please don't call statisticians "data scientists," they hate that, survey finds www.amstat.org/docs/default...

I randomly discovered Chinarxiv, apparently a platform dedicated to the translation of Chinese-language preprints. #openinfrastructures #openscience Here is an example on #openpeerreview practices in journals. Anyone knows more on the selection and translation process? chinarxiv.org/items/chinax...

So what is the crime? Is the output of Claude copyrighted? Is Alibaba using Anthropic's product too much? If Alibaba's excessive use of Anthropic is damaging Anthropic's ability to offer their service, then how is that different from AI bots and scrapers effectively DDoSing open repositories?

Another example of the very limited asset that is a Uni Ranking: expecting revenue from foreign students (in Aus and UK), but what else beyond that?

Certainly describes my situation: facing redundancy from a humanities job in weeks, no chance of another academic role, and at a university that went from teaching 15-20 languages to none.

Truly bizarre story of how two papers from the 1940s by physics pioneer Max Planck have been "retracted" from Naturwissenschaften, potentially by an algorithm, for anachronistic "plagiarism" issues, leaving the current editor baffled (but it is Springer Nature so.... www.science.org/content/arti...

All conferences should adopt @epidbydesign.bsky.social ‘s question rules as standard! #SER2026

Phase II of China’s Excellence Action Plan highlights the transformation of China’s academic journal publishing model to intensive, cluster-based operations, reduing costs, to improve operational capabilities and industry leadership stm-assoc.org/new-report-p...

Not to diminish our colleague contribution in any way, but 1/ did he get any money from T&F for 50 years of work? 2/ is it a good thing for the community to hold such a position for so long? (and there is to my knowledge no literature on EIC mandates).

As an ALT to the image: "The first sentence of the "published paper" is "Certainly here is a possible introduction for you!". "Publisher value" as they call it #openscience

#Openaccess is supposed to have clear definitions and delimitations since #BOAI in 2001. In a new preprint entitled Open Here, There, and Everywhere? , Louis Bachaud and I compare 30 OA Monitors and prove that almost none of them has the same definitions and typologies. hal.science/hal-05661835

Sigh. A call for papers on the legacy of Aaron Swartz. A most worthwhile topic. But ACM charging APCs for this special issue? Is that in keeping with AS's legacy? In any case, I will not write for it, as I cannot afford the APCs. I will choose a diamond venue instead. dl.acm.org/pb-assets/st...

I never said anything like this, or wrote on this topic. I have achieved the status of generic family sociologist appearing in AI slop articles to say random words. This statement now enters the great corpus of random bullshit our students will copy-paste into eternity. You're welcome.

This is a must read if you want to understand how academics and academic institutions abandon their core missions, letting commercial companies thrive and create a "market" #openscience #publishers

Good luck to very talented colleagues who left MDPI publications to run a new journal. Some back story here: polecopub.hypotheses.org/3231

#EconSky: check in on your Google Scholar page. It is not ok. Screenshot is one of three hallucinated articles I found on my profile, clearly a downstream product of someone's AI hallucinations.

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The disinvestment in French Higher Education shown by public data . At Master level, +6% candidates, -13% positions.

If you want to avoid AI Search and metadata shortcomings, you can simply full-text search on 36M works (and counting) with Matilda.

This is the policy we need at every institution of higher education across faculties. Now.

An auditor for the Ontario, Canada government found that AI agents tasked with turning doctor/patient conversations into structured notes routinely hallucinated false treatments, replaced drug names with entirely different drugs, and missed crucial information

Let me correct this: highest fake references rate in an ELSEVIER-owned preprint site (which happened to be SSH-only when they bought it, expanded to all disciplines since then). #openscience

The dream of a sociologist: knowing the actual conversion rate between "scientific credit" and money #papermills #paperstobuy #openscience

#bioethics #scientificintegrity Didier Raoult went from most cited French scientist in the world to most retracted French scientist in the world in six years.

Very interesting paper, which just doesn't remind its readers that funders policies DID work. Without Wellcome, the EU Commission and the others subsidizing APCs 20 years ago, this unbelievable author pays model would have never become mainstream. #openscience

I find the notion of «genre glitching» quite fascinating, and I wonder if similar phenomena exist in AI generated visual media? Sure, there are all kind of glitches and hallucinations, intended and unintended anachronisms, but overall AI image generators seem to stick to one genre and style

Big tech corporations have finally figured out who is to blame for their crappy products: science fiction writers.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

The paper does not seem to acknowledge Amazon limited to 3 books per day per author for KDP in 2023. So imagine what would have been the curve without it. #AILLM

From journal editing experience this tracks. In 2022 our journal got ~300 submissions. In 2025? 1300. So far this year? 500 and we're not even out of April yet. The AI trickle is now a stream, yet T&F are *still* seeking new big tech partners to flog papers for AI training rather than *helping us*

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

This is why I will always bang on about open metadata, persistent identifiers, interoperability, and funding infrastructure. There is absolutely no need to rely on LLMs to tell you if an article is retracted or not if you can easily check the DOI of a paper against the Retraction Watch database.

Yes, write a book a day with AI and you too could look this happy and fulfilled

We at @jepub.bsky.social are excited to announce the publication of our new special issue on Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences, edited by Samuel Moore, Jenni Adams, and Miranda Barnes! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/45... [1/n]

This article is now temporarily open access

All based on #POSI and with no IP tracing: your search and interests will never be disclosed. #openscience

The @retractionwatch.com Leaderboard needs to catch up, Raoult only needs 5 more to enter the all-time Top 10. #rtesearchintegrity

Disclaimer: our official disclaimer is a joke. That way we cover all our bases. #LLMAI

At the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘐 𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘐 ( #JAAI ) all the articles are written by #AI tools and all the editorial decisions are made by AI tools. jaai.pub Parts of the editorial philosophy read like good parody, parts like bad parody, and parts like non-parody. Your call. jaai.pub/about #LLMs #ScholComm

There are two versions of Microsoft Outlook on Artemis II. Last night, neither of them worked, and Houston had to remote in to address the problem.

Preprint servers are more complex than people think. arXIv chief Ramin Zabih shows their workflow at the Newton Institute. 1/n

3-year contract for a Phd position in Sociology on the discourse of/about AI, at l'Institut polytechnique de Paris.

Does it work properly? No. Are the people making it acting in good faith? No. Have they ensured it can't be used maliciously? No. Does it make people's lives better? No. Will it make people's lives better? No. Is it profitable? No. Is it popular? No. Is it harmless? No. The argument for AI.

#CNRSnews 📰 On the eve of National Cheese Day in France, many raw milk cheeses including Roquefort and Camembert could disappear, due to standardised production procedures and the reduction of the micro-organisms involved in their fermentation 🧀

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Technically it is not #diamondOA as not everyone can publish on the platform. Still, going from a very classical funder platform to to this is a huge step. You could say the only thing they kept is the name ORE. #openscience

💥New post | Predatory university rankings jeopardise the value of Webometrics ✍️ Vladimir Moskovkin #UniversityRankings #PredatoryRankings #Webometrics

If you know anything about chess, this poster on Etsy is as funny as those fraudulent rat balls. www.etsy.com/au/listing/4... #chess #researchintegrity via u/MinuteRegular716