Irene Hames

Expressions of concern Find out when an expression of concern should -or should not- be used, who should issue it, and how quickly and it should be issued

Guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) on Expressions of Concern - advice for editors on when an expression of concern is appropriate, their purpose, potential challenges, and how they should be issued.

#PublicationEthics #ResearchPublishing #ResearchIntegrity

Very quick update on Covid in England Covid wave has possibly peaked and flu looks like it's starting early

Very quick update on Covid in England from latest UKHSA hospital data. Looks like current Covid wave *might* have peaked, and also that flu season is starting a little earlier than normal.

If you can get vaxxed for either, I'd do it!

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#Agents4Science 2025 – lists of submissions by decision

#peerreview #authorship #researchintegrity #researchethics

AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference Event will assess how reviews by models compare with those written by humans.

Open Conference of AI Agents for Science (#Agents4Science): ‘sandbox’ approach with AI agents serving as both primary authors & reviewers of research papers. Open evaluation to aid development of guidelines for responsible AI participation in science.
Interesting experiment
#peerreview #authorship

A brown hyena photographed at night. It has dark brown fur with streaks of lighter brown fur. In the background, there’s an abandoned building illuminated.

A longhorn beetle on a piece of fallen wood. The insect is dark brown, with very long antennas. In the background, a purple digger is out of focus.

Congratulations to our Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners! 🎉📸

Wim van den Heever is our Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025, awarded for his mesmerising image, ‘Ghost Town Visitor’.

Andrea Dominizi’s ‘After the Destruction’ crowns him our Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025.

Today marks Ada Lovelace Day, a day to celebrate the work of the acclaimed mathematician and writer. We can't think of a better way to honour her in 2025 than by naming our LLM-driven, AI assistant after the person who first recognised that computers had applications beyond pure calculation.

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Introducing Ada: the new AI training assistant. Explore on-demand bioinformatics training with Ada, your training AI assistant.

Introducing Ada: the new AI assistant from EMBL-EBI Training. We created our training chatbot, Ada, to make it easier and more engaging for users to find the right on-demand training resources from our broad catalogue of training: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/ada

#AdaLovelaceDay #bioinformatics

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It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Read our tribute to the visionary Nobel Laureate and watch an interview from 2012, just after he won: https://bit.ly/4mM8o3r

Great opportunity! Applications are open for @theplantjournal.bsky.social Fellowship scheme - provides support and mentorship for early-year PIs establishing themselves as independent group leaders.

Also great chance to learn about the editorial side of #JournalPublishing #PlantScience #PeerReview

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work on peripheral immune tolerance:

“The laureates identified the immune system’s security guards, regulatory T cells, which prevent immune cells from attacking our own body”

From 2006. A younger and shell-shocked looking Catherine on a balcony holding a very tiny baby with the mountains of Vancouver in the background. The baby is so new, Catherine still has the pregnant bump.

Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁

@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️

ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk

White banner with an image of a researcher focused on his work. The words 'BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants' are written on the right-hand side.

Are you a postdoctoral researcher? Don't miss the application deadline for British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants on 5 November. Funding is available for research projects across all areas of the humanities and social sciences. Apply now: https://bit.ly/3K4kEyA

Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - Request for input - Crossref Lots of exciting innovations are being made in scientific publishing, often raising fundamental questions about established publishing practices. In this guest post, Ludo Waltman and André Brasil disc...

We need good practices for DOI registration for publish-review-curate platforms like @metaror.bsky.social and others.

@andre-brasil.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about this: doi.org/10.64000/76j...

Together with @crossref.bsky.social we hope to receive input from the community on this issue!

“In 2022, AI was seen as an efficiency tool for image analysis and language polishing. By 2025, AI has become a participant in the process, shaping writing, influencing review, and challenging the concept of authorship and accountability.”

Very interesting report

#PRC10 #ScholarlyPublishing

The Authorship Integrity Toolkit - UK Research Integrity Office The Authorship Integrity Toolkit Practical resources to support responsible authorship in research UKRIO is pleased to present the Authorship Integrity Toolkit – a new collection of resources to help ...

Useful Authorship Integrity Toolkit has just been launched by UKRIO, commissioned by @ukri.org. Includes guidance on good authorship practice, a template authorship strategy agreement, and a model procedure for handling authorship disputes.

