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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 3d

Hope so, please send details, Johan! Thanks

Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 3d

A preprint server Publishes the manuscript, we at MetaROR organise peer Review and do some Curation, which can continue when the authors optionally submit their peer-reviewed article to a traditional journal, such as, now, the ANU Journal of Law and Technology! @jasonchin.bsky.social

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 3d

We started @metaror.bsky.social MetaROR.org in part because of the absence of a journal that publishes metascience. But rather than a traditional journal, as metascientists we wanted to explore the next frontier - Publish, Review, Curate.

Home - MetaROR

MetaResearch Open Review MetaResearch Open Review MetaResearch Open Review A new platform designed to transform how we review and share metaresearch A new platform designed to transform

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Jennifer Byrne @jabyrnesci.bsky.social · 29d

International #ResearchIntegrity conference 16-18 November 2025
Come to hear @elisabethbik.bsky.social Ivan Oransky @jamesheathers.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com Lisa Bero @liammannix.bsky.social @jdwilko.bsky.social @jacksonwryan.com +many others, stay for Sydney in late Spring @sydney.edu.au 🧪

Simon Gandevia @simongandevia.bsky.social · Sep 12

International Research Integrity Conference researchintegrityconf.com has been moved to University of Sydney (Refectory and Cullen rooms) Nov 16-18th 2025. Registrations filling fast

International Research Integrity Conference | 16-18 November 2025, Sydney, Australia

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 3d

One sentence in the piece makes the point that the creators of the machines, e.g. LIGO engineers and AI software developers, would get more of their deserved recognition. In my view, the whole piece should be about that, not about awards to the machines themselves. #metascience

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 3d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 6d

There's no right answer here in my opinion because I think authorship is a confused muddle, but given the current system, let's say I recognize an opportunity to make a research project happen by dint of me contributing a whole lot of labor, but I then don't have time to contribute anything else.

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 6d

About intellectual contribution being a criterion, It's almost elitist by definition, but focusing on that probably confuses the debate.
So, to start afresh, I'd be interested to know why you think (if you do) that only people who make intellectual contributions should be on the by-line.

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 6d

Nice to know you agree with this one! Always interested to hear peoples' thoughts.

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CRAFT-OA project, aiming for Diamond Open Access @craft-oa.bsky.social · 7d

No matter where you are in the world🌍🌏🌎, you're invited to join the livestream for Monday's keynote speeches starting at 14:10 (CEST).

🎤Dr. David Oliva Uribe (UNESCO)

🎤Prof Dr Johan Rooryck & Pierre Mounier (European Diamond Capacity Hub)

www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con...

#CRAFT_OA2025

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 13d

And there are many scholarly communities using it that didn't need liberation because they were never captured. Notably, ironically, those in low and middle-income countries.

Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 13d

PKP is behind Open Journal Systems, the most widely-used free open source journal management system, which can be used to liberate us from Elsevier and all the rest of the profiteers! #openaccess

Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 13d

JOB OPPORTUNITY: @pkp.sfu.ca is looking for a Managing Director! This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly impactful #scholcomm organization. Role works closely with me (Scientific Director) to provide strategic and operational leadership. Help us spread the word!

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project

The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · Sep 4

EVENT: Join us at our next free webinar, 'Publishing Open Access Books: Insights from ERC-Funded Authors'

📆 Tuesday 30 September
⏰ 11am BST / 12pm CEST

Find out more & register: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/09/03/p...

#OAbooks @operaseu.bsky.social

An event card showing the details of the event that are given in the post. It also says 'An OABN webinar with the support of the ERC Executive Agency'.

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 13d

Was great to get some answers to this, from ChatGPT (not kidding).
Australians are different; they never say "we're not here to fuck spiders, as it were" nor "he couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery, as it were"

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 17d

Seems that in some fields that is now semi-formally assumed to be the corresponding author. Of course, that's often the most senior author, who is most likely to be dead or retired, haha, by the time an investigation begins.

Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 17d

That's a good point. Going back to the original 1997 Rennie contributorship proposal, he and others were already saying that one/some authors should be declared "guarantor" and take the most responsibility. Do you have another idea?

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