Tony Alves
@tonyhopedale.com
Was @OccupySTM on Twitter(RIP). Scholarly pubs professional w/tech focus: books, journals, multimedia, reference, CME, workflow, standards, research integrity, AI/ML. My blog: http://tonyhopedale.com/
SVP @HighWirePress - Opinions expressed here are my own
SVP @HighWirePress - Opinions expressed here are my own
I'm heading to Frankfurt. Here's a short reflection on my 20+ years attending the @buchmesse.de along with my agenda. Also, a few @peerreviewweek.bsky.social activities I participated in & a preview of activities that me & colleagues have ahead of us this fall.
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Along the Main
My first Frankfurt Book Fair was in 2001, the year before the launch of the Euro as a physical currency. I remember exchanging my dollars for marks and thinking about how this German currency would so...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I'm heading to Frankfurt. Here's a short reflection on my 20+ years attending the @buchmesse.de along with my agenda. Also, a few @peerreviewweek.bsky.social activities I participated in & a preview of activities that me & colleagues have ahead of us this fall.
tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/along...
tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/along...
New blog post: Peer Review is the gold standard of quality control, but it is increasingly facing intense scrutiny. I explore why the system is breaking, where the innovation lies, and how it might be reimagined for a more resilient and equitable future.
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Up Last - Peer Review Under Pressure
September is upon us and so is the Peer Review Congress and Peer Review Week! So, in anticipation of both, I've timed the last issue of my five part series to come out the first day of September.
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September 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
New blog post: Peer Review is the gold standard of quality control, but it is increasingly facing intense scrutiny. I explore why the system is breaking, where the innovation lies, and how it might be reimagined for a more resilient and equitable future.
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Once seen as the unshakable leader of global research, U.S. science in 2025 faces policy shifts from Washington that are reshaping the entire research landscape—curbing diversity, restricting language, and tightening federal control over scholarly communication. tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/up-th...
Up Third - Global Realignment
This week, in Part 4: As U.S. science policy becomes increasingly entangled with ideological mandates, researchers around the world are watching and repositioning. Meanwhile, nations like China, India...
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August 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Once seen as the unshakable leader of global research, U.S. science in 2025 faces policy shifts from Washington that are reshaping the entire research landscape—curbing diversity, restricting language, and tightening federal control over scholarly communication. tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/up-th...
As U.S. science policy becomes entangled w/ ideology, researchers are watching. Meanwhile, nations like China, India, & those across Europe are investing in openness, infrastructure, & leadership. The result, a rebalancing of scientific influence across the globe.
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Up Third - Global Realignment
This week, in Part 4: As U.S. science policy becomes increasingly entangled with ideological mandates, researchers around the world are watching and repositioning. Meanwhile, nations like China, India...
tonyhopedale.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
As U.S. science policy becomes entangled w/ ideology, researchers are watching. Meanwhile, nations like China, India, & those across Europe are investing in openness, infrastructure, & leadership. The result, a rebalancing of scientific influence across the globe.
tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/up-th...
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Latest post in my five part series summarizing the themes and topics discussed at the various conferences and meetings I attended in the first half of 2025.
#ResearchIntergrity #Trust #Papermills #Transparency #PublishorPerish
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#ResearchIntergrity #Trust #Papermills #Transparency #PublishorPerish
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Up Second - Trust
This week, in Part 3, I explore a growing crisis, trust in science and scholarship. As the scholarly record is increasingly tested by fraud, papermills, misconduct, and political interference, the pub...
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July 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Latest post in my five part series summarizing the themes and topics discussed at the various conferences and meetings I attended in the first half of 2025.
#ResearchIntergrity #Trust #Papermills #Transparency #PublishorPerish
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#ResearchIntergrity #Trust #Papermills #Transparency #PublishorPerish
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Tony Alves
Scholarly Publishing Professional
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July 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Part 2 of my blog post series: Deep dive into transformative & troubling role AI is playing across the publishing lifecycle; tools that promise speed & scale, concerns re ethics & equity; AI reshapes how science is created, evaluated, & shared. Also more fake tweets! tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/up-fi...
Up First - AI
Last week I kicked off a series of blog posts by summarizing what I intend to discuss over the next few weeks. Part 1 of the series explored four major forces reshaping scholarly publishing, the rise ...
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July 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Part 2 of my blog post series: Deep dive into transformative & troubling role AI is playing across the publishing lifecycle; tools that promise speed & scale, concerns re ethics & equity; AI reshapes how science is created, evaluated, & shared. Also more fake tweets! tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/up-fi...
Kicking off a 5-part series on what I’ve learned so far in 2025. This post features a fun twist: imagined tweets from the R2R conference, generated from my notes w/ help from ChatGPT. I used to live-tweet at conferences but it gave up when Twitter went toxic. tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/halfw...
