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💫 Keyword search for PREreviews, a new spotlight banner on the site, and a much-awaited update for review-requests. Our Product team had a busy work week!
Read about it on today’s weeknote, and stay tuned for more to come soon:
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"Will Paying Reviewers Ease the Peer Review #Crisis?"
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How Corporations Control Scientific Knowledge
As a biologist, I’ve watched firsthand as “Science™” replaced genuine discovery in various fields, turning once-vibrant laboratories into echo chambers of conformity. This shift isn’t merely an academic problem; it’s a public safety crisis that affects everyone, from policymakers to everyday citizens who rely on accurate, unbiased scientific information for informed decisions about their health and environment. The consequences of prioritizing brand over substance have led to policy decisions that disregard true scientific inquiry, often with devastating effects. It’s essential that we re-embrace the core principles of curiosity and critical thinking, ensuring that genuine discovery can flourish once again in the pursuit of knowledge and safety for all.
We are living in a system where:
- Scientists provide free labor for massive corporate publishers.
- Corporations own the results, gatekeeping knowledge behind paywalls.
- Everyday policies from the food we eat to the medicines we are prescribed are based on research funneled through this profit-first filter.
What many people, including scientists, may not realize is that Robert Maxwell (father of Ghislaine Maxwell and friend of Jeffrey Epstein) perfected a parasitic model decades ago. He understood that by controlling academic journals, you control the “truth” that lawmakers and the public depend on, shaping opinions and driving agendas for personal benefit instead of genuine scientific research. This manipulation goes beyond just publications; it affects funding, favors certain studies, and can even hide important findings that could challenge the existing norms.
We need to address the harmful impact of the “Magic Money Tree” on science and how it influences our lives by hiding important truths under financial interests that distort research results. This flawed system questions the reliability of scientific studies and misleads the public on crucial issues. By promoting stories that favor powerful financial backers, we allow important alternative views to be ignored. It’s essential to examine how these financial motives shape the information we receive and to push for a more open discussion that values diverse perspectives and bold ideas.
👉 Read the full investigation on my Substack
Science Unfiltered: Keeping Truth Accessible
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As a scientist who has moved outside the traditional establishment to escape the “Maxwell Blueprint” and the corruption of mainstream publishing, my research is now driven by truth—not gatekeepers. I have made it my mission to keep this work public and accessible to everyone, but being a truly independent voice means I no longer have the safety net of the system I left behind.
Currently, this project relies on a tiny, dedicated fraction of its readers. If you believe that rigorous, honest science should exist in a world that would prefer it stayed hidden, I am asking you to stand with me.
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Translate Science invites you to our first PREreview Club live review! We'll be meeting online Tuesday, May 26, 2026 from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM UTC. Participants who choose to be Review Authors will also collaborate asynch to finalize a constructive peer review.
We'll be reviewing Galip Kartal, Ali Karakaş. Mapping Research on Global Englishes: A Bibliometric Analysis, 14 April 2026, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-9393872/v1]
RSVP on Mobilizon with your email:
https://mobilizon.picasoft.net/events/a6cff069-c166-4bb8-b0d4-c7e844a4e7ff
#OpenScience #PeerReview #translation #GlobalEnglish #bibliometrics
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#PeerReview dauert immer länger. Symptomatisch: Ein Manuskript lag über ein Jahr lang unbearbeitet im Editorial Office. Unter solchen Wartezeiten leiden vor allem #Nachwuchsforschende, da sie unter besonderem Termindruck stehen … — Wir fragen "Gehts noch?": https://www.laborjournal.de/epaper/LJ_26_04.pdf (S. 9)
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CW: GenAI
AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It https://www.forbes.com/sites/johndrake/2026/04/30/ai-slop-is-flooding-academic-journals-a-top-journal-measured-it/
There is a LOT of food for thought in here - well worth reading the whole thing.
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This coming Wednesday (!) 13 May ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas is delighted to welcome Andrey Anderson dos Santos to speak about Open Peer Review. After a short input talk, we will have plenty of time to discuss this rather controversial topic!
Join us at 16:00 CEST in room 4.006 of the @unibibkoeln for tea and cookies, or online via Zoom (see link sent via our mailing list: https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/reproducibilitea-humaniteas).
Andrey recently completed his PhD on #OpenScience practices in the #humanities and is coming all the way from Brazil to Cologne, so don't miss out!
Recommended (optional) reading for preparation: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03488-4.
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AAAI, one of the leading AI research conferences, tested AI peer reviews for over 22k submissions. The authors received human reviews as well and then answered a survey on their preferences.
The findings are quite interesting:
"The large-scale survey of AAAI-26 authors, reviewers, senior program committee members, and area chairs found that participants broadly found AI reviews useful and preferred them to human reviews on key dimensions such as technical accuracy and research suggestions, but also identified some limitations and areas for improvement including technical errors in reading some equations and tables, difficulty in prioritizing the significance of issues, and producing reviews that were longer than readers preferred"Critique by authors is also mentioned in the paper:
"Respondents also emphasized that AI reviews had the potential to mislead reviewers and other decision-makers in the review process. There were also concerns that authors might optimize papers for AI preferences rather than scientific quality, and that reliance on these tools could lead to a long-term decline in reviewing skill. Adding to this, many respondents voiced principled objections, arguing that the use of AI undermines the trust, human effort, and essential value of the peer review process." -
"The _Astrophysical Journal_ accepted our AI's [fast radio burst] discovery after three rounds of peer review, but the AAS editorial office then halted the paper over an AI-disclosure review, not the science." blankline.org/newsroom/ai-... #AI #Astronomy #PeerReview #ScholComm
An AI did the astrophysics. Th... -
"The _Astrophysical Journal_ accepted our #AI's [fast radio burst] discovery after three rounds of peer review, but the AAS editorial office then halted the paper over an AI-disclosure review, not the science."
