Dozens of CDC Health Databases Have Gone Dark Under Trump: ‘The Consequences Will Be Dire’ https://www.404media.co/dozens-of-cdc-health-databases-have-gone-dark-under-trump-the-consequences-will-be-dire/

Study is stolen, sold, published. Now the victim is accused of plagiarism retractionwatch.com/2026/01/26/s... #Papermills #Ethics #Plagiarism #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing theconversation.com/the-5-stages... #Retraction #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Research #Academic #Academia #Science #Publishing

Early warnings in tweets: detecting pre-retraction signals and their association with retraction timing through natural language processing and survival analysis link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Retraction #SocialMedia #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

How recent is recent? Retrospective analysis of suspiciously timeless citations doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj-... #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #SystematicReview #Biomedical #Research #Critique #Humor #Humour

WE KNOW!! (but good to have it articulated) "The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing" theconversation.com/the-5-stages...?

China ‘marked down’ in scholar’s retraction-adjusted rankings www.timeshighereducation.com/news/china-m... #Ethics #Research #ResearchEthics #China #Citations #Rankings #Retractions #SelfCitations #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Publishing

Google Scholar’s citation errors skew h-index leaderboards www.timeshighereducation.com/news/google-... #Google #Metrics #Citations #Promotion #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Research

www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/s... #Fraud #FraudDetection #ResearchFraud #Science #Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Retractions #PaperMills

UQs Solar Biotechnology team finalists for the Shaping Australia Awards. To vote, please press the ‘Votes’ heart next to the 2 min video of their project. It's an project using algae in beneficial ways. #Science #Algae #Biotechnology #UQ #Australia www.shapingaustraliaawards.com.au/finalists/so...

Sleuths flag ‘complete mismatch’ in data of BMJ stem cell study  retractionwatch.com/2025/11/06/s... #Science #Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #DataManagement #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Retractions #FalsifyingData #Data

The Administration Dismantled CDC's Peer Review System. Staff Scrambled to Save It. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faus... #CDC #Science #AcademicResearch #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Trump

UQ Talks: understanding the social media ban for kids: uq.alumni.uq.edu.au/v/47868/4876... #Australia #SocialMedia #DigitalIdentities #UQ #UniversityofQueensland #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Psychology #Sociology #Parenting #Parents #Communication

Widespread image reuse, manipulation uncovered in animal studies of brain injury  retractionwatch.com/2025/10/30/w... #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Research #Ethics #Microscopy #Nanoscience #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #Misconduct #Fraud #ImageManipulation #RetractionWatch

TikTok says I have ADHD – now what?: stories.uq.edu.au/contact-maga... #ADAD #ASD #SocialMedia #Neurology #Neurodivergent #Neurodivergence #Misinformation #Misdiagnosis #Psychoeducation #Psychology

Despite new retractions, suspect organ transplant papers remain in the literature  retractionwatch.com/2025/10/24/d... #Ethics #Retraction #China #Oragans #Transplant #Bioethics #Prisoners #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #ScholarlyPublishing

Fake microscopy images generated by AI are indistinguishable from the real thing www.chemistryworld.com/news/fake-mi... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Research #Ethics #Microscopy #Nanoscience #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #Misconduct #Fraud

Whoa - researchers at the @utaustin.bsky.social copied several panels of cells and blots from older papers authored in different labs. pubpeer.com/publications...

We must set the rules for AI use in scientific writing and peer review www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/we-m... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Research #University #HigherEducation #TertiaryEducation #Ethics #PaperMill #LLM #LargeLanguageModel

£3.4 million project to assess use of AI in doctoral research www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ps34-mi... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Research #University #HigherEducation #TertiaryEducation

IDW is the leading international conference on research data. It is jointly organised by the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) idw2025.org #Data #Australia #AcademicChatter #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky

Chu: China ‘will blow us away’ if Trump destroys US universities www.timeshighereducation.com/news/chu-chi... #Trump #Research #University #USA #Immigration #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #Nvidia #HigherEducation #China #Obama #Politics

BrisScience: How IVF could help save wildlife www.eventbrite.com.au/e/brisscienc... #UQ #Brisbane #BrisScience #Queensland #IVF #WildLife #EndangeredSpecies #ReproductiveTechnologies #Conservation #Biodiversity #Extinction #Science

Flinders ‘comes of age’ as two other Adelaide universities merge www.timeshighereducation.com/news/flinder... #FlindersUniversity #Australia #SouthAustralia #TertiaryEducation #EDI #HigherEducation #STEM #Equity #Diversity #Inclusion #ImpactRankings #Leadership

Machine v human skills: what do we teach now? - www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/machi... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Education #AcademicChatter #Pedagogy #WorkplaceSkills #LifeSkills

Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers- www.nature.com/articles/d41... #Nature #OpenScholarship #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #PeerReview

