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Free software development and academic review work have this uncanny resemblance in the way companies and corporations treat them.

Corpos: Make and maintain this software / Review this research manuscript for us.

Devs/Academics: Please pay me.

Corpos: Lol, no. <<Insert gaslighting about the dev / reviewer "nOt doInG thEiR ParT fOr tHe coMmUnIty">>.

#softwaredevelopment #freesoftware #academia #academicpublishing #academicresearch

Free software development and academic review work have this uncanny resemblance in the way companies and corporations treat them.

Corpos: Make and maintain this software / Review this research manuscript for us.

Devs/Academics: Please pay me.

Corpos: Lol, no. <<Insert gaslighting about the dev / reviewer "nOt doInG thEiR ParT fOr tHe coMmUnIty">>.

#softwaredevelopment #freesoftware #academia #academicpublishing #academicresearch

Me: Requests a plasmid and an algae from India and China.
They: Sure no problem, here you go. We'll bear the shipping costs as well!

Me: Requests a comparator plasmid and algae from Germany and The Netherlands.
They: You have to sign this agreement which states that all your research belongs to us, all IP is now ours, please give us your first born child...

#academicresearch #academia #research #wetlab #openscience #opensharing

Me: Requests a plasmid and an algae from India and China.
They: Sure no problem, here you go. We'll bear the shipping costs as well!

Me: Requests a comparator plasmid and algae from Germany and The Netherlands.
They: You have to sign this agreement which states all your research belongs to us, all IP is now ours, please give us your first born child...

#academicresearch #academia #research #wetlab #openscience #opensharing

The Register: How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI era. “The 35th USENIX Security Symposium (USS), which takes place next week in Baltimore, Maryland, hit an all-time high for paper submissions. While some of that increase has been aided by the availability of AI tools, those managing the conference say abuses were minimal due to defensive measures. But […]

The Register: How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI era. “The 35th USENIX Security Symposium (USS), which takes place next week in Baltimore, Maryland, hit an all-time high for paper submissions. While some of that increase has been aided by the availability of AI tools, those managing the conference say abuses were minimal due to defensive measures. But […]

Academic research plays a vital role in advancing higher education by encouraging innovation, critical thinking, and knowledge creation. In this article, explore why research is essential for students, universities, and society: https://medium.com/@patanjaliwebsites/the-importance-of-academic-research-in-higher-education-e071934ce5c9

#AcademicResearch #HigherEducation #Research #Innovation #Education

Academic research plays a vital role in advancing higher education by encouraging innovation, critical thinking, and knowledge creation. In this article, explore why research is essential for students, universities, and society: https://medium.com/@patanjaliwebsites/the-importance-of-academic-research-in-higher-education-e071934ce5c9

#AcademicResearch #HigherEducation #Research #Innovation #Education

The Scholarly Kitchen: From Hub to Hustle: The Scattered Social Landscape in Scholarly Comms. “In the most recent SSP Pulse Check, the community weighed in on the way social media is being used and trusted (or neither) in scholarly communications. The insights revealed a complex picture of a time that remains uncertain and very much still evolving. To build on this data, we looked at past […]

The Scholarly Kitchen: From Hub to Hustle: The Scattered Social Landscape in Scholarly Comms. “In the most recent SSP Pulse Check, the community weighed in on the way social media is being used and trusted (or neither) in scholarly communications. The insights revealed a complex picture of a time that remains uncertain and very much still evolving. To build on this data, we looked at past […]

Daily Nous: New: Journal of Mathematical Philosophy. “It is now open to submissions in subject areas such as as formal epistemology, philosophical logic, philosophy of science, decision theory, philosophy of mathematics, formal metaphysics, philosophy of language, formal ethics, and philosophy of AI. Published by LMU Munich, the Journal of Mathematical Philosophy is a ‘diamond’ open-access […]

Daily Nous: New: Journal of Mathematical Philosophy. “It is now open to submissions in subject areas such as as formal epistemology, philosophical logic, philosophy of science, decision theory, philosophy of mathematics, formal metaphysics, philosophy of language, formal ethics, and philosophy of AI. Published by LMU Munich, the Journal of Mathematical Philosophy is a ‘diamond’ open-access […]

