New from @publicationethics.bsky.social - Core Principles & formal Code of Conduct for Members: 'A transition period of 12 months from date of this publication is granted for full implementation, after which strict adherence is a condition of membership' #publicationethics #scholarlypublishing

Core Principles

COPE's Core Principles are the ethical foundation of scholarly publishing and articulate the values that underpin responsible, transparent, and fair publishing practices.

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The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes When making a fake is cheap and quick but detecting it is costly and slow, the world is in big trouble. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...

The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes

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A bumper edition of very interesting reads #ResearchIntegrity #PeerReview #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchPublication #ResearchPublishing #AcademicSky

Weekend reads: Uneven sanctions for misconduct; protein name confusion in hundreds of papers; the Journal of Research on Research

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Court dismisses biochemist’s lawsuit against MD Anderson Journal retr…

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Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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As submissions to scientific journals continue to climb, it’s becoming more time-consuming to find ones that may offer truly novel ideas. This U.K. competition is paying the winner £300,000 for suggesting how AI could help. #peerreview #scicomm @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

How novel is that research paper? Competition to quantify concept crowns winner

The automated tool could be used to help journals vet submissions

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Reading The Circle again, still a good read 13 years on and shows how prescient it was … this juxtaposition a bit unsettling!

The latest SK post by Tim Vines discusses the level of trust inherent in a data citation, arguing that a data citation implies a much deeper relationship between the original article and the subsequent research than an article-to-article citation. #data #opendata #datasharing #scholcomm

Society for Scholarly Publishing@scholarlypub.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Data Reuse is the Sincerest Form of Flattery - The Scholarly Kitchen

BREAKING: The government has announced that it will update the Cabinet Manual. See the Written Statement: questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat.... @lisajames.bsky.social wrote about the urgent need for updating last year 👇

The urgent need to update the Cabinet Manual

The Cabinet Manual is an important guide to the workings of the UK’s uncodified constitution, providing an accessible roadmap for ministers, officials and the public. But the document has not been …

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A quick warning to my fellow authors. An online book club asked me to do a zoom presentation about.Calling Bullshit. I agreed because outreach is critical to what I do. As things proceeded, they asked me for a contribution of several hundred dollars to cover their expenses! Don’t fall for this.

NEW on the @rorinstitute.bsky.social Substack: Cameron Neylon previews his just-published RoRI working paper examining the challenges & opportunities for developing indicators to track improvement in research cultures & environments open.substack.com/pub/research...

The more things change, the more they need to stay the same

The challenges and opportunities of monitoring research cultures and environments

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NEW on the @rorinstitute.bsky.social Substack: I look at the headlines on our review (published today) of studies of interventions to cut red tape and make research funding faster & more flexible. substack.com/@stephencurr...

Red tape and research funding

How much research bureaucracy is enough?

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Our new working paper, "Fast and flexible research funding: a review," analyzes the unsustainable time and paperwork required for grant applications, offering key recommendations to help global funders reduce this bureaucratic burden: rori.figshare.com/articles/pre...

What Counts as Diamond Open Access? China Has Its Own Answer #ScientificPublishing #DiamondOpenAccess #China doi.org/10.1146/kati...

What Counts as Diamond Open Access? China Has Its Own Answer.

Diamond OA is frequently associated with Latin America or European community-led initiatives, with China left out of the conversation. It shouldn’t be.

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We've had a question about COUNTER and GDPR, and what can or cannot be shared between data centres in different jurisdictions. Check out the answer on today's post: www.countermetrics.org/usage-gdpr/

I am very happy that we are expanding Registered Reports to all disciplines in which we publish, which is all areas of natural, clinical and social sciences, engineering & public health. We’ve learned a lot since 2023 when we first invited RRs; we are ready to expand 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which we publish

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.

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Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

... in the absence of feedback yet from @creativecommons.bsky.social @rickanderson.bsky.social is asking readers for input on how the issues he's raised will or should be addressed #CCSignals #CreativeCommons

Rick Anderson@rickanderson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I have a new piece up in the Scholarly Kitchen today, posing seven questions about @creativecommons.bsky.social's new iteration of CC Signals and its plans for the future: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/26/s...

In our newest blog post, we share several interventions we are advancing to restore trust, strengthen participation, and embed public interest values into the AI knowledge ecosystem. We do not have all the answers yet, but we do have a framework for how we will work toward them. buff.ly/aEYLBR4

From Signals to Infrastructure: Strengthening the Commons for the AI Era - Creative Commons

Creative Commons outlines their framework to restore trust, strengthen participation, and embed public interest values into the AI ecosystem.

