More evidence against the PRC model: "preprints have become intentional, legitimate objects of citation, independent of their later publication status, with non-curated preprints cited at rates comparable to curated ones" arxiv.org/abs/2607.25220

Preprints Without Curation Are Increasingly Cited by Journals

The recent strain on peer review systems necessitates the publish-review-curate model, where the public dissemination of manuscripts is decoupled from formal peer review and later editorial processes....

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Does anyone in my network know a great executive coach? I'm thinking this might be quite useful to help me get back on track and navigate my weird portfolio career

Some very good weekend reading: katinamagazine.org/content/arti... (I wrote it so I'm obvs biased 😛)

Our System for Measuring Trust in Research is Failing. There’s a Better Way.

Journal brand and peer review are poor proxies for trustworthiness. Here’s how we can design trust signals that work.

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New: LinkedIn just introduced a "seems like AI slop" button. That's literally what the button says. The thought leaders are going to have a meltdown www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button

Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.

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Another piece on trust signals from me! We absolutely must move away from the outdated thinking of peer review and towards a much more holistic approach. Out today! katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Our System for Measuring Trust in Research is Failing. There’s a Better Way.

Journal brand and peer review are poor proxies for trustworthiness. Here’s how we can design trust signals that work.

katinamagazine.org

the 24 minutes.....So precise.

This is good but the one Northern city that doesn't need more attention and resources compared to the others is Manchester. I'm extremely doubtful this will actually help the North - beyond Manchester. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Andy Burnham spends first working day at new No 10 North in Manchester – UK politics live

PM, on his first day at new base, says it will create ‘that sense of a more balanced country, that big things can be done from here’

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I really miss the conferences and work travel. I loved getting to interact with such brilliant people in person.

Does anyone have a list (excel/csv) of journal name | Publisher | current APC? Ideally focussed on the Life Sciences and does not need to be exhaustive. It's for the Play your APCs right game I'm making :)

Might be time to name some of the open science and integrity people/orgs who are engaging in questionable research practices, unprofessional and abusive behaviour and supporting bullying....

Uk folk! I'm looking to move away from sheffield but not sure where to move to. What's great about your city/town?

I really do miss living in London! I know I say this everytime I'm here but still.

Why is it everytime I see PRC discussed and promoted it is associated with big claims without any supporting evidence?

Hosting or moderating a panel? It's not about you. You don't need to also answer the questions people ask. Show some grace & respect. Elevate the panellists- they're the one's the audience is there to hear from Your role is to bring the best out of the panel & facilitate discussion, not dominate it

There remains little communication around trust signals despite the growing conversations and efforts. This is my attempt to correct that slightly ahead of a bigger article later this month Read here: ripplingideas.org/2026/07/06/c...

Current efforts to develop trust signals; genuine or misguided?

Over the last year, conversations about trust signals have increased. However, there remain many outstanding questions, various levels of implementation or experiments, and a lack of clarity on the…

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Rippling Ideas@ripplingideas.bsky.social · last mo.

Current efforts to develop trust signals; genuine or misguided? Over the last year, conversations about trust signals have increased. However, there remain many outstanding questions, various levels of implementation or experiments, and a lack of clarity on the purpose of such signals.…

So excited for @gabestein.com to join openRxiv as Head of Product! We’ve worked together on several projects in the past - now great to be under the same roof openrxiv.org/stein-announ...

Oh this is fantastic news! Congrats all round 🎉

To me this is the big danger with getting preprint infrastructure wrong. There's a bunch of reasons people post preprints but a key reason is wanting change. When we replicate what we have we are just as bad as what were trying to fix.

Mike Feigin 🥯@mikefeigin.bsky.social · last mo.

I agree completely. If I knew that journals were looking at QED rank as a metric for decision making I would absolutely not preprint. (But I guess journals could always take my submission and run it through QED (or their own AI) and do this anyway.)

It is outstanding how far *some* people will go to not cite my work simply because they've taken a personal dislike to me.... The open science space has a bug professionalism issue that people don't seem to want to talk about.

