I've written up my thoughts on last weeks brilliant #FORCE2026 @force11.bsky.social conference in Singapore.
FORCE at 15: The Jagged Frontier of Scholarly Communication Reaches Asia open.substack.com/pub/scedmund...
Closing keynote @ginnybarbour.bsky.social on the state of scholarly publishing and how to affect change. #FORCE2026
Cool to hear Ginny Barbour’s origin story with a “tale of 3 journals” in her #FORCE2026 keynote. Hearing about her time (and the journal history) at Lancet, PLOS Medicine, and the Medical Journal of Australia
Sean Mooney now talking at #FORCE2026 about Reusable, Interoperable, Scalable digital ecosystems for AI-driven biomedicine. Speaking with his experience as the first scientist to Direct the NIH Centre for IT
Contrasting FAIR data, Ginny Barbour introducing us to the concept of BADDR data - relating to negative discourse for First Nations people.
Blaming data
Aggregating data
Decontextualising data
Deficit, government priority data
Restricted Access data
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That went fast. Closing #FORCE2026 remarks now from conference host and co-Chair Bella Ratmelia from SMU. Seeing myself from the organising committee, Bella and the local team did an incredible job. It really felt a like lot of the original "Beyond the PDF" spirit and energy finally made it to Asia
Day 2 of #FORCE2026 ending with a panel on recognising research data in tenure and promotion. @kristiholmes.bsky.social starting off talking about @makedatacount.bsky.social and IDEA (Institutional Data Evaluation and Assessment)
Jinny saying medical journals need to tell uncomfortable stories. Examples of Editorials from MJA on the inhuman treatment of asylum seekers, how they’ve handled indigenous health (when it was historically a settler journal) with series handled by indigenous guest editors #FORCE2026
#FORCE2026 may be over, but the collocated #DataCiteConnect2026 workshop is now kicking off to discuss all things @datacite.org
Up now at #FORCE2026 Susanna Sansone is presenting the TIER2 interventional study looking at journal policy checklists and developing a handbook. It was great to participate in this for @gigascience.bsky.social
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When the FORCE11 manifesto predicted the Future of Research Communication in 2011, the 15th Anniversary FORCE meeting in Singapore has been great to look back at how many predictions came true.
