NanoBubbles
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🇪🇺 ERC-Syn-2020 - How, when & why does science fail to correct itself?
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📆 2021 - 2026
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✒️ Account run by Yagmur Ozturk
🔗 Our blog: https://nanobubbles.hypotheses.org/
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📆 2021 - 2026
🌉 nanobubbles.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
✒️ Account run by Yagmur Ozturk
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AISB 2026 Symposium: Hype, Promise, and Speculation: AI Bubbles and the Replication Crisis in Computer Science - AISB - The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour
AISB convention information 1-2 July 2026 AISB 2026, University of Sussex, UK Keynote Speaker: Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, University of Sussex Day of celebration...
aisb.org.uk
📣 Interested in 🫧 and AI?
➡️ AISB 2026 Symposium titled Hype, Promise, and Speculation: AI Bubbles and the Replication Crisis in Computer Science will take place on 1-2 July 2026 in Sussex, UK.
🕐 Deadline for submissions is 6 March 2026
🔗 For more information aisb.org.uk/aisb-2026-sy...
➡️ AISB 2026 Symposium titled Hype, Promise, and Speculation: AI Bubbles and the Replication Crisis in Computer Science will take place on 1-2 July 2026 in Sussex, UK.
🕐 Deadline for submissions is 6 March 2026
🔗 For more information aisb.org.uk/aisb-2026-sy...
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NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims
fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
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NeurIPS papers contained 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims | Fortune
An analysis of NeurIPS 2025 papers by startup GPTZero reveals how AI-generated citations are slipping into elite academic research.
fortune.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:11 PM
NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims
fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
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Pleased to share that we were awarded a 2026 #NHMRC Ideas grant via @sydney.edu.au to study/ raise awareness of published human #CellLines that may not exist. It was a tough year, but this outcome shows that NHMRC can fund topics in #metascience, as well as laboratory & clinical research
#PaperMills
#PaperMills
January 22, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Pleased to share that we were awarded a 2026 #NHMRC Ideas grant via @sydney.edu.au to study/ raise awareness of published human #CellLines that may not exist. It was a tough year, but this outcome shows that NHMRC can fund topics in #metascience, as well as laboratory & clinical research
#PaperMills
#PaperMills
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Hello, we’re Ghost in the Machine, a landmark documentary that’s mandatory viewing for anyone thinking about or using AI.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering at #SundanceFilmFestival next month. We hope you’ll join us in person or online, and follow along here.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering at #SundanceFilmFestival next month. We hope you’ll join us in person or online, and follow along here.
December 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Hello, we’re Ghost in the Machine, a landmark documentary that’s mandatory viewing for anyone thinking about or using AI.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering at #SundanceFilmFestival next month. We hope you’ll join us in person or online, and follow along here.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering at #SundanceFilmFestival next month. We hope you’ll join us in person or online, and follow along here.
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‘Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters.
A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism’
Ivan Oransky @retractionwatch.com, @alicedreger.bsky.social @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism’
Ivan Oransky @retractionwatch.com, @alicedreger.bsky.social @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters
A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism
www.thetimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:35 PM
‘Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters.
A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism’
Ivan Oransky @retractionwatch.com, @alicedreger.bsky.social @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism’
Ivan Oransky @retractionwatch.com, @alicedreger.bsky.social @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
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We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
January 13, 2026 at 8:27 AM
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
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👀From 2024... "If you’re an academic who is still using X, I would gently suggest to you that it is time to let go. The platform will either fold ~ or complete its evolution into the central engine of a politics, that compromises your professional credibility through association."
#X #AcademicSky
#X #AcademicSky
Twitter/X has ceased to be a neutral platform it’s time academics let go - Impact of Social Sciences
Mark Carrigan, argues Twitter/X no longer holds value for academics looking to share and communicate their work to wider publics.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 12, 2026 at 4:58 PM
👀From 2024... "If you’re an academic who is still using X, I would gently suggest to you that it is time to let go. The platform will either fold ~ or complete its evolution into the central engine of a politics, that compromises your professional credibility through association."
#X #AcademicSky
#X #AcademicSky
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📣 Coming soon: "From Metrics to Meaning: Advancing Analytics to Evaluate Scientific Exchange."
Visit us at Booth 1 at the European Meeting of ISMPP - Int'l Society for Medical Publication Professionals.
