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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 3d

Cool stuff dude, 🎉 congrats!

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 4d

It's official now I guess?

Veli-Matti Karhulahti @mkarhulahti.bsky.social · 4d

European Commission's formal analysis of TikTok has concluded today & finds it to represent 'addictive design'

--great that someone is doing this work but would really appreciate some transparency in the process so that experts (like myself) could understand

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

ec.europa.eu

Veli-Matti Karhulahti @mkarhulahti.bsky.social · 4d

European Commission's formal analysis of TikTok has concluded today & finds it to represent 'addictive design'

--great that someone is doing this work but would really appreciate some transparency in the process so that experts (like myself) could understand

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

ec.europa.eu

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 4d

Yeah this is very concerning. Ultimately it's not "AI" but assholes misusing tools, though splitting hairs like this may not be useful in practice. (But publishing such negative reviews & decisions about people submitting crap might be.)

Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 4d

Is AI killing publishing reform? Important post by Ulrike Hahn about #scholarlyPublishing. (write.as/ulrikehahn/i...)

I've had the same thought, that the flood of LLM-written junk and fraudulent manuscripts being submitted to journals means that

Is AI killing scientific reform?

Recently I tried to post a pre-print on arXiv about what might be going wrong in debate about reasoning in LLMs. arXiv seemed a relevant ...

write.as

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 4d

This is my experience too. Which is why I find absolutist positions like osf.io/dkrgj_v1 so surprising ("Ultimately, contemporary AI is research misconduct."). Sure yeah don't let an LLM come up with your theory but there's many good useful applications too.

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 5d

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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 5d

Love that my gmail automatically classifies Google's gemini ads as spam

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 5d

What a great paper! Thanks for pointing it out.

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 6d

Did you complete the form here blog.psyarxiv.com/about-psyarx... ?

LMK and I can try to see what has happened

Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 6d

Can anyone suggest a good guides for using lab notebooks? (Like the traditional pen and paper bench scientist ones, not computational). Like I want to know what you're expected to write down, how you capture and transform the really important stuff, how you refer back to them etc etc

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 6d

Are you kidding me!? lol

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 6d

I have gotten a positive response to 1 (one) data request out of maybe half a dozen I've sent in the past ~5 years.

Michèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote a blog for the Meta-Research Center expressing my infinite frustration about not getting data. What else is new, you might think? Well, I added an extra layer of annoyance directed at the journals who do NOTHING to enforce promised data sharing.

metaresearch.nl/blog/2026/2/...

Promised Data Unavailable? – I’m Sorry, Ma’am, There’s Nothing We Can Do — Meta-Research Center

This blogpost has been written by Michèle Nuijten. Michèle is an assistant professor of our research group who investigates reproducibility and replicability in psychology. Also, she is the developer ...

metaresearch.nl

Michèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote a blog for the Meta-Research Center expressing my infinite frustration about not getting data. What else is new, you might think? Well, I added an extra layer of annoyance directed at the journals who do NOTHING to enforce promised data sharing.

metaresearch.nl/blog/2026/2/...

Promised Data Unavailable? – I’m Sorry, Ma’am, There’s Nothing We Can Do — Meta-Research Center

This blogpost has been written by Michèle Nuijten. Michèle is an assistant professor of our research group who investigates reproducibility and replicability in psychology. Also, she is the developer ...

metaresearch.nl

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 6d

Shocking. The argument is so simple but surprising at the same time. I would never have thought about this in practice. Another reason why we should be very careful when operating under "previously established protocols".

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 7d

Meta Psychology
PCI psychology

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 7d

I'll be there & look forward to meeting folks & interesting talks on scientific publishing

Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 7d

All set for New Horizons 💎 #OpenAccess in Nijmegen! Thank you to the organisers for the opportunity to speak on the Strain, Stain, & Drain of scientific publishing.

Looking forward to great conversations on moving #ScientificPublishing forward!

bit.ly/StrainQSS
www.horizondiamond.nl#schedule

The Drain of Scientific Publishing
Fernanda Beigel, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto, Gemma Derrick, Aileen Fyfe, Pablo Gomez Barreiro, Mark A. Hanson, Stefanie Haustein, Vincent Larivière, Christine Noe, Stephen Pinfield, James Wilsdon
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and Universities, to lead the drive to re-communalise publishing to serve science not the market.
Comments: 1 Figure, 1 Table, 1 Supplementary Table
Subjects: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
Cite as: arXiv:2511.04820 [cs.DL]
(or arXiv:2511.04820v2 [cs.DL] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.04820
Focus to learn more
Submission history
From: Dan Brockington [view email]
[v1] Thu, 6 Nov 2025 21:20:22 UTC (2,101 KB)
[v2] Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:05:17 UTC (2,113 KB)

The Issue with Special Issues: when Guest Editors
Publish in Support of Self
Paolo Crosetto1*, Pablo Gómez Barreiro2
, Mark Austin Hanson3*
1. Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, CNRS, Grenoble INP, GAEL; Grenoble, France
2. Department of Science Operations, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Wakehurst, UK
3. Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter; Penryn, Cornwall, UK
* corresponding authors – PC: paolo.crosetto@inrae.fr, MAH: m.hanson@exeter.ac.uk
Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)
PC: 0000-0002-9153-0159
PGB: 0000-0002-3140-3326
MAH: 0000-0002-6125-3672

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 7d

Interesting thread on data privacy and (mis)use.

Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 8d

Fast forward 10 years and this example is no longer hypothetical: www.nytimes.com/2026....

5/10

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’
The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people.

Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 7d

All set for New Horizons 💎 #OpenAccess in Nijmegen! Thank you to the organisers for the opportunity to speak on the Strain, Stain, & Drain of scientific publishing.

Looking forward to great conversations on moving #ScientificPublishing forward!

bit.ly/StrainQSS
www.horizondiamond.nl#schedule

Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 8d

Fast forward 10 years and this example is no longer hypothetical: www.nytimes.com/2026....

5/10

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 12d

Zotero 8 is out (www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/). If you're not already using, highly recommended!

Zotero Blog » Blog Archive » Zotero 8

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

www.zotero.org

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 12d

Cool! But who the hell are they to decide what you put in the abstract of your paper? If the paper is 'accepted' and I want my abstract to be nothing but the poop emoji then my abstract should be the poop emoji.

Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 12d

The annals of Elsevier villainy are extensive, but perhaps their funniest gambit was when they started six "Australasian" fake journals that were really just sponsored publications for pharmaceutical companies, set up to launder their marketing as ostensibly peer-reviewed research.

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 12d

See that's what I'm talking about. No one is going to lose a whole satellite!

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 12d

I like zulip, it's free for academics and I think also can be self hosted
zulip.com/plans/

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 12d

This is the dumbest thing.

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 12d

Okay fuck it everyone stop using the MMSE this is so dumb.

Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 13d

I hate this: "The Editors have retracted this article... the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) instrument was used without proper permissions" link.springer.com/article/10.1... The MMSE is a series of 11 simple questions. A perfectly good paper is retracted because you can copyright 11 questions

Retraction Note: Cognitive function assessed by Mini-mental state examination and risk of all-cause mortality: a community-based prospective cohort study - BMC Geriatrics

BMC Geriatrics -

link.springer.com

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 12d

Isn't the joke more "never anova unless you're very far from the edges"? 😉

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