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Scott Macintyre

@bibiothecarius.bsky.social

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Open Scholarship Specialist, Librarian, bush walker, amateur baker, collector of geraniums and daisies, gamer (PS5, boardgames and TTRPGs) and fan of Korean comedy/drama (a re-share is not an endorsement)

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Creative Commons @creativecommons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you missed the event this morning, you can catch the recording now! Watch "Community Voices on AI: Attribution as the Norm," featuring panelists Monica Granados, Todd Carpenter, Archie Davis, Andrew Farrior, Rita Ho, and Pau Giner! buff.ly/y069URW

Community Voices on AI: Attribution as the Norm | 1 Oct

Join practitioners from Creative Commons, NISO, AXM, and the Wikimedia Foundation for a grounded community conversation about why attribution should be the norm in AI systems, and how the field is…

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target. What happens now? theconversation.com/a-landmark-u... #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ExtremeWeather #ParisAgreement #InternationalCourtOfJustice #ICJ #GreenhouseGasEmissions #GHG #Environment

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A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target. What happens now?

It’s no longer possible to hold climate change to 1.5°C. But it’s not game over – it’s game on.

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Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Detecting Hallucinated and Suspicious Citations: What Current Tools Can and Cannot Do arxiv.org/abs/2607.22693 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Hallucinations #Citations #References #AcademicWriting #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels

Detecting Hallucinated and Suspicious Citations: What Current Tools Can and Cannot Do

Large language models are increasingly used in academic writing, including for reference generation, raising concerns about hallucinated and unreliable citations. Recent research suggests that this pr...

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Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Just over 400 U.S. patents contain citations to retracted scientific papers retractionwatch.com/2026/07/30/u... #Patents #Retractions #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter

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Just over 400 U.S. patents contain citations to retracted scientific papers

Surendra/Adobe Stock Around 400 U.S. patents contain at least one citation to a retracted scientific paper, a new study has found. The analysis, posted last month to the preprint server SSRN, anal…

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Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

As researchers aim for universal AI disclosure guidelines, the devil is in the details www.science.org/content/arti... #Research #AcademicResearch #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicResearch

As researchers aim for universal AI disclosure guidelines, the devil is in the details

Integrity conference attendees debated when and how authors should declare AI use in papers

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Kaggle removes problematic stroke dataset for copyright infringement retractionwatch.com/2026/07/29/k... #Data #AcademicWriting #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #ResearchIntegrity #Retractions #Ethics #DataPrivacy #InformedConsent #IntellectualProperty

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Kaggle removes problematic stroke dataset for copyright infringement

Images from the now-deleted dataset on Kaggle purportedly showed people who had a stroke, but the folder included stock images and photos of politicians and celebrities, as seen in this screenshot.…

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Can we stop AI from flooding scientific journals? cen.acs.org/articles/104... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Ethics #AcademicWriting #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #FalsifyingData #Fraud #FraudDetection #ResearchFraud

Can we stop AI from flooding scientific journals?

AI detectors may never beat fraud. Changing how science rewards its researchers might be the only fix that does

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Could an AI ever win a Nobel prize? www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/could-... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Science #Research #NobelPrize #Androids #Robots #AcademicResearch #ScientificResearch #Future #Hypothetical #Data #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels

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Could an AI ever win a Nobel prize?

Artificial intelligence is already having a huge impact on research, and the technology is advancing so quickly that some suggest it could soon be capable of directing its own research programmes. But...

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Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Tracking the retracted paper mill articles: a bibliometric study: doi.org/10.1007/s111... #Retractions #PaperMills #OpenAccess #OA #OpenScholarship #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #Fraud #ResearchFraud #Ethics #Misconduct

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Chinese university launches probe into girl’s gene-editing death: www.science.org/content/arti... #Ethics #Science #Bioscience #Biotechnology #GeneTherapy #GeneEditing #Malpractice #Health #China #Misconduct #Genetics #Medical #Medicine #Biomedical #Pediatrics #Paediatrics #AnimalTrials #DNA

Chinese university launches probe into girl’s gene-editing death

More than a year after failed clinical trial, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine promises “serious action”

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Elsevier retracts the least and reinstates the most, new analysis finds retractionwatch.com/2026/05/11/e... #Retractions #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Elsevier #Wiley #Hindawi #SpringerNature #IEEE #ACM #Taylor&Francis #Sage #IOSPress #PLoS

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Elsevier retracts the least and reinstates the most, new analysis finds

Frequencies of reasons 10 publishers have given for retracting articles (source). While Elsevier outcompetes other publishers in terms of sheer volume, it also has the lowest retraction rate and hi…

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Researchers who use hallucinated references to face arXiv ban www.nature.com/articles/d41... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #Research #ArXiv #ResearchIntegrity #Ban #Fraud #FraudDetection #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter

Researchers who use hallucinated references to face arXiv ban

The preprint server is the latest to impose stiff penalties on authors who contribute to AI ‘slop’ — but not everyone is convinced it’s the right approach.

