Danny Kingsley
@dannykay68.bsky.social
Scholarly Communication - all of it, Open Research, research assessment, research culture, research integrity. They are parts of the same whole.
FRUSTRATION: I have always hated corporate speak. As an ex-journalist & Plain English writing teacher I just can't understand the language. The latest one that is really doing my head in is 'playbooks' which are sets of instructions, each one called a 'play'. Entirely nonsensical. Just stop. Please.
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
FRUSTRATION: I have always hated corporate speak. As an ex-journalist & Plain English writing teacher I just can't understand the language. The latest one that is really doing my head in is 'playbooks' which are sets of instructions, each one called a 'play'. Entirely nonsensical. Just stop. Please.
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After attending the International Research Integrity Conference the past three days, I will be at the AIMOS2025 conference the rest of the week, also in Sydney.
Get ready for more live posting!
#AIMOS2025
aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...
Get ready for more live posting!
#AIMOS2025
aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...
AIMOS2025 Conference
AIMOS conference 2025
aimos-inc.github.io
November 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
After attending the International Research Integrity Conference the past three days, I will be at the AIMOS2025 conference the rest of the week, also in Sydney.
Get ready for more live posting!
#AIMOS2025
aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...
Get ready for more live posting!
#AIMOS2025
aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...
SLOP from an apparent chatbot writing letters to the editor. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s... I fear the pollution of GenAI affecting the academic discourse. One wonders how long before the snake eats its own tail. It is looking more and more ouroboros-like.
The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
SLOP from an apparent chatbot writing letters to the editor. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s... I fear the pollution of GenAI affecting the academic discourse. One wonders how long before the snake eats its own tail. It is looking more and more ouroboros-like.
VARIETY: "Ask the Chefs: What’s Your Favorite AI Hack?" the spoiler alert is the response to the use of AI in their work lives is very mixed, including a conscious decision not to use it scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/13/a...
Ask the Chefs: What’s Your Favorite AI Hack? - The Scholarly Kitchen
We talk a lot about AI in scholarly communications and publishing, but today, we ask the Chefs: What’s your favorite AI hack?
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 AM
VARIETY: "Ask the Chefs: What’s Your Favorite AI Hack?" the spoiler alert is the response to the use of AI in their work lives is very mixed, including a conscious decision not to use it scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/13/a...
RELEVANT to the two talks from @oai-ge.bsky.social we just watched as part of our Australian satellite event -
'Open Source AI: Propagation of Open Source Licenses in the Age of AI' +
'Open Science, Next Generation Metrics, and the World of Publishing'
See the recordings here oai.events
'Open Source AI: Propagation of Open Source Licenses in the Age of AI' +
'Open Science, Next Generation Metrics, and the World of Publishing'
See the recordings here oai.events
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
RELEVANT to the two talks from @oai-ge.bsky.social we just watched as part of our Australian satellite event -
'Open Source AI: Propagation of Open Source Licenses in the Age of AI' +
'Open Science, Next Generation Metrics, and the World of Publishing'
See the recordings here oai.events
'Open Source AI: Propagation of Open Source Licenses in the Age of AI' +
'Open Science, Next Generation Metrics, and the World of Publishing'
See the recordings here oai.events
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'Such reliance on rankings means that universities are shaped not by the needs of society or by innovations driven from inside the international higher-education community, but by unappointed third-party ranking agencies'
@lizziegadd.bsky.social in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@lizziegadd.bsky.social in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
To reform universities, first tackle global rankings
Universities are in thrall to a rankings system that prioritizes narrow aspects of academic life. Three changes would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working.
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
'Such reliance on rankings means that universities are shaped not by the needs of society or by innovations driven from inside the international higher-education community, but by unappointed third-party ranking agencies'
@lizziegadd.bsky.social in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@lizziegadd.bsky.social in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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I don’t think that’s true, these publishers have HUGE overheads that pay processes that have nothing to do with journal production. And even the production cost could be reduced. Eg, if you don’t sell subscriptions or APCs, you don’t need sales dept!
Must read: f1000research.com/articles/10-20
Must read: f1000research.com/articles/10-20
F1000Research Article: Current market rates for scholarly publishing services.
Read the latest article version by Alexander Grossmann, Björn Brembs, at F1000Research.
f1000research.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I don’t think that’s true, these publishers have HUGE overheads that pay processes that have nothing to do with journal production. And even the production cost could be reduced. Eg, if you don’t sell subscriptions or APCs, you don’t need sales dept!
