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STM Association's *Publishing Decoded* is an open educational hub explaining how scholarly publishing works and is useful for anyone interested in the industry.
stm-assoc.org/stm-launches...
#ResearchIntegrity #ScholarlyPublishing #PublicTrust
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#ResearchIntegrity #ScholarlyPublishing #PublicTrust
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
STM Association's *Publishing Decoded* is an open educational hub explaining how scholarly publishing works and is useful for anyone interested in the industry.
stm-assoc.org/stm-launches...
#ResearchIntegrity #ScholarlyPublishing #PublicTrust
stm-assoc.org/stm-launches...
#ResearchIntegrity #ScholarlyPublishing #PublicTrust
Reproducibility failure persists in biomedical research despite a decade of awareness. Promoting and celebrating methodological rigor is the answer, I think.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#ResearchIntegrity #Reproducibility #OpenScience
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#ResearchIntegrity #Reproducibility #OpenScience
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Reproducibility failure persists in biomedical research despite a decade of awareness. Promoting and celebrating methodological rigor is the answer, I think.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#ResearchIntegrity #Reproducibility #OpenScience
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#ResearchIntegrity #Reproducibility #OpenScience
AI is a clear double-edged sword on image manipulation, as you can imagine. But until the "good" AI gets to be really good, human oversight is essential.
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/30/w...
#ResearchIntegrity #ImageIntegrity #AIforScience
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/30/w...
#ResearchIntegrity #ImageIntegrity #AIforScience
November 8, 2025 at 3:04 AM
AI is a clear double-edged sword on image manipulation, as you can imagine. But until the "good" AI gets to be really good, human oversight is essential.
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/30/w...
#ResearchIntegrity #ImageIntegrity #AIforScience
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/30/w...
#ResearchIntegrity #ImageIntegrity #AIforScience
New study: MRI can now caption your thoughts into sentences.
Medical use case: restoring communication.
Sci-fi fan reaction: Stephenson and Gibson were right.
2045 reality: ordering pizza with my brain, probably. 😁😂
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#AIethics #NeuroAI #ResponsibleAI
Medical use case: restoring communication.
Sci-fi fan reaction: Stephenson and Gibson were right.
2045 reality: ordering pizza with my brain, probably. 😁😂
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#AIethics #NeuroAI #ResponsibleAI
‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text
A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
New study: MRI can now caption your thoughts into sentences.
Medical use case: restoring communication.
Sci-fi fan reaction: Stephenson and Gibson were right.
2045 reality: ordering pizza with my brain, probably. 😁😂
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#AIethics #NeuroAI #ResponsibleAI
Medical use case: restoring communication.
Sci-fi fan reaction: Stephenson and Gibson were right.
2045 reality: ordering pizza with my brain, probably. 😁😂
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#AIethics #NeuroAI #ResponsibleAI
AI assistants are becoming the first readers of scholarly content, reshaping discovery itself. The question isn't whether AI can assist—but what stays human in the process.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/06/g...
#ResponsibleAI #ScholarlyPublishing #AIethics
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/06/g...
#ResponsibleAI #ScholarlyPublishing #AIethics
Guest Post — AI as Reader, Author, and Reviewer: What Stays Human? - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest blogger shares highlights from a recent panel at the New Directions Seminar that concluded AI is simultaneously the largest challenge and the largest opportunity.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
AI assistants are becoming the first readers of scholarly content, reshaping discovery itself. The question isn't whether AI can assist—but what stays human in the process.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/06/g...
#ResponsibleAI #ScholarlyPublishing #AIethics
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/06/g...
#ResponsibleAI #ScholarlyPublishing #AIethics
EDP Sciences has updated its AI & Ethics policy. Hope other publishers and societies follow suit. A key point: it reiterates that peer review has to remain a human-led process.
www.edpsciences.org/en/news-high...
#ResponsibleAI #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity
www.edpsciences.org/en/news-high...