Halfway to Somewhere
As we've reached the midpoint in a year that has seen many twists and turns in the proverbial road, I will spend the next few weeks reviewing what I've learned during my travels along that road, from ...
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July 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Kicking off a 5-part series on what I’ve learned so far in 2025. This post features a fun twist: imagined tweets from the R2R conference, generated from my notes w/ help from ChatGPT. I used to live-tweet at conferences but it gave up when Twitter went toxic. tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/halfw...
Reposted by Tony Alves
What does openRxiv mean for bioRxiv/medRxiv? How did biologists embrace preprints? And what's the future of the scientific article?
Fun talking with @jontytownson.bsky.social at #biologists100
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5O2...
Fun talking with @jontytownson.bsky.social at #biologists100
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5O2...
spotLights Ep 8: preLights in conversation with Richard Sever
YouTube video by The Company of Biologists
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April 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
What does openRxiv mean for bioRxiv/medRxiv? How did biologists embrace preprints? And what's the future of the scientific article?
Fun talking with @jontytownson.bsky.social at #biologists100
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5O2...
Fun talking with @jontytownson.bsky.social at #biologists100
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5O2...
The Méduse shipwreck was caused by poor judgment of its captain who was appointed for political reasons. My essay, constructed from recent conversations, reflects on the state of academic freedom, a shift in scientific progress, & determination to persevere.
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Cronyism, Ideology, and the Fight for Academic Freedom
In 1816, the French frigate Méduse ran aground off the coast of Mauritania. The shipwreck wasn’t caused by bad weather or a battle, but by the poor judgment of its captain who had been appointed for p...
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April 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The Méduse shipwreck was caused by poor judgment of its captain who was appointed for political reasons. My essay, constructed from recent conversations, reflects on the state of academic freedom, a shift in scientific progress, & determination to persevere.
tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/crony...
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How can publishers and researchers uphold research integrity in an evolving digital landscape? At R2R 2025, industry leaders explored Trust Indicators—key metrics designed to enhance transparency and credibility in scholarly publishing.
Read Tony's blog post: www.highwirepress.com/blog/researc...
Read Tony's blog post: www.highwirepress.com/blog/researc...
Research Integrity & Trust Indicators at R2R 2025
Explore key insights from R2R 2025 on research integrity, trust indicators, and efforts to combat misinformation in scholarly publishing.
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March 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
How can publishers and researchers uphold research integrity in an evolving digital landscape? At R2R 2025, industry leaders explored Trust Indicators—key metrics designed to enhance transparency and credibility in scholarly publishing.
Read Tony's blog post: www.highwirepress.com/blog/researc...
Read Tony's blog post: www.highwirepress.com/blog/researc...
Cadmore Media is thrilled to announce our new partnership with @highwirepress.bsky.social!
Publishers using Highwire can now embed Cadmore’s player for:
Accessible videos
Smooth workflow integration
Better multimedia discoverability
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#AcademicVideo
Publishers using Highwire can now embed Cadmore’s player for:
Accessible videos
Smooth workflow integration
Better multimedia discoverability
Read more: cadmore.media/blog/highwir...
#AcademicVideo
Cadmore Media Partners with Highwire to Enable Accessible, Searchable, and Discoverable Video Solutions for Scholarly Publishing
Cadmore Media partners with Highwire Press to enhance video accessibility, searchability, and discoverability in scholarly publishing through seamless integration and centralized video management.
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March 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Trying to get a head start on the week, but someone else has a different idea…
March 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Trying to get a head start on the week, but someone else has a different idea…
The Researcher to Reader Conference 2025: The Opening Keynote and the Great Debate
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Explore scholarly journal articles covering a wide range of disciplines and sources of information. Read our blogs to stay updated with the latest academic developments.
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March 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The Researcher to Reader Conference 2025: The Opening Keynote and the Great Debate
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Don’t tell me that Trump/Musk are not trying to destroy Social Security.
30,000 people died last year while waiting to get their benefits.
Under this new policy, those numbers will skyrocket.
We can’t kill seniors so that billionaires get their tax breaks.
30,000 people died last year while waiting to get their benefits.
Under this new policy, those numbers will skyrocket.
We can’t kill seniors so that billionaires get their tax breaks.
March 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Don’t tell me that Trump/Musk are not trying to destroy Social Security.
30,000 people died last year while waiting to get their benefits.
Under this new policy, those numbers will skyrocket.
We can’t kill seniors so that billionaires get their tax breaks.
30,000 people died last year while waiting to get their benefits.
Under this new policy, those numbers will skyrocket.
We can’t kill seniors so that billionaires get their tax breaks.
