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A questionnaire popup from LinkedIn. The question is "What brand comes to mind when you think of academic publishers?" The four options are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor and Francis.

Well this is grim. Thanks LinkedIn. #AcademicPublishing #Librarian #OpenResearch #SocietyPublishers #UniversityPublishers

It's amazing how incredibly explicitly OpenAI seems to be admitting that they have no idea how to actually monetize their automated lying machine.

OpenAlex has many objects other than publications, ie figshare ppts and now datasets from Datacite. At Matilda, we wish to focus on textual objects. There is also the question of deduplication (we have around 250M texts, 155M post deduplication). We chose to associate AAM, preprints and VoR.

Our periodic review of the coverage of the major bibliographic databases (October 2025)
GS no longer the largest due to the huge increase of OpenAlex. New data for Xueshu

Predatory practices plague modern science, but the origins & reasons of their success can be identified—and solutions exist. Instead of blacklists, funding agencies should foster accreditation systems. See analyses & proposals of the EAM Task Force of @femsmicro.org on the matter shorturl.at/gVXJR

Post Doctoral Research Associate, “Between Economy and Democracy: Reorganising Research Evaluation through Metadata in the Digital Era” | King's College London

If you wish to study the effect of #opendata in #researchevaluation, please consider this postdoc position in London #openscience ( @lizziegadd.bsky.social ) www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126965-...

Before these LLM bots, "answers" were not given; you would be offered websites on which actual answers could be found, by reading. Google's Matthew effect has been well documented, but that still makes a difference both in the need to read and in the trust towards these "answers".

Macron appoints new French government in attempt to end political deadlock Rivals say president’s latest cabinet represents unwelcome continuity and hard-left party vows to file no-confidence motion amid fraught budget talks

Retraction of articles days after their publication feels like a circus. Now imagine that France had a government for just 12h (not a joke). So short that the international press can't follow www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

That is why we have multiple sources in Matilda and deduplicate to get abstracts and, more importantly, full-text indexing to achieve maximum discoverability. #openscience #openresearchinformation

Exactly what we expected at @matilda-science.bsky.social Soon "citation disadvantage" papers will objectify the cascading effects.

Important observation by Aaron Tay: Articles published by Elsevier and Springer Nature may be increasingly difficult to find. For many of these articles abstracts are not made openly available, limiting article discoverability, in particular using AI tools.

@barcelonadori.bsky.social @oa2020.org

Another record month for bioRxiv - and further evidence the pandemic spike+dip was just that and growth continues. Thanks to all involved and that includes 🫵

AI isn't replacing radiologists Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.

In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer.

www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...

Today on the blog, we feature Matilda, a bibliographic platform built specifically for open science. We spoke with project lead Didier Torny about the project, and their plans to incorporate links to datasets for the articles they index in Matilda.

👉 makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

Asbestos was highly effective in mitigating the effects of fire. What could be the positive effect of LLM AI?

“Added value” 🙄

RFK Jr: “Research on vaccines and autism has been suppressed.”

PubMed: “Here’s over 1200 research papers on vaccines and autism…

…including this first one which is a meta-analysis showing that vaccines are not associated with autism.”

The new definition of guest authorship...

OK, so Crossref-based.

I knew for MDPI, I did not realise the fall for Frontiers was that high (I suppose you talk about WoS volume not Crossref volume)

Most people don't realise how big Frontiers and MDPI have become (in volume).

Universities:
- Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers
- stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research
- stop pretending AI usage is inevitable.

I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.

I see it as a spectrum, humanities are very close to maths (replacing articles with books): one or two authors, very limited reading, hard to write, each word is weighed before publication.

No, it is incredibly hard to write a math paper, to read it, to review it, so they just make a few of them, while biologists salami slice and publish the slightest correlation or the quickest experiment (not every biologist).

F1000Research Article: “I just very much love the journal”:  Understanding the community-led publishing landscape at the University of Cambridge. Read the latest article version by Samuel Moore, Mandy Wigdorowitz, at F1000Research.

In the past I've criticised the F1000 model for being editorially light touch, but my experience of publishing this article was really good. Two rounds of review with four expert reviewers who each provided really helpful feedback and have now approved the paper.

f1000research.com/articles/14-...

A sign in an elevator On the 19th day of September, 1984 Former U.S. President Gerald R. Ford was temporarily trapped in this elevator. VAN PELT-DIETRICH LIBRARY CENTER

Make sure to wish a librarian a happy Gerald Ford Trapped in The Penn Library Elevator Day.

PCI Webinar-Dorothy Bishop-How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s

We will never have any AI (LLM) component inside Matilda to avoid that situation. Bibliographic search needs deterministic, transparent and reproducible processes. AI-training robots already come to the platform, which is fine, though we need to slow them down to avoid DDOS-style crashes.

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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.