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@polecopub.bsky.social
The bluesky account where publications are treated as social, political, technical and economic objects
#STS #Openscience #PoliticalEconomy
Blog: https://polecopub.hypotheses.org/
Matilda scientifc director: https://matilda.science/?l=en
#STS #Openscience #PoliticalEconomy
Blog: https://polecopub.hypotheses.org/
Matilda scientifc director: https://matilda.science/?l=en
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· Nov 16
matilda.science
#helloesr CNRS senior researcher, working on the political economy of academic publications, scientific director of matilda.science?l=fr and tempted to make a corpus of how French academics present themselves when they reach bluesky
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"Through this special issue, we invite broader discussion on Diamond OA and its future(s), from the highly conceptual to the deeply infrastructural. What is next for Diamond OA as it oscillates between the potential for either a technocratic or community-led and commons-based future?"
Call for Papers: Special Issue on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways
Abstract submission deadline: March 23rd 2026 In recent years, Diamond Open Access (OA) has risen to the fore in the ongoing exploration of which knowledge production models are both ideal …
journals.publishing.umich.edu
February 12, 2026 at 10:34 AM
"Through this special issue, we invite broader discussion on Diamond OA and its future(s), from the highly conceptual to the deeply infrastructural. What is next for Diamond OA as it oscillates between the potential for either a technocratic or community-led and commons-based future?"
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"If a plagiarized paper by an author who claims he didn’t write it disappears from a journal’s website with no notice, did it ever exist?"
Yes - it'll have been downloaded, search engines will've indexed it. This is why bioRxiv/medRxiv do not disappear papers.
retractionwatch.com/2026/02/05/j...
Yes - it'll have been downloaded, search engines will've indexed it. This is why bioRxiv/medRxiv do not disappear papers.
retractionwatch.com/2026/02/05/j...
Journal silently removes paper for plagiarism, author claims identity theft
If a plagiarized paper by an author who claims he didn’t write it disappears from a journal’s website with no notice, did it ever exist in the first place? It’s not just a philosophical question fo…
retractionwatch.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:07 PM
"If a plagiarized paper by an author who claims he didn’t write it disappears from a journal’s website with no notice, did it ever exist?"
Yes - it'll have been downloaded, search engines will've indexed it. This is why bioRxiv/medRxiv do not disappear papers.
retractionwatch.com/2026/02/05/j...
Yes - it'll have been downloaded, search engines will've indexed it. This is why bioRxiv/medRxiv do not disappear papers.
retractionwatch.com/2026/02/05/j...
Please don't make any sausages pretending they are madeleines and avoid a bouillabaisse that look like ragout rather than being fish-based. #AILLMs are as bad to cuisine as they are at science (and almoste anything else that is not bullshitting).
February 7, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Please don't make any sausages pretending they are madeleines and avoid a bouillabaisse that look like ragout rather than being fish-based. #AILLMs are as bad to cuisine as they are at science (and almoste anything else that is not bullshitting).
You sell citations to real authors and you have nothing to pay to the publisher or to fake authors for "writing" the paper. Maybe you have to pay a #reviewmill if you don't operate yourself. Perfect business model #citationcartles #researchintegrity
Piece on how citation cartels are writing junk review articles with huge reference lists to boost citations. They're 'authored' by fake researchers from low-income countries so they can get an APC waiver, although it's not clear why publishers are being duped by so many of these articles.
Citation cartels use fake author names to target chemistry journals
Dubious entities masquerade as researchers in war zones or low-income countries to obtain journal fee waivers
cen.acs.org
February 5, 2026 at 5:40 PM
You sell citations to real authors and you have nothing to pay to the publisher or to fake authors for "writing" the paper. Maybe you have to pay a #reviewmill if you don't operate yourself. Perfect business model #citationcartles #researchintegrity
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Don't you f**king dare.
February 3, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Don't you f**king dare.
So chatbots happen to be even more expensive than #bigpublishers
The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires.
Anyone can sign the petition — link below!
Anyone can sign the petition — link below!
The CSU/OpenAI contract is set to expire June 30, 2026.
Sign this petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-chatgpt-edu-invest-in-humans/ for the CSU NOT to renew the contract and to use the savings to protect jobs at CSU campuses facing layoffs.
Sign this petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-chatgpt-edu-invest-in-humans/ for the CSU NOT to renew the contract and to use the savings to protect jobs at CSU campuses facing layoffs.