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A fatal reaction: www.science.org/content/arti... #Ethics #Science #Nature #Bioscience #Biotechnology #GeneTherapy #GeneEditing #Malpractice #Health #China #Misconduct #Genetics #Medical #Medicine #Biomedical #Experiment #Pediatrics #Paediatrics #AnimalTrials #DNA #Consent #Funding #Retraction

Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public

Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?: www.science.org/content/arti... #Springer #Nature #Science #Physics #Physicist #NobelPrize #Planck #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Retractions #RetractionWatch #Naturwissenschaften

Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Open letter: Australia's creators are not a tech subsidy: www.apraamcos.com.au/about-us/new... #Australia #Music #Lyrics #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #Data #DataSets #Piracy #InformedConsent #IntellectualProperty #IP #Copyright #Law #DataMining #TextMining #YouTube #APRA

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Sign the Open Letter to stop big tech

We are Australia’s songwriters, recording artists, authors, journalists, photographers, producers, visual artists, composers, screenwriters, playwrights…

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Aussie music stars band together over AI concerns: www.indailyqld.com.au/news/just-in... #Australia #Music #Lyrics #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #Data #DataSets #Piracy #InformedConsent #IntellectualProperty #IP #Copyright #Law #DataMining #TextMining #YouTube #APRA

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Aussie music stars band together over AI concerns - News | InDaily, Inside Queensland

Australia's greatest musical hits, including by songs local legends Powderfinger, have been used in AI training datasets.

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We published in Nature Medicine in 2025 for free. In 2026, it cost us $12,850 www.statnews.com/2026/06/11/o... via @statnews.com #OpenAccess #OA #AcademicResearch #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #APC #ArticlePublishingCharge

We published in Nature Medicine in 2025 for free. In 2026, it cost us $12,850

In 2025, Elizabeth Selvin and her colleagues published in Nature Medicine for free. In 2026, it cost them $12,850, she writes.

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

New system for flagging retracted papers finds scores of them in Cochrane reviews retractionwatch.com/2026/06/10/c... #Cochrane #Health #Medicine #Retraction #Fraud #FraudDetection #AcademicResearch #ResearchIntegrity #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #AcademicWriting

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New system for flagging retracted papers finds scores of them in Cochrane reviews

Cochrane has implemented a new system for checking whether any of its thousands of published reviews include retracted studies in their analyses, the organization announced today. The effort alread…

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... #Diabetes #Censorship #Trump #NIH #HealthCare #AmericanDiabetesAssociation #ADA #Health #Biomedical #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #MedPage #Research #NewOrleans

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Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting

Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Biology Open paid peer review model cuts times to five working days: www.researchinformation.info/news/biology... #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #PeerReview #Biology #Fast&Fair #CompanyOfBiologists #EditorialProcess

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Biology Open paid peer review model cuts times to five working days - Research Information

Reviewers were paid £220 per manuscript, conditional on timely completion and editorial assessment of review quality

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Editors of semantics journal resign, launch new journal after publisher ‘ultimatum’ retractionwatch.com/2026/06/05/n... #OpenAccess #OA #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicSky #LibSky #LPC #AcademicPublishing #Librarian #AcademicChatter #APC #ArticleProcessingCharge #SpringerNature #Semantics #Language

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Editors of semantics journal resign, launch new journal after publisher ‘ultimatum’

The new journal, Semantics of Natural Languages, launched in May. The editors of a semantics journal owned by Springer Nature have resigned to launch a new one, citing pressure from the compan…

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Academia Is Enshittifying. AI Made It Faster. open.substack.com/pub/theslowa... #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #AcademicWriting #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #ChatGPT #Research #Ethics #ResearchMisconduct #PublishOrPerish #Retractions #Enshittification

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Academia Is Enshittifying. AI Made It Faster.

A small retraction notice opens onto a large structural shift. AI did not start the rot in academic publishing. AI is the catalyst that is finishing it.

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

To Trust or Not to Trust: Authors' Response to AI-based Reviews: arxiv.org/abs/2605.166... #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #AcademicWriting #PeerReview #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #ChatGPT #Research #Ethics #DataPrivacy #InformedConsent #IntellectualProperty

To Trust or Not to Trust: Authors' Response to AI-based Reviews

Large language models are increasingly discussed and used as tools that may assist with scholarly peer review, but empirical evidence regarding how authors use and perceive AI-based feedback remains l...