#ResponsibleAI #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity
EDP Sciences - EDP Sciences updates its policy on AI and ethics
EDP Sciences Publishing partner of the scientific communities
www.edpsciences.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
EDP Sciences has updated its AI & Ethics policy. Hope other publishers and societies follow suit. A key point: it reiterates that peer review has to remain a human-led process.
www.edpsciences.org/en/news-high...
#ResponsibleAI #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity
www.edpsciences.org/en/news-high...
#ResponsibleAI #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity
"All sorts of persons, and every individual, has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some respects, whether he chooses to be so or not." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/31/h...
www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/31/h...
November 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
"All sorts of persons, and every individual, has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some respects, whether he chooses to be so or not." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/31/h...
www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/31/h...
AI’s tendency to agree with users—“sycophancy”—can we extremely detrimental in science. . It distorts reasoning and undermines critique. Publisher AI tools must be designed such that this tendency is minimized.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#ResponsibleAI #ResearchIntegrity #PeerReview
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#ResponsibleAI #ResearchIntegrity #PeerReview
AI chatbots are sycophants — researchers say it’s harming science
Nature asked researchers who use artificial intelligence how its propensity for people-pleasing affects their work — and what they are doing to mitigate it.
www.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
AI’s tendency to agree with users—“sycophancy”—can we extremely detrimental in science. . It distorts reasoning and undermines critique. Publisher AI tools must be designed such that this tendency is minimized.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#ResponsibleAI #ResearchIntegrity #PeerReview
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#ResponsibleAI #ResearchIntegrity #PeerReview
GScholarLens adds a “Scholar h-index” that weights first & last authors more heavily. This is interesting but not a solution for preventing authorship manipulation. I'm fully behind contribution statements & CRediT taxonomy.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#ResearchIntegrity #Authorship #Metrics
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#ResearchIntegrity #Authorship #Metrics
Google Scholar-based tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
www.nature.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
GScholarLens adds a “Scholar h-index” that weights first & last authors more heavily. This is interesting but not a solution for preventing authorship manipulation. I'm fully behind contribution statements & CRediT taxonomy.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#ResearchIntegrity #Authorship #Metrics
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#ResearchIntegrity #Authorship #Metrics
“Free isn’t enough.” Public trust in science depends on transparency of process. Initiatives like the "Policy Pak" from Science enable this. Let's be inspired to make "openness" not only about access but also about communication.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/23/g...
#OpenScience
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/23/g...
#OpenScience
Guest Post — Replacing Public Doubt with Public Confidence: Experiments in Building Trust at Science - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest post is by Meagan Phelan of AAAS, who asks: If more research is openly available than ever before, and open is framed as a way to build trust, why isn’t public trust in science at an…
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November 1, 2025 at 3:04 AM
“Free isn’t enough.” Public trust in science depends on transparency of process. Initiatives like the "Policy Pak" from Science enable this. Let's be inspired to make "openness" not only about access but also about communication.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/23/g...
#OpenScience
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/23/g...
#OpenScience
Cureus has been “editorially de-listed” from Web of Science, losing its impact factor after 13 months on hold.
Indexers wield major influence but little transparency—publishers need clearer integrity audits and communication standards.
newsletter.journalology.com/p/cureus-los...
Indexers wield major influence but little transparency—publishers need clearer integrity audits and communication standards.
newsletter.journalology.com/p/cureus-los...
Cureus loses its impact factor
Web of Science announces "Editorial De-listing"
newsletter.journalology.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Cureus has been “editorially de-listed” from Web of Science, losing its impact factor after 13 months on hold.
Indexers wield major influence but little transparency—publishers need clearer integrity audits and communication standards.
newsletter.journalology.com/p/cureus-los...
Indexers wield major influence but little transparency—publishers need clearer integrity audits and communication standards.
newsletter.journalology.com/p/cureus-los...
I have never been more compelled to buy merchandise, but then it from The Marginalian!
The Search for Meaning Cast in Clay: 19 Years of The Marginalian in 19 Ceramic Sentences www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/23/c...
The Search for Meaning Cast in Clay: 19 Years of The Marginalian in 19 Ceramic Sentences www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/23/c...
