Irene Hames

The UK Reproducibility Network

RESOURCE: training materials for all things Open oercommons.org/hubs/ukrn

A change to the ORCID record now recognizes Editorial Service and these varying responsibilities.

🗣️ New ORCID Feature for Journal Editors: Editorial Service

This new activity allows publishers, including journals or other research publication organizations, to add #TrustMarkers to #ORCID records via the validated #EditorialService data. More on the blog: https://wp.me/pcE4o3-9kO
#Researchsky

Great post highlighting the challenges libraries are facing and the diverse and immensely valuable support they provide across research institutions and beyond (which I know from experience researchers and others may not be aware of)

#UKSGForum2025
#ResearchIntegrity
#PublicationEthics

Happy Advent! !!!🎄✨
Welcome to a new edition of the Research Integrity Advent Calendar.
Each day brings a small challenge: spot the problem, detect inconsistencies, and sharpen your skills.
Enjoy the season and the daily puzzles!
Day 1. papermills.tilda.ws/advent2025

A ridiculously jaw-dropping JWST image of a fantastically terrifying star system Apep consists of three immense and immensely powerful stars blasting out a fierce dusty wind

This is a staggering cool JWST image of one of the most terrifying star systems I have ever seen. Apep is a monster… *three* monsters, actually, and blasting out radiation and dust and junk at speeds to freeze the soul.

Read all about it!

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-ridiculo...

🔭 🧪

Crossref members over the years: a journey through space and time - Crossref Crossref was created back in 2000 by 12 forward-thinking scholarly publishers from North America and Europe, and by 2002, these members had registered 4 million DOI records. At the time of writing, we...

See what @crossref.bsky.social has been up to for the past 25 years, a really interesting read: www.crossref.org/blog/crossre...

A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do Information about the roles of each author of a paper can help to build trust, integrity and responsible research assessment. Coordinated efforts are needed to consolidate progress.

Three steps that can help CRediT (Contributor Role Taxonomy) remain effective and achieve its promise.

#Contributorship #Authorship

AlphaFold is five years old — these charts show how it revolutionized science Since it was unveiled in 2020, Google DeepMind’s game-changing AI tool has helped researchers all over the world to predict the 3D structures of hundreds of millions of proteins.

AlphaFold is five years old — these charts show how it revolutionized science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A great conference in London in February for anyone interested or involved in communicating research. I enjoyed many times and helped out on the advisory board for a couple of years

We have an amazing opportunity for Early-Career Researchers to join our Board of Directors!

We're looking for someone with experience in leading #OpenScience projects to support and lead eLife in our mission to change research communication.

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Workshop Speaker/Chair = Matt McCoy Topic/Title = Image Integrity in Research: Detecting Manipulation and Embedding Trustworthy Practices Outline = Image manipulation and duplication are among the most common causes of research retractions, yet figure checking is not widely adopted compared to text plagiarism detection. This workshop will explore how undetected image problems threaten research trustworthiness, distort evidence, and have been documented in areas where commercial determinants of health exert influence. The session aims to build both practical skills and strategic awareness. Participants will examine real-world case studies of image integrity breaches and identify common manipulation patterns such as duplication, splicing, and inappropriate adjustments. The workshop will explore the range of accessible detection tools, ranging from open-source scripts to professional platforms currently trialled by publishers and institutions. Beyond detection, the workshop will focus on embedding image integrity into everyday research and publication practice. In small groups, participants will design draft workflows and policies for journals, funders, and institutions, considering feasibility, alignment with open science, and equitable access. By the end of the session, participants will have both technical methods and actionable models to strengthen image integrity within their own research communities.

Posting from the next workshop: Image Integrity in Research: Detecting Manipulation and Embedding Trustworthy Practices, led by Matt McCoy @proofigai.bsky.social , who shows a 'Hype cycle of his career" 😂
LLM as a tool -> LLM as an analyst -> LLM as a scientist?
github.com/HKUST-KnowCo...
#AIMOS2025

Great and detailed live posting from bsky.app/profile/elis... from #IRICSydney the International Research Integrity Conference, 16-18 November 2025, Sydney, Australia

#ResearchIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct
#PublicationEthics

Weekend reads: Debunking ‘When Prophecy Fails’; ‘Godfather of AI’ first to reach 1 million citations; ‘Cake causes herpes?’ Author changes name, publishes 10 papers in journals that banned him Bug in Springer Nature metadata may be causing ‘significant, systemic’ citation inflation Math is back as Clarivate boosts integ…

Weekend reads: Debunking ‘When Prophecy Fails’; ‘Godfather of AI’ first to reach 1 million citations; ‘Cake causes herpes?’

