Irene Hames
@irenehames.bsky.social
Retired journal editor, still interested in seeing the highest standards maintained in research integrity, research publication, peer review and publication ethics. Book on peer review.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3806-8786
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Irene Hames
@irenehames.bsky.social
· Dec 4
How to recognise potential manipulation of the peer review process
How to recognise potential manipulation of the peer review process.
publicationethics.org
Fake peer review: @retractionwatch.com has lots of examples, COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) has guidance on helping recognise it and features/patterns of questionable reviewer activity
publicationethics.org/resources/fl...
#PeerReview #PublicationEthics #FakePeerReview #ResearchIntegrity
publicationethics.org/resources/fl...
#PeerReview #PublicationEthics #FakePeerReview #ResearchIntegrity
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Computer scientist Yoshua Bengio talks about his efforts to identify — and address — the risks posed by AI
go.nature.com/49b93II
go.nature.com/49b93II
“It keeps me awake at night”: machine-learning pioneer on AI’s threat to humanity
Yoshua Bengio talks about his efforts to identify — and address — the risks posed by AI.
go.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Computer scientist Yoshua Bengio talks about his efforts to identify — and address — the risks posed by AI
go.nature.com/49b93II
go.nature.com/49b93II
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Getting Rosalind Franklin’s story right is crucial, because she has become a role model for women going into science
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Getting Rosalind Franklin’s story right is crucial, because she has become a role model for women going into science
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Our guest post on the @silverchairnews.bsky.social blog explores how AI can make editorial work more sustainable — complementing & supporting editor strengths while reducing the tedious & repetitive aspects
www.silverchair.com/news/ai-powe...
#scholcomm #scholcomms #scisky #openaccess #openscience
www.silverchair.com/news/ai-powe...
#scholcomm #scholcomms #scisky #openaccess #openscience
How AI-powered editorial technology contributes to better research and more sustainable journals - Silverchair
Scholarly communications is in the midst of a crisis of confidence and capacity and is turning to automation as a solution.
www.silverchair.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Our guest post on the @silverchairnews.bsky.social blog explores how AI can make editorial work more sustainable — complementing & supporting editor strengths while reducing the tedious & repetitive aspects
www.silverchair.com/news/ai-powe...
#scholcomm #scholcomms #scisky #openaccess #openscience
www.silverchair.com/news/ai-powe...
#scholcomm #scholcomms #scisky #openaccess #openscience
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Doing a PhD can feel like wandering through a forest with no map. You’re constantly questioning whether you’re smart enough, working hard enough or heading in the right direction. If you’re feeling this way, you’re not alone. More importantly, you’re not broken. patthomson.net/2025/10/25/b...
Building confidence during your PhD
Doing a PhD can feel like wandering through a forest with no map. You’re constantly questioning whether you’re smart enough, working hard enough or heading in the right direction. If yo…
patthomson.net
October 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Doing a PhD can feel like wandering through a forest with no map. You’re constantly questioning whether you’re smart enough, working hard enough or heading in the right direction. If you’re feeling this way, you’re not alone. More importantly, you’re not broken. patthomson.net/2025/10/25/b...
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Nov 7th is the birthday of both Lise Meitner & Marie Curie. Of the 13 chemical elements named directly after real people (not mythological figures) only two are named after women: meitnerium and curium (the latter of which is named in honour of both Marie & her husband) #chemsky 🧪
November 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Nov 7th is the birthday of both Lise Meitner & Marie Curie. Of the 13 chemical elements named directly after real people (not mythological figures) only two are named after women: meitnerium and curium (the latter of which is named in honour of both Marie & her husband) #chemsky 🧪
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If you’re flying in the US tomorrow & worried about delays or cancellations I just found this handy resource www.flightaware.com/live/cancell...
Live Airline Flight Cancellations Info & Statistics - FlightAware
Real-time cancellation statistics and flight tracker links for cancelled airline flights. View top cancellations by airline or airport.
www.flightaware.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
If you’re flying in the US tomorrow & worried about delays or cancellations I just found this handy resource www.flightaware.com/live/cancell...
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Born #OnThisDay in 1867 was Marie Skłodowska–Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two disciplines: Physics for her work on radioactivity, and Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium. #WomenInSTEM
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Born #OnThisDay in 1867 was Marie Skłodowska–Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two disciplines: Physics for her work on radioactivity, and Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium. #WomenInSTEM
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
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Full Programme for #R2RConf (London, 24-25 Feb) available r2rconf.com/r2r-conferen...
Keynote, Debate, Presentations, Panels, Roundtables, Case Study and Workshops
Plenary: 8½ hrs, Workshops: 3 hrs, Networking: 5½ hours crammed into 2 days!
Discounts & 50 free tickets for Academics & Librarians
Keynote, Debate, Presentations, Panels, Roundtables, Case Study and Workshops
Plenary: 8½ hrs, Workshops: 3 hrs, Networking: 5½ hours crammed into 2 days!