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I have a new piece up in the Scholarly Kitchen today, posing seven questions about @creativecommons.bsky.social's new iteration of CC Signals and its plans for the future: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/26/s...

Seven Questions about CC Signals - The Scholarly Kitchen

With CC Signals, Creative Commons wants to help authors put rules on use of their licensed content for AI training.

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New on ScienceIntegrityDigest: My report from the 2026 World Conference on Research Integrity in Vancouver. If you could not make it, there are links to all my BlueSky live posts from the sessions I attended. #WCRI2026 Read the report here: scienceintegritydigest.com/2026/05/20/r...

Reporting from the 2026 World Conference on Research Integrity

Early May, I attended the 2026 World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This conference is held every two years. In 2024, I went to the WCRI in Athens, Greece, and in…

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The palaeontologist Mary Anning was born on this day 227 years ago! In our Fossil Marine Reptiles Gallery, you’ll find some of Mary Anning's spectacular finds, including her ichthyosaur, plesiosaur and pterosaur. Much like they did two centuries ago, her discoveries continue to intrigue us today.🦴

#WCRI2026 is over. I would like to share the summary of several presentations on paper mills. abalkina.com/wcri-2026-pa... abalkina.com/wcri-2026-pa... Part 3 will be released soon.

WCRI 2026 (Part 1) - Anna Abalkina

World Congress on Research Integrity 2026, for the first time, included dozens of presentations on paper mills, organizations that sell papers, co-authorship

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And now the announcement of the next WCRI! Drum roll please..... Tallinn, Estonia! #WCRI2026

Good morning from Vancouver, on Day 3 of the @wcrifoundation.bsky.social With Gengyan Tang, "Producing Papers, Fabricating Science: Paper Mills in China" Research on paper mills poses ethical challenges (undercover identity, data access challenges, legal constraints) #WCRI2026

Important #trustmarkers initiative: bsky.app/profile/niso... is seeking members from across the information community, especially those working in or involved with #researchintegrity #publishing #scholarlyresearch #sciencecommunication #metadata registries, #identifiers and #academiclibraries

NISO@nisoinfo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We're excited to announce that NISO Voting Members have approved a new Working Group to develop a recommended practice for the identification of trust markers for scholarly research! Get in touch if you’re interested in joining the group! www.niso.org/press-releas... #ScholComm #ResearchIntegrity

We're excited to announce that NISO Voting Members have approved a new Working Group to develop a recommended practice for the identification of trust markers for scholarly research! Get in touch if you’re interested in joining the group! www.niso.org/press-releas... #ScholComm #ResearchIntegrity

Tomorrow at #WCRI2026, the #EinsteinFoundationAward hosts a plenary showcasing winners who advance responsible science. Timothy Errington @cos.io, @brandonstell.bsky.social @pubpeer.com, and @elisabethbik.bsky.social share insights on open science, post-publication peer review and error detection.

World Conferences on Research Integrity@wcrifoundation.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Plenary Series Preview #3 Who safeguards research integrity in the age of AI? Einstein Foundation Award winners share how open science, post-publication peer review, and image forensics are strengthening accountability and transparency worldwide. 🗓 May 5, 1:30–3:00 PM

NG: Another bare-minimum checklist for microscopy reporting, guided on clarity, practicality, and ease of adoption. These guidelines are for authors, reviewers, journals/editors, and readers. Each group plays a role in improving scientific quality. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #WCRI2026

Better reporting is better science: Community-defined minimal reporting requirements for light microscopy

This viewpoint presents a community-endorsed checklist defining minimal light microscopy metadata to improve rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in re

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Next up: Advancing Research Integrity in Bioimaging Through Community-driven Standards and Open Tools – with Nathalie Gaudreault What is imaging metadata? NG: all information to interpret, evaluate quality, reproduce and share and reuse images data. Includes experimental details, settings #WCRI2026

Good morning from the @wcrifoundation.bsky.social in Vancouver, BC. Today, I will attend two pre-conference workshops before the grand opening tonight. We'll start with Workshop 2 - AI in Bioimaging: Challenges and Solutions to Facilitate FAIR Image Data wcri2026.org/pre-conferen... #WCRI2026

With the World Conference on Research Integrity getting into full swing, thought I'd reshare the #ResearchIntegrity #StarterPacks go.bsky.app/5NJ9Z4N go.bsky.app/QN5upY5 Room for more #Bluesky Research Integrity people - so just let me know if you want to be added or suggest anyone #WCRI2026