Dylan Storan

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Our colleagues Liz Allen and Lucia Loffreda will be attending the Metascience conference in London next week. Please feel free to connect with either of them to arrange a chat or meet up on the day. #metascience #ucl

Catch us as #ARMA2025, we will be exhibiting at stand 3. See you there.

This is a really interesting theme. There's huge potential for good here, though the potential for disaster is also huge. I still grimace a bit whenever I hear AI associated with peer review. But I'm glad we're having these discussions now!

#AcademicPublishing

Graph showing if Societies are engaged in licensing non-OA content for AI to third parties.

New research reveals significant gaps in AI content licensing among scholarly societies.

48% are exploring content licensing for AI training, yet many report feeling uninformed about decision-making processes.

Coordinated support needs to address this.

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A fresh conversation about the future of open access
OASPA, in collaboration with @researchconsulting.bsky.social has released a Next 50% project-primer that frames a fresh conversation about the future of open access. Visit the post bit.ly/3Se3akr for full details, including the primer & survey #OA

Why Mixed Methods Research Delivers Better Insights Than Single-Method Approaches In every project, researchers face a fundamental choice that will impact the quality of their findings: should they rely solely on numbers (quantitative research), exclusively on stories and experienc...

I had a go at creating a Substack to talk about research methods and turn complex concepts into something that most readers will understand - I hope it’s a helpful contribution in the age of fake news! open.substack.com/pub/andreach...

Thanks Andrea! Delighted to join the @researchconsulting.bsky.social team.

Vic and @ioppublishing.bsky.social are doing super work supporting editorial board members safeguard the scholarly record.

Some great practical advice in this article!

Peer Review Has Lost Its Human Face. So, What’s Next? - The Scholarly Kitchen I think human-dependent peer review has lost its human element, thus its relevance, so what we can do to install a new system by abandoning the present one?

"... we have tried numerous innovations in #peerreview, despite knowing too well that it is an unjust system. ..... when will we be true to ourselves and remove the ‘exploited peers’ from ‘peer review’?" via @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social
#justice #equity
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/09/p...

The lack of coordination between immigration policy and the realities of UK higher education is kind of alarming.

Guest Post - No Data? No Acceptance. How IOP Publishing is Strengthening Open Science - The Scholarly Kitchen Nicola Davies from IOPP details the publisher's new data sharing requirements for authors.

No Data? No Acceptance. Read how we, at IOP Publishing, are strengthening our commitment to Open Science in this blog for The Scholarly Kitchen. 📚🔍

👉 ow.ly/rxta50Vsay7

#OpenData #ResearchCommunity

@scholarlykitchen.bsky.social

I was just about to post this. Almost word for word! Sign of the times

US Funding Cuts Imperil Open Infrastructure Globally The impacts of funding cuts to research in the US extend far beyond their immediate targets. We see a chain reaction that could indelibly alter the education and research landscape, including the futu...

I've said it before but remember a year ago when people were saying that you don't need publishers because the federal government could act as the repository for research? Good times. If you're not planning for uncertainty now, you will be shortly. #scholarlypublishing #academia

Haway the lads

Chicago - you don't have to do this 😂

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh ☘️

This is super interesting.

Social media, shortened attention spans and decline in reading seem to be to blame.

I wonder how this trend will develop in the era of generative AI.

A small world indeed 😂

Iterative One-Carbon Homologation of Unmodified Carboxylic Acids The one-carbon homologation of carboxylic acids is a valuable route to construct families of homologues, which play fundamental roles in chemistry and biology. However, known procedures are based on multistep sequences, use harsh conditions or are limited in scope. Thus, almost a century after the discovery of the original Arndt–Eistert homologation sequence, a general method to directly convert carboxylic acids into their corresponding homologues remains elusive. Exploiting the photoredox reactivity of nitroethylene, we disclose a practical visible-light-induced homologation of unmodified carboxylic acids. Iterations of the procedure reveal an exceptionally tunable strategy for the construction of inert carbon spacers, opening new opportunities in synthesis.

The best paper of 2024 just dropped in JACS!*

*I may or may not be marrying the first author and therefore heavily biased.

#chemsky

First time in Boston. So far so good.
Hear there’s a nice marathon on here every year.
And a decent conference too

#F24MRS

Getting ready to leave for my first MRS Fall.
If you're in Boston next week and want to talk about science, publishing, and/or long distance running - feel free to DM me.

Happy to chat!

#F24MRS #BabysFirstMRSFall

This seems like a good first Skeet.

Very grateful to Volker, Theresa Windus, and all the authors for their excellent work.

I'm delighted that it's out there for the world to read.

#chemsky #compchemsky #amidoingthisright