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Thomas Wolgast @twolgast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Considering the recent development regarding slop submissions and paper mills, I am more and more convinced that, within a year or so, quantity of publications won't mean anything anymore. Instead, quality will be everything. Wishful thinking? Maybe #academicsky #science #publishing #academia

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Thomas Wolgast @twolgast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Peer review can be so frustrating. I'm always trying to provide constructive feedback to encourage and help the authors. Still, my default recommendation seems to be "major revision" because the manuscript was so messy that I did not even understand the general idea...

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Gilad Feldman @giladfeldman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I keep seeing/hearing people say that there aren't any open-science and meta-research events. Collecting and curating these the past month has shown me there is a LOT going on, just maybe difficult to keep track. See screenshots, take your pick. Metaventory can help: metaventory.vercel.app/events

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Thomas Wolgast @twolgast.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Whenever I do a peer review, I do all my annotations in the PDF, then waste time rewriting it all into a text review. Double work and so much information lost. Why can’t we just review in the PDF? Just me? #academicsky #academia #scisky 🧪

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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 09/04/2025

REMINDER: I am looking for two PhD students to work with me on super exciting field experiments in the Economics of Education, joining an extremely vibrant environment in Munich, @ifoeducation.bsky.social & @econmunich.bsky.social 🤩🚀 Deadline in 11 days ⏰ #EconSky #EconJobs #AcademicJobs #JobAlert

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Thomas Wolgast @twolgast.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Finally submitted my PhD thesis! Now, I have time to do some coding for reviewersearch.net again. And probably some days of rest are also a good idea? Weird feeling to finally have this done. #AcademicSky #PhDone #Academia #Science #PhDChat #HigherEd #AcademicChatter

reviewersearch.net

Reviewer Search

An automated reviewer recommender for editors and journals.

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Brian Elliott @brianelliottmd.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The first article in RJIM! For-profit publishers are increasingly dominating scientific publications. $$APCs are growing and your work is paywalled, so they can make profit margins larger than Google’s. So 2 dozen researchers and I created RJIM… #medSky #EMIMCC www.rjmedicine.org/publications...

rjmedicine.org

The Researchers’ Journal of Internal Medicine: A New Way to Publish Research

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Thomas Wolgast @twolgast.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Hello, I would still be grateful for any input on this. Thank you! #AcademicSky #Science #MetaSci #Research #Publishing #Academia 🧪

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Thomas Wolgast @twolgast.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Hello! I guess I never properly introduced myself here. I'm Thomas and currently finalizing my PhD thesis on optimizing power systems with AI. I left the university to build software for scientific publishing. I'm quite unhappy with its current state and want to contribute improving it. 1/2

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anthony-raborn.bsky.social @anthony-raborn.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I'm looking for a reasonably-priced all-in-one conference solution--something to manage ~100 proposals in a few different categories and ~150 conference registrants. #AERA uses AllAcademic, but that seems overpowered for this situation. Does anybody have suggestions? #edusky #academicsky

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Jeffrey Brainard @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I’m glad to join the community here discussing science and #ScientificPublishing, which I write about for Science magazine. I welcome suggestions. #peerreview #ResearchPublication #ResearchPublishing #PublicationEthics #Authorship #ScientificCommunication #SciComm #scholcomm #AcademicSky

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 09/02/2025

Q for my fellow Assoc/Asst Editor types (ie the kind that request reviewers): How strong a role should editors play in rejecting articles that may be perfectly good science, but study issues/have findings that are VERY well covered in the field, just with a slightly different sample or geography?

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Daron Yondem @daron.me · 07/02/2025

AI helps write a peer-reviewed economics paper in one hour. Not a draft. Not an outline. A published paper that passed peer review in a respected journal. And that's not even the most interesting part of this story...

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Thomas Wolgast @twolgast.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Who is the better peer reviewer choice? A young postdoc who published 1-3 papers on exactly the topic of the submitted manuscript or the experienced prof with hundreds of publications (and reviews) in the general domain of the submitted manuscript? General expertise vs. specific expertise. Opinions?

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Ben Chrisinger @bchrisinger.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

40% of 2024 articles in Preventing Chronic Disease (CDC's online journal) are missing. Just did a quick count of 2024. I know missing articles go further back. What's missing: tuftscloud-my.sharepoint.com/:x:/g/person... Critically, because PCD is OA, everything is on archive.org #PublicHealth

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Thomas Wolgast @twolgast.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Are there any engineering or computer science people here that I should follow? I feel alone. These fields seem to be underrepresented here? #AcademicSky #science #research #phd

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Meltem Yucel @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Currently putting together SRCD SECC Conversation Hour "Building Your Career: Postdoc and Academic Job Market Insights" to take place during the conference. Who has been on the postdoc and/or job market **this** year and can talk about their experiences and will be at the SRCD conference?

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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🚨We are looking for a new Editor for Open Science at the European Journal of Political Research! 🔥 Join our editorial team (as full Editor) to develop new Open Science initiatives, eg Registered Reports and guidelines for statistical reporting DL: 23 Feb Please repost for N and diversity! 👇👇

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Pedro Belio Mairal @pedrobeliomairal.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Well, that was successful. No answers whatsoever, only a like from a tarot cards account, very scientific 😂 I’ll try with tags #Academicsky #neuroskyscience Even if you don’t have an answer, I would appreciate a repost to reach someone who might have it. Thank you!

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Thomas Wolgast @twolgast.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Just submitted the main results of my doctoral thesis to a prestigious conference 🥳 Wish I had more time to improve the manuscript, but anyway, time to relax and wait for the reviews 😌 #AcademicSky #Research

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Thomas Wolgast @twolgast.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

In my field, more and more researcher seem to agree that everyone should have an @orcid.org ID. What about other disciplines? Is ORCID gaining traction there as well? #AcademicSky #MetaSci #OpenScience

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Thomas Wolgast @twolgast.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

To the journal editors here: What is your approach for selecting reviewers for a submitted paper? What minimal requirements should the reviewer fulfill (e.g. years of experience, numbers of publications)? Do you have tools for finding reviewers? I would be grateful for every answer. Thank you!

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