Asset specificity in climate politics: How polluting firms become climate policy supporters
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
@socarxiv.bsky.social preprint by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social student @jonasfischer.bsky.social
AI has increased submissions, but reject lots of AI slop. I don't have an acceptance rate because of how versions are counted, but a majority of moderator decisions are rejections. I hope there is an increase in real human papers being shared, but determining that will require more analysis.
New papers 2016 609 2017 1162 2018 1261 2019 1583 2020 2230 2021 2629 2022 2207 2023 2230 2024 1940 2025 3132 2026 linear projection 4699
SocArXiv is accepting about 12.9 new papers per day for the last three months (not counting revisions). That's a pace of almost 5000 per year.
IMO an important academic value is that your personal identity is accountable for what you put into the public space. Thus pseudonyms inappropriate for academic work & your ORCiD should have enough public info to "out" you to others. (Posting my view in a discussion among preprint moderators.)
📝 Finished a nice little study together with @raabm.bsky.social: "Time spent alone or together, household type, and loneliness: Descriptive evidence from Germany". The preprint is now available, of course on @socarxiv.bsky.social ➡️ doi.org/10.31235/osf....
New paper published in the Journal of Moral Education bit.ly/4sRDyKH (@socarxiv.bsky.social preprint bit.ly/4a2bUnk) Youth civic engagement declined across domains over the COVID-19 pandemic period in general but there are some additional points to note. See comments for details. (1/4)
Article is open access at @europeansocreview.bsky.social and also available on @socarxiv.bsky.social , where versions have apparently been downloaded >700 times (❣️) since December 2024
COS is pleased to welcome Chris Bourg (MIT) and Marcus Munafò (University of Bath) to our Board of Directors. Their leadership in equitable open scholarship, research culture reform, and metascience will help shape how the next phase of our work unfolds.
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My first thought was “why create fake authors if you wouldn’t get the credit?”. But then it clicked—this is probably a citation boosting play
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This guy describes himself as "digital marketing professional" on LinkedIn, but the spam company he created (Heritage Cannon) says, "His research focuses on the relationship between narrative art and the Western philosophical tradition."
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Uses and Misuses of Large Language Models in Qualitative Research Jonathan Ben-Menachem Abstract: Researchers are now considering how to incorporate large language models (LLMs) into qualitative data collection and analysis—domains where the researcher's evolving interpretive judgment cannot be separated from the method. This article considers various, increasingly ambitious applications of LLMs, distinguishing amplification of human analytical capacity from substitution. For analysis of human-collected data, I argue that the discipline lacks epistemic frameworks to evaluate what LLM-assisted coding means—whether it constitutes an informal thinking tool, a robustness check, or a source of confirmation bias. Turning to data collection, I suggest that LLM-administered “interviewing” sacrifices the iterative linkage between data collection and theory development that gives qualitative methods their distinctive inferential leverage, producing output closer to adaptive surveying than to fieldwork. I conclude by addressing institutional incentives that make these tools structurally tempting and arguing that professional evaluation standards should account for the epistemic costs of LLM-accelerated productivity norms on fieldwork-intensive research.
By popular demand, I'm sharing my preprint discussing the implications of large language models for qualitative sociology research. Advocates emphasize the efficiency gains of LLMs: "interviews in minutes for pennies". This paper asks: But at what (epistemic) cost? doi.org/10.31235/osf... 🧪
Further details on arXiv going independent: like us the aim is improved sustainability, tech, governance, and global engagement tech.cornell.edu/arxiv/
Every little bit helps!
Folks, this is why your friendly neighbourhood @socarxiv.bsky.social moderators insist you link your OSF and ORCID accounts
If you have one then please also verify your institutional email address on your @orcid.org account, as this saves us time
paper title: LLM-Assisted Replication as Scientific Infrastructure. paper authors: So Kubota, Hiromu Yakura, Sho Yamada, Yuki Nakamura, Tobias Werner, Samuel Coavoux
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly accelerating scientific production, from literature synthesis to automated analysis. Yet this expansion risks creating a verification gap, in which the volume of scientific claims outpaces the community’s capacity to check their reproducibility. We argue that the same LLM capabilities driving scientific output can be redirected toward scalable verification. As a demonstration, we share insights and lessons from our attempt to reproduce the core results of popular classical papers across disciplines, which yielded not only successful cases but also failures due to underspecified methodological details. This means that automated replication does not adjudicate scientific truth, but it localizes discrepancies and documentation gaps, lowering the cost of computational reproducibility checks. We thereby propose embedding LLM-assisted replication across the research lifecycle, from pre-submission quality check, journal-integrated verification, post-publication audits, to forensic reconstruction of legacy studies. To prevent misuse and preserve trust, we call for transparent standards and community governance. If institutionalized responsibly, AI can serve not only to generate science, but to scale its self-correction.
