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The bluesky account where academic publications are treated as social, political, technical and economic objects #STS #Openscience #PoliticalEconomy Blog: polecopub.hypotheses.org Matilda scientifc director: matilda.science/?l=en

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today is Pub Day for "Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census"!!! ::bounce:: Please support me by buying a copy of the book or asking your library for a copy! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The cost of knowledge unproduced.
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Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just out: my Bernal Prize lecture (2025), "The End of Science? Agnosis and American Fascism." Free access. Snippet : "In January 2025, fascists led by Donald Trump took over the United States federal government for the second time. Following the Heritage Foundation blueprint Project 2025, 🧵
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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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matilda.science @matilda-science.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They already are, see SocArxiv posts for moderation nightmare. And of cours chemistry and biology crap have been there for quite some time through paper mills or more amateurish sources. You can "publish" a systematic review of any given discipline, full of crap of course, but that looks legitimate.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026
When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.
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Paolo Parra Saiani @parrasaiani.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS | Manufacturing (Dis)Trust: Predatory Journals, Paper Mills, and the Crisis of Research Integrity. RC23 session at the XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology. Abstract deadline: 14 October 2026. #ISA2027 #RC23 #SociologyOfScience #STS Details: isaconf.confex.com/.../webprogr...
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It is not as if "colors" or even "Unpaywall colors" were enough to share a common #openaccess landscape. In this preprint, we show how OpenAccess Monitors completely différ in their scope and categories from one country to another #openscience hal.science/hal-05661835v2
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Making sure you're not a bot!
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A classical example of centralized/decentralized French HER system. ABES negotiates and define standards, thousands of librarians/curators in hundreds of différent HER institutions daily work on metadata #openscience
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Ouvrir la science @ouvrirlascience.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
📢 The Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and Space has unveiled the new French Open Science Strategy 2026-2033! www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/en/launch-fr... www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/en/french-op... @enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr @marind.eurosky.social
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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 14/09/2026
Do people understand that this is just starting? The US Gov declining only means that we are now carrying this forward ourselves. I have had a few conversations with folks that thought this meant the case was over.
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matilda.science @matilda-science.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Matilda has reached 170M deduplicated publications, among which 38.5M are full-text searchable. Everything is free, sharable and reusable and will remain as such under our #POSI commitments and following our mission matilda.science/mission?l=en #openscience #opendata
Series of open paper books which represent the open knowledge available through Matilda
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Leonid Schneider @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Congratulations to Elsevier on this insanity my colleague found. Is anything in this clinical trial from Spain and UK real? www.cell.com/the-innovati...
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Quantum evidence of nonlocal consciousness during clinical death
If consciousness can operate under quantum principles, then the boundaries between life, death, and cognition are far more permeable than current science allows. In the first large-scale, randomized, ...
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A "good faith agreement": you work for me without compensation, you shape authors and reveiwers into slave workers and I decide whatever I wish because I own the title and the technical platforms #predatorypublishing #peerreview
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 06/09/2026
'[T]he publisher “crossed a fundamental red line in the good faith agreement between the Editorial Board and the publisher” by not consulting with the editorial board regarding future editorial appointments.' Academics really need to learn that this "good faith agreement" simply does not exist.
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Editors Mass Resign from Elsevier Journal After Editor-in-Chief Let Go | The Scientist
Six editors and 58 out of 62 advisory editors at an economics journal gave up their positions after the publisher did not renew the editor-in-chief’s contract.
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David Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is globalisation at its absolute best
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sometimes we forget how much joy you can get by performing simple research tasks. As a sociologist, having a pair of really nice interviews with food for thought is such a pleasure.
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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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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
@petersuber should be thanked for decades of engagement and work for the #openaccess #openscience community.
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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Race scientists are like asbestos: unwisely built into the fabric of universities many years ago, will absolutely kill people, and require careful but total removal. Also, mostly harmless if embedded in concrete.
