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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
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#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
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
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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...
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Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed
December 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed
"Robotaxis" is a nice Christmas movie title for young kids. In real life, its adventures are much more mundane, full of invisible supporting casts, silent workers, and secondary platforms.
“Because riders and passersby can be unreliable, Waymo pays workers in Los Angeles $20 or more for rescuing a robotaxi by closing a door, summoning help through an app called Honk that is like an Uber for towing companies.”
When robot taxis get stuck, a secret army of humans comes to the rescue
Waymo robotaxis get stranded when a passenger leaves the door open. Tow truck operators can get paid $22 to close a door and set them free again.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"Robotaxis" is a nice Christmas movie title for young kids. In real life, its adventures are much more mundane, full of invisible supporting casts, silent workers, and secondary platforms.
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Oliver Sacks admitted his case studies in The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat were fraudulent “fairy tales”.
What Psych101 core texts are left?
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What Psych101 core texts are left?
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Oliver Sacks admitted his case studies in The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat were fraudulent “fairy tales”.
What Psych101 core texts are left?
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What Psych101 core texts are left?
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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📆 Mark your calendars! On January 13, our colleagues Judit Varga and Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner will give a webinar on how narrative CVs reshape research assessment in practice. Sign up with the link below 👇
Upcoming RoRI webinar: Do Narrative CVs really change research evaluation?
Join us on 13 January as we discuss new data from funding panels at major European funders: tinyurl.com/ms7bkcd9
Join us on 13 January as we discuss new data from funding panels at major European funders: tinyurl.com/ms7bkcd9
December 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
📆 Mark your calendars! On January 13, our colleagues Judit Varga and Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner will give a webinar on how narrative CVs reshape research assessment in practice. Sign up with the link below 👇
Elsevier at its best: they only embrace #openscience when it makes money and does not endanger their assets. Now that Crossref data is CC0 and used by 3rd parties (OpenAlex, Matilda,...), they just keep data in their systems @keanbirch.bsky.social #openresearchinformation @barcelonadori.bsky.social
There seems to be a decrease in the coverage of affiliation metadata in #OpenAlex, particularly with regard to journal articles published by Elsevier since 2024. Only around 6% of Elsevier articles published in 2025 have affiliation metadata.
subugoe.github.io/scholcomm_an...
subugoe.github.io/scholcomm_an...
Decreasing affiliation metadata coverage in OpenAlex – Scholarly Communication Analytics
This blog post examines the decrease in affiliation metadata coverage in OpenAlex. An analysis of over 13 million articles published by major commercial publishers between 2018 and 2025 suggests that ...
subugoe.github.io
December 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Elsevier at its best: they only embrace #openscience when it makes money and does not endanger their assets. Now that Crossref data is CC0 and used by 3rd parties (OpenAlex, Matilda,...), they just keep data in their systems @keanbirch.bsky.social #openresearchinformation @barcelonadori.bsky.social
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A recent examination of peer reviews submitted to the upcoming International Conference on Learning Representations found that many were AI-generated.
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/12/04/a...
#AI #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchIntegrity
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/12/04/a...
#AI #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchIntegrity
AI Conference Overrun with AI Peer Review
A recent examination of peer reviews submitted to the upcoming International Conference on Learning Representations found that many were AI-generated.
www.plagiarismtoday.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A recent examination of peer reviews submitted to the upcoming International Conference on Learning Representations found that many were AI-generated.
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/12/04/a...
#AI #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchIntegrity
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/12/04/a...
#AI #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchIntegrity
When you sell citations (to some authors/institutions) you don't care about the content of the article or the authors, only the references list at the end of the manuscript matters. #researchintegrity
We see a new phenomenon. Fake authors in papers with hundreds of citations. Papers are easy to produce by ChatGPT. Even if a paper is retracted, no punishment to the real authors, but citations still count. Today's puzzle is about a similar case papermills.tilda.ws/2025advent4
Advent2025 4
papermills.tilda.ws
December 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
When you sell citations (to some authors/institutions) you don't care about the content of the article or the authors, only the references list at the end of the manuscript matters. #researchintegrity
You certainly need a highly-trained detectice team to realize that Dfffb Gfnnhn is not the name of an existing author, thus it is not a legitimate reference #researchintegrity
These are not references. These are what happens when the cat hoiks up a hairball while you are dictating into voice-recognition software.
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
You certainly need a highly-trained detectice team to realize that Dfffb Gfnnhn is not the name of an existing author, thus it is not a legitimate reference #researchintegrity
For bibliographic needs, use matilda.science?l=en
December 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
For bibliographic needs, use matilda.science?l=en
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What does it take to publish in Scientific Reports?
