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A great resource -- @alicemeadows.bsky.social was one of the contributors!

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Hear hear!

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Jobs & opportunities | Dryad news Dryad is a non-profit, mission-driven organization that envisions a world where all research data is openly available and fully re-used. Our multidisciplinary, fully curated open data publishing platf...

Join the Dryad team! We're #recruiting a Data Curator to assess data submissions & help authors to meet #FAIRdata standards. Open to remote candidates in the UK.

blog.datadryad.org/jobs/

#jobsearch #hiringnow #nowhiring #job #jobs #jobposting #openscience #openaccess #scholcomm #scholcomms

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Diamond Dreams, Unequal Realities: The Promise and Pitfalls of No-APC Open Access - The Scholarly Kitchen Diamond Open Access promises equity, but sustainability challenges remain. Discover the hidden costs, global gaps, and paths toward lasting open publishing.

Diamond Dreams, Unequal Realities: The Promise and Pitfalls of No-APC Open Access

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GW Ethics in Publishing Conference 2025 | Full Schedule: GW Ethics in Publishing Conference 2025 | GW Publishing The Graduate Program in Publishing, College of Professional Studies, at The George Washington University, is designed for both current and aspiring publishing professionals. Students include career ch...

If you're attending the GW Ethics in Publishing conference @alicemeadows.bsky.social will be talking #PersistentIdentifiers on the Infrastructure and Workflows session at 2.30pm today
gwpress.manifoldapp.org/read/gw-ethi...

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If you'll be in Brisbane for #InternationalDataWeek be sure to look out for Josh Brown, who's heading your way right now! He's looking forward to connecting & reconnecting w/ friends and colleagues from around the world.

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$1.5 million program targets changes to academic incentives The incentive systems that drive academic research underlie nearly every story we write: publication counts for promotion, pressure to produce positive results, hitting certain metrics, and so on. …

Several organizations are now putting more than $1 million toward reimagining hiring, promotion and tenure at U.S. universities.

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#PeerReviewWeek - the most wonderful time of the year! (Well, one of them anyway 😊)

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Peer Review Week 2025 Registrations | Editage Join Editage’s Peer Review Week 2025 (September 15th-19th) to rethink peer review in the AI era. Discover how AI is reshaping peer review, with insightful discussions on emerging best practices, tech-...

For #PeerReviewWeek25 join @phillbjones.bsky.social Rebecca Lawrence, Jennifer Wright & Laura Etchells for a FREE @editageinsights.bsky.social @easeeditors.bsky.social webinar Can #AI help clean up scientific publishing?
Sept 18, 4pm BST
www.editage.com/events/peer-...

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Developing a new community standard: PKP’s Publication Facts Label – a work in progress! w/ Hannah Heckner of @silverchairnews.bsky.social Jane Taylor of OUP & John Willinsky of @pkp.sfu.ca
11am ET Sept 17

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2 weeks till #NISOPlus2025 - @alicemeadows.bsky.social is moderating 2 sessions:
Is Scholarly #Metadata a Tool of Resistance of a Point of Vulnerability w/ @petersuber.bsky.social @epentz.bsky.social & @tteleen.bsky.social
11am ET Sept 16
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And here's the @orcid.org white paper itself in case you're interested 😊
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Should @orcid.org replace all other researcher identifier systems?

A recent report from @morebrains.coop says ORCID iDs are most powerful in combination with other researcher IDs (national, disciplinary & proprietary).

Read it here: buff.ly/rID989E

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We're looking forward to this webinar on the outputs from our community engagement work with @ukri.org on their #OpenAccess policy. Speakers include Melissa Harrison @ebi.embl.org Catriona MacCallum @wiley.com & Agustina Martinez-Garcia @uniofcam.bsky.social & UKCoRR.

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screenshot of Zenodo stats for MoreBrains white paper "It's ORCID and not ORCID or"

screenshot of Zenodo stats for MoreBrains white paper "It's ORCID and not ORCID or"

Wow - less than a day after we published our white paper on @orcid.org & other researcher identifiers it has over 1.1k views & 299 downloads. If you haven't already checked it out please do - & share your thoughts!
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Should @orcid.org replace all other researcher identifier systems? The answer is No according to the @morebrains.coop: It's "ORCID and…," not "ORCID or…". Read about how ORCID complements national, disciplinary and proprietary researcher identifier systems in this informative white paper.

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Great to work on this project! All views expressed are our own, but we're v grateful to the @orcid.org team for their help gathering data & other background info!

