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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
I tend not to share this view. If retraction doesn't encompass the "bad literature" (far from it), it gives us a view on #publishers practices, has shown (finally to everyone) that #peerreview is not made to detect fraud, and has "radiation" effects (eg "feet of clay detector" @gcabanac.cpesr.fr )
Retraction data are still useless – almost
Retractions of scholarly articles are a rare event, affecting only about 0.02-0.04% of articles in total (but yearly rates are going up dramatically). This means that data about retractions are not even close to being representative of the scholarly […]
Retractions of scholarly articles are a rare event, affecting only about 0.02-0.04% of articles in total (but yearly rates are going up dramatically). This means that data about retractions are not even close to being representative of the scholarly […]
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mastodon.social
January 23, 2026 at 9:03 AM
I tend not to share this view. If retraction doesn't encompass the "bad literature" (far from it), it gives us a view on #publishers practices, has shown (finally to everyone) that #peerreview is not made to detect fraud, and has "radiation" effects (eg "feet of clay detector" @gcabanac.cpesr.fr )
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Our monthly review of the coverage of the major bibliographic databases (January 2026).
We excluded Xueshu Baidu and FatCat and duplicated the OpenAlex info and added PubMed, a relevant IA source
We excluded Xueshu Baidu and FatCat and duplicated the OpenAlex info and added PubMed, a relevant IA source
January 22, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Our monthly review of the coverage of the major bibliographic databases (January 2026).
We excluded Xueshu Baidu and FatCat and duplicated the OpenAlex info and added PubMed, a relevant IA source
We excluded Xueshu Baidu and FatCat and duplicated the OpenAlex info and added PubMed, a relevant IA source
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👀ICYMI: "What is clear from my data is that many of those who set up elsewhere on Bluesky, Threads and in very rare cases, Mastodon, did so in a half-baked fashion."
✍️ @andytattersall.bsky.social
✍️ @andytattersall.bsky.social
UK academia’s presence on X is reaching a tipping point - LSE Impact
Data collected on UK universities’ use of social media shows academic engagement with X is at a tipping point with more institutions off the platform than on.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 22, 2026 at 9:23 AM
👀ICYMI: "What is clear from my data is that many of those who set up elsewhere on Bluesky, Threads and in very rare cases, Mastodon, did so in a half-baked fashion."
✍️ @andytattersall.bsky.social
✍️ @andytattersall.bsky.social
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I just declined to review for a paywalled/hybrid Wiley journal... and was given absolutely no means of communicating why I declined in the process.
Just a pathway through to: "thanks for letting us know" (byeee!!!)
I was locked and loaded, ready to tell the […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Just a pathway through to: "thanks for letting us know" (byeee!!!)
I was locked and loaded, ready to tell the […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
January 19, 2026 at 11:21 AM
I just declined to review for a paywalled/hybrid Wiley journal... and was given absolutely no means of communicating why I declined in the process.
Just a pathway through to: "thanks for letting us know" (byeee!!!)
I was locked and loaded, ready to tell the […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Just a pathway through to: "thanks for letting us know" (byeee!!!)
I was locked and loaded, ready to tell the […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
The worst part in this, beyond the usual overselling and the technical and commercial lock-in, is to make Microsoft's products an heritage of Turing's work.
Big announcement from @manchester.ac.uk today:
"The University of Manchester has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft, becoming the first university in the world to give Microsoft 365 Copilot access and training to every student and colleague."
#GenerativeAI #Research #Manchester
"The University of Manchester has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft, becoming the first university in the world to give Microsoft 365 Copilot access and training to every student and colleague."
#GenerativeAI #Research #Manchester
World-first AI partnership between The University of Manchester and Microsoft announced
The University of Manchester becomes first university in the world to provide Microsoft 365 Copilot access and training to all students and staff.65,000 staff and students will receive full Microsoft ...
www.manchester.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 10:37 AM
The worst part in this, beyond the usual overselling and the technical and commercial lock-in, is to make Microsoft's products an heritage of Turing's work.
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this is a rollicking great read
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted.
Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.
www.politico.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:28 PM
this is a rollicking great read
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Reviewer or editor for a big-publisher journal: were you asked to use an in-house AI tool? Call for testimonies..