The Search for Meaning Cast in Clay: 19 Years of The Marginalian in 19 Ceramic Sentences
The Marginalian was born on October 23, 2006 as a kind of field notebook on my expedition through the wilderness of life, searching for signposts. We live in a decimal world that loves the round an…
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October 24, 2025 at 5:39 AM
I have never been more compelled to buy merchandise, but then it from The Marginalian!
The Search for Meaning Cast in Clay: 19 Years of The Marginalian in 19 Ceramic Sentences www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/23/c...
The Search for Meaning Cast in Clay: 19 Years of The Marginalian in 19 Ceramic Sentences www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/23/c...
Claude Skills > MCP? Simon Willison makes a compelling case.
Claude Skills are token-efficient and simple (Markdown + scripts), turns Claude into a smart agent.
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...
#AI #ClaudeAI
Claude Skills are token-efficient and simple (Markdown + scripts), turns Claude into a smart agent.
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...
#AI #ClaudeAI
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …
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October 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Claude Skills > MCP? Simon Willison makes a compelling case.
Claude Skills are token-efficient and simple (Markdown + scripts), turns Claude into a smart agent.
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...
#AI #ClaudeAI
Claude Skills are token-efficient and simple (Markdown + scripts), turns Claude into a smart agent.
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...
#AI #ClaudeAI
European research grant applications surged in 2025. MSCA success rates below 10%, ERC grants at 8-12%.
Not "too" competitive—just funding funneling away from the US due to budget cuts and instability.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#Research #SciencePolicy
Not "too" competitive—just funding funneling away from the US due to budget cuts and instability.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#Research #SciencePolicy
Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.
www.nature.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
European research grant applications surged in 2025. MSCA success rates below 10%, ERC grants at 8-12%.
Not "too" competitive—just funding funneling away from the US due to budget cuts and instability.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#Research #SciencePolicy
Not "too" competitive—just funding funneling away from the US due to budget cuts and instability.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#Research #SciencePolicy
Ethan Mollick's late 2025 AI guide: Use Pro models for fewer hallucinations. Choose model/mode deliberately. Prompt engineering matters less now. Also paid versions opt out of data training.
www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinion...
www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinion...
An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now
What AI to use in late 2025
www.oneusefulthing.org
October 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Ethan Mollick's late 2025 AI guide: Use Pro models for fewer hallucinations. Choose model/mode deliberately. Prompt engineering matters less now. Also paid versions opt out of data training.
www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinion...
www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinion...
This piece from Maria Popova's "The Marginalian" resonates with the spirit of Diwali. May it bring more light into your lives!
🪔 🪔 🪔
How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself
www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/13/p...
🪔 🪔 🪔
How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself
www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/13/p...
How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself
Life is an ongoing expedition into the brambled tendrilled wilderness of ourselves, continually stymied by all we mistake for a final destination — success, superhuman strength, the love of a…
www.themarginalian.org
October 20, 2025 at 4:27 AM
This piece from Maria Popova's "The Marginalian" resonates with the spirit of Diwali. May it bring more light into your lives!
🪔 🪔 🪔
How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself
www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/13/p...
🪔 🪔 🪔
How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself
www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/13/p...
The evolving nature of AI has question the relevance of our roles/workflows. There needs to be a role shift: we should be supervising AI and validating its results.
‘Am I redundant?’: how AI changed my career in bioinformatics www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Am I redundant?’: how AI changed my career in bioinformatics www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Am I redundant?’: how AI changed my career in bioinformatics
A run-in with some artefact-laden AI-generated analyses convinced Lei Zhu that machine learning wasn’t making his role irrelevant, but more important than ever.
www.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The evolving nature of AI has question the relevance of our roles/workflows. There needs to be a role shift: we should be supervising AI and validating its results.
‘Am I redundant?’: how AI changed my career in bioinformatics www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Am I redundant?’: how AI changed my career in bioinformatics www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Agents4Science 2025 starts next week — a conference where all papers and reviews were created by AI.
Stanford AI researchers are behind this experiment in fully automated scholarship.