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cover image from MoreBrains white paper "It's ORCID and not ORCID or" with picture of a jigsaw puzzle piece being slotted into place

cover image from MoreBrains white paper "It's ORCID and not ORCID or" with picture of a jigsaw puzzle piece being slotted into place

We're thrilled to share our new white paper on why @orcid.org iDs are most powerful in combination with other researcher IDs (national, disciplinary & proprietary). Like it says in the title “It's ORCID and…,” not “ORCID or…” 😊 doi.org//10.5281/zen...

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Editing in the Age of Misinformation: A Report on the 2025 EASE Conference - The Scholarly Kitchen Three Scholarly Kitchen Chefs report on the recent European Association of Science Editors (EASE) Conference (Oslo, May 14-16).

Two of the MoreBrains team were at the recent @easeeditors.bsky.social conference in Oslo - @phillbjones.bsky.social & @alicemeadows.bsky.social join fellow chef @irfanullah.bsky.social to share their thoughts in today's @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/17/e...

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screenshot of session description for SSP conference session on Delivering Value at a Mission-Driven Organization

screenshot of session description for SSP conference session on Delivering Value at a Mission-Driven Organization

If you're attending #SSP2025 make sure you say hi to @alicemeadows.bsky.social - she's moderating a session on Delivering Value at a Mission-Driven Organization w/ @anapatycardoso.bsky.social @rharington1.bsky.social Niamh O'Connor @plos.org & Nici Pfeiffer @cos.io - 1.30pm May 30

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Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors Clarivate will no longer include citations to and from retracted papers when calculating journal impact factors, the company announced today.  The change comes after some have wondered over th…

Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors

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18th EASE Conference Session 8 - EASE

Are you going to the @easeeditors.bsky.social conference next week? Look out for (incoming Council member!) @phillbjones.bsky.social who's chairing @alicemeadows.bsky.social's Friday keynote on author identity in the age of #misinformation
ease.org.uk/ease-events/...

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No One Size Fits All: The Case for Taking a National Approach to PID Adoption  - The Scholarly Kitchen Today, Alice Meadows shares some learnings from MoreBrains Cooperative's recent cost-benefit analysis of persistent identifiers, conducted on behalf of the Czech National Library of Technology (NTK).

Today @alicemeadows.bsky.social shares her thoughts in @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social about how our PID costs-benefit analysis for Czech National Library of Technology (NTK) compares w/ similar work in other countries
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Analysis finds that persistent identifier adoption could save the Czech Republic millions of Czech crowns annually - Identifikátory.cz Prague, April 3, 2025: A cost-benefit analysis finds that the time savings from widespread adoption of persistent identifiers (PIDs) in Czech institutions could save over 7,000 person days per year. T...

Happy to share that our cost-benefit analysis of PIDs in Czech Republic (conducted for NTK - Czech Natl Library of Technology) is now openly available. We estimate savings of 7200+ working days/~$573k annually. Read more in their press release: identifikatory.cz/en/a-cost-be...

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If you'll be at @stmassoc.bsky.social's US conference this week look out for @alicemeadows.bsky.social who's speaking on The how and why of who is who: Recommendations for trusted identity in academic publishing w/ Tim Lloyd @cshillum.bsky.social Ralph Youngen & moderator Hylke Koers

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screenshot from MoreBrains Cooperative repository of their report on Investing in an efficient and transparent research ecosystem in Canada

screenshot from MoreBrains Cooperative repository of their report on Investing in an efficient and transparent research ecosystem in Canada

We're delighted to share the latest addition to our repository - this report on for @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social & Digital Research Alliance of Canada in support of a national #PID strategy (en francais aussi)
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Don't forget to look out for @alicemeadows.bsky.social if you're attending the @nationalacademies.org Journal Summit this week (and try to make time to enjoy the #cherryblossom in DC too 🌸😊)

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MoreBrains Consultants | Scholarly Communications, Research Information Management, Policy+ Infrastructures

Will you be at the @nationalacademies.org journal summit next week? If so look out for @alicemeadows.bsky.social! She's also attending the @stmassoc.bsky.social conference in early April. If you'd like to meet up at either event feel free to DM her here or contact her via morebrains.coop

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🧪A starter pack of European scientific societies and associations🇪🇺🇬🇧

📣 Repost to connect researchers on #BlueSky🦋

#research #science #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #SciSky #EduSky #Academia #AcademicBluesky #SciComm #PostDoc #ECR #ECRChat #NewPI #PhD #PhDSky #MedSky #StandWithScience #eloquenti

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Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Pre-Award Funding Processes: Actions, Not Words - The Scholarly Kitchen In today's post, Alice Meadows shares an update on a project to improve DEI in pre-award funding applications.

In today's @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social @alicemeadows.bsky.social reports on our recent work w/ @ebibristol.bsky.social & @dorassessment.bsky.social to improve #DEI in pre-award research funding applications. Our thanks to all involved in this project!
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