January 31, 2026 at 9:57 PM
So chatbots happen to be even more expensive than #bigpublishers
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#ERAAct #PositionPaper | 📢 Following the European Commission's consultation on the ERA Act, OPERAS has just released a position paper with a powerful message: Don't let commercial interests capture the research agenda.
👉Learn more: https://operas.hypotheses.org/9636
👉Learn more: https://operas.hypotheses.org/9636
Shaping Europe’s Research Future: OPERAS Calls for a Sovereign and Equitable ERA Act
A Critical Juncture for Open Science, SSH, and Community-Led Infrastructure The European research landscape stands at a pivotal moment. The European Commission’s consultation for the European Research Area (ERA) Act, finalised on January 23rd,...
operas.hypotheses.org
January 29, 2026 at 12:22 PM
#ERAAct #PositionPaper | 📢 Following the European Commission's consultation on the ERA Act, OPERAS has just released a position paper with a powerful message: Don't let commercial interests capture the research agenda.
👉Learn more: https://operas.hypotheses.org/9636
👉Learn more: https://operas.hypotheses.org/9636
Like Amazon, @arxiv.bsky.social , @cos.io and other places will soon limit to 20 manuscripts/day the maximum number a given author can publish.
OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free.
Writing a paper has never been easier.
Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier.
It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct.
prism.openai.com
Writing a paper has never been easier.
Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier.
It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct.
prism.openai.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Like Amazon, @arxiv.bsky.social , @cos.io and other places will soon limit to 20 manuscripts/day the maximum number a given author can publish.
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however, sadly, the paper pitches this as a "trust issue" but people are right now to trust this stuff! Also complete failure to recognise that tools need to be worthy of trust, not that people should give their trust more freely
January 28, 2026 at 6:49 AM
however, sadly, the paper pitches this as a "trust issue" but people are right now to trust this stuff! Also complete failure to recognise that tools need to be worthy of trust, not that people should give their trust more freely
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This is simultaneously so cool, as it cuts down tedious repetitive stuff to let you focus on the content, and absolutely terrifying, given the current incentives in scientific publications.
It *can* be used to make science better. It *will* be used to produce tons of crap.
What a time to be alive
It *can* be used to make science better. It *will* be used to produce tons of crap.
What a time to be alive
OpenAI launching an overleaf competitor seems like it could be a big deal, and particularly interesting in wake of the NeurIPS hallucinations discourse (an important issue, but a lot of the back-and-forth I saw seemed to be missing a lot of important factors): openai.com/index/introd...
Introducing Prism
Accelerating science writing and collaboration with AI.
openai.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:22 PM
This is simultaneously so cool, as it cuts down tedious repetitive stuff to let you focus on the content, and absolutely terrifying, given the current incentives in scientific publications.
It *can* be used to make science better. It *will* be used to produce tons of crap.
What a time to be alive
It *can* be used to make science better. It *will* be used to produce tons of crap.
What a time to be alive
#GenAI sewers try to find their way everywhere, forcing #open scholarly infrastructure to act as #gatekeepers.
As Science reports, arXiv added an endorsement requirement for first-time posters to curb AI submissions. COS Exec Director Brian Nosek says it's "a reasonable approach," but for smaller servers, this could exclude real researchers who lack strong connections:
www.science.org/cont...
www.science.org/cont...
January 26, 2026 at 3:23 PM
#GenAI sewers try to find their way everywhere, forcing #open scholarly infrastructure to act as #gatekeepers.
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📣 Join our next research seminar! Our colleague @loubezuidenhout.bsky.social will give a talk on 'Equality of Access Requires Equity in Design: Rethinking Open Science Infrastructures'.
📅 Friday, 30/1/2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CET)
📌 Online & at CWTS
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
📅 Friday, 30/1/2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CET)
📌 Online & at CWTS
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
Equality of Access Requires Equity in Design: Rethinking Open Science Infrastructures
The 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science underscored the global commitment to Open Science. The declaration defines Open Science through the values of inclusivity and equity and the principle of...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
January 26, 2026 at 12:20 PM
📣 Join our next research seminar! Our colleague @loubezuidenhout.bsky.social will give a talk on 'Equality of Access Requires Equity in Design: Rethinking Open Science Infrastructures'.
