Duncan Nicholas

Editorial consultancy and training for academic journals, publishers, and researchers. @RBMOnline Development Editor @EASEeditors Past-President

[Duncan Nicholas @dnjournals]

This is a nice resource

[Rafeeque @rafeequemavoor]

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍

@NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations!

all freely available in the public domain.

Retweet and spread the message!
https://t.co/p1bD1kxO7H

[Duncan Nicholas @dnjournals]

@PredatoryReport @MDPIOpenAccess Is this real? It doesn’t look it.

[Duncan Nicholas @dnjournals]

@LestanFilip @Scopus Reassuring to know it is not on my end.

[Duncan Nicholas @dnjournals]

Is @Scopus down with a Cloudflare error for everyone, or just me?

[Duncan Nicholas @dnjournals]

I’ll keep saying it at every opportunity; giving generative ai even an inch of space through the door of research publishing (or even the whole world in general) was always a mistake, and will prove to be a horrendous one.

It’s never too late to stop it.

[Elisabeth Bik @MicrobiomDigest]

AI can be used to make convincing looking fake data.
There is no way we can distinguish real from fake anymore.
It is safe to assume that genAI has already resulted in many fake papers. Scientific publishing is not prepared for this.

[easeeditors.bsky.social @EASEeditors]

New EASE publication!

This Form combines our Authors’ Contributions & Conflict of Interest Disclosure, and EASE Ethics Checklist for Authors into a single, more convenient document with tick boxes & text fields

Read the @Eur_Sci_Ed Editorial for details

https://t.co/LDBHFjiSKF

[easeeditors.bsky.social @EASEeditors]

On the EASE Digest, all the details of the launch of our new guideline, Writing You Research Paper: Tips From EASE Editors

The Digest post gives you the background to the new document, and details of activities we have launched to support its release:

https://t.co/42u5bqIHUG

[Duncan Nicholas @dnjournals]

Will Twitter ever stop asking me for my day of birth whenever I open it?

[easeeditors.bsky.social @EASEeditors]

New on EASE Digest: EASE Peer Review Committee Chair @Mario_Malicki and Vice-President @mehmanib analyze the impact of introducing Structured Peer Review on over 250 Elsevier journal reviewer performance in an article published in @thePeerJ

https://t.co/GcBv0xRXbz

[Duncan Nicholas @dnjournals]

A Question for @AriesSystems Editorial Manager users -

do people flags not show up against co-authors in the manuscript details page? If that person has a flag on them?

trying to figure this out and can't tell if I am testing it right or if it just doesn't work

thanks

[Duncan Nicholas @dnjournals]

@MicrobiomDigest Thank you for all the tweets this week. they were most appreciated.

[Duncan Nicholas @dnjournals]

The gift basket with a very cool wild adventuring book and vegan chocolate was a lovely gift too. Thank you @EMPSEB29!

[Duncan Nicholas @dnjournals]

Had a lot of fun running the science communication workshop this afternoon at #EMPSEB29 - that’s the 29th European Meeting of PhD Sudents in Evolutionary Biology.

[EMPSEB 31 @empseb31]

The second workshop of @EMPSEB29 given by Duncan Nicholas @DNJournal from the European Association of Science Editors @EASEeditors.

An amazing workshop about science communication #EMPSEB29

[Duncan Nicholas @dnjournals]

Lots of great participation from the group, loads of interesting ideas and discussion, and it was a real pleasure to learn about so many fascinating projects the students are working on.

[Duncan Nicholas @dnjournals]

@TammyHoAiTian These are very cool!

[Duncan Nicholas @dnjournals]

@EMPSEB29 @DNJournal @EASEeditors Thanks so much for the kind words, and the invite to speak, it was really fun.

This is my handle btw - with my cheesy Twitter pic (the one that isn’t obviously really old 😜)

[Tony Ross-Hellauer @tonyR_H]

A lot of discussion at #WCRI2024 about the impact of AI on reproducibility, research integrity, and open science. Our new preprint "Open Science at the Generative AI Turn: An Exploratory Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities" looks at these issues https://t.co/4Xry4UEPmz

[Duncan Nicholas @dnjournals]

@cwhalleypub Glamor by association!

[Duncan Nicholas @dnjournals]

Help the @EASEeditors Peer Review Committee develop tools and techniques to evaluate the quality of a peer review.

[Mario Malički @Mario_Malicki]

Defining quality of peer review and how that quality should be measured is difficult - Please share your thoughts on this topic by responding to EASE RFI - https://t.co/Fhkc5FeBZe

[Duncan Nicholas @dnjournals]

No doubt there is much about peer review that could be automated - people have been working on it for many years.

This session looks set to get into the social and technological issues of potential implementation of new AI models in peer review, with some fantastic speakers.

[easeeditors.bsky.social @EASEeditors]

Join us for the EASE webinar on 21 May.

@Mario_Malicki @mikethelwall @LuSun_Selena @james_y_zou discuss how the landscape of peer review is already changing due to these new technologies.

This EASE webinar is free and open to all.

https://t.co/OZj2S0zUhP