New working paper 🚨🚨🚨 What was the origin of modern economic growth? Joel Mokyr had a Nobel winning answer - growth took off when science and technology began to reinforce each other But can we test this quantitatively? This paper does so – read more ⬇️ 🧵

🧵 1/ 🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask: 👉 Why do some papers cite others? 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

OurResearch rebrands to OpenAlex. blog.openalex.org/were-now-ope...

We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following. It still became a polarization machine. Then we tried six interventions to fix social media. The results were… not what we expected. arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385

We often have to judge who is knowledgeable—precisely when we are not. Can humans really do that? Our new paper in Psychological Science shows that, surprisingly, we can. drive.google.com/file/d/1b15E...

who says that science doesn't generate profit?

Advocates of research assessment reforms and bibliometricians sometimes have a rocky and heated relationship. 🔥 This paper, written by three bibliometricians, attempts to reconcile the two camps. What are your thoughts on this issue? #CoARA #DORA zenodo.org/records/1467...

Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣 It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social (1/13)

1/ 🚨 NEW PAPER! “Open Science at the Generative AI Turn” In a new study just published in Quantitative Science Studies, we explore how GenAI both enables and challenges Open Science, and why GenAI will benefit from adopting Open Science values. 🧵 doi.org/10.1162/qss_... #OpenScience #AI #GenAI

Renovating the Theatre of Persuasion. ManyLabs as Collaborative Prototypes for the Production of Credible Knowledge; a new preprint & thread. In it, I'll say a little about theatres of persuasion, and why new collaborative structures change how they look osf.io/preprints/me... #sts #metascience 1/

Does training of peer reviewers work? "Evidence from 10 RCTs suggests that training peer reviewers may lead to little or no improvement in the quality of peer review." Cochrane systematic review 🔓: www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

With all the new influx of users, I’d love to see a community around #sciencepolicy #scipol #bibliometrics #scientometrics #scisci #metascience. Please share if you want to be part of it, use the tags to find others, or just say hi 👋

The perennial dispute between quantitative and qualitative research assessment is once again heating up. The match-up this time: Evaluative scientometrics vs CoARA 🔓The forced battle between peer-review and scientometric research assessment academic.oup.com/rev/advance-...

New edited volume: Challenges in Research Policy And it's open access! 👍 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

It's raining preprints, hallelujah 🎶 Here is my latest preprint (review article) >> Sustaining the ‘frozen footprints’ of scholarly communication through open citations osf.io/preprints/so...

Google Scholar 20th Anniversary: 20 things you didn't know about Google Scholar blog.google/outreach-ini...

New edited volume: Challenges in Research Policy And it's open access! 👍 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The perennial dispute between quantitative and qualitative research assessment is once again heating up. The match-up this time: Evaluative scientometrics vs CoARA 🔓The forced battle between peer-review and scientometric research assessment academic.oup.com/rev/advance-...

The first act in a large research project geared towards understanding diversity in conceptualisations of 'good science' is out now - a review of the dimensions of responsible research systems and cultures, by Sarahanne Field, Jackie Thompson, @sarahderijcke.bsky.social, Marcus Munafó and myself. 1/

Does training of peer reviewers work? "Evidence from 10 RCTs suggests that training peer reviewers may lead to little or no improvement in the quality of peer review." Cochrane systematic review 🔓: www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....