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@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy

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I work for #OpenAccess to research. Formerly directed the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication. Now semi-retired but still working for the cause. Also an […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ fediscience.org/@petersuber, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

"Self‑censorship, more stress, tougher recruiting – we asked US researchers how the #Trump administration’s science policies have affected them." […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Bar chart on survey responses to the question, "How are scientists adjusting the way they work during the Trump administration?"

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

If Democrats made a mistake to let Republicans become the party of patriotism, Republicans made a mistake to let Democrats become the party of science. #Democrats #Education #Republicans #Science #USPol #USPolitics Chart from here: www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-…

Graphic showing trust in science rising among Democrats and dropping among Republicans in the last 20 years.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Today is a good day to reread 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘴 by Emma Lazarus. Here it is in her own hand. Image from the Museum of the City of New York. www.mcny.org/story/new-colossus Thanks to my daughter, Molly Suber Thorpe.

Photo of Emma Lazarus' handwritten manuscript of The New Colossus.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

Update. "We find a sharp rise in non-existent references following widespread LLM adoption… These errors are…especially pronounced in fields with rapid AI uptake, in manuscripts with linguistic signatures of AI-assisted writing, and among small and […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

The rate of fake citations, relative to real ones, before 2023 and in 2025, in arXiv, bioRxiv, SSRN, and PMC.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

A new study in The Lancet shows that the rate of fake citations increased more than 12x between Feb 2023 and Feb 2026. www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/a… #AI #Citations #Hallucinations

Quarterly rate of fabricated references per 10 000 papers in PubMed Central from January, 2023, to February, 2026.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

"Trump’s GOP Makeover is Almost Complete." www.wakeuptopolitics.com/p/trumps-g… PS: One problem is that too few #Republicans in Congress have the courage to break with #Trump even when they despise him and his policies in […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Graphic showing steady decline in the number of Republicans in Congress who have broken with Trump on a major vote.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

#Trump's numbers plummet during his first year in office. www.pewresearch.org/politics/2026/0… #USPol #USPolitics

A graphic showing how Trump's approval have plummeted during his first year in office.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025

Trump's plan for the White House ballroom. The Kremlin's Throne Hall. #Putin #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Trump holds up an image of the planned White House ballroom full of gaudy gold decorations.

The Kremlin's Throne Hall and its garish gold decorations.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

Update. The report the Trump DOJ just took down was originally released in June 2024, during the Biden administration. But the Biden National Institute of Justice (#NIJ) wasn't the only research org to conclude that most domestic terrorism in the US is from […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Graphic from Time Magazine using data from the Cato Institute showing that in the US in the last half-century there more than 6x as many politically-motivated murders from the right (391) as from the left (65).

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2025

Most #Trump policies are opposed by a majority of Americans. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202… Since I post mostly about how his policies affect research and higher ed, I was especially interested in the […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

A bar chart showing what percentage of Americans support and oppose eight particular Trump policies.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2024

Good response to @Bezos from Danielle Allen (@dsallentess): "The idea that this is a decision 'in support of our readers' ability to make up their own minds' is laughable and condescending. In what way does a well-reasoned argument limit anyone else's […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Image scan of Danielle Allen's open letter resigning as a columnist from the Washington Post.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2024

#Bluesky is seeing a surge of new users from the UK, thanks to bad behavior from #Musk / #X / #Twitter. bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3kzp… Is #Mastodon seeing a surge too, even if smaller?

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2024

Joe #Biden announces that he will not run for re-election.

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