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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 09/10/2026

Our reflections on the recent "AI and Research Integrity" meeting in Montreal: We are somewhat worried that many AI trustworthiness assessment tools are not trustworthy. @lhdjung.bsky.social @jamiecummins.bsky.social trustworthy.scientific.claims/posts/trustw...

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Trustworthiness assessment tools must be trustworthy

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hookii @associazionehookii.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Latte e frollini da inzuppare, la famiglia riunita a tavola: la colazione italiana sembra una tradizione antica, ma nella forma attuale è stata in buona parte costruita dagli anni Settanta in poi, con prodotti, pubblicità e il sostegno dei nutrizionisti. hookii.org/la-colazione...

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Sorry, missing the most important isolated group. "Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof" stands alone, pristine, elegant and undefeated. "I understand only Train Station"

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Pietro Biroli @pietrobiroli.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Interested in the difference between the #econ Nordic model and the US/UK? Check out this beautiful video animation by @econimate.bsky.social on the journal of econ literature paper by Mogstad Salvages and Torsvik youtu.be/nTMXPa-GJjM?...

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Income Equality in the Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 07/09/2026

This is from Alvin Roth’s “Moral Economics: What controversial transactions reveal about how markets work” which so far is precisely what I hoped it to be.

Book cover of Alvin Roth’s Moral Economics.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Small interview by @tumorijournal.bsky.social where I discuss the main current problems of scientific publishing, where you can learn about the strain (direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...) & drain (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820) of scientific publishing, and hear my horrible Italian accent in English. Enjoy!

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The Drain of Scientific Publishing

The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...

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Tumori Journal - TJ @tumorijournal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thank you so much, Prof. Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social, for accepting our invitation and for your thorough, engaging contribution. We truly appreciated it. youtu.be/cOhw4Jk6vF0?...

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The strain on scientific publishing: a scenario with various players, but only one benefits

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026

Here’s the monthly data with a 12-month trailing average, so we don’t “look ahead” of the time series. We can see that visits from Canada are substantially down. Like, a *lot*. And if we looked at the French series by itself we’d see something too. But it’s not on the scale of Covid. Yet.

Smoothed monthly graph shows Canada has dropped in visits substantially, but not to the extent we saw in Covid

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/09/2026

This admin has spent years going after science. It proposed the largest cut in NASA’s history, about a quarter of the agency and half of its science programs. But last month, a groundbreaking telescope left the launch pad anyway. And the story of how it got there is our good news this Sunday.

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

interesting analysis of measures to reduce car usage of relevance beyond Oxford.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm surprised a community of publishing writers can blame AI for the problems of peer review when those same writers cite our study, "the strain on scientific publishing", which characterizes how this problem existed before AI. bit.ly/StrainQSS It's the incentives structure, not the AI. 1/n

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Ask the Chefs: Peer Review Capacity — Uncomfortable Truths and Overlooked Conversations - The Scholarly Kitchen

For Peer Review Week 2026, we asked the Chefs two questions: What is one uncomfortable truth about peer review that the scholarly publishing community doesn’t talk about enough? And, beyond recruiting...

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It drives me mad -- I unfortunately have one such long affiliations, punctuated by acronyms. What you don't know from the outside is that the actual string you have to use *varies each year* as institutions come up with new rules & new acronyms, and juggle for position in the long list.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A paper is finished when the embarrassment of submitting it becomes smaller than the embarrassment of still working on it

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/09/2026

When we talk about how science is broken, maybe at least consider how a huge collaboration measured the ripples in spacetime resulting the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion light years away, as counterweight the guy who had to fake his data to show that people who procrastinate fall behind.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It makes complete sense if you think about it. "We don't want to change; we had it so good and don't understand that the world is changing, why can't it just be as it used to be" is what most people think, especially old people, and we are collectively getting older same as "MAGA", really.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Super fun especially if you are on a solo project. Things start to go south when your number of coauthors exceeds zero

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 07/09/2026

Writing some scientific workflow slides for this week’s MPTC class.

Research workflow for those branches of the sciences where the important thing is to become famous.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Good point on the first part. On the second part: governments spent billions to keep the prices down, sterilize the increase so that people could keep driving *without* having to pay extra. If drivers are willing to pay, let them pay; instead, the general public paid in their stead.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Higher prices are crisis indeed, and affordability *is* a big deal; but they are also an opportunity to change -- and people do know it, see the share of sales of petrol/diesel:electric cars these last months. So why not exploit it?

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Not everyone is served equally by public transport, so big redistribution effect there. But e.g. in Netherland one could argue this effect is lower. Also, maybe administratively harder to do as public transport is organized locally. But spending billions so that people *don't change* seems stupid.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Question about policies about high gas/petrol prices -- maybe @giuliomattioli.bsky.social or @chittimarco.bsky.social could answer. Italy, France, ... spent billions to keep the price of gas at its level via large subsidies. Why not making public transport free instead? Would spending be higher?