Engadget: OpenAI will provide free AI models to select researchers . “OpenAI is launching a new program called ChatGPT for Academic Researchers that will offer free access to the company’s AI models to 100,000 scientists, mathematicians and engineers. Researchers from ‘select academic institutions’ included in the program will receive hands-on support from OpenAI, access to the company’s latest […]

Engadget: OpenAI will provide free AI models to select researchers . “OpenAI is launching a new program called ChatGPT for Academic Researchers that will offer free access to the company’s AI models to 100,000 scientists, mathematicians and engineers. Researchers from ‘select academic institutions’ included in the program will receive hands-on support from OpenAI, access to the company’s latest […]

“Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations… a community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars”*…

The sharing of experimental results and the underlying data is critical to the advance of science. Indeed, when I had the chance to do a scenario planning exercise with a collection of the leading research university librarians in the U.S. a couple of decades ago, the biggest threat/fear they surfaced was the concern that the free and open exchange of ideas and data, as manifest formally in scientific publication and informally in the collegial cooperation among scientists, would be occluded by an increasing proprietary embrace of knowledge.

73% of geneticists surveyed in an article in the 23/30 January 2002 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association agreed that although keeping data private may help the individual researcher, data hoarding is detrimental to the progress of science Still, sadly, that threat has grown since the turn of the millennium.

By way of current (and dramatic) example: as Celina Zhao reports, more than half of AI “unicorns” have never published a paper or preprint…

Today’s biggest artificial intelligence (AI) startups make no shortage of bold promises. Their technologies, some boast, will revolutionize software development, drug discovery, and scientific research.

Yet a new preprint posted on 16 July on bioRxiv suggests many of these firms barely participate in one of science’s most fundamental practices: publicly documenting discoveries in scientific literature so other researchers can evaluate and build on them. More than half of AI unicorns—private companies valued at more than $1 billion—have never played a leading role in publishing a scientific paper or preprint, according to the new analysis. Collectively, they accounted for just one in every 1000 AI papers published in 2025.

“For a field that is supposedly reshaping science and is so advanced in terms of scientific potential, not having any scientific documentation seems like a very weird paradox,” says paper co-author John Ioannidis, a metascientist at Stanford University [see here]. “How can you judge that what they say is real, validated, and reproducible?” The scarcity of publications, others say, also makes it harder to assess AI’s social impacts, including energy use and safety.

But University of Alberta AI ethicist Mohamed Abdalla says the findings reflect the incentives facing commercial AI developers, rather than solely a failure to uphold scientific norms. “It’s not the company’s job to advance science, right?” he says. “The company’s job is to advance money.”

Ioannidis has long studied how unicorns, particularly in biotech, engage with the scientific literature. (In 2015, he was the first to publicly scrutinize the lack of peer-reviewed studies produced by Theranos, the blood testing startup that proved to be based on fraudulent data.) He wondered whether AI unicorns would show similar patterns.

To find out, he and his team first identified all 317 unicorn AI companies that have existed from 1998 to 2025. Then, they searched for publications affiliated with these startups—including journal articles, conference papers, reviews, and preprints. They selected those where a company researcher played a leading role as a first or last author, indicating the startup had made a substantial contribution to the work. The final data set included 2077 final publications, comprising 1389 peer-reviewed papers and 688 preprints.

More than half of the startups had never produced a single qualifying paper, the analysis revealed. Scientific influence proved even more concentrated, with the top 5% of firms accounting for greater than 90% of all citations. OpenAI alone was responsible for nearly 40% of all citations in the data set, followed by the Chinese computer vision company Megvii and the platform Hugging Face. And even at the most prolific companies, much of the output came from the same small group of repeat authors. For example, despite OpenAI employing roughly 4500 people, only eight researchers had authored five or more qualifying papers.

The findings are unsurprising to some AI researchers given how the industry is structured. For example, unlike the pharmaceutical industry, where published discoveries can be protected by patents, AI companies have learned they often gain little from publicly disclosing technical advances, says Nur Ahmed, an AI researcher at the University of Arkansas. Google’s landmark 2017 paper on the transformer—the architecture that underpins today’s large language models—has become a classic cautionary example, Abdalla adds. Although Google patented aspects of the technology, “I don’t think anybody’s paying Google for that,” he says.

