For @peerreviewweek.bsky.social we share this poster presentation from the EASE Peer Review Committee, detailing their Guides and Infographics available from our PR Toolkit, Publications and Resources. See it in hi-res + more info on @scienceopen.bsky.social doi.org/10.14293/EAS... #PeerReview

Part II of the EASE Editorial School for Journal Editors begins in October. No need to take Part I first, you can start here with four modules to help your journals enhance their publishing strategy, visibility, impact, and editorial processes ease.org.uk/ease-events/...

In this new Editage video for @peerreviewweek.bsky.social, our Vice President, Iva Grabaric Andonovski shares her thoughts on whether AI can replace human peer reviewers. youtu.be/lnDmFaneuik?... #PeeReviewWeek #PRW25

A new @peerreviewweek.bsky.social short on the Editage YT channel, from EASE Vice-President Iva Grabaric Andonovski, answering the question 'Should AI Tools Used During Peer Review be Disclosed'? www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sNF... #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025

Touching on trials, reporting guidelines, and journal publishing/ editing - this @easeeditors.bsky.social webinar on 30.09. sounds very promising: ease.org.uk/event/ease-g... #NightshiftEditor #AcademicPublishing #RCTs

Day Two of the 12th PUBMET conference is streaming live in YouTube now Many of our colleagues from EASE Croatia are there, hosting the sessions in the latest developments in Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science www.youtube.com/live/wk5_3Fj... #pubmet #openscience

Join us next week, 16th September for a session discussing ethics sleuthing and image integrity in the age of generative AI with forensic meta-scientist René Aquarius and Council member Phill Jones. ease.org.uk/event/ease-w... #EASEevents #ImageIntegrity

New on the EASE Digest, a recent paper from the JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine, detailing the launch of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Advocacy Team and their strategy to promote transparency and inclusive publishing practices. ease.org.uk/2025/08/dive... #EASEdigest #DEI

On the EASE Digest, we highlight the new book from @samuelmoore.org tackling the infrastructures and integrity of the open access research publishing landscape. ease.org.uk/2025/09/publ... #EASEdigest #OpenAccess

Peer Review Week is approaching! We have two events during the week; Monday 15th - Peer Review Across Borders and Technologies: Localizing the EASE Toolkit in the AI Era and this session with Phill, on Thursday 18th - From red flags to real fixes: Can AI help clean up scientific publishing?

We are delighted to welcome forensic meta-scientist @deadneanderthals.bsky.social to the EASE webinar series, joining our Council member @phillbjones.bsky.social for a session discussing ethics sleuthing and image integrity in the age of generative AI ease.org.uk/event/ease-w...

More details have been added to our special Regional Chapter session for @peerreviewweek.bsky.social Speakers from EASE chapters will showcase resources from the Toolkit, how they support responsible, context-sensitive peer review across disciplines, languages, and regions. bit.ly/easeprw25

New to the EASE Digest, our Bookshelf Editor recommend the 'SPIRIT 2025 statement: updated guideline for protocols of randomized trials'. ease.org.uk/2025/08/spir... #EASEdigest #EASEbookshelf #SpiritStatement

Next Thursday, join Dr Evgeny Bobrov from the QUEST Center for Responsible Research, for a session on data sharing practices and policies common among academic journals. The session is free and open to anyone interested. ease.org.uk/event/ease-g... #EASEevents #EASEgermany #ResponsibleResearch

This new paper analyses the content of 130 review invitations from 52 journals over a three-year period. The results offer a useful standard and framework for templating emails to reviewers to improve the peer review process experience for reviewers, journals and authors. doi.org/10.3897/ese....

Issue 6 of our public EASE Update newsletter is out today. It features news from across the EASE community, previews of forthcoming events and training, recent publications, and details of our special Regional Chapter webinar for @peerreviewweek.bsky.social sh1.sendinblue.com/ah0schmkclpf...

This Thursday August 21, join our India Chapter for a free and open webinar delivering practical insights from experienced editors, with key skills and top tips to effectively manage editorial workflows. ease.org.uk/event/ease-i...

We are delighted to award the 'Community Engagement and Collaboration Posters' prize to EASE Ukraine for 'Fostering Changes in Ukrainian Academic Publishing Landscape. See the hi-res pdf and all the posters from our 18th Conference in our @scienceopen.bsky.social Collection doi.org/10.14293/EAS...

"The entire structure of science could collapse if this is left unaddressed" www.wsj.com/science/scie... @reeserichardson.bsky.social @jabyrnesci.bsky.social Luis Amaral on the impact of paper mills

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...

Winner of our Scholarly Publishing Process and Innovation Posters' category at our Oslo Conference, this poster details approaches implemented by Editors of @ioppublishing.bsky.social journals to combat increasing threats from fake research. doi.org/10.14293/EAS...

Winner of the Scientific Posters category of our 2025 Conference Competition, this poster comments on the disparity of open access accessibility. Read the full abstract and see all posters from our Oslo Conference on our @scienceopen.bsky.social Collection page: doi.org/10.14293/EAS...

This new Viewpoint draws from the Transparency and Openness Promotion guidelines and US-Judicial contention with GenAI, to argue that journals should request the full text of each cited source along with submitted manuscripts, as a way to combat GenAi-faked references doi.org/10.3897/ese....

Following our Oslo Conference, we have added details of all sessions and posters to our Conferences Collection on @scienceopen.bsky.social Readers can now more easily browse all the materials, and contributors get these activities registered to their ORCID profiles bit.ly/easesoconfer...