📅 Friday, 30/1/2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CET)
📌 Online & at CWTS
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
📅 Friday, 30/1/2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CET)
📌 Online & at CWTS
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
I tend not to share this view. If retraction doesn't encompass the "bad literature" (far from it), it gives us a view on #publishers practices, has shown (finally to everyone) that #peerreview is not made to detect fraud, and has "radiation" effects (eg "feet of clay detector" @gcabanac.cpesr.fr )
Retraction data are still useless – almost
Retractions of scholarly articles are a rare event, affecting only about 0.02-0.04% of articles in total (but yearly rates are going up dramatically). This means that data about retractions are not even close to being representative of the scholarly […]
Retractions of scholarly articles are a rare event, affecting only about 0.02-0.04% of articles in total (but yearly rates are going up dramatically). This means that data about retractions are not even close to being representative of the scholarly […]
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mastodon.social
January 23, 2026 at 9:03 AM
I tend not to share this view. If retraction doesn't encompass the "bad literature" (far from it), it gives us a view on #publishers practices, has shown (finally to everyone) that #peerreview is not made to detect fraud, and has "radiation" effects (eg "feet of clay detector" @gcabanac.cpesr.fr )
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Our monthly review of the coverage of the major bibliographic databases (January 2026).
We excluded Xueshu Baidu and FatCat and duplicated the OpenAlex info and added PubMed, a relevant IA source
We excluded Xueshu Baidu and FatCat and duplicated the OpenAlex info and added PubMed, a relevant IA source
January 22, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Our monthly review of the coverage of the major bibliographic databases (January 2026).
We excluded Xueshu Baidu and FatCat and duplicated the OpenAlex info and added PubMed, a relevant IA source
We excluded Xueshu Baidu and FatCat and duplicated the OpenAlex info and added PubMed, a relevant IA source
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👀ICYMI: "What is clear from my data is that many of those who set up elsewhere on Bluesky, Threads and in very rare cases, Mastodon, did so in a half-baked fashion."
✍️ @andytattersall.bsky.social
✍️ @andytattersall.bsky.social
UK academia’s presence on X is reaching a tipping point - LSE Impact
Data collected on UK universities’ use of social media shows academic engagement with X is at a tipping point with more institutions off the platform than on.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 22, 2026 at 9:23 AM
👀ICYMI: "What is clear from my data is that many of those who set up elsewhere on Bluesky, Threads and in very rare cases, Mastodon, did so in a half-baked fashion."
✍️ @andytattersall.bsky.social
✍️ @andytattersall.bsky.social
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I just declined to review for a paywalled/hybrid Wiley journal... and was given absolutely no means of communicating why I declined in the process.
Just a pathway through to: "thanks for letting us know" (byeee!!!)
I was locked and loaded, ready to tell the […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Just a pathway through to: "thanks for letting us know" (byeee!!!)
I was locked and loaded, ready to tell the […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
January 19, 2026 at 11:21 AM
I just declined to review for a paywalled/hybrid Wiley journal... and was given absolutely no means of communicating why I declined in the process.
Just a pathway through to: "thanks for letting us know" (byeee!!!)
I was locked and loaded, ready to tell the […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Just a pathway through to: "thanks for letting us know" (byeee!!!)
I was locked and loaded, ready to tell the […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
The worst part in this, beyond the usual overselling and the technical and commercial lock-in, is to make Microsoft's products an heritage of Turing's work.
Big announcement from @manchester.ac.uk today:
"The University of Manchester has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft, becoming the first university in the world to give Microsoft 365 Copilot access and training to every student and colleague."
#GenerativeAI #Research #Manchester
"The University of Manchester has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft, becoming the first university in the world to give Microsoft 365 Copilot access and training to every student and colleague."
#GenerativeAI #Research #Manchester
World-first AI partnership between The University of Manchester and Microsoft announced
The University of Manchester becomes first university in the world to provide Microsoft 365 Copilot access and training to all students and staff.65,000 staff and students will receive full Microsoft ...
www.manchester.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 10:37 AM
The worst part in this, beyond the usual overselling and the technical and commercial lock-in, is to make Microsoft's products an heritage of Turing's work.
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this is a rollicking great read
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted.
Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.
www.politico.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:28 PM
this is a rollicking great read
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Reviewer or editor for a big-publisher journal: were you asked to use an in-house AI tool? Call for testimonies..
🎙️ Appel à témoignage express
Reviewer ou éditeur pour une revue gérée par une grosse maison d'édition (Springer, Elsevier...) : vous a-t-on proposé d'utiliser un outil d'IA générative développé en interne ?