Nature coverage: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Conference: agents4science.stanford.edu
#AI #AIinScience
Stanford AI researchers are behind this experiment in fully automated scholarship.
Nature coverage: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Conference: agents4science.stanford.edu
#AI #AIinScience
AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference
Event will assess how reviews by models compare with those written by humans.
www.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Agents4Science 2025 starts next week — a conference where all papers and reviews were created by AI.
Stanford AI researchers are behind this experiment in fully automated scholarship.
Nature coverage: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Conference: agents4science.stanford.edu
#AI #AIinScience
Stanford AI researchers are behind this experiment in fully automated scholarship.
Nature coverage: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Conference: agents4science.stanford.edu
#AI #AIinScience
Great overview of how ChatGPT and LLMs are changing scholarly research. Beyond literature reviews, GenAI is already reshaping peer review and research integrity. The next frontier? Society engaging with research through AI agents. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/13/t...
#AI #GenAI
#AI #GenAI
Three Years After the Launch of ChatGPT, Do We Know Where This Is Heading? - The Scholarly Kitchen
Nearly three years after ChatGPT’s debut, generative AI continues to reshape scholarly publishing. The sector has moved from experimentation toward integration, with advances in ethical writing…
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October 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Great overview of how ChatGPT and LLMs are changing scholarly research. Beyond literature reviews, GenAI is already reshaping peer review and research integrity. The next frontier? Society engaging with research through AI agents. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/13/t...
#AI #GenAI
#AI #GenAI
Humans are more energy efficient than birds and horses. And we hit even greater efficiency when you are on a bike. Fascinating!
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
www.scientificamerican.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Humans are more energy efficient than birds and horses. And we hit even greater efficiency when you are on a bike. Fascinating!
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
Guest Post - “Have You Proved You’re Human Today?” Open Content and Web Harvesting in the AI Era - The Scholarly Kitchen scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/07/g...
Guest Post - “Have You Proved You’re Human Today?” Open Content and Web Harvesting in the AI Era - The Scholarly Kitchen
AI web harvesting bots are different from traditional web crawlers and violate many of the established rules and practices in place. Their rapidly expanding use is emerging as a significant IT…
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October 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Guest Post - “Have You Proved You’re Human Today?” Open Content and Web Harvesting in the AI Era - The Scholarly Kitchen scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/07/g...
The GAMER checklist ( ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...) is a great guide for researchers using GenAI in writing. Along with the GAIDeT framework and statement generator, it forms a trio for responsible AI use in research writing. GAIDeT Generator: panbibliotekar.github.io/gaidet-decla...
October 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The GAMER checklist ( ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...) is a great guide for researchers using GenAI in writing. Along with the GAIDeT framework and statement generator, it forms a trio for responsible AI use in research writing. GAIDeT Generator: panbibliotekar.github.io/gaidet-decla...
Guest Post — The Economics of AI in Academic Research - The Scholarly Kitchen scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/09/g...
Guest Post — The Economics of AI in Academic Research - The Scholarly Kitchen
In the fast-moving world of AI research tools, there are many community-focused concerns that vendors should have strong opinions on and plans for, from privacy and security to sustainability and…
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
October 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Guest Post — The Economics of AI in Academic Research - The Scholarly Kitchen scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/09/g...
Where I am with AI right now - Genies, Bottles, and Capex world.hey.com/ian.mulvany/...
Where I am with AI right now - Genies, Bottles, and Capex
My bias In this post I want to pull together my current thinking about AI. There are a few different threads that I want to cover in this post. Bear with me. I am enamoured with technology. There is…
world.hey.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Where I am with AI right now - Genies, Bottles, and Capex world.hey.com/ian.mulvany/...
How stigma makes mental health a ghost in India’s public conscious scroll.in/article/1087...
How stigma makes mental health a ghost in India’s public conscious
Rather than a social problem, mental suffering is viewed as weakness, moral failure or spiritual deficiency, making it difficult to seek help or support.
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October 12, 2025 at 6:44 AM
How stigma makes mental health a ghost in India’s public conscious scroll.in/article/1087...