A new paper in ESE investigates Moldovan conferences to examine the extent to which they match the markers of predatory conferences, and cautions against practices which blur the lines between acceptable and predatory. Read the full paper from the journal now: doi.org/10.3897/ese....

We are delighted to welcome Iryna Izarova to the EASE Council! Iryna is a Professor of Law, journal editor, Chair of EASE Ukraine, and the Regional Chapter Programme, and winner of two EASE Awards. See the full council for 2025-2027 on the EASE website: ease.org.uk/about-us/org...

This new article in European Science Editing surveys the attitudes to open access publishing of 1000 Croatian authors. Results highlight much similarity of general attitudes, but practical differences in adoption between STEM and SSH fields. doi.org/10.3897/ese.... #OpenAccess #OA

A fantastically clear and forthright discussion with the excellent Damien Riggs, on person-centred language and perspectives, authenticity, collaboration, allyship, accidental damage, authoring skills and techniques. youtu.be/0-uKZ_Gns2A #EASEediCommittee #EASEevents #TransLives #WritingSkills

This guest post in EASE Digest from our Conference Premier Sponsors, JAMS looks at why customised editorial support matters and the questions editors should be asking asbout their review platforms. ease.org.uk/2025/06/why-... #EASEdigest #PeerReview #EditorialManagement #JournalManagement

Join us from 11:30am UK time tomorrow, June 24, for a webinar with Prof. Damien Riggs A discussion of what it means to work and write in the field of trans studies, and how cisgender authors can write about trans lives in constructive and sustainable ways. ease.org.uk/event/ease-e...

We are adding all the posters from our Oslo Conference to our ScienceOpen proceedings collection. You can read more about our initiative in the latest EASE Update newsletter di2qt.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/mr/sh/SMJ...

Issue 5 of EASE Update, our bi-monthly public newsletter, is up and out now! We share some exciting news about our journal, update you on our ScienceOpen Conference collection, share our Peer Review Committee’s guidance document ‘How to Assess Peer Review Quality’ and much more bit.ly/EASEupdate5

The theme of Peer Review Week 2025 is revealed - 'Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era' will be the focus of events and discussion in September. Read the Scholarly Kitchen introduction article to find out more scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/10/r...

We are delighted to announce that EASE journal European Science Editing has been accepted into the Web of Science Emerging Source Citation index. Read more about this exciting news on the EASE Digest ease.org.uk/2025/06/euro... #EuropeanScienceEditing #WebofScience #ESCI

Our final Oslo conference delegate introduction features Council member Sigmar Rode and Edna Montero from the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors youtube.com/shorts/aVK_q... #EASEoslo #EASEevents

Next up in our LIVE! from EASE Oslo series of delegate videos we introduce you to the legendary Hervé Maisonneuve - past president of EASE and attendee of almost every conference since EASE began! youtube.com/shorts/9rQc5...

The @doaj.bsky.social recently retired the 'Seal' from its index, as a result of responses to their community survey. This post on EASE Digest provides an explanation as to what changed in the Directory, and what it means for journals. ease.org.uk/2025/05/doaj...

Today we look back at our Oslo conference with Ukrainian Regional Chapter members Yuliia Hartman and Bohdana Zahrebeina, both Managing Editors at Access to Justice in Eastern Europe Journal youtube.com/shorts/NTysn...

Meet the delegates who attended our recent Conference in Oslo. Here's Elsevier Strategic Innovation Manager, Ilaria Cianchetta, tallking publication success! youtube.com/shorts/K6EgV... #EASEoslo

Meet the delegates of our Oslo conference! Here;s a minute with Victoria Merriman Editor Engagement Manager at IOP Publishing youtube.com/shorts/caP5n...

A lovely photograph from our Oslo Conference, where our new Council for 2025-2027 were able to meet in person to begin discussing our next initiatives! See details of the Council on our webpage! ease.org.uk/about-us/org...

In response to the Executive Orders issued by the White House affecting scientific researchers in the USA and globally, this new Editorial in European Science Editing calls for Editors and journals to adhere to established scientific consensus and evidence-based practices doi.org/10.3897/ese....

Follow our portfolio of OA, peer-reviewed journals to keep up to date with the latest research in biodiversity, ecology, and more! go.bsky.app/VKsmRtL

Cast your vote to choose the theme of #PeerReviewWeek25 This is your chance to have a say in the focus of peer review discussions this year Voting ends Saturday, 31 May docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #PRW2025 #PeerReview #PeerReviewMatters #AcademicPublishing

Shining a critical light at realities of #Ukrainian journals in occupied territories was Iryna Izarova, chair of Ukrainian chapter @easeeditors.bsky.social, and the crucial work they have been doing to develop strategies against mis-appropriation. #ResearchIntegrity affects all #EASEoslo #EASE2025

Had the privilege to represent @thinkchecksub.bsky.social to skilled editors at the @easeeditors.bsky.social conference today. Framing how independent learning tools like TCS can be used for quality assurance of journals by flipping the questions. More tools: thinkchecksubmit.org/resources/ad...

Very much on the theme of our conference this week. #EASEoslo

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Keynote speaker Camilla Stoltenberg reminds us of the role uncertainty plays in science: "Because we will never know exactly what’s going to happen tomorrow or 10 years from now... That is part of science—to try to envisage that through forecasting, scenarios, and communication." 1/3 #EASEoslo

Why is it so urgent to act against misinformation? Nicolien van der Linden shared: "If we can’t agree on what disinformation is, how can we fight it? What exactly are we combating?" #EASE2025 #Disinformation #EASEoslo #ScientificPublishing