#academicsky I like you more when you cited me... Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work share.google/xouO1hcLquRp...

#academicsky journal publishers don't seem aware of the perilous state of UK HE finances & refuse to lower prices (and seem to be trying to extract max profit) could lead to some serious problems. ‘Business-as-usual’ offers from publishers raise walk away fears share.google/RrvI8PrJpDCB...

#academicsky a thoughtfully piece on academic fraud: Crossed Wires: Academic retractions explode as scientific swindles mushroom share.google/2IzerTjAmR5D...

#academicsky reported elsewhere - this story has enough 'newsworthyness' to hit popular media as well as academic sources. Tragic that the story itself seems to be adding to the anti 'cant trust science' agenda as well as reporting the initial fraudulent activity share.google/7jeR973WhRvt...

#academicsky accommodation crisis for students. Students at many universities based towns now far this problem in ireland. Is it the same in other countries? Not mentioned is the impact on studies and disproportionate impact on economically disadvantaged students share.google/QWrvg2y5V5Wj...

#academicsky funding system makes little difference in participation unless you want to reach students in countries with high participation, then it helps to get to the 'hard to reach' students link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#academicsky This looks to be promising... www.timeshighereducation.com/news/anz-uni...

#academicsky some interesting numbers here - diversifying journal reviewers a way forward... Is there a strain on peer review? – It’s more complicated than you think - Impact of Social Sciences share.google/NukP0Yx7TD6j...

#academicsky come to Ireland!Ireland targets world-class researchers with new initiative www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/i...

#academicsky possibly 13.5% of academic biomed paper abstracts published in 2024 indexed in pubmed 'processed' using AI. Massive study detects AI fingerprints in millions of scientific papers share.google/eIuadvWN33Ci...

#academicsky The coalition Irish govt announced an increase (or reversion to pre cost of living reduction) to student fees back to 3k euro per year but an at least partial u turn and perm reduction now looks increasingly likely. share.google/8zAat2mvdGXW...

#academicsky impact of doge cuts on NSFW funding. Truly an own goal. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#academicsky the ai arms race continues - ai prompts hidden in papers for perry review www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07...

Some good news for arts practitioners in Ireland though its a little prescriptive in what counts as arts practice. Artists to receive an extra €8,450 as Basic Income for the Arts scheme extended until next year share.google/xxYv09M5bBQM...

#Academicsky the impact of cutting librarian provision in schools will likely have a decades long impact. BBC News - Every Glasgow secondary school set to lose its librarian www.bbc.com/news/article...

#academicsky I feel this may disproportionately impact staff at risk or having been made redundant recently. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-202...

#academicsky this is a depressing but very accurate article about UK HE. Maybe market driven HE was not the best solution... theconversation.com/why-the-uk-g...

#academicsky The closure of ERIC due to DOGE cuts is a very sad loss. www.governing.com/policy/major...

#Academicsky a good article on self citing papers; not as bad as it seems and disciplinary driven as papers in some fields cite their published data sets retractionwatch.com/2025/03/19/p...

12th PUBMET2025 Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science, University of Zagreb, Sept 11-12, 2025. CfP submissions invited by April 1. https://pubmet2025.unizd.hr/call-for-submission/

#academicsky a very interesting and perhaps controversial post that interprets journal articles as instrumental tokens for institutional or career benefit rather than a means of knowledge dissemination blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

#academicsky this is a useful and fair account of the US Federal research data taken down (and when and the extent of its restoration) www.kff.org/policy-watch...

#academicsky A good piece on uk universities and the Elsevier OA deal... blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

#AcademicSky An interesting piece on the UK's proposed data 'lake'. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/goldacr...

#academicsky Reproducibility problems stem from pressure to publish. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#AcademicSky An interesting court case with possible significant implications on Academic departments and disability services in UK universities wonkhe.com/blogs/the-co...

Snow scenes, Dublin Mountains and Phoenix Park, 1969. Discover more images of Irish life through the years in the Fáilte Ireland Tourism Photographic Collection published in the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) by @dclareadingroom.bsky.social doi.org/10.7486/DRI.... #ExploreYourArchive

#AcademicSky Springer Nature offering article authors AI written media kits for their articles in its journals for $49. So authors / funders / institutions are now being asked to pay for the marketing of the articles as well as the research, writing and reviewing futurism.com/springer-nat...

#AcademicSky an interesting blog post on curriculum and inclusively drawn from Advance HE'S Framework for inclusive Learning and Teaching www.advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

#AcademicSky Third British university drops the JISC Elsevier deal due to costs and negotiates their own: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

#AcademicSky www.hrb.ie/news-stories... Great news from the Irish HRB - new policy calls for "full and immediate open access"

An explosion in the number of academic articles being published is unsustainable and erodes public trust in science, a study by Dr Mark Hanson from @uniexecec.bsky.social warns. #academicsky news.exeter.ac.uk/university/c...

#AcademicSky I'm delighted when academics get their 15 minutes of fame when their niche subject suddenly becomes news and they have to do a TV or radio interview. Can they crowbar their books in? Just watching an academic on RTE in Ireland who has artfully positioned his books in the background.

Good morning from Co. Clare.

I'd like to make a list of books worth reading by famous authors but are not the books they are most well known for, sort of a 'b side' list. Please feel free to add your own, my two starters are: Orwell's Burmeses Days. Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle #booksky