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Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
Homepage - openRxiv
openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.
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March 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
Please stop by! London Book Fair Hall 3, Booth 2D58
March 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Please stop by! London Book Fair Hall 3, Booth 2D58
AND also published in CSE's Science Editor! Diversification and Decentralization of Peer Review: Part 2—Tools That Facilitate
Originally presented as a poster at @oaspa.bsky.social meeting in Lisbon. I've organized sessions at CSE and SSP annual meetings on these topics!
doi.org/10.36591/SE-...
Originally presented as a poster at @oaspa.bsky.social meeting in Lisbon. I've organized sessions at CSE and SSP annual meetings on these topics!
doi.org/10.36591/SE-...
Diversification and Decentralization of Peer Review: Part 2—Tools That Facilitate - Science Editor
Part 1 explored the innovations that are reshaping the peer review process, including community and third-party services that are expanding the reviewer pool, as well as preprint servers, overlay jour...
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March 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
AND also published in CSE's Science Editor! Diversification and Decentralization of Peer Review: Part 2—Tools That Facilitate
Originally presented as a poster at @oaspa.bsky.social meeting in Lisbon. I've organized sessions at CSE and SSP annual meetings on these topics!
doi.org/10.36591/SE-...
Originally presented as a poster at @oaspa.bsky.social meeting in Lisbon. I've organized sessions at CSE and SSP annual meetings on these topics!
doi.org/10.36591/SE-...
Just published in CSE's Science Editor! Diversification and Decentralization of Peer Review: Part 1—Initiatives at the Forefront
The initial concept was presented as a poster at the @oaspa.bsky.social meeting in Lisbon. I will be following up with sessions at CSE and SSP!
doi.org/10.36591/SE-...
The initial concept was presented as a poster at the @oaspa.bsky.social meeting in Lisbon. I will be following up with sessions at CSE and SSP!
doi.org/10.36591/SE-...
Diversification and Decentralization of Peer Review: Part 1—Initiatives at the Forefront - Science Editor
The traditional peer review system, long regarded as the cornerstone of scholarly publishing, is facing growing scrutiny due to inefficiencies, biases, and barriers to inclusivity. In response, a wave...
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March 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Just published in CSE's Science Editor! Diversification and Decentralization of Peer Review: Part 1—Initiatives at the Forefront
The initial concept was presented as a poster at the @oaspa.bsky.social meeting in Lisbon. I will be following up with sessions at CSE and SSP!
doi.org/10.36591/SE-...
The initial concept was presented as a poster at the @oaspa.bsky.social meeting in Lisbon. I will be following up with sessions at CSE and SSP!
doi.org/10.36591/SE-...
I'll be moderating a session at CSE annual meeting called Scholarly Communications in a Rapidly Changing US Policy Landscape. I summarize some of what's been going on in a recent blog post:
tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/truth...
Check out the CSE meeting here: www.councilscienceeditors.org/annual-meeti...
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Check out the CSE meeting here: www.councilscienceeditors.org/annual-meeti...
Truth vs Lies
Scientific progress has long been built on a foundation of truth; objective evidence, rigorous peer review, and open discourse. But when political interference distorts research funding, censors langu...
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March 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I'll be moderating a session at CSE annual meeting called Scholarly Communications in a Rapidly Changing US Policy Landscape. I summarize some of what's been going on in a recent blog post:
tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/truth...
Check out the CSE meeting here: www.councilscienceeditors.org/annual-meeti...
tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/truth...
Check out the CSE meeting here: www.councilscienceeditors.org/annual-meeti...
It was a lot of fun, always great to see old friends and make new ones! Thanks to my collaborators and the participants for making it another productive Peer Review Innovations workshop! #R2RConf
Our Product Team participated in the Researcher to Reader Conference at BMA House in London, where there were many insightful sessions on topics like open science, research integrity, APCs, and more.
@tonyhopedale.com co-organized a workshop on Peer Review Innovations.
#R2RConf
@tonyhopedale.com co-organized a workshop on Peer Review Innovations.
#R2RConf
February 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It was a lot of fun, always great to see old friends and make new ones! Thanks to my collaborators and the participants for making it another productive Peer Review Innovations workshop! #R2RConf
I've included a sample of the executive orders that have led to widespread disruptions in scientific and health research funding, affecting both domestic and international programs.
tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/truth...
tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/truth...
Truth vs Lies
Scientific progress has long been built on a foundation of truth; objective evidence, rigorous peer review, and open discourse. But when political interference distorts research funding, censors langu...
tonyhopedale.com
February 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I've included a sample of the executive orders that have led to widespread disruptions in scientific and health research funding, affecting both domestic and international programs.
tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/truth...
tonyhopedale.com/blog/f/truth...