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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 15/08/2025
Excellent news! "PLOS Biology will formally consider meta-research articles that are peer-reviewed on the MetaROR platform, collaborating with RoRI and AIMOS to improve the transparency of peer review in the field of meta-research." theplosblog.plos.org/2025/08/plos...
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PLOS Biology announces agreement to become a MetaROR partner journal - The Official PLOS Blog
Note: PLOS issued the following press release on Thursday, August 14th. SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Today, PLOS Biology announced a new agreement…
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities. “scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
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Unyoke the Sciences From the Humanities
Arts and sciences typically cohabitate. Should they?
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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?
Cover page for the manuscript: Morey, R. D., & Davis-Stober, C. P. (2025). On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2025.2544397Abstract for the paper: The P-curve (Simonsohn, Nelson, & Simmons, 2014; Simonsohn, Simmons, & Nelson, 2015) is a widely-used suite of meta-analytic tests advertised for detecting problems in sets of studies. They are based on nonparametric combinations of p values (e.g., Marden, 1985) across significant (p < .05) studies and are variously claimed to detect “evidential value”, “lack of evidential value”, and “left skew” in p values. We show that these tests do not have the properties ascribed to them. Moreover, they fail basic desiderata for tests, including admissibility and monotonicity. In light of these serious problems, we recommend against the use of the P-curve tests.
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Authorship Changes as an Indicator of Research Integrity Concerns in Submissions to Academic Journals from @coropower.bsky.social‬ @‪tandfresearch.bsky.social‬ is part of Day 1’s Authorship and Integrity Issues session. Learn more and register at peerreviewcongress.org! #metaresearch
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Bluesky
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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
People’s trust in experts is decreasing. Why? — Steven Hales offers a perfect-if-true answer: because the people don’t know even know what expertise is open.substack.com/pub/hilarius... #expertise #PhilSky #PhilSci
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Why don’t people trust experts?
Understanding vs. knowledge
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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! For today’s episode in the history of bad ideas David talks to philosopher @shannonvallor.bsky.social about the myth that technology can be value free. Why do we let Silicon Valley get away with the idea that it’s never the fault of the tech? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
💥We're very excited to share that we have launched a new free training course! Explore our #OpenAccess in the #Humanities training course on RESHAPED, a new learning platform developed by the School of Advanced Study @uolondon.bsky.social. Details here: uolpress.co.uk/2025/06/new-...
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New Open Access in the Humanities online training course launched! - University of London Press
We are excited to share details of our new online training course on open access publishing, developed by the University of London Press with the School of Advanced Study. The course is free and avail...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/05/2025
The newest and most powerful A.I. technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.
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A.I. Hallucinations Are Getting Worse, Even as New Systems Become More Powerful
A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.
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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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Marianna Zhang @mariannazhang.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
yesterday, my postdoc funding (salary and research funds) was cancelled by the National Science Foundation, effective immediately. I received the same generic, vaguely threatening, typo-ridden email as many of my colleagues who have had their awards terminated recently. (1/n)
email starting, "The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has undertaken a review of its award portfolio. Each award was carefully and individually reviewed, and the agency has determined that termination of certain awards is necessary because they are not in alignment with current NSF priorites."
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Mis/disinformation research officially cancelled. Understanding the creation, content, distribution, and susceptibility is one of today’s key scientific and societal challenges. Researching this is not free speech infringement. Such a claim is intentionally misleading. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
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American College of Chest Physicians @accpchest.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Recently, the U.S. Department of Justice sent letters to scholarly journals inquiring about their process and principles. As an organization, we respect and support the CHEST journal's editorial leadership and long-standing reputation. Read more here: www.chestnet.org/newsroom/che...
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
"When a US Attorney wields the power of his office to target medical journals bc of their content & editorial processes, he isn't doing his job. He's abusing his authority to try to chill protected speech." #saveourscience This is such bullshit.
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Medical Journals Get Letters From DOJ
At least three journals received letters from a U.S. Attorney asking about 'competing viewpoints'
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 09/04/2025
This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
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Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
“Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.” —Mario Vargas Llosa #BookSky #MomSky #AcademicSky
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National Endowment for the Humanities staff put on immediate leave
A majority of NEH employees received an email placing them on immediate leave. The news comes just days after many humanities councils across the country were told their grants would be terminated.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
On today of all days, with Princeton now in the Trump administration's crosshairs, I taught my undergraduates about standpoint epistemology, strong objectivity, and communities of knowledge. On how our unique perspectives as individuals don't threaten the scientific project. They strengthen it.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 30/03/2025
1. Another Friday afternoon massacre of sorts: NIH just rescinded its Scientific Integrity Policy. h/t @lizborkowski.bsky.social
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NOT-OD-25-080: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health NOT-OD-25-080. OD
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
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Homepage - openRxiv
openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.
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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
After the AfD's surge on Sunday, far right parties are the most voted-for of any grouping in Europe, for the first time in history: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 26/02/2025
🎓 Higher Education 🎓 “British universities have been warned to ‘stress-test’ all assessments after new research revealed ‘almost all’ undergraduates are using generative artificial intelligence (genAI) in their studies.” #AcademicSky
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UK universities warned to ‘stress-test’ assessments as 92% of students use AI
Survey of 1,000 students shows ‘explosive increase’ in use of generative AI in particular over past 12 months
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Think I preferred the end of history
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
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Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
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Dawid Zyla @dzyla.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I've been developing a semantic search tool that covers not just bioRxiv and medRxiv, but the entire PubMed database. This means you can search across a massive collection of biomedical research using keywords, questions, hypotheses, or even full abstracts. Try it out: mssearch.xyz
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Streamlit
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Tally just ticked past 1900 signatures. Please keep spreading the word about the letter & asking people to sign. It's important to make the Royal Society aware (at their meeting on 03 March) just how much the scientific community wants them to speak up for their values. forms.gle/SfsDemyS8QhP...
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Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
RE the Trump admin’s assault on academic freedom we call on the #scholcomm community to sign this Declaration To #DefendResearch Against US Gov Censorship: tinyurl.com/2dyadwzr | @lschiff.bsky.social, @alicemeadows.bsky.social, @camitchell.bsky.social @rouhiroo.bsky.social, @petersuber.bsky.social
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Declaration To Defend Research Against Government Censorship
Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship, V.1.1 Drafted by Lisa Schiff (@lschiff.bsky.social), Alice Meadows (@alicemeadows.bsky.social), Catherine Mitchell (@camitchell.bsky....
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/02/2025
It's one in a million scientists who will be well-remembered in even a century. The rest of got to slap some mortar on humanity's greatest cathedral. What more could one ask for?
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The scientific censorship happening in the States right now is unbelievable.
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spaminthelab.bsky.social @spaminthelab.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Due to the freeze on credit card use, my laboratory (in the FDA) risks losing the contents of our liquid nitrogen tanks which store INVALUABLE samples-they cannot be replaced, so they are literally priceless, and reflect about 50 years worth of research.
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Aris Katzourakis @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Ideology will shape the questions scientists ask. It's counterproductive to think otherwise. But the minute it's allowed to shape the answers, we are not doing science anymore.
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Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
It's all gone. They've taken down all the CDC datasets from data.cdc.gov Data that's critical for public health & research. Data paid for by citizens. That the government now censors. "Do not fear those who tell the truth. Fear those who try to hide it. They are willing to sacrifice other things."
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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It's Ocean Exploration Day! NIWA scientists are currently exploring deep sea cold-water coral reefs around Aotearoa NZ from aboard the RV Sonne. Catch the live stream from the diving robot MARUM-SQUID here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kwh... #OceanExplorationDay 🦑🧪🌊🌏🐙@oceandiscleague.bsky.social
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MARUM LiveDive - Expedition Livestream
YouTube video by marumTV
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"We should get so many good facts, so many illuminating facts, before the public that they will not magnify the bad." A deep history of mass manipulation, from the 1920s through the mid-1970s, excerpted from @robertwgehl.org & Sean Lawson's open access book "Social Engineering."
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Masters of Crowds: The Rise of Mass Social Engineering
A deep history of mass manipulation, from the 1920s through the mid-1970s.
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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Really interesting article by @doctorzen.net. Still a pre-print but I hope that it gets through peer review - the pre-print is here: buff.ly/3OIcrPZ 🧵
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Jan de Jonge @jandejonge.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Nearly 50% of researchers quit science within a decade, huge study in Nature reveals. The reasons for this exodus include long hours, heavy workloads, poor salaries, and limited job prospects. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Nearly 50% of researchers quit science within a decade, huge study reveals
Twenty years of publishing data across many countries and disciplines show women are more likely than men to leave research.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
When academics regularly express their political opinions online, it under undercuts their credibility with the public. warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 30/11/2024
Ages ago, & back when I was on Twitter, I asked for philosophy books & papers had changed people’s minds. I’d love to update that list now that I’m in a place with even more awesome philosophers. Hit me up with your faves. Original list here: adventuresinphilosophy.wordpress.com/papers-and-b...
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Henning Hansen @henninghansen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.
Huge shelves with books behind a glass wall
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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 25/11/2024
November 12, 1973 --- The day Philosophy & Public Affairs started treating Rawls like Jesus.
A letter on Philosophy & Public Affairs letterhead that reads:

