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Research Information @researchinfo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NEW EXPERT VIEWPOINT: Why research analytics built on AI needs to show its working www.researchinformation.info/viewpoint/wh... Merely appearing useful – versus being reliable, credible or provable – are different things, writes Kate Byrne @digital-science.com @dimensions.ai @altmetric.com

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Why research analytics built on AI needs to show its working - Research Information

Merely appearing useful – versus being reliable, credible or provable – are different things, writes Kate Byrne

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The purpose of an invited talk is to discover the fatal flaw while standing in front of 12 other people

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 14/09/2026

NEW ATTENTION SOURCE From today Altmetric is tracking when research is cited within @cassyni.bsky.social recorded video seminars. Altmetric tracks both mentions of research in seminars, AND the seminars themselves as they are shared and cited.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...

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Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery

A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.

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Bon Pote @bonpote.com · 25/07/2026

le SEUL avantage de cette période apocalyptique, c'est que les climatosceptiques ont disparu des réseaux sociaux. On ne se fait plus harceler, plus de "c'est l'été c'est normal", plus de "la sécheresse en 1976". Ca ne moufte plus.

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 15/07/2026

One researcher, 240 retractions. The misconduct scandal involving hundreds of papers by Joachim Boldt broke to the surface in 2010, but journals continue to retract papers by the disgraced German anesthesiologist – and researchers have continued to cite the work.

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Now, 240: More than a decade later, journals are still retracting Joachim Boldt’s papers

Martin Tramèr was editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Anaesthesiology during what he once called in print “The Boldt debacle.” The misconduct scandal involving hundreds of papers by Joachim …

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 02/07/2026

Watchdog science journalism "has arguably never been more important, but also never more under threat." That's from a just-published paper by @fleerackers.bsky.social, An Nguyen, Alfred Hermida, and our Ivan Oransky.

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 20/05/2026

⚠️ New webinar coming soon: "The science sleuths: Decoding the findings of the FoSci 2026 Report." Join us for a virtual panel discussion at the forefront of #ResearchIntegrity and #TrustInScience. 🗓️ Thursday 11 June, 3pm BST 10am EDT 🔗 Reserve your spot: ow.ly/CjsY50Z27Uv

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 11/05/2026

🔍 New research revealing a surge in fake citations among biomedical science papers is a solid "initial contribution to the problem", says Digital Science's Kathryn Weber-Boer. Our Director Scientometrics spoke with Nature science reporter Miryam Naddaf. 🔗 See the story: ow.ly/Fezc50YXuUm

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 26/03/2026

Research attention data is powerful. It can also feel dauntingly complex. The Altmetric Attention Digest uses AI to turn all those signals into one clear, human-readable summary you can actually make sense of. Find out more today 👉 www.altmetric.com/so...

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 11/02/2026

✨ NEW blog post: Being open isn't enough - true "research information citizenship" requires building & maintaining a robust, genuinely #OpenResearch infrastructure, writes our VP of Research Futures, Simon Porter. 💡 Here's what it will take to achieve: ow.ly/6U3Y50YcJ3J

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 26/01/2026

📢 Great news: The 10th Anniversary edition of the State of Open Data Report is here! 🎉 #StateOfOpenData 🌐 The report combines survey data from more than 4,700 responses across 151 countries. 🔗 Download now: ow.ly/i5gN50Y3ECi A collaboration of Digital Science, Springer Nature & Figshare.

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Matt Berkley @mattberkley.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Politician: Voters won't let me do what I think is right/science says on animal welfare/climate/environment/refugees. Journalist can ask: Are you not experienced in persuasion? Are you not paid to be a leader? Are you giving voters the relevant facts?

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IN MICE @inmice.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

AND WOULD THAT BE IN ANY PARTICULAR ANIMAL MODEL BY ANY CHANCE IS THERE SOME IMPORTANT CONTEXT MISSING FROM YOUR HEADLINE PERHAPS SAY IT WITH ME FOLKS

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a hamster is standing on its hind legs and asking how ya doin ' .

Alt: IN MICE

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Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

That weird feeling when the world is burning, but life is good...

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Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Funders and who's still on X Out of 15 national funding bodies and orgs, 10 have ceased posting on the platform, with pretty much no posts in 2025. An 11th funder, @nuffieldfoundation.org is the only one to have announced they were no longer engaging on X. Four remain active on the platform.

Snapshot of a spreadsheet with details which funders remain on X.

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Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Another helpful reminder that the Altmetric Score is not an indicator of quality, but of attention. Not all attention is good attention!

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Philippe Smet @pfsmet.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

This paper with this unbelievable #AI generated yet peer-reviewed Figure 1, is still available online (pending editiorial response). It has now a whopping 932 altmetric score, with - quite interestingly - only 18 posts on X (<93k followers), while on Bluesky there are 1453 posts (<3.4M followers).

Screenshot from figure 1 in the paper accessible via https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-24662-9 . The caption reads "Overall working of the framework presented as an infographic". Typical AI inconsistencies can be spotted (writing errors, meaningless or wrong visualisations, inconsistent typography...).

