We tested a simple question:
Can one AI audit another for anthropomorphic drift without collaboration or persuasion?

Short answer: yes — if you treat ethics as a syntax-level boundary problem, not a vibe.

Worked example + reproducible method here:

https://open.substack.com/pub/hybridmind42/p/when-an-ai-audits-another-ai?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac

#AIethics #PeerReview #HumanAI #LLMs #ResearchMethods

Researchers’ Views on Preprints and Open Access Publishing: Results From a Free-Answer Survey of Japanese Molecular Biologists

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2026/01/23/researchers-views-on-preprints-and-open-access-publishing-results-from-a-free-answer-survey-of-japanese-molecular-biologists/

#BiomedicalResearch #HarufumiTamazawa #Japan #KazuhisaKamegai #KazukiIde #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #PeerReview #Preprint #ScientificCommunication #ScientificPractices

Sarà un successo

✨ New in bonndata: Anonymous Preview URLs
Share unpublished datasets anonymously for peer review — no login needed, no author-identifying metadata shown.
A simple way to support FAIR and transparent review workflows.

👉 bonndata.uni-bonn.de
#bonndata #RDM #OpenScience #PeerReview

Single-blind #PeerReview strikes again. Reviewer revealing himself to the coauthors of a paper 1 week after submission threatening to reject it, unless he becomes a coauthor.

Now they are negotiating a deal to avoid having to redo everything.

Wondering also, why a method-focussed paper (new approach) submitted to a journal dedicated to molecular #phylogeny is reviewed by somebody who knows the organism but has very little experience in (phylo)genetics

Have to love single blind.
#FightTheFog

I just completed a blind peer review for an academic journal.

It was a very nice paper, but not focused to the purposes of the journal, so my verdict was "reject and resubmit elsewhere."

#Academics #ScholarlyWriting #PeerReview

PS Just checked. According to New Phytologists official data sharing policies:"...authors [are required/mandated] to ensure that all data, materials and code integral to the paper are available to readers and reviewers in a form that allows for review, verification and replication of the results in the paper."

https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/14698137/about/author-guidelines#data-sharing-policy

Not sure how an empty data dump allows/allowed that (#PeerReview), but I did write an email to the authors to maybe add some data 😉

Hmm, hängt man sich sowas ins Büro 🤔

#PeerReview

Latest trend in peer review? Oxford University Press sending out "certificates" to peer reviewers, explicitly with the purpose of sharing these on social media.

> "We've also provided social media images for each journal so that you can share your accomplishments"

I'm slightly puzzled, as, among other things, this surely reduces the "blind" dimension of peer review.

Sharing, of course, to comply with every request of the big publishers 🙃, but mostly just to show how this looks.

#peerreview

@uni-magdeburg.de

... aber jeweils eine etwas andere Schaltung.

Diese werden automatisiert über einen Algorithmus (ohne jegliche KI 😉) in #MATLAB und #TeXLaTeX erzeugt, und per E-Mail an die Studierenden verschickt.

Diese haben dann etwa eine Woche Zeit, eine eigenständige Lösung zu entwickeln und im #Moodle einzureichen. Danach gibt es dann einen #PeerReview.

Bart Preneel in Belgian newspaper De Morgen: AI peer reviews are tempting to just copy, but without accountability quality suffers. De-anonymizing reviews could force transparency and make reviewers actually check the research.
https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/ik-schat-dat-vandaag-zo-n-10-procent-volledig-door-ai-is-uitgevoerd-peerreview-almaar-vaker-in-handen-van-chatgpt~ba46598c/ [paywall]
#ai #peerreview

I got a response letter and I have to say, I'm reviewer number 2

#ScholComm #PeerReview

#PeerReview question:
If you, as the author of a research paper that has been peer-reviewed, could know who were the peer-reviewers, would you want to know?

If yes: why would you want to know? Would the name change how you interpret the review or how you behave towards the reviewer in future?

#AcademicChatter #Research

Commercial publishers offering "free access" as payment for peer review is the ultimate irony. Universities pay for that with public taxes.⛔

I just told the editor: As senior scholars increasingly decline unpaid labor for profitable corporations, scientific rigor will suffer. You can't maintain quality relying solely on CV-hungry juniors.

Time to rethink the model!!

#AcademicMastodon
#PeerReview
#Academicchatter
@sociology
@anthropology
@politicalscience
@academia
@academicchatter

Join me and some cool colleagues on the 29th for a #PeerReview party of my draft experimental book! https://copim.pub/deep-maps-blue-humanities-online-peer-review-party/ #DeepMapping #BlueHumanities

#peerreview in action. It appears that the magnitude of #microplastics in the #human #body according to recent studies, might have been overstated.

#science #research #plastic

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/13/microplastics-human-body-doubt

Is your lab doing code reviews? I'd like to learn from your experiences and practices!

In our teams, we're establishing internal peer-reviews of our research software. Our focus is on the correctness of our "one-off" analysis scripts that our results are based on. Because of that, the usual, patch-centered review processes don't quite work, nor does the tooling on the Git forges, as they only work for Git diffs, not the "finished" script.

Please also let me know about any practical procedures and materials that explain how to organize and document such reviews. So far, I've found stuff from the software industry, including the "IEEE Standard for Software Reviews
and Audits", but that's very abstract and not easy to translate into the context of small teams and projects like ours, in the behavioral and psychological sciences...

#academia , #software , #peerReview , #academicchatter

Fördergelder per Los entscheiden?
Klingt schräg? – kann aber fairer, planbarer und günstiger sein.
Forschende aus Lübeck zeigen: Wenn das Zufallsprinzip vor das Peer Review kommt, sinken die Hürden – und auch mehr Frauen stellen Anträge.
„Das perfekte Verfahren gibt’s nicht“, sagen sie. Aber vielleicht ein besseres.

👉 Hier geht’s zum Interview von Bettina Dupont: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3407.php

#Laborjournal #LifeSciences #Forschungsförderung #PeerReview #Wissenschaft

@SNL_Luebeck

I've been rejected again. Should I get a PhD?

https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/09/rejection-letter/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

People tend to look at peer-reviewed journals as a sign of credibility. I've not written about the nonsense of peer review, but these are unadulterated gatekeeping mechanisms antithetical to knowledge dissemination.

#philosophy #protocol #rejection #notice #credentials #journals #credibility #gatekeeping #peerreview #bollox #zenodo #philpapers #writing #letters #blog

A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of AI Policies in Academic Peer Review

#AI #PeerReview

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.2035