We matched #PaperMill publication offers for >4K unique titles/topics f/ >200 social media channels w 2,062 papers in 366 @IEEEorg conference proceedings, coauthored by >7.5K researchers from >2K institutions/companies in 56 countries www.tandfonline.com/... #AnnaAbalkina Taylor & Francis Research

TRACE (Trusted Retrieval & Attribution for Content Ecosystems) aims to accelerate development of technical infrastructure needed to improve trustworthiness of AI systems in scholarly communication. @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social @nisoinfo.bsky.social

The Scholarly Kitchen@scholarlykitchen.bsky.social · 6d ago

TRACE Project Launches to Advance AI interoperability scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/10/07/t...

arXiv now limits submitters to up to 2 submissions per month, w a limit of 3 total active submissions at any time, to equitably distribute volunteer moderators’ time across arXiv authors and protect the corpus from a sharp increase in inappropriate submissions

Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy

arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…

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As machines become better at - Processing - Remembering - Acting We need to become better at - Perceiving - Learning - Questioning, remembering that representation is never the scholarship itself @ashutoshg.bsky.social @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social

The Scholarly Kitchen@scholarlykitchen.bsky.social · last wk.

The Representation Is Not the Scholarship scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/10/05/t...

The gold standard for science resides not in any single set of requirements but in the values, commitments, and conduct of a scientific enterprise dedicated to rigor, transparency, intellectual honesty, independent scrutiny, & cumulative learning. www.nejm.org/doi/ful... @hsph.harvard.edu NEJM.org

Vita is the latest English-language journal launched in China in a national effort to create prestigious journals to compete w Western titles. Vita is Open Access, with costs underwritten by journal funders and no author-processing charges (APCs) www.nature.com/artic... Nature

Chinese-owned science journal created to rival the best

Nature - Newly launched Vita is part of a broader government plan to give China a bigger say in what counts as high-quality science.

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An international constellation of suspicious academic academies and societies has sprouted up recently with the apparent goal of building a facade of legitimacy, then using the image to sell memberships & awards to early-career researchers, particularly in China Max Kozlov Nature

Meaningful progress on improving reproducibility requires aligning validation claims w suitable methods standards, embedding it prospectively in the research lifecycle, and building validation capacity and incentive reform www.nature.com/artic... #RainuKaushal Weill Cornell Medicine Nature

Reproducibility in biomedical research

Nature Medicine - Reproducibility is a foundational principle of trustworthy science, but reproducible research practices are not consistently implemented. This Review summarizes the current...

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STM has issued Medical Data Sharing Guidance that publishers could consider adding or adapting to their #DataSharing policy information for medical and health science researchers when they publish in academic journals Learn more at s3.eu-west-2.amazona...

High-confidence MAs use prospectively reg’d protocols, independent reviewers, high-qual RCTs, w enough events for precise meaningful estimates w consistent effects + heterogeneity that's low or clinically/statistically explicable www.thelancet.com/jo... Harlan M. Krumholz The Lancet

The #NIH and #NLM have unveiled a new tool to help biomedical researchers search the scientific literature and learn whether a finding has been replicated by other groups Learn more at linkeddiscoveries.nc... and at www.science.org/cont... @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social @science.org

High-confidence MAs use prospectively reg’d protocols, independent reviewers, high-qual RCTs, w enough events for precise meaningful estimates w consistent effects + heterogeneity that's low or clinically/statistically explicable www.thelancet.com/jo... Harlan M. Krumholz The Lancet

Science progresses not only by confirming what we already know, but by recognizing what we have not yet learned to expect. #PeerReview should be designed to protect that possibility @peerreviewweek.bsky.social @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social

Society for Scholarly Publishing@scholarlypub.bsky.social · 4w ago

Guest Post — Does Peer Review Favor Familiarity Over Innovation? - The Scholarly Kitchen

In July, the prediction market platform #Kalshi and data company #AppliedXL began a pilot market listing binary yes/no contracts on whether named late-stage RCTs meet their preregistered primary end points. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @akesselheim.bsky.social @science.org

Ban bets on unfinished clinical trials

In July, the prediction market platform Kalshi and data company AppliedXL began a pilot market listing binary, yes-or-no contracts on whether named late-stage clinical trials meet their preregistered ...

