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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 2d

Retraction of articles days after their publication feels like a circus. Now imagine that France had a government for just 12h (not a joke). So short that the international press can't follow www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Macron appoints new French government in attempt to end political deadlock

Rivals say president’s latest cabinet represents unwelcome continuity and hard-left party vows to file no-confidence motion amid fraught budget talks

www.theguardian.com

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matilda.science @matilda-science.bsky.social · 7d

That is why we have multiple sources in Matilda and deduplicate to get abstracts and, more importantly, full-text indexing to achieve maximum discoverability. #openscience #openresearchinformation

Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 7d

[blogged] The Petrol Tank for AI Discovery Might be Running Dry as Publishers close access to scholarly content such as abstracts due to AI incentives aarontay.substack.com/p/the-petrol... - an analysis of OpenAlex abstract coverage changes for Elsevier & Springernature

The Petrol Tank for AI Discovery Might be Running Dry as Publishers close access to scholarly content such as abstracts due to AI incentives

Elicit.com, Consensus, and Undermind.ai are among the new leading comprehensive cross-disciplinary “AI-powered academic search engines” today.

aarontay.substack.com

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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 7d

Exactly what we expected at @matilda-science.bsky.social Soon "citation disadvantage" papers will objectify the cascading effects.

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 7d

Important observation by Aaron Tay: Articles published by Elsevier and Springer Nature may be increasingly difficult to find. For many of these articles abstracts are not made openly available, limiting article discoverability, in particular using AI tools.

@barcelonadori.bsky.social @oa2020.org

Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 7d

[blogged] The Petrol Tank for AI Discovery Might be Running Dry as Publishers close access to scholarly content such as abstracts due to AI incentives aarontay.substack.com/p/the-petrol... - an analysis of OpenAlex abstract coverage changes for Elsevier & Springernature

The Petrol Tank for AI Discovery Might be Running Dry as Publishers close access to scholarly content such as abstracts due to AI incentives

Elicit.com, Consensus, and Undermind.ai are among the new leading comprehensive cross-disciplinary “AI-powered academic search engines” today.

aarontay.substack.com

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 7d

Another record month for bioRxiv - and further evidence the pandemic spike+dip was just that and growth continues. Thanks to all involved and that includes 🫵

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 7d

In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer.

www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...

AI isn't replacing radiologists

Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.

www.understandingai.org

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 7d

Today on the blog, we feature Matilda, a bibliographic platform built specifically for open science. We spoke with project lead Didier Torny about the project, and their plans to incorporate links to datasets for the articles they index in Matilda.

👉 makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 10d

Asbestos was highly effective in mitigating the effects of fire. What could be the positive effect of LLM AI?

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 12d

“Added value” 🙄

Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 13d

This is a problem.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 16d

RFK Jr: “Research on vaccines and autism has been suppressed.”

PubMed: “Here’s over 1200 research papers on vaccines and autism…

…including this first one which is a meta-analysis showing that vaccines are not associated with autism.”

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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 16d

The new definition of guest authorship...

polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 17d

OK, so Crossref-based.

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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 17d

I knew for MDPI, I did not realise the fall for Frontiers was that high (I suppose you talk about WoS volume not Crossref volume)

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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 17d

Most people don't realise how big Frontiers and MDPI have become (in volume).

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 19d

Universities:
- Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers
- stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research
- stop pretending AI usage is inevitable.

I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19d

“university leaders … must act to help us collectively turn back the tide of garbage software, which fuels harmful tropes (e.g. so-called lazy students) and false frames (e.g. so-called efficiency or inevitability) to obtain market penetration and increase technological dependency”

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 19d

I see it as a spectrum, humanities are very close to maths (replacing articles with books): one or two authors, very limited reading, hard to write, each word is weighed before publication.

polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 19d

No, it is incredibly hard to write a math paper, to read it, to review it, so they just make a few of them, while biologists salami slice and publish the slightest correlation or the quickest experiment (not every biologist).

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 19d

In the past I've criticised the F1000 model for being editorially light touch, but my experience of publishing this article was really good. Two rounds of review with four expert reviewers who each provided really helpful feedback and have now approved the paper.

f1000research.com/articles/14-...

F1000Research Article: “I just very much love the journal”:  Understanding the community-led publishing landscape at the University of Cambridge.

Read the latest article version by Samuel Moore, Mandy Wigdorowitz, at F1000Research.

f1000research.com

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Dan McQuade @dhm.bsky.social · 19d

Make sure to wish a librarian a happy Gerald Ford Trapped in The Penn Library Elevator Day.

A sign in an elevator

On the 19th day of September, 1984
Former U.S. President
Gerald R. Ford
was temporarily trapped in this elevator.
VAN PELT-DIETRICH
LIBRARY CENTER

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 19d

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s

PCI Webinar-Dorothy Bishop-How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing

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matilda.science @matilda-science.bsky.social · 20d

We will never have any AI (LLM) component inside Matilda to avoid that situation. Bibliographic search needs deterministic, transparent and reproducible processes. AI-training robots already come to the platform, which is fine, though we need to slow them down to avoid DDOS-style crashes.

MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 20d

"The problem, she says, is these companies are rushing products to market, making the skills academic librarians are trying to teach students and researchers to use obsolete." www.404media.co/librarians-a...

Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books

It’s a trippy time to have a library card.

www.404media.co

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 21d

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 21d

Global science, local politics.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 21d

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday.

www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

Royal Society to debate throwing out Elon Musk

One of the most prestigious scientific bodies in the world is considering expelling Musk after his appearance at Tommy Robinson’s extremist London rally

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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matilda.science @matilda-science.bsky.social · 23d

Tonight at #OSFair2025 we perform two Matilda demos. Come and let's chat around #openscience in bibliographic search www.opensciencefair.eu/demos/matild...

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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 25d

"ceux qui s'en donnent les moyens". Enough said...