Tony Alves

Robots and Recent Reads I'm currently attending the NISO Plus conference in Baltimore, having been invited to participate in a panel, "Keeping the Robots in Line: Provisioning Access to Content for AI Systems", providing a p...

New blog post! "Robots & Recent Reads"
I was invited to participate in a panel at the recent NISO Plus conference, "Keeping the Robots in Line: Provisioning Access to Content for AI Systems". Read a write up of my presentation focused on product development impact.

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Playing D&D with ChatGPT - Part 1 Happy New Year! I am ending 2025 with a blog post not about peer review, not about research integrity, not about workflow systems, and not about persistent identifiers. Here is the first of a two-part...

Over the past few months I’ve taken my friends on a D&D adventure using ChatGPT, and the great thing about the experience, from my perspective as the Dungeon Master, is that the adventure isn't just unfolding for the players, it's unfolding for me too!

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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...

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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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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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.

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 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...

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...

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 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...

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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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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

spotLights Ep 8: preLights in conversation with Richard Sever YouTube video by The Company of Biologists

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

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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...

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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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...

I love collaborating!

@cadmoremedia.bsky.social @violaineig.bsky.social

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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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.

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

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...

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!

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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...

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!

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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...

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:
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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

"In these days of outrage it is still possible to find glimmers of hope. Where there is outrage, we attempt to bring solutions and hope. Those solutions require will and action, and that's where we fall short as a society: we want hope without commitment, without effort. We see the evil only briefly, we hear it when it suits us, and speak of it as if it is quickly gone. In these tumultuous times, a multicrisis of climate, pandemic, and war, if you aren't feeling outrage and demanding action you aren't paying attention." Adapted from Editor's Choice, The BMJ, 2nd April 2022

Words of inspiration by BMJ‘s editor-in-chief, Kamran Abbasi, at the Researcher to Reader conference. #R2RConf

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...

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.

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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...

My recent blog post: a sample of the exec orders leading to widespread disruptions in science & health research. Many in the scholarly community are concerned about executive orders - they erode public trust & hinder advancements in research & science.

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Great start to the Peer Review Innovation workshop. Working with feedback from last year on challenges, plan to get to solutions by the end of tomorrow! #R2RConf

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...

This blog post examines how recent policies threaten not just individual researchers, but scientific inquiry as a whole. In an era where misinformation masquerades as policy, the distinction between truth and lies has never been more consequential.

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