Victoria Merriman

Personal ramblings on life, science, #STM #publishing. Editor Engagement Manager @ IOP Publishing.

[Victoria Merriman @vikmez]

@SaraWahedi Winter asthma?

[Machine Learning: Science and Technology @MLSTjournal]

We are thrilled to welcome Jimeng Sun to our #MachineLearning series. Jimeng is the Editor-in-Chief of our new journal; Machine Learning: Health. Huge welcome @jimeng ! #MLHealth https://t.co/1XRrL5NzbB

[Victoria Merriman @vikmez]

@jennieg_author Happy birthday! Little Drummer Boy for me 🙂

[Habib Khan @HabibKhanT]

1,135 days have passed, and Afghanistan remains the only country where a girl’s education is illegal. #LetHerLearn

[Misha Teplitskiy | Science of Science @MishaTeplitskiy]

Some evidence for what everyone suspected:
(Some) authors don't want to share data because they don't want people to see how the sausage was made
https://t.co/pgnx70Zvff

[Victoria Merriman @vikmez]

Chris Bennett, CUP, AI licensing is a moving target, tech companies also changing. Managing to get AI engines changed because CUP’re insisting on attribution. Protecting authors’ rights but also considering the supplementary revenue stream given a potential OA future
#alpsp2024

[Victoria Merriman @vikmez]

Mulvany: small publishers, don’t create AI tools, others will create them, just understand the value and negotiate hard. The costs will come down eventually but if you can be an early use case then good. #alpsp2024

[Victoria Merriman @vikmez]

Mulvany poses an interesting way to increase accessibility to information with AI, asking it to discuss two opposing views from the paper in a podcast format. #alpsp2024

[Victoria Merriman @vikmez]

Ian Mulvany, BMJ, on plain language summaries and AI, it can be so difficult to interpret research data, and where patient outcomes are concerned you need to proceed cautiously. James Butcher: in biol/chem the risk is lower, and biorXiv offers these lay summaries. #alpsp2024

[Victoria Merriman @vikmez]

Emily Chenette talking about how much human oversight there is at PLoS One. But it doesn’t deter bad actors who presume sound science journals are good targets. They’re putting quality over profit, as does @IOPPublishing’s Purpose-Led Publishing coalition. #alpsp2024

[Victoria Merriman @vikmez]

Emily Chenette, PLoS One, we can have AI guidance for authors, but authors might not be reading that guidance, and there isn’t consistency between publishers either. James Butcher: AI has the power to change the essence of authorship. #ALPSP2024

[Imogen Smith @ImogenJ_Smith]

John Willinsky on @pkp’s Publication Facts Label (based on the Nutrition Facts Label) & using this as a tool to communicate trustworthiness - our responsibility as publishers #alpsp2024

[Victoria Merriman @vikmez]

@georgekupar presenting VeriXiv at #ALPSP2024 which has a Publish, Review and Curate model. The Editorial team often invite the authors to publish the VoR in a partner journal, optionally.

[Victoria Merriman @vikmez]

Enjoying Sam Parker @wiley description of being reactive to research integrity misconduct, he’s using words like vulnerability and whack-a-mole… super stressful! #ALPSP2024

[Victoria Merriman @vikmez]

So good to hear Simon Holt speak so passionately about his work on accessibility for @ElsevierConnect #ALPSP2024

[Victoria Merriman @vikmez]

Emma Watkins: 67 Bricks worked with AIP Publishing running a series of discovery experiments on their author database to discover interconnectedness and find nodes of influencers. Marketing so important to test assumptions. #ALPSP2024

[Victoria Merriman @vikmez]

Dustin Smith’s one bit of advice to make better data decisions: bring the right people together, with the right expertise, and pick the right tools. Claire Webber: plan your future state. Natasha White: do your research. #alpsp2024

[Victoria Merriman @vikmez]

Natasha White speaks of an “un-Wiley” innovative personality quiz campaign for authors, giving them personalities like trailblazers. They then partnered with Charlesworth to repeat it in China. #ALPSP2024

[Victoria Merriman @vikmez]

Claire Webber talking about the digital transformation at @IOPPublishing which starts with a lot of foundational back-end work. Now we’re using data to understand our customer base to be more personalised, timely etc #ALPSP2024