Scholarly publishing is changing. New platforms and models—from modular “micropublications” to community-owned infrastructure—are challenging traditional modes of publication and raising new questions about ownership, equity, and sustainability. This panel brings together leading scholars and publishing technologists to share how these changes might transform research creation, dissemination, and evaluation.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
12–1 p.m. (Eastern)
After a career in science and natural history documentary-making, Alex returned to academia to lead a centre for Evidence Communication. This meant that the problems with the current scholarly publishing system stood out to her, and she set up Octopus as a result, gaining funding from the UK’s government research funder. It has now been running for several years and has thousands of users around the world.
Adam Hyde is a publishing-tech entrepreneur and open-source advocate who has founded multiple pioneering initiatives, including the Coko Foundation and the Book Sprints methodology. He has led the development of platforms such as Ketty, Pagedjs, Wax, and Kotahi, and he is currently building pure.science, a venture focused on AI-powered orchestration for research and publishing workflows. His work blends technical innovation, collaborative design, and a long-standing commitment to knowledge infrastructure
Dr. Trueblood's research advances our understanding of how people make decisions when faced with multiple, complex alternatives and options involving different risks and rewards. She has not only contributed to the basic science of human decision-making but has also made significant advances in applied domains, including medical image decision-making, consumer behavior, and financial decision-making. Her research has been recognized by numerous national and international awards, including the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences. She is also interested in the practices of science and was a co-organizer of the special feature ‘Dialogues About the Practice of Science’ in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. As part of the special feature, she led a paper on "The Misalignment of Incentives in Academic Publishing and Implications for Journal Reform”. She is also a Study Group Member of the Stockholm Declaration on the Reformation of Science Publishing, organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Nate is a medievalist and digital historian whose research investigates how cross-cultural encounters influenced the textual memory of Christian pilgrimage. As program manager at the IAS, he supports faculty and graduate students in developing competency in new digital methodologies and born-digital research projects.