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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 19h

Why does every story about Nobel prize winners receiving the call involve them being woken in the middle of the night? Do the Nobel people not understand how time zones work or is it a deliberate strategy to generate fun stories about confused winners...?

Kate Holterhoff, PhD @kateholterhoff.com · 1d

We are all Dr. Brunkow 😴
“Dr. Brunkow said she did not expect to win a Nobel Prize. ‘My phone rang, and I saw a number from Sweden and thought, well that’s just spam of some sort, so I disabled the phone and went back to sleep,’“ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 1d

OpenAI’s Sora 2 video-generating software is particularly hungry for Japanese IP, with anime characters prevalent online.

OpenAI’s Sora 2 is drowning in Japanese 'AI slop'

Iconic Japanese characters are prevalent across Sora 2, but legally, this places the company on shaky ground.

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 1d

💥New: Banning Sci-Hub highlights India’s unequal access to knowledge

✍️Rituparna Patgiri

#AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #SciHub

Banning Sci-Hub highlights India’s unequal access to knowledge - Impact of Social Sciences

The decision to block Sci-Hub in India brings inequalities in access to research based knowledge into sharp focus.

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 6d

UKRIO @ukrio.bsky.social is introducing an Authorship Integrity Toolkit:
a set of practical, adaptable resources designed to support both individual researcher contributors in their day-to-day practice and organisations in developing policies and managing projects.
ukrio.org/resources/th...

The Authorship Integrity Toolkit - UK Research Integrity Office

The Authorship Integrity Toolkit Practical resources to support responsible authorship in research UKRIO is pleased to present the Authorship Integrity Toolkit – a new collection of resources to help ...

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Nature @nature.com · 15d

Tools such as ChatGPT can be used to generate almost-identical research papers that pass standard plagiarism checks

go.nature.com/4pR5Wf0

Journals infiltrated with ‘copycat’ papers that can be written by AI

Tools such as ChatGPT can be used to generate almost-identical research papers that pass standard plagiarism checks. Hundreds are thought to have been published.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 16d

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring.

So Science did a study.

ChatGPT failed.

Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

Can ChatGPT help science writers?

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 15d

💥New: ChatGPT is blind to bad science

✍️ @yelusikuata.bsky.social & @mikethelwall.bsky.social

#AcWri #SciComm #ChatGPT #Retractions

ChatGPT is blind to bad science - Impact of Social Sciences

A new study finds ChatGPT fails to take into account retraction notices across a wide range of research.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 21d

A paper in Nature presents the methodology used to train a large-scale reasoning model in DeepSeek-R1, the open AI model released earlier this year. The paper shows the reasoning ability of the LLM is improved by pure reinforcement learning. go.nature.com/3VVz1ba 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows the accuracy and output length of DeepSeek-R1-Zero throughout the training process.

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 21d

DeepSeek published about R1 in Nature

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

but the supplementary information is far more detailed. it includes, lots of details on everything from datasets, data processing, hyperparameters, and more

static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10...

DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning - Nature

A new artificial intelligence model, DeepSeek-R1, is introduced, demonstrating that the reasoning abilities of large language models can be incentivized through pure reinforcement learning, removing t...

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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 24d

Preprint: “How Much are #LLMs Changing the Language of Academic Papers After #ChatGPT? A Multi-Database and Full Text Analysis” www.infodocket.com/2025/09/14/p... #scholcomm #AI

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29th Annual Conference on Science and Technology Indicators @stienid2025.bsky.social · Jul 15

📣 Clarivate presents the 2025 Inaugural Eugene Garfield Memorial Lecture!

Prof Mike Thelwall, a true gentleman of bibliometrics, shared:

“Eugene Garfield inspired me. I met him once and was in awe. This means so much to me.”

A fitting tribute. #STIENID2025

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29th Annual Conference on Science and Technology Indicators @stienid2025.bsky.social · Sep 4

Starting this morning with the 2025 Eugene Garfield Memorial Lecture sponsored by @clarivate.com given by the amazing @mikethelwall.bsky.social on reconciling AI with human judgement in research assessment

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · Sep 2

THREAD

Sentiment Analysis

Sentiment Analysis for social media is now fully live on Altmetric. From today you can see sentiment of all posts on Bluesky and X formerly Twitter.

