This has been a massive project for me and for @countermetrics.bsky.social generally. I'm really proud to see our AI usage guidelines go live today!

We’ve been developing best practice guidance for usage metrics associated with generative and agentic AI. Today, we're delighted to say that they're live at www.countermetrics.org/code-of-prac...

Our work is community led. Huge thanks go to our dedicated working group for getting us to this point!

Britain talks trust in science | Reports | Wellcome Drawing on research across Britain, this report explores public trust in science, how trust differs across different groups and how science can earn trust.

Science can change lives. But only with public trust.

New research by @moreincommonuk.bsky.social finds Britain broadly trusts science – but we can’t take that for granted.

Find out more in our new report ⤵️
wellcome.org/insights/rep...

A painting can move institutions. A website can change its address. The scholarship tied to a work remains discoverable and accessible with a Crossref DOI. We're glad to see more museums recognizing this.
Happy World Art Day! 🎨

#WorldArtDay (15 April, Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday) was established by the International Association of Art and later supported by #UNESCO to highlight art’s role in society. As Crossref members, museums make art #research citable and part of the #scholarly record 🧵 Here are three:

This excellent post implicitly highlights my primary purpose in organizing these replication studies--to *describe* what happens when we try to replicate the published literature. This descriptive evidence grounds conceptual debates about *why* we observe those rates, and what we "should" observe.

Lunar Flyby - NASA

NASA created a new Lunar Flyby gallery 😉

www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

A great post! So many things I’d like to quote.

SCORE | Center for Open Science SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

How do we know if research is credible? In Abatayo et al., 86 of us combined evidence across the SCORE program including replicability, reproducibility, robustness, human and machine assessments to understand relationships among many potential credibility measures. 1/

Paper: osf.io/preprints/me...

"Why is publishing so expensive?" It's a question I hear all the time, so we at @biologists.bsky.social thought we'd try to dispel some of the myths around publishing economics & provide transparency around our costs. Today, we publish editorials in all 5 of our journals - links in the thread below.

Glossary Definitions of publication ethics terms used by COPE.

Useful glossary from @publicationethics.bsky.social provides brief definitions and explanations of publication ethics terms used on the COPE website and in its guidance materials. Will be helpful to many.

#PublicationEthics #ResearchPublication #ScholarlyPublishing #ResearchIntegrity

Great article, and spot-on comment from @yonigre.bsky.social

“If you want someone to stick around as a member or a subscriber, you aren’t just selling them information. You’re asking for their trust. That makes trust a primary financial metric, not just a nice sentiment in a mission statement.”

The Metric That Lied To Newsrooms Web traffic, the metric that newsrooms use to prove their value, no longer measures anything real.

The Metric That Lied To Newsrooms: Web traffic, the metric that newsrooms use to prove their value, no longer measures anything real newspainpoints.substack.com/p/the-metric...

The SUSTAIN scheme is still open for applications until 8 April. This programme supports women in research to develop leadership and career potential, and is open to award-holders from eligible Royal Society, @raeng.org.uk and @acmedsci.bsky.social schemes. https://royalsociety.org/grants/sustain/

We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record."
Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...

Weekend reads: ‘Don’t hate the replicator, hate the game’; Crossref finds 150K incorrect citation links in database; Announcing our Ctrl-Z award If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Stolen economics study retracted following Retraction Watch coverage …

Weekend reads: ‘Don’t hate the replicator, hate the game’; Crossref finds 150K incorrect citation links in database; Announcing our Ctrl-Z award

I really enjoyed learning about "night science" from Isaac Wink's post - what might we miss as AI makes us more directional and less serendipitous in our discovery?

Microscopy preprints - applications in biology - FocalPlane Microscopy preprints - applications in biology - News

Our #preprint list is now up on FocalPlane.
Start your week feeling inspired by the latest research using microscopy to answer questions in biology. Let us know if you have any recommendations for us to add.

focalplane.biologists.com/2026/03/09/m...

Weekend reads: The LLMs ‘willing to commit academic fraud’; ‘peer replication’ instead of review; a ‘spam filter’ for predatory journals If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Preprint server removes study attributing increased infant mortality …

Weekend reads: The LLMs ‘willing to commit academic fraud’; ‘peer replication’ instead of review; a ‘spam filter’ for predatory journals

4 March 2026 - Science, Innovation and Technology Committee - Oral evidence session - Committees - UK Parliament 09:00 - The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Starting at 9:30am "Following reports that the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is facing significant cost pressures, the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee will hold a one-off evidence session exploring scientific research funding" 🔭 committees.parliament.uk/event/26683/...

XKCD comic: Title: HOW STANDARDS PROLIFERATE: (SEE: A/C CHARGERS, CHARACTER ENCODINGS, INSTANT MESSAGING, ETC.) Panel 1: SITUATION: THERE ARE I4 COMPETING STANDARDS. Panel 2: character 1: 14?! RIDICULOUS! WE NEED TO DEVELOP ONE UNIVERSAL STANDARD THAT COVERS EVERYONE'S USE CASES. character 2: YEAH! Panel 3: SOON: SITUATION: THERE ARE I5 COMPETING STANDARDS. YEAH!

Crossref is great for journal articles, and datacite is great for datasets and software. Bibtex is good for citations, but not as detailed.

I really tried to avoid it, but I've been forced into creating a 15th standard to rule them all :(

Let me know if there's something I've missed. #schema

The Invisible Hand of Peer Review by Stevan Harnad came out nearly 30 years ago and was such a significant contribution at that time. Revisiting it shows also how prescient it was. Definitely worth reading by anyone interested in #PeerReview #Preprints #ScholarlyCommunication #ScholarlySkywriting

Why Stevan Harnad Has Been Dreaming of Chatbots All Along The open access pioneer on the movement’s halting trajectory and thinking in the age of the large language model.

Good start the week read - Steve Harnad on open access (in general) and LLMs katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.

👉Five Ways to Spot when a Paper is Fraud
...sleuths tips at @nature.com #researchintegrity

I’d checked the peer review history but hadn’t noticed that you were one of the reviewers Stephen – nice constructive review with important points!
For anyone wanting to find the reviews & editorial correspondence click the #PeerReview tab above the abstract.
#OpenPeerReview #TransparentPeerReview

Slide showing the 7 injustices of AI in STM publishing: - AI tools simply perform worse in non-English languages. - Cultural bias. - Knowledge gaps. - Language laundering. - Reinforcement of publication barriers. - Economic inequality. - Epistemic injustice.

Very important presentation on how AI can exacerbate the inequities that are already huge in the global scholarly communication system. #r2rconf

Our AI only "sees" Western, English speakers. 93% of training data for #GPT is in English. Is AI democratizing access to scholcomm OR encoding colonialism at scale. (SR NOTE: TLDR - my vote is the latter).

#NikeshGosalia #R2RConf

"Everyone deserves to be seen" re: AI.
Commerce or equity? Efficiency or justice?

AI that only works for 20% of researchers is NOT neutral. You have choices around HOW you use it. How YOU use it matters: #NikeshGosalia #R2RConf