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Paolo Crosetto
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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

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 13d
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 4d
We summarized the Drain paper in an LSE Impact blog post this week. Please share in your networks, ideally with those we are calling to action: research funders and university leadership
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ScholComm

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 5d
"In addition to a captive market, academic publishers also enjoy a sizable cost savings particular to their industry. Publishers have various operational costs, but they don’t pay researchers who write the papers, editors who revise them [...], and academic peer-reviewers."
How the Avalanche of Academic Papers Threatens Scientific Research
This is the third part of a series on academic publishing. Read part one here and part two here. For many years, the prestigious journal Philosophy & Public Affairs published about
www.realclearinvestigations.com

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 6d
If this argument was actually credible the Elsevier journal would have rejected us!

Reposted by Dan Brockington, Elizabeth Stokoe, Paolo Crosetto , and 2 more

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 6d
💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science

✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca

#AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science - Impact of Social Sciences
Have the interests of commercial publishers now become antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge?
blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 6d
We do -- classifica -- but it's unfortunately very fashionable to use English words for lots of stuff to make it sound, depending on the context, cooler or more professional or newer or all the things together.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 6d
Ahah thank you! That would be more than enough ❤️

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 6d
Profits plot is my own representation of the data we present in table form in this paper arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

Data from the table in supplementary material, also here

Reposted by Jörg Oechssler

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 6d
So it's back to the lab! And we are ready in Grenoble since we did not dismantle them, we rather invested in better subject pool recruitment and management.
joshmccrain.bsky.social Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 6d
new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Reposted by Marc Lynch, Simon Hix, Ben H. Ansell , and 45 more

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 6d
new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Reposted by Paolo Crosetto, Matti Vuorre

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Data Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 7d
[130] Researchbox: Even easier to use than before. More transparently permanent.
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[130] ResearchBox: Even Easier to Use and More Transparently Permanent than Before - Data Colada
Over the past 10 years or so, posting data, code, and materials for published papers has gone from eccentric to mundane. There are a few platforms that enable sharing research files, including Researc...
datacolada.org

Reposted by Robbert Sanderman, Mikael Ehn, Seema Jayachandran , and 12 more

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 7d
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

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Cosmik Network @cosmik.network · 7d
“We propose that scholarly publishing needs to be re-communalized. Universities, libraries, funders ... need to build a system that is community-led and managed, and which works to further research... This should involve active support for federated open infrastructures”

arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
The Drain of Scientific Publishing
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...
arxiv.org

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 8d
Pension-salary growth gap in Europe. source Pablo Garcia Guzman pablogguz.github.io

Pensions have grown much more than salaries in most countries. And there are more and more pensioner per active worker. And they vote.

You get the picture of what an insolvable f***ing mess we're in.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 8d
I am giving a course on Behavioral and Experimental approaches to public policy of food consumption in Milan this week.

We will talk methods, experiments, colors, numbers, perception, labels, taxes, nutriscore, and more.

This is an open hybrid event, over MS Teams. Reach out to get the link.

Reposted by Paolo Crosetto

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Otto Lillebø @ottolilllebo.bsky.social · 8d
Ganske sykt å se på profittmarginen til selskapene. Kanskje Norge bør fase ut oljen og heller kjøpe Elsevier 😂

Bakgrunn: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 10d
Which costs does this 400$/paper quote cover? Is there a reference for the Brembs' estimates? Thanks 🙏

Reposted by Wouter Poortinga, Jesse H. Kroll, Martin Paul Eve , and 5 more

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10d
Car Size

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4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

Reposted by Stefan Müller, Mark Rubin, Paolo Crosetto , and 3 more

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 10d
Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉

