Scholarly Futures
An exploratory project to debate the uncertain future of scholarly communication, research practices, and academic publishing amid accelerating change.
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- Sep 8, 2026
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Back to school (opens the original)
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Scholarly Futures is back after our summer break and straight into conference season - look out for us at ALPSP and the Frankfurt Book Fair. Our first official post will be soon and we will be moving to a regular monthly slot interspersed with Guest Writers (some new and some familiar).Please keep us posted on any ideas you’d love us to cover and get in touch if you’re interested in writing!Welcome back everyone and see you in Manchester!Sarah and Jon<div clas
Frontier models, transparency and trust; a new golden age in research…for some? (opens the original)
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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 conjecture (a longstanding open problem in mathematics)…during the World Cup Final no less! Levent has a PhD in
Summer Holiday 2026 (opens the original)
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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 place to share all the things we ended up chatting about between ourselves and in our first year we have exceeded our expectations.Thank you to all our Guest Writers for stepping in during recent months to provide content and to you, our community, for encour
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