bsky.social Innovator Fair in London on 9 December. This year’s theme, explores cutting-edge solutions shaping scholarly publishing. If you’re attending, drop Rob a message to connect and share ideas! #stminlondon #ResearchIntegrity

I've got a new piece at @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today following on from my previous piece about the British Library cyberattack and arguing that, since the UK Government clearly doesn't care about the UK knowledge sector, we need to develop our own community-led tech and infrastructure solutions.

I completely agree that more is needed to implement the CRediT taxonomy in proper scholarly infrastructure. I love coding, but text and data mining is not the right way to get data that should be available in a standardised format! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Or course the big bomb would be Google scholar coming in. They did just launch Scholar labs but that's deep search not deep research... But if they change their mind... aarontay.substack.com/p/scholar-la... (7)

Our work gives us a front-row seat to how research is changing — in universities, publishing, funding, and policy. We’re starting a new mailing list to share updates and insights and stay connected with colleagues across the research ecosystem. Sign up here to stay in touch 👉 buff.ly/8Z0nZt7

Newly released Stockholm Declaration recommends the following reforms to publishing: 1. Academia resumes control of publishing 2. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity 3. Independent fraud detection and prevention 4. Legislation and policies to protect science quality and integrity

It’s such a pleasure to join Dryad’s Board of Directors!

The 4th Annual Forum for Open Research in MENA was nothing short of enlightening! A fantastic event filled with learning, inspiration and a renewed appreciation for the incredible open research initiatives happening across the region. www.linkedin.com/pulse/connec...

Yay, let’s swap bad metrics for more bad metrics! 🤩 And with a twist - as shown by a browser extension. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fantastic workshop and a great, engaged audience!

@doaj.bsky.social is one of the best things that happened to open access and open science infrastructure. A quote from the Forum for Open Research in MENA that I am very pleased to share!

Rosalie Lack highlights the impact of @scossfunding.bsky.social to date - impressive! At the same time, she recognises that there is more to do, and more funds are needed to support open infrastructures.

First up Panel L: Dr. Andrea Chiarelli from Research Consulting shares key insights on embracing open research and lessons learned from successful initiatives across Europe and the UK. Tune in live to explore practical takeaways for advancing openness in research: shorturl.at/t761m #FORM2025

Global open science dialogue is missing African voices. #FORM4Open

Helicopter science is a key challenge when it comes to equitable research practices. I’m loving how Perplexity clarifies this is NOT about helicopters by showing helpful helicopter schematics 🤔 #FORM4Open

Rising research output but low levels of international collaboration - a current challenge of research in the UAE. #FORM4Open

An overview of the financial models that work in various MENA countries. “Various regions are starting to develop multilateral collaborations to support the growth of Diamond OA publishing models,” and there was acknowledgment of the value of initiatives like the @eudch.bsky.social. #FORM4Open

Super interesting - 71% of OA journals found in the MENA region were launched in the last 15 years. As Emily Choynowski highlights, this shows the relatively recent developments in open research in the region. #FORM4Open

Steven Griffiths highlights that research ethics and integrity are an increasingly important part of open research at AUS - going far beyond openness for publications only. He also acknowledges that individual motivations for open research remain a barrier, partly because the time and effort needed.

Great to hear about the ALECSO initiative from Prof Mohamad Sanad Abu-Darwish at the @forumforopen.bsky.social - reflecting on how to connect the Arab region to the world when it comes to open research. Also kudos to the organisers for the very smooth live translation from Arabic! #FORM4open

Our colleague, @drachiarelli.bsky.social, is in the UAE this week at the @forumforopen.bsky.social Conference. Feel free to connect with Andrea to arrange a catch up. #FORM2025 #UAE

Join our Managing Director, @rschrobuk.bsky.social, at the @stmassoc.bsky.social ECPC webinar “Non-traditional roles in scholarly publishing”. He’ll be sharing his insights on career pathways and how he successfully pivoted into leadership. buff.ly/Euf67S2

