Tackling paper mills requires us to prevent future contamination and clean up the past – the case of the journal Bioengineered Taylor & Francis journal Bioengineered has been targeted by paper mills. Our goal is to identify problematic articles published in Bioengineered during the period 2010 to 2024. Dimensions was used ...

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Tackling paper mills requires us to prevent future contamination and clean up the past – the case of the journal Bioengineered

With @deadneanderthals.bsky.social, @smutclyde.bsky.social, @mortenoxe.bsky.social, @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social, and me

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I found a watermark of an Indian paper mill, which helped me identify 100+ papers over the weekend. So far, 490 papers have been detected. Most authors are from India, China, and Saudi Arabia. Only 4 papers have been retracted. Papers are full of fake data, yet they still get published. #papermills

So far, the best review on using GenAI in #EvidenceSynthesis & #SystematicReviews

Current evidence doesn't support GenAI use without human involvement/oversight. For most tasks other than searching, GenAI may have a role in assisting humans
doi.org/10.1017/rsm....

#AI #HTA #LLM #medlibs

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Very exciting opportunity! #rigourinresearch

We don't, it's a capacity issue, but also, as someone else pointed out, the aspect around peer. We're happy to review and comment on their process, info sources, etc of course!

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

Today (20.03.25, Thursday) at 14.00 I'll give an online talk "Hijacked journals: current challenges and solutions" (in English).
I'd like to thank Landesinitiative openaccess.nrw for hosting the event. Information and links are here:
openaccess.nrw/index.php/mc...

AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.

Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

Say it! Whatever organization behaves this way, is not worthy of the name anymore. This pathetic.

Using AI in Automation of Evidence Synthesis: What Does Research Tell Us? YouTube video by Farhad Shokraneh

If you missed my Bristol talk, worry not!

It's been recorded and chaptered for you to watch/listen to. :)

"Using AI in Automation of Evidence Synthesis: What Does Research Tell Us?"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZM3...

#AI #Automation #ML #EvidenceSynthesis #SystematicReview #HTA #HEOR

#medlibs #canmedlibs

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I can't find an emoji that captures all my boiling emotions. All I can say is that fire would be involved #makeitstop

I'm wearing this asap. Yes, wearing, as I will sharpie to oblivion it on my clothes, as I wait to print it in shirts that I will give away for free at protests and to #medlibs

What could possibly go wrong? #medlibs

Can we please not?

Can he just go F himself? Urghh

#medlibs #canmedlibs #researchintegrity

Frankly, the UK can go &%@* themselves

I hate it too. I hate the lepton in charge

Keeping you in mind. Also, FFS. I hate this

This, exactly this. How did we get here? JFC

2025 scoping review of LLMs to support SRs = not ready yet.
📠SR lit searching n=15; 41% of 37 papers
📠Searching most frequent SR step aided by LLMs; also, most reported as non-promising (n=8)
🏔️Rated as non-promising ie. "limitations"

#medlibs still needed

jclinepi.com/article/S089...

@dangerwhale.bsky.social Paul, you're awesome. That's the message.

Are you ready to hear an amazing speaker on OS and editorial policies? Wait no longer!!! #openscience P.S. Please, do swear 🙃

‘Spoonful of plastics in your brain’ paper has duplicated images The duplications likely do not alter the conclusions, but the paper contains other methodological issues, two independent microplastics researchers say.

A highly publicized new paper that reported high levels of microplastics in human brain tissue contains duplicated images, according to the study’s principal investigator.

@callimcflurry.bsky.social reports for @thetransmitter.bsky.social

100%

Right? JFC

My heart to yours. ❤️❤️‍🩹

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Right?!