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#PeerReview should evaluate not if a paper is the final word but what it establishes, what is uncertain, & whether its reasoning & evidence are sound, transparent, & defensible enough to support further examination @ashutoshg.bsky.social @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social @peerreviewweek.bsky.social

Society for Scholarly Publishing@scholarlypub.bsky.social · 4w ago

Rethinking Scholarly Evaluation: Matching Rigor to Purpose - The Scholarly Kitchen

#Paper2Agent can now transform static research papers into an active AI agent — a virtual corresponding author that answers questions, applies the paper’s methods to new data, collaborates with other paper agents, making reproducibility easier to assess www.nature.com/artic... Nature

Turning scientific research papers into interactive AI agents

Nature - A virtual corresponding author prompted in natural language can explain and reproduce a paper’s analyses.

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#Paper2Agent is an automated framework that converts research papers into AI agents in a process that encapsulates a paper’s key contributions through an MCP server, then links the server to LLM-based agents for natural language querying and autonomous execution. www.nature.com/artic... Nature

Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents

Nature - Paper2Agent converts research papers into interactive artificial intelligence agents by turning manuscripts, code and data into model context protocol-based tool-invoking systems that...

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On @prereview.bsky.social, anyone w an ORCID id can #PeerReview #preprints across >30 preprint servers & a number of data repositories per @neurosarda.bsky.social & @alicemeadows.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/09/16/k... @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social cc: @peerreviewweek.bsky.social

PREreview: Open preprint reviews. For all researchers.

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To ensure we’re protecting the time and service of editors & reviewers, we need a system to ease the tension b/ volume, speed, & quality in a way that protects editorial judgment & preserves research integrity. @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social @silverchairnews.bsky.social @peerreviewweek.bsky.social

Society for Scholarly Publishing@scholarlypub.bsky.social · 4w ago

Guest Post — Peer Review Triage: Deciding What’s Worth Saving - The Scholarly Kitchen

Per @alicemeadows.bsky.social: We don’t talk enough about the ethos of #PeerReview, why it’s a critical part of being a scholar/scientist — conversations about capacity likewise overlook its impact. importance as a form of community service @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social @peerreviewweek.bsky.social

The Scholarly Kitchen@scholarlykitchen.bsky.social · 4w ago

Ask the Chefs: Peer Review Capacity — Uncomfortable Truths and Overlooked Conversations scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/09/14/a...

@cos.io's #OSF will no longer accept new code, data after 16 Nov. Available files will remain but users will no longer be able to upload new materials, and all existing private files will be made public after the change www.nature.com/artic... Dalmeet Singh Chawla Nature Brian Nosek

Popular open-science platform to stop hosting data and code amid funding concerns

Nature - Changes to the Open Science Framework’s policies will come into effect in November, forcing researchers to reconsider their workflows.

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NEJM AI is piloting a “fast track” accept-or-reject decision w/in 7 d based on AI analysis + human review. An editor performs full human review, then other editors debate the human + AI reviews to decide on publication www.science.org/cont... Jeffrey Brainard @science.org

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Sessions will explore topics such as translating industry principles into policy + advocacy; navigating the evolving role of editorial judgment in an increasingly AI-enabled environment; preserving publication quality and research integrity @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social @scholarlypub.bsky.social

Society for Scholarly Publishing@scholarlypub.bsky.social · last mo.

New Directions Seminar: What Is a Journal in 2030? - The Scholarly Kitchen

"People with relevant competing interests, particularly financial ones, should not be members of clinical or public policy guideline committees." @kamranabbasi.bsky.social on why the notion that transparency alone is enough hasn’t stood the test of time

The £50m case for eliminating financial interests from clinical guidelines

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The true measure of a successful pragmatic RCT is the extent to which it gives decision-makers—evidence they can use to decide whether and how to adopt an intervention across the diverse, imperfect contexts in which real-world care occurs. jamanetwork.com/jour... Alison Huang, MD JAMA

Even the best AI detection tools do not distinguish well between AI-generated and AI-enhanced content @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social

The Scholarly Kitchen@scholarlykitchen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

AI Use in The Scholarly Kitchen scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/27/a...

The Lancet’s new guidance encourages researchers to consider disability throughout the research process in all studies, & encourages authors to include people with disabilities in all stages of research, including disability-disaggregated analyses where appropriate www.thelancet.com/jo...

The decade of work behind persistent identifiers, structured metadata, and shared vocabularies was, whether we envisioned it as such or not, preparation for non-human readers scholarlykitchen.ssp... Chris Reid The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest Post — Your Next Reader Is a Machine, and We Are Ready - The Scholarly Kitchen

Machine readers replacing human readers can sound like a threat. Today's post argues that our community is well prepared to face these challenges and seize the opportunities.

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Social media promised to be a democratic upgrade—faster, broader, more interactive. AI-generated threads about medicine risk becoming the new passive lecture: authoritative in tone, effortless in production, shallow in substance. www.acpjournals.org/... UTSWIM @annalsofim.bsky.social