Proper citation of research by journalists is necessary for more trustworthy news A piece I wrote for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

📢 Great news: The 10th Anniversary edition of the State of Open Data Report is here! 🎉 #StateOfOpenData 🌐 The report combines survey data from more than 4,700 responses across 151 countries. 🔗 Download now: https://ow.ly/i5gN50Y3ECi A collaboration of Digital Science, Springer Nature & Figshare#StateOfOpenData

Politician: Voters won't let me do what I think is right/science says on animal welfare/climate/environment/refugees. Journalist can ask: Are you not experienced in persuasion? Are you not paid to be a leader? Are you giving voters the relevant facts?

AND WOULD THAT BE IN ANY PARTICULAR ANIMAL MODEL BY ANY CHANCE IS THERE SOME IMPORTANT CONTEXT MISSING FROM YOUR HEADLINE PERHAPS SAY IT WITH ME FOLKS

That weird feeling when the world is burning, but life is good...

Funders and who's still on X Out of 15 national funding bodies and orgs, 10 have ceased posting on the platform, with pretty much no posts in 2025. An 11th funder, @nuffieldfoundation.org is the only one to have announced they were no longer engaging on X. Four remain active on the platform.

Another helpful reminder that the Altmetric Score is not an indicator of quality, but of attention. Not all attention is good attention!

This paper with this unbelievable #AI generated yet peer-reviewed Figure 1, is still available online (pending editiorial response). It has now a whopping 932 altmetric score, with - quite interestingly - only 18 posts on X (<93k followers), while on Bluesky there are 1453 posts (<3.4M followers).

Today we give thanks for non-traditional research outputs (NTROs) & the repositories where they're found. 🙌 Let's celebrate by revisiting the Altmetric Top 25 compiled by our VP of Research Futures, Simon Porter. Why are these #NTROs capturing public attention? 🔗 https://ow.ly/QRnP50XyFL6

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How are people establishing and dealing with different attitudes to LLMs with their collaborators and co-authors? Two colleagues have told me they now have an explicit conversation at the beginning of every new project to establish a clear agreement on what is/not acceptable to all partners.

📣 A keynote not to be missed: "Crimeless Whispers: The Forensics of Deceit in Modern Science," by our VP of #ResearchIntegrity & Security, Dr Leslie McIntosh. 🗓️ Wednesday 26 November 2025 📍 Leicester, UK - or attend virtually 🔗 More details: https://ow.ly/mkaQ50Xxqcx

Every time I'm at the airport this month, I'm reminded how much I hate Brexit. Also because it pushes the train into no advantage. Ugh.

We tried to tell y'all to stop calling everything "AI" many years ago and you just wouldn't listen and now the poor machine learners must also suffer alongside the statisticians 😜

Warning for North Carolina: Scams are increasing, and the confusion is being made worse by ICE agents failing to properly identify themselves and wearing masks. As a result, residents are becoming targets of immigration fraud.

I have found so many MDPI papers from the same authors that seem to include near carbon copies of data from their other papers that are in other journals, sometimes MDPI!

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/stats-3 #smbc

if anyone remembers anything from the biden experience, it should be that electing blue no matter who isn't going to be enough to cut it in the fight against fascism. you need politicians suited for this moment. primarying them all is the most straightforward way to send that message

MoveOn, Indivisible, Our Revolution, and 6 Democrats have called on Chuck Schumer to step aside as leader. So we asked all 40 Democratic senators who didn’t cave to Republicans if they still think Schumer is the right leader. Here's what they said. @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

A staggering statistic: "North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year." What are we doing?

I am *so* protected 😅

Still my favourite "What is GIS" video explainer. 60 seconds long, great animation and interesting narrative. Perfect as a class starter or refresher #geographyteacher #GIS

Haha yesss. Japanese copyright law doesn't fuck around. Since I get challenged on this a lot: U.S. and Japan are both Berne Convention signatories, meaning the copyright is recognized between countries. They CAN go after American companies. And they are. And I love it. variety.com/2025/digital...

In "why I don't buy in-house estimates of energy expenditure". It's like trusting tobacco companies to report on lung cancer.

I recently reflected on the Royal Society Conference on the Future of Scientific Publishing and summarized my thoughts in an ISSP blog post: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn... #OpenAccess #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky

I did say that! 😁

Altmetric data in action: A new public dashboard highlights misinformation in #SocialMedia about #COVID19 & scientific research. Using @altmetric.com data for 400 million+ X/Twitter posts, the UnMiSSeD dashboard has assigned a “misinformation score” to various elements in the X posts. 1/8

PODCASTS Altmetric now tracks podcasts mentioning research In 2018 there were roughly 500,000 podcasts in existence. Just 3 years later that number was 2 million. Today it's around 4 million. Amid all the Squarespace ads there's citations to research. Let's go 1/7

It's good to see the @altmetric.com Podcast tracking working well. I just searched for a podcast I hosted & recorded with my ex-Sheffield colleague Diana Papaioannou on a paper she lead on recording harms in randomised controlled trials, and hey presto! It's in the🍩 bmj.altmetric.com/details/1688...

So basically this is how the rest of the world figures out the visceral reaction data scientists have to "garbage in/garbage out"

📣 NEWS: Digital Science has made a series of recommendations for Australia’s research future in a report published today into the use of persistent identifiers #PIDs in research. The report was commissioned by @ardc.edu.au. 🔗 See our announcement: ow.ly/GTSN50X8XjO

Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life

Digital Science CEO Dr Daniel Hook @dwh.bsky.social says: “We’re excited to see Professor Wang leveraging both Dimensions and Altmetric to deliver a high-quality “multifaceted impact analysis framework”. @dimensions.ai @altmetric.com 4/10

Can we just admire Jane Fonda, please? She is a true patriot, inspiration, and role model. "When I feel scared, I look to history. I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity."

RIP Jane Goodall 😔

There's still a couple of hours left if you have a free hour this lunch time to come and hear how we're doing research communications and knowledge mobilisation differently as part of a piece of @nihr.bsky.social funded work with our @know-ph.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-l...

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