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 27/11/2025

Today we give thanks for non-traditional research outputs (NTROs) & the repositories where they're found. 🙌 Let's celebrate by revisiting the Altmetric Top 25 compiled by our VP of Research Futures, Simon Porter. Why are these #NTROs capturing public attention? 🔗 ow.ly/QRnP50XyFL6

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

How are people establishing and dealing with different attitudes to LLMs with their collaborators and co-authors? Two colleagues have told me they now have an explicit conversation at the beginning of every new project to establish a clear agreement on what is/not acceptable to all partners.

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 25/11/2025

📣 A keynote not to be missed: "Crimeless Whispers: The Forensics of Deceit in Modern Science," by our VP of #ResearchIntegrity & Security, Dr Leslie McIntosh. 🗓️ Wednesday 26 November 2025 📍 Leicester, UK - or attend virtually 🔗 More details: ow.ly/mkaQ50Xxqcx

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Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Every time I'm at the airport this month, I'm reminded how much I hate Brexit. Also because it pushes the train into no advantage. Ugh.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

We tried to tell y'all to stop calling everything "AI" many years ago and you just wouldn't listen and now the poor machine learners must also suffer alongside the statisticians 😜

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Warning for North Carolina: Scams are increasing, and the confusion is being made worse by ICE agents failing to properly identify themselves and wearing masks. As a result, residents are becoming targets of immigration fraud.

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Reid Olsen @reidolsen.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I have found so many MDPI papers from the same authors that seem to include near carbon copies of data from their other papers that are in other journals, sometimes MDPI!

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/stats-3 #smbc

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

if anyone remembers anything from the biden experience, it should be that electing blue no matter who isn't going to be enough to cut it in the fight against fascism. you need politicians suited for this moment. primarying them all is the most straightforward way to send that message

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Primary Every Democrat

It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

MoveOn, Indivisible, Our Revolution, and 6 Democrats have called on Chuck Schumer to step aside as leader. So we asked all 40 Democratic senators who didn’t cave to Republicans if they still think Schumer is the right leader. Here's what they said. @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social

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Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet

After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

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NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids

Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

A staggering statistic: "North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year." What are we doing?

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Jason Sawle @gis4schools.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Still my favourite "What is GIS" video explainer. 60 seconds long, great animation and interesting narrative. Perfect as a class starter or refresher #geographyteacher #GIS

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Meredith Nudo 🤌🏻 @meredithnudo.myatproto.social · 07/11/2025

Haha yesss. Japanese copyright law doesn't fuck around. Since I get challenged on this a lot: U.S. and Japan are both Berne Convention signatories, meaning the copyright is recognized between countries. They CAN go after American companies. And they are. And I love it. variety.com/2025/digital...

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Trade Group Representing Studio Ghibli, Other Japanese Companies Tells OpenAI to Stop Using Their Content to Train Sora 2 Video Generator

Japanese content trade group CODA, whose members include Studio Ghibli, issued a letter to OpenAI demanding the AI company stop using their content to train Sora 2.

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Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

In "why I don't buy in-house estimates of energy expenditure". It's like trusting tobacco companies to report on lung cancer.

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 22/10/2025

I recently reflected on the Royal Society Conference on the Future of Scientific Publishing and summarized my thoughts in an ISSP blog post: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn... #OpenAccess #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky

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Why the Economics of Scientific Publishing Need Urgent Reform | Research and innovation

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 22/10/2025

Altmetric data in action: A new public dashboard highlights misinformation in #SocialMedia about #COVID19 & scientific research. Using @altmetric.com data for 400 million+ X/Twitter posts, the UnMiSSeD dashboard has assigned a “misinformation score” to various elements in the X posts. 1/8

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 15/10/2025

PODCASTS Altmetric now tracks podcasts mentioning research In 2018 there were roughly 500,000 podcasts in existence. Just 3 years later that number was 2 million. Today it's around 4 million. Amid all the Squarespace ads there's citations to research. Let's go 1/7

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Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

It's good to see the @altmetric.com Podcast tracking working well. I just searched for a podcast I hosted & recorded with my ex-Sheffield colleague Diana Papaioannou on a paper she lead on recording harms in randomised controlled trials, and hey presto! It's in the🍩 bmj.altmetric.com/details/1688...

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Report for: Recommendations on recording harms in randomised controlled trials of behaviour change interventions

In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

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Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

So basically this is how the rest of the world figures out the visceral reaction data scientists have to "garbage in/garbage out"

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 09/10/2025

📣 NEWS: Digital Science has made a series of recommendations for Australia’s research future in a report published today into the use of persistent identifiers #PIDs in research. The report was commissioned by @ardc.edu.au. 🔗 See our announcement: ow.ly/GTSN50X8XjO

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 08/10/2025

Digital Science CEO Dr Daniel Hook @dwh.bsky.social says: “We’re excited to see Professor Wang leveraging both Dimensions and Altmetric to deliver a high-quality “multifaceted impact analysis framework”. @dimensions.ai @altmetric.com 4/10

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