Discounts & 50 free tickets for Academics & Librarians
Conference Programme
R2R 2026 Conference Programme The full Programme for 2026 Conference is listed below; the timetable will be set out in November, and the Lightning Talks will be announced in January. The programme …
r2rconf.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Full Programme for #R2RConf (London, 24-25 Feb) available r2rconf.com/r2r-conferen...
Keynote, Debate, Presentations, Panels, Roundtables, Case Study and Workshops
Plenary: 8½ hrs, Workshops: 3 hrs, Networking: 5½ hours crammed into 2 days!
Discounts & 50 free tickets for Academics & Librarians
Keynote, Debate, Presentations, Panels, Roundtables, Case Study and Workshops
Plenary: 8½ hrs, Workshops: 3 hrs, Networking: 5½ hours crammed into 2 days!
Discounts & 50 free tickets for Academics & Librarians
Important image dataset #FHIBE obtained with informed consent, compensation, safety measures, bias reduction and collection cost transparency, demonstrating that “implementing core ethical considerations in practice is possible”.
#ethicaldatacollection
#ethicaldatacollection
Fair human-centric image dataset for ethical AI benchmarking - Nature
The Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark (FHIBE, pronounced ‘Feebee’)—an image dataset that implements best practices for consent, privacy, compensation, safety, diversity and utility—can be used respon...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Important image dataset #FHIBE obtained with informed consent, compensation, safety measures, bias reduction and collection cost transparency, demonstrating that “implementing core ethical considerations in practice is possible”.
#ethicaldatacollection
#ethicaldatacollection
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Mathematicians have finally found an exception to a geometric rule long thought unbreakable. https://scim.ag/4oosAtN
Millions of shapes can pass through themselves. This is the first that can’t
Mathematicians have finally found an exception to a geometric rule long thought unbreakable
scim.ag
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Mathematicians have finally found an exception to a geometric rule long thought unbreakable. https://scim.ag/4oosAtN
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Guest Post — A Systems Approach to Research Publishing: From Fragmentation to Cohesion scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/05/g...
Guest Post — A Systems Approach to Research Publishing: From Fragmentation to Cohesion - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest blogger sees scholarly publishing at a critical inflection point and research suffering from a flawed incentive structure. Can systems thinking offer innovative solutions?
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Guest Post — A Systems Approach to Research Publishing: From Fragmentation to Cohesion scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/05/g...
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Some exciting news – as of December 1, I will be taking the reins as the Executive Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. www.cshl.edu/cshl-press-n...
CSHL Press names David Crotty executive director | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has named David Crotty executive director of its publishing house, CSHL Press. He takes over for John Inglis, who founded the modern-day incarnation of CSHL Press ...
www.cshl.edu
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Some exciting news – as of December 1, I will be taking the reins as the Executive Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. www.cshl.edu/cshl-press-n...
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I've been reading @andrewmaynard.net and Jeffrey Abbott's book on AI and the Art of Being Human. It prompted me to question myself about what makes me human occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...
Is That What Makes Me Human? | Athene Donald's Blog
occamstypewriter.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I've been reading @andrewmaynard.net and Jeffrey Abbott's book on AI and the Art of Being Human. It prompted me to question myself about what makes me human occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...
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And just incase anyone is under the impression that Hopper also invented the term "computer bug" because of a real moth found in her computer, alas no, that is a well-loved myth.👇
The plot thickens!
1878 Thomas Edison reports an insect in his 📞 apparatus - is this the 1st real "bug"?
👇"bug" was already a "common term for any sort of engineering error or anomaly" before Grace Hopper's moth (which might not even have been her moth).
ℹ️: lunduke.substack.com/p/the-story-...
1878 Thomas Edison reports an insect in his 📞 apparatus - is this the 1st real "bug"?
👇"bug" was already a "common term for any sort of engineering error or anomaly" before Grace Hopper's moth (which might not even have been her moth).
ℹ️: lunduke.substack.com/p/the-story-...
October 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
And just incase anyone is under the impression that Hopper also invented the term "computer bug" because of a real moth found in her computer, alas no, that is a well-loved myth.👇
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Weekend reads: Another CDC journal in trouble; Web of Science company endorses Iraq awards; on the scarcity of peer reviewers
Weekend reads: Another CDC journal in trouble; Web of Science company endorses Iraq awards; on the scarcity of peer reviewers
Embattled journal Cureus delisted from Web of Science, loses impact factor ‘A new low’: Researchers at Iraqi university must cite colleagues, school journals in papers Challenge accepted: A reader …
retractionwatch.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Weekend reads: Another CDC journal in trouble; Web of Science company endorses Iraq awards; on the scarcity of peer reviewers
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i’m pleased to have found this old post by Andrew Gelman, who is more perceptive about replications than anyone else I know
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2013/12/17/r...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2013/12/17/r...
