Alice Fleerackers (she/her)

📣 📣 📣 The deadline for call for proposals for the 2027 @pcstnetwork.bsky.social conference is coming up! 📣 📣 📣 We welcome submissions from #scicomm scholars, practitioners, trainers, artists—anyone working to bridge science and society. Submit before Oct 19: www.pcst2027.com/pdfs/PCST202...

Friendly (but VERY SERIOUS) reminder from your President, VP and Treasurer at @pcstnetwork.bsky.social: Submit your abstracts for #PCST2027 by Monday, October 19 (yes, that's in 3 days!) www.pcst2027.com#/ With love, Alice, Fabien & Alexandra 💚

It was great to be part of this #ECSJ2026 panel, especially getting to share research by my MA students Wouter Van Houting & Lucas Verhoeven—not just my own. Students do such important theses, but they never reach the journalists whose work they study. Thands Lucas & Wouter for letting me share!

Happy #openscience week! Join me tonight for this important conversation about inequities, open science, and the global scholarly publishing landscape

How do science journalists amplify existing inequities in academia? And what can they do to counteract them? Join me for this free public event on #openscience and global inequities on sep 15 at @uva.nl (Roeterseiland). studentinitiativeopenscience.wordpress.com/2026/09/01/n... #scicomm #DEI

1/ In 2024, I filed a false claims act lawsuit against Elsevier, Springer, Wiley & Informa alleging they systematically overcharged US federal grants for article processing. The gov declined to intervene and now it's public. Some thoughts on what this is, and what it isn't:

Very excited about this new study! Through interviews with staff managing moderation at 10+ preprint surveys, we peel back the layers on who gets to contribute via preprints—and what gets considered "legitimate" science. #openscience #preprints

Just a couple more weeks to fill in our survey! If you are a journalist covering science-related topics (even just occasionally) we'd love to hear from you. No knowledge or experience with (open) peer review required! All perspectives welcome.

Such a pleasure to speak with INCT-CPCT about our latest research on how journalists can hold science to account in an age of research fraud, data fabrication, unethical AI use, and more. Check out the video (with Portuguese subs!) below 👇 Study with @hermida.bsky.social An Nguyen & Ivan Oransky

Watchdog science journalism "has arguably never been more important, but also never more under threat." That's from a just-published paper by @fleerackers.bsky.social, An Nguyen, Alfred Hermida, and our Ivan Oransky.

@fleerackers.bsky.social and her colleagues are studying how open peer review can help science journalists in their work. If you are a journalist who covers science, health, or environmental issues you can help by completing their 5-minute survey here: uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Just out! Our paper on watchdog science journalism examines how journalists hold researchers to account in a world of fraud, plagiarism, paper mills, problematic GenAI use and more. Check out the article (open access) at the link below 👇👇👇 #scicomm #journalism

We are studying how open peer review can help science journalists in their work. If you cover health, science, or environmental issues (even occasionally) we invite you to complete this 5-minute survey: uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please share widely! It's available in 10 languages 🌍💚📊

Are you a journalist who covers science, health, or environmental issues? We want to hear from you! We are researching how open peer review can help science journalists in their work. We invite you to complete our 5-minute survey here: uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We are studying how open peer review can help science journalists in their work. If you cover health, science, or environmental issues (even occasionally) we invite you to complete this 5-minute survey: uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please share widely! It's available in 10 languages 🌍💚📊

"Astrology makes you feel like everything’s okay, that you are in the right place in the right time" Almost 10 years ago, I wrote a story on the role of horoscopes in our lives. If you share my shameless love of astrology, you can now check out the piece online here: www.sadmag.ca/blog/2026/5/...

Pleasure to share our research on public desire to learn about preliminary science at #FOR2026 Check out the slides: www.canva.com/design/DAHH2... #openscience #scicomm #scholcomm

Preprint Moderators "Moderation is neither a neutral checkpoint nor a simplified version of peer review, but a site where epistemic and institutional judgments converge in shaping what becomes admissible as early-stage scientific communication" doi.org/10.31222/osf...

Journalists can’t control the narratives others spin from their stories, but they can ensure their reporting provides an accurate picture of the issue at hand. A guide from @cathleenogrady.bsky.social, with @richvn.bsky.social, @manuelansede.bsky.social, @fleerackers.bsky.social and others. 🧪

Home is not just a place, it is also a process. In my latest for @nautil.us, I dig into the psychology of one of our most basic needs: feeling at home. What does "home" really mean? How do we build that sense of belonging? And how does it impact our wellbeing? Read it: nautil.us/home-really-...

Pleasure to be a part of this important story — a must read for critical science journalists.

Call for presentations: If you're planning to be at #ICA2026 and are interested in #scicomm, please join us for this exciting preconference! Details below 👇👇👇

Only a week to go before our webinar on "watchdog science journalism"! Will we see you there?

Come join us for a discussion of how science journalists can act as watchdogs of the research sphere! #scicomm #journalism

Such a pleasure to speak with INCT-CPCT about our recent research on how science journalists navigate predatory publishing study w/ @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca & @lauramoorhead.bsky.social available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🗣️Join our colleagues @loubezuidenhout.bsky.social & @kathleen-gregory.bsky.social for an 'unconferenced style' workshop on strengthening #OpenScience against geopolitical pressures. 📅Thursday 6 November 2025 09:00-18:30 (CET) 📌Leiden NL (in person only) 👉 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Great opportunity to work with a vibrant and international team, and to make a difference for #openscience and public knowledge.

If you're in Amsterdam and interested in digital media (or just want to leave your house on Monday), come say hi at this FREE event. @markdeuze.bsky.social , Toni Pape & I will be talking about the weird and sometimes wonderful nature of living life online. voxpop.uva.nl/en/content/e...

🐕 🐕 🐕 REMINDER 🐕 🐕 🐕 The deadline to submit an abstract to our special issue on "Journalism as a Science Watchdog" is just a couple of weeks away (October 15). We are really looking forward to reading your submissions!

Interested in researching how journalists experience and grapple with emotions? And how nature retreats might help them better manage the impacts of covering evolving crises? Come work at the @uvahumanities.bsky.social with the wonderful @johana.bsky.social 👇👇👇

Reflecting on this thread, I am laughing at the extreme irony of the glaring capitalization error in the title of our paper 😂 Definitely a sign our research is not to be trusted.

Grateful to see our work on Watchdog Science Journalism featured in @epstoa.bsky.social Reminder if you're a researcher interested in this space, our special issue for Media and Communication is accepting submissions till October 1! www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...