🗓️ 26-28 January 2026
📍 London, UK
👉🔗 https://ow.ly/9Lbk50XVsXM
Visit us at Booth 1 at the European Meeting of ISMPP - Int'l Society for Medical Publication Professionals.
🗓️ 26-28 January 2026
📍 London, UK
👉🔗 https://ow.ly/9Lbk50XVsXM
January 12, 2026 at 1:01 PM
📣 Coming soon: "From Metrics to Meaning: Advancing Analytics to Evaluate Scientific Exchange."
Visit us at Booth 1 at the European Meeting of ISMPP - Int'l Society for Medical Publication Professionals.
🗓️ 26-28 January 2026
📍 London, UK
👉🔗 https://ow.ly/9Lbk50XVsXM
Visit us at Booth 1 at the European Meeting of ISMPP - Int'l Society for Medical Publication Professionals.
🗓️ 26-28 January 2026
📍 London, UK
👉🔗 https://ow.ly/9Lbk50XVsXM
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🧪 Here's a science mystery to start the year.
Why are species names for fish and plants appearing in the scientific literature in papers about firefighter injuries, hearing loss and heart attack?
Is it AI? Translation tools? Something else?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/is-this-fi...
Why are species names for fish and plants appearing in the scientific literature in papers about firefighter injuries, hearing loss and heart attack?
Is it AI? Translation tools? Something else?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/is-this-fi...
January 11, 2026 at 11:34 PM
🧪 Here's a science mystery to start the year.
Why are species names for fish and plants appearing in the scientific literature in papers about firefighter injuries, hearing loss and heart attack?
Is it AI? Translation tools? Something else?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/is-this-fi...
Why are species names for fish and plants appearing in the scientific literature in papers about firefighter injuries, hearing loss and heart attack?
Is it AI? Translation tools? Something else?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/is-this-fi...
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I launched version 3.0 of my browser extension "Lazy Scholar", a free in-browser research assistant. It opens automatically when you load an academic article.
See: lazyscholar.org/2026/01/10/l...
See: lazyscholar.org/2026/01/10/l...
January 10, 2026 at 3:07 PM
I launched version 3.0 of my browser extension "Lazy Scholar", a free in-browser research assistant. It opens automatically when you load an academic article.
See: lazyscholar.org/2026/01/10/l...
See: lazyscholar.org/2026/01/10/l...
📣 Interested in 🫧 and AI?
➡️ AISB 2026 Symposium titled Hype, Promise, and Speculation: AI Bubbles and the Replication Crisis in Computer Science will take place on 1-2 July 2026 in Sussex, UK.
🕐 Deadline for submissions is 6 March 2026
🔗 For more information aisb.org.uk/aisb-2026-sy...
➡️ AISB 2026 Symposium titled Hype, Promise, and Speculation: AI Bubbles and the Replication Crisis in Computer Science will take place on 1-2 July 2026 in Sussex, UK.
🕐 Deadline for submissions is 6 March 2026
🔗 For more information aisb.org.uk/aisb-2026-sy...
AISB 2026 Symposium: Hype, Promise, and Speculation: AI Bubbles and the Replication Crisis in Computer Science - AISB - The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour
AISB convention information 1-2 July 2026 AISB 2026, University of Sussex, UK Keynote Speaker: Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, University of Sussex Day of celebration...
aisb.org.uk
January 7, 2026 at 4:06 PM
📣 Interested in 🫧 and AI?
➡️ AISB 2026 Symposium titled Hype, Promise, and Speculation: AI Bubbles and the Replication Crisis in Computer Science will take place on 1-2 July 2026 in Sussex, UK.
🕐 Deadline for submissions is 6 March 2026
🔗 For more information aisb.org.uk/aisb-2026-sy...
➡️ AISB 2026 Symposium titled Hype, Promise, and Speculation: AI Bubbles and the Replication Crisis in Computer Science will take place on 1-2 July 2026 in Sussex, UK.
🕐 Deadline for submissions is 6 March 2026
🔗 For more information aisb.org.uk/aisb-2026-sy...
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We (Miles MacLeod, YJ Erden, @ccmmody.bsky.social and me w/ editorial contributions by Yagmur Ozturk) are putting on a special issue!
In Studies in History & Philosophy of Science!
Ab/ scientific @nanobubbles.bsky.social
Deadline July 15 - spread the word!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
In Studies in History & Philosophy of Science!