October 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
i’m pleased to have found this old post by Andrew Gelman, who is more perceptive about replications than anyone else I know
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2013/12/17/r...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2013/12/17/r...
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New blogpost on @elife.bsky.social's new Replication study type deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/prob.... tldr = I think it's doomed.
#Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
#Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
Problems with ELife's new article type: Replication studies
I was interested to receive an email from eLife last week, telling me that "As part of our commitment to open science, scientific rigour ...
deevybee.blogspot.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
New blogpost on @elife.bsky.social's new Replication study type deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/prob.... tldr = I think it's doomed.
#Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
#Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
There are now so many types of #researchpublication fakery. Here #papermills boosting their profiles and credibility by creating fake reviewers who also appear as authors on other papers - a “stable of fake scientists” with publication histories.
#publicationethics #researchintegrity
#publicationethics #researchintegrity
Journals are considering doing identity checks to expose fake authors — but there are downsides
go.nature.com/4hqvw6F
go.nature.com/4hqvw6F
How to spot fake scientists and stop them from publishing papers
Nature - Journals are considering doing identity checks to expose fake authors — but there are downsides.
go.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
There are now so many types of #researchpublication fakery. Here #papermills boosting their profiles and credibility by creating fake reviewers who also appear as authors on other papers - a “stable of fake scientists” with publication histories.
#publicationethics #researchintegrity
#publicationethics #researchintegrity
Happy anniversary @crossref.bsky.social ! And thank you for all you’ve done over the past 25 years to aid global research communication and the research community, from the initial reference linking to all the services and tools you’ve created since then – we appreciate it!
#Crossref2025
#Crossref2025
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Happy anniversary @crossref.bsky.social ! And thank you for all you’ve done over the past 25 years to aid global research communication and the research community, from the initial reference linking to all the services and tools you’ve created since then – we appreciate it!
#Crossref2025
#Crossref2025
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@abartell.bsky.social, Membership Director, is giving the story of membership evolution over the last 25 years. Notably, university-based members have grown. We currently have 23,278 members in 163 countries. #Crossref2025
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
@abartell.bsky.social, Membership Director, is giving the story of membership evolution over the last 25 years. Notably, university-based members have grown. We currently have 23,278 members in 163 countries. #Crossref2025
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Day 2 of our Annual Meeting (it's the 26th meeting in our 25th year!) and Ed Pentz discusses the scale of Crossref today #Crossref2025
October 23, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Day 2 of our Annual Meeting (it's the 26th meeting in our 25th year!) and Ed Pentz discusses the scale of Crossref today #Crossref2025
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NEW BLOG: The Ethics and Integrity Commission: a good start, but more is needed
Peter Riddell and Robert Hazell welcome the creation of the new body, but say that it will need stronger membership, more staff and resources, and a statutory foundation.
Peter Riddell and Robert Hazell welcome the creation of the new body, but say that it will need stronger membership, more staff and resources, and a statutory foundation.
The Ethics and Integrity Commission: a good start, but more is needed
Peter Riddell and Robert Hazell welcome the creation of the new body, but say that it will need stronger membership, more staff and resources, and a statutory foundation.
constitution-unit.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
NEW BLOG: The Ethics and Integrity Commission: a good start, but more is needed
Peter Riddell and Robert Hazell welcome the creation of the new body, but say that it will need stronger membership, more staff and resources, and a statutory foundation.
Peter Riddell and Robert Hazell welcome the creation of the new body, but say that it will need stronger membership, more staff and resources, and a statutory foundation.
UK #ResearchIntegrity Office @ukrio.bsky.social looking for someone for important role:
“exceptional opportunity for a strategic leader with expertise in policy, external affairs, or communications, and a strong understanding of the research, charity, higher education, or public sector landscape”
“exceptional opportunity for a strategic leader with expertise in policy, external affairs, or communications, and a strong understanding of the research, charity, higher education, or public sector landscape”
Now hiring: Director of Policy and External Affairs - UK Research Integrity Office
UKRIO is recruiting a Director of Policy and External Affairs to lead the charity’s work in influencing, engagement, and thought leadership across the research sector. As the UK’s leading independent ...
ukrio.org
October 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
UK #ResearchIntegrity Office @ukrio.bsky.social looking for someone for important role:
“exceptional opportunity for a strategic leader with expertise in policy, external affairs, or communications, and a strong understanding of the research, charity, higher education, or public sector landscape”
“exceptional opportunity for a strategic leader with expertise in policy, external affairs, or communications, and a strong understanding of the research, charity, higher education, or public sector landscape”
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We are pleased to announce that throughout Open Access Week, from 20 – 26 October, all Royal Society journal content is freely available. Explore our journals here: royalsociety.org/Journals/ #OAWeek #OAWeek25
October 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
We are pleased to announce that throughout Open Access Week, from 20 – 26 October, all Royal Society journal content is freely available. Explore our journals here: royalsociety.org/Journals/ #OAWeek #OAWeek25