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I did not read demands of harassment (so far!). I read lots of demand that Duke get their act together, because it's frankly appalling that he keeps dodging scandals unscathed.

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simine vazire @simine.com · 02/09/2026

Psych Science has retracted Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002). The second author requested the retraction. Both authors agreed to it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them: datacolada.org/138 and datacolada.org/139 1/2

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thank you for a swift and sound decision. This is what serious leading scientific journals should do. Kudos!

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Where it is shown that "Set Your Own Deadlines" does not lead to worse outcomes, but "Set Your Own Data (to Get the Results a Referee Asks you to)" does lead to brilliant academic careers at Duke.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Fair enough. Still I don't think the field shrugged. Duke did. The field was and is aflame about what Gino and Ariely did. The condemnation was unanimous. Duke is being called on to act since a good number of years.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

About the QJE paper: fair enough. But Ariely is not the lead author in any meaningful way, the norm in Econ is alphabetical order.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

But I don't think the community is stuck at "only they can do something" We had methodological revolutions: pre-registration, now ubiquitous; open sharing of data and methods, same; registered reports, on the rise. The Colada guys are from the same community, and raise unanimous support.

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Three cheers to Klaus Wertenbroch for his forthrightness and support of Data Colada's efforts.

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Data Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2 Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination. datacolada.org/139

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Also, I agree on your main point that the most stirking results are the most suspect ones; I would even agree that the most striking and marketed results are probably down to some sort of p-hacking. But this *does not* generalize to the discipline as a whole. Far from it.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is not to incite a discipline war about who should take liability for Ariely, econ or psych or marketing or whatever. I think *Ariely* should take the liability; and that Duke should get their act together, after these later, very clear episode of data fraud.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As a behavioral economist, I must push back on the generalisation. Ariely is not a behavioral economist, despite what he says. He never studied econ & holds position in business. His work is more marketing/psych than econ, by far. Experimental econ scores high in all replication meta-studies.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Happy to give talks anytime! In the meantime, I think the link to the PeerCommunityIn "Drain" webinar video is here, including Itlaian accent and talking too much with my hands *on a zoom talk* youtu.be/3PVPCacsF1U?...

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PCI Webinar#14 - Paolo Crosetto - Why publishing is becoming a burden for science and how to fix it

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am shocked, shocked to learn that this 2002 paper by Dan Ariely is based on dubious data and doesn’t replicate. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/31/s...

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I am shocked, shocked to learn that this 2002 paper by Dan Ariely is based on dubious data and doesn’t replicate. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

After six years as Head of the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, Professor Liam Delaney is handing over the role to Professor Alex Gillespie. We're grateful to Liam for his leadership and delighted to welcome Alex as our new Head of Department. Learn more 👇️

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Professor Alex Gillespie appointed Head of PBS | LSE

Professor Alex Gillespie has been appointed Head of LSE’s Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, succeeding Professor Liam Delaney.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Friends in the #BehavioralEcon & #GameTheory community: *now* is the time to fund a new journal. Collective action is hard, but Elsevier just made coordinating to a new, better equilibrium way easier. Let's get rid of for-profit publishers. Let's move to no-profit or in-house. We can do it!

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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’m playing with fancy ways to show etymology. What do you think? Here’s father, three, hundred, and new.

A colorful chart going from a proto indo European base root through Germanic and Medieval English through to the word father.

A colorful chart going from a proto indo European base root through Germanic and Medieval English through to the word three.

A colorful chart going from a proto indo European base root through Germanic and Medieval English through to the word four. Apologies, it’s too much to transcribe

A colorful chart going from a proto indo European base root through Germanic and Medieval English through to the word new.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I think this will most of the time end in a situation in which both fail

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just buy those sheep already then

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Collective action is hard. Publishers know it -- that's why they act boldly, assuming the academic sheep will not organize. Public institutions should facilitate collective action, by providing infrastructure to make the leap easier. Luckily they're increasingly doing it, eg edch.eu

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 17/08/2026

Helpful reminder from Elsevier that they have the "legal power" to do what they want with your journals. You have the collective power to take your editorial work elsewhere.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

There are now a host of platforms providing services to host fully community-led open access journals. For instance, we have the EU- and ANR-funded edch.eu Also, but that requires a bolder move, the PeerCommunity In project can host "journals": peercommunityin.org

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Easy: a detailed show based on the Hyperion Cantos. With 6 full seasons devoted to the each of the tales of the pilgrims and a final season for the Fall of Hyperion.

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