Daniel Evanko
@evanko.bsky.social
Director of Journal Operations at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). Opinions my own.
Nice to see this article in Science about our work at AACR.
September 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Nice to see this article in Science about our work at AACR.
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I was surprised to see that a firm claims to have essentially solved the issue of detecting when there‘s LLM-generated text in content. But researchers at Pangram Labs say they have, claiming false-positive rates of 1 in 10,000. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@nature.com | @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social
@nature.com | @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social
AI tool detects LLM-generated text in research papers and peer reviews
Authors and peer reviewers are failing to disclose the use of LLMs despite journal policies limiting their use.
www.nature.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I was surprised to see that a firm claims to have essentially solved the issue of detecting when there‘s LLM-generated text in content. But researchers at Pangram Labs say they have, claiming false-positive rates of 1 in 10,000. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@nature.com | @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social
@nature.com | @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social
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Guest Post – Code Plagiarism and AI Create New Challenges for Publishing Integrity - The Scholarly Kitchen
Guest Post – Code Plagiarism and AI Create New Challenges for Publishing Integrity - The Scholarly Kitchen
This post explores author, reviewer, and publisher ethics and responsibilities related to the use of AI in coding and publishing research software.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
August 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Guest Post – Code Plagiarism and AI Create New Challenges for Publishing Integrity - The Scholarly Kitchen
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Because cancer is not one illness, but a whole category, much of the progress in fighting it has come not from big breakthroughs, but thousands of smaller advances
The world is winning the war on cancer
Progress has been remarkable. Death rates are down substantially, and are likely to fall further
econ.st
July 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Because cancer is not one illness, but a whole category, much of the progress in fighting it has come not from big breakthroughs, but thousands of smaller advances
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Today, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) called on Congress to reject the Administration's nearly 40% cut to the NIH budget and allocate a bipartisan funding increase to $51.3 billion for the agency to accelerate progress for patients. www.aacr.org/about-the-aa...
May 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Today, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) called on Congress to reject the Administration's nearly 40% cut to the NIH budget and allocate a bipartisan funding increase to $51.3 billion for the agency to accelerate progress for patients. www.aacr.org/about-the-aa...
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Overall, cancer cases and deaths in the US are continuing a slow decline acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
April 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Overall, cancer cases and deaths in the US are continuing a slow decline acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Who’s with me? #PeerReview ensures the integrity of scientific knowledge.
Science isn’t social media, and it’s dangerous to treat it as such. For this reason, I believe preprints serve an anti-science agenda & threaten our fields.
Check out my editorial in @ScholarlyKitchen.bsky.social.
🧪 #SciPub
Science isn’t social media, and it’s dangerous to treat it as such. For this reason, I believe preprints serve an anti-science agenda & threaten our fields.
Check out my editorial in @ScholarlyKitchen.bsky.social.
🧪 #SciPub
Guest Post: Preprints Serve the Anti-science Agenda – This Is Why We Need Peer Review - The Scholarly Kitchen
Science is built on a foundation of rigor and credibility. Preprints are adding to the crumbling of that foundation, which is already under attack by anti-science political agendas.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
April 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Who’s with me? #PeerReview ensures the integrity of scientific knowledge.
Science isn’t social media, and it’s dangerous to treat it as such. For this reason, I believe preprints serve an anti-science agenda & threaten our fields.
Check out my editorial in @ScholarlyKitchen.bsky.social.
🧪 #SciPub
Science isn’t social media, and it’s dangerous to treat it as such. For this reason, I believe preprints serve an anti-science agenda & threaten our fields.
Check out my editorial in @ScholarlyKitchen.bsky.social.
🧪 #SciPub
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LEAKED: Heard Island tariff response strategy meeting! #auspol #heardisland
April 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
LEAKED: Heard Island tariff response strategy meeting! #auspol #heardisland
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Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
April 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
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Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump
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Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump
Cancer research has had bipartisan support. But Trump administration budget cuts and delays threaten to reverse progress of recent years, experts say.
www.statnews.com
March 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump
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"The [...] administration’s threat to dramatically reduce or delay funding for the NIH [...] represents a crushing blow not only to the development of future #cancer therapies, but to all of medical research. Without previous funding, I would not be alive today."
www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...
www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...