Must read: f1000research.com/articles/10-20
Must read: f1000research.com/articles/10-20
TWO SIDES - to the introduction of AI into research in a presentation by Caroline Welte "Developing scalable learning opportunities about generative AI" - as part of a satellite event for OAI14 - @oai-ge.bsky.social oai.events/oai14/satell...
November 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
TWO SIDES - to the introduction of AI into research in a presentation by Caroline Welte "Developing scalable learning opportunities about generative AI" - as part of a satellite event for OAI14 - @oai-ge.bsky.social oai.events/oai14/satell...
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#OAI14 has now come to a close. Over 500 individuals signed in to join sessions during the week. All the recordings will be available at oai.events/oai14/ going forwards. 5 watch parties have been organised to study the talks in greater depth - see oai.events/oai14/satell... for details.
OAI14 – OAI
oai.events
November 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
#OAI14 has now come to a close. Over 500 individuals signed in to join sessions during the week. All the recordings will be available at oai.events/oai14/ going forwards. 5 watch parties have been organised to study the talks in greater depth - see oai.events/oai14/satell... for details.
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Bumper crop of submissions for FORCE 2026 to be held in Singapore 3-5 June 2026! Thank you for your support!
www.linkedin.com/posts/force1...
www.linkedin.com/posts/force1...
#force2026 #researcher #librarian #practitioner #innovator #force11 #scholarlycommunication | FORCE11
The #FORCE2026 Call for Proposals is now closed – and what a response! Over 100 submissions from 28 countries worldwide.
Thank you to every #researcher, #librarian, #practitioner, and #innovator who ...
www.linkedin.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Bumper crop of submissions for FORCE 2026 to be held in Singapore 3-5 June 2026! Thank you for your support!
www.linkedin.com/posts/force1...
www.linkedin.com/posts/force1...
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
ASTONISHING - teaching an octopus to play a piano scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/14/t...?
Preserving Human Ingenuity for a Future Planet Ruled By Octopuses - The Scholarly Kitchen
An engineer and musician teaches an octopus to play the piano.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
November 15, 2025 at 4:08 AM
ASTONISHING - teaching an octopus to play a piano scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/14/t...?
EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...
JOIN US! for series of 1 hour Watch Parties over 3 days to view curated talks from last week's OAI Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication @oai-ge.bsky.social Timed to suit folks in Australasia.
Details: oai.events/oai14/satell...
Register: events.zoom.us/ev/AkS1MEFrJ...
Details: oai.events/oai14/satell...
Register: events.zoom.us/ev/AkS1MEFrJ...
OAI14 Satellite Events – OAI
oai.events
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 AM
JOIN US! for series of 1 hour Watch Parties over 3 days to view curated talks from last week's OAI Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication @oai-ge.bsky.social Timed to suit folks in Australasia.
Details: oai.events/oai14/satell...
Register: events.zoom.us/ev/AkS1MEFrJ...
Details: oai.events/oai14/satell...
Register: events.zoom.us/ev/AkS1MEFrJ...
REFRESHING HONESTY about the run around journals put authors through. That the community has put up with this for so long says mountains about our flawed and problematic assessment system. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/04/m...
November 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
REFRESHING HONESTY about the run around journals put authors through. That the community has put up with this for so long says mountains about our flawed and problematic assessment system. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/04/m...
INITIATIVE: Bodleian Libraries is launching SHOx (Short-form Hosting at Oxford), a new hosting service supporting Oxford’s community of scholars in publishing short-form research titles such as journals, working paper collections, and conference proceedings. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox
SHOx: Shortform Hosting at Oxford
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
INITIATIVE: Bodleian Libraries is launching SHOx (Short-form Hosting at Oxford), a new hosting service supporting Oxford’s community of scholars in publishing short-form research titles such as journals, working paper collections, and conference proceedings. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox
SCEPTIC, I am afraid, about the ability for text matching to identify actual impact www.cabidigitallibrary.org/do/10.5555/n... I have worked in the impact space and demonstrating impact, let alone causality is extremely complex. It's more than just a text search.
www.cabidigitallibrary.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
SCEPTIC, I am afraid, about the ability for text matching to identify actual impact www.cabidigitallibrary.org/do/10.5555/n... I have worked in the impact space and demonstrating impact, let alone causality is extremely complex. It's more than just a text search.
