Anyone know who edits opinion articles at Scientific American?

A new Google Scholar tool quantifies how much credit each study author gets — my latest for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @michaelgusenbauer.bsky.social

I'm quoted in the new guidelines launched by @sagepub.com and @senseaboutsci.bsky.social aiming to elevate the role of information curators in combating misinformation: senseaboutscience.org/wp-content/u...

Scientists are voicing their concerns over two beamlines at the Australian Synchrotron are at risk of closure because of a lack of funding.

"The number of publications and number of proposals submitted to a beamline isn’t really a very good metric of the importance of the research that’s done there..." My latest for @chemistryworld.com: www.chemistryworld.com/news/researc... #ChemSky

"The number of publications and number of proposals submitted to a beamline isn’t really a very good metric of the importance of the research that’s done there..." My latest for @chemistryworld.com: www.chemistryworld.com/news/researc... #ChemSky

A new Google Scholar tool quantifies how much credit each study author gets — my latest for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @michaelgusenbauer.bsky.social

“I have no idea what the impersonator was trying to achieve. Had the organizers not emailed me, but him, with acceptance, would he have shown up pretending to be me? This is very confusing and frankly, disturbing.”

Mohamed Shaaban was surprised when he heard that a paper listing him as an author had been published. It turns out somebody had impersonated him & paid the APC to get the paper published — only to later request it be retracted. My latest for @retractionwatch.com: retractionwatch.com/2025/10/23/c...

More than 20% of chemistry researchers have deliberately added information they believe to be incorrect into their manuscripts during the peer review process, in order to get their papers published. cen.acs.org/policy/publi... #chemsky 🧪

US-based AI company Anthropic will pay authors $1.5 billion after illegally training their AI models using their works that were available on pirate sites. My latest for @chemistryworld.com: www.chemistryworld.com/news/ai-comp... @ithakasr.bsky.social

Academics whose textbooks were used to train Anthropic's AI could receive around $3000 for each book illegally downloaded.

More than 20% of chemists have deliberately added information they believe to be incorrect into their manuscripts during peer review, a new study has found. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi... @nanoporous.net, @freddie2310.bsky.social #ChemSky

More than 20% of chemists have deliberately added information they believe to be incorrect into their manuscripts during peer review, a new study has found. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi... @nanoporous.net, @freddie2310.bsky.social #ChemSky

More than 97% of electron microscope images aren’t reported in peer-reviewed scientific papers, a new study has found. My latest for @chemistryworld.com: www.chemistryworld.com/news/more-th... @ananikovlab.bsky.social, @reeserichardson.bsky.social

More than 97% of electron microscope images aren’t reported in peer-reviewed scientific papers, a new study has found. My latest for @chemistryworld.com: www.chemistryworld.com/news/more-th... @ananikovlab.bsky.social, @reeserichardson.bsky.social

The US National Institutes of Health will soon release a plan to cap academic-journal publishing fees. Some outside experts say there are better ways to rein in publishing costs. cen.acs.org/policy/publi... #chemsky 🧪

Researchers are pleased about the #NIH possibly introducing caps on #OpenAccess fees its grantees can pay from their funding but say the change is imperfect—my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi... @jeremymberg.bsky.social, @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca, @pamherd.bsky.social

Researchers are pleased about the #NIH possibly introducing caps on #OpenAccess fees its grantees can pay from their funding but say the change is imperfect—my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi... @jeremymberg.bsky.social, @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca, @pamherd.bsky.social

Early-career researchers more likely than others to stop publishing after a retraction — my latest for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @shahanmemon.bsky.social, @fangferric.bsky.social

Early-career researchers more likely than others to stop publishing after a retraction — my latest for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @shahanmemon.bsky.social, @fangferric.bsky.social

The Medical Evidence Project -- one of the six projects at our parent nonprofit, The Center For Scientific Integrity -- is hiring an intern! Work with @jamesheathers.bsky.social

Researchers in India fear they may lose access to academic papers after an Indian court’s decision to block the pirate website Sci-Hub — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi...

Peer reviewers whose work is cited in the studies they are refereeing are significantly more likely to recommend accepting those papers than if their work is not cited, a new study has found. cen.acs.org/policy/publi... #chemsky 🧪

Researchers in India fear they may lose access to academic papers after an Indian court’s decision to block the pirate website Sci-Hub — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi...

Peer reviewers whose work is cited in the studies they are refereeing are significantly more likely to recommend accepting those papers than if their work is not cited, a new study has found. cen.acs.org/policy/publi... #chemsky 🧪 #phdsky #academicsky #STEM #phdchat #academicchatter

Peer reviewers are more likely to recommend accepting papers that cite their work — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi... @aidybarnett.bsky.social

Peer reviewers are more likely to recommend accepting papers that cite their work — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi... @aidybarnett.bsky.social

The large language model–based chatbot ChatGPT fails to highlight the validity concerns with scientific papers that have been retracted or have been the subject of other editorial notices, according to a new study. cen.acs.org/policy/publi... #chemsky 🧪

ChatGPT ignores retractions of scientific papers — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi... @mikethelwall.bsky.social, @wisewoman.bsky.social

My latest for @retractionwatch.com: retractionwatch.com/2025/08/08/d...

I spoke to Savina Kirilova about misuse of ResearchGate for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Companies that broker and facilitate scientific fraud are large, resilient, and growing rapidly, according to a new study. cen.acs.org/policy/publi... #chemsky 🧪

Paper mills are ‘growing rapidly’ — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi... @reeserichardson.bsky.social, @clarivate.com, @tandfresearch.bsky.social

I spoke to Savina Kirilova about misuse of ResearchGate for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Our main takeaway is we have no clue how large the problem is and how quickly this may overtake legitimate literature,” Richardson says. “But it’s clear that it’s already surpassed in scale the intervention measures that are designed to contain it.” Story on paper mills by @dalmeet.bsky.social

Paper mills are ‘growing rapidly’ — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi... @reeserichardson.bsky.social, @clarivate.com, @tandfresearch.bsky.social

My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/resea... @ludowaltman.bsky.social, @jameswilsdon.bsky.social

The UK government’s metascience unit, launched last year, released its first results on June 30. The study found that distributed peer review shortens the assessment and decision-making process for grant applications. cen.acs.org/policy/resea... #chemsky 🧪

My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/resea... @ludowaltman.bsky.social, @jameswilsdon.bsky.social

Currently listening to a recorded message from Ukrainian science minister about changes being introduced at the country’s universities at #Metascience2025. Would love to hear the same for Gaza’s universities (if there are any left). #FreePalestineNow #EndTheGenocide

More about the discussions around using the impact factor to evaluate researchers in the Netherlands. #Metascience2025 www.nature.com/nature-index...

About the UK's metascience unit: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #Metascience2025

Case of Quantitative Science Studies being formed by the former editorial board members of Journal of Informetrics in 2019 mentioned by @kylesiler.bsky.social at #Metascience2025: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @ludowaltman.bsky.social, @crsugimoto.bsky.social

The @retractionwatch.com mass resignation list gets a shout out at #Metascience2025 by @kylesiler.bsky.social: retractionwatch.com/the-retracti...

More on reviewer fatigue: undark.org/2018/10/01/s... #Metascience2025

On ARIA: pubs.aip.org/physicstoday... #Metascience2025

About distributed peer review trial at volkswagen Foundation: nature.com/articles/d41... #Metascience2025

And use of distributed peer review at @eso.org to allocate telescope slots: pubs.aip.org/physicstoday... #Metascience2025

About distributed peer review trial at volkswagen Foundation: nature.com/articles/d41... #Metascience2025