Sacramento doctor: If not for NIH funding, I wouldn’t have survived my leukemia diagnosis | Opinion
“My survival is based on research. With limited NIH funding, I fear that my life, and the lives of others, will be left without hope.”
www.sacbee.com
March 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"The [...] administration’s threat to dramatically reduce or delay funding for the NIH [...] represents a crushing blow not only to the development of future #cancer therapies, but to all of medical research. Without previous funding, I would not be alive today."
www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...
www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is looking to fill a new publications position of Editorial Ethics Manager to oversee
#ResearchIntegrity and #ImageForensics cases related to #CancerResearch manuscripts and articles at our ten journals. careers-aacr.icims.com/jobs/1702/ed...
#ResearchIntegrity and #ImageForensics cases related to #CancerResearch manuscripts and articles at our ten journals. careers-aacr.icims.com/jobs/1702/ed...
Career Opportunities | AACR | About Us
The AACR offers a unique opportunity for the qualified individual to make a difference in cancer research by becoming part of its committed staff..
careers-aacr.icims.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is looking to fill a new publications position of Editorial Ethics Manager to oversee
#ResearchIntegrity and #ImageForensics cases related to #CancerResearch manuscripts and articles at our ten journals. careers-aacr.icims.com/jobs/1702/ed...
#ResearchIntegrity and #ImageForensics cases related to #CancerResearch manuscripts and articles at our ten journals. careers-aacr.icims.com/jobs/1702/ed...
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90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.
A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.
www.sciencefriday.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.
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Meet Gracie Himes, age 20.
Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines.
On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines.
On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
March 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Meet Gracie Himes, age 20.
Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines.
On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines.
On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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If you're a biologist interested in data visualisation, check out the vizbi conference www.linkedin.com/events/vizbi... #omics
VIZBI 2025: 15th international meeting on Visualising Biological Data | LinkedIn
VISUALIZING BIOLOGICAL DATA. Join us 8-11 April online or in-person at the University of Cambridge for VIZBI 2025, the 15th international meeting on Visualising Biological Data. Pre-register now at ht...
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March 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
If you're a biologist interested in data visualisation, check out the vizbi conference www.linkedin.com/events/vizbi... #omics
Very happy to see AACR's new guaranteed peer review benefit to reward reviewers highlighted in today's "the Brief" @brieferyet.bsky.social. They incorrectly state that Cancer Discovery "is seemingly excluded from the offer." We will add a table to clarify journal-specific details.
March 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Very happy to see AACR's new guaranteed peer review benefit to reward reviewers highlighted in today's "the Brief" @brieferyet.bsky.social. They incorrectly state that Cancer Discovery "is seemingly excluded from the offer." We will add a table to clarify journal-specific details.
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Yikes!
Peer review is critical for the integrity of our science, and outside experts are always needed to vet new grant proposals.
By moving this all in-house at NIH, we lose scientific independence & make it easy for the government to determine what research should be funded.
🧪 #PeerReview
Peer review is critical for the integrity of our science, and outside experts are always needed to vet new grant proposals.
By moving this all in-house at NIH, we lose scientific independence & make it easy for the government to determine what research should be funded.
🧪 #PeerReview
NIH centralizes peer review to improve efficiency and strengthen integrity
The proposed approach is expected to save more than $65 million annually.
www.nih.gov
March 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Yikes!
Peer review is critical for the integrity of our science, and outside experts are always needed to vet new grant proposals.
By moving this all in-house at NIH, we lose scientific independence & make it easy for the government to determine what research should be funded.
🧪 #PeerReview
Peer review is critical for the integrity of our science, and outside experts are always needed to vet new grant proposals.
By moving this all in-house at NIH, we lose scientific independence & make it easy for the government to determine what research should be funded.
🧪 #PeerReview
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Federal judge blocks change in NIH indirect cost recovering rates, saying it would jeopardize public health. Read about it here: www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. judge blocks NIH’s plan to slash overhead cost payments
Injunction allows universities to keep receiving billions to recover costs of supporting federal research on campus
www.science.org
March 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Federal judge blocks change in NIH indirect cost recovering rates, saying it would jeopardize public health. Read about it here: www.science.org/content/arti...
