In case you missed the British Ecological Society study earlier this year by Charles Fox et al about who benefits from anonymised peer review, here's a great interview by Elizabeth Moylan especially for #peerreviewweek wiley.com/en-us/network/…

Tackling structural inequities in research publishing needs to be a collaborative and collective endeavour: at Wiley in research we wrote a White Paper explaining why and how this might be achieved #openaccess #globalsouth wiley.com/en-us/network/…

Draft recommended practice from NISO for handling comms about retractions/removals/expressions of concern is open for feedback at niso.org/standards-comm…. My Wiley in research colleague Joyce Griffin has written about it at wiley.com/en-us/network/… #publishingethics

The Christmas book tree sponsored by Hatchards books at St. Pancras Station. The little booths at the bottom have speakers that read you a story while you wait for your train.

New The Cochrane Library systematic review on peer reviewer training: no clear evidence that it improves quality of #peerreview, but limitations to evidence and how to measure 'quality' cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.10…

Il était une fois ... The dream of machine translation as formulated 74,5 years ago. Author of "Scientific Babel", Michael Gordin discusses the pre-history of Deep Learning and AI in science during the 2nd Helsinki Initiative Webinar on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication

Interested in #engineering? TfL recently published its 'Engineering Icons Tube Map', celebrating a few hundred famous and/or not so famous - but highly influential - engineers. Check it out at londonblog.tfl.gov.uk/2023/11/01/eng…

Nice infographic about how to tackle the challenges of #infodemiology, information and misinformation (thanks Kirstin Krauss for drawing my attention to this) who.int/news-room/spot…

The BMJ Christmas edition - always a highlight of this time of the year

An African proverb I learned today: 'When an old person dies, a library burns to the ground'

Come and be a part of our first webinar session in 2024! We will discuss the topic, 'Building gateways to open science in Africa' and @thescientistgh from African Reproducibility Network (AREN) will be our guest speaker. January 18, 2024 2pm WAT – 3pm CAT – 4pm EAT Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Reflections by my colleague @DWFlanagan on how #genAI will transform scholarly publishing financialexpress.com/business/digit…

Telling the world about your research! A thought-provoking Webinar coming up soon w/ #HUMA Director Taah Abongnelaa Divine Fuh, Prof. Marina Joubert CREST, Stellenbosch University & Researcher Bianca Davis International Younger Chemists Network (IYCN) Tuesday, Jan 30th hosted by Wiley Register to join: register.gotowebinar.com/regi.../866931…

Kids are never too young to learn about the world of publishing! (other careers are available)

United2Act Consensus Statement released today, outlining 5 key areas of action against impact of #papermills on academic research & publishing #integrity. Brings together research bodies, universities, publishers & others, supported by COPE STM publicationethics.org/about/press/pa…

Ensuring research integrity is fundamental to our mission. That’s why we’re proud to champion United2Act. This new initiative connects publishers, funders, research institutes and other stakeholders to take action and fight fraud. Find out more: ow.ly/4SQY50QsvWT

If you're an early career researcher in South Africa/ Namibia/Botswana, don't miss our Wiley in research webinar on 30 Jan, 'Telling the world about your research', with three amazing experts on #scholcomm #scicomm Taah Abongnelaa Divine Fuh Marina Joubert Bianca Davids (she/her)🍉. DM me for more info!

Grateful to Origin Editorial for the opportunity to contribute a few thoughts on how journals, editors and publishers can support authors based in what's often termed the 'Global South' origineditorial.com/original-thoug…