As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Transparent and comprehensive statistical reporting is critical for ensuring the credibility, reproducibility, and interpretability of psychological research. This paper offers a structured set of guidelines for reporting statistical analyses in quantitative psychology, emphasizing clarity at both the planning and results stages. Drawing on established recommendations and emerging best practices, we outline key decisions related to hypothesis formulation, sample size justification, preregistration, outlier and missing data handling, statistical model specification, and the interpretation of inferential outcomes. We address considerations across frequentist and Bayesian frameworks and fixed as well as sequential research designs, including guidance on effect size reporting, equivalence testing, and the appropriate treatment of null results. To facilitate implementation of these recommendations, we provide the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology (TSRP) Checklist that researchers can use to systematically evaluate and improve their statistical reporting practices (https://osf.io/t2zpq/). In addition, we provide a curated list of freely available tools, packages, and functions that researchers can use to implement transparent reporting practices in their own analyses to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To illustrate the practical application of these principles, we provide a side-by-side comparison of insufficient versus best-practice reporting using a hypothetical cognitive psychology study. By adopting transparent reporting standards, researchers can improve the robustness of individual studies and facilitate cumulative scientific progress through more reliable meta-analyses and research syntheses.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 10d
Done

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Tamas Andrei Foldes @sinandrei.bsky.social · 10d
We released a pretty cool dataset/preprint today looking at video game play, cognition, time-use and a ton of self-reported psych measures at osf.io/preprints/ps... with @nballou.bsky.social @matti.vuorre.com @thomashakman.bsky.social @rpsychologist.com and @shuhbillskee.bsky.social RRs coming soon
Survey administration schedule across the 12-week study period. Participants completed biweekly surveys (orange) every two weeks, with US participants additionally completing daily surveys (blue) for the first 30 days. Cognitive tests (green) were administered during biweekly surveys at weeks 1, 5, and 9. Gray circles indicate days with no scheduled surveys. Retention percentages show the proportion of baseline participants (N=1978) who were still active at each measurement week (defined as having completed either a daily or biweekly survey at any time after that week) Diurnal play across Xbox, Nintendo, Steam. Sample of daily gaming patterns and mental wellbeing for three representative participants. Stacked bars represent total daily playtime across platforms. Orange line shows biweekly mental wellbeing scores (short WEMWBS) measured at six study waves. Participants were selected from those closest to the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of total playtime, prioritizing those with the most varied multi-platform gaming behavior. Participant IDs: p9009984081 (25th percentile), p8809196928 (50th percentile), p7162729307 (75th percentile)

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Katy Milkman @katymilkman.bsky.social · 11d
Great talk from Stefano Della Vigna at @pennchibe.bsky.social conference about forecasts of social science experiments’ effects. We expect effects that are roughly 2x as big as we get.

Reposted by Dan Brockington

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 11d
Gentle request that @altmetric.com and @linkedin.com resume contact to be able to track academic LinkedIn activity on AltMetric.

More and more scientific discourse is happening on BlueSky (tracked) and LinkedIn (not tracked).

@linkedin.com let AltMetric use your API and include you! NOW!

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 11d
no offense taken, but I thought it good to reiterate and cite (some of) the bottom-up solutions that have been sprouting up in recent years.

Change is possible. Change will happen. Grassroots movements create alternatives and this provides institutions with options. But the top needs to act too.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 11d
But this is a hard, coordination, common-good problem. Network effects make it super hard to generalize change, and this disregarding the effort publishers can pitch to make change harder.

Coordination problems are solved by building focal points. Much easier to do from the top.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 11d
We *are* doing this.

There is the @unjournal.bsky.social. There is Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social. There are dozens of newly-founded diamond OA (free to read, free to publish) journals being born, eg Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 11d
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 11d
This brilliant graphic from @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca captures really clearly the challenge of the drain, and the hope of alternatives that can free us from it.
stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 11d
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 🎤

If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
10/10
The four-fold drain of scientific publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 11d
It is also very likely that the "Library discount" is paid for by a library subscription or deal with the publisher (ie the library pre-allocates money to pre-pay for N discounts over the fiscal year) and the other "discount" is paid for by other sources (ie the uni).

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DGBassani @dgbassani.bsky.social · 11d
A timely thread… as I recover from this shocker. What level of insanity is this? This is the publication fee for one paper in a journal that publishes a few hundred papers each year. 10,400 USD, but *only* 8,360 USD after the discounts…
Screen shot of the invoice for the article processing charges of one scientific manuscript. The total price is 10,400 USD. After the university discount and subvention the invoice balance is still 8,360 USD

Reposted by Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto, Dolly Jørgensen

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 11d
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 🎤

If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
10/10
The four-fold drain of scientific publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control.