Dennis Donathan

A Balanced, Nuanced, and Comprehensive Review of Scientific English and its Relevance to Modern Scholarship — The Journal of Immaterial Science The language that scientific papers are written in is a needlessly complicated form of English called lingua wanka, which is dripping with corporate-style jargon and pompous bollocks. Herein, I talk a...

Hmm, yes, indeed. Very thought provoking piece:

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How significant is the rise of fraudulent scientific papers? | Aug 23rd 2025 Edition Also this week, higher education in Britain, AI security, greeting colleagues at work

"Tackling misconduct is vital, but misleading representations and exaggerated projections risk undermining trust in science and lend weight to sceptics, rather than fostering effective reform."

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Contested paper on vaccines, autism in rats retracted by journal The editor-in-chief cited “inconsistencies in the number of subjects” as the reason for the retraction.

Contested paper on vaccines, autism in rats retracted by journal

@martajhill.bsky.social in @thetransmitter.bsky.social

Publication ethics, retraction notices, and hindsight - Mikyung Kim, Christopher B. Shook, 2025 Academic research from years past has increasingly come under scrutiny for a variety of reasons. While it is imperative that flawed studies based on obvious res...

Should papers describing the Tuskegee Study be retracted?

Today, the #scholcommlab published a Statement of Support for PACBI Principles. With it, I reject my university's (SFU's) complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and call them out for restricting my ability to direct the work of @pkp.sfu.ca in a principled way. www.scholcommlab.ca/pacbi/

Breaking News: Gina Ortiz Jones has been sworn in as mayor of the City of San Antonio

Boy do I have some good news and some bad news for Econ PhD students thinking of going on the market with an international trade paper…

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

Evaluating Multilingual Metadata Quality in Crossref Introduction: Scholarly research spans multiple languages, making multilingual metadata crucial for organizing and accessing knowledge across linguistic boundaries. These multilingual metadata already...

NEW PREPRINT: Evaluating Multilingual Metadata Quality in Crossref. This languished in a 95% finished state for forever. Now available! We analyzed over half a million records to see how completeness and quality changed for mono- and multi-lingual records arxiv.org/abs/2503.11853

The 30th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy takes place in Bergen, Norway October 29-31 this year. The Call for Abstracts is now out, and submissions open March 17th. Presentations and posters alike are welcome. Hope to see you there?

Grateful for the chance to share my thoughts on responsible use of LLMs in psychology research @spspnews.bsky.social #spsp2025. Here's a summary of my presentation for those who missed it. Thanks to @ashwinia.bsky.social for organizing this panel!

How should LLMs be used in psychology research? 🧵

If Fritz Lang’s Iconic Film Metropolis Had a Kraftwerk Soundtrack The case of the copyright history of Fritz Lang’s influential sci-fi masterpiece Metropolis is as convoluted as the history of its film print. Lang’s vision, and his original almost-three-hour cut was...

If Fritz Lang’s Iconic Film Metropolis Had a Kraftwerk Soundtrack

Ever wonder about multilingualism, metadata, and scholarly communications?

Yes? Read this article:

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No? Read this article:

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[Pam from The Office (US) saying “It’s the same article”]