Highly recommended, COMET is doing some very interesting work on preprint metadata!

Première interview de l'année ! #VeilleESR #genre @emilienschultz.bsky.social @crestsociology.bsky.social

We (Miles MacLeod, YJ Erden, @ccmmody.bsky.social and me w/ editorial contributions by Yagmur Ozturk) are putting on a special issue! In Studies in History & Philosophy of Science! Ab/ scientific @nanobubbles.bsky.social Deadline July 15 - spread the word! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Un jour il faudra parler du RGPD washing du type ✨ Nous sommes français, conformes aux RGPD et vos données sont hébergées en Europe ✨ Puis quand tu ouvres les mentions légales, c’est un lien AWS et… « La société assurant l’hébergement est ***, domiciliée au ***, San Francisco, États-Unis » 🙃

New analysis: 0.25% of 2025 Bluesky posts contained citations to research...while only 0.000006% of X/Twitter posts did. In raw numbers, X still has 2x the research-based posts that Bluesky does (though they are harder to find): but it took Twitter 10 years to get there vs just 2 years for Bluesky

You can sign up until January 23 for the free Paul Meehl Graduate School workshop on Scientific Criticism and Peer review taught by René Bekkers. It promises to be an extremely interesting day, so do join us in Eindhoven on January 30th! paulmeehlschool.github.io/workshops/cr...

📣 Call for MeSSH #conference (Methods for Social #Sciences and #Humanities). A new annual conference (Paris) whose aim is to create an academic forum focused on discussing methodological issues and bringing together all disciplines in #SSH. Informations and calls on messh26.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity… each of us independently reached the decision to resign in protest of the actions of an administration that treats science not as a process for building knowledge, but as a means to advance its political agenda.”

A comprehensive investigation of university published journals, - mapping and profiling journals globally (including data from Scopus, Web of Science, OpenAlex and #DOAJ) New article from Maryna Nazarovets @mikaellaakso.bsky.social and @zehrataskin.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"Ultimately, peer review didn’t transform Nature’s standing so much as protect it, converting exclusivity that might have seemed arbitrary into gatekeeping that appeared meritocratic." Nice piece by Robert Reason on the prestige of Nature www.asimov.press/p/nature

CfP for a special issue on scientific bubbles in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science! 🫧🧐 Deadline for submissions is July 15. #HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

Join us for a webinar on maintaining the integrity of the scholarly record, featuring Marie Soulière and Amanda Bartell. We will discuss Crossref member obligations, metadata use, COPE ethics principles, and the latest retraction guidance. 21 January 2026, 2:30 PM IST. https://tinyurl.com/2923k6mj

« Une expertise juridique commandée par le ministère allemand de l'Intérieur confirme ce que beaucoup redoutaient : les autorités américaines peuvent accéder aux données stockées sur des serveurs européens. » #veilleESR #Données #RGPD www.mac4ever.com/web/193689-c...

As a diamond open-access journal, our work is free for everyone, but it’s only possible with your support! If you believe in the importance of open science (and learning from errors), please consider donating this Christmas. 🎁 Donate here: trialanderror.org/donate 🎁 Thank you for your support!

🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝 Google search interest shows a stable pattern: 🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve 🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier #MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁 📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024) #dataviz #ggplot2

Zenodo now offers greater control over deposited records, with the option to modify or delete them yourself within 30 days. After that, requests are reviewed to protect citations and research reuse. 🔗 See what's new and how to use the new process: tinyurl.com/5x3c5dxd

Newsletter | La lettre enquête de Mediapart 🔎 Cela arrive parfois aux journalistes de vivre un moment si intense qu’ils n’arrivent plus à prendre de notes. C'est ce qui s'est passé au procès de Lafarge pour financement du terrorisme. Pour lire ce numéro 👉‍ l.mediapart.fr/LG0

Trop nombreuses, frauduleuses ou écrites par intelligence artificielle générative : les critiques à l’égard des publications scientifiques s’accumulent à l’heure de leur surproduction. Faut-il dès lors en faire le deuil ?

How can science leverage informal channels to correct sooner: "Max Planck famously quipped that 'science advances one funeral at a time,' for a culture of correction to take hold across all fields of research, it needs to move faster than one coffee break at a time." from @freddie2310.bsky.social

Attendance at US-based science conferences is bouncing around this year but generally down. #AGU25 has ~10k fewer this year! I explored these trends for @nature.com — including solutions to keep conferences local & productive: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

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There seems to be a decrease in the coverage of affiliation metadata in #OpenAlex, particularly with regard to journal articles published by Elsevier since 2024. Only around 6% of Elsevier articles published in 2025 have affiliation metadata. subugoe.github.io/scholcomm_an...