J'attends vos réponses en MP. Merci !
#VeilleESR #peerreview @themeta.news
Reviewer ou éditeur pour une revue gérée par une grosse maison d'édition (Springer, Elsevier...) : vous a-t-on proposé d'utiliser un outil d'IA générative développé en interne ?
J'attends vos réponses en MP. Merci !
#VeilleESR #peerreview @themeta.news
January 12, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Reviewer or editor for a big-publisher journal: were you asked to use an in-house AI tool? Call for testimonies..
So #GenAI may be ok for secretary-standard letters, but it does not even improve productivity for very short semi-standard medical letters. "PhD-level assistant" they claimed...
“Mount Sinai recently paused use of an Epic generative AI tool, which aimed to analyze messages patients sent to doctors and create personalized draft responses. After trying it for a few weeks, doctors said the drafts weren’t helpful and required too much rewriting.”
Hospitals Are a Proving Ground for What AI Can Do, and What It Can’t
Healthcare is going all-in on artificial intelligence, from reading patient scans to fighting insurance denials.
www.wsj.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:24 PM
So #GenAI may be ok for secretary-standard letters, but it does not even improve productivity for very short semi-standard medical letters. "PhD-level assistant" they claimed...
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[1/3] Worth reading in @science.org: really important, comprehensive work on #OpenScience impact by the @pathos-project.bsky.social. Some benefits are well-documented (citations, citizen science), but strong evidence for broader economic/societal impacts still sparse. www.science.org/content/arti...
Is ‘open science’ delivering benefits? Major study finds proof is sparse
It’s hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free, researchers say
www.science.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:15 PM
[1/3] Worth reading in @science.org: really important, comprehensive work on #OpenScience impact by the @pathos-project.bsky.social. Some benefits are well-documented (citations, citizen science), but strong evidence for broader economic/societal impacts still sparse. www.science.org/content/arti...
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The power of #opendata, automation, @foxcubfr.bsky.social maintenance and Huma-Num services. In 2026, so many new objects are searchable on matilda.science?l=en #discover #openscience @cnrs-inist.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
The power of #opendata, automation, @foxcubfr.bsky.social maintenance and Huma-Num services. In 2026, so many new objects are searchable on matilda.science?l=en #discover #openscience @cnrs-inist.bsky.social
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so maybe @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social could make a resolution to remove all editors and reviewers who have accepted nonsensical papers. It would be quite a cull
As a pioneer in Open Access scholarly publishing, MDPI upholds high ethical publishing standards across its journals.
Learn more about how MDPI continues to strengthen its publication ethics policies: buff.ly/nssdnLb
#MDPI #PublicationEthics #OpenAccess
Learn more about how MDPI continues to strengthen its publication ethics policies: buff.ly/nssdnLb
#MDPI #PublicationEthics #OpenAccess
January 2, 2026 at 7:29 AM
so maybe @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social could make a resolution to remove all editors and reviewers who have accepted nonsensical papers. It would be quite a cull
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🎆Congratulations🎇 Sleuths at PubPeer - pubpeer.com :
End-of-the-Year Countdown runs for 250,000 flagged papers!!
...that's a 3‰ of total publications over all years & disciplines (ca. 76,000,000)
👉essential for #ResearchIntegrity
End-of-the-Year Countdown runs for 250,000 flagged papers!!
...that's a 3‰ of total publications over all years & disciplines (ca. 76,000,000)
👉essential for #ResearchIntegrity
December 31, 2025 at 7:13 AM
🎆Congratulations🎇 Sleuths at PubPeer - pubpeer.com :
End-of-the-Year Countdown runs for 250,000 flagged papers!!
...that's a 3‰ of total publications over all years & disciplines (ca. 76,000,000)
👉essential for #ResearchIntegrity
End-of-the-Year Countdown runs for 250,000 flagged papers!!
...that's a 3‰ of total publications over all years & disciplines (ca. 76,000,000)
👉essential for #ResearchIntegrity
The perfect opening of a perfect film, the best score ever by Delerue, Bardot's most moving role www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1iO...
"Le Générique parlé le plus celebre de l histoire du cinema" Le Mépris de Jean Luc Godard
YouTube video by 432hz
www.youtube.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The perfect opening of a perfect film, the best score ever by Delerue, Bardot's most moving role www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1iO...