Experimental & Behavioural economist INRAE Grenoble • President of the 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 • President of the 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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Reposted by Paolo Crosetto
I have a hard time to leave Dropbox and Gmail, but I'll try to make the transition this year.
Reposted by Paolo Crosetto, Guillaume Allègre
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It’s as funny, gorgeous, and full of heart as it’s always been. You can’t adapt this. When something is perfect, anything less than what it is seems a waste. You can’t improve on it.
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I ran into this in another list. The title and the abstract of this paper is quite provocative.
Table 1 with the profits of the 6 major sci publishing companies is something.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Anna's Archive has high levels of service: easy & universal search, 3 click to .pdf.
Commercial services are fragmented, hard to navigate.
Music switched only when legally streaming became easier than Napster
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The {ggCheysson} 📦 brings the graphical styles of the Albums de Statistique Graphique to R and ggplot2.
Not yet on CRAN, and still under development.
friendly.github.io/ggCheysson/
Coming in ~10 days to your BlueSky feeds. 🥳
In the meantime we ski and talk and have cheese and wine and savor freedom and democracy.
Take care, happy 2026 everyone!
Instead of funding science, increasing shares of shrinking research budgets are funneled to publishers in exchange of.. not much.
Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy
Reposted by Paolo Crosetto
Reposted by Paolo Crosetto
Reposted by Paolo Crosetto
Funders and institutes hold the cards. If they don't pay the profiteers, we researchers will just adapt.
We don't need Nature. Nature needs us.
#SciPub #ResearchIntegrity
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When the game is rigged, it's better to stop playing.
🧵 to understand the drain of scientific publishing👇
If it looks like a hold-up it's because it is one. Publishers drain scientific publishing for profit.
Time to stop playing.
Why do nationalists never learn, even when they see their policies backfire live?
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When we talk about The strain and the drain on scientific publishing, it's this.
Researchers are working more just to stay afloat, and less on what we actually want them to do: research, discover, innovate.
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
In POQ, Rauf et al. study the efficacy of 100 survey experiments. Their results show that a majority of hypotheses were not supported.
Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
New blog post: "Does multilingualism really protect against accelerated ageing? Some critical comments"
janhove.github.io/posts/2025-1...
The critique is as important as the article. In this case -- more.
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Save the plot once 👌
e.g.:
ggplot(...) +
ggview::canvas(width = 220, height = 220*2/3, units = "mm", dpi = 300)
per @nrennie.bsky.social #datavis #rstats
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