SocArXiv

New Paper: Estimating the Prevalence of LLM-Assisted Text in Scholarly #Writing (preprint) www.infodocket.com/2025/12/02/r... #AI #scholcomm #GenAI #LLMs

Sorry! We are open to requests for exceptions, and will emerge from our pause when we face a policy in place...

For humanities there is Knowledge Commons hcommons.org.

Center for Open Science - Giving Tuesday

Each year, hundreds of people donate to COS, helping keep OSF free and strengthening our open scholarship training and community support across research fields. This #GivingTuesday, we’d be grateful for your support: www.cos.io/support-yef25.

This talk by @simine.com about what other fields can learn from the crisis in psychology is excellent. I so wish sociology was listening. If 10% of sociologists knew 50% of what she says then research in sociology would be 100% better.

Thank you!

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1. Pausing new submissions about AI topics for 90 days. That is, papers about AI models, testing AI models, proposing AI models, theories about the future of AI, etc. We will make exceptions for papers that are already accepted for publication (or published) in peer-reviewed scholarly journals
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Hard choices for preprint servers.

bioRxiv has always declined reviews/hypotheses b/c of concern about signal:noise and a wish to avoid subjective judgments. AI slop makes screening certain content similarly challenging so other servers are adopting new restrictions. Two thoughts... 1/3

thank you for sharing rainbow

As always: thanks for your support, thanks for our volunteers, and thank you to the researchs who share your work.
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This includes the values we want to support, the work we are able to do, and our technical requirements. We hope this policy will be ready to implement when the 90-day pause on AI-related papers ends. If you have expertise or suggestions for us in this work, we would appreciate hearing from you.
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pardon our dust while we improve - graphic

2. We are developing a policy for AI-related work. We need a formal policy on AI-generated and LLM-assisted content. We have formed a committee of volunteers from our social science and library science networks to gather existing policies and decide what to do.
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The purpose of this pause is to make it faster and easier for moderators to reject these papers, and encourage these authors to find other ways of distributing their work.
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And we will make exceptions for empirical social science research about AI in society – e.g., a study on how AI use affects workers in an organization – on a case-by-case basis. If your paper on an AI topic is rejected and you would like to appeal, email us a short note of explanation. Sorry!
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PAUSE sign

1. Pausing new submissions about AI topics for 90 days. That is, papers about AI models, testing AI models, proposing AI models, theories about the future of AI, etc. We will make exceptions for papers that are already accepted for publication (or published) in peer-reviewed scholarly journals
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In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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YouTube video by Rippling Ideas Why I’m Posting My Research Online For Free (and Why You Should Too)

From @ripplingideas.bsky.social : Why post preprints: youtu.be/PgV5w-7GdT8

The number of people who will respond to "Ask me for a copy" is a tiny fraction of those who would love to click on a non-paywalled link. Don't make people ask. SocArXiv is free to share, free to read, non-profit, academy-owned at a public university. Hello! Thanks for sharing.

Peter S. Bearman and SocArXiv honoured at the 2025 Kohli Prize Awards The European University Institute EUI hosted this years Kholi Prize Awards, paying tribute to excellence and innovation in sociology

🙌 Three inspiring days at the #EUI celebrating excellence in sociology!

The 2025 Kohli Prize Awards honoured Peter S. Bearman for groundbreaking research and @socarxiv.bsky.social for advancing open, collaborative science.

💬 “These awards affirm sociology’s power to face today’s big questions.”

𝗔 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨𝗜 𝘀𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.
Our gratitude to this year’s laureates, Peter Bearman and Philip Cohen, for their inspiring lectures.
@socarxiv.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social @incitecolumbia.bsky.social

SocArXiv Announces Submission Rule Changes socopen.org/2025/11/19/s... #AI #spam #preprints #scholcomm @socarxiv.bsky.social

This kind of announcement may help explain why so many people are using LLMs to flood preprints servers with papers about AI

Thank you for sharing!

Laudatio for the Award of the Kohli Infrastructure Prize for Sociology to SocArXiv » fabrizio bernardi On November 5th at the EUI, I had the honour of delivering the laudatio for SocArXiv, which was awarded the Kohli Infrastructure Prize for Sociology for the year 2025. SocArXiv ... Read more

I delivered the laudatio for @socarxiv.bsky.social which won the 2025 @kohli-sociology.bsky.social Infrastructure Prize for Sociology. The ceremony was at the @eui-eu.bsky.social and SocArXiv was represented by @philipncohen.com .

My laudatio here:
www.fabriziobernardi.net/laudatio-for...

Broadcasting for Democracy: Reimagining Official-Citizen Communication. Preprint.
My take on strengthening the connection between representatives and the represented: individual, verified information channels for every elected official. osf.io/preprints/so...
via @socarxiv.bsky.social on OSF

Flowers and the Kohli Award for sociology infrastructure

Congratulations to us, and thank you, @kohli-sociology.bsky.social!

I have written are review of "The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture" by Dalton Conley

Pre-print on @socarxiv.bsky.social here:
osf.io/preprints/so...

I highly recommend it, particularly to graduate students

The reasons👇

Very much looking forward to my participation in this webinar on Wednesday, together with four impressive colleagues: Anna Hatch, @rnls.bsky.social, @catmacos.bsky.social and @richardsever.bsky.social

@cwtsnl.bsky.social @metaror.bsky.social

New Video (Webinar Recording): #Repositories in the Age of #AI: The Attack of the #Bots (via
@carl-abrc.bsky.social) www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY0d... #libraries

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

(Should note this only applies to the Computer Science section of arXiv)

"The advent of large language models have made this type of content relatively easy to churn out on demand, and the majority of the review articles we receive are little more than annotated bibliographies, with no substantial discussion of open research issues."