Ab/ scientific @nanobubbles.bsky.social
Deadline July 15 - spread the word!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
www.sciencedirect.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:37 AM
We (Miles MacLeod, YJ Erden, @ccmmody.bsky.social and me w/ editorial contributions by Yagmur Ozturk) are putting on a special issue!
In Studies in History & Philosophy of Science!
Ab/ scientific @nanobubbles.bsky.social
Deadline July 15 - spread the word!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
In Studies in History & Philosophy of Science!
Ab/ scientific @nanobubbles.bsky.social
Deadline July 15 - spread the word!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
📣 Deadline for submissions is today!
📣 Submit to our track 'Making Science Better?' at the STS NL Conference which will take place in Twente from April 15 to 17, 2026! More details in the link below.
🔗 www.utwente.nl/en/bms/sts-n...
🔗 www.utwente.nl/en/bms/sts-n...
January 7, 2026 at 10:16 AM
📣 Deadline for submissions is today!
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we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social!
deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly.
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly.
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Assistant Professor Science, Technology and Society Studies
Assistant Professor Science, Technology and Society Studies
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
January 6, 2026 at 3:55 PM
we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social!
deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly.
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly.
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
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📣 We are happy to announce the special issue “Scientific bubbles: definitions, context, and approaches” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science with guest editors from Nanobubbles.
⏰ Deadline: 15th of July 2026!
🔗 More information in www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
⏰ Deadline: 15th of July 2026!
🔗 More information in www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
January 5, 2026 at 4:59 PM
📣 We are happy to announce the special issue “Scientific bubbles: definitions, context, and approaches” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science with guest editors from Nanobubbles.
⏰ Deadline: 15th of July 2026!
🔗 More information in www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
⏰ Deadline: 15th of July 2026!
🔗 More information in www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Happy New Year from Sal Sleuthmander and the COSIG team! Here's to doing lots of post-publication peer review in 2026
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January 1, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Happy New Year from Sal Sleuthmander and the COSIG team! Here's to doing lots of post-publication peer review in 2026
🎆🥂🔎
🎆🥂🔎
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📣 Submit to our track 'Making Science Better?' at the STS NL Conference which will take place in Twente from April 15 to 17, 2026! More details in the link below.
🔗 www.utwente.nl/en/bms/sts-n...
🔗 www.utwente.nl/en/bms/sts-n...
December 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
📣 Submit to our track 'Making Science Better?' at the STS NL Conference which will take place in Twente from April 15 to 17, 2026! More details in the link below.
🔗 www.utwente.nl/en/bms/sts-n...
🔗 www.utwente.nl/en/bms/sts-n...
📣 We are happy to announce the special issue “Scientific bubbles: definitions, context, and approaches” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science with guest editors from Nanobubbles.
⏰ Deadline: 15th of July 2026!
🔗 More information in www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
⏰ Deadline: 15th of July 2026!
🔗 More information in www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
January 5, 2026 at 4:59 PM
📣 We are happy to announce the special issue “Scientific bubbles: definitions, context, and approaches” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science with guest editors from Nanobubbles.
⏰ Deadline: 15th of July 2026!
🔗 More information in www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
⏰ Deadline: 15th of July 2026!
🔗 More information in www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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We (Miles MacLeod, YJ Erden, @federicoboem.bsky.social & me w/ editorial contributions by Yagmur Ozturk) are putting on a special issue! In Studies in History & Philosophy of Science! Ab/ scientific @nanobubbles.bsky.social! Deadline July 15 - spread the word.
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
www.sciencedirect.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:40 PM
We (Miles MacLeod, YJ Erden, @federicoboem.bsky.social & me w/ editorial contributions by Yagmur Ozturk) are putting on a special issue! In Studies in History & Philosophy of Science! Ab/ scientific @nanobubbles.bsky.social! Deadline July 15 - spread the word.
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to follow suit, says researcher Jennifer A. Byrne
go.nature.com/4sgKWzg
go.nature.com/4sgKWzg
Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer
Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to follow suit.
go.nature.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to follow suit, says researcher Jennifer A. Byrne
go.nature.com/4sgKWzg
go.nature.com/4sgKWzg
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As a diamond open-access journal, our work is free for everyone, but it’s only possible with your support! If you believe in the importance of open science (and learning from errors), please consider donating this Christmas.
🎁 Donate here: trialanderror.org/donate 🎁
Thank you for your support!