Going against the gut: Q&A with Kevin Mitchell A new review of 15 years of studies on the connection between the microbiome and autism reveals widespread statistical and conceptual errors.

Kevin Mitchell tells it as it is. There nothing there! We're easily captured by a simple narrative for an incredibly complex etiology. www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/goi...

#EvidenceWeek in Parliament is such an important initiative, bringing together the public, researchers and parliamentarians to discuss how evidence is used at Westminster. Includes training sessions for parliamentary staff on how to handle and interpret evidence – crucial step in the briefing of MPs

“Science has recently been the professed interest of just a handful of MPs… But this year, something has changed.”

Our Director Tracey Brown explores Parliament's growing interest among MPs in science and research, and how #EvidenceWeek helps bridge the gap between policymakers and researchers.

The future belongs to those who listen, think, and imagine together.

At #BeijingForum2025, the world comes together to search for common ground in the age of digital intelligence.

mp.weixin.qq.com/s/0CO25r8Pdk...

#PekingUniversity #EduSky #AcademicSky

“It keeps me awake at night”: machine-learning pioneer on AI’s threat to humanity Yoshua Bengio talks about his efforts to identify — and address — the risks posed by AI.

Computer scientist Yoshua Bengio talks about his efforts to identify — and address — the risks posed by AI

go.nature.com/49b93II

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

Getting Rosalind Franklin’s story right is crucial, because she has become a role model for women going into science

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How AI-powered editorial technology contributes to better research and more sustainable journals - Silverchair Scholarly communications is in the midst of a crisis of confidence and capacity and is turning to automation as a solution.

Our guest post on the @silverchairnews.bsky.social blog explores how AI can make editorial work more sustainable — complementing & supporting editor strengths while reducing the tedious & repetitive aspects

www.silverchair.com/news/ai-powe...

#scholcomm #scholcomms #scisky #openaccess #openscience

Agree with you! Establishing partnerships, making researchers feel respected, supported, and that they are being treated fairly, whether they’re authors or reviewers, is so important. They’re also more likely to submit papers, review papers if they’ve been treated well in each of the roles.

Building confidence during your PhD Doing a PhD can feel like wandering through a forest with no map. You’re constantly questioning whether you’re smart enough, working hard enough or heading in the right direction. If yo…

Doing a PhD can feel like wandering through a forest with no map. You’re constantly questioning whether you’re smart enough, working hard enough or heading in the right direction. If you’re feeling this way, you’re not alone. More importantly, you’re not broken. patthomson.net/2025/10/25/b...

A black & white picture of Lise Meitner sat on a chair while holding a book. There is a bookcase in the background

A black & white picture of Marie Curie

Nov 7th is the birthday of both Lise Meitner & Marie Curie. Of the 13 chemical elements named directly after real people (not mythological figures) only two are named after women: meitnerium and curium (the latter of which is named in honour of both Marie & her husband) #chemsky 🧪

Live Airline Flight Cancellations Info & Statistics - FlightAware Real-time cancellation statistics and flight tracker links for cancelled airline flights. View top cancellations by airline or airport.

If you’re flying in the US tomorrow & worried about delays or cancellations I just found this handy resource www.flightaware.com/live/cancell...

Born #OnThisDay in 1867 was Marie Skłodowska–Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two disciplines: Physics for her work on radioactivity, and Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium. #WomenInSTEM

A map of part of Britiain and northern europe showing loads and loads of roman roads, picked out in red.

Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓

itiner-e.org

We might have to have a lie-down.

Conference Programme R2R 2026 Conference Programme The full Programme for 2026 Conference is listed below; the timetable will be set out in November, and the Lightning Talks will be announced in January. The programme …

Full Programme for #R2RConf (London, 24-25 Feb) available r2rconf.com/r2r-conferen...

Keynote, Debate, Presentations, Panels, Roundtables, Case Study and Workshops
Plenary: 8½ hrs, Workshops: 3 hrs, Networking: 5½ hours crammed into 2 days!
Discounts & 50 free tickets for Academics & Librarians

Fair human-centric image dataset for ethical AI benchmarking - Nature The Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark (FHIBE, pronounced ‘Feebee’)—an image dataset that implements best practices for consent, privacy, compensation, safety, diversity and utility—can be used respon...

Important image dataset #FHIBE obtained with informed consent, compensation, safety measures, bias reduction and collection cost transparency, demonstrating that “implementing core ethical considerations in practice is possible”.

#ethicaldatacollection

Millions of shapes can pass through themselves. This is the first that can’t Mathematicians have finally found an exception to a geometric rule long thought unbreakable

Mathematicians have finally found an exception to a geometric rule long thought unbreakable. https://scim.ag/4oosAtN

Many thanks, Tasha - will DM you!