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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 15h

Just brainstorming:

"hunt" instead of "check"?
smth like WeirdHunt, IssueHunt, TroubleHunter

PitStop

Reveal...

OddOneOut

Sniffler

Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 1d

Yes, I mean it in the best post-blind-metrics-following way

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 1d

Oooh! It's sometimes terrifying how prevalent GS bragging is outside the more informed strata of the academics. And if we step just a bit outside academia, it's too often taken non-critically. Also, NL is among the most bibliometrics aware countries, I feel, probably thanks to Leiden

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 1d

Can a marriage contract be considered a preregistration that you would rather not fulfill?

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 1d

This is interesting. Yes, practices vary wildly. I think, in social sciences the thresholds for defining authorship were usually rather high. And some corners of demography are simply too close to epi/ph/med where norms are different. But I think the blank reliance on metrics is too common around me

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 1d

True. But in a way it is a separate problem of seniority power abuse in academia. Inflating the meaning of co-authorship is not a solution to it, I think

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 1d

Agree. Co-authorship system is rigid and as dated as publishing model itself. CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) is one approach. But the problem usually lies in the adoption 🙃

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 1d

We need fractional counting and a system where co-authors are required to "slice the pie", then adding free-riding passengers will become costly

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 1d

Yeah, I'm not saying it is easy to come up with good universally working definitions, nor that ICJME managed to produce such criterions. I'm rather saying that no attempts of authorship definition would elevate partial data curation to full co-authorship

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 1d

Different bodies try to standardize what should constitute a contribution worthy of co-authorship. In medical field on of the more reputable ones is ICMJE
www.icmje.org/recommendati...
There are others too. None of them suggest that providing a handful of data points should grant co-authorship

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 1d

🚀 ready to launch 🚀

🤝 write to me before Friday if you are in Copenhagen and want to visit the meeting offline at Statistics Denmark

Skagerrak Demographic Series @skagerrak.bsky.social · 1d

Our first seminar in the Skagerrak Demographic Series is scheduled in one week, on Monday 20th October 2025, at 11:00 CET.

Lars Thygesen will give a talk titled The History of Admin Based Statistics in Denmark.

Join us in Teams by a link here
demografi.dk/skagerrak

Skagerrak Demographic Series

Vi er en forening for alle med interesse i demografiske processer og ændringer i befolkningens sammensætning | We bring together people in Denmark interested in population dynamics, foster a policy re...

demografi.dk

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Skagerrak Demographic Series @skagerrak.bsky.social · 1d

Our first seminar in the Skagerrak Demographic Series is scheduled in one week, on Monday 20th October 2025, at 11:00 CET.

Lars Thygesen will give a talk titled The History of Admin Based Statistics in Denmark.

Join us in Teams by a link here
demografi.dk/skagerrak

Skagerrak Demographic Series

Vi er en forening for alle med interesse i demografiske processer og ændringer i befolkningens sammensætning | We bring together people in Denmark interested in population dynamics, foster a policy re...

demografi.dk

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 2d

I wrapped up my scattered comments on IHME into a blog post

🔗 ikashnitsky.phd/2025/ihme-bibl

tl;dr: avoid getting unwarranted co-authorship recognition and do apply some sort of contribution-weighted thinking when evaluating someone's publication record based on bare numbers

Beyond Fraud: How IHME Distorts Academic Metrics

Dr. Ilya Kashnitsky is a demographer @ Statistics Denmark.

ikashnitsky.phd

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 2d

These are produced via perplexity (which I mostly use) that routes image generation requests to openai/dalle

Perhaps worth noting that gemini blankly refused to produce an image. Do I believe this answer? 🙃😅

Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 2d

Here's a cool prompt that I recently saw and decided to try: "Based on what you know of me, draw a picture of what my life currently looks like"

Lots of curious stuff in the images: runes, a gaming PC connected to a (?) mouse, coffee called data.frame, Dessearch notes, a running shoe on the desk 🤩

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 4d

In addition to the main message of this presentation, Marco Sanguinetti (www.marcosanguinettimusic.com) showcases his joint work with Laura Varsky (lauravarsky.com.ar) on visualizing his music 🤩
#dataviz

Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 5d

😍 just wow ❤️
www.pechakucha.com/presentation...
Thanks to @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social I learned today of the PechaKucha presentation format — 20 slides, 20 seconds each, auto progressing 💡
So, visiting the website, I just clicked the presentation of the day button — and wow 😍

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Guillaume Noblet @gnoblet.bsky.social · 5d

One of my graph has just entered the "best" section of the r-graph-gallery.com with a tutorial.

Featuring a waffle chart for time series, where the subtitle serves as a colorful legend.

Thanks a lot to @yan-holtz.bsky.social and @soeundataviz.bsky.social for adding it! #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 5d

Amazing quote! I also feel a permanent fascination by the world of *open* source/science/books/courses. The best teachers I had designed open-book exams ❤️
#OpenScience #foss #rstats

Let me suggest a beautiful and extremely relevant talk on this by @drob.bsky.social
🔗 posit.co/resources/vi...

econmaett @econmaett.github.io · 5d

Ross Ihaka: The Open-Hearted Data Hero
#rstats
www.historyofdatascience.com/ross-ihaka-t...

“R changed my opinion of humanity to some extent, to see how people are really willing to freely give of themselves and produce something larger than themselves without any thought of personal glory.”

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econmaett @econmaett.github.io · 5d

Ross Ihaka: The Open-Hearted Data Hero
#rstats
www.historyofdatascience.com/ross-ihaka-t...

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 8d

🤩 here's an exceptionally curious (brilliant?) way of showing disparities that are observed today. Yet, with a caveat that the countries lagging behind will likely cover much of the path much faster. I wonder how critical this limitation is for the most likely reading of the figure? #demography

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 8d

Nice place! What are those vases/capsules?

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Thom Volker @thomvolker.bsky.social · 8d

How cool is this?! Positron opens a HTML color picker when typing a HTML color in your script.

#RStats #dataviz

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 9d

Becoming run addict 🙃
During summer vacation I started running every day, and so far (to my lasting surprise) I keep it going (or maybe even running). Every day, usually except Mondays and Fridays when I commute to Copenhagen. And I already notice positive changes in muscle tone and general energy 🫶

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 9d

Thank you! It's very likely that I had exactly this paper in mind. Somehow, I was under the impression that it was very fresh (2024/25), maybe this is just memory's aberration

Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 9d

I would greatly appreciate it if you share the list 🙏

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 9d

btw do you know of academic papers that critically examine this #bibliometrics exercise? (I vividly remember coming across a very convincing vivisection of this paper/dataset and the harms it casts on scientific community)

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 9d

The recently updated list of so called top-2% researchers was downloaded more than 1 million times! Issuing badges is a real shortcut to success in the over-gamified academia 🙃
#AcademicSky #ScientificPublishing

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 10d

Every time I see such a stadium I get a fleeting *baseless* shock 🙃 But I wonder if baseball stadiums are actually better fit for musical concerts? 🫣

Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 11d

Finally, Elsevier showcases a snippet of the context in which this "article" was cited in another academic paper. I dare you find the relevance. And the 2nd and 3rd citations are also likely misattributed. Of course, this isn't the fault of the author of our paper in question, but the journal... 4/4