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Dean of Science at Stellenbosch University writes that although AI generates almost all the words for his articles (including this one): "AI did almost all of the writing. I remain the expert and the thought leader behind the piece." www.nature.com/articles/d44...
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When AI writes the words, who is the author?
After an AI detector classified one of my opinion pieces as entirely AI-generated, I found myself questioning where authorship ends, where expertise begins and what readers deserve to know.
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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
REAL ISSUE: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/14/g... as we increase reliance on trust markers and the like we risk shutting unaffiliated scholars out of the system
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Guest Post — The Guild and the Gap: What One Rejection Revealed About the Cost of Credentialism - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest post asks: Do trust markers and other systematic fraud-prevention practices exclude unaffiliated authors from contributing to the scholarly record?
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 12/08/2026
It feels like we're moving past the idea of "open" as the sharing of everything by everyone to everyone. It's sad for COS, but I think the shift may allow us to foreground a better understanding of openness defined by practices/communities/relationships rather than whether a resource is open/closed.
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OSF Changes | Center for Open Science
We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/08/2026
1. Recently I’ve received lots of emails from people I don’t know personally, asking for my feedback on their books or papers. They explain the connection between my work and theirs and ask me to take a look. The catch, of course, is that the emails are transparently, obviously, written by AI.
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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is our chance to found a new game theory journal without commercial publishers. Let's go for it!
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Not counting the actual availability of separate vaccines (at a reasonable cost).
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A very interesting case in sociology of #ignorance. Science bigotry pushes a journal not to consider evidence given in court (and public knowledge) that the data was biased by the very company making the drug. It won't retract it, then allow it to be cited in other papers and clinical guidelines.
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
In my timeline, this post was very close to another one promoting IEEE's ethical team on #researchintegrity.
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 13/08/2026
"The journal roughly doubled its publication volume from nearly 5,000 articles in 2023 to over 9,600 in 2024, and published over 10,300 articles in 2025." Good illustration of why commercial publishers are not passive victims of fraudulent behaviour but have actively created the conditions for it.
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Emma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
✨New Work✨ forthcoming at #AIES2026: 1️⃣ "Data Annotation as Measurement" by me, @allisonkoe.bsky.social, and @kizilcec.bsky.social explores how data annotation can go wrong, and how measurement theory can help improve it. 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2608.07297
A screenshot of our paper title, authors, and abstract.
Title: Data Annotation as Measurement
Authors: Emma Harvey, Allison Koenecke, Rene Kizilcec
Abstract: Modern AI systems depend on annotated data, but annotation is rarely treated as the act of measurement that it is. Instead, annotation quality is commonly reduced to agreement: if multiple annotators assign the same annotation to a data instance, the annotations are taken to be high-quality. Yet agreement does not establish whether annotations validly capture the underlying concept they are meant to represent. In this paper, we argue that data annotation should be understood as a measurement problem. Like other forms of measurement, annotation requires defining a concept, operationalizing it through an instrument, applying that instrument, and evaluating the reliability and validity of the resulting measurements. Drawing on a literature review of annotation quality research (N=132) and semi-structured interviews with annotation team members (N=10), we develop a framework for diagnosing and correcting annotation issues. First, we map key decision points across annotation processes—including task design, annotator management, quality assessment, quality improvement, and adjudication—that shape annotation outcomes. Second, we identify five distinct sources of annotation issues: error, ambiguity, impossibility, subjectivity, and annotator identity. Annotation problems that appear similar at the level of outcomes often require different process-level interventions based on their sources. Finally, we translate measurement theory into practical guidance for annotation teams, showing how assessments of reliability and validity can move beyond agreement alone. By reframing annotation as measurement, we offer a conceptual foundation for improving the quality of annotated data used in AI research and practice.