Startups also operate on much faster timelines than academia, where peer review can lumber on for months or even years. That’s why many AI companies have embraced what Avijit Ghosh, an AI policy researcher at Hugging Face, calls the “blogification” of research: announcing new models and releasing code or data sets through blog posts and technical reports rather than scientific journals. The new analysis didn’t track those outputs, he points out.

For Ghosh, the debate shouldn’t center on publishing in journals versus blogs. What matters is whether companies are releasing enough code, data sets, or model weights (the numbers that determine how a model interprets and responds to a prompt) for others to independently verify and build on their work, he says.

The preprint also found that firms based in China consistently published more papers than their counterparts based in the United States. Whereas leading U.S. frontier labs have increasingly kept the details of their most capable models secret or “closed sourced,” leading Chinese companies have embraced “open-source” models. Moonshot AI, one of the Chinese startups included in the study, recently unveiled Kimi K3—one of the strongest open models to date—and publicly released its model weights through Hugging Face today.

But whether models are open or closed, the rapid pace toward increasingly powerful generalist AI worries Emma Pierson, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. She argues AI research—whether published freely or kept secret—risks accelerating models that pose serious societal and safety concerns, including supercharging cyberattacks. “If we were racing forward on cancer-curing AI, I would be like, ’Fantastic, full steam ahead,’” she says. “But that’s not what we’re racing toward, right?”…

The secretive unicorns: “AI’s top startups are barely publishing their research,” from @science.org.

By way of example? In order to have a broader footprint in AI for (default proprietary) scientific discovery, Google moves away from a successful AI effort (that did publish): “Google DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shift” (gift article from the FT). One wonders: when these LLMs run out of published papers on which to train, where (and how) will they source the knowledge they need to stay useful?

* Neil deGrasse Tyson

###

As we share and share alike, we might recall that it was on this date in 1887 that Chester A. Hodge of Beloit, Wisconsin received patent No. 367,398 for ‘spur rowel’ barbed wire (consisting of spur shaped wheels with 8 or 10 points mounted between 2 wires).  It was one of many patents for barbed wire (e.g., here), which spread across the American West rapidly (thanks, in no small measure to the guy featured in the almanac entry here)– and (by protecting farmers from foraging free-ranging cattle) paved the way for the expansion of wheat (and other kinds of) farming… even as it spelled the doom of a commons– the open range.

“Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations… a community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars”*…

The sharing of experimental results and the underlying data is critical to the advance of science. Indeed, when I had the chance to do a scenario planning exercise with a collection of the leading research university librarians in the U.S. a couple of decades ago, the biggest threat/fear they surfaced was the concern that the free and open exchange of ideas and data, as manifest formally in scientific publication and informally in the collegial cooperation among scientists, would be occluded by an increasing proprietary embrace of knowledge.

73% of geneticists surveyed in an article in the 23/30 January 2002 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association agreed that although keeping data private may help the individual researcher, data hoarding is detrimental to the progress of science Still, sadly, that threat has grown since the turn of the millennium.

By way of current (and dramatic) example: as Celina Zhao reports, more than half of AI “unicorns” have never published a paper or preprint…

Today’s biggest artificial intelligence (AI) startups make no shortage of bold promises. Their technologies, some boast, will revolutionize software development, drug discovery, and scientific research.

Yet a new preprint posted on 16 July on bioRxiv suggests many of these firms barely participate in one of science’s most fundamental practices: publicly documenting discoveries in scientific literature so other researchers can evaluate and build on them. More than half of AI unicorns—private companies valued at more than $1 billion—have never played a leading role in publishing a scientific paper or preprint, according to the new analysis. Collectively, they accounted for just one in every 1000 AI papers published in 2025.

“For a field that is supposedly reshaping science and is so advanced in terms of scientific potential, not having any scientific documentation seems like a very weird paradox,” says paper co-author John Ioannidis, a metascientist at Stanford University [see here]. “How can you judge that what they say is real, validated, and reproducible?” The scarcity of publications, others say, also makes it harder to assess AI’s social impacts, including energy use and safety.