Unfair publisher fees for deposit into repositories highlight the need for authors to exercise their rights coar-repositories.org/news-updates... #OpenAccess #OA #OpenScholarship #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #APC #RightsRetention

Scoop: Trump admin cuts contracts with scientific publishing giant - www.axios.com/2025/06/25/t... #Nature #Springer #Trump #DEI #Science #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #LibSky #Library #Research

My paper was probably reviewed by AI – and that’s a serious problem www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/my-p... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #PeerReview #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Ethics

10 years after the downfall of a same-sex marriage canvassing study, tenure, some better practices...: tinyurl.run/6Jur44 #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Data #Metadata #OpenData #Ethics #Retraction #DataAnalysis #RetractionWatch #LGBT

Being a victim of a predatory journal: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #Lancet #PredatoryJournal #PredatoryPublisher #Ethics #OpenAccess #OA #OpenScholarship #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #APC #ArticlePublishingCharge #India

‘A big win’: Dubious statistical results are becoming less common in psychology: www.science.org/content/arti... #Science #Psychology #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Data #PValues

Please Do Your Best Not to Appear in the “AI Hallucination Database”: www.loweringthebar.net/2025/06/plea... artificial intelligence is not “intelligent.”... also does not know what a lie is #Law #Legal #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Hallucination #AIHallucination #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

Artificial Intelligence: uq.pressbooks.pub/digital-esse... “Artificial Intelligence” provides an overview of AI, including its types and applications. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenEducationalResource #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #LibSky #OA #OpenAccess #OER #Library #LibSky #AcademicPublishing

Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #Nature #Science #Conferences #Trump #BorderSecurity #AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #AcademicChatter

Take Nature’s AI research test: find out how your ethics compare - What’s your view on using AI for peer review and for writing research papers?: www.nature.com/immersive/d4... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #PeerReview #Authorship #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Ethics #Survey

Friday essay: I work as a sensitivity reader – and racism is harder to spot than you’d think: theconversation.com/friday-essay... #Racism #Aboriginal #Aborigine #Indigenous #Blakness #Blak #Sensitivity #Stereotypes #FirstNation #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

Why I stopped submitting my work to for-profit publishers: physicsworld.com/a/why-i-stop... #OpenAccess #OA #OpenScholarship #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #APC #ArticlePublishingCharge #Publishing #APS #IOP #PeerReview #Science #QuantumPhysics

IFLA Statement on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI) : repository.ifla.org/items/e9f1f9... #IFLA #Copyright #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #TextMining #LLM #Data #DataMining #LibSky #Library #Librarian #InternationalFederationofLibraryAssociationsandInstitutions

Building a Sustainable Future for Open Science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5xp... #OpenScience #Science #Liber #SCOSS #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #Data #MetaData

One Click to Credibility: Leveraging Open Access to Combat Misinformation: www.choice360.org/webinars/one... #Webinar #OpenAccess #Misinformation #ScholarlyPublishing #LibSky #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky

Lowering the Cost of Diamond Open Access Journals: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10424 #OpenAccess #OA #OpenScholarship #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #LibSky #AcademicPublishing #Librarian #AcademicChatter #DiamonOpenAccess #APC #ArticlePublishingCharge #Publishing

Announcing the winners of the 2025 Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Library Publishing: librarypublishing.org/announcing-t... #OpenAccess #OA #ScholarlyPublishing #OER #OpenEducationalResources #AcademicSky #LibSky #LPC #AcademicPublishing #Librarian #AcademicChatter

Predatory journals even worse since "Get Me Off Your F*ck*ng Mailing List" was accepted for publication: boingboing.net/2025/04/12/p... #PredatoryPublishing #AcademicResearch #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #RetractionWatch

India's retraction crisis casts shadow over science research: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-... #India #Retraction #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicMisconduct #AcademicFraud #TimesHigherEducation #NIRF #UniversityRankings #RetractionWatch

How much misconduct should there be in research?: www.bps.org.uk/psychologist... #Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Retractions #ScientificResearch #Data #MetaData #UKRIO #UKCORI

Critical thinking is more important than ever. How can I improve my skills?: theconversation.com/critical-thi... #CriticalThinking #Reason #Reasoning #Logic #Debate #Rhetoric #Communication #Argument #Argumentation #Conclusion #Misinformation #Disinformation #Thinking #Rationale #AcademicSky #EduSky

Indian university’s channel on publisher’s platform disappears retractionwatch.com/2025/04/08/s... #Ethics #PeerReview #Retraction #Retractions #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #Cureus #SpringerNature #India #Saveetha #SelfCitation #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

A ‘joke’: Paper with ‘completely irrelevant’ citations retracted retractionwatch.com/2025/04/09/i... #Ethics #PeerReview #Retraction #Retractions #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #Elsevier

A Win in Ukraine’s Academic ‘Metadata War': publishingperspectives.com/2025/04/a-wi... #Ukraine #UkrainianPublishing #ISSN #Russia #AcademicSky #Acade #Metadata #Disinformation