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The mess comes from Crossref - not their fault - as publishers have different practices as far as book chapters are concerned.

A news report about this, in the Spanish newspaper El País

The Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Is Moving to Europe (after 35 years in the USA) https://improbable.com/2026/03/10/the-ig-nobel-prize-ceremony-is-moving-to-europe-after-35-years-in-the-usa/

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Read all about it in this press release: doabooks.org/en/article/d...

"Non-scientists with pet theories should ideally be directed away from arXiv"

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

bioRxiv: "Hypotheses without new data...are considered out of scope and will not be posted"

www.biorxiv.org/about/FAQ 1/n

Meaning that 2 years to publication is the "normal thing".

Economists: we award Nobel Prizes for work on efficient institutions and minimizing transaction costs.
Also Economists: the review process at the American Economic Review.

Everybody in the academic world is against the RFK Jr crazy policies. Yet the Lancet would be more credible if they had faced consequences for Wakefield's autism paper, the Surgisphere one or their Macchiarini support en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lan...

The 2025 French Open Science Monitor: significant progress in the communication of clinical trial results Ouvrir la Science

Ouvrir la Science - The 2025 French Open Science Monitor: significant progress in the communication of clinical trial results https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/the-2025-french-open-science-monitor-significant-progress-in-the-communication-of-clinical-trial-results/

At least on Bluesky you see all the posts of people you follow, that is certainly not the case in Linkedin. On that one, it is probably easier to reach "out of network" people but there is definitely randomness (notwithstanding user behaviour)

This is why I was concerned, long ago, about the UK government wanting "anonymised" health data to be made available. I knew it was only time before the technology would catch up and make it possible to de-anon.

Collection of books seen from above

Matilda has reached 160M deduplicated publications, among which 33M are full-text searchable. Everything is free, sharable and reusable and will remain as such under our #POSI commitments and following our mission matilda.science/mission?l=en

Major Chinese funder to stop paying fees for 30 pricey open-access journals Move comes amid effort to grow the country’s own journals

"Since 2019, the government has been pursuing a plan to develop 400 world-class scientific journals as affordable alternatives to ones based in Western countries; by 2023 the country had about 178 English-language open-access journals, nearly half of which charged no APC..."

The @morphss.bsky.social team will be speaking about the future of open research in humanities and social sciences. Tuesday 3 March, 15.00–16.30 | Online.

A week ago, we had an open conversation amongst senior academics in leadership roles and their use of LLMs (in both their leadership capacities and individually). Small group, not representative, but it already taught me a great deal about the diversity of perspectives (& their consequences). 1/

They usually don't see connections between the content and the form. Same with transformative agreements, only the German ones had a DOI and a licence

type "surveilance publishing" you will find examples of researchers asking for GDPR-based files to big publishers.

Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest blogger asks: What would it mean to support community-led publishing as infrastructure, rather than as a collection of heroic individual efforts?

Think of all the money research funders have poured into the maw of the Big Five publishers, paying for APCs instead of funding diamond #openaccess infrastructure, what a shame! scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/18/g... "Open access needs institutions not heroes"

Long format. Enquête sur une supercherie : le prof d’université s’est-il inventé un « Prix Nobel » ? Professeur de Lettres à l’Université Marie & Louis Pasteur de Besançon, le Montbéliardais Florent Montaclair est le lauréat 2016 de la Médaille d’or de philologie, une science qui a pour objet l’étude historique d’une langue par l’analyse critique des textes. Assimilée au Prix Nobel et à la Médaille Fields, cette récompense internationale n’a en réalité aucune existence institutionnelle. C’est un faux. La stratégie qui a été mise en place pour faire croire le contraire, et a abusé beaucoup de monde, y compris le milieu universitaire, est un singulier mélange de sophistication, d’approximation et de culot monstre.

In the short list of top #academic #fraudsters, there is a French philologist who invented its "Nobel/Fields" medal, fabricated the learned society which would provide it and received it in the building of the French Parliament. (FR) @retractionwatch.com www.estrepublicain.fr/faits-divers...

Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article A story about an AI-generated article contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes.

Feel like this is a good lesson to keep generative AI far from your editorial process as a matter of policy. Ars is a great website. If it can happen there it can happen to anyone that allows these tools in

The Case of the Mysterious Citations Mysterious citations are routinely appearing in peer-reviewed publications throughout the scientific community. In this paper, we developed an automated pipeline and examine the proceedings of four ma...

The wonderful #LLMAI effect on science writing: #fakecitations everywhere in conferences! #researchintegrity (from that, imagine the reliability of the content) arxiv.org/abs/2602.058...

Want to share this again, because what a fantastic write up by @ronentk.me!

#OpenScience

Call for Papers: Special Issue on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways Abstract submission deadline: March 23rd 2026 In recent years, Diamond Open Access (OA) has risen to the fore in the ongoing exploration of which knowledge production models are both ideal …

"Through this special issue, we invite broader discussion on Diamond OA and its future(s), from the highly conceptual to the deeply infrastructural. What is next for Diamond OA as it oscillates between the potential for either a technocratic or community-led and commons-based future?"

Journal silently removes paper for plagiarism, author claims identity theft If a plagiarized paper by an author who claims he didn’t write it disappears from a journal’s website with no notice, did it ever exist in the first place? It’s not just a philosophical question fo…

"If a plagiarized paper by an author who claims he didn’t write it disappears from a journal’s website with no notice, did it ever exist?"

Yes - it'll have been downloaded, search engines will've indexed it. This is why bioRxiv/medRxiv do not disappear papers.

retractionwatch.com/2026/02/05/j...

Please don't make any sausages pretending they are madeleines and avoid a bouillabaisse that look like ragout rather than being fish-based. #AILLMs are as bad to cuisine as they are at science (and almoste anything else that is not bullshitting).

You sell citations to real authors and you have nothing to pay to the publisher or to fake authors for "writing" the paper. Maybe you have to pay a #reviewmill if you don't operate yourself. Perfect business model #citationcartles #researchintegrity

Screen shot of a youtube video titled "AI.FILL Function Explained: 10X Productivity in Excel with AI" with the caption "Let ChatGPT fill your missing data"

Don't you f**king dare.

So chatbots happen to be even more expensive than #bigpublishers

Shaping Europe’s Research Future: OPERAS Calls for a Sovereign and Equitable ERA Act A Critical Juncture for Open Science, SSH, and Community-Led Infrastructure The European research landscape stands at a pivotal moment. The European Commission’s consultation for the European Research Area (ERA) Act, finalised on January 23rd,...

#ERAAct #PositionPaper | 📢 Following the European Commission's consultation on the ERA Act, OPERAS has just released a position paper with a powerful message: Don't let commercial interests capture the research agenda.

👉Learn more: https://operas.hypotheses.org/9636

Like Amazon, @arxiv.bsky.social , @cos.io and other places will soon limit to 20 manuscripts/day the maximum number a given author can publish.

This distrust in Al is reflected across the research conducted within this project-including the literature review, public and professional surveys, and deliberative workshops in this research. Distrust will have a significant impact not only on citizens' acceptance of Al-based products and services, but also on their willingness to provide data for commercial and public sector Al-based products and services. Without trust and with broader fear of Al, individuals express a reluctance or discomfort in engaging with Al. This restricts their ability to build Al skills.

however, sadly, the paper pitches this as a "trust issue" but people are right now to trust this stuff! Also complete failure to recognise that tools need to be worthy of trust, not that people should give their trust more freely