Kim Eggleton

Superb afternoon watching The Railway Children @bradford2025.co.uk, get a ticket if you can! Great staging, superb cast and crew - and a train!

I love this, so needed and would love to implement. A lot of the time as Publishers we don’t know the intent behind the problem, do you have any advice how we should handle categorizing when we know the error but don’t know the intent?

So sad to hear about the passing of Allen Ahlberg. I grew up adoring his books and now my children enjoy them too. A true great of children’s literature.

Wonder how many institutions subscribe to @pubpeer.com

As a Publisher RIO I found myself tending to agree with the sleuth view. Institutions are improving but it’s very slow progress, if we get a response at all it’s often “not our problem” vibes.

Support your society publishers!

Why it’s important to know who did what in a research paper These days we are in a world of hyperauthorship, with ever-growing lists of names on journal articles, but with early career researchers often not get...

For years we’ve encouraged authors to be transparent about the contributions that go into each paper. We’ve now got full #CRediT functionality so it’s now recorded in the metadata as well any full text version, well done @ioppublishing.bsky.social team! www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile....

Why do we peer review?

In a new paper, we establish a self-interested reason: learning.

With a quasi-experimental design applied to admin data from 55 journals, we show reviewing a paper doubles chances of citing it in future work!

Now I look closer, clearly the email and lack of ability to search gives it away

First one (left), but only because I think I recognize the Elsevier font

So proud to work with a society publisher. We give every penny of profit to the Institute of Physics who do phenomenal work supporting physicists in research and practice. This model enables the system to be circular, with investment right back into the community we serve.

Some fantastic advice for researchers in here, including how/where to store image data and keeping electronic lab notebooks

Citation manipulation: lightning talk summary Kim Eggleton (COPE Council) and Leslie McIntosh (Digital Science) discussed what citation manipulation looks like, how it has changed with the growth of paper mills, and what editors can do about it.

What does citation manipulation look like and how has it changed with the growth of paper mills?

A summary of COPE’s recent Citation Manipulation Lightning Talk and discussion is now available.
Add your comments discussion:
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#CitationManipulation

And even better, have an ORCID profile that’s open not private, and populated with your institution history, variants of your name you’ve been published under, and some publications to help with this kind of disambiguation.

Some Publishers update the article title in their metadata which would look like your first example. It’s recommended best practice to do this now but only for the last year or two. www.niso.org/publications...

Trump’s team, often accused of spreading misinformation, slashes misinformation research Hundreds of grants axed in a field where the United States was a global leader

Terminating the grants to study misinformation is “an overt act of censoring and preventing accountability,” says Stephen Lewandowsky, a misinformation researcher at the University of Bristol. “Who other than a liar would cancel misinformation research?”
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My brother and his friends used to say I looked like “a bulldog chewing a wasp”. SO MEAN

Crossref is seeking proposals for a website information architecture review. We encourage submissions by May 15, 2025. https://doi.org/10.64000/058mr-k3s56

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

Important to remember

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Science isn't a belief. It's the GPS in the fog, the seatbelt on the rollercoaster, the friend who tells you your fly is down. Undermining it isn’t edgy—it’s like replacing your smoke alarm with a lava lamp. 🧪🔬🔥 We need brains, not vibes. #SaveScience

As predicted, this was quite fabulous! Provocative, feisty, diverse, and filled with passion - I feel energised and recommitted to the importance of our work. Thank you @deevybee.bsky.social and all organisers/contributors for a great (and interactive!) programme

Can’t wait to hear some of the leading voices in research integrity, many of whom are representing the whistle-blower/sleuthing community. I have stationery for the copious notes I know I’ll take, and am firmly in listen, not talk, mode! www.sjcfairsmeeting.com
#ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics

I’ve fallen for two work-related April fools today and I am a happy bunny - nothing feels unbelievable anymore!

Inspired by a recent conversation, and by this article (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...), I have been working on a one-pager to help researchers through the process of updating published datasets if errors are ever found. I'd love any feedback!

A lot of publishers are now allowing for anonymous authorship where a scholar is at risk. Worth checking if your publisher has such a policy before making a decision?

A lot of publishers are now allowing for anonymous authorship where a scholar is at risk. Worth checking if this publisher has such a policy before making a decision?

These threads are brilliant, thanks for bringing so much humour to it!

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

We always ask the whistleblower if they’d like to be mentioned in the notice. If they say no we thanks “the anonymous whistleblower” and link to the PubPeer thread, if there is one. Doesn’t do any harm at all.