🎁 Donate here: trialanderror.org/donate 🎁
Thank you for your support!
December 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
As a diamond open-access journal, our work is free for everyone, but it’s only possible with your support! If you believe in the importance of open science (and learning from errors), please consider donating this Christmas.
🎁 Donate here: trialanderror.org/donate 🎁
Thank you for your support!
🎁 Donate here: trialanderror.org/donate 🎁
Thank you for your support!
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Tools fail to identify most AI-generated peer-review reports, say researchers, who warn that the issue is only getting worse.
My latest for @nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#PeerReview
My latest for @nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#PeerReview
‘A serious problem’: peer reviews created using AI can avoid detection
Tools fail to identify most AI-generated peer-review reports, say researchers, who warn that the issue is only getting worse.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Tools fail to identify most AI-generated peer-review reports, say researchers, who warn that the issue is only getting worse.
My latest for @nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#PeerReview
My latest for @nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#PeerReview
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Many psychologists are treating LLMs as if they are the mind of god.
This study had chatGPT rate how central academic disciplines are to various constructs.
Why would chatGPT know this?
Where is the evidence its ratings are reliable or valid?
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
This study had chatGPT rate how central academic disciplines are to various constructs.
Why would chatGPT know this?
Where is the evidence its ratings are reliable or valid?
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
December 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Many psychologists are treating LLMs as if they are the mind of god.
This study had chatGPT rate how central academic disciplines are to various constructs.
Why would chatGPT know this?
Where is the evidence its ratings are reliable or valid?
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
This study had chatGPT rate how central academic disciplines are to various constructs.
Why would chatGPT know this?
Where is the evidence its ratings are reliable or valid?
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Prize and lies
Three years ago, I asked in a blog post here What do scientific prizes celebrates? It was a reaction to false claims in press releases by the King Faisal Price and Northwestern University announcing the award of the 2023 King Faisal Prize in Medicine and Science to Chad Mirkin. One…
Three years ago, I asked in a blog post here What do scientific prizes celebrates? It was a reaction to false claims in press releases by the King Faisal Price and Northwestern University announcing the award of the 2023 King Faisal Prize in Medicine and Science to Chad Mirkin. One…
Prize and lies
Three years ago, I asked in a blog post here What do scientific prizes celebrates? It was a reaction to false claims in press releases by the King Faisal Price and Northwestern University announcing the award of the 2023 King Faisal Prize in Medicine and Science to Chad Mirkin. One of the false claims was that spherical nucleic acids were the basis for more than 1,800 commercial products…
raphazlab.wordpress.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Prize and lies
Three years ago, I asked in a blog post here What do scientific prizes celebrates? It was a reaction to false claims in press releases by the King Faisal Price and Northwestern University announcing the award of the 2023 King Faisal Prize in Medicine and Science to Chad Mirkin. One…
Three years ago, I asked in a blog post here What do scientific prizes celebrates? It was a reaction to false claims in press releases by the King Faisal Price and Northwestern University announcing the award of the 2023 King Faisal Prize in Medicine and Science to Chad Mirkin. One…
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Bernisson and Sismondo: How big is the medical writing industry? Why it matters
> 1000 medical education and communication companies (MECCS) provide medical writing services, mostly sponsored by pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies
academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
> 1000 medical education and communication companies (MECCS) provide medical writing services, mostly sponsored by pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies
academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
How big is the medical writing industry? Why it matters
Abstract. Medical writing is a key element in pharmaceutical companies’ efforts to shape the relevant medical science literature. As part of what is called
academic.oup.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Bernisson and Sismondo: How big is the medical writing industry? Why it matters
> 1000 medical education and communication companies (MECCS) provide medical writing services, mostly sponsored by pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies
academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
> 1000 medical education and communication companies (MECCS) provide medical writing services, mostly sponsored by pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies
academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
📣 Submit to our track 'Making Science Better?' at the STS NL Conference which will take place in Twente from April 15 to 17, 2026! More details in the link below.
🔗 www.utwente.nl/en/bms/sts-n...
🔗 www.utwente.nl/en/bms/sts-n...
December 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
📣 Submit to our track 'Making Science Better?' at the STS NL Conference which will take place in Twente from April 15 to 17, 2026! More details in the link below.
🔗 www.utwente.nl/en/bms/sts-n...
🔗 www.utwente.nl/en/bms/sts-n...