I thought this was an interesting take: spyglass.org/cynical-read...
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I thought this was an interesting take: spyglass.org/cynical-read...
Tim Vines, founder of @dataseerai.bsky.social, has been thinking about the future of research publishing for some time. His latest idea, what if publishers created AI-optimized versions of research articles and sold them as premium subscriptions?
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Hah, I'm reading www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/erik-s... at the moment :)
Should LLMs be used to review papers? AAAI is piloting LLM-generated reviews this year. I wrote a blog post arguing that using LLMs as reviewers can have bad downstream consequences for science by centralizing judgments about what constitutes good research.
bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...
FYI, new resource from the #DefendResearch team behind the Declaration--a public list of statements responding to threats from Trump & co. Check out the list and use the linked form to submit suggestions of additional statements to add. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
📉 Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince reveals AI's growing web traffic impact: Google now scrapes 6 pages per user click, OpenAI 250, and Anthropic 6,000! Undermining the traditional web business model, time to reevaluate how online content is monetized and accessed? Video: www.cfr.org/event/bernar....
Love this! Institutional leaders please take note!!!
List rating AI search tools. Criteria can be found at doi.org/10.55999/joh.... "we determined that Consensus, Evidence Hunt, Lens,org, Semantic Scholar were the most useful tools, having a ranking of 9 out of 10. Elicit,Litmaps, OpenAlex & Scinapse closely followed with 8 out of 10" (1)
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📝 A large-scale study finds OpenAlex comparable to Web of Science & Scopus in reference coverage with strengths in ORCID capture but mixed results in other metadata, supporting its promise as a trustworthy open-source bibliometric tool.
🔓 Details: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#OpenScience
An interactive map shows where IMLS funding is / was by state. I found this info very helpful for sharing locally about what such "invisible" support infrastructure provides for our communities. 2// www.imls.gov/map
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New from me: Creating the Publishing Platforms that Next-Gen Professionals Expect scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/27/c... @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social @scholarlypub.bsky.social #PubTech #Workflow #NextGenProfessionals
Brilliant comprehensive review of the spiteful chaos inflicted on the scientific community by the new US "administration"
I talk about this a lot with my consulting hat on. The financial pressures on libraries to cover the costs of the ever-increasing article output, and the drivers of research misconduct, are driven in large part by the way we incentivise and measure researchers (1)
The ad has two halves. On the left is says Who’s running this country which a picture of Musk head back laughing behind a superimposed White House. Underneath is says “Donald Trump or Elon Musk. On the right is a photo of a stern looking Musk with the words: No one elected Elon Musk to any office. Is says Learn More at firemusk.org
NEW: The Washington Post has pulled out of an agreement to run an ad in its newspaper criticising Elon Musk. This is despite signing an agreement to publish it.
Democracy dies in darkness.
Here is the ad. Let’s share it far and wide! Screw the Post.
Resist the assault on research and education! Sign the open Declaration To #DefendResearch Against US Gov Censorship! Sign now! Share everywhere! Help make this action go viral! #scholcomm #academisky #academichatter #sciencesky #openscience #resist tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f
It’s insight like this which justifies the power these men wield.
Folks, this is a great opportunity to come together. See you there? In the meantime, please SIGN and amplify this public call to #defendresearch from censorship, re-segregation: All welcome irrp of field, language, location, level of expertise. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Proud to be playing a small part in resisting US government censorship of research along w/ @rouhiroo.bsky.social @camitchell.bsky.social @petersuber.bsky.social & esp @lschiff.bsky.social whose idea this was. If you care about what’s happening please sign the Declaration! #DefendResearch
Does having the best song make you the most attractive whale? And do whales have 'pop music'?
🔖 New guide covers what to include in your journal update policies and technical procedures for handling updates per the latest guidelines from COPE, @crossref.bsky.social, and @nisoinfo.bsky.social.
#SciencePublishing #ResearchIntegrity
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Can we measure the impact of political ideology on research? Yes! By analyzing publications data in Dimensions.
Senior Data Scientist @helenedraux.bsky.social writes, "The politics of genetics: how ideology shaped science in the former Soviet Union".
🔗 researchmusings.substack.com/p/the-politi...
AHA exec director @jgrossman.bsky.social, @oah.org president @dblight.bsky.social, & OAH exec director Beth English co-authored an article, "Trump May Wish to Abolish the Past. We Historians Will Not" for @newrepublic.com on the executive order, “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” 🗃️
"facts are under attack...The purpose of journalists is to establish them... these methods are similar to those used by scientists...it is no coincidence these professional categories are the ones that have the most been exposed to Trump's wrath" www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Some reads about social media
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
