Jacek Radwan

This is happening! Direct support by funders to non-profit publishes offering journals open for free to authors and readers seems like a way forward! royalsociety.org/news/2026/02...

However, the benefits to learned societies should not be tied to publication costs that institutions and researchers from low- and middle-income regions cannot afford!

However, the benefits to learned societies should not be tied to publication costs that institutions and researchers from low- and middle-income regions cannot afford!

Yes, we should avoid “you-pay-you-publish” journals that know how to inflate their impact factors but engage in dubious editorial practices.

But nowadays even reviews seem to be written by AI bsky.app/profile/carl...! I think we have no choice but to publish reviewer’s names with accepted papers! Some journals do it, I’m sorry to say learned society-based ones lag behind☹

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Peer Review is broken because a generation of Editors were trained that peer review is sacrosanct. Thus we have Editors who are clerks, sending and re-sending manuscripts to reviewers until they are happy. That's not the job. Be an Editor, not a clerk. Use your skill and judgement. Make decisions.

Please share: We are hosting the 2026 DZG evolutionary biology graduate meeting at Uni Hamburg on March 25-27: "Interactions and Coevolution: from Molecules to Species". #PhD students, early postdocs and advanced Master students in evolutionary biology are welcome to register! t1p.de/dzg2026evolbio

I think people will keep doing all sorts of things as long as they remain anonymous. We should take responsibility for what we write in reviews by signing them an making them public.

And we should all sign our review if we want to be sure its not done by AI

Not sure our paper rocks as much as Katharina’s cover illustration, but we’re very delighted it was picked as ‘Editor’s Choice’ on @evolletters.bsky.social!

Male Reproductive Senescence in Mammals Is Pervasive and Aligned With the Slow‐Fast Continuum We found evidence of male reproductive senescence in 59.6% of the mammalian studied species, with a detection probability increasing with larger sample sizes and a longer age range relative to lifesp....

Male Reproductive Senescence in Mammals Is Pervasive and Aligned With the Slow-Fast Continuum
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Cover of the new issue of Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social featuring our stickleback-tapeworm paper. academic.oup.com/evlett
What happens to immunity and infection prevalence in the 50 years after a host invades a new location

Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say

This is just B A N A N A S. Hymenopteran genetics, amirite? www.science.org/content/arti...

Agreed, but learned society journals should strive to become more open and inclusive! Is this OK for our journals to hide behind paywalls that preclude free access by researchers from low income countries? More here: trulyopenscience.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
#SocietyJournals #SciPub

Agreed, but learned society journals should strive to become more open and inclusive! Is this OK for our journals to hide behind paywalls that preclude free access by researchers from low income countries? More here: trulyopenscience.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
#SocietyJournals #SciPub

Great talk and suggestions (!!!) for a responsible open publishing by @jacek-radwan.bsky.social

#eseb2025 talks were great so far. Subjective ranking of the most common quotes:
- theory and modeling: "with this very simple approach"
- genomics: "using methodology you all know"
- plenaries: "Nature/Science" in the bottom right of a slide
- posters: "una cerveza por favor"

#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the Linnean Society, the first public announcement of the theory of evolution. bit.ly/3k8fq4u

Not only fantastic #ESEB2025 talks, but also great posters. Józefina presented her work on Borelia, Neha on sexual selection and populations dynamics, Sebastian on bulb mite genomics, Mateusz on genetic load in guppies and Jacek on CFH gene in bank voles. Our diversity unleashed!

If you are frustrated with the quality of reviews and excessive article processing charges, take a minute read:
trulyopenscience.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-si...
We researchers really have a power to change this!
#ScientificPublishing

A Sting Inside a Papermill “It’s clear that any academically corrupt individual — particularly one with editorial connections — could easily “place” dozens of these Anzen products into indexed journals and collect a ha…

This is a must-read. Csaba Szabó, the author of Unreliable, was approached by a paper mill, and he decided to conduct a sting operation. He documented how paper mills operate.

forbetterscience.com/2025/05/19/a...

A billion-dollar donation: estimating the cost of researchers’ time spent on peer review - Research Integrity and Peer Review Background The amount and value of researchers’ peer review work is critical for academia and journal publishing. However, this labor is under-recognized, its magnitude is unknown, and alternative way...

This makes it unjustifiable to still count with thousands of unpaid hours, worth billions of dollars, from reviewers (eg doi.org/10.1186/s410...) and others, such as editorial board members in this case.

How Scientific Publishers’ Extreme Fees Put Profit Over Progress Last month, the editorial team of NeuroImage resigned over the “unethical fees” charged by the journal’s publisher, Elsevier. Can scientists ditch the for-profit system?

We need urgent changes in academic publishing, which costs research institutions too much, draining important resources from science to unparalled high profit margins for big publishers (eg www.thenation.com/article/soci...).

🌟 NEW blog post: "From Gold to Diamond: Is Equitable Open Access Still a Mirage?" 💎🔓

Our VP of Open Research @hahnel.org shares data & insights on the current state of play for #OA.

🔗 Read his post now: www.digital-science.com/tldr/article...

#OpenResearch #OpenAccess #scholcomm

Blue-lined octopus Hapalochlaena fasciata males envenomate females to facilitate copulation Chun et al. show that in the blue-lined octopus Hapalochlaena fasciata males envenomate females during copulation, most likely as a defense against being cannibalized.

Bloody hell! Blue-lined octopus males inject females with tetrodotoxin before mating with them. 🧪 Something for your sexual conflict lectures... www.cell.com/current-biol...

Exploiting social traits for clinical applications in bacteria and viruses npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Exploiting social traits for clinical applications in bacteria and viruses

Excited to see review with @asherleeks.bsky.social out today in Nature Antimicrobials and Resistance. We compare application of social evolution to treatment of infection in bacteria and viruses: very different stories! rdcu.be/eftKw @biology.ox.ac.uk @erc.europa.eu @naturerevmicro.bsky.social

@judithmank.bsky.social Hi Judith could you add me to Mating Systems starting pack?

@pfvale.bsky.social hello Pedro could you add me to HostParasireEcoEvo?

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