The bluesky account where publications are treated as social, political, technical and economic objects
#STS #Openscience #PoliticalEconomy
Blog: https://polecopub.hypotheses.org/
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The disinvestment in French Higher Education shown by public data . At Master level, +6% candidates, -13% positions.
This is the policy we need at every institution of higher education across faculties. Now.
Good luck to very talented colleagues who left MDPI publications to run a new journal. Some back story here: polecopub.hypotheses.org/3231
If you want to avoid AI Search and metadata shortcomings, you can simply full-text search on 36M works (and counting) with Matilda.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
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#EconSky: check in on your Google Scholar page. It is not ok.
Screenshot is one of three hallucinated articles I found on my profile, clearly a downstream product of someone's AI hallucinations.
We have been unable to reach the author for a comment.
UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)."
That's what I'm talking about.
An auditor for the Ontario, Canada government found that AI agents tasked with turning doctor/patient conversations into structured notes routinely hallucinated false treatments, replaced drug names with entirely different drugs, and missed crucial information
Nathan Kalman-Lamb
This is a must read if you want to understand how academics and academic institutions abandon their core missions, letting commercial companies thrive and create a "market" #openscience #publishers
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Let me correct this: highest fake references rate in an ELSEVIER-owned preprint site (which happened to be SSH-only when they bought it, expanded to all disciplines since then). #openscience
minnamoira 🇫🇮🫀🇳🇬
Tatyana Deryugina
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Nick Kapur
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Guest Post — Scholarly AI Search Shortcomings and the Need for Better Metadata scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/29/g...
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...
AI scholarly search tools often miss important literature due to incomplete metadata. Better full-text-derived metadata could significantly improve discovery.
'From mission to market: a case study and analysis of the commercialisation of institutional publishing' by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @scholtom.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social & I: doi.org/10.36399/cmn...
We're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research.
A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated.
Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS
Kevin Sanders
I never said anything like this, or wrote on this topic.
I have achieved the status of generic family sociologist appearing in AI slop articles to say random words. This statement now enters the great corpus of random bullshit our students will copy-paste into eternity. You're welcome.
More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone
go.nature.com/49KiNZJ
Big let down, to be honest
Published in Journal of Research on Research (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026)
