Professorial student of Neurogenetics
Spontaneous behavior and operant learning
Open Science Insurrectionist
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Björn Brembs
Too much money? Too much pressure? Only about 12% #replicability:
https://elifesciences.org/articles/67995
and, on top of that, there now appears to be evidence of citation distortion in certain cancer journals:
"Here, we show that molecular cancer articles sharing features with retracted papers […]
Jefferson Pooley @jpooley is dead on: use LLMs just perpetuates and amplifies existing inequities in scholarship:
"The Matthew effect in AI summary"
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/05/19/the-matthew-effect-in-ai-summary/
RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/116634055234391590
Make Biologists Think Again
https://youtu.be/bbNWh8Wd7Mw
a public provocation, given to undergraduate students of Heidelberg University at an event called "Philosophy Meets Biology," which was part of the "Wild Thinking" workshop organized […]
Coming also to your country soon: one of the myriad ways in which surveillance corporations like Elsevier directly affect the research landscape:
"UUK and Elsevier partner to map university research strengths" […]
Was für ein Blödsinn!
Sinnvoller wäre, die Kosten auf die fossilen Brennstoffe zu verteilen. Alte Technologie für die neue zahlen lassen!
"Bundesnetzagentur: Solaranlagenbesitzer sollen bald höheren Strompreis zahlen" […]
Very interesting proposal:
"Between these worlds [academia and industry] lies a growing population of practitioners, independent scholars, citizen scientists, individuals working at the intersection of art and science, and retired researchers, who—despite losing formal institutional […]
"The paper argues that dominant scholarly repositories may increasingly function as quasi-public intellectual infrastructures rather than ordinary private platforms, particularly where they exercise substantial influence over discoverability, citation continuity, metadata preservation, and […]
Update. After the American Diabetes Association (#ADA) physically evicted five members from an ADA event for peacefully handing out print copies of a pro-science, anti-Trump editorial published in the ADA's own flagship journal …
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/121657
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Sometimes, life can be good, too. 😊
"These findings raise the possibility that paper mill activity has played a role in shaping journal impact factors – and by extension the perceived prestige – of some of the highest-ranked journals in molecular cancer research."
'nuff said.
"Suspected distortion of citations in high-impact […]
