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#helloesr CNRS senior researcher, working on the political economy of academic publications, scientific director of matilda.science?l=fr and tempted to make a corpus of how French academics present themselves when they reach bluesky

When I was a kid, only national elections were really followed and discussed (yet, US presidential ones were often commented). Now, in one night, we follow live reports from Serbia and Brazil like their own citizens.

I've kept track of review invites I receive each year since 2018. I've had 3 review requests this week alone - and I think something like 50 this year to date. By the end of the year, I'll break my record for review invitations by some margin (estimate of 66+ in 2026 vs 56 in 2020). 1/

Already in chapter 1. A must read on the social history of #peerreview, #reviewers and #referees

85% of #OA journals in sociology & political science are #DiamondOpenAccess #DOA. They lag behind Gold #OpenAccess in technical standards, visibility & citation impact—but more often let authors retain copyright. Read the study by Joachim Schöpfel and me: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Banned Books Week is almost over! The Trump administration had at least 596 books removed from schools serving military families. Don’t forget to get out there and read some of the books they tried to keep off the shelves. Happy Banned Books Week!

The redefinition of authorship. I love "a human author" which seems to reject collective authorship And publisher work. Not mentioning many non-humans (computers, printers, multiple software,...) were involved into the "creation" of "your book".

I'm standing for election to the Crossref Board of Directors. You may be familiar with the important work Crossref does to connect and preserve the scholarly record. 2 billion citations ! Read my statement here bit.ly/4jbgK6A and vote if you are a Crossref member. @crossref.bsky.social

🌍 150+ signatories, and counting! The Barcelona Declaration now brings together 150+ signatory organizations across 37 countries. New signatories come from Brazil, El Salvador, Georgia & Spain. Together, we’re making open research information the norm. barcelona-declaration.org/signatories/

That is the new normal: in some cases, fake data open to publish, in others genuine #opendata "analyzed" by #GenAI to quickly publish crap. 50 years ago, "sloppy and dirty science" already existed (see Latour's portrait of a biologist as a capitalist), it has become "clean" fake science.

Inflation is everywhere, except at @crossref.bsky.social #openscience #opendata

The never ending catastrophe of #GenAI in academia: #openscience infrastructures forced to close just to be able to survive. After limitations on review papers, limitations on new authors, limitations on the number of posted preprints.

Update. I have no plans to write a retrospective essay on #OATP ( @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy ). But I've started writing up some Tagging Principles that I learned from OATP. It's a work-in-progress and I welcome comments. docs.google.com/document/d/1... #Folksonomy #Ontology #Tagging

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...

The cost of knowledge unproduced.

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.

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.

📢 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...

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

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

📢 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

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.

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

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...

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

This is globalisation at its absolute best

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.

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

@petersuber should be thanked for decades of engagement and work for the #openaccess #openscience community.

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.

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...

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

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.

This is our chance to found a new game theory journal without commercial publishers. Let's go for it!

Not counting the actual availability of separate vaccines (at a reasonable cost).

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.

In my timeline, this post was very close to another one promoting IEEE's ethical team on #researchintegrity.

✨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

Open Position: Head of Operations https://obc.copim.pub/obc-is-hiring-head-of-operations/

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