In our December Get-together @dnjournals, EASE Past-President, will lead an informal discussion on communication channels, exchanging thoughts on our changing relationships with social media, and swapping preferences for how and where we get our information from.

Come and share your thoughts with other EASE members, Tues 19 Dec, 3pm UK time. Register now and share with colleagues!
https://ease.org.uk/event/ease-get-together-communication-channels/

#SciComm #ScholComm #JournalEditing #SocialMedia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSocialMedia

Although the #COVID pandemic has accelerated research and highlighted the benefits stemming from publicly-funded basic research, it has also revealed structural issues within #ResearchCulture globally.

Our October webinar on the lasting effects of the pandemic on research cultures is with Gemma Derrick, Associate Professor (Research Policy & Culture) at the University of Bristol, Tues 17 Oct, 1pm UK time.

https://ease.org.uk/event/ease-webinar-covid-19-shocks-on-the-research-enterprise-and-culture/

#EASEevents #PandemicResponse #ResearchPolicy #AcademicMastodon

My view of the @EASE conference.

All systems go!

Fantastic keynote from Joan Marsh, previewing themes of Quality at every stage of research design and publishing process

#EASEevents

The @EASE Council Panel webinar is fast approaching!

Join us Tues. 21st March for a discussion on the ways EASE can help address the most pressing issues in scholarly publishing.

This is a fully open session, free to anyone interested, and will be a great opportunity to learn about EASE, start getting involved (and become a member!), share your own thoughts, and get to know our Council members.

https://bit.ly/EASEPanelMarch23

#EASEevents #AcademicPublishing #JournalEditing #ScienceEditing

📢 We are very excited to open registration for the 17th EASE Conference!

The event will be held at Istanbul Teknik Universitesi, Turkey and online from 1-3 June 2023, on the theme of ‘Quality Scientific Publishing’.

See our website for full details!

https://ease.org.uk/ease-events/17th-ease-general-assembly-and-conference/
#Conference2023 #EASEevents #Turkey #Istanbul #SciencePublishing #JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #PeerReview

How it started / how it’s going ….

Prague metro part II; Karlovo Námēstí edition

How it started / how it’s going - Visiting Prague with the children, taking them to some old haunts and recreating some photos from 20 years ago.

One of my favourites cities in the world. The kids are enjoying it quite a lot too!

On Monday 12th December, EASE launched its new EASE Awards programme with five categories of awards:

Best European Science Editing Papers
Best Conference Poster (at the 16th EASE Confernce in Valencia)
Community Contributor
Rising Star
Pau Award

Details of the Awards, prize winners, and a link to the video of the event on the youtube channel is now live on the EASE website, including details of what is in store for the Awards next year.

https://ease.org.uk/about-us/ease-awards/

@yaxu

OA is not jargon to me and it was still not at all obvious. The description even says "To freely download and read ebook (mobi, epub) and PDF files, please visit the resources tab. "

I tried visiting the Resources tab as instructed, and it doesn't really go anywhere, just back to the same book page.

Published today in EASE journal, European Science Editing, a viewpoint from Profs. Ana Marusic and Matko Marusic on the development of their author training programs to support not only inexperienced authors, but affect the research culture in the academic and research community.

Read it for free in ESE now!

https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2022.e95247

#EASEpublications #JournalAuthors #WritingSkills #ScienceEducation #ScienceCommunication #AuthorTraining #ResearchPublishing

Pavillion skating

@bahar yes, indeed! was great to see you too. it's been so long, and we seem to keep missing each other on EASE meetings too, so it was great to talk through all those details too. Speak again soon!

On my way home after a fantastic few days in Amsterdam for editorial meetings with the RBMO team. It’s been a long time since my last full day (and a half) long board meeting, and I’d almost forgot how enjoyable they can be. So many little asides and details that don’t make it into o lone meetings (as much as I appreciate the efficiency of zooms)

I’ve acquired a nice long list of new tasks to add to my current projects, ready to make 2023 into an incredibly productive year.

How I like to spend my Saturday nights - delivering a webinar for the European Scientific Institute on #JournalSubmission #PeerReview and #AcademicPublishing.

Here’s me illustrating how most people fear the submission process - with the terrifying editor and army of reviewers waiting to destroy the paper, and a mention of the #Reviewer2MustBeStopped Facebook group where people can go to vent if those fears turn out to be reality.

"We do not see double-anonymised review as the progressive answer to biases in peer review. We argue for sunlight instead of shadows: open peer review, with published review reports and optional open reviewer identities. Such openness helps to expose human biases and to discuss them publicly. It also allows for innovations in scholarly communication models. This is essential to tackle biases at the root, instead of just trying to minimise their consequences." https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/11/18/sunlight-not-shadows-double-anonymised-peer-review-is-not-the-answer-to-status-bias/ @tonyRH

As the real possibility of platform death looms for Twitter, Mark Carrigan urges universities, funders, learned societies & publishers to show leadership by supporting the transition towards a multifaceted, reliable and fit for purpose social infrastructure for scholarship. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/11/19/requiem-for-a-tweet-is-there-a-future-for-the-academic-social-capital-held-on-the-platform/

I will be running the ALPSP course, "Advanced Journal Development: Strategic development for managers", with Vicky Johnson of Wiley, on Tuesday 29th & Wednesday 30th November.

This course includes strategies for journal development, acquisition and portfolio development, using case studies, to give attendees the opportunities to workshop strategies and discuss scenarios.

Find out more and book your place here: http://ow.ly/IVtR50LGNNS

#journalpublishing #scholcomm #journaldevelopment

Calling all journal editors and publishers!

In collaboration with SDG Publishers Compact Fellows EASE are undertaking a survey of those involved in scholarly publishing to discover how our industry is supporting the UN SDGs and the 10 commitments of the Publishers Compact.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YXZ9MSJ

Please help us learn more by completing the Survey.

#sdg #sustainabledevelopmentgoals #sdgpublishercompact #environment #sustainability #environmentalimpact #journalpublishing #academicpublishing

The November edition of RBMO Insights is now published - the monthly newsletter I have been developing for Reproductive Biomedicine Online.

This edition features a selection of Countercurrent articles to mark the first full year of the journals' forum for airing rigorously argued, academically framed controversial positions in #ReproductiveMedicine #IVF #ART and #gynecology

https://bit.ly/RBMOinsightsNov22

On 28 Oct I announced an #openscience policy update at the journal Cortex: Apart from rare exceptions, authors intending to publish their #RegisteredReport in Cortex should now submit to the Peer Community in Registered Reports.

I explain these changes here> http://neurochambers.blogspot.com/2022/11/changing-culture-of-scientific.html

On 31 Dec my role as a Cortex editor will be ending after 10 yrs. Thank you to all the amazing people who helped create this vision for #openscience via #RegisteredReports, #VerificationReports & the #TOPGuidelines.