Photo of Dominique de Roo speaking at the APE conference

Photo of Beau Case speaking at the APE conference

Photo of Jianbin Jin speaking at the APE conference

Photo of Iman Magdy Khamis speaking at the APE conference

Highlights from our participation at the Academic Publishing in Europe conference: Dominique De Roo hosting a panel of librarians sharing their views on AI – Beau Case (University of Central Florida), Jianbin Jin (@tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social) & Iman Magdy Khamis (@nuqatar.bsky.social). #APE2026

FICG Highlights Advanced Packaging Integration for Optical Transceivers at APE 2026 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — FIC Global, Inc. (TWSE: 3701; FICG), with PRIME Technology as its optical communications brand, will participate in Asia Photonics Expo (APE) 2026, taking place February 4–6, 2026 at Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore. At Booth A521, FICG will highlight its high-speed optical transceiver manufacturing and advanced packaging integration capabilities—enabling customers to address the accelerating demand for higher-bandwidth data center interconnect and improved energy efficiency driven by AI workloads. As AI training and large-scale deployment continue to ramp from late 2025 into 2026, data centers are increasingly optimizing not only compute, but overall network […]

FICG Highlights Advanced Packaging Integration for Optical Transceivers at APE 2026 #FICG #OpticalTransceivers #APE2026 #Photonics #DataCenters

APE Conference 2026: Scholarly Communication at a Turning Point (Day 1) - De Gruyter Conversations What does it take to uphold research excellence? What do librarians think about AI in the scholarly environment? How can we combat inequalities in academic publishing? This year’s APE conference tackl...

Get a first glimpse of those findings in Linda Bennett's roundup of the recent Academic Publishing in Europe conference, #APE2026, featuring librarians Beau Case, Iman Magdy Khamis & Jianbin Jin: 🔗 blog.degruyter.com/ape-conferen...

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From Trust to Process: APE 2026 on the Case for Collaboration The APE Conference in Berlin offered the first gathering of the international publishing community of 2026.

One message stood out at #APE2026 last week: protecting trust, equity and integrity is something we must do together.

In her latest blog, our Senior Consultant Mithu explores what’s next for scholarly publishing, with insights on collaboration, transparency and research integrity.

📌 bit.ly/3NvAEvu

Champion of transparency and rigor in science wins 2026 APE Award for Innovation in Scholarly Communication - Digital Science Dr Anita Bandrowski has won the 2026 APE Award for Innovation in Scholarly Communication.

🌟 Stories of the week: CEO & Co-founder of SciCrunch Dr Anita Bandrowski has won the 2026 APE Award for Innovation in Scholarly Communication.

She was presented with the award at the #APE2026 conference in Berlin.

🔗 See our announcement: https://ow.ly/gZFT50XXRqj

A large black dog wearing a festive sweater is lying partly in a small, fluffy, light‑pink pet bed on a patterned red rug.

#APE2026 has officially come to a close. and we're awaiting Lou's return to the office after her role as a moderator. We can't wait for all the insights and we know Fergus is missing her.

What was your biggest takeaway from sessions? Let's keep the conversation going.

Here's an invitation to sign on to the Stockholm Declaration, as shared by Dan Larhammar and Bernard Sabel
#APE2026 #ScholarlyCommunication

See here:
sciii-it.org/stockholm-declaration

Researcher ID verification system to help eliminate common integrity issues!
1. Preventing the bad actors
2. Expanding use of any services, and sharing knowledge

- Steven Inchcoombe (President Research, Springer Nature, UK)

@verime.coop?

#APE2026 #ScholarlyCommunication #Community

Response from Sweden dating back over 25 years ago, when the public was asked...

... the greatest scientific discoveries/inventions in the previous millennium?

Shared by Dan Larhammar (Uppsala University – Sweden – Member & former President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)

#APE2026

“We have the most expensive formats, the smallest print runs, the most demanding authors – and yet we still exist and thrive.” Kudos to all #HSS publishers by Ove Kähler from @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social at #APE2026.

We’re happy to say that @ACM.org has signed up to receive IP address updates with details of verified changes via theipregistry.org. ACM will soon be implementing our APIs to automate the process.
#Library #libraries #publisher #publishers #publishing #AcademicPublishing #ScholComms #APE2026

"AI should be a tool, not an Oracle."

