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Michael Willis @mwillispub

Helping to solve publishing challenges for researchers. Special interest in South Africa. Views expressed = my own; retweets ≠ endorsements

Joined July 2010
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Grateful to @EditorialOrigin for the opportunity to contribute a few thoughts on how journals, editors and publishers can support authors based in what's often termed the 'Global South' origineditorial.com/original…
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Survey of >400 UK academics exploring their perception and use of #genAI in academic activities. See also authors' summary at blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci… #phdchat #AcademicTwitter link.springer.com/article/10…

If generative AI is saving academics time, what are they doing with it? - LSE Impact

Richard Watermeyer, Donna Lanclos & Lawrie Phipps suggest that the potential efficiency promised by AI tools disclose what work is and isn’t valued in academia.

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How does #genAI help academics use their time differently? 'We found scant evidence of generative AI being used to decelerate and exploit the ‘gift of time’ for, among other things, higher order thinking and intellectual growth'
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HUMA - Institute for Humanities in Africa@huma_africa
16 Jan 2024
Telling the world about your research! A thought-provoking Webinar coming up soon w/ #HUMA Director @divinefuh, Prof. @marinajoubert @CREST_SU & Researcher Bianca Davis @IntlYoungerChem Tuesday, Jan 30th hosted by @WileyGlobal Register to join: register.gotowebinar.com/reg…
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If you're an early career researcher in South Africa/ Namibia/Botswana, don't miss our @wileyinresearch webinar on 30 Jan, 'Telling the world about your research', with three amazing experts on #scholcomm #scicomm @divinefuh @marinajoubert @bee_the_chemist. DM me for more info!
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Wiley in research@wileyinresearch
19 Jan 2024
Ensuring research integrity is fundamental to our mission. That’s why we’re proud to champion United2Act. This new initiative connects publishers, funders, research institutes and other stakeholders to take action and fight fraud. Find out more: ow.ly/4SQY50QsvWT
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United2Act Consensus Statement released today, outlining 5 key areas of action against impact of #papermills on academic research & publishing #integrity. Brings together research bodies, universities, publishers & others, supported by @C0PE @STMAssoc publicationethics.org/about/…

United2Act launches action against paper mills

Press release - United2Act launches action against paper mills. 19 January 2024

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Kids are never too young to learn about the world of publishing! (other careers are available)
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Reflections by my colleague @DWFlanagan on how #genAI will transform scholarly publishing financialexpress.com/busines…

Five ways generative AI will transform scholarly publishing

The rise of generative AI is expected to present challenges in maintaining research integrity

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AfricArXiv@AfricArxiv
8 Jan 2024
Come and be a part of our first webinar session in 2024! We will discuss the topic, 'Building gateways to open science in Africa' and @thescientistgh from @africanrepro will be our guest speaker. January 18, 2024 2pm WAT – 3pm CAT – 4pm EAT Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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An African proverb I learned today: 'When an old person dies, a library burns to the ground'
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The BMJ Christmas edition - always a highlight of this time of the year
The BMJ
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19 Dec 2023
A new #DoctorWho episode shown during the festive period, especially on Christmas Day, is associated with lower death rates in the subsequent year across the UK, finds new #ChristmasBMJ study #DrWho @Richard_D_Riley bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023…
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Nice infographic about how to tackle the challenges of #infodemiology, information and misinformation (thanks @Kirstin_Krauss for drawing my attention to this) who.int/news-room/spotlight/…
Diagram showing how information sharing needs to be handled carefully: don't spread rumours to group chats, double check your facts, get your news from trusted sources, and ask for evidence

ALT Diagram showing how information sharing needs to be handled carefully: don't spread rumours to group chats, double check your facts, get your news from trusted sources, and ask for evidence
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Interested in #engineering? @TfL recently published its 'Engineering Icons Tube Map', celebrating a few hundred famous and/or not so famous - but highly influential - engineers. Check it out at londonblog.tfl.gov.uk/2023/1…

Engineering Icons Tube Map

London wouldn't be the city it is today without these engineering icons. We've created a special tube map to celebrate their work 🚇🗺

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Per Pippin Aspaas@AspaasPer
1 Dec 2023
Il était une fois ... The dream of machine translation as formulated 74,5 years ago. Author of "Scientific Babel", Michael Gordin discusses the pre-history of Deep Learning and AI in science during the 2nd Helsinki Initiative Webinar on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication
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Mark Stephens@MarksLarks
28 Nov 2023
The Christmas book tree sponsored by Hatchards books at St. Pancras Station. The little booths at the bottom have speakers that read you a story while you wait for your train.
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New @CochraneLibrary systematic review on peer reviewer training: no clear evidence that it improves quality of #peerreview, but limitations to evidence and how to measure 'quality' cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi…
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Draft recommended practice from @NISOInfo for handling comms about retractions/removals/expressions of concern is open for feedback at niso.org/standards-committee…. My @wileyinresearch colleague Joyce Griffin has written about it at wiley.com/en-us/network/publ… #publishingethics
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Tackling structural inequities in research publishing needs to be a collaborative and collective endeavour: at @wileyinresearch we wrote a White Paper explaining why and how this might be achieved #openaccess #globalsouth wiley.com/en-us/network/publ…
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In case you missed the @BritishEcolSoc study earlier this year by Charles Fox et al about who benefits from anonymised peer review, here's a great interview by @latwec especially for #peerreviewweek wiley.com/en-us/network/publ…
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