Guardians 2026 Program
Guardians | Speakers | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022
The BHAVI 2026 October Symposium with title Guardians 2026 Conference will be held as our first hybrid meeting 10:00 - 18:00 BST (British Summer Time, UTC+1) on Friday October 9 at Newcastle University in England. Guardians 2026 remains open to the public in our series of annual Guardians of Truth and Integrity Conferences. There are no registration fees charged for attendance at this symposium held this year both onsite in Newcastle for physical attendees and online via Zoom live stream for virtual attendees at us06web.zoom.us/j/87631631806. Onsite attendees are required to register, while online attendees are encouraged to register. For authors who wish to present their research, the Call for Reports provides information and links to instructions for submission of reports.
2026 Guardian
At Guardians 2026, we honor Sen. Mark Kelly as our 2026 Guardian of Truth and Integrity.
- 2026 Guardian: Mark Kelly
- 2025 Guardian: Alan Garber
- 2024 Guardian: Peter Ash
- 2023 Guardian: Anthony Fauci
- 2022 Guardian: Peter Wilmshurst
Invited Speakers
Conference Program
The annual October 9 workshops ask the question
Who are the Guardians of Truth and Integrity?
and discuss the use of mis-information, dis-information, anti-information, caco-information, and mal-information
(Truth in Science by Taswell et al 2021,
DOI 10.48085/M85EC99EE)
which now impacts the quality of reports published in science, engineering, and medicine.
The focus themes calling for civility, courtesy, tolerance, and respect with
people talking to people at Guardians 2024
and
scholars listening to scholars at Guardians 2025
will be continued this year for Guardians 2026 with the
reminder that We're Still Here
as performed eloquently by
Native American LoFi-N-Chill
in defense of survival, memory, and unbroken lineage
.
The general theme for technical report submissions by authors who wish to contribute to our annual Guardians conferences series remains reproducibility, validity, and integrity when conducting and communicating research while avoiding common fallacies and pitfalls in the relevant research field. Times listed in the program schedule are BST (Newcastle time in England). This program will be updated next with announcement of our invited speakers in August. Technical talks will not be announced until after review of submssions in September.
Guardians 2026 Opening Session
Technical Talks
2026 Guardian Award
- BHAVI Awards Committee: Honoring our BHAVI 2026 Guardian: Mark Kelly
Invited Talks
Guardians 2026 Closing Session
Background References
- A. Craig et al 2019: DREAM Principles and FAIR Metrics from the PORTAL-DOORS Project for the Semantic Web, DOI 10.1109/ECAI46879.2019.9042003
- S. K. Taswell et al 2020: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Scholarly Research Integrity, DOI 10.1002/pra2.223
- A. Athreya et al 2020: The Essential Enquiry 'Equal or Equivalent Entities?' About Two Things as Same, Similar, Related, or Different, DOI 10.48085/PEDADC885
- S. K. Taswell et al 2021: Truth in Science, DOI 10.48085/M85EC99EE
- A. Craig et al 2022: Motivating and Maintaining Ethics, Equity, Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Expertise in Peer Review, DOI 10.48085/I5B147D9D
- C. Taswell 2022: Epistemic Injustice, Open Access, and Citational Justice, DOI 10.48085/X3B678B7A
- C. Taswell 2023: Reproducibility, Validity, and Integrity in Scholarly Research: What Accountability for Willful Disregard?, DOI 10.48085/L3570F30F
- A. Craig et al 2025: From the 'Best of Our Knowledge' to the 'Best Available Knowledge', DOI 10.48085/U90B95F7E
For authors who wish to present their research at Guardians 2026, the Call for Reports provides information and links to instructions for submission of reports.