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Most people don't realize how large-scale disciplines work: I had never heard of Jason Arday before last week (same for Claudine Gay before the public discussions) and most authors/refs that US/UK sociologists point out are completely unknown to me. Of course, it works both ways. (1/3)
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Losing Exeter philosophers of science would be devastating to our field and to the international standing of U.K. universities. Please help us publicise this letter and put pressure to the Exeter execs. Their work as teachers and researchers is irreplaceable #philsci #HigherEd
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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026
Open Position: Head of Operations obc.copim.pub/obc-is-hiring-head-of…
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Open Position: Head of Operations
The Open Book Collective is seeking a highly organised, proactive Head of Operations to help lead the day-to-day running of our growing organisation.
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A very insightful post on how #researchmisconduct inquiries happen (and diverge). IMHO, the only oddities in Arday's case are his weird extra-academic claims (charities, sport...) and the fact that he resigned so quickly. #researchintegrity #peerreview
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Just like the Hwang case did not mean biologists were all fraud, just like the Schön case did not mean physicist were all fraud, Arday's case does not tell anything about his own disciplines, sociology.
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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
Whether you're an academic institution or a scholarly journal: if all you're interested in are too-good-to-be-true stories, you will inevitably get too-good-to-be-true stories. Don't say you didn't know.
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 07/08/2026
It's funny that Elsevier can simply retract *650* papers because of "compromised peer review, authorship irregularities, tortured phrases and citation manipulation" and then Clarivate are satisfied and hand out an impact factor.
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Clarivate removes hold on mega-journal Heliyon after internal audit, 650+ retractions
Clarivate has lifted its hold on Heliyon after the journal’s internal audit led to over 1,000 retractions, expressions of concern and corrections. As a result, the journal will receive an impact fa…
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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
@author-for-sale.bsky.social "We paid the 'publishing facilitation agency' for this dude's paper to go into the journal, but we never asked to be added as co-authors!" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A great summer school opportunity with Lorraine Daston, Dave Kaiser & Erika Milam #HPS #STS 👇
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
After it was published in an Elsevier journal, the paper was finally read by someone. Peer review and editorial control clearly added "publisher value" to the manuscript. #researchinttegrity #predatorypublishing
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A few days after Cambridge (finally) decide to launch an inquiry, that was quick. (in France, we see that in years rather than days) #researchintegrity #plagiarism
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I have a new short essay out in LIMN's special issue This Is Not a Platform titled "Platform Obscurantism: The Hidden Substrates of Machine Learning." ChatGPT is a platform. That may be the least interesting thing about it. limn.press/article/plat... 🧵
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Platform Obscurantism - Limn
ChatGPT is a platform. The chatbot is infrastructure. Thousands of applications now build on OpenAI’s application programming interface, creating a dependent ecosystem of developers, startups, and ent...
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Market consolidation for the Global North, ecosystem change for the (rich) Global South.
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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 03/08/2026
1/ In 2024, I filed a false claims act lawsuit against Elsevier, Springer, Wiley & Informa alleging they systematically overcharged US federal grants for article processing. The gov declined to intervene and now it's public. Some thoughts on what this is, and what it isn't:
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If I may nitpick, journals don't cite anything, authors that publish articles in journals do.
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The kind of things that academics should do to have "impact": small cheap paper books aiming at a large audience to help them grasp complex & technical matters.
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 02/08/2026
Excellent thread of comments on PubPeer if you want to see how, in scientific work, just a different interpretational move can lead to the opposite conclusion...
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Isidro F. Aguillo @isidroaguillo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Monthly review of the coverage of the main bibliometric tools
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polecopub @polecopub.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
As we all know, commercial journals (whether subscription or Gold APC based) don't rely at all on unpaid authors, unpaid reviewers and un paid editors to make profits.
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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them www.openculture.com/2026/07/umbe...
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Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them
William Weaver could add an extension onto his Tuscan villa, which he called the 'Eco Chamber.' The Biblioteca Eco, or Eco Library, whose ribbon-cutting earlier this month you can see in the Italian n...
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