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which we publish www.nature.com/articles/d41... #Nature #AcademicWriting #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #Science #Research #AcademicResearch #Data #RegisteredReports #PeerReview #NullResults #ConfirmatoryResearch #Transparency

Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which we publish

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Sleuths say Thermo Fisher doctored data to sell antibodies cen.acs.org/articles/104... #ThermoFisher #Antibodies #AcademicResearch #Data #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #Retractions #FalsifyingData #Fraud #ImageManipulation #DataManipulation #Ethics

Chemical & Engineering News

Chemical & Engineering News is a weekly news magazine published by the American Chemical Society, providing professional and technical news and analysis in the fields of chemistry and chemical enginee...

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Lawmakers propose banning all U.S.-Chinese research collaborations: www.science.org/content/arti... #Science #Scientist #Scientific #Trump #Congress #US #USA #China #Research #Collaborationn #Innovation #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #SIRA #SecuringInnovationAndResearchFromAdversariesAct

Lawmakers propose banning all U.S.-Chinese research collaborations

Critics say bill would weaken U.S. science by cutting flows of ideas and talent

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

European academics shun US business conference over Trump fears www.timeshighereducation.com/news/europea... #Trump #ICE #Research #AcademicResearch #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #AcademyOfManagement #AOM #Management #Conference #Security #USA #Science #Policy #HigherEducation #Collaboration

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European academics shun US business conference over Trump fears

Academy of Management to move event in future years as regular attendees stay at home owing to visa fears and opposition to president’s research policies

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

U.S. agencies aren’t ready for the rising cost of making research papers free, report warns: www.science.org/content/arti... #Trump #OpenAccess #OA #APC #ArticleProcessingCharge #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #LibSky #Science #Research #AcademicResearch

U.S. agencies aren’t ready for the rising cost of making research papers free, report warns

Science agencies could soon face nearly $1 billion publishing bill, Congressional analysts find

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Scholarly Publishing Costs Under Scrutiny by Trump Administration www.aip.org/fyi/scholarl... #Trump #OpenAccess #OA #APC #ArticleProcessingCharge #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #LibSky #LPC #Science #Research #AcademicResearch #Data #OSTP #NelsonMemo

Scholarly Publishing Costs Under Scrutiny by Trump Administration

Recent statements about the high cost of scholarly publishing and subscription fees paid by the federal government may signal major policy changes ahead.

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

25 BHU research papers retracted in 5 years amid integrity and AI concerns: www.indiatoday.in/education-to... #India #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Retractions #PeerReview #AI

25 BHU research papers retracted in 5 years amid integrity and AI concerns

International journals have retracted at least 25 research papers linked to BHU researchers over the last five years. The case has sharpened focus on research integrity, AI disclosure and data verific...

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

How to be a critical thinker: stories.uq.edu.au/contact-maga... #CriticalThinking #UQ #Psychology #AcademicChatter #LibSky #Philosophy #Curiosity

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How to be a critical thinker

What does it take to think critically, and why is it a skill we should flex now more than ever? Three easy steps towards being a critical thinker from Dr Deborah Brown.

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

How much of the scientific literature is generated by AI? www.nature.com/articles/d41... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #ResearchIntegrity #LLM #Nature #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #Authorship

How much of the scientific literature is generated by AI?

Tools for reliably estimating what artificial intelligence is being used for are still lacking.

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 18/05/2026

Scrolling through an online image dataset, Adrian Barnett pointed out a few familiar faces: Sylvester Stallone, George Clooney, Angelina Jolie and Daniel Craig. “You can see,” Barnett said, “this is just a comically bad dataset.” retractionwatch.com/2026/05/18/k...

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‘Comically bad’ datasets used to train clinical models for stroke and diabetes

A dataset on Kaggle purportedly showing people who have had a stroke includes images of Sylvester Stallone from Rambo and other celebrities. Source Scrolling through an online image dataset, Adrian…

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

A key science publishing platform is cracking down on AI slop theconversation.com/a-key-scienc... #PrePrints #arXiv #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #ResearchIntegrity #LLM

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A key science publishing platform is cracking down on AI slop

AI infractions could result in a year-long ban from the arXiv system, which is an essential communication channel in many fields of research.

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop: www.science.org/content/arti... #PrePrints #arXiv #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #ResearchIntegrity #LLM

ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop

First-time posters to venerable platform now need an endorsement from an established author

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Predatory publishing in nutrition and dietetics: Risks, impacts, and collaborative solutions: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Nature #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #OpenAccess #PredatoryPublishing #ResearchIntegrity #Nutrition #AcademicSky #LibSky

Predatory publishing in nutrition and dietetics: Risks, impacts, and collaborative solutions - European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition - Predatory publishing in nutrition and dietetics: Risks, impacts, and collaborative solutions

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Rikshospitalet Uses Patient Data for Research Without Consent: www.universitas.no/anne-waehre-... #Norway #LGBT #GenderIdentity #GenderIdentity #Transexuals #Transgender #Ethics #Misconduct #Consent #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

Rikshospitalet Uses Patient Data for Research Without Consent

Over a thousand Rikshospitalet patients were included in scientific studies without consent. Now, researchers await the National Research Ethics Committee's (NEM) final verdict.

