Ce Post est cité par "Retraction Watch" dans "Weekend reads" (April 18, 2026):
• Researcher points out a university awarded a thesis that cited a retracted study to attribute “anti-cancer properties to a plant.”
@sjmelchor.bsky.social writes for @nature.com about how to spot dubious papers, interviewing @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @abalkina.bsky.social, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, myself and and my fellow @cosig.net maintainers @solalpirelli.bsky.social and Yagmur Ozturk!
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‘Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters.
A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism’
Ivan Oransky @retractionwatch.com, @alicedreger.bsky.social @thetimes.com
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The 2025 edition of the #AcademicFreedom Index ranks the United States in the fourth decile, below Madagascar and Mongolia. (See Fig 8.)
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#AcadSky #AcademicSky #Censorship #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Hey, I'm here! And I'm not the only one who's run into this!
New perspective in @plosmedicine.org on safeguarding open access datasets in the post GenAI era. Looking forward to the community's perspectives and insights on this.
#openscience #metascience #academicsky
Trop nombreuses, frauduleuses ou écrites par intelligence artificielle générative : les critiques à l’égard des publications scientifiques s’accumulent à l’heure de leur surproduction. Faut-il dès lors en faire le deuil ?
Félicitations, c'est amplement mérité.
AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
Corrélation n'est pas causalité: un nouvel exemple à partir d'un article d'épidémiologistes sur vote et mortalité...
« Voting is a stronger determinant of mortality than education »
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The four-fold drain of scientific publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control.
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If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Characteristics of a predatory conferences:
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• The organizer will send you a certificate of participation after paying the registration fee
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“In 2022, AI was seen as an efficiency tool for image analysis and language polishing. By 2025, AI has become a participant in the process, shaping writing, influencing review, and challenging the concept of authorship and accountability.”
Very interesting report
#PRC10 #ScholarlyPublishing
Tools such as ChatGPT can be used to generate almost-identical research papers that pass standard plagiarism checks
go.nature.com/4pR5Wf0
If you're a journal or publisher using institutional email addresses to verify the identity of authors or reviewers, you'll want to read this story by @joelving.bsky.social.
"The university will stop sharing the data required to be included in the ranking as of 2026. As a result, Sorbonne University will no longer feature in future rankings produced by THE, which include the World University Rankings, the Rankings by Subject or the Impact Rankings."
Excellent!
How competition propels scientific risk-taking Kevin Gross∗ Department of Statistics North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC USA Carl T. Bergstrom† Department of Biology University of Washington Seattle, WA USA (Dated: September 9, 2025) In science as elsewhere, attention is a limited resource and scientists compete with one another to produce the most exciting, novel and impactful results. We develop a game-theoretic model to explore how such competition influences the degree of risk that scientists are willing to embrace in their research endeavors. We find that competition for scarce resources—for example, publications in elite journals, prestigious prizes, and faculty jobs—motivates scientific risk-taking and may be important in counterbalancing other incentives that favor cautious, incremental science. Even small amounts of competition induce substantial risk-taking. Moreover, we find that in an “opt-in” contest, increasing the stakes induces increased participation—which crowds the contest and further impels entrants to pursue higher-risk, higher-return investigations. The model also illuminates a source of tension in academic training and collaboration. Researchers at different career stages differ in their need to amass accomplishments that distinguish them from their peers, and therefore may not agree on what degree of risk to accept.
1. What does a Cold War-era game theory problem known as the silent duel have to do with high-risk research strategies, publication in Cell/Nature/Science glamor journals, and the academic job market?
Kevin Gross and I tackle these questions in our latest arXiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06718
The paper @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @mortenoxe.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social, @smutclyde.bsky.social, and I wrote together on the troubles over at Bioengineered has now officially been published by... Bioengineered!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Researchers argue over whether ‘novel’ AI-generated works use others’ ideas without credit
go.nature.com/3VaNpvQ
A paper that combines #peerreview & cheese... what could be better? Answer: writing said paper with @abalkina.bsky.social @image-integrity.bsky.social & Marie Souliere. Read on to learn how the Swiss Cheese Model could help peer review & #researchintegrity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
In @science.org: www.npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-s1-5477662/diet-exercise-obesity-nutrition
Has nothing to do with PNAS study (Fraudulent publications)!
It says a lot about the political imagination of academia that one of the more common proposals for fixing publish-or-perish culture is to limit the number of articles we can publish each year.
FRAUD ALERT: I have nothing to do with these phony books using my name on the cover. I have not written a memoir or partnered/inspired any cookbooks!
Attempts to get Amazon to take these down have gone nowhere.
La révolution IA à la FDA a un nom chic : Elsa.
Promesse : faire plus avec moins.
Réalité : l'IA invente des études et réécrit des rapports qui valide des médocs dangereux.
Bref, la FDA passe son temps à chercher les hallu d'Elsa pour éviter des drames.
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Excellent reporting from Traci Watson about the challenging growth of AI content in preprint services.
Here's a primer on our perspective complementing her reporting: www.cos.io/blog/evaluat...
