From the #LBF floor to the @sagepub.com office floorplan.
Grateful to the Sage team in London for the warm welcome while we're in town! Always energizing to sit down with brilliant minds and dig into where AI is taking the future of peer review.
Richard Bennett: Scholar, gentleman... laptop stand?
If you spot Richard and Dustin at #LondonBookfair this week, say hi! 👋 #LBF
30 minutes per paper on submissions that aren't the right fit? No, thanks! 🙅
Alchemist Review is now integrated directly into ScholarOne Manuscripts. Partnering editors get signals on journal fit, integrity issues, & quality flags... /@silverchairnews.bsky.social
blog.hum.works/posts/silver...
Great talk on using scenario planning to think about AI strategies from Keith Webster @library.cmu.edu , and a thought provoking thought to end on: the present moment used to be an unimagined future. #R2RConf
Say hi to Richard if you spot him at Researcher 2 Reader in London today. Humming to you live from a room where the cornices are more structured than most metadata. #R2Rconf
Discovery is moving off your platform. Traditional metrics aren't capturing usage. Infrastructure is buckling under machine-scale traffic.
All at once
Our analysis from the 2026 Tech Trends Report explains what's breaking & how publishers are adapting: blog.hum.works/posts/challe...
The next phase of digital advertising won’t be fought on the search results page alone. It’s shaping up inside AI chat interfaces and predictive commerce engines.
martech.org/openai-and-g...
Manuscript overload is costing your editors serious time.
Alchemist Review changes that. Instant journal fit scoring, deep manuscript eval, & citation checks give editors the intelligence they need to quickly and confidently triage submissions.
www.hum.works/review
If AI systems extract and redistribute your insights without sending users to your site, how do you capture the value you create?
"A user may want a brief summary listing the 5 most important things to know in the morning, but then later in the day they might want deeper info about a breaking news story. The website experience could be flexible enough to reflect what the user wants in that moment"
// @digidaymedia.bsky.social
The "Crocodile Effect" is eating publisher traffic alive 🐊
Interesting new study from Kudos, @degruyterbrill.bsky.social , @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social, @ioppublishing.bsky.social , @springernature.com & @silverchairnews.bsky.social launching to tackle zero-click search threats.
"If you're just tacking AI onto your systems without data, you're essentially doing some very expensive guessing." 💸
Hum's Director of Marketing breaks down why AI-ready data will be a competitive differentiator in 2026.
5 Years of Tech Trends: www.silverchair.com/news/five-ye...
"As the broader internet becomes increasingly polluted with AI-generated slop, your authenticated, peer-reviewed content becomes more valuable, not less."
But the ability to actually monetize it takes strategy and structure: blog.hum.works/posts/where-...
"You can come up with a new model, but the principles are still there and the people are still there."
@silverchairnews.bsky.social' Sam Green explains why scholarly publishing is more adaptable than ever 💪
5 Years of Tech Trends: www.silverchair.com/news/five-ye...
We’re thrilled to continue our collaboration with @ioppublishing.bsky.social, including the expansion of Alchemist Review across the majority of their journal portfolio.
blog.hum.works/posts/iop-pu...
2026 Publishing Tech Trends is here. Download the report and let me know if you agree with what we highlighted - what did we miss?
Many thanks to our brilliant panel of thought leaders, including @journalologist.bsky.social, @clearskiesadam.bsky.social, @mdinat.bsky.social, @nataliejacobs.bsky.social, @ianmulvany.bsky.social, & @heatherstaines.bsky.social - for your expertise & willingness to share your thoughts
It's here!
Hum & @silverchairnews.bsky.social's fifth annual Publishing Tech Trends Report is out, featuring insights from 15+ publishing leaders and industry experts.
Mapping your 2026 technology strategy? This is the industry benchmark you need: www.silverchair.com/news/tech-tr...
Focusing on removing expert panels towards the end of the process instead of reducing the load at the front end where AI could help? … 🤨
We’re excited to share that @ioppublishing.bsky.social is expanding Alchemist Review across most of its proprietary journal portfolio, continuing a collaboration focused on solving real editorial challenges.
What if your editors could identify strong-fit manuscripts in seconds?
At @stmassoc.bsky.social Innovation Day this week, we showed how Journal Fit scores manuscripts across novelty, scope, rigor & impact - helping editors spot high potential papers and misaligned submissions instantly. #STMLondon
📣 Journal Fit is here!
Instant manuscript fit scores so editors spend more time on high potential papers & less on ones that are off-scope.
Every submission gets scored across Novelty, Scope Relevance, Rigor & Impact. Demo @ STM London next week!
blog.hum.works/posts/alchem...
Most publishers guess what resonates with authors.
Karger's team used behavioral data to know—then optimized relentlessly.
The result? 4.5X ROI, 3X higher CTRs, and 1,100+ manuscript submissions directly influenced.
Case study: blog.hum.works/posts/karger...
@kargerpublishers.bsky.social is proving that author marketing isn't just "nice to have." It's a revenue driver.
The secret? AI-driven campaigns that met researchers at the right moment w the right message.
The options range from "do nothing” to “add options to opt out of just AI Overviews”…
