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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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#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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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.
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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
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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)
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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 ❤️
What a joke: "The plan supports preprints publishing in peer-reviewed, “diamond” open-access publishing venues—a nascent form of scholarly communication". #Diamond journals existed before APC was invented.
I'm quoted in this story on the new Coalition S strategy. I think the idea to build capacity for alternative publishing practices and infrastructures is good, provided that this support is well sustained.
After Coalition S disrupted scientific publishing, new plan retreats from strict requirements
The group’s latest strategy emphasizes consultation, lacks spending pledges
www.science.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
What a joke: "The plan supports preprints publishing in peer-reviewed, “diamond” open-access publishing venues—a nascent form of scholarly communication". #Diamond journals existed before APC was invented.
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Code decays. How do you save a 1989 video game or digital-native art? Conservator Nika Maltar explains her strategy for integrating community-driven FOSS preservation tools (like #SWHAP) into a museum workflow.
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Code decays. How do you save a 1989 video game or digital-native art? Conservator Nika Maltar explains her strategy for integrating community-driven FOSS preservation tools (like #SWHAP) into a museum workflow.
A reminder: whenever you read or talk about the Highly Cited Researcher list by Clarivate, you must have read this paper first.
"It's tiiime!!!", comme le dit si bien Mariah Carey. C'est aujourd'hui que parait la liste 2025 des chercheurs très cités de Clarivate !
Êtes-vous prêts ? Avez-vous révisé l'histoire de cette liste ?
Si vous avez besoin d'une antisèche, c'est ici que cela se passe : direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Êtes-vous prêts ? Avez-vous révisé l'histoire de cette liste ?
Si vous avez besoin d'une antisèche, c'est ici que cela se passe : direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Highly Cited Researchers: Anatomy of a list
Abstract. The list of Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) published each year by Clarivate occupies a special place in the academic landscape, due to its use in the Shanghai rankings. This article looks at...
direct.mit.edu
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
A reminder: whenever you read or talk about the Highly Cited Researcher list by Clarivate, you must have read this paper first.
A very recommended reading. As often in the last 60 years, a "market" thrived because public bodies/governments pushed for it
... and the reason that for-profit journal publishers are such a feature of the UK/European/NAmerican scientific ecosystem (in particular) is... history! Commercial practices saved struggling non-profit journals in the 1950s/60s (as I've shown doi.org/10.1177/0073...), but what happened next?
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November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
A very recommended reading. As often in the last 60 years, a "market" thrived because public bodies/governments pushed for it
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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??