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Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) Alliance @prcalliance.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Next week is #OpenAccessWeek! We encourage you to celebrate it by joining the movement that aims to revolutionize the publishing system by moving away from gatekeeping practices to an open, transparent system where dialogue between researchers, reviewers, editors, and readers is encouraged!

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 09/10/2026

Details, and link to the complete data on ICPSR, are in the preprint on @socarxiv. osf.io/preprints/so.... The media team folks at UMD put up a story as well: bsos.umd.edu/featured-con...

The United States’ Low Birth Rate is Not a Crisis, Experts Say

UMD Researcher’s Survey of Demographers Reveals Shared Lack of Concern

Of all the things you may feel you need to worry about right now, the United States’ low birth rate isn’t one of them, finds a new survey of experts on human population.

The 190 experts who answered University of Maryland Department of Sociology Professor Philip Cohen’s survey, which was fielded August 24-September 4, 2026, hailed from a variety of academic disciplines; economics, sociology, political science, geography and more.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The integration with OSF Projects was a very strong advantage for us, but there are good alternatives now both for the papers and for research materials, and it is not as important for them to be on the same platform anymore. So, yes, considering alternatives.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not many people submit that many papers. The main issue is AI-assisted scholars who post many papers at a time (we have seen 50 at once). This policy lets us just reject them based on volume instead of reading them and justifying each rejection.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SocArXiv now has a limit of two papers per week. If authors submit more than that we assume they are LLM-generated and reject them all. Normal humans who need to upload a batch of papers, which sometimes happens, must make arrangements. Also today, ArXiv set a two papers per month limit.

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Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy

arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thanks so much @pengzell.bsky.social for kicking off our 2026/7 seminar series with an inspiring talk. (Find the paper to his talk on @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...) Join us again next month for a talk by Sorana Toma!

Screenshot of Per's talk from the CREST webcam, featuring a water bottle

October 15, 2026, 12:15–13:45 Paris time
Sorana Toma (Ghent University): Multiple Discrimination and Mental Health. Findings From the TeO2 Survey
Room 3049, https://maps.app.goo.gl/nZL9CEisBpWEJjey5
https://zoom.us/j/98896745435?pwd=bwOdKsLNQYJHIIjdzDgjUcA8rrgkRg.1

November 26, 2026, 12:15–13:45 Paris time
Tiphaine Viard (Télécom Paris): The Environmental Cost of AI as Seen by Its Producers
Room 3049, https://maps.app.goo.gl/nZL9CEisBpWEJjey5
https://zoom.us/j/95719888393?pwd=ZT9yARLzkaOwfPHmg5qWIKBtjnbLzZ.1

December 17, 2026, 12:15–13:45 Paris time
David Grusky (Stanford University): The Case for Abandoning the Predistributive Dream
Room tba.
https://zoom.us/j/92787336566?pwd=Ja25UMYA8QMAx5X2DbJ55pNXmXbO1f.1

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Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Come join our gang! Especially if you're polisci or law: disciplines that submit a lot but are not represented on the active moderation team

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

At SocArXiv, our intrepid volunteers screen a few dozen papers per day, using this moderation policy: socopen.org/moderation-p..., supplemented by this AI policy: socopen.org/ai-policy/. If that sounds fun or interesting or important to you, join us! Contact: socarxiv at gmail.

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Moderation Policy

This moderation policy is now supplemented by our AI Policy, here. If your paper has been rejected and you would like to appeal the decision, use this form. Policy revision date October 2025, by th…

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

John Levi Martin's detailed methodological critique of the "Rubin report" about sociology probably should be required reading for all sociologists. Well worth your time. One take-away is maybe our internal disciplinary fractiousness has some good sides. 1/ osf.io/preprints/so...

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 19/09/2026

"A Reader’s Guide To The Rubin Report." John Levi Martin on @ashleytrubin.bsky.social's disciplinary report on sociology: "focused on whether she actually marshaled evidence to support her arguments, and whether she correctly represents her sources." osf.io/preprints/so... @socarxiv.bsky.social

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Unfortunately (?) it's not our platform and we can't modify it. We have requested a list of high-priority modifications that will probably never happen (eg, automatic ORCID requirement, ability to give R&Rs instead of just rejections, new subject classification, etc) due to resource constraints

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We didn't use to have proper versioning, with a DOI suffix (v1 v2) and new notification for each version. Now that we do, which is good, we have to moderate every version, which is a hassle. The work of comparing versions would be untenable (we have no capacity to automate, no staff, no budget) 😃

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Minor corrections are fine, but we sometimes caution people who submit many versions, which can be deliberate to generate attention (and we may behave erratically - Sorry about that!) Please feel free to resubmit - if you send an email to socarxiv at gmail we'll make sure it goes through.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We do let you fix minor bugs. But the new version has to go through moderation. If you have a trustworthy, reliable way to classify things as "minor" without requiring review, we're all ears. Absent some advanced system, seems to me the service is either moderated or it's not. Sorry to disappoint.

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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My first long-form video is up: Myths Around AI and Productivity! Based on the work we’ve been doing at @dairinstitute.bsky.social with The Luddite Lab, we dispel 5 common myths around AI and labor by looking at what studies actually say about AI’s impact on labor. youtu.be/3BO0iy91lfU

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Myths Around AI and Labor

YouTube video by Dr. Alex Hanna

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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Classification testing: A new framework for drawing qualitative conclusions from quantitative estimates osf.io/preprints/so... @socarxiv.bsky.social preprint by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @aeggers.bsky.social and recent Junior Visiting Scholar @tzkli.bsky.social

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

$3.7 billion spent on APCs in 2025. That's ~1000X more than it costs to run bioRxiv/medRxiv. Worth thinking about as we consider how to fund infrastructure... arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16322

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Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) Alliance @prcalliance.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Have you heard of the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model of scholarly publishing? PRC reimagines scholarly publishing by breaking the traditional publishing process into independently executable stages: ✨publish, ✨review, and ✨curate.