We categorised nearly 210m items.

Here's why you should care.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNip...

#AcademicSky #Altmetrics

Introducing the Altmetric Sentiment Analysis

YouTube video by Altmetric YouTube Channel

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29th Annual Conference on Science and Technology Indicators @stienid2025.bsky.social · Sep 3

@kerifacer.bsky.social Challenges how we can prepare research evaluation for different conceptualisation of time.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · Sep 2

Sheffield researchers doing The Lord’s work. Great study.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement

Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

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Er-Te Zheng @ertezheng.bsky.social · Sep 2

indeed Nature also posted our finding on Bluesky, and that post got higher interactions in Bluesky than X, which further confirms our study :) bsky.app/profile/natu...

Nature @nature.com · Aug 29

Posts about research on Bluesky receive substantially more attention than similar posts on X, formerly called Twitter

go.nature.com/45Ftiw4

Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement

Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

go.nature.com

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Er-Te Zheng @ertezheng.bsky.social · Sep 2

Very interested to see the Overton update!

Overton @overton.io · Aug 27

Next week, Overton is heading to the 29th Annual International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (@stienid2025.bsky.social)!

We’ll be making a very exciting announcement… So be sure to stop by the Overton table for the inside scoop 👀

See you in Bristol!

#STI-ENID2025 #Overton

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Nature @nature.com · Aug 29

Posts about research on Bluesky receive substantially more attention than similar posts on X, formerly called Twitter

go.nature.com/45Ftiw4

Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement

Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

go.nature.com

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Aug 25

“The study authors asked GPT 4o-mini to evaluate the quality of 217 papers. The tool didn’t mention in any of the reports that the papers being analyzed had been retracted or had validity issues.

In 190 cases, GPT described the papers as world leading, internationally excellent, or close to that”

ChatGPT tends to ignore retractions on scientific papers

Study finds the chatbot doesn’t acknowledge concerns with problematic studies

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Aug 24

“What can I do? I can try to help us build a scientific enterprise that won’t be as easy to attack. To do that, we need to do a better job recognizing that the public is investing in this and we owe them a debt of gratitude, rather than simply lecturing to them about all the great things we found”

To restore trust in science, scientists should focus on storytelling

Holden Thorp, PhD, top editor at Science, discusses the essential role of front-line doctors, the power of well-told stories, and the value of admitting error.

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Nature @nature.com · Aug 20

Researchers argue over whether ‘novel’ AI-generated works use others’ ideas without credit

go.nature.com/3VaNpvQ

What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks

Researchers argue over whether ‘novel’ AI-generated works use others’ ideas without credit.

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · Aug 14

Agree with the prognosis that GS will be axed because it’s not making money but am not so worried. OpenAlex and open community-owned infrastructure FTW! #BarcelonaDeclaration

Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · Aug 13

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Aug 13

In economics, men are tenured aren't punished for coauthoring.

Women, however, are less likely to receive tenure the more they coauthor.

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Jul 31

Here's a quick blogpost about alternative publishing models. You can bring a horse to water, and indeed wave the bucket temptingly under its nose, but it is likely to gallop off elsewhere. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-...
@ec.europa.eu @wellcometrust.bsky.social

New publishing models will only work if authors embrace them

Complaints about the broken academic publishing system have been around for years and are getting louder. A common theme is that with the r...

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Er-Te Zheng @ertezheng.bsky.social · Jul 28

How is science discussed on Bluesky? 🤔
Our new study finds higher textual originality on Bluesky scholarly posts than previously observed on X ✨
A fresh platform for science 📢
For more: arxiv.org/abs/2507.18840
#ScienceCommunication #Altmetrics #Bluesky

New source, new possibilities: An exploratory study of Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles

Amid the migration of academics from X, the social media platform Bluesky has been proposed as a potential alternative. To assess its viability and relevance for science communication, this study pres...

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