#Authorship #AcademicSky #ResearchPublishing #ECRchat

Remembering Drummond Rennie—Champion of Integrity in Science and Scientific Publication Drummond Rennie, physician, scientist, editor, climber, tireless promoter of integrity and transparency in science, and mentor to many, died on September 12, 2025, at the age of 89.

Drummond Rennie, a Yorkshireman in the US, leaves a great legacy in the #PeerReview Congresses. These rules made them special places to be:

-research to be presented, not opinions
-no parallel sessions, everyone could attend every session
-audience given equal time to debate

#PeerReviewWeek

Drummond Rennie (1936-2025), in his own words Drummond Rennie I first became aware of the work of Drummond Rennie almost by accident: By borrowing his office. It was the summer of 1997, and as a rising fourth-year medical student, I was spendi…

Drummond Rennie (1936-2025), in his own words

Rennie, who died on September 12, was a towering figure in scientific publishing, known for promoting improved standards in medical journals, and for organizing the first Peer Review Congress, held in 1989, and every four years since.

A tribute to Drummond Rennie, a champion of integrity in science. The image features Rennie at his desk, talking on the phone with a laptop and papers. Article mentions his work as a physician, scientist, editor, climber, and mentor.

Editorial: "Remembering Drummond Rennie—Champion of Integrity in Science and Scientific Publication."

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I've just updated my preprint on short personal reviews of novels on hashtag#ResearchIntegrity bit.ly/409E5ff
Please attend me to novels which you believe to belong to this list, but are not yet included.
The preprint recently also has been published in a Chinese journal: bit.ly/3K6P17B

YouTube video by STM - International Association of STM Publishers 1 Publication Ethics Irene Hames

10 years ago I gave a talk at the @stmassoc.bsky.social #PublicationEthics and #ResearchIntegrity seminar. We were, as now, on a cusp in the range, novelty and scale of problems we were seeing.

Posting a link here for #PeerReviewWeek as may be useful

#PRW2025 #PeerReview #ScholarlyPublication

It’s #PeerReviewWeek! Lots of events and activities “aimed at celebrating and highlighting the value of peer review in research and #scholarlycommunication”. Theme is ‘Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era’.

#PRW2025 #PeerReview #ScholarlyPublication #ECRchat #PhDchat
peerreviewweek.net/events.php

You’re probably why it takes so long for your paper to get reviewed and your excuses are bad A weird thing happened in scientific publishing during COVID. And it hasn’t gone away. Publications went up 30-50%. And responses to requests to review went down 30-50%. I know the actual statistic…

Good post from Brian McGill at Dynamic Ecology on the peer reviewing crisis – 83 wide-ranging responses, many thoughtful comments

#PeerReview #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicSky #NewPI #ECRchat #PhDchat

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I didn't go to uni - now I work as a celebrity photographer The BBC speaks to four young people who say skipping university does not have to mean missing out on success.

Although I spend a lot of time talking about universities, HE isn't for everyone - and rightly so. This is a lovely piece on different career pathways which might be very timely for special people in your life on results day www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“At the time of publishing, 297 products rest in this graveyard, each representing someone's essential workflow that simply... stopped working one day.”

#AcademicSky

Very good article and thread about open alternatives to google scholar, which clearly will go away when its founder retires. The @barcelonadori.bsky.social movement is getting a lot if attention and OpenAlex.org a lot of support. The Lens currently looking for new home about.lens.org/expressions-...

Royal Society sets out plan to move journals to full open access in 2026 through Subscribe to Open | Royal Society The Royal Society has agreed plans that would make its journals fully open access in 2026 by adopting the ‘Subscribe to Open’ model.

We're excited to announce our plan to make the Royal Society journals fully open access in 2026 by adopting the ‘Subscribe to Open’ model. This change supports global access to research without shifting costs to authors and relies on continued library participation. Find out more: buff.ly/18m5g6z

Monoclonal antibodies revolutionized biomedical science and health care The story of the discovery of these molecules 50 years ago shows how the free exchange of ideas can lead to life-changing treatments.

Monoclonal antibodies are 50! 🎂

The story of their discovery shows how the free exchange of ideas can revolutionize molecular biology & lead to life-changing treatments. It was a kind of scientific ‘relay race’.
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@nature.com (now & in 1975)

Great initiative by Wiley! The publisher has started marking retracted papers in reference lists. When you click on the retraction notice, you can also see the date and reason for the retraction.
All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.

A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.

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