"LLM-Assisted Replication as Scientific Infrastructure", V2 of our preprint about how to use LLM to make better rather than more papers and assess the extent of the replication crisis in sociology osf.io/preprints/so...
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A Study on Customer Support Team Configuration and Service Quality in Financial Services Enterprises A Study on Dispatcher Scheduling and Service On-Time Rate in Urban Public Transportation Systems A Study on the Impact of Member Mobility on Research Output in University Research Teams Authors Matthew R. Collins1, Daniel T. Harris2, James A. Wilson3* Affiliations Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia Corresponding author: james.wilson@unimelb-placeholder.edu Abstract Customer support teams play a crucial role in ensuring service quality in financial services enterprises, and the rationality of their staffing directly affects customer experience. This study analyzes the relationship between staff size and service quality indicators, focusing on the configuration characteristics of customer support teams. Based on 18 consecutive months of operational data from the customer support center of a financial services enterprise, the sample includes 96 service teams, 2,430 customer service personnel, and over 3.2 million customer service records. Service quality is measured by average response time, first-time resolution rate, and customer satisfaction score. A generalized 1 configuration variables on service quality customer service team is controlled withi A Study on the Relationship between Labor Structure and Production Efficiency in Overseas Factories of Multinational Manufacturing Enterprises Authors Sebastian Weber1, Lukas Schneider2, Johannes Müller3* Affiliations Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Munich (TUM), 80333 Munich, Germany *Corresponding author: johannes.mueller@tum-placeholder.edu Abstract Public transportation systems have high requirements for service on-time rate, and the rationality of dispatcher scheduling directly affects operational stability. This study analyzes the relationship between dispatcher scheduling and service on-time rate. The stud…
Someone went to the trouble of creating 5 fake OSF accounts today, linking to 5 fake ORCID accounts, and generating 5 fake papers to submit to SocArXiv, with fake author and emails. Dude, if you are reading this, I hope you get the help you need (or a better job).
Amid the AI influx, SocArXiV continues to be an important critical voice in/for the social sciences
At @socarxiv.bsky.social, we do not insist that papers are "academic," or destined for a scholarly journal. However, one thing our moderators do - without a full-blown review, often outside their specialty - is ask whether people who really are subject experts might be interested to read it.
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"Preprint servers are a time machine, they move everyone forward 12 months and speed up the exchange of ideas"
ht @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social www.evocellnet.com/2021/06/a-no...
Phil Lewis, meet @philipncohen.com
We feel the need to express our humanity in this process. We insist on making human judgments, using our perception, judgment, and experience – and will not defer to automated systems, or enter into a technological arms race to defeat the (people who run the) machines. We strive for fairness, but make no promise of an algorithmically pure policy.
SocArxiv @socarxiv.bsky.social just released an AI policy, which I had a hand in crafting.
@phillewis.bsky.social sums up the spirit of the policy well.
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Big news from #arXiv:
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...
1. It's becoming an independent #nonprofit organization.
2. It's leaving #CornellU and moving to NYC.
3. It's hiring a CEO, with a salary in the range of $300k.
#OpenAccess #Preprints #ScholComm
This is good. The slop tsunami is coming for scholarship at a very bad time.
One thing I would add: generating papers is the worst thing LLMs can do in the research ecosystem, where we really need fewer papers to review and publish, not more.
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Hey, I have a new WP out now on @socarxiv.bsky.social !
In the paper, I study the full network of partnerships in Norway since 1967 up to today. I examine the general structure of the partnerships network, and the existence of a specific type of network: the partner switcheroo. 1/x