I have a proposal for a new diagnostic technique for ADHD (can also be used to measure effectiveness of medication and non-pharmaceutical interventions): Google Photos takeout with 63 files of 2 GB each. Is it physically painful? Yes. At what number did I interrupt the process? 47... I think 🤔

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭 anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

Ooooh, new infographics!

Playing "whose notification is going to remind me of this task I need to do" with colleagues. 😉 Why can't Gemini do *this* part?

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Hey, psst, France... what's the hold up?

"And so when we’re thinking about how important these resources are for improving child outcomes, we need to remember that if we don’t have equal inputs, we cannot expect equal outcomes." A good interview between @rcobooth.bsky.social and @christinajcross.bsky.social. Read on.

A poem for the first day of autumn. From Good Bones by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social. Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/goodbonesBK #poem #books #writing

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This is a great article on paper mills by Lea Wolz (in German). It provides a general overview of paper mills and their impact on science. It gives examples of how fake papers penetrate Cochrane reviews and bias recommendations. Highly recommended! www.quarks.de/gesellschaft... #papermills

Isn't that just called Religion?

this exists it is called thinking

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

4. Science of Science, with its data-intensive descriptive approach is useful, but insufficient. Metascience, with its laser focus on a replication crisis in psychology, likewise. We need broader humanistic thinking about the social processes involved in the construction and valuation of knowledge.

NEW Researcher Profiles in Altmetric Altmetric tracks research items and where they are mentioned or cited online. Searching by researcher name wasn't a feature unless you imported your own from a repository or CRIS Today we are launching a global researcher search feature. 1/5

#Dagstuhl Seminar "Open Scholarly Information Systems": Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social talking about @digital-science.com and the Research Data Ecosystem.

. @kowb.bsky.social talking about @digital-science.com infrastructure

On the Alignment of Post-Publication Reviews & Bibliometric and Altmetric Impact -- A Case Study on Expert Statements from the Science Media Center Germany https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22594

Team Altmetric colours! 🌈 The #ARMS2025 conference asked attendees to display their team colours - so we've gone one step further. 😃 Each of these pics is matched to one of the (many!) @altmetric.com attention sources that reflect #ResearchImpact 📸 Photos taken at the Digital Science stand.

👇🎯 Periodic reminder that no one seems to have a serious answer to the question of which institutions in 🇺🇸 society have <fewer> free speech problems than universities. The reason why there is no serious answer to that is because the answer is almost certainly "none."

If you run a life science lab where research has either significantly slowed or shut down completely due to Trump administration policies, I’d like to hear your story. I'm a biotech and life sciences reporter for @statnews.com, and you can reach me at [email protected] #journorequest

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Meanwhile, I'm more concerned about the capacity of AI to create actual impostors. All of my experience suggests that it's a useful tool *only* in the case that you are already an actual expert (whether that is research, coding, product, or business). The danger is that we lose expertise over time.

So this is absolutely a conversation we should be having, but it seems like this is describing something quite particular: people with impostor syndrome are worried that they'll be found out as impostors if they admit they use AI (to their superiors or competitive peers (other doctors)?)

Tapping the sign

🚨 NEWS: Investigation shows researchers associated with a fictitious research network have netted millions of taxpayers’ money in funding. As presented by @mcintold.bsky.social (VP of #ResearchIntegrity) at @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social #PRC10 🔗 See more: www.digital-science.com/blog/2025/09...

Between 2021-2024 @plosone.org detected 50 large-scale integrity concerns (“megacases”) involving >7K submissions & publications re: #PaperMills (42%), authorship (22%), #PeerReview (52%), policy compliance (12%), w numbers rising from 2 (214 articles) in '21 to 25 megacases (4310 articles) in ’24.

When ORCID members contribute data to ORCID records, it helps researchers demonstrate their scholarly bona fides + promotes the discovery of their research, the transparency of its processes, facilities, funding, publications, + more. ✅ Learn more 👉 https://info.orcid.org/?s=trust+markers

Good morning from Chicago, where we are getting ready for Day 2 of the 10th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication. peerreviewcongress.org @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social #PRC10

"Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total isolation." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

THREAD Sentiment Analysis Sentiment Analysis for social media is now fully live on Altmetric. From today you can see sentiment of all posts on Bluesky and X formerly Twitter. We categorised nearly 210m items. Here's why you should care. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNip... #AcademicSky #Altmetrics

After the break, we will continue with the next session: "Authorship and Integrity Issues", introduced and moderated by Lex Bouter @lexbouter.bsky.social‬ The first speaker (program change) is Tim Kersjes with 'Paper Mill Use of Fake Personas to Manipulate the Peer Review Process' #PRC10

UK higher-ed research environment elements that promoted excellent science in 2021: responsible leadership, collab culture, staff/financial support, employment security/progression, responsible assessment @naubertbonn.bsky.social @lhughesnoehrer.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk ref2029.bsky.social

Frog knows the ADHD solution 😆

Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.

This flow chart is also canonical (sincere apologies but I do not think I can alt-text this)

As a point of interest, who was the first to come up with the idea of APCs? And why did no one have a better plan? No one!?

A Guide to Figuring out the Age of an Undated World Map by xkcd.com/1688/

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

NEW: Don't ask too many questions, but... NIH may not re-terminate the 900ish grants at issue in the main NIH lawsuits after all. To the PIs of reinstated grants, SPEND NOW! 🧵 Here's what NIH is probably thinking. Bear with me:

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

I think it's the right thing to do to frame this as a question. How far can AI get us, and how much work should we be preparing ourselves to do as human beings assessing other human beings?

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Continuing our series of #BackToSchool resources: @forrt.bsky.social have many excellent resources on teaching and mentoring students in Open Research practices, including easy to incorporate materials, assessments, and lessons. Check some of them out here: forrt.org/adopting/

"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...

Why Trump’s attack on the Smithsonian matters | Kimberlé Crenshaw and Jason Stanley

“The study authors asked GPT 4o-mini to evaluate the quality of 217 papers. The tool didn’t mention in any of the reports that the papers being analyzed had been retracted or had validity issues. In 190 cases, GPT described the papers as world leading, internationally excellent, or close to that”