Experimental & Behavioural economist INRAE Grenoble • Former President French Association of Experimental Economists • Scientific publishing measurement & reform • Experiments on food labeling - risk - choices • Rstats • Italian Food Police honorary member .. more
Experimental & Behavioural economist INRAE Grenoble • Former President French Association of Experimental Economists • Scientific publishing measurement & reform • Experiments on food labeling - risk - choices • Rstats • Italian Food Police honorary member
Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this?
Background readings:
Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy
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Recognizing 8 of 80+ expert peer reviewers for outstanding public evaluation work. $6,500 in prizes.
→ info.unjournal.org/evaluator-prizes-2024-25 🧵
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#horizondiamond2026
www.horizondiamond.nl
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Few topics have garnered more debate and policy attention over the last few years. This article brings us up to speed on the debate and the current answers.
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
paolocrosetto.github.io
It also contains one of the few resources online for problem sets solutions for the (in)famously hard Mas-Colell, Winston and Greene economics boot camp manual.
Enjoy!
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For those on Bluesky lets use this tag: #horizondiamond2026
www.horizondiamond.nl
Were approaching a full house, but last-minute sign ups are welcomed.
#publishing #science #research
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![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]
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Looking forward to great conversations on moving #ScientificPublishing forward!
bit.ly/StrainQSS
www.horizondiamond.nl#schedule
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english.elpais.com/science-tech...
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✍️ @georgealfredcurrie.bsky.social & Damian Pattinson
#PeerReview #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing
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@infobeautjful’s wonderful visualization of two methods—the Drake and the Seager equations— to estimate the chances we are not alone, and there is other intelligent life in the universe (set your own parameters!):
buff.ly/oFpVdb7
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I review all of the studies and data that I can find and try to provide a synthesis.
A disagreement emerges: micro studies find positive benefits but these benefits are yet to show up in the macro data.
aleximas.substack.com/p/what-is-th... 🧵
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Good talks, plenty of discussion, & we got lucky with the weather. It snowed all day yesterday, but today the ☀️ came out to shine on the white slopes.
Info: sites.google.com/view/winterw...
Matches my perception well: Nobody in psych bothers to (explicitly) try causal inference unless they conducted an experiment, not a lot of theoretical work either.
In my experience even in behavioral economics -- that is closer to psych in themes and sometimes in methods -- the gap is very wide.
#EconSky
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Further details: statisticsglobe.com/online-cours...
#visualanalytics #package #rstudio #tidyverse #statistics #datavisualization #ggplot2 #datasciencecourse
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Matches my perception well: Nobody in psych bothers to (explicitly) try causal inference unless they conducted an experiment, not a lot of theoretical work either.
github.com/klatexformul...
Also, in TexStudio when I hover on a formula it renders it immediately in a tooltip and I can copypaste it anywhere.
So not really a new thing.
Only a change in the overall incentives in scientific publishing can fix this.
Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy
It *can* be used to make science better. It *will* be used to produce tons of crap.
What a time to be alive
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