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The April–June 2026 issue of REACH is now live! 🎉 🔗 www.sci-integrity.com/reach Our special coverage takes you inside the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity in Vancouver, where 700+ people from 57 countries met to confront the forces reshaping how science is done and trusted. 🧵 1/7

There’s more inside this issue: 🔎 Chronicles: how a chance discovery led MA Oviedo-García to uncover more than 80 review mills, the coordinated networks that exploit peer review through coercive citations. 2/7

🎙️ Voices: Leslie McIntosh on paper mills, automated screening, and why research integrity and research security are converging. 3/7

🤖 SIA Special Report, Part II: AI Stress Points in Scholarly Publishing moves beyond the editorial office, from retractions that language models miss to AI agents posing as peer reviewers. 4/7

🔬 RE: CHECK: New Evidence on Reproducibility Across the Social and Behavioral Sciences, weighing what recent large-scale studies can tell us about whether published results hold up. 5/7

🤝 Partner Focus: Ivan Oransky of the Center for Scientific Integrity on keeping watch on the scientific record. …plus what’s trending across the research community, and more. 6/7