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🎉 We've passed 2,000 published PREreviews on our platform!
This milestone shows that community-led transformation is happening. It also reminds us that real impact grows with each step we take.
Do you have a PREreview account but haven't published your first review yet? Now is the time ✍️
Explore the review requests on our platform, pick a preprint aligned with your interests & share your PREreview with the world!
https://prereview.org/review-requests
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I am writing a book on how to get published in peer reviewed journals, especially for adjuncts, students and people outside academia. What is a question that you want the book to answer? Reply here or [email protected] #AcademicPublishing #NonFiction #PeerReview
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Today I got to #peerreview a perspective (which is always just some tepid takes from some dudes) on AI and its role in lab management. 28 pages of wishful thinking. AI can help with everything, from parsing your XPS data to optimizing the layout of your office for maximal idea generation. I'm sure @grimalkina would "love" this trash. Also, apparently, AI has been used since the 18th century. I did link them to @davidgerard for good measure. I'm sure Springer Nature will publish it anyway.
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ScreenIT : quand l’automatisation du #PeerReview se met au service de la #ScienceOuverte
👉 Réflexions d'une postdoc sur la possibilité d'utiliser les outils automatisés de la communauté #ScreenIT pour analyser des articles et identifier ceux dont les méthodes sont suffisamment solides et transparentes -
AI-generated reference errors are increasingly entering scientific papers, with tens of thousands of 2025 publications potentially affected. The issue is shifting from simple citation mistakes to fully fabricated sources.
🌐 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00969-z
#ArtificialIntelligence #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchPublishing #PeerReview #OpenScience
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Just remembered when Ubuntu was attracting a lot of new users to Linux. When these inexperienced users asked for advice on the forums, they might receive malicious instructions, like `sudo rm -rf /`. It was good practice to wait for someone else to endorse any instructions before following them! #PeerReview outside academia!
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📬 A new issue of the 2026 PREreview Champions interview series is out!
The spotlight this week is on Carlos Herold Junior. Hear about his takeaways from the program, and learn what he and his colleagues are doing to promote #OpenScience in Brazil.
https://content.prereview.org/an-interview-with-prereview-champion-carlos-herold-junior/
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Some weeks ago I accepted a review request from a prestige journal (in a small field). I found the abstract interesting, but had hesitations due to poor experience with editorial process as an author with this journal, and since it was an El$evier journal (which I try to avoid doing free work for).
Now the deadline review is approaching, and the study was less interesting than assumed, has no data available, poor transparency, typos that should have been weeded out in the review process, and I'm regretting my decision. I will fortify my review policy for the future!
#AcademicChatter #AcademicPublishing #PeerReview #elsevier #OpenScience
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Sometimes in #PeerReview you get very difficult reviewer comments on weaknesses in your work.
In my current manuscript, the main input data was considered inaccurate, and using novel high-detail input data was suggested instead. I feared implementing the comments as they fundamentally changed the MS analysis and I feared it would kill my manuscript.
To my surprise, I got very similar results with the new data, and a free robustness check on top! Hooray!
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#UKPLab #OpenScience #EdTech #AI #NLP #NLProc #PeerReview #ResearchSoftware #HigherEducation
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Digital watermarking in peer review: ICML 2026 rejected 2% of submissions after catching LLM misuse.
A new tool to safeguard research integrity.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00893-2
#AIEthics #peerreview #AcademicIntegrity #artificialintelligence #ResearchEthics #LLM
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If I review one manuscript and then review the revised version/s, how many manuscripts have I reviewed?
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English – The Conversation | Plagiarised research passed automated tests, and I detected it – but only because it copied my work by Carolyn Heward, Senior lecturer, Clinical Psychology, James Cook University
Earlier this year, I published a paper on the ethics of researching military populations.
The core argument was straightforward: the standard rules researchers follow to protect participants – for example, informed consent and voluntary participation – don’t work the same in an institution built on hierarchy and obedience.
A soldier can, as protected by ethics, say no to participating in research. But when their commanding officer has nominated them, the practical reality of saying no is very different from the legal right to do so. My paper explored the tension between ethical rights and lived reality.
From factual errors to reproduced memos
A lucky catch
A deeper concern
#defencementalhealth #peerreview #academicpublishing #socialsciences
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I dag har jag överträffat mig själv. #juridik #medicin #peerreview
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Interesting pointer from a #JEDI thread:
Description of a process to integrate evaluation of computational reproducibility into #PeerReview:
https://f1000research.com/articles/10-253/v2I also like the ethos and wonder whether #PeerReview in general could learn from this?
1. Codecheckers record but don’t investigate or fix.
2. Communication between humans is key
3. Credit is given to codecheckers.
4. Computational workflows must be auditable.
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Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project
Hundreds of scientists have scrutinized thousands of research papers as part of a huge project exploring whether experiments…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #HumanitiesandSocialSciences #multidisciplinary #peerreview #psychology #Researchdata #Science #Scientificcommunity #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/463782/