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Julius Koschnick @juliuskoschnick.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

New working paper 🚨🚨🚨 What was the origin of modern economic growth? Joel Mokyr had a Nobel winning answer - growth took off when science and technology began to reinforce each other But can we test this quantitatively? This paper does so – read more ⬇️ 🧵

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Diego Kozlowski @diegokoz.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🧵 1/ 🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask: 👉 Why do some papers cite others? 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 06/08/2025

We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following. It still became a polarization machine. Then we tried six interventions to fix social media. The results were… not what we expected. arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385

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Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation

Social media platforms have been widely linked to societal harms, including rising polarization and the erosion of constructive debate. Can these problems be mitigated through prosocial interventions?...

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Edgar Dubourg @edgardubourg.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

We often have to judge who is knowledgeable—precisely when we are not. Can humans really do that? Our new paper in Psychological Science shows that, surprisingly, we can. drive.google.com/file/d/1b15E...

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

who says that science doesn't generate profit?

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Misha Teplitskiy | Science of science | on LinkedIn mostly @innovation.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

How do scientists choose which topic to study? Decades of studies on this, but they're dispersed across fields and not synthesized. Fortunately for us, Sidney @sdxiang.bsky.social has written a fantastic review of this literature, focusing on econ and soc lit! direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

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Research Topic Choice: Motivations, Strategies, and Consequences

Abstract. Scientists’ choices of what research topics to pursue are highly consequential and have been the subject of many studies. However, these studies are dispersed across several fields and liter...

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Sven E. Hug @svenhug.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Advocates of research assessment reforms and bibliometricians sometimes have a rocky and heated relationship. 🔥 This paper, written by three bibliometricians, attempts to reconcile the two camps. What are your thoughts on this issue? #CoARA #DORA zenodo.org/records/1467...

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Principles of Evaluative Bibliometrics in a DORA/CoARA Context

The document, "Principles of Evaluative Bibliometrics in a DORA/CoARA Context," provides a comprehensive examination of evaluative bibliometrics, exploring its role within research evaluation. It begi...

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Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣 It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social (1/13)

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Tony Ross-Hellauer @tonyrh.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

1/ 🚨 NEW PAPER! “Open Science at the Generative AI Turn” In a new study just published in Quantitative Science Studies, we explore how GenAI both enables and challenges Open Science, and why GenAI will benefit from adopting Open Science values. 🧵 doi.org/10.1162/qss_... #OpenScience #AI #GenAI

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Technology influences Open Science (OS) practices, because conducting science in transparent, accessible, and participatory ways requires tools and platforms for collaboration and sharing results. Due to this relationship, the characteristics of the employed technologies directly impact OS objectives. Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly used by researchers for tasks such as text refining, code generation/editing, reviewing literature, and data curation/analysis. Nevertheless, concerns about openness, transparency, and bias suggest that GenAI may benefit from greater engagement with OS. GenAI promises substantial efficiency gains but is currently fraught with limitations that could negatively impact core OS values, such as fairness, transparency, and integrity, and may harm various social actors. In this paper, we explore the possible positive and negative impacts of GenAI on OS. We use the taxonomy within the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to systematically explore the intersection of GenAI and OS. We conclude that using GenAI could advance key OS objectives by broadening meaningful access to knowledge, enabling efficient use of infrastructure, improving engagement of societal actors, and enhancing dialogue among knowledge systems. However, due to GenAI’s limitations, it could also compromise the integrity, equity, reproducibility, and reliability of research. Hence, sufficient checks, validation, and critical assessments are essential when incorporating GenAI into research workflows.

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Renovating the Theatre of Persuasion. ManyLabs as Collaborative Prototypes for the Production of Credible Knowledge; a new preprint & thread. In it, I'll say a little about theatres of persuasion, and why new collaborative structures change how they look osf.io/preprints/me... #sts #metascience 1/

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Sven E. Hug @svenhug.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Does training of peer reviewers work? "Evidence from 10 RCTs suggests that training peer reviewers may lead to little or no improvement in the quality of peer review." Cochrane systematic review 🔓: www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

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Jens Peter Andersen @ipoga.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

With all the new influx of users, I’d love to see a community around #sciencepolicy #scipol #bibliometrics #scientometrics #scisci #metascience. Please share if you want to be part of it, use the tags to find others, or just say hi 👋

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Sven E. Hug @svenhug.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

The perennial dispute between quantitative and qualitative research assessment is once again heating up. The match-up this time: Evaluative scientometrics vs CoARA 🔓The forced battle between peer-review and scientometric research assessment academic.oup.com/rev/advance-...

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The forced battle between peer-review and scientometric research assessment: Why the CoARA initiative is unsound

Abstract. Endorsed by the European Research Area, a Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA), primarily composed of research institutions and fu

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Zehra Taşkın @zehrataskin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

It's raining preprints, hallelujah 🎶 Here is my latest preprint (review article) >> Sustaining the ‘frozen footprints’ of scholarly communication through open citations osf.io/preprints/so...

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Sven E. Hug @svenhug.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

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The forced battle between peer-review and scientometric research assessment: Why the CoARA initiative is unsound

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

The first act in a large research project geared towards understanding diversity in conceptualisations of 'good science' is out now - a review of the dimensions of responsible research systems and cultures, by Sarahanne Field, Jackie Thompson, @sarahderijcke.bsky.social, Marcus Munafó and myself. 1/

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Sven E. Hug @svenhug.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

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