- Lukas Pollmann, Lead Customer Engineer for publishers at Google Cloud Germany

#APE2026 #ScholarlyCommunication #AI

Promotional graphic for APE 2026, taking place 12–14 January 2026 in Berlin, with a city skyline background. Text reads: 'Are you there? Don’t miss Lou moderating Day 2 at #APE2026.' Below is The International Bunch logo and tagline. A circular photo shows Lou sitting on a chair, holding a microphone, wearing a striped top

We know there has been FOMO on LinkedIn for those missing #APE2026 but for those there today in rainy Berlin, join our CEO Lou Peck in moderating Day 2.

Photo credit (Lou's photo): Photothek/Sebastian Rau

"We have to have the human attention in the loop on the [AI] judgement." - Sahar Vahdati, Professor of AI Science, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.
#APE2026 #ScholarlyCommunication #AIUse

'Uncharted Intelligence: AI, Policy, and the Global Reinvention of Scholarly Publishing'. @judeperera.bsky.social and this panel tackles some thorny but candid questions regarding a landscape intertwined with suspicion about artificial intelligence.
#APE2026 #ScholarlyCommunication

"It's the problem of AI itself. AI activates the problem we have in science communication. "
- @abalkina.bsky.social commenting around AI contribution in article consumption. Further states it's "structural problems".
#APE2026 #Community #ScholarlyCommunication

@Abalkina.bsky.social on eerie new papermill strategy #APE2026: invented papers with fake authors & paid for references for H-index padding. Even on retraction, citations persist. Remedy: 1) prepublication integrity screening; 2) remove H-index from Research assemment @Dorassessment.bsky.social

Panel on academic freedom featuring Louise Schouten

Louise Schouten speaking

Panel discussion on libraries and AI

The panelists talking

Good to see the #ScholComm community coming together at #APE2026 to set the agenda for the year. We were pleased to be part of two panels on academic freedom and AI, and are very grateful for the invaluable input from all of the speakers!

Browse the talks: 🔗 academicpublishingeurope.com/program/

“#OpenAccess APC waivers do not redistribute power”
@godwyns.bsky.social keynote on building justice in social communication at #APE2026

"Open Access is not a business model, it's a prerequisite for science to work at its best." @colleencampbe11.bsky.social at #APE2026

"There is no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home."
- Ken Olsen, Founder, Digital Equipment Corp. 1977
#APE2026 #Value #OpenAccess

This powerful image used by @carolinesutton.bsky.social in her talk visually links Checks and Balances to Justice, insisting that monopoly, which inversely is lack of collaboration and involvement - not just inclusion - will not address the change we need.
#APE2026 #ScholarlyCommunication

At #APE2026? Don’t miss our CEO, Lou Peck, moderating the essential panel: ‘Safeguarding Research: The Role of Academic Publishers in an Era of Political and Public Pressure’ on Day 1.

How are you safeguarding research?

#ScholComm #AcademicPublishing

Image of CEO Caroline Sutton at the podium from APE with slide reading: LIVE LAUNCH: Safeguarding Scholarly Communication: Publisher Practices to Uphold Research Integrity - and a cover of the report.

Live from #APE2026 in Berlin: STM CEO Caroline Sutton just unveiled "Safeguarding Scholarly Communication", a landmark cross-publisher report on scaling infrastructure, tools & teams to fight industrialised research fraud.

Learn more >> stm-assoc.org/new-report-d... @researchconsulting.bsky.social

Andrew is in Berlin today attending #APE2026 and hoping to connect with colleagues from the #AcademicPublishing community.
#ScholComm #ScholComms #ScholarlyPublishing #Publishing #Publishers

Caroline announces an important new position paper from @stmassoc.bsky.social and @researchconsulting.bsky.social to help inform this collaborative process moving forward #APE2026

APE 2026 keynote from Caroline Sutton: "Balancing interests involves ensuring that no single institutional actor has unchecked power over scientific knowledge."

This. Powerful opening keynote at #APE2026 from @carolinesutton.bsky.social on the need for collaboration, with checks and balances, to counter threats to the integrity of scientific knowledge. Delighted to be in #Berlin again on behalf of @kriyadocs.bsky.social

#ScholarlyPublishing

Ingo Rother opens #APE2026 welcoming everyone to Berlin. @carolinesutton.bsky.social takes the floor for her keynote with an apt focus on: 'Building epistemic trust in scientific knowledge - together (An independent publishing industry: The case for Checks and Balances).'
#Community #ScholComm

Here at #ape2026, @carolinesutton.bsky.social is teasing a “big announcement” from STM later in her talk…

Woman in front of a poster

New year, new conference. Let’s see what Academic Publishing in Europe is about! #APE2026