But University of Alberta AI ethicist Mohamed Abdalla says the findings reflect the incentives facing commercial AI developers, rather than solely a failure to uphold scientific norms. “It’s not the company’s job to advance science, right?” he says. “The company’s job is to advance money.”

Ioannidis has long studied how unicorns, particularly in biotech, engage with the scientific literature. (In 2015, he was the first to publicly scrutinize the lack of peer-reviewed studies produced by Theranos, the blood testing startup that proved to be based on fraudulent data.) He wondered whether AI unicorns would show similar patterns.

To find out, he and his team first identified all 317 unicorn AI companies that have existed from 1998 to 2025. Then, they searched for publications affiliated with these startups—including journal articles, conference papers, reviews, and preprints. They selected those where a company researcher played a leading role as a first or last author, indicating the startup had made a substantial contribution to the work. The final data set included 2077 final publications, comprising 1389 peer-reviewed papers and 688 preprints.

More than half of the startups had never produced a single qualifying paper, the analysis revealed. Scientific influence proved even more concentrated, with the top 5% of firms accounting for greater than 90% of all citations. OpenAI alone was responsible for nearly 40% of all citations in the data set, followed by the Chinese computer vision company Megvii and the platform Hugging Face. And even at the most prolific companies, much of the output came from the same small group of repeat authors. For example, despite OpenAI employing roughly 4500 people, only eight researchers had authored five or more qualifying papers.

The findings are unsurprising to some AI researchers given how the industry is structured. For example, unlike the pharmaceutical industry, where published discoveries can be protected by patents, AI companies have learned they often gain little from publicly disclosing technical advances, says Nur Ahmed, an AI researcher at the University of Arkansas. Google’s landmark 2017 paper on the transformer—the architecture that underpins today’s large language models—has become a classic cautionary example, Abdalla adds. Although Google patented aspects of the technology, “I don’t think anybody’s paying Google for that,” he says.

Startups also operate on much faster timelines than academia, where peer review can lumber on for months or even years. That’s why many AI companies have embraced what Avijit Ghosh, an AI policy researcher at Hugging Face, calls the “blogification” of research: announcing new models and releasing code or data sets through blog posts and technical reports rather than scientific journals. The new analysis didn’t track those outputs, he points out.

For Ghosh, the debate shouldn’t center on publishing in journals versus blogs. What matters is whether companies are releasing enough code, data sets, or model weights (the numbers that determine how a model interprets and responds to a prompt) for others to independently verify and build on their work, he says.

The preprint also found that firms based in China consistently published more papers than their counterparts based in the United States. Whereas leading U.S. frontier labs have increasingly kept the details of their most capable models secret or “closed sourced,” leading Chinese companies have embraced “open-source” models. Moonshot AI, one of the Chinese startups included in the study, recently unveiled Kimi K3—one of the strongest open models to date—and publicly released its model weights through Hugging Face today.

But whether models are open or closed, the rapid pace toward increasingly powerful generalist AI worries Emma Pierson, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. She argues AI research—whether published freely or kept secret—risks accelerating models that pose serious societal and safety concerns, including supercharging cyberattacks. “If we were racing forward on cancer-curing AI, I would be like, ’Fantastic, full steam ahead,’” she says. “But that’s not what we’re racing toward, right?”…

The secretive unicorns: “AI’s top startups are barely publishing their research,” from @science.org.

By way of example? In order to have a broader footprint in AI for (default proprietary) scientific discovery, Google moves away from a successful AI effort (that did publish): “Google DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shift” (gift article from the FT). One wonders: when these LLMs run out of published papers on which to train, where (and how) will they source the knowledge they need to stay useful?

* Neil deGrasse Tyson

###

As we share and share alike, we might recall that it was on this date in 1887 that Chester A. Hodge of Beloit, Wisconsin received patent No. 367,398 for ‘spur rowel’ barbed wire (consisting of spur shaped wheels with 8 or 10 points mounted between 2 wires).  It was one of many patents for barbed wire (e.g., here), which spread across the American West rapidly (thanks, in no small measure to the guy featured in the almanac entry here)– and (by protecting farmers from foraging free-ranging cattle) paved the way for the expansion of wheat (and other kinds of) farming… even as it spelled the doom of a commons– the open range.

What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really? