@socarxiv.bsky.social
Open archive of social science. Free. Academy owned. Posts by director Philip N. Cohen. Say it: so-SHAR-kive (soʊʃɑrkaɪv). Website: socarxiv.org. New papers post at: https://bsky.app/profile/socarxivbot.bsky.social
"LLM-Assisted Replication as Scientific Infrastructure", V2 of our preprint about how to use LLM to make better rather than more papers and assess the extent of the replication crisis in sociology osf.io/preprints/so...
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Someone went to the trouble of creating 5 fake OSF accounts today, linking to 5 fake ORCID accounts, and generating 5 fake papers to submit to SocArXiv, with fake author and emails. Dude, if you are reading this, I hope you get the help you need (or a better job).
Amid the AI influx, SocArXiV continues to be an important critical voice in/for the social sciences
At @socarxiv.bsky.social, we do not insist that papers are "academic," or destined for a scholarly journal. However, one thing our moderators do - without a full-blown review, often outside their specialty - is ask whether people who really are subject experts might be interested to read it.
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"Preprint servers are a time machine, they move everyone forward 12 months and speed up the exchange of ideas"
ht @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social www.evocellnet.com/2021/06/a-no...
Phil Lewis, meet @philipncohen.com
SocArxiv @socarxiv.bsky.social just released an AI policy, which I had a hand in crafting.
@phillewis.bsky.social sums up the spirit of the policy well.
socopen.org/2026/03/09/s...
Big news from #arXiv:
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...
1. It's becoming an independent #nonprofit organization.
2. It's leaving #CornellU and moving to NYC.
3. It's hiring a CEO, with a salary in the range of $300k.
#OpenAccess #Preprints #ScholComm
This is good. The slop tsunami is coming for scholarship at a very bad time.
One thing I would add: generating papers is the worst thing LLMs can do in the research ecosystem, where we really need fewer papers to review and publish, not more.
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THE SWITHEROO
Hey, I have a new WP out now on @socarxiv.bsky.social !
In the paper, I study the full network of partnerships in Norway since 1967 up to today. I examine the general structure of the partnerships network, and the existence of a specific type of network: the partner switcheroo. 1/x
954 people tagged their papers Sociology on SocArXiv last year, which is great! (keeping in mind many people use tags randomly and we don't police it). But I'm just amazed at bioRxiv's rate of growth.
Report: How #bioRxiv Changed the Way #Biologists Share Ideas – In Numbers (via @nature.com)
www.nature.com/articles/d41... #scholcomm #preprints #research
(FYI, SocArXiv is for all social sciences, not just sociology)
Thank you for sharing!
This is collaborative work with a wonderful team: Alejandra Mizala, Alejandra Abufhele, and Luis Herskovic.
Unpaywalled version of this manuscript available at: osf.io/preprints/so...
As always, thank you @socarxiv.bsky.social
MIT graduate student council "calls for adoption of preprints...to
accelerate communication of scientific discoveries, and restore healthy incentives" drive.google.com/file/d/1KLbj...
Thank you. Allowing this use on our service is different from recommending or encouraging it. We don't have the resources to evaluate the quality of translation.
And many of our submissions come from non-native English early career researchers. Allowing the use of AI for translation enables them to connect to readers they wouldn’t normally reach.
I’m a translator, but also the freelance blog manager of @ecer-eera.bsky.social blog.
I understand the concern that allowing authors to use AI for translating means people like me won’t be hired. But in reality, most people who submit to the EERA blog don’t have the money to hire a professional.
Interesting that the policy ends up coming down to "at least paraphrase what the AI wrote". I think there's a lot to be said for this to make sure at least one human brain paid enough attention to rewrite what the AI said. But fascinating how quickly we're having to grapple with all of this
We have posted our AI policy
An introduction: socopen.org/2026/03/09/s...
And the policy:
socopen.org/ai-policy/
"Funders serious about timely, open, and equitable access to research must explicitly recognize preprint sharing as a route to Open Access compliance"
I know I'm a broken record on this but it seems so blindingly obvious... #PlanU journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
council.science/blog/open-sc...
Several people have objected to treating LLM generated language translation as acceptable. I'm interested in this, because to me this is a reasonable use case. With these tools (built into everything) I am able to read work and converse with people I would otherwise just never know.
New policy from @socarxiv.bsky.social regarding reviewing and the use of AI in research.
"This policy aims to protect the epistemic commons by distinguishing research that is part of advancing social science knowledge from that which merely dilutes our work"
SocArXiv Releases #AI Policy www.infodocket.com/2026/03/08/r... #repositories #preprints #scholcomm #sociology @socarxiv.bsky.social
It's not "taking work" in the vast majority of our cases, because authors who submit to our service are not in a position to hire such workers. And of course we are not "encouraging" any use of LLMs. We don't actually run the world, just trying to make a workable policy.
No. Thanks for reading :)
We have posted our AI policy
An introduction: socopen.org/2026/03/09/s...
And the policy:
socopen.org/ai-policy/