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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The reach of violence: Infant health among diasporas in the United States during the onset of the 2023 Gaza War osf.io/preprints/so... @socarxiv.bsky.social preprint by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social PPRF @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social, NSRF @emmaromell.bsky.social and Associate Member Joshua Wilde

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 15/08/2026

🥳Today, PsyArXiv – the community preprint server for psychology – turns 10! 🥳 Thank you to everyone who contributed to the server's growth, including volunteers who work behind the scenes to keep it running, preprint authors, and readers!

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

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Which Data Repository Should You Use?

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 11/08/2026

This is a shame: COS phasing out OSF Projects. Responsibly, with plenty of notice and preservation of existing content, and continuation of other OSF services (including preprints!).

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Important news from our host, COS. Starting in November SocArXiv users will no longer be able to create new OSF Projects. You will need to host research materials in another repository, such as Zenodo, and link out to them. Existing public projects will be preserved. Preprints service will continue.

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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Just want to give a big shoutout to the PsyArXiv team of volunteers, moderators, and committee members, who do tireless work to keep the show on the road all year round! @improvingpsych.org

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

AI-manipulated, or -generated images are degrading the value of citizen science sites eBird, Macaulay Library, and iNaturalist. ebird.org/news/threat-...

Do Green Herons (Butorides virescens) have three legs?
No! But Google's Gemini Al seems to think so. It altered this actual photo submitted to an eBird checklist.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Information Shock: How AI Demands An Evolution Of Information Science" Essay links to SocArXiv paper:

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

SocArXiv is accepting 13.1 new papers per day in 2026 -- a 50% increase from 2025. Thank you for sharing (and thank a moderator, today)!

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Further comment on the essay:

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Unfortunately, I don't know how to get manuscripts submitted out of the API, which seems to only feed accepted papers. I would say we are rejecting about 3- or 4-times as many?

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

SocArXiv is accepting 13.1 new papers per day in 2026 -- a 50% increase from 2025. Thank you for sharing (and thank a moderator, today)!

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"AI slop in the scientific record and generally on the internet is making science less trustworthy ...AI enthusiasts are telling the world that the remedies should all be easy to automate...That’s not the reality for scientific publishing right now or likely in the future." @holdenthorp.bsky.social

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AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive

There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...

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Hyemin Han @hyeminhan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Guest editorial to be published in the Journal of Moral Education special issue on AI and Moral Education bit.ly/4ymy5Pg (@socarxiv.bsky.social preprint: bit.ly/4dJrfcX) It discusses implications of AI on moral education and remaining questions to be addressed from now on.

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AI and moral education: Opportunities and challenges examined from multidisciplinary perspectives

Published in Journal of Moral Education (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Yep, that was not the point.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Yes, what is empowering for many people about chatbots is they enable untrained researchers to perform legitimacy. The volume is increasing exponentially.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

For myself (pnc), if this were peer review I would not automatically reject it based on that statement. I was just reflecting on what it implies (which we in droves every day): more work dressed up by chatbots to look and feel like real research even though it has nothing substantial to offer.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I don't understand the problem.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

SocArXiv is 10 years old today! On July 7, 2016, PNC said: "We are building the future of social science scholarly communication. It’s past time for social scientists to bring their work out into the open, to make it better, faster, more accountable, and more transparent.” Now we host 21,341 papers.

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Announcing the development of SocArXiv, an open social science archive

It’s past time for social scientists to bring their work out into the open, to make it better, faster, more accountable, and more transparent.

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José Luis Ortega @joseluisortega.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"The role of altmetrics in citation emergence: a temporal approach" is our new preprint available in @socarxiv.bsky.social. Tracking the appearance of altmetric through the time, we have found that social media trigger the appearance of citations and shorten the time it takes for them to occur.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Someone submitted a paper and said in the acknowledgments: "AI made it possible to explore an unfamiliar academic discipline with a level of linguistic precision and scholarly orientation that would previously have required years of immersion." Fun for the writer, not so good for science.

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

“the academic community is enormously heterogeneous and it’s almost impossible to keep everyone happy” Never a truer word said in this analysis of downstream consequences of openness by @jacoates.bsky.social ripplingideas.org/2026/06/26/t...

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The 1% club and the rocky road ahead for bioRxiv

The recent launch of qed’s “top 1%” preprint ranking has sparked controversy, with concerns about its arbitrary nature, potential harm to authors, and low-quality inclusions. Whil…

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

In this panel I will discuss some of the ideas developed in the RoRI Future of Peer Review report, to be published early next week! @rorinstitute.bsky.social @cwts.nl

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Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This is misinformation, straight up. No one is *making* anyone pay APCs. Public access is required, and it can be achieved via self deposit in PubMed. Authors *choose* venues that discourage or attempt to restrict self deposit. They should stop doing so.

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Pat Hastings @ophastings.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Thank you for sharing! SocArXiv is accepting an average of 12.9 papers per day in 2026 -- a 50% increase from 2025. Kudos to our moderation team, who are working very hard to efficiently get your real research up while weeding out the rising tide of AI slop.

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