Jay Patel
@infotainment.bsky.social
🎷 vibe adulting
#HCI #PeerReview #SciPub
#toolsforthought #ResearchSynthesis
#OpenScience #MetaSci #FoSci
🔎 Research: ethnography of peer review
🧑🏫 Teaching: Stats, DataViz
🐢 UMD: College of Info
🌐 PhD Candidate: Info Studies / HCI + Data
🏝️ OASISlab
#HCI #PeerReview #SciPub
#toolsforthought #ResearchSynthesis
#OpenScience #MetaSci #FoSci
🔎 Research: ethnography of peer review
🧑🏫 Teaching: Stats, DataViz
🐢 UMD: College of Info
🌐 PhD Candidate: Info Studies / HCI + Data
🏝️ OASISlab
"PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS". --- Roxane Gay
Got it!
Got it!
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
"PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS". --- Roxane Gay
Got it!
Got it!
Do you post on PubPeer ever?
November 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Do you post on PubPeer ever?
Alive as are the paintings in the Harry Potter books
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Alive as are the paintings in the Harry Potter books
Any trends by disciplines broadly?
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Any trends by disciplines broadly?
What are the stats on ORCID use across all published papers over the last few years? Surely, it's above 50%?
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
What are the stats on ORCID use across all published papers over the last few years? Surely, it's above 50%?
In a candy store, ad for Schroedinger's KitKat
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
In a candy store, ad for Schroedinger's KitKat
Yeah, Gelman has observed the same on his blog. I'd love to see a content analysis and critical analysis of such error statements. That'd make for a nice study.
November 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Yeah, Gelman has observed the same on his blog. I'd love to see a content analysis and critical analysis of such error statements. That'd make for a nice study.
I confess to this type of dunking, but isn't it easy enough to email a colleague on one's campus or run a search with varied keywords with the help of a friendly librarian? And if I may cautiously suggest the use AI-assisted search engines like Elicit...
November 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I confess to this type of dunking, but isn't it easy enough to email a colleague on one's campus or run a search with varied keywords with the help of a friendly librarian? And if I may cautiously suggest the use AI-assisted search engines like Elicit...
@pekka.bsky.social Yet another example of the sleuthing-scicomm divide for you to examine.
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
@pekka.bsky.social Yet another example of the sleuthing-scicomm divide for you to examine.
Mirroring my earlier thread for critical examination of the stem cell paper:
bsky.app/profile/info...
bsky.app/profile/info...
Hey, @gracewade.bsky.social why is this article continuously posted on BSky? The number of issues documented by academic researchers is worth reporting.
The story should be one of errors/potential fraud instead of a breakthrough, right?
pubpeer.com/publications...
Author reply in the thread:
The story should be one of errors/potential fraud instead of a breakthrough, right?
pubpeer.com/publications...
Author reply in the thread:
November 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Mirroring my earlier thread for critical examination of the stem cell paper:
bsky.app/profile/info...
bsky.app/profile/info...
And just over the past day or so, even more commentary point to conflict of interest issues (didn't declare a key patent) and issues with changing the clinical trial registration dates to make it seem as if the data were collected after declaring the study plan/registration.
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
And just over the past day or so, even more commentary point to conflict of interest issues (didn't declare a key patent) and issues with changing the clinical trial registration dates to make it seem as if the data were collected after declaring the study plan/registration.
Nick Brown: www.science.org/content/arti...
Meet the ‘data thugs' out to expose shoddy and questionable research
Nick Brown and James Heathers have had striking success in catalyzing retractions by publicly calling out perplexing data
www.science.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Nick Brown: www.science.org/content/arti...
And for context, here are the sleuths' profiles in other outlets:
www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/r...
www.zmescience.com/science/the-...
These people are pros.
www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/r...
www.zmescience.com/science/the-...
These people are pros.
Retraction, She Wrote: Dorothy Bishop’s life after research
A renowned researcher’s eye for detail has given her a second career and a new following.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
And for context, here are the sleuths' profiles in other outlets:
www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/r...
www.zmescience.com/science/the-...
These people are pros.
www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/r...
www.zmescience.com/science/the-...
These people are pros.
Hey, @gracewade.bsky.social why is this article continuously posted on BSky? The number of issues documented by academic researchers is worth reporting.
The story should be one of errors/potential fraud instead of a breakthrough, right?
pubpeer.com/publications...
Author reply in the thread:
The story should be one of errors/potential fraud instead of a breakthrough, right?
pubpeer.com/publications...
Author reply in the thread:
November 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Hey, @gracewade.bsky.social why is this article continuously posted on BSky? The number of issues documented by academic researchers is worth reporting.
The story should be one of errors/potential fraud instead of a breakthrough, right?
pubpeer.com/publications...
Author reply in the thread:
The story should be one of errors/potential fraud instead of a breakthrough, right?
pubpeer.com/publications...
Author reply in the thread:
Ah, but that's not ideal for the user if they have a direction they want to pursue. Maybe I'll contrast its performance against a general-purpose LLM with specific prompting and see the differences.
November 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Ah, but that's not ideal for the user if they have a direction they want to pursue. Maybe I'll contrast its performance against a general-purpose LLM with specific prompting and see the differences.
I really, really want to figure out ways to amplify the critical commenters so they dominate the news stream. But how?
November 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I really, really want to figure out ways to amplify the critical commenters so they dominate the news stream. But how?
Agreed, I've been toying with the idea of doing something in this scicomm space. Think a daily Snopes crossed with PubPeer for research communication. Hoping there's a biz model behind it somewhere.
November 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Agreed, I've been toying with the idea of doing something in this scicomm space. Think a daily Snopes crossed with PubPeer for research communication. Hoping there's a biz model behind it somewhere.
And editors' unique value add can be to specify/ideate the specific subtasks that LLMs can and should perform (ones humans are poor at and/or averse to completing).
November 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
And editors' unique value add can be to specify/ideate the specific subtasks that LLMs can and should perform (ones humans are poor at and/or averse to completing).
So how did you prompt it then? Typically, prompts starting with "You are an expert X with expertise in domains A,B, and C..." is effective.
The Google white paper that was published a while ago can be helpful: cloud.google.com/discover/wha...
Section: Strategies for writing better prompts
The Google white paper that was published a while ago can be helpful: cloud.google.com/discover/wha...
Section: Strategies for writing better prompts
November 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
So how did you prompt it then? Typically, prompts starting with "You are an expert X with expertise in domains A,B, and C..." is effective.
The Google white paper that was published a while ago can be helpful: cloud.google.com/discover/wha...
Section: Strategies for writing better prompts
The Google white paper that was published a while ago can be helpful: cloud.google.com/discover/wha...
Section: Strategies for writing better prompts
A modern remake would be really something.
November 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
A modern remake would be really something.