Someone went to the trouble of creating 5 fake OSF accounts today, linking to 5 fake ORCID accounts, and generating 5 fake papers to submit to SocArXiv, with fake author and emails. Dude, if you are reading this, I hope you get the help you need (or a better job).

Fargo, season 6, perfect scenario.

Can’t believe nobody wanted to read the articles nobody bothered to write

All those AI companies destroying our scholarly infrastructures will definitely be queuing up to support arXiv now it's becoming an independent organisation and seeking financial sustainability, yeah?

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

The Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Is Moving to Europe (after 35 years in the USA) https://improbable.com/2026/03/10/the-ig-nobel-prize-ceremony-is-moving-to-europe-after-35-years-in-the-usa/

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"Non-scientists with pet theories should ideally be directed away from arXiv" www.nature.com/articles/d41... bioRxiv: "Hypotheses without new data...are considered out of scope and will not be posted" www.biorxiv.org/about/FAQ 1/n

Economists: we award Nobel Prizes for work on efficient institutions and minimizing transaction costs. Also Economists: the review process at the American Economic Review.

Everybody in the academic world is against the RFK Jr crazy policies. Yet the Lancet would be more credible if they had faced consequences for Wakefield's autism paper, the Surgisphere one or their Macchiarini support en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lan...

Ouvrir la Science - The 2025 French Open Science Monitor: significant progress in the communication of clinical trial results https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/the-2025-french-open-science-monitor-significant-progress-in-the-communication-of-clinical-trial-results/

This is why I was concerned, long ago, about the UK government wanting "anonymised" health data to be made available. I knew it was only time before the technology would catch up and make it possible to de-anon.

Matilda has reached 160M deduplicated publications, among which 33M are full-text searchable. Everything is free, sharable and reusable and will remain as such under our #POSI commitments and following our mission matilda.science/mission?l=en

"Since 2019, the government has been pursuing a plan to develop 400 world-class scientific journals as affordable alternatives to ones based in Western countries; by 2023 the country had about 178 English-language open-access journals, nearly half of which charged no APC..."

The @morphss.bsky.social team will be speaking about the future of open research in humanities and social sciences. Tuesday 3 March, 15.00–16.30 | Online.

A week ago, we had an open conversation amongst senior academics in leadership roles and their use of LLMs (in both their leadership capacities and individually). Small group, not representative, but it already taught me a great deal about the diversity of perspectives (& their consequences). 1/

Think of all the money research funders have poured into the maw of the Big Five publishers, paying for APCs instead of funding diamond #openaccess infrastructure, what a shame! scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/18/g... "Open access needs institutions not heroes"

In the short list of top #academic #fraudsters, there is a French philologist who invented its "Nobel/Fields" medal, fabricated the learned society which would provide it and received it in the building of the French Parliament. (FR) @retractionwatch.com www.estrepublicain.fr/faits-divers...

Feel like this is a good lesson to keep generative AI far from your editorial process as a matter of policy. Ars is a great website. If it can happen there it can happen to anyone that allows these tools in

The wonderful #LLMAI effect on science writing: #fakecitations everywhere in conferences! #researchintegrity (from that, imagine the reliability of the content) arxiv.org/abs/2602.058...

Want to share this again, because what a fantastic write up by @ronentk.me! #OpenScience

"Through this special issue, we invite broader discussion on Diamond OA and its future(s), from the highly conceptual to the deeply infrastructural. What is next for Diamond OA as it oscillates between the potential for either a technocratic or community-led and commons-based future?"

"If a plagiarized paper by an author who claims he didn’t write it disappears from a journal’s website with no notice, did it ever exist?" Yes - it'll have been downloaded, search engines will've indexed it. This is why bioRxiv/medRxiv do not disappear papers. retractionwatch.com/2026/02/05/j...

Please don't make any sausages pretending they are madeleines and avoid a bouillabaisse that look like ragout rather than being fish-based. #AILLMs are as bad to cuisine as they are at science (and almoste anything else that is not bullshitting).

You sell citations to real authors and you have nothing to pay to the publisher or to fake authors for "writing" the paper. Maybe you have to pay a #reviewmill if you don't operate yourself. Perfect business model #citationcartles #researchintegrity

Don't you f**king dare.

So chatbots happen to be even more expensive than #bigpublishers

#ERAAct #PositionPaper | 📢 Following the European Commission's consultation on the ERA Act, OPERAS has just released a position paper with a powerful message: Don't let commercial interests capture the research agenda. 👉Learn more: https://operas.hypotheses.org/9636

Like Amazon, @arxiv.bsky.social , @cos.io and other places will soon limit to 20 manuscripts/day the maximum number a given author can publish.

however, sadly, the paper pitches this as a "trust issue" but people are right now to trust this stuff! Also complete failure to recognise that tools need to be worthy of trust, not that people should give their trust more freely

This is simultaneously so cool, as it cuts down tedious repetitive stuff to let you focus on the content, and absolutely terrifying, given the current incentives in scientific publications. It *can* be used to make science better. It *will* be used to produce tons of crap. What a time to be alive

#GenAI sewers try to find their way everywhere, forcing #open scholarly infrastructure to act as #gatekeepers.

📣 Join our next research seminar! Our colleague @loubezuidenhout.bsky.social will give a talk on 'Equality of Access Requires Equity in Design: Rethinking Open Science Infrastructures'. 📅 Friday, 30/1/2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CET) 📌 Online & at CWTS www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

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 )

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

👀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

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]

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.

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...

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...

[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...

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

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

🎆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

The perfect opening of a perfect film, the best score ever by Delerue, Bardot's most moving role www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1iO...

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.

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...

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...