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It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde

Why does every story about Nobel prize winners receiving the call involve them being woken in the middle of the night? Do the Nobel people not understand how time zones work or is it a deliberate strategy to generate fun stories about confused winners...?

OpenAI’s Sora 2 is drowning in Japanese 'AI slop' Iconic Japanese characters are prevalent across Sora 2, but legally, this places the company on shaky ground.

OpenAI’s Sora 2 video-generating software is particularly hungry for Japanese IP, with anime characters prevalent online.

Banning Sci-Hub highlights India’s unequal access to knowledge - Impact of Social Sciences The decision to block Sci-Hub in India brings inequalities in access to research based knowledge into sharp focus.

💥New: Banning Sci-Hub highlights India’s unequal access to knowledge

✍️Rituparna Patgiri

#AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #SciHub

The Authorship Integrity Toolkit - UK Research Integrity Office The Authorship Integrity Toolkit Practical resources to support responsible authorship in research UKRIO is pleased to present the Authorship Integrity Toolkit – a new collection of resources to help ...

UKRIO @ukrio.bsky.social is introducing an Authorship Integrity Toolkit:
a set of practical, adaptable resources designed to support both individual researcher contributors in their day-to-day practice and organisations in developing policies and managing projects.
ukrio.org/resources/th...

Journals infiltrated with ‘copycat’ papers that can be written by AI Tools such as ChatGPT can be used to generate almost-identical research papers that pass standard plagiarism checks. Hundreds are thought to have been published.

Tools such as ChatGPT can be used to generate almost-identical research papers that pass standard plagiarism checks

go.nature.com/4pR5Wf0

Can ChatGPT help science writers?

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring.

So Science did a study.

ChatGPT failed.

Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

ChatGPT is blind to bad science - Impact of Social Sciences A new study finds ChatGPT fails to take into account retraction notices across a wide range of research.

💥New: ChatGPT is blind to bad science

✍️ @yelusikuata.bsky.social & @mikethelwall.bsky.social

#AcWri #SciComm #ChatGPT #Retractions

This is figure 1, which shows the accuracy and output length of DeepSeek-R1-Zero throughout the training process.

A paper in Nature presents the methodology used to train a large-scale reasoning model in DeepSeek-R1, the open AI model released earlier this year. The paper shows the reasoning ability of the LLM is improved by pure reinforcement learning. go.nature.com/3VVz1ba 🧪

DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning - Nature A new artificial intelligence model, DeepSeek-R1, is introduced, demonstrating that the reasoning abilities of large language models can be incentivized through pure reinforcement learning, removing t...

DeepSeek published about R1 in Nature

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

but the supplementary information is far more detailed. it includes, lots of details on everything from datasets, data processing, hyperparameters, and more

static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10...

Preprint: “How Much are #LLMs Changing the Language of Academic Papers After #ChatGPT? A Multi-Database and Full Text Analysis” www.infodocket.com/2025/09/14/p... #scholcomm #AI

📣 Clarivate presents the 2025 Inaugural Eugene Garfield Memorial Lecture!

Prof Mike Thelwall, a true gentleman of bibliometrics, shared:

“Eugene Garfield inspired me. I met him once and was in awe. This means so much to me.”

A fitting tribute. #STIENID2025

Starting this morning with the 2025 Eugene Garfield Memorial Lecture sponsored by @clarivate.com given by the amazing @mikethelwall.bsky.social on reconciling AI with human judgement in research assessment

YouTube video by Altmetric YouTube Channel Introducing the Altmetric Sentiment Analysis

THREAD

Sentiment Analysis

Sentiment Analysis for social media is now fully live on Altmetric. From today you can see sentiment of all posts on Bluesky and X formerly Twitter.

We categorised nearly 210m items.

Here's why you should care.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNip...

#AcademicSky #Altmetrics

@kerifacer.bsky.social Challenges how we can prepare research evaluation for different conceptualisation of time.

Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

Sheffield researchers doing The Lord’s work. Great study.

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

indeed Nature also posted our finding on Bluesky, and that post got higher interactions in Bluesky than X, which further confirms our study :) bsky.app/profile/natu...

Very interested to see the Overton update!

Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

Posts about research on Bluesky receive substantially more attention than similar posts on X, formerly called Twitter

go.nature.com/45Ftiw4

ChatGPT tends to ignore retractions on scientific papers Study finds the chatbot doesn’t acknowledge concerns with problematic studies

“The study authors asked GPT 4o-mini to evaluate the quality of 217 papers. The tool didn’t mention in any of the reports that the papers being analyzed had been retracted or had validity issues.

In 190 cases, GPT described the papers as world leading, internationally excellent, or close to that”

To restore trust in science, scientists should focus on storytelling Holden Thorp, PhD, top editor at Science, discusses the essential role of front-line doctors, the power of well-told stories, and the value of admitting error.

“What can I do? I can try to help us build a scientific enterprise that won’t be as easy to attack. To do that, we need to do a better job recognizing that the public is investing in this and we owe them a debt of gratitude, rather than simply lecturing to them about all the great things we found”

What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks Researchers argue over whether ‘novel’ AI-generated works use others’ ideas without credit.

Researchers argue over whether ‘novel’ AI-generated works use others’ ideas without credit

go.nature.com/3VaNpvQ

Agree with the prognosis that GS will be axed because it’s not making money but am not so worried. OpenAlex and open community-owned infrastructure FTW! #BarcelonaDeclaration

In economics, men are tenured aren't punished for coauthoring.

Women, however, are less likely to receive tenure the more they coauthor.

New publishing models will only work if authors embrace them Complaints about the broken academic publishing system have been around for years and are getting louder. A common theme is that with the r...

Here's a quick blogpost about alternative publishing models. You can bring a horse to water, and indeed wave the bucket temptingly under its nose, but it is likely to gallop off elsewhere. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-...
@ec.europa.eu @wellcometrust.bsky.social

New source, new possibilities: An exploratory study of Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles Amid the migration of academics from X, the social media platform Bluesky has been proposed as a potential alternative. To assess its viability and relevance for science communication, this study pres...

How is science discussed on Bluesky? 🤔
Our new study finds higher textual originality on Bluesky scholarly posts than previously observed on X ✨
A fresh platform for science 📢
For more: arxiv.org/abs/2507.18840
#ScienceCommunication #Altmetrics #Bluesky

📌Our new study finds that male leading authors have higher retraction rates than female leading authors
📍11K+ retracted articles & 19M+ non-retracted articles analyzed

sorry to hear that, but welcome to uk!

30 years after arriving in the US, I just resigned from Northwestern and we sold our house.

We are an American family, I became a citizen in 2014, and until recently did not expect to ever leave. But now, this no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career.

What happens to all those alternative transcripts?
👉 Many are translated.
👉 Proteolytic processing adds even more diversity.
Integrated mRNA & protein isoform landscape now out on bioRxiv!
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#proteomics #transcriptomics #systemsbiology