Upcoming RoRI webinar: Do Narrative CVs really change research evaluation? Join us on 13 January as we discuss new data from funding panels at major European funders: tinyurl.com/ms7bkcd9

ROR² – Open and Responsible Research × Research on Research analyzes changes in research practices & scholarly publishing, with a focus on openness, research integrity, platforms, research assessment. www.informationswissenschaft.org/forschungsei... by @c-bz.bsky.social & @freddie2310.bsky.social

Response of French research institutions to research misconduct remains inadequate In March 2023, Dorothy Bishop and sixteen other internationally recognised leaders in the field of scientific integrity took the unusual step of sending an open letter to the CEO of CNRS to highlight that "the…

We are excited to announce the publication of our JEP 30th Anniversary Special Issue, comprising reflections from our editorial board and edited by Alyssa Arbuckle @alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social and Janneke Adema! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/43... [1/5]

"All of the editors-in-chief and associate editors of Springer Nature’s Journal of Philosophical Logic have announced their immediate or pending resignation and the launch, as of today, of a new “diamond” open access journal, Philosophical Logic." dailynous.com/2025/12/10/e...

8e #conférence de la Open Divide Lecture Series sur la contribution des « #shadowsLibraries » (bibliothèque parallèles, clandestines ou fantômes : LibGen, #Sci-Hub, Anna’s Archive, ...) comme biens #communs par Zakayo Kjellström le 17 décembre Inscription : opendivide.hypotheses.org/open-divide-...

To be truly effective funder metadata should be made openly accessible to all beyond the level of individual publications. Blog post by @hldejonge.bsky.social Katharina Rieck and Zoé Ancion (co-chairs of the Barcelona Declaration working group on funding metadata) blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Mapping the Landscape of Open Access Dashboards - A Dataset for Research and Infrastructure Development

We've done it again! @openlibhums.org has flipped another flagship journal to #diamond #openaccess! This follows the mass resignation of the Journal of Philosophical Logic's editorial boards from Springer Nature. The JPL editors will launch Philosophical Logic: www.openlibhums.org/news/875/.

#NSF no longer thinks that "inclusivity" is part of scientific integrity.

Ah yes! Yes! Let's flood arxiv with badly automated translations of perfectly fine non-english papers. Surely this new policy will a) slow down the influx b) improve automatic translation models for technical stuff in the long run. 🙄

📢 8th lecture in the Open Divide series! 🗓 Dec 17, 2025 | 🕔 5 PM CET 🎙 Zakayo Kjellström: “Beyond Institutional Boundaries: Shadow Libraries as Commons and the Future of Knowledge Preservation” 🔗https://unilu.webex.com/weblink/register/r08cc897f355e4874f6cc5ce7298043ce

Webinaire « L’intégrité scientifique au défi des nouvelles pratiques éditoriales » – Save the date lalist.inist.fr/webinaire-li...

Update: DataVoyager, which we launched in Preview early this fall, is now available in Asta. 🎉 You can upload real datasets, ask complex research questions in natural language, & get back reproducible answers + visualizations. 🔍📊

Hoy en "Como lo hacen?" Visitamos una fábrica de Punkis en china

Adding one original sentence to the recommendation letter that Chatgpt composed

The Scientifc Reports autism cycle article has been retracted: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

‪Enjoy a good conversation on medical communications and influence in yesterday's #Opioid #Archive webinar: youtu.be/36q764ocmbY

Faciliter le travail des chercheurs : l’article 28 de la LPR simplifie l’utilisation des images dans les publications scientifiques en accès ouvert et permet d’économiser des dizaines de milliers de transactions administratives

One imaginary sees the scientific literature as a gigantic library, with texts to be read. Another sees it as a database, with facts to be mined. Our analysis clarifies contrasting expectations informing current publishing innovations, and their epistemic and political risks. doi.org/10.1007/s110...

Prize and lies Three years ago, I asked in a blog post here What do scientific prizes celebrates? It was a reaction to false claims in press releases by the King Faisal Price and Northwestern University announcing the award of the 2023 King Faisal Prize in Medicine and Science to Chad Mirkin. One…

A short preprint describing our adoption of more consistent and precise use of terminology related to reproducibility, robustness, replicability, repeatability, and credibility. osf.io/preprints/me...

We see a new phenomenon. Fake authors in papers with hundreds of citations. Papers are easy to produce by ChatGPT. Even if a paper is retracted, no punishment to the real authors, but citations still count. Today's puzzle is about a similar case papermills.tilda.ws/2025advent4

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Le 1er janvier 2026, le CNRS coupera l’accès au Web of Science, Core Collection et Journal Citation Reports. Une nouvelle étape de sa politique en faveur de la science ouverte pour promouvoir des alternatives ouvertes, transparentes et responsables.