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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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#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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Now that he has passed I thought I would share this letter I received in 2013 from James Watson after I wrote to ask whether he or Crick had discussed the DNA work with Franklin following publication of the structure in 1953. Relations were cordial but the matter was not discussed.
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Now that he has passed I thought I would share this letter I received in 2013 from James Watson after I wrote to ask whether he or Crick had discussed the DNA work with Franklin following publication of the structure in 1953. Relations were cordial but the matter was not discussed.
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okay, now let's hear from people who don't have millions of dollars in tech company stocks still vesting
November 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
okay, now let's hear from people who don't have millions of dollars in tech company stocks still vesting
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Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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how about you pay your reviewers instead.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
how about you pay your reviewers instead.
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It’s spooky season… 🧟♂️
Don’t feed the zombies. Support diamond open access!
The zombie poster is back!
#DiamondOA #OpenAccess #Halloween
Don’t feed the zombies. Support diamond open access!
The zombie poster is back!
#DiamondOA #OpenAccess #Halloween
October 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It’s spooky season… 🧟♂️
Don’t feed the zombies. Support diamond open access!
The zombie poster is back!
#DiamondOA #OpenAccess #Halloween
Don’t feed the zombies. Support diamond open access!
The zombie poster is back!
#DiamondOA #OpenAccess #Halloween
The love of preservation for their code is admirable. Thanks to @softwareheritage.org , these local care practices have become a worldwide common goal and #openscience infrastructure.
The first edition of Unix was released internally at Bell Labs #OTD in 1971. Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, et al started working on it in 1969.
Check the v1 timestamps here:
www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utre...
Check the v1 timestamps here:
www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utre...
www.tuhs.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The love of preservation for their code is admirable. Thanks to @softwareheritage.org , these local care practices have become a worldwide common goal and #openscience infrastructure.
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arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
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Yeah well whose fault is that??
September 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Yeah well whose fault is that??
Commercial vs. #opendata for reseach information in its purest form. Very selective vs. inclusive (publications, universities). #researchassessment
📊 The CWTS Leiden Ranking 2025 is online! 🎉 This time, we have released not one, but two editions: the Traditional Edition and the Open Edition. www.leidenranking.com
CWTS Leiden Ranking
The CWTS Leiden Ranking offers important insights into the scientific performance for major universities worldwide. Select your preferred indicators, generate results, and explore the performance of u...
www.leidenranking.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Commercial vs. #opendata for reseach information in its purest form. Very selective vs. inclusive (publications, universities). #researchassessment
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You can write any old fanciful nonsense about how AI is going to fix all of science as long you say how we need to use it *responsibly* and how it will *never replace humans entirely*.
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
You can write any old fanciful nonsense about how AI is going to fix all of science as long you say how we need to use it *responsibly* and how it will *never replace humans entirely*.
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1-11% success rates for arts, humanities, and social science grant applications in the UK. What a monumental waste of time and energy.
Given that people is asking me for the numbers, here the table provided by UKRI:
October 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
1-11% success rates for arts, humanities, and social science grant applications in the UK. What a monumental waste of time and energy.
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More than 20% of chemistry researchers have deliberately added information they believe to be incorrect into their manuscripts during the peer review process, in order to get their papers published. cen.acs.org/policy/publi... #chemsky 🧪
1 in 5 chemists have deliberately added errors into their papers during peer review, study finds
Conclusion is one of many in a report about how chemists handle errors in manuscripts
cen.acs.org
October 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
More than 20% of chemistry researchers have deliberately added information they believe to be incorrect into their manuscripts during the peer review process, in order to get their papers published. cen.acs.org/policy/publi... #chemsky 🧪
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It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.
October 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.
I would have written it in a more straight way @ludowaltman.bsky.social This is Elsevier policy, similar (or even worse as I suppose most preprints are CC licensed) to their journals policy.
"An important exception is SSRN, the largest preprint server in our analysis. Abstracts are not included in the Crossref metadata of SSRN preprints." For preprints from SSRN, less than half include reference list (at least 1 reference listed). " Sad.
There is considerable discussion about the (lack of) openness of metadata of journal articles, but how do preprint servers perform in terms of openly available metadata?
@neesjanvaneck.bsky.social and I report our findings in a new @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social blog post doi.org/10.59350/te7....
@neesjanvaneck.bsky.social and I report our findings in a new @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social blog post doi.org/10.59350/te7....
October 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I would have written it in a more straight way @ludowaltman.bsky.social This is Elsevier policy, similar (or even worse as I suppose most preprints are CC licensed) to their journals policy.