November 12, 1973

Professor Robert Nozick
Department of Philosophy
Emerson Hall
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138


Dear Professor Nozick,

I have been meaning to send you a note ever since you did not telephone the second time last week just to say that I decided after all to drop the offending post-apostrophes from the possessive of Rawls. This is, as I told you, according to the Chicago Manual of Style an honor due only to Moses and Jesus, but with us aesthetic considerations won out. The decision puts us somewhat in a class by ourselves -- I note that in Brian Barry's new book he and Oxford Press write Rawls's -- but I don't mind being different. I trust that you will not.

sincerely,
Margot Cutter
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Coro Power Febres @coropower.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 💙📚 DAY 11/20
Gore Vidal - Messiah
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Most people outside of research are still unaware of how much the cyberattack on @britishlibrary.bsky.social is still affecting the research community one year on. Good piece covering that + need to invest in libraries www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/how-br... @timeshighered.bsky.social
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How the British Library cyberattack disrupted research
Academics who rely on the British Library’s unmatched collection are still feeling the impact of a devastating cyberattack a year ago. Jack Grove hears from those affected and considers how another ca...
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Coro Power Febres @coropower.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 💙📚 DAY 10/20
Georges Bataille - story of the eye
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Coro Power Febres @coropower.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 💙📚 DAY 9/20
Voltaire - Candide
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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
Optimist: the cup is 1/2 full Pessimist: the cup is 1/2 empty Excel: the cup is January 2nd
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Michael Neuber @michaelneuber.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Horrible, biodiversity has declined by 70%!!! over the past 50 years. www.ft.com/content/4d12...
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Coro Power Febres @coropower.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 💙📚 DAY 8/20
Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
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Coro Power Febres @coropower.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Excellent read: "Our attention is finite, and the more we divert it to sensationalist lies, the more that we aid and abet actual conspiracies and corruption that warrant harsh public scrutiny. If we aren’t careful, we’ll meme ourselves straight into dystopia."
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Coro Power Febres @coropower.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 💙📚 DAY 7/20
Samuel Butler - Erewhon
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