Taylor & Francis VP speaks on AI in scholarly publishing at STM conference

📢 News on Editor’s Café! The Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE) welcomes World Brain Scholar as its newest corporate member, marking a powerful collaboration to enhance innovation in scholarly publishing across Asia and beyond. Through this partnership, ACSE will promote Eliza, World Brain Scholar’s AI-powered tool designed to support authors, reviewers, and editors by improving review quality, streamlining editorial workflows, and strengthening research integrity. This collaboration aims to empower regional journals to integrate smart tools while maintaining editorial judgment and scholarly rigor. Discover how ACSE and World Brain Scholar are aligning AI innovation with editorial excellence, paving the way for more efficient, transparent, and equitable peer review. Read the full Press Release 👉https://lnkd.in/dAmDP4R6 #EditorsCafe #PeerReview #AIinPublishing #EditorialInnovation #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicPublishing #ScholarlyCommunication #ACSE Esma ŞENEL Jeanne Alejo- Abitago Kaushik Bharati, PhD, MIDSA (USA), FRSPH (London) Sami Farhan Aisha Abdullahi Mahmud Masatoshi Shoji, PhD, DDSc, LAc Arif Nur Muhammad Ansori Duke Oeba, Ph.D. Naveen Tiwari Rabab Kamel Sofiah Hamzah Abdelazim Negm Nasrin Ghassemi barghi Zeger Karssen

🔬 When Science Stops Protecting the Truth, It Stops Being Science. 🧩 In theory, academia is a meritocracy. But in practice, it runs on invisible debts and silent agreements where silence is often rewarded more than discovery. 👨🔬 Dr. Furkan Dölek’s story captures this paradox. A physicist who has worked at CERN, Fermilab, and Virginia Tech with 660+ publications, nearly 20,000 citations, and an h-index of 68. A career at the summit of science. But also, a reminder of what happens when integrity meets a rigid system. ⚗️ In laboratories built to advance knowledge, he documented safety gaps, funding inconsistencies, and the quiet normalization of exhaustion. He didn’t accuse he observed. And for a scientist, observation is responsibility. 📉 What followed was not scientific it was bureaucratic. Funding withdrawn, access revoked, and eventually, detention without indictment. A life built on data and transparency now waits in silence. ⚖️ This is no longer an “immigration case.” It’s a test of whether the scientific system can still hold a conscience. When institutions protect their image instead of their evidence when silence feels safer than honesty science begins to lose its foundation. 💡 We speak so much about innovation, yet the real challenge is whether we have the courage to protect its meaning. Dr. Dölek’s resilience reminds us that the future of science depends not only on what we discover but on whether we defend the truth when it’s inconvenient. 🌍 This is not just one person’s struggle; it’s a test of an era. Because when science goes silent, so do we. #AcademicIntegrity #ScientificAccountability #ResearchCulture #ScienceWithConscience #ProSeAI #HigherEdTruth #FreeFurkan #EthicsInScience #PostdocReality #AcademicToxicity Caroline Mair-Toby 🙏

Research Professional News has spotlighted BFPG’s new report on Science and Soft Power, highlighting its calls for the restoration of long-term international funding, stronger coordination and better narratives to harness scientific expertise for global influence. https://lnkd.in/dn9ju5NU

I’m honored to serve as a panelist next week at the Humanities & Technology Association’s Annual Conference at Salve Regina University, joining my fellow doctoral colleagues for a conversation on the benefits and harms of AI. Our dialogue draws inspiration from AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor—a work that continues to spark vital reflection on ethics, accountability, and human judgment in an algorithmic age. As we consider what it means to measure and predict in a human world, we must ask ourselves as a society: when prediction becomes ideology, do we begin to mistake data for destiny?

Our Harvard Shorenstein Center discussion about open science practices and trust in research is now on YouTube - from the perspectives of a researcher, a publisher, a tech provider and a journalist. Gabriel Stein , Needhi Bhalla , Rachel Zamzow and I cover lots of recent talking points about open science. It reflects a general change in culture within academic science, a shift from competition to collaboration. There are challenges, pros and cons. But it's important not to misrepresent all the undesirable phenomena we are now seeing as being a consequence of open science. Many pre-date it and/or simply reflect how the information landscape in general and social media have changed the way science is conveyed. Meanwhile AI is obviously having an impact too. https://lnkd.in/esXjBFcV

Open science is being threatened by geopolitics and capitalism, according to speakers in a European Parliament debate on research data sovereignty https://lnkd.in/e_FUqQzP

Impressive work by MIT—CRESt showcases how AI can accelerate scientific discovery by autonomously generating and testing hypotheses at scale. #AIResearch #ScientificInnovation

MIT's CRESt platform exemplifies how AI can accelerate scientific discovery by identifying novel research directions and hypotheses that might be overlooked by humans. #AIinScience #MachineLearning

MIT’s CRESt platform is a powerful example of how AI can accelerate hypothesis generation and reshape scientific discovery. #ArtificialIntelligence #ScientificResearch