Our colleague, @drachiarelli.bsky.social, is travelling over to UAE next week to join the @forumforopen.bsky.social Conference. Feel free to connect with Andrea to discuss the conference or even arrange a catch up. #FORM2025 #UAE

At Frankfurt Book Fair? We’re taking the pulse of the academic publishing ecosystem — share your view in our 2-minute survey and see how your outlook compares in our post-event brief. bit.ly/PublishingPu... #FBM25

Our colleagues, @dylanstoran.bsky.social and @rschrobuk.bsky.social are in Frankfurt this week to attend the @stmassoc.bsky.social conference and the @buchmesse.de Frankfurt Book Fair. Feel free to connect with Dylan and Rob to catch up in person. #STM #FBF

Great to to see @openbookcollective.bsky.social’s annual report referencing our recent work for them on financial sustainability

Working with EMBL-EBI, we explored the challenges scientists face in accessing and contributing to global biodata infrastructure. Read the final report here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

It was great to partner with @ebi.embl.org to explore the usage of biodata and bioinformatics resources across the world. Thanks to ThankGod Ebenezer and Matthew Thakur for the guidance and insight along the way!

I'm looking forward to discussing research impact with @wherearethebooks.bsky.social at @forumforopen.bsky.social later this month. Register below to join our workshop!

Read reflections on #OASPA2025 by @drachiarelli.bsky.social in Italian and with an English translation. Multilingualism is just one of the many important considerations raised at the conference. Do share your own reflections #inyourownwords www.linkedin.com/posts/oaspa_...

Unlike puzzles with a single correct answer, games highlight the interdependence of decisions. By exploring interactions as games, we can see why people sometimes act against their own long-term interest and why groups can fall into traps. open.substack.com/pub/andreach...

Higher education and scholarly publishing are facing some tough questions. My recent conversation with Michael Upshall on the Against the Grain Podcast explores why. atgthepodcast.libsyn.com/atgthepodcas...

Quite funny that they're citing $13,000 APCSs as a reason for doing this. Nature got greedy.

For example, earlier this year a piece on Diamond #OpenAccess was published in Katina as the result of a collaboration between the Open Access Business Models WG and the OABN WG: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?' katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Are you an innovator—or do you know one that deserves the spotlight? Then come closer: we've just opened applications for the STM Innovator Fair. Deadline to submit is 30 Sept! Here, selected presenters pitch #scholarlycommunication solutions to STM decision makers: stm-assoc.org/stm-innovato...

A touch of systems thinking👇 might be what we need to unlock the transition to open access. #OASPA2025

Great engagement with Malavika’s interactive session at #OASPA2025!

An interesting @oaspa.bsky.social ‘can do’ panel (@juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @theblochian.bsky.social Kate McCready and Lauren Kane) discussing great examples of non-profit initiatives that are focused on community-led approaches, innovative models and considering built-in scaling. #OASPA2025

Important call from ACM for publishers to set a hard deadline for their OA transition. Stay tuned for January 2026, when their portfolio will be fully open. 👏 #OASPA2026

A strong call to action. In my own experience, one of the greatest challenges is identifying the ‘right people’ to engage in each region to start partnerships. Languages are a big barrier, too, as are time zone differences - it might sound silly/very practical, but it’s a real blocker! #OASPA2025

Lauren Kane - we need to be able to experiment and try, and know that some things will fail - and not hold new models to a higher standard than the old ones. Perhaps S2O won't work for everyone/ forever, but traditional model certainly didn't either. #OASPA2025

At #VitaeCon2025 we launched the report from a researcher development study in partnership with @Vitae-news.bsky.social with 14 UK & Australian universities, supporting 40,000 research staff and students. See the infographic & public report: buff.ly/76YyQRl #researcherdevelopment #VitaeCon 🧵1/7

Valuable overview shared by Dagmar Meyer. Spoiler alert: this is only the first elephant we see at #OASPA2025 today… (wait for Malavika’s session later!)

As the slide highlights, these journals have limited international visibility. We need to fix that: Kazuhiro Hayashi acknowledges that Japan might be in a good position to start or lead ‘something different.’ #OASPA2025