Helping to solve publishing challenges for researchers. Special interest in South Africa. Views expressed = my own; retweets ≠ endorsements
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Grateful to @EditorialOrigin for the opportunity to contribute a few thoughts on how journals, editors and publishers can support authors based in what's often termed the 'Global South' origineditorial.com/original…
Survey of >400 UK academics exploring their perception and use of #genAI in academic activities. See also authors' summary at blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci… #phdchat #AcademicTwitter
link.springer.com/article/10…
How does #genAI help academics use their time differently? 'We found scant evidence of generative AI being used to decelerate and exploit the ‘gift of time’ for, among other things, higher order thinking and intellectual growth'
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Telling the world about your research!
A thought-provoking Webinar coming up soon w/ #HUMA Director @divinefuh, Prof. @marinajoubert @CREST_SU & Researcher Bianca Davis @IntlYoungerChem
Tuesday, Jan 30th hosted by @WileyGlobal
Register to join: register.gotowebinar.com/reg…
If you're an early career researcher in South Africa/ Namibia/Botswana, don't miss our @wileyinresearch webinar on 30 Jan, 'Telling the world about your research', with three amazing experts on #scholcomm #scicomm @divinefuh @marinajoubert @bee_the_chemist. DM me for more info!
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Ensuring research integrity is fundamental to our mission.
That’s why we’re proud to champion United2Act. This new initiative connects publishers, funders, research institutes and other stakeholders to take action and fight fraud.
Find out more: ow.ly/4SQY50QsvWT
United2Act Consensus Statement released today, outlining 5 key areas of action against impact of #papermills on academic research & publishing #integrity. Brings together research bodies, universities, publishers & others, supported by @C0PE @STMAssoc publicationethics.org/about/…
Kids are never too young to learn about the world of publishing! (other careers are available)
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Reflections by my colleague @DWFlanagan on how #genAI will transform scholarly publishing financialexpress.com/busines…
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Come and be a part of our first webinar session in 2024!
We will discuss the topic, 'Building gateways to open science in Africa' and @thescientistgh from @africanrepro will be our guest speaker.
January 18, 2024
2pm WAT – 3pm CAT – 4pm EAT
Register:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
The BMJ Christmas edition - always a highlight of this time of the year
A new #DoctorWho episode shown during the festive period, especially on Christmas Day, is associated with lower death rates in the subsequent year across the UK, finds new #ChristmasBMJ study
#DrWho @Richard_D_Riley
bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023…
Nice infographic about how to tackle the challenges of #infodemiology, information and misinformation (thanks @Kirstin_Krauss for drawing my attention to this) who.int/news-room/spotlight/…
ALT Diagram showing how information sharing needs to be handled carefully: don't spread rumours to group chats, double check your facts, get your news from trusted sources, and ask for evidence
Interested in #engineering? @TfL recently published its 'Engineering Icons Tube Map', celebrating a few hundred famous and/or not so famous - but highly influential - engineers. Check it out at londonblog.tfl.gov.uk/2023/1…
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Il était une fois ...
The dream of machine translation as formulated 74,5 years ago. Author of "Scientific Babel", Michael Gordin discusses the pre-history of Deep Learning and AI in science during the 2nd Helsinki Initiative Webinar on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication
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The Christmas book tree sponsored by Hatchards books at St. Pancras Station.
The little booths at the bottom have speakers that read you a story while you wait for your train.
New @CochraneLibrary systematic review on peer reviewer training: no clear evidence that it improves quality of #peerreview, but limitations to evidence and how to measure 'quality' cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi…
Draft recommended practice from @NISOInfo for handling comms about retractions/removals/expressions of concern is open for feedback at niso.org/standards-committee…. My @wileyinresearch colleague Joyce Griffin has written about it at wiley.com/en-us/network/publ… #publishingethics
Tackling structural inequities in research publishing needs to be a collaborative and collective endeavour: at @wileyinresearch we wrote a White Paper explaining why and how this might be achieved #openaccess #globalsouth wiley.com/en-us/network/publ…
In case you missed the @BritishEcolSoc study earlier this year by Charles Fox et al about who benefits from anonymised peer review, here's a great interview by @latwec especially for #peerreviewweek wiley.com/en-us/network/publ…