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

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

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 🫵

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...

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...

“Added value” 🙄

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.”

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.

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-...

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

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

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.

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.

Global science, local politics.

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

I am a UC kid; I would never have become a professional academic without those four months at UCSC. I will most probably never go back to the US in my lifetime, but many colleagues don't have the choice to flee new McCarthism. #standwithscience

If you want some light entertainment today, it's tram drivers's world cup - live from Vienna on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=smp0...

"the algorithms highlighted 122 applications from a total of 714 as having a low chance of success. This decision was checked by two human reviewers, who rescued 46 applications initially flagged for rejection by the AI system." This kind of tech fetishism sounds like it creates more work all round

Even making a PPT gives worse results than "non-assisted" workers. Please avoid that sh`t in creative and academic writing (unless you don't care about the content)

The most massive effect of GenAI in academic & higher education life: let the machine "write" a bullshit paper while you take your lunch #researchintegrity www.the-geyser.com/a-fake-paper...

Always nice and interesting with one big caveat. "Green" is limited by the growth of "gold", if UPW finds a copy at a publisher and 7 copies in repositories, it will code it "gold" because "best location" is gold. #openscience

A remarkable colleague, whose work is the reason why we chose "Matilda" for our open bibliographical platform. Read not only her "Matilda effect" article, but her extensive work on the history of women in science. #STS #historyofscience

Very honored to receive the Royal Society Research Culture Award - this represents the work of a great team who've worked non-stop since we launched bioRxiv in 2013 royalsociety.org/news/2025/08... www.cshl.edu/inglis-and-s...

***Limited Offer*** Who wants to be a "citation partner" and boost their citations? #PredatoryPublishing #SciSci #Metascience #MetaSci

realistic Star Trek

Grateful that @lonnibesancon.bsky.social‬, @gcabanac.cpesr.fr, Cyril Labbe and Alexander Magazinov chose to donate the proceeds of their ASIS&T Best Paper Award for 2025 to the @elisabethbik.bsky.social Fund to support the work of sleuths. More here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/our-projects...

NEW STUDY: Types of science🧪 articles shared on Bluesky: Health 29% Social 25% Physical 23% Life 23% arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18840 Worth reading--lots of other insights! Lately, I've been sharing our new article on global religious decline www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A definitive read if you work or use elecrtonic tools for bibliographic search

Never believe anyone who makes promises, rather examine evidence, hints and projections than gobble rosy overselling and bullshit (that both goes for startup guys and academic researchers).

Serial fraudulent authors enable us to compare the behaviour of publishers and without any surprise the biggest seem to not care that much about the scientific record #researchintegrity

New paper: Tackling paper mills requires us to prevent future contamination and clean up the past – the case of the journal Bioengineered With @deadneanderthals.bsky.social, @smutclyde.bsky.social, @mortenoxe.bsky.social, @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social, and me www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Twitter is dead.....scientifically speaking. www.southernfriedscience.com/twitter-suck...

A new version of AI alignment. You knew this was coming

Always interesting with some important limitations. By definition, WoS-labelled journals much more attract buyers than other journals, would they be "legitimate" (big legacy publishers) or scammers snatching journals #openscience

I recently found an interview with Bruno Latour I had been looking for for a long time and thought this might be a good idea: A list of all the interviews he did during his lifetime, plus some commentary. It's not yet finished, but useful enough to share, I hope. open.substack.com/pub/wondrous...

There are lots of stories on click workers and other AI lumpen companies. Looking at the top paid engineers gives another (bad) view on the AI industry

A paper that combines #peerreview & cheese... what could be better? Answer: writing said paper with @abalkina.bsky.social @image-integrity.bsky.social & Marie Souliere. Read on to learn how the Swiss Cheese Model could help peer review & #researchintegrity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Extremely useful service from the @internetarchive: "Access historical versions of U.S. government websites from before January 20, 2025 with a simple URL change. How it works: Take any .gov URL and add wayback.com right after .gov, and you'll be redirected to the Wayback Machine's archived […]

I'm looking forward to this @uksg.bsky.social webinar on usage metrics! It's happening a week after Uncovered, so you get two UKSG events in one month. Uncovered is about managing uncertainty and risk in our ever-changing world, and it's a cracker of a speaker line up: www.uksg.org/events/uksg-...

Two post-doc positions in CNRS on international projects in Paris, for 17 & 24 months on #STS. The first one on #openscience monitoring, the second one on #opendata in research evaluation. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Finally managed to turn this into a real blog post: Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS? Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to? wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/whatever-h...

Why spending on authors and reviewers if you can buy an editor? #papermills #fraud

In many respects, «artificial intelligence» is less a model of the human mind than a technical implementation of neoliberal market theory: a simulation of supposedly superhuman rationality optimized for efficient problem solving, which leads to mostly irrational and ultimately destructive results 1/

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text

Just in case there was any doubt, ChatGPT 5.0 still makes up completely random citations that don't exist and should not be used for literature search.

The French Shanghai ranking obsession on August, 15th. Papers in popular press to comment French U. "success" and "critical" papers in which colleagues with no expertise at all would give what the journalist wants to write. (Hopefully I could only read the unpaywalled part).

In light of the passing of STS luminary Michel Callon, we have arranged for his landmark 1994 article "Is Science a Public Good?" to be available for free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Yet, it is easier to be critical when you are highly ranked, but thanks @ethz.ch to not endorse those stupid systems. So I would say #openscience and inclusiveness as core values.

It says a lot about the political imagination of academia that one of the more common proposals for fixing publish-or-perish culture is to limit the number of articles we can publish each year.

Like DOIs and other PIDs, links only last as long as someone (else) maintains them and the underlying infrastructures #STS #openscience