Better outputs than a lot of existing paper mills π
04.03.2026 06:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Better outputs than a lot of existing paper mills π
04.03.2026 06:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Switzerland is all about importing words from the other linguistic region in a way that doesn't quite make sense π
01.03.2026 10:45 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I would not have guessed the singer's aesthetic even with 1000 guesses π³
28.02.2026 11:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I don't get why people stay in relationships where they are the "adult"...
27.02.2026 20:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hopefully CS can follow suit, it's a little ironic that biologists are beating us to this milestone π
27.02.2026 19:11 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Their name is a typo, they're actually Complimentary medicine.
26.02.2026 19:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In which we learn @acm.org is exceptionally bad at retracting articles that need retracting:
arxiv.org/abs/2602.191...
You're probably thinking of Louis XVI
(or, why we should stop using Roman numerals...)
Seems adapted to the main target country...is it also teaching you how to buy homeopathy? π
22.02.2026 12:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Clearly being single prevents Alzheimer's
22.02.2026 12:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Some confs have switched to publishing proceedings in a "journal", which only publishes their proceedings and really only exists to make bean counters who only know journals happy. But still fixed deadlines, program committees (*ahem* "editors", sorry), etc.
22.02.2026 11:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Coming from one of the many subfields of CS that primarily uses conferences, I wish the rest of the scientific world would notice us sometimes :)
E.g. re: the comment about needing 4-5 reviews, there are some conferences where this is normal. And reviewer matching + workload mgmt is much easier.
The Verge going with the pseudojournalist version of "actually she was asking for it even though she said no"
21.02.2026 16:08 β π 12 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The sky is blue, the grass is green, the @acm.org is undermining trust in science through terrible publishing practices... Just another day!
20.02.2026 12:02 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0the only place this should happen is academic conferences
19.02.2026 18:14 β π 2951 π 409 π¬ 94 π 10
"Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?" meme
15.02.2026 12:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0See also: "right" to a trial by jury.
15.02.2026 11:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Fun fact: le drapeau du canton de St Gall reprΓ©sente l'arme Γ l'origine du mot "fascisme".
15.02.2026 11:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The president role rotates every year and it was a woman last year, Trump is just insecure
11.02.2026 09:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
πΊπ¦ Ministry of Ed.: universities shouldn't partner with companies that guarantee paper acceptance and other such dubious things
π One such company: that's unfair and defamatory :(
πΊπ¦ court: no no that's fair, get lost
Yay for good govt! h/t @abalkina.bsky.social
opendatabot.ua/court/133906...
Even with quality checks from PC chairs there will occasionally be bad actors who go undetected until publication, right now dealing with that in reasonable time is effectively impossible because the incentives for publishers to act aren't there.
10.02.2026 09:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Good move.
Next step, expect reasonable standards from publishers, e.g., it's increasingly hard to justify giving time (and paper/conf fees) when publisher staff can't be bothered to take action on plagiarism for 5 years because it wasn't reported through the right form.
pubpeer.com/publications...
99.5% there... donate!
09.02.2026 19:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"We canβt find the page youβre looking for.
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The "practicing agency thinking" link seems dead? Or is it because I'm not logged into LinkedIn on my phone?
01.02.2026 21:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
For your information, this is what one day of the so-called Russian βenergy ceasefireβ looked like - something foreign media outlets, for some reason, simply call a βceasefire.β
It is unclear when it began or when it will end.
This is what it was like: π§΅
The Swiss French name for it translates literally to "Cheese from Italy" so it's not just the Germans being weird about this ^^
31.01.2026 20:43 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Left: Original Figure 10, containing panels from 2 groups (A and B, in 2 columns) and 6 different organs (in 6 rows, heart, liver, spleen, stomach, lung, kidney). I have added colored boxes to highlight that several panels in the original appear to contain duplicated (photoshopped?) areas. Right: Figure in the same orientation as on the left, but all panels now look different. Still, two sets overlap
I know that @frontiersin.bsky.social are trying hard to be taken seriously.
But addressing the problems in the original figure (left) by a completely new set of panels (that also have problems; right) puts them straight back into predatory journal range.
#ImageForensics
#ScientificPublishing
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Wiley: "Weβre supporting responsible research assessment practices" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1520...
Also Wiley: "Prove that your article is a good fit for this journal πππππ by citing at least two of our articles in your manuscript before we will even consider reviewing it" π€‘
Hey it's not all bad they have one about equal rights for women...
...oh wait no, that one wasn't ratified because not enough of their states want this.