1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This error message on the #saintsfc app says it all really

Jones, Selles, Martin, Juric, Rusk, Still, ?? #saintsfc

Everybody waiting for #CelebrityTraitors tonight

I have put together another short quiz on scholarly publishing. This week it's all about DOIs, diamond OA, DORA, and other D things. Just for fun, but reply with your score if you like. >>> tally.so/r/wQgMOl

It's Monday, so I'm sharing my latest scholarly publishing quiz. This week's quiz is brought to you by the letter C - COPE, contributorship, Cell Press, cakes... tally.so/r/nPVog0 What score did you get?

Guidelines and checklists for... writing guidelines and checklists, by Tom Lang

So now we have a Gateway and a Nexus. Other publishing organisations have gone with Portal, Hub, Framework, Academy for their AI showcases. I wonder what's next on the list? Matrix? Enclave? www.wiley.com/en-gb/soluti...

Round 2 of the A to Z Scholarly Publishing Quiz. This week is brought to you by the letter B 👉 tally.so/r/nWxP6R Reply with your score! #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #Scholcomms #Quiz

New archive of independent music magazines, from RILM. I just love that there's a spreadsheet that lists all the editors. Hats of to editors, independent music, and curated archives.

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions! Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

Tracking Shutdown Impact and Changes at PubMed There's been some panic about PubMed again, since a notice on the website warned it could be out of date because of the US government shutdown. Shutdown is dreadful, in so many ways. But that notice doesn't mean PubMed has been de-funded, or that it's…

Agree. It's decision making and judgement, not button pushing.

I am running a weekly A to Z Scholarly Publishing Quiz. It's just for fun, but you might learn something 📘 This week’s letter: 🅰️ Take the quiz here 👉 tally.so/r/3j8z8R Please reply and let me know how you did! #AcademicPublishing #ScholarlyPublishing #ScholarlyCommunications #Quiz

New post on RestoRes's website. "New initiative seeks evidence for effective open science practices" The Global Research Initiative on Open Science, officially launched last week, aims to identify what works (and what doesn’t) in Open Science worldwide. restores.univ-rennes.fr/highlights/n...

Jeffrey Aronson on serendipity, paracetamol/acetaminophen, autism, bias, and so much more... doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

We need good practices for DOI registration for publish-review-curate platforms like @metaror.bsky.social and others. @andre-brasil.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about this: doi.org/10.64000/76j... Together with @crossref.bsky.social we hope to receive input from the community on this issue!

People who come to my workshops on ai search engines are often frustrated because they want me to tell them which is best. With librarians it manifests as to asking which we subscribe to. Not a bad idea if idea is you trust preferences revealed by actions. But here's the issue . . (1)

I love writing that makes you want to urgently relisten or dig further into an artist's work. After reading this by Ian Penman via @mitpress.bsky.social I am hoping to experience some Satie 'riverine clarity' next week

Today's genre of choice - Polish big band #JazzSky 🇵🇱 🎷

once again I must tap my own sign

Infrastructure is a collective responsibility – lessons from scholarly publishing and metadata blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

[Blogged] How should academic retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems handle retracted works? I test Elicit, Scite assistant, SciSpace, Primo Research Assistant, Undermind, Ai2 ScholarQA and many more to see how they handle retracted papers. open.substack.com/pub/aarontay... (1)

I wish there was a library of resources on research integrity methods and resources... Oh! Look.... 👍👏

Anyone can do post-publication peer review. Anyone can be a steward of the scientific literature. Anyone can do forensic metascience. Anyone can sleuth. That's why we are launching COSIG: the Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides, an open source resource for all of the above. cosig.net

Some undefined work is happening hereabouts at some point. Maybe.

Big, bold, and funded, led by @jamesheathers.bsky.social with support of the @retractionwatch.com team and Open Philanthropy >>> medicalevidenceproject.org

SOCIAL MEDIA SENTIMENT ANALYSIS CUSTOMER BETA The single most requested feature in the last 11 years is (nearly) here. From today Altmetric can show Explorer users positive, negative and neutral sentiment to research when shared on Bluesky (and X/Twitter). Let's go through the (e)motions: 1/9

This is so exciting! The German National Library of Medicine @zbmed.bsky.social just had its first open meeting on the plan for an open & independent PubMed safety net. Here's my write-up @plos.org on the meeting & how institutions & others can help absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/g... #MedLibs

Going to attend the World Conference on Research Integrity 'in between' online, starting now.

Outside Not Looking Forward To People Wanting To Walk Around In It Again This Summer

Split The Bill Sliding Away #PaulSimonCurry

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

👋 Hi, we’re Unbreaking, a volunteer-run collective working to document our current moment of institutional collapse and its human costs—as well as the pushback and resilience work already underway. We believe this is critical work for building and retaining political agency.

We are pleased to announce we have a shiny new website with @kcommons.bsky.social and fresh new logo! MORPHSS is ready to roll. Please share. 😊 @theul.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.social morphss.hcommons.org

"The current [post-publication review] process is inefficient and ineffective in assessing and removing untrustworthy data from the medical literature" doi.org/10.1111/1471...

NEW @bmj.com research investigates the impact of retracted trials on the production and use of healthcare evidence in the evidence ecosystem www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Does anyone know what happened to fosteropenscience.eu ?

Another really absorbing read from @brieferyet.bsky.social exploring both recent and long-running 'goings-on' in #ScholarlyPublishing www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/va...

🎵 #NowPlaying on repeat: Shaky Escalator by Peter Matson & Underground System via bastardjazz.com

"Fast & Fair" #PeerReview by @biologists.bsky.social on Biology Open. Reviewers prerecruited and paid (GBP 220). Submission to first decision in 4.6 days (n=20). Nicely designed, implemented, and documented. #ScholarlyPublishing doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Catching up on some reading, and I liked this by @ludowaltman.bsky.social. Also, Springer Nature's big survey on research assessment and what it might do stories.springernature.com/state-of-res... #ResearchAssessment #ScholarlyPublishing

AuthorAID is rebranding to Rising Scholars. “Our new name reflects the broader ways we support early career researchers – beyond academic writing – to include research skills, career development, networking, and more. “ #RisingScholars https://risingscholars.net/en/news/details/2087/

Grady, T., Sykes, E., & Eve, M. P. (2025). How can we achieve sustainable funding for #OpenAccess #books? Insights, 38(1). https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.673 #ScholComm #AcademicImpact #publishing #library

Wonder if their winners were in the 19th century version of Fergie time? #SaintsFC

🥳 Great idea and initiative by @elisabethbik.bsky.social! Thanks to @retractionwatch.com parent org for helping this initiative. www.science.org/content/arti...

It says a lot about how compliant the US GOP-led congress is that even the most objectionable and unqualified nominees for senior leadership roles have been approved by the Senate.

The Terrible "T" (who could that refer to?). Recorded 65 years ago today at Bell Sound Studios in New York #JazzSky #VeeJay - Lee Morgan 🎺 - Clifford Jordan 🎷 - Wynton Kelly 🎹 - Paul Chambers - Art Blakey 🥁

Investigating fraud and errors in health research is obviously laudable. But we need to maintain high methodological standards. That means scrutinising each others’ work, and calling each other out when we err. There are so many errors in error detection. A few recurring errors:

Check the whole thread, but this is my takeaway for today. Of course, the armed children will also raid things that were sound and well ordered, because they are armed children.