Access to an LLM, a few weeks, and 2690$ for the APC.
What does it take to obtain a retraction?
A lot of sleuthing time & work, pubpeer, repeated emails, time, evaluation committees, appeals, and more.
Let's make errors like this costly!
Access to an LLM, a few weeks, and 2690$ for the APC.
What does it take to obtain a retraction?
A lot of sleuthing time & work, pubpeer, repeated emails, time, evaluation committees, appeals, and more.
Let's make errors like this costly!
Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
What does it take to publish in Scientific Reports?
Access to an LLM, a few weeks, and 2690$ for the APC.
What does it take to obtain a retraction?
A lot of sleuthing time & work, pubpeer, repeated emails, time, evaluation committees, appeals, and more.
Let's make errors like this costly!
Access to an LLM, a few weeks, and 2690$ for the APC.
What does it take to obtain a retraction?
A lot of sleuthing time & work, pubpeer, repeated emails, time, evaluation committees, appeals, and more.
Let's make errors like this costly!
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Updated November edition of the chart of the coverage of the major bibliometric databases.
The new OpenAlex version is not as large as in the Walden one and now Google Scholar is the largest service again.
The new OpenAlex version is not as large as in the Walden one and now Google Scholar is the largest service again.
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Updated November edition of the chart of the coverage of the major bibliometric databases.
The new OpenAlex version is not as large as in the Walden one and now Google Scholar is the largest service again.
The new OpenAlex version is not as large as in the Walden one and now Google Scholar is the largest service again.
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🎙Episode #76 is about exploring love through maintenance and the disruptive, delightful, mundane, difficulty of the everyday with David Pontille & @jrmdns.bsky.social 📚 The Care of Things: fragility is not the opposite of strength open.substack.com/pub/lovephil...
The Care of Things: fragility is not the opposite of strength
an invitation to let things matter, and help things last
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
🎙Episode #76 is about exploring love through maintenance and the disruptive, delightful, mundane, difficulty of the everyday with David Pontille & @jrmdns.bsky.social 📚 The Care of Things: fragility is not the opposite of strength open.substack.com/pub/lovephil...
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We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
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This Wednesday I'm giving an online talk about my new book. It's at 4pm UK time and you can register here:
opendivide.hypotheses.org/625
opendivide.hypotheses.org/625
Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons
In the seventh lecture of the Open Divide Series, Samuel Moore will present “Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons”. In his talk on November 26, 2025, at 5:00 PM CET, Samuel...
opendivide.hypotheses.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This Wednesday I'm giving an online talk about my new book. It's at 4pm UK time and you can register here:
opendivide.hypotheses.org/625
opendivide.hypotheses.org/625
How many studies and how much media coverage will be needed to end the "AI and education" mania? Reading implies interpretation, hence questions on the meaning of the text, sentences, words. Copy/paste needs only hand/eye coordination.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
How many studies and how much media coverage will be needed to end the "AI and education" mania? Reading implies interpretation, hence questions on the meaning of the text, sentences, words. Copy/paste needs only hand/eye coordination.
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RIP Mani
youtu.be/3QLMS0QsPF0
youtu.be/3QLMS0QsPF0
The Stone Roses - Waterfall (Live On The Other Side Of Midnight) 1989 1080p 60fps
YouTube video by Mucky Fingers
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
RIP Mani
youtu.be/3QLMS0QsPF0
youtu.be/3QLMS0QsPF0
Of course, I have never worked in "education research". Judging by how they acknowledge my research topics, I have no doubts about their #peerreview quality #predatorypublishing #researchintegrity
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Of course, I have never worked in "education research". Judging by how they acknowledge my research topics, I have no doubts about their #peerreview quality #predatorypublishing #researchintegrity
We already know that "top retractors" are almost all men, but that new stat does not tell a lot. #researchintegrity
A new study finds that women’s names filled just 23% of author slots in a sample of nearly 900 retracted articles published in medical journals between 2008 and 2017
go.nature.com/49pgmN7
go.nature.com/49pgmN7
Women seem to retract fewer papers than men — but why?
In an analysis of nearly 900 retracted medical research studies, the number of female authors is disproportionately low.
go.nature.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
We already know that "top retractors" are almost all men, but that new stat does not tell a lot. #researchintegrity
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Postdoctoral Position in Science, Technology and Society (STS)
jobs.ethz.ch
November 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The power of LLM AI: producing annoying/dangerous/bullshitting innovation.
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" www.404media.co/a-researcher...
A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The power of LLM AI: producing annoying/dangerous/bullshitting innovation.
Louder, louder, piggies www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhY1...
Piggies (Remastered 2009)
YouTube video by The Beatles - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Louder, louder, piggies www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhY1...
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️