AACR journals launch Guaranteed Peer Review. This new benefit for reviewers who are AACR members allows them to bypass editorial desk rejection and go straight to peer review. Over 700 reviewers from 2024 were notified of their eligibility. #PeerReview #SciPub #AACR aacrjournals.org/pages/guaran...
Guaranteed Peer Review | American Association for Cancer Research
Guaranteed Peer Review | American Association for Cancer Research
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February 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
AACR journals launch Guaranteed Peer Review. This new benefit for reviewers who are AACR members allows them to bypass editorial desk rejection and go straight to peer review. Over 700 reviewers from 2024 were notified of their eligibility. #PeerReview #SciPub #AACR aacrjournals.org/pages/guaran...
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The AACR is deeply concerned that the Administration’s recent actions are threatening NIH and its mission to accelerate progress for patients with cancer and other diseases that afflict millions of Americans. Read our statement: https://buff.ly/4gRXNB8
February 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The AACR is deeply concerned that the Administration’s recent actions are threatening NIH and its mission to accelerate progress for patients with cancer and other diseases that afflict millions of Americans. Read our statement: https://buff.ly/4gRXNB8
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NIH staff told they can submit papers to journals but not preprints. "a short pause to allow the new team to set up a process for review and prioritization" <- review by whom...? www.science.org/content/arti... ht @philipncohen.com 1/2
NIH memo addresses ‘confusion’ about restrictions imposed by Trump, easing some concerns
Memo from acting director to staff allows some purchasing, and suggests travel and study sections could soon resume
www.science.org
January 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
NIH staff told they can submit papers to journals but not preprints. "a short pause to allow the new team to set up a process for review and prioritization" <- review by whom...? www.science.org/content/arti... ht @philipncohen.com 1/2
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January 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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4 Weeks Until Abstract Submission Deadline!
PRC10 abstracts are due January 31.
To submit your work and learn more, visit peerreviewcongress.org
#peerreview #science #scientificpublication
#researchethics #AIinMedicine
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@bmj.com
@nejm.org
@thelancet.bsky.social
PRC10 abstracts are due January 31.
To submit your work and learn more, visit peerreviewcongress.org
#peerreview #science #scientificpublication
#researchethics #AIinMedicine
@jama.com
@bmj.com
@nejm.org
@thelancet.bsky.social
International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication
Enhancing the quality and credibility of science.
peerreviewcongress.org
January 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
4 Weeks Until Abstract Submission Deadline!
PRC10 abstracts are due January 31.
To submit your work and learn more, visit peerreviewcongress.org
#peerreview #science #scientificpublication
#researchethics #AIinMedicine
@jama.com
@bmj.com
@nejm.org
@thelancet.bsky.social
PRC10 abstracts are due January 31.
To submit your work and learn more, visit peerreviewcongress.org
#peerreview #science #scientificpublication
#researchethics #AIinMedicine
@jama.com
@bmj.com
@nejm.org
@thelancet.bsky.social
Good, but scary, update on recent GenAI advances by @emollick.bsky.social. PhD-level expertise now required to evaluate accuracy of some outputs. Nice point about using GenAI to introduce novel approaches for humans to investigate properly. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...
What just happened
A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI
open.substack.com
December 19, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Good, but scary, update on recent GenAI advances by @emollick.bsky.social. PhD-level expertise now required to evaluate accuracy of some outputs. Nice point about using GenAI to introduce novel approaches for humans to investigate properly. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...
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Fake or flawed studies are polluting systematic reviews in medicine and other fields - but how do you spot them?
For Nature, I report on efforts to create a short checklist of red flags, and on the automated integrity tools emerging to help.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
For Nature, I report on efforts to create a short checklist of red flags, and on the automated integrity tools emerging to help.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Giant study finds untrustworthy trials pollute gold-standard medical reviews
Two-year collaboration aims to create tools to help counter the tide of flawed research.
www.nature.com
December 18, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Fake or flawed studies are polluting systematic reviews in medicine and other fields - but how do you spot them?
For Nature, I report on efforts to create a short checklist of red flags, and on the automated integrity tools emerging to help.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
For Nature, I report on efforts to create a short checklist of red flags, and on the automated integrity tools emerging to help.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...