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Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

New rule in Peru restricts authors with retractions from getting special bonuses retractionwatch.com/2026/05/18/p... #Peru #Research #AcademicResearch #Misconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Retractions #PaperMills

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New rule in Peru restricts authors with retractions from getting special bonuses

Peru’s Ministry of Education headquarters in Lima.ANDINA/Editora Perú In an ongoing effort to combat scientific misconduct, Peru has passed new rules that bar research faculty at public unive…

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Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The legend that is @elisabethbik.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DXZ4us-... #Fraud #FraudDetection #ResearchFraud #Science #Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Retractions

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Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Plagiarised research passed automated tests, and I detected it – but only because it copied my work theconversation.com/plagiarised-... #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Plagiarism

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Plagiarised research passed automated tests, and I detected it – but only because it copied my work

The safeguards in place to protect research integrity are not keeping pace with the tools that can be used to circumvent them.

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Opinion: Scientific Journals Need Dedicated Fact-Checkers: undark.org/2026/04/09/o... #Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #WHO #EPA #Citations #Data

Scientific Journals Need Dedicated Fact-Checkers

Opinion | An additional layer of quality control could help academic publishers weed out problematic content before it propagates.

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Thousands of mathematicians to boycott US Fields Medal event www.timeshighereducation.com/news/thousan... #Mathematics #Mathematicians #FieldsMedal #Boycott #Trump #ICE #InternationalCongressOfMathematicians #ICM #Research #AcademicResearch #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

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Thousands of mathematicians to boycott US Fields Medal event

Academics demand that prestigious gathering is held elsewhere because of attacks on Iran and immigration crackdown

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Major conference catches illicit AI use — and rejects hundreds of papers www.nature.com/articles/d41... #AcademicResearch #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #ScientificResearch #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #PeerReview #Conference #Ethics

Major conference catches illicit AI use — and rejects hundreds of papers

The papers’ watermarks allowed organizers to detect use of large language models in peer review.

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The Lancet retracts half-century-old unsigned commentary on talc for undisclosed industry ties retractionwatch.com/2026/03/25/l... #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Ethics #AcademicResearch #Retraction #Talc #Asbestos #Mesothelioma #Lancet

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The Lancet retracts half-century-old unsigned commentary on talc for undisclosed industry ties

SewcreamStudio/iStock The Lancet has retracted a 49-year-old unsigned commentary on the safety of cosmetic talc after two researchers discovered the author was a paid consultant to Johnson & Jo…

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Do we really need to worry about hyper-prolific authors? www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/do-we-... #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Ethics #Authorhship #Authors #Metrics #Research #AcademicResearch

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Do we really need to worry about hyper-prolific authors?

Concerns abound that authors who publish on a weekly basis are cutting corners, corrupting authorship norms and overburdening the peer review system – with AI likely to make matters worse. But if ince...

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Seeing Is Believing? Scientific Misconduct and the Detection of Problematic Images. tiny.cc/pa21101 #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Misconduct #ImageManipulation #ImageDuplication #Retraction @elisabethbik.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com

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Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

AI scientists are changing research — institutions, funders and publishers must respond www.nature.com/articles/d41... #Nature #Research #AcademicResearch #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #ScientificResearch #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM

AI scientists are changing research — institutions, funders and publishers must respond

The ability to automate the discovery process in some areas of scientific inquiry raises unanswered questions about how research should be conducted.

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Hallucinated References: Five Excuses for Academic Misconduct: dorotheabaur.ch/en/texts-and... #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Retractions #PaperMills #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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Hallucinated References: Five Excuses for Academic Misconduct

When I proposed rejecting papers with hallucinated references, the support was overwhelming. But the critical voices revealed five argument patterns: from AI hype through TINA rhetoric to nihilism.

Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

NZ’s 9th COVID-19 wave: why infections are rising – and how booster shots still help: theconversation.com/nzs-9th-covi... #COVID #Immunity #Vaccination #Vaccine #NewZealand #Infection

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NZ’s 9th COVID-19 wave: why infections are rising – and how booster shots still help

COVID-19 hasn’t disappeared, but it’s no longer the health threat it was. Here’s what the latest wave means and who should get boosted.

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Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Reckoning with my ‘ghost years’: why a low publication rate doesn’t always reflect failure www.nature.com/articles/d41... Q. Why not publish null results? #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #ArticlePublishingCharge #Publishing #ECR #PostDoc #PublishOrPerish

Reckoning with my ‘ghost years’: why a low publication rate doesn’t always reflect failure

I have a five-year gap in my publication record. Last year, I published seven academic articles as either the first or corresponding author. Here’s why one level of output isn’t better than any other.

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