Scholarly Futures
Jon Treadway, Sarah Greaves, Ruth Francis, Phil Garner, Dr Dawn Langley, Lou Peck, Kamran Naim, John Hammersley, Mark Huskisson, Liz AllenAn exploratory project to debate the uncertain future of scholarly communication, research practices, and academic publishing amid accelerating change.
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Frontier models, transparency and trust; a new golden age in research…for some?
Whilst much of the globe was focusing on the culmination of the football World Cup, one mathematician made a rather unexpected announcement.
Levent Alpöge tweeted that using Claude Fable 5 he’d discovered a counterexample to the Jacobean c...
Summer Holiday 2026
We will be going on a well-earned Scholarly Futures summer break during July and August. Thank you all for joining our community, reading our content, commenting on it and sharing it - this has been greatly appreciated. We started this as a...
Conference factories - are you being scammed?: Predatory conferences - part two
In part one, I looked at why predatory conferences are not just a researcher problem, but a you problem. Now let’s look at what the researchers are saying and how you can easily flag inconsistencies or areas of further research to make a mo...
How to spot a predatory conference, before it costs more than money: Predatory conferences - part one
Event sponsorship remains one of the most direct ways to put a brand in front of a genuinely engaged audience. A place for a credible and trusted brand to connect and engage beyond what still today remains the most effective form of outreac...
The connective tissue of research: why metadata and descriptors matter more than ever
Scientific progress depends on trust: trust that the questions being explored matter, that research is conducted ethically and rigorously, that methods are appropriate and transparently reported, that findings are presented without bias, an...
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Transpontine serial dabbler
Scientist, feminist, cold water swimmer, SEN advocate, passionate about making change happen
An STM publisher with a track record in developing and implementing change to improve productivity and performance. Have held senior leadership positions with Informa and Future Science Group. Phil is Co-Founder & CEO of Becaris Publishing.
Lou Peck, CEO, The International Bunch, is a key voice in marketing, accessibility, and schol comms. Immersed in the research ecosystem since 2000, she’s an ADHD advocate and speaker known for challenging norms and pushing meaningful impact.
Head of Open Science @ CERN
Currently focused on personal projects. I co-founded Overleaf, which I led as CEO for almost a decade before moving into a broader role at Digital Science. I’ve also worked on driverless taxis (Heathrow Pod) and have a PhD in Mathematical Physics.
Open infrastructure, open source, publishing tech, international policy and diamond open access, I am Strategic Advisor to Public Knowledge Project, Co-Chair of the Assembly of the Commons for OPERAS, and owns the strategic consultancy HSK Agency Ltd
Research Consultant with expertise in science policy and scholarly publishing.
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