SOMBRE: the mood amongst researchers according to an Elsevier study www.elsevier.com/en-gb/insigh... I imagine publishers are also feeling sombre - the financial environment is not looking strong for deals with them either
Researcher of the Future: Confidence in Research
In this report, learn how researchers are adapting to rapid AI change, shifting funding landscapes, and new expectations for collaboration and impact.
www.elsevier.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
SOMBRE: the mood amongst researchers according to an Elsevier study www.elsevier.com/en-gb/insigh... I imagine publishers are also feeling sombre - the financial environment is not looking strong for deals with them either
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"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals."
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
OUP acquires Karger's long tail
Hello fellow journalologists,
newsletter.journalology.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals."
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
NEW WORD: Malinformation - "information which is based on fact, but removed from its original context in order to mislead, harm, or manipulate" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinfo...
Malinformation - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 AM
NEW WORD: Malinformation - "information which is based on fact, but removed from its original context in order to mislead, harm, or manipulate" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinfo...
INTERESTING: "Open letter to the Executive University Board: Calling for an end to the university's dependence on big tech" www.rug.nl/jantina-tamm... "Universities need to work towards technical infrastructures and practices that restore the autonomy of the academic community ..."
Open letter to the Executive University Board: Calling for an end to the university's dependence on big tech
We, the undersigned, express our concern about the University of Groningen’s increasing reliance on services from big tech companies
www.rug.nl
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
INTERESTING: "Open letter to the Executive University Board: Calling for an end to the university's dependence on big tech" www.rug.nl/jantina-tamm... "Universities need to work towards technical infrastructures and practices that restore the autonomy of the academic community ..."
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Full Programme for #R2RConf (London, 24-25 Feb) available r2rconf.com/r2r-conferen...
Keynote, Debate, Presentations, Panels, Roundtables, Case Study and Workshops
Plenary: 8½ hrs, Workshops: 3 hrs, Networking: 5½ hours crammed into 2 days!
Discounts & 50 free tickets for Academics & Librarians
Keynote, Debate, Presentations, Panels, Roundtables, Case Study and Workshops
Plenary: 8½ hrs, Workshops: 3 hrs, Networking: 5½ hours crammed into 2 days!
Discounts & 50 free tickets for Academics & Librarians
Conference Programme
R2R 2026 Conference Programme The full Programme for 2026 Conference is listed below; the timetable will be set out in November, and the Lightning Talks will be announced in January. The programme …
r2rconf.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Full Programme for #R2RConf (London, 24-25 Feb) available r2rconf.com/r2r-conferen...
Keynote, Debate, Presentations, Panels, Roundtables, Case Study and Workshops
Plenary: 8½ hrs, Workshops: 3 hrs, Networking: 5½ hours crammed into 2 days!
Discounts & 50 free tickets for Academics & Librarians
Keynote, Debate, Presentations, Panels, Roundtables, Case Study and Workshops
Plenary: 8½ hrs, Workshops: 3 hrs, Networking: 5½ hours crammed into 2 days!
Discounts & 50 free tickets for Academics & Librarians
TRANSFERABLE SKILLS: this article is making the case that PhDs don't prepare students for work outside academia "PhD employability beyond academia: an analysis of industry skills emphasis through a cultural capital lens" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
PhD employability beyond academia: an analysis of industry skills emphasis through a cultural capital lens
PhD graduate employability is crucial for candidates, employers, and governments. Having PhD graduates in appropriate post-study employment enhances career satisfaction, benefits organisations, and...
www.tandfonline.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
TRANSFERABLE SKILLS: this article is making the case that PhDs don't prepare students for work outside academia "PhD employability beyond academia: an analysis of industry skills emphasis through a cultural capital lens" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
DODGY: Clarivate supporting awards for researchers with large numbers of retractions - "Exclusive: Web of Science company involved in dubious awards in Iraq" retractionwatch.com/2025/10/31/e...
Exclusive: Web of Science company involved in dubious awards in Iraq
Hayder A. Dhahad, Iraq’s deputy minister for scientific research affairs, speaks at an awards ceremony at the country’s Science Day celebration. Source: Instagram In the string of prestigious…
retractionwatch.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
DODGY: Clarivate supporting awards for researchers with large numbers of retractions - "Exclusive: Web of Science company involved in dubious awards in Iraq" retractionwatch.com/2025/10/31/e...