🎙️ Appel à témoignage express
Reviewer ou éditeur pour une revue gérée par une grosse maison d'édition (Springer, Elsevier...) : vous a-t-on proposé d'utiliser un outil d'IA générative développé en interne ?
J'attends vos réponses en MP. Merci !
#VeilleESR #peerreview @themeta.news
Reviewer ou éditeur pour une revue gérée par une grosse maison d'édition (Springer, Elsevier...) : vous a-t-on proposé d'utiliser un outil d'IA générative développé en interne ?
J'attends vos réponses en MP. Merci !
#VeilleESR #peerreview @themeta.news
January 12, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Reviewer or editor for a big-publisher journal: were you asked to use an in-house AI tool? Call for testimonies..
So #GenAI may be ok for secretary-standard letters, but it does not even improve productivity for very short semi-standard medical letters. "PhD-level assistant" they claimed...
“Mount Sinai recently paused use of an Epic generative AI tool, which aimed to analyze messages patients sent to doctors and create personalized draft responses. After trying it for a few weeks, doctors said the drafts weren’t helpful and required too much rewriting.”
Hospitals Are a Proving Ground for What AI Can Do, and What It Can’t
Healthcare is going all-in on artificial intelligence, from reading patient scans to fighting insurance denials.
www.wsj.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:24 PM
So #GenAI may be ok for secretary-standard letters, but it does not even improve productivity for very short semi-standard medical letters. "PhD-level assistant" they claimed...
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[1/3] Worth reading in @science.org: really important, comprehensive work on #OpenScience impact by the @pathos-project.bsky.social. Some benefits are well-documented (citations, citizen science), but strong evidence for broader economic/societal impacts still sparse. www.science.org/content/arti...
Is ‘open science’ delivering benefits? Major study finds proof is sparse
It’s hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free, researchers say
www.science.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:15 PM
[1/3] Worth reading in @science.org: really important, comprehensive work on #OpenScience impact by the @pathos-project.bsky.social. Some benefits are well-documented (citations, citizen science), but strong evidence for broader economic/societal impacts still sparse. www.science.org/content/arti...
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The power of #opendata, automation, @foxcubfr.bsky.social maintenance and Huma-Num services. In 2026, so many new objects are searchable on matilda.science?l=en #discover #openscience @cnrs-inist.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
The power of #opendata, automation, @foxcubfr.bsky.social maintenance and Huma-Num services. In 2026, so many new objects are searchable on matilda.science?l=en #discover #openscience @cnrs-inist.bsky.social
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so maybe @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social could make a resolution to remove all editors and reviewers who have accepted nonsensical papers. It would be quite a cull
As a pioneer in Open Access scholarly publishing, MDPI upholds high ethical publishing standards across its journals.
Learn more about how MDPI continues to strengthen its publication ethics policies: buff.ly/nssdnLb
#MDPI #PublicationEthics #OpenAccess
Learn more about how MDPI continues to strengthen its publication ethics policies: buff.ly/nssdnLb
#MDPI #PublicationEthics #OpenAccess
January 2, 2026 at 7:29 AM
so maybe @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social could make a resolution to remove all editors and reviewers who have accepted nonsensical papers. It would be quite a cull
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🎆Congratulations🎇 Sleuths at PubPeer - pubpeer.com :
End-of-the-Year Countdown runs for 250,000 flagged papers!!
...that's a 3‰ of total publications over all years & disciplines (ca. 76,000,000)
👉essential for #ResearchIntegrity
End-of-the-Year Countdown runs for 250,000 flagged papers!!
...that's a 3‰ of total publications over all years & disciplines (ca. 76,000,000)
👉essential for #ResearchIntegrity
December 31, 2025 at 7:13 AM
🎆Congratulations🎇 Sleuths at PubPeer - pubpeer.com :
End-of-the-Year Countdown runs for 250,000 flagged papers!!
...that's a 3‰ of total publications over all years & disciplines (ca. 76,000,000)
👉essential for #ResearchIntegrity
End-of-the-Year Countdown runs for 250,000 flagged papers!!
...that's a 3‰ of total publications over all years & disciplines (ca. 76,000,000)
👉essential for #ResearchIntegrity
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
www.youtube.com
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.