Birgit Schmidt

Sharing the load: Building a collective to support open research information online Can we share resources and burdens to make available key open research information resources in actionable and connectable form in the cloud? Through sharing processes and systems, is it possible, ove...

Today we're starting ORION, an effort to coordinate making #openresearchinformation resources available, with an initial focus on Google BigQuery. We are keen to coordinate with all who are interested in supporting a community effort towards availability and reusability!
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EUI alliances ‘need coherent overall funding model’ - Research Professional News European Universities Initiative funding must reflect varied sources and institutional aims, EUA report says

The European Universities Initiative alliances ‘need a coherent overall funding model’, says @eua.eu

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💬 A must-read article by @draehernandez.bsky.social:

CESSDA report on the importance of data citation - DANS

CESSDA's Monitoring Report shows a growing focus on dataset citation. Repositories like DANS now add recommended citations to dataset pages, simplifying user referencing + boosting data visibility in scholarly work. As CESSDA partner, DANS supports clear citation practices. Read more: edu.nl/xyyee

Lies About Libraries (Part One) Welcome to the first in a series of posts dedicated to debunking false claims used to undermine trust in libraries and attack those who work in them.

Lie #1: Libraries indoctrinate. Truth: Censoring library books by removing them from libraries or prohibiting them from the shelves in the first place is indoctrination. https://www.oif.ala.org/lies-about-libraries-part-one/

New editorial with John Carlisle:

Detecting inconsistencies and fraud in research data: Time for authors to share the data underlying their summary statistics as a matter of course

tl;dr Let's stop doing party tricks

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Final draft: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025 – Merry Christmas! Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025- sleuth wins reward in a lawsuit, an Italian cheater can’t stop lying, with retractions for failed and failing science elites, a Nature expert investigation, and U…

Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025 – Merry Christmas!
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YouTube video by Newsweek Ed Zitron Dispels the Myth of the AI Revolution

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Hello @springernature.com - you’ve just published another bit of nonsense in Scientific Reports 🙁

The inner workings of a paper mill: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

Researcher of the Future: Confidence in Research In this report, learn how researchers are adapting to rapid AI change, shifting funding landscapes, and new expectations for collaboration and impact.

According to an international survey conducted by Elsevier, 68 percent of scientists say that publication pressure has increased over the past two to three years. 3,200 researchers from 113 countries took part in the survey. www.elsevier.com/insights/con... @elsevierconnect.bsky.social

Still time to sign up for this webinar tomorrow hosted by @copim.bsky.social, @sparc-eu.bsky.social & @scossfunding.bsky.social

The 75-minute workshop will feature presentations from SCOSS, @thoth-metadata.bsky.social & our very own Graham Stone.

Find our more and register below 👇 #OAbooks

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data, text and image fabrication....

Newly released Stockholm Declaration recommends the following reforms to publishing:

1. Academia resumes control of publishing

2. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity

3. Independent fraud detection and prevention

4. Legislation and policies to protect science quality and integrity

📄 A reminder that we are seeking writers (£600) and reviewers (£210) to support the development of new guides on:
- AI in research software
- Green Computing
- EDI in research software

Application deadline: Friday 3 October 2025

Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/writers...

Cory Doctorow (not on Bluesky) published IMHO one of the most compelling pieces about AI being a bubble pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Between @python.org and @carpentries.carpentries.org, the open-source ecosystem is rejecting the administration's inquisition against DEI. If you can support them with a donation please do. I just did!

Does anyone know about others who have declined NIH or NSF grant funding over over these terms?

PhD training needs a reboot in an AI world As machines get better at data analysis and writing tasks, doctoral training must evolve to make the most of artificial-intelligence outputs.

"Crucially, students will need to develop sufficient expertise to identify when AI systems produce plausible but incorrect outputs — which poses a dilemma because this requires the very skills that AI is starting to replace."

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Lynda points out that even though a relatively small number of data sources have been shut down by the US Federal government, many more are affected through letting go of staff - death by a thousand cuts.

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

It's easy for some of you to just never use LLMs and just criticize people who do. I would like to be in that situation. But here I am, with my moderator volunteers, assessing hundreds of papers submitted to @socarxiv.bsky.social, trying to decide how to fairly judge whether to accept them. /1

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DEPRESSING: This is a list of Federal Funding Cuts and Research Universities. The tracker documents the impacts of the cuts on the human infrastructure of the research enterprise airtable.com/appo02JOpIo2...

Sale of the Amsterdam University Press film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis - NECSUS July 9, 2025

News from the Evil Empire of Academic Publishing: In June Taylor & Francis acquired the back catalogue of Amsterdam University Press' film and media series. As a consequence the majority of the series editors publicly resigned and decided to move their series to /

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Webinar poster for “Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures,” dated 24 October 2025.

Join us for #OAWeek!

Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures

With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @paulaclemente.bsky.social

🗓️ 24/10 - 1:00 pm BST

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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

The @doaj.bsky.social is consulting on whether to retire their Added/Withdrawn change logs. There is a short survey and feedback is very welcome:

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What could be more obvious than the fact that, whatever intelligence a computer can muster, however it may be acquired, it must always and necessarily be absolutely alien to any and all authentic human concerns? The very asking of the question, "What does a judge (or a psychiatrist) know that we cannot tell a computer?" is a monstrous obscenity. That it has to be put into print at all, even for the purpose of exposing its morbidity, is a sign of the madness of our times. Computers can make judicial decisions, computers can make psychiatric judgments. They can flip coins in much more sophisticated ways than can the most patient human being. The point is that they ought not be given such tasks. They may even be able to arrive at "correct" decisions in some cases-but always and necessarily on bases no human being should be willing to accept. There have been many debates on "Computers and Mind." What I conclude here is that the relevant issues are neither technological nor even mathematical; they are ethical. They cannot be settled by asking questions beginning with "can." The limits of the applicability of computers are ultimately statable only in terms of oughts. What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.

There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with:

“What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

One thing I don't get about this is wtf does AI "augmentation" mean? If students only use it to summarise texts rather than writing the final essay it's still not good. They're not reading, figuring out what's important & processing information themselves. That's an essential part of learning.

Tackling paper mills requires us to prevent future contamination and clean up the past – the case of the journal Bioengineered Taylor & Francis journal Bioengineered has been targeted by paper mills. Our goal is to identify problematic articles published in Bioengineered during the period 2010 to 2024. Dimensions was used ...

New paper:

Tackling paper mills requires us to prevent future contamination and clean up the past – the case of the journal Bioengineered

With @deadneanderthals.bsky.social, @smutclyde.bsky.social, @mortenoxe.bsky.social, @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social, and me

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