Great blogpost by Matt on how mills are flooding academic literature #academicsky #metascience #science

A lot of our work in metascience at Surrey is on the ability of AI and AI-assisted pipelines to mass produce scientific papers on health and biological science. Interesting to see the same problem in another data-rich field. www.psu.edu/news/researc...

Meeting Open Science requirements can be a pain, and not every researcher wants to expose their data to post-publication scrutiny, creating incentives to cheat. Which is why 11.5% of Dryad DOIs fail to resolve. www.octopus.ac/publications...

Anyone interested in an interdisciplinary, funded PhD in areas of #metascience focusing on social phenomena and the evolution of scientific networks? Do you have expertise in computational tools such as R, Python, or Stata? See this post or contact Abhijit Sengupta ([email protected])

In light of the recent UK Biobank news, I'd like to share our previous work in PLOS Med doi.org/10.1371/jour... where we briefly highlighted some discrepancies in UKBB. I'm not sure we knew for sure the data was compromised to this state though. More evidence of the exploitation of datasets

Confused why people argue that agentic AI is good for academia. It seems the arguments revolve around time savings and more papers produced quicker but ignores the impact this will have on peer review and an already overburdened system. Not to mention just more slop #academicsky #metascience

A great read by @aidybarnett.bsky.social and @jabyrnesci.bsky.social!

Our team recently highlighted the abuse of the CDC WONDER dataset, with a significant increase in the number of publications since 2023 (GenAI onset). In the first month of 2026, 276 new papers have been published, ~20% of the output in 2025 and ~79% of 2024 already.

Thoughts on averaging over 10 thousand citations a year in the last 10 years? Is this possible in healthcare research or a sign of unethical behaviour by inflating citations? 🤔 Curious to hear some perspectives! #academicsky #metascience

Very good read from @rossandersen.bsky.social and @theatlantic.com It summarises nicely the downside to AI, and why the abuse of Open Access data is becoming a larger problem. It's also disheartening to see publishers state they will continue to publish some of these works, hand waving away

New preprint out now! This should be interesting particularly for those interested in paper-mills and their abuse of open-access datasets. This one stands to be particularly interesting as its one of the first to implicate actors associated with Western institutions.

New perspective in @plosmedicine.org on safeguarding open access datasets in the post GenAI era. Looking forward to the community's perspectives and insights on this. #openscience #metascience #academicsky

Our preprint on rise in redundant publications is now up on BMC Medicine! An early access version before it's officially published @springernature.com @bmc.springernature.com #academicsky #metascience

This was a good read. I believe that regardless of your opinion on AI, replicability, open science etc we can all find common ground on at least some of these points. Change is needed in science particularly in the current publishing model #academicsky #opensci #metascience

Has anyone published a pre-print to find that a similar article has been published just before or after yours was published in a peer review journal? Please reply or message me with your experience! #academicsky #opensci

arXiv one of the latest to begin blanket rejecting of papers due to AI. This follows Plos and Frontiers approach to papers using NHANES data. I feel a drastic change will eventually come to academia in terms of publication, open data etc. How will we adapt? #metascience #opensci #AcademicSky

New preprint on MedRxiv! In this we looked at how unemployment benefits impact the mental health of underemployed workers. We had relatively small sample sizes so couldn't use causal methods and had to settle for meta-regression, but this piece provides some initial evidence for expanding /1

Excited to be a part of this cohort and can't wait to work with fellow colleagues to explore this area further #academicsky #metascience

I like the idea of a week long process to write a 10 page recommendation letter in Stanford law. Seems like a good way to evaluate someone's contributions though needs to be done well to minimise bias

Very good thread transparency research in PT. Unfortunate results but hopefully starts some progress

"Harvard could embed metascience into General Education Courses, ensuring that they reach as many students as possible." Ambika Grover in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Glad to be getting more attention to our work on redundant publications!! @nature.com #metascience #academicsky

In light of the recent tylenol autism discussion I thought I'd look at the Harvard review paper that is being cited as strong evidence for the link. Note this is not my area of research, I'm just a nerd that enjoys research done well. That said please let me know what strengths and weaknesses I 1/

Excited to see this news piece from Frontiers referencing our recent preprint. Great to see transparency from how publishers are working to solve current issues affecting science www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/09... Look forward to seeing how academics and publishers can improve science together

A new preprint exploring redundant publications, studies assessing the same exposure and outcome, including one published 6 times in a year! Additionally we look at how GenAI can be used to rewrite these papers while avoiding automated plagriaism detectors www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very grateful to announce that I have been granted a fellowship by the @ukri.org Metascience Unit. I am going to be looking into how GenAI may be used for epistemic trespassing. Beyond excited for this opportunity and can't wait to get started #metasci

A bit more background on our recent publication on environmental antibiotic resistance

Another publication! Grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this piece. It is an impressive piece of work with 13,667 records screened looking for occurrence of antibiotic resistance in non-build environments shorturl.at/g7smK #AcademicSky

Another article! Recent publication from PhD student Hongxin Gao. This article explores our ever changing world and the growing impact of technology leading to more advanced activities of daily living, an expansion on the usual activities of daily living www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Another recent article I am proud to be a part of. This one investigates how employment security is related to mental health. jech.bmj.com/content/79/4... #sociology #AcademicSky @bmj.com @surreylib.bsky.social

With all the Framework Laptop 12 news this week, we haven’t forgotten Framework Desktop! We are closing in on the start of manufacturing. We’re also making great progress with our partners. #Noctua_at designed an alternate side panel, and it turns out it’s 3D printable!

Very proud to be a part of this article exploring the relationship between questionnaire responses and cognition. Such an interesting area I never thought I'd be part of. Could future dementia screening be as simple as examining how you respond to questions? link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Here's another article highlighting how recruits are able to develop their fitness during recruit training. While recruits are able to improve their fitness this more geared towards aerobic and muscular endurance, components not typically needed in daily occupational demands. 1/2

Just getting around to sharing some of my PhD articles - this one profiles the injuries in recruits finding that most injuries are occur to the lower limb and typically to joints and ligaments. Female recruits are also more likely to experience injury link.springer.com/article/10.1...

One of my first published articles shown below and what a journey it has been since! This was definitely a learning experience and has gotten some traction, not all positive I believe. The topic has controversies which I'll share www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #AcademicSky #HumanPerformsncr

Training load is a key indicator of fitness changes and injury risk, not only in athletic populations but also occupational as well. This article profiles the training load of recruits, a critical first step to effectively optimise training www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19... #AcademicSky #HumanPerformance

Check out my article investigating how cognitive tests may need to account for different contextual factors including country location! #DADM #Science #AcademicSky #AlzResearch

Check out this article on early cognitive impairment! Read more to find out how we are using ML to assist in early identification of cognitive impairment in community settings #AcademicSky #Science formative.jmir.org/2024/1/e54335

AI used for better dementia detection in India A&D: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring reports cognitive test cutoffs for India’s unique population to improve early diagnosis, a step toward more effective dementia care #DADM #AlzResearch alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....