What on Earth is up with the y-axis scaling on the rightmost bar plot?

@row1.ca : providing alternative signals for admins seems like a valuable goal for the Modular Peer Review?

1. Steve Jobs realized that "People hate their phones". Apple invented a better one, made bank, & changed the world.

Academics hate their scientific publishers. Bluesky invented a better publishing platform, & could bank some of the ~$20B/year sci pub revenue, changing science 🧪 @toni.bsky.team 🧵

I'd be curious to peek at these slides.

Copy-paste, but not copy-pasta. This sure makes it easier to publicize critiques. But how can we scaffold commentary in general from reference managers? What if you wanted to leave positive and neutral comments?

bonus: Bulk exporting annotations and copy-pasting to PubPeer is also possible:

Agreed! I've long thought this. Good to see a long-form treatment of this puzzle.

5. Paste your comment from your clipboard (it's already in your clipboard). Submit. Rejoice.

5/n 🧵

4. Scroll down and click in the comment box

4/n. 🧵

3. Your browser automagically loads the PubPeer page for that article

3/n 🧵

2. Right-click the annotation and find Send annotation to PubPeer in the dropdown menu

2/n 🧵

Vibecoding this after two years: A Zotero-to-PubPeer integration (alpha, shipping in a few days).

Suppose you want to share your comments about specific parts of a report. Just follow five simple steps:

1. Highlight and annotate in Zotero

1/n 🧵

Not sure how or whether to suspect AI, but the @zotero.org team is cooking with version 9 just a few months after version 8.

www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-9/

You are a *shooting star*. Even made the list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Happy to get some ideas about anyone I'm missing.

Who are some of your favorite, lesser-known sleuths? 🔦

I'm looking for blogs and social media accounts to find patterns in critiques (strategies, communication frames, collaboration practices).

Any rising stars? Anyone who isn't in the spotlight? 📸

#metascience #openscience

Is there a planned ATProto connection?

Ever wanted to share an important *connection* between two pieces? Like a thread explainer for a complex paper, or a blog debunking some hyped up claim on social media?

Scientific Journals Need Dedicated Fact-Checkers Opinion | An additional layer of quality control could help academic publishers weed out problematic content before it propagates.

If only there were, like, peers who could review those journal articles for payment.

Chawla, D. S. (2026). Scientific Journals Need Dedicated Fact-Checkers. Undark Magazine. Retrieved from undark.org/2026/04/09/o...

A dark-background infographic showing 12 nested timelines, from the formation of the universe 13.8 billion years ago down to the author's birth in 1993. Each row zooms into a highlighted region of the one above, illustrating how brief human existence is relative to cosmic time. Pastel colored horizontal lines represent each era, connected by shaded trapezoid shapes that show the zoom relationship between rows.

just a lil existentialist chart!

Reminds me of some cog sci research on getting people to understand long time scales with hierarchical alignment activities + timelines:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I'd be curious to see the web explainer/explorable explanation version of this.

Will future updates enable any action to be performed without a mouse?

cc @irenepasquetto.bsky.social (sleuth I mentioned today)

Eventually benchmarks will need to be standardized to next-gen models like making IQ tests harder over time to account for the Flynn Effect.

Any virtual accommodations planned?

The Online Life of Retracted Science: the news cycle, social media and journalistic responsibilities The Online Life of Retracted Science: the news cycle, social media and journalistic responsibilitie... This webinar explores what happens after a scientific paper is retracted, examining how retracted studies spread through the online ecosystem and how journalists, platforms and researchers can respond...

Webinar tomorrow: Retracted research doesn’t simply disappear once it is withdrawn from the scientific record. In many cases, it continues to circulate across news outlets, social media platforms and public conversations

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MetaExplorer : Facilitating Reasoning with Epistemic Uncertainty in Meta-analysis | Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Not 100% relevant to the quality criteria, but Alex Kale is a good person to talk to re: better meta-analysis software.

Key paper: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

Specific paper?

New idea for a People Search/Suggested Followers feature: find people with nuanced views.

@viewsift.com, do you have a way to surface them?

Change we can beleaf in!

You'd think astronauts would use Linux...