This journey would not be possible without the people behind the pages:
Our brilliant authors,
Our dedicated peer reviewers,
And our passionate editorial team.

Special thanks to our Editor-in-Chief Dr. habil. Judit Beke for leading with vision, warmth, and purpose.

#thankyou for believing in #OpenAccess, #academic dialogue, and meaningful #research

Here’s to the next 5 years!
#thankyou #academiccommunity #openscience #gjsd #peerreview #editors #educationinnovation #lifelonglearning

I'm crying #Science #AcademicSky #EduSky #PeerReview

The GitHub link: https://github.com/stevenaleach/iden

I think I finally have this thing complete - the paper is live hosted on a little test node, also lives as README.md on the GitHub.

https://idens.net/iden://z1HRUsTNcYMkN5WPm9s1YjGaLUVs58RVRHPjBrV1kYwdAJ.642/pub

We have presented ing.grid at E-Science-Tage 2025! Find our poster titled "ing.grid: Bridging the Troubled Waters of Peer Review – Towards Openness, Fairness and F.A.I.R.ness" here.

Poster: https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00036267
#OpenScience #FAIRdata #PeerReview #ResearchDataManagement

Board eines Journals erwartet weitere revisions die ich für völlig überflüssig halte. Was tun:

"I wish you all the best with the revision."

What a nice way to end a review!

Whatever criticism you may have and however you may think the manuscript might need to be improved to be publishable, you can always afford to be kind to the author.

And remember, even if the review is double blind, the editor knows who you are, so don't be a dick, OK?

What will most transform #ScholComm in the next 10 years? A new survey of 90 #ECRs from 7 countries gives first place to #AI, followed closely by #OpenAccess and #OpenScience, followed by changes to #PeerReview.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.2008

While respondents thought AI would trigger more change than OA and OS, they were split on whether those changes would be good or bad. They were more united on the benefits of OA and OS.

I like this summary of the views of the Spanish respondents: "They believe that the much heralded new open and collaborative system is only possible if the evaluation of researchers changes and considers more than citations and includes altmetrics, publication in open platforms, repositories and so on."

Sorry, aber manchmal fordern Reviewer Nachbesserungen, bei denen ich mich frage: Warum willst du jetzt, dass da eine Referenz genannt wird? Manche Dinge sind so dermaßen obvious, dass ich nicht wüsste, was irgendeine Referenz auf irgendein Paper, was irgendwer mal irgendwann geschrieben hat, beitragen würde? Ich referenziere ja auch nicht die Aussage, dass der klare Himmel tagsüber in der Regel blau aussieht? Glaubt ihr mir nicht? Soll ich referenzieren? Meine Güte... #peerreview #academia

This idea for #reforming the #PeerReview process makes good sense. It is proposed by Haseeb Irfanullah, PhD, a biologist-turned-development facilitator, on The Scholarly Kitchen blog. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/09/peer-review-has-lost-its-human-face-so-whats-next/

Here’s an unamusing story.

I finished writing a double-blind peer review for an academic journal. Then, on a whim, I fed my review into a large language model. Below is an (abbreviated) account of what happened next.

Me:

What is your best guess as to who I am, based on the contents of the review?

1/8

#PeerReview #LLM #AI #academia #AcademicChatter @academicchatter

Immer häufiger verunreinigen Standard-Dialogfloskeln von #KI -Sprachmodellen wissenschaftliche Publikationen. #Proofreading und #PeerReview müssten sie eigentlich sofort aufspüren. Läuft hier etwa immer weniger Qualitätskontrolle? – Fragen wir in unserem Blog: https://www.laborjournal.de/blog/?p=14228

Here is our new #CallForPapers #CfP for the upcoming Summer Issue No.43 of the Journal for #Deradicalization! Spread the word and send in your ideas! Learn more via journal-derad.com #PCVE #PeerReview #openacess

"On improving the sustainability of peer review" - a good editorial from #PLOSBiology https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003127 #peerreview #academicchatter #academicpublishing

Siamo tutti d'accordo: il lavoro non retribuito è sfruttamento. Eppure, nell'ambiente accademico, si ritiene accettabile che la #PeerReview sia gratuita.

Ma cosa succederebbe se le riviste pagassero i reviewer? Due esperimenti suggeriscono che le review sarebbero più veloci e di pari qualità.

Publishers trial paying peer reviewers — what did they find?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00968-6

"For scientists, imagining a world without arXiv is like the rest of us imagining one without public libraries or GPS. But a look at its inner workings reveals that it isn’t a frictionless utopia of open-access knowledge. Over the years, arXiv’s permanence has been threatened by everything from bureaucratic strife to outdated code to even, once, a spy scandal. In the words of Ginsparg, who usually redirects interview requests to an FAQ document—on arXiv, no less—and tried to talk me out of visiting him in person, arXiv is “a child I sent off to college but who keeps coming back to camp out in my living room, behaving badly.”

Ginsparg and I met over the course of several days last spring in Ithaca, New York, home of Cornell University. I’ll admit, I was apprehensive ahead of our time together. Geoffrey West, a former supervisor of Ginsparg’s at Los Alamos National Laboratory, once described him as “quite a character” who is “infamous in the community” for being “quite difficult.” He also said he was “extremely funny” and a “great guy.” In our early email exchanges, Ginsparg told me, upfront, that stories about arXiv never impress him: “So many articles, so few insights,” he wrote."

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-arxiv-most-transformative-code-science/

Liebe Editor*innen, Conference Chairs und akademische Verleger*innen – wenn ihr wissenschaftliche Arbeiten zur doppelblinden anonymen #PeerReview-Begutachtung verschickt, achtet doch bitte darauf, dass die PDF-Dateien keine Metadaten enthalten, aus denen man die Namen oder Zugehörigkeiten der Autor*innen ablesen kann.

Ansonsten weiß man halt, wer das Paper geschrieben hat und die ganze weitere Anoymisierung ist für die Katz.

Vielen Dank an alle.

#AcademicWriting
#ScientificWriting