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Journal silently removes paper for plagiarism, author claims identity theft If a plagiarized paper by an author who claims he didn’t write it disappears from a journal’s website with no notice, did it ever exist in the first place? It’s not just a philosophical question fo…

"If a plagiarized paper by an author who claims he didn’t write it disappears from a journal’s website with no notice, did it ever exist?"

Yes - it'll have been downloaded, search engines will've indexed it. This is why bioRxiv/medRxiv do not disappear papers.

retractionwatch.com/2026/02/05/j...

Please don't make any sausages pretending they are madeleines and avoid a bouillabaisse that look like ragout rather than being fish-based. #AILLMs are as bad to cuisine as they are at science (and almoste anything else that is not bullshitting).

You sell citations to real authors and you have nothing to pay to the publisher or to fake authors for "writing" the paper. Maybe you have to pay a #reviewmill if you don't operate yourself. Perfect business model #citationcartles #researchintegrity

Screen shot of a youtube video titled "AI.FILL Function Explained: 10X Productivity in Excel with AI" with the caption "Let ChatGPT fill your missing data"

Don't you f**king dare.

So chatbots happen to be even more expensive than #bigpublishers

Shaping Europe’s Research Future: OPERAS Calls for a Sovereign and Equitable ERA Act A Critical Juncture for Open Science, SSH, and Community-Led Infrastructure The European research landscape stands at a pivotal moment. The European Commission’s consultation for the European Research Area (ERA) Act, finalised on January 23rd,...

#ERAAct #PositionPaper | 📢 Following the European Commission's consultation on the ERA Act, OPERAS has just released a position paper with a powerful message: Don't let commercial interests capture the research agenda.

👉Learn more: https://operas.hypotheses.org/9636

Like Amazon, @arxiv.bsky.social , @cos.io and other places will soon limit to 20 manuscripts/day the maximum number a given author can publish.

This distrust in Al is reflected across the research conducted within this project-including the literature review, public and professional surveys, and deliberative workshops in this research. Distrust will have a significant impact not only on citizens' acceptance of Al-based products and services, but also on their willingness to provide data for commercial and public sector Al-based products and services. Without trust and with broader fear of Al, individuals express a reluctance or discomfort in engaging with Al. This restricts their ability to build Al skills.

however, sadly, the paper pitches this as a "trust issue" but people are right now to trust this stuff! Also complete failure to recognise that tools need to be worthy of trust, not that people should give their trust more freely

This is simultaneously so cool, as it cuts down tedious repetitive stuff to let you focus on the content, and absolutely terrifying, given the current incentives in scientific publications.

It *can* be used to make science better. It *will* be used to produce tons of crap.

What a time to be alive

#GenAI sewers try to find their way everywhere, forcing #open scholarly infrastructure to act as #gatekeepers.

Equality of Access Requires Equity in Design: Rethinking Open Science Infrastructures The 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science underscored the global commitment to Open Science. The declaration defines Open Science through the values of inclusivity and equity and the principle of...

📣 Join our next research seminar! Our colleague @loubezuidenhout.bsky.social will give a talk on 'Equality of Access Requires Equity in Design: Rethinking Open Science Infrastructures'.

📅 Friday, 30/1/2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CET)
📌 Online & at CWTS

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

As always, the administration (here DINUM) is making its stuff, can be bad or good, but mostly decoupled from any governmental directions. Actually, it works really well, a Google Meet "clone" based on OSS.

I tend not to share this view. If retraction doesn't encompass the "bad literature" (far from it), it gives us a view on #publishers practices, has shown (finally to everyone) that #peerreview is not made to detect fraud, and has "radiation" effects (eg "feet of clay detector" @gcabanac.cpesr.fr )

Our monthly review of the coverage of the major bibliographic databases (January 2026).
We excluded Xueshu Baidu and FatCat and duplicated the OpenAlex info and added PubMed, a relevant IA source

UK academia’s presence on X is reaching a tipping point - LSE Impact Data collected on UK universities’ use of social media shows academic engagement with X is at a tipping point with more institutions off the platform than on.

👀ICYMI: "What is clear from my data is that many of those who set up elsewhere on Bluesky, Threads and in very rare cases, Mastodon, did so in a half-baked fashion."

✍️ @andytattersall.bsky.social

In my field we don't publish with PhD students, that is bad for their carreers :-)

Thank you for letting us know We hope you will review for Wiley Research Publishing in the future. If you want any more information, or would like to submit a review for this article, then please contact us at reviewhelp@wiley.com.

I just declined to review for a paywalled/hybrid Wiley journal... and was given absolutely no means of communicating why I declined in the process.

Just a pathway through to: "thanks for letting us know" (byeee!!!)

I was locked and loaded, ready to tell the […]

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The worst part in this, beyond the usual overselling and the technical and commercial lock-in, is to make Microsoft's products an heritage of Turing's work.

You create a public link (ie everyone can access it) for a given folder, then define roles (can add/edit/delete files).

CNRS Sdrive (based on Nextcloud) is just perfectly making its job on sovereign drives and OSS tools. And now (in France) we have Visio that is perfect to replace GoogleMeet or Zoom.

They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted. Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.

this is a rollicking great read

it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Dealing with the grey zone of publishing or… how I will never be an editorial board member of MDPI Publications. The “predatory publisher” category raises more questions than answers. Just like “academic fraud”, it tends to validate a black & white world in which rules and norms are clear-cut and universally sha...

Did you also consider that, at least at MDPI, guest editors papers might be APC-waived? polecopub.hypotheses.org/3231

Reviewer or editor for a big-publisher journal: were you asked to use an in-house AI tool? Call for testimonies..

So #GenAI may be ok for secretary-standard letters, but it does not even improve productivity for very short semi-standard medical letters. "PhD-level assistant" they claimed...

Is ‘open science’ delivering benefits? Major study finds proof is sparse It’s hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free, researchers say

[1/3] Worth reading in @science.org: really important, comprehensive work on #OpenScience impact by the @pathos-project.bsky.social. Some benefits are well-documented (citations, citizen science), but strong evidence for broader economic/societal impacts still sparse. www.science.org/content/arti...

The image shows the uptake in matilda.science objects : +15M works, +20M full-text search, +1.1M recognized authors +600M citation links

The power of #opendata, automation, @foxcubfr.bsky.social maintenance and Huma-Num services. In 2026, so many new objects are searchable on matilda.science?l=en #discover #openscience @cnrs-inist.bsky.social

so maybe @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social could make a resolution to remove all editors and reviewers who have accepted nonsensical papers. It would be quite a cull

🎆Congratulations🎇 Sleuths at PubPeer - pubpeer.com :
End-of-the-Year Countdown runs for 250,000 flagged papers!!
...that's a 3‰ of total publications over all years & disciplines (ca. 76,000,000)

👉essential for #ResearchIntegrity

Yes, I did (a chapter in an edited book), in order to see how things go. I just received a confirmation email for the moment.

They are not a "leading scientific journal" but a newsmagazine which also happens to publish academic articles.