The other thing to add here is to ask what trust actually looks like? One issue with PRC is it keeps that trust as peer review, which doesn't seem at all sensible. Indeed, I'm writing an article on why publishers should adopt the model it's it's so scarily compelling

Kathleen Fitzpatrick@kfitz.info · last mo.

This is an important thread, and something to take seriously as many organizations start thinking about the Publish-Review-Curate workflow. HOWEVER: I disagree very strongly with the fundamental premise. PRC has the potential to free research communication from corporate capture. +

This is a massive problem that is rapidly getting worse (I wrote about it here: share.google/cW95J6t4MRCz...). The issue largely is that a minority are consolidating control and power within the space. This allows them to force their own agendas through, unchecked and unchallenged.

Guest Post - From Open Access to Preprints: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes in Scholarly Publishing? - The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest blogger Jonny Coates looks at Richard Poynder's post-mortem on the Open Access movement, and uses it as a framework to ask questions about the future of preprints.

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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu@bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · last mo.

Exploiting the preprint system that many of us value and cherish, which when used right bring communities together instead of separating them into the 1 vs 99%, is clearly done with an eye for future profit.

PRC is the most damaging effort we've embarked upon since introducing APCs. This will lead to even greater inequity, greater costs and it's being driven by the very people we should have been able to trust to deliver real, meaningful, change. It's a betrayal of the preprint community.

I put together some thoughts in this post. The outcry is entirely justified -though I feel misdirected towards @openrxiv.bsky.social - but does highlight how difficult it is to try to further innovation whilst keeping a heterogeneous community on side.

Rippling Ideas@ripplingideas.bsky.social · last mo.

The qed 1% club controversy highlights a difficult road ahead for openRxiv as they embark on the next decade of trying to bring about a bigger preprint ecosystem. But it also raises questions about the motivations of some open science "advocates"

also of note here is that survey data shows most authors want private - not public - feedback of their work. Also this is just a really nice thing to do and something we would all hugely appreciate (I certainly have when I've had similar things in the past)

Harmit Singh Malik@harmitmalik.bsky.social · last mo.

I know it seems like a heretical idea, but one way to figure out if a preprint is really interesting (to you) is... to read the preprint. Then, in the spirit of sharing, send a note to authors: a simple kudos or a more detailed question. I do this a dozen times a year. It's awesome. Try it.

Boosting this as people seem not to be reading to n…

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · last mo.

Central to our philosophy at bioRxiv and medRxiv is decoupling dissemination and evaluation, so _we_ will not rank papers. But 3rd-party discovery services - from familiar tools like Google to qed - will always be entry points to our corpus. It'll be interesting to see which are adopted. 5/n

Well worth reading through here for a range of responses to the 1% club. FWIW, I think this kind of ranking is a bad move and the communication in particular has been fairly poor. Though not at all surprised this is the direction qed has taken, sadly.

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · last mo.

"the first validated, large-scale framework for judging the quality of life science papers independently of venue, identity, and prestige...Blinded domain-expert professors sided with score three times more often than with journal rank" the-one-percent.qedscience.com 1/n

Great to see @europepmc.org as one of the top recommended sources to find preprints in this paper www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Will give a proper read but great to see trust markers as such a prominent future pathway. I've written about potential trust signals and how they may work, with more opeds coming soon! blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Can we measure trust in scientific publications? - LSE Impact

Jonathon Alexis Coates outlines how a constellation of static and dynamic indicators could provide a means for assessing the trustworthiness of published research

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Research on Research Institute (RoRI)@rorinstitute.bsky.social · last mo.

📢 New RoRI Report: The Future of Peer Review Peer review is at a breaking point. Strained by hyper-competition & AI, we need system-wide reform. Read here: rori.figshare.com/articles/report/The_Future_of_Peer_Review_A_system-wide_perspective/32685351?file=65684898

Put on your hard hats people. It's dangerous out there.

Prof Anna Watts@profannawatts.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A space telescope is falling to Earth. NASA is racing to rescue it | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

If I were a publisher, I would be very enthusiastic about the PRC model. Currently, the challenge for publishers is not how to retain control over publication, but how to retain control over evaluation. PRC offers a solution where the underlying distribution of power remains basically unchanged