The panel on Infrastructure including a Global South representation is promising. So is the wide range of sector inclusion: funder, libraries, indexer, and grassroots players, chaired by Emma Green of @investinopen.bsky.social.
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"S2O is not a chemical symbol", confirms the Chief Science Officer at the American Physiological Society, Dr Dennis Brown.
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But he had to hear the explanation 20x before realising the above.
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So proud and impressed with the legendary #francesPinter and her work to #DefendResearch and #StandUpForScience in Ukraine. When we think it’s tough for us, it’s always worse elsewhere and yet 🇺🇦 never gives up or stops the work. #R2Rconf #R2R2026
Why isn't Peer Review Commons more popular than it is even though it helps researchers by reducing the number of review cycles and time to publish?
Researchers publish strategically. They make conscious choices about where to publish based on audience and career considerations.
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"We're at risk of trading slow longterm intentional work with quick time convenience."
- Amanda Licastro, Head of Digital Scholarship, Swarthmore College
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The Researcher to Reader Conference is happening today and tomorrow. The official hashtag is #R2RConf - please use that.
But you may encounter interesting content by also searching for #R2RConf2026 or #R2R2026 some other variant.
Making Peer Review Better for Researchers at #R2R2026.
Ritu Dhand speaks of the need to involve more non-western reviewers.
Gareth Dyke talks of training needs and understanding gaps between publishers and researchers. Stewart Manley says researchers need to build credibility.
I've been using the wrong hashtag! #r2r2026 instead of #r2rconf. And I'm on the advisory board 🤦🏻. I shall now repost correctly. Soz.
We were wondering where you were!
Yes the correct tag is #R2RConf, but #R2R2026 is worth a quick search, folks.....
Please see this article on the debate over paying peer reviewers from a previous R2R meeting #R2R2026 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/06/16/w...
Many problems in scholarly research due to "prestige" but not everyone understands or agrees on what is prestigious and what's not. Can it ever be possible to find consensus on this? Certainly not without deep effort & understanding. And a real effort to not let unconscious bias influence. #R2R2026
Making Peer Review Better for Researchers now up at #R2R2026.
Ritu Dhand speaks of the need to involve more non-western reviewers.
Gareth Dyke talks of training needs and understanding gaps between publishers and researchers. Stewart Manley says researchers need to build credibility.
to recycle when the vast majority of climate change/environmental risk sits with the largest companies/institutions that generate pollution. This is the source of the chafing in this audience. #R2R2026 @r2rconf.bsky.social
Full house here at #R2R2026 for opening keynote Open and Secure Research by Dr Leslie McIntosh @mcintold.bsky.social of @digital-science.com.
Maybe I'm getting too old but I find the whac-a-mole nature of keeping up with research fraud overwhelming and tiring. Good it's not my job!
@godwyns.bsky.social 🤔 ? of "Who is an author?" To what extent does this "vetting" of authors via western scholarship standards risk the kind of exclusion that hurts the enterprise? @mcintold.bsky.social at institutional level, easier. Individual level, much harder. #R2R2026 @r2rconf.bsky.social
First Q&A @mcintold.bsky.social #R2R2026: Q: Research incentives do not incentivize this behavior. A: Stop looking at others need to do in their corner. All corners have problems. Focus on yours given your position in the ecosystem. Yes, institutions need to do better.
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." That's what we need to be doing: Giovanni Malagó Open Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics. How can we be resilient? #R2R2026 #openscience #Researchintegrity #academicsky #sciencesky #scisky #polisky #openaccess
How do other fields "authenticate" - See art authentication - provenance, properties and professionals. Ppl copy what is valued and that's not the a bad thing. Scholarly authentication should be the same. @mcintold.bsky.social #R2R2026
"What is science?" @mcintold.bsky.social science = "humanistic inquiry into nature, ethics, and meaning" (not just STM) = knowledge exploration/understanding. Science > methods, ppl, institutions. #R2R2026
"Who are we?" Who belongs? Who is excluded and what expectations do we set for researchers? Who has the right to be an "author" on a paper? Trust markers as @mcintold.bsky.social evaluates #ResearchIntegrity questions. #R2R2026 @r2rconf.bsky.social
Trust markers that @mcintold.bsky.social looks for: emails, affiliations, funders - fictitious funder (Pharmakon Network) used to find others in the group and affiliate with each other. Once made public, the group slowed down but impact was real. #R2R2026 @r2rconf.bsky.social
@mcintold.bsky.social #R2R2026 "Openness w/o structural maturity accelerates contamination. ecurity without openness risks authoritarian control. Goal of #openscience is resilience. Correction requires infrastructure, expectation setting, monitoring, oversight - not just norms."
"Research sec focuses on inputs, outputs, where funding comes from and how results might be mis-used. Rarely asks how it facilitates knowledge infra/construction. Security agencies minimal attn to #Scholcom behaviors. What makes VoR valuable: vetted knowledge = power" @mcintold.bsky.social #R2R2026
"Decision fatigue" hallmark of current paradigm - oversimplication overwhelms thought - result is misdirection- happens w/I, around, and to science - attn pulled toward was easiest to measure/understand rather than what's consequential @mcintold.bsky.social #R2R2026
@mcintold.bsky.social kicking off @r2rconf.bsky.social w/ "Open and Secure Research: Confronting uncomfortable truths about research openness, integrity and responsibility in global scholarship" #Openscience #openResearch #Openaccess
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Found the AIR matrix via Chris Leonard's Scalene blog - maps responsible AI use across the research process. Exactly the shared language we need.
We're running a workshop on this at R2R next week. Come say hi.
figshare.com/articles/onl...
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MDPI is pleased to announce its role as a Silver Sponsor for the Researcher to Reader (R2R) 2026 conference, which will be held 24-25 February in London, UK.
Find out more about this event: buff.ly/yC9dcJ8
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