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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

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Victor Matheson @victor-matheson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

To be fair, after accounting for inflation, overall prices have entirely flat for the past 113 years.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

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E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Remember when you could buy a pair of glasses without being harassed by "customer satisfaction department" asking you to share how satisfied you are with your purchase?

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Jerome @jmassiani.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18

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Jerome @jmassiani.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

per chi vuole/for whoever interested, ci vediamo a/ Let's meet at Bergamo ITEA venerdì Session 43: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Infrastructure: Biases and Distribution June 19, 2026 9:00 Cost Benefit Analysis is weighted in favor of the wealthiest. What should we do about it? Jerome Massiani

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

An inevitable development for for-profit Open Access publishers is Fordism: automation & massification. If you earn money piece-rate for each paper you want to increase the flow of papers while minimizing cost. e.g. very low and *uniform* turnaround times at Frontiers and MDPI

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/05/2026

I parked my car on some pavement you own. I came back and it was still there. Now you want me to fill out a five minute survey about my “parking experience???” I fear that the invention of email was a dreadful mistake.

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Manuel Ansede @manuelansede.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Miles de científicos hinchan su currículum con estudios autopublicados que cuestan millones de euros de dinero público. Un análisis de 100.000 números especiales de revistas revela que 1 de cada 8 está lleno de artículos del propio editor invitado, sobre todo en MDPI: elpais.com/ciencia/2026...

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Miles de científicos hinchan su currículum con estudios autopublicados que cuestan millones de euros de dinero público

Un análisis de 100.000 números especiales de revistas académicas revela que uno de cada ocho está lleno de artículos de autobombo del propio editor, sobre todo en la editorial MDPI

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

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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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J.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 23/12/2025

If you're a journalist who reports on "economic impact studies," call up your local university's economics department and ask which course you should audit to learn how IMPLAN works. You'll find that no such course exists, because that's not how economists study economic effects.

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Jerome @jmassiani.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

How much does it owe to mdpi and other "pay per publish" companies... Quite much I would say

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Let’s be honest - academia doesn’t reward knowledge, it rewards numbers. We chase citations, not curiosity. Impact Factors, not impact. We tell our students that research is about discovery, yet our promotions, grants, and prestige depend on how many times we’ve been counted. 🧵

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

The truth revealed about Tomorrowland

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

From The Economist this week. Spending on tertiary education per full time student and average annual tuition fees charged to domestic students by public institutions. In the case of Britain, there's a pattern that reminds me of something I read about the US 25 years ago./

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 14/07/2025

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

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Victor Matheson @victor-matheson.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Unbelievable. Trump basically just stole the FIFA Club World Cup trophy. Imagine FIFA being in the room with anyone and being the less corrupt party.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/07/2025

Peer review meltdown in one diagram. Greater emphasis on glamour journals leads people to try their luck with mediocre papers. This drains the review pool (they often have to be re-reviewed elsewhere). That drops the accuracy of peer review, creating more incentive to submit mediocre papers…

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The solution to climate change is just to chop it up into 34 wedges, and pretend they are all to small to matter.

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Hive mind. Not long ago, someone on social media argued that the "social leasing" scheme for electric cars in France implied a marginal tax rate > 100% for people just below the eligibility threshold. I can't find that post using search. Any idea? RT = 🙏

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

the modern information environment

Google search "do apples contain lycopene?" The AI overview says "No, apples do not contain lycopene" whereas the highlighted search result begins "Apples contain lycopene"

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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 03/05/2025

You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraudulent payment. "Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right? The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank." 🧵 1/4

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Given the discussion today. #EthicalPublishing is possible. Our ethos for many years now: 1. All papers preprinted along with data. 2. No commercial publishers. 3. Only publish in scientific society journals and with reputable non-profit publishers. 4. Collaborators do what they want.

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Veli-Matti Karhulahti @mkarhulahti.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Dorothy summaries the issues with Frontiers/MDPI well but for those who still aren't convinced here are a few basic things worth considering 1/

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Traditional publishers exploit free academic labour to extract rents. Elsevier has 37% profit; still chokes journals for an extra penny. For-profit OA publishers do the same, flooding in the process the literature with crap papers. Two enemies, same fight. Time to take back control of publishing.

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Maarten van Smeden @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Every time you write "there is no effect/difference (p>0.05)", when you mean "we found no evidence for an effect/difference (p>0.05)" a baby kitten dies

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 26/11/2024

Now I've come across several instances of people writing, essentially: 'Let me provide a very rough estimate. Don't take this number literally, because it has several flaws.' And then their number becomes cited as the canonical figure on the topic.

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