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Well this is grim. Thanks LinkedIn. #AcademicPublishing #Librarian #OpenResearch #SocietyPublishers #UniversityPublishers
October 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Well this is grim. Thanks LinkedIn. #AcademicPublishing #Librarian #OpenResearch #SocietyPublishers #UniversityPublishers
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It's amazing how incredibly explicitly OpenAI seems to be admitting that they have no idea how to actually monetize their automated lying machine.
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
ChatGPT is about to get flirty.
buff.ly
October 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It's amazing how incredibly explicitly OpenAI seems to be admitting that they have no idea how to actually monetize their automated lying machine.
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Our periodic review of the coverage of the major bibliographic databases (October 2025)
GS no longer the largest due to the huge increase of OpenAlex. New data for Xueshu
GS no longer the largest due to the huge increase of OpenAlex. New data for Xueshu
October 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Our periodic review of the coverage of the major bibliographic databases (October 2025)
GS no longer the largest due to the huge increase of OpenAlex. New data for Xueshu
GS no longer the largest due to the huge increase of OpenAlex. New data for Xueshu
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Predatory practices plague modern science, but the origins & reasons of their success can be identified—and solutions exist. Instead of blacklists, funding agencies should foster accreditation systems. See analyses & proposals of the EAM Task Force of @femsmicro.org on the matter shorturl.at/gVXJR
October 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Predatory practices plague modern science, but the origins & reasons of their success can be identified—and solutions exist. Instead of blacklists, funding agencies should foster accreditation systems. See analyses & proposals of the EAM Task Force of @femsmicro.org on the matter shorturl.at/gVXJR
If you wish to study the effect of #opendata in #researchevaluation, please consider this postdoc position in London #openscience ( @lizziegadd.bsky.social ) www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126965-...
Post Doctoral Research Associate, “Between Economy and Democracy: Reorganising Research Evaluation through Metadata in the Digital Era” | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk
October 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
If you wish to study the effect of #opendata in #researchevaluation, please consider this postdoc position in London #openscience ( @lizziegadd.bsky.social ) www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126965-...
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Retraction of articles days after their publication feels like a circus. Now imagine that France had a government for just 12h (not a joke). So short that the international press can't follow www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Macron appoints new French government in attempt to end political deadlock
Rivals say president’s latest cabinet represents unwelcome continuity and hard-left party vows to file no-confidence motion amid fraught budget talks
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Retraction of articles days after their publication feels like a circus. Now imagine that France had a government for just 12h (not a joke). So short that the international press can't follow www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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That is why we have multiple sources in Matilda and deduplicate to get abstracts and, more importantly, full-text indexing to achieve maximum discoverability. #openscience #openresearchinformation
[blogged] The Petrol Tank for AI Discovery Might be Running Dry as Publishers close access to scholarly content such as abstracts due to AI incentives aarontay.substack.com/p/the-petrol... - an analysis of OpenAlex abstract coverage changes for Elsevier & Springernature
The Petrol Tank for AI Discovery Might be Running Dry as Publishers close access to scholarly content such as abstracts due to AI incentives
Elicit.com, Consensus, and Undermind.ai are among the new leading comprehensive cross-disciplinary “AI-powered academic search engines” today.
aarontay.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
That is why we have multiple sources in Matilda and deduplicate to get abstracts and, more importantly, full-text indexing to achieve maximum discoverability. #openscience #openresearchinformation
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Important observation by Aaron Tay: Articles published by Elsevier and Springer Nature may be increasingly difficult to find. For many of these articles abstracts are not made openly available, limiting article discoverability, in particular using AI tools.
@barcelonadori.bsky.social @oa2020.org
@barcelonadori.bsky.social @oa2020.org
[blogged] The Petrol Tank for AI Discovery Might be Running Dry as Publishers close access to scholarly content such as abstracts due to AI incentives aarontay.substack.com/p/the-petrol... - an analysis of OpenAlex abstract coverage changes for Elsevier & Springernature
The Petrol Tank for AI Discovery Might be Running Dry as Publishers close access to scholarly content such as abstracts due to AI incentives
Elicit.com, Consensus, and Undermind.ai are among the new leading comprehensive cross-disciplinary “AI-powered academic search engines” today.
aarontay.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Important observation by Aaron Tay: Articles published by Elsevier and Springer Nature may be increasingly difficult to find. For many of these articles abstracts are not made openly available, limiting article discoverability, in particular using AI tools.
@barcelonadori.bsky.social @oa2020.org
@barcelonadori.bsky.social @oa2020.org
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Another record month for bioRxiv - and further evidence the pandemic spike+dip was just that and growth continues. Thanks to all involved and that includes 🫵
October 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Another record month for bioRxiv - and further evidence the pandemic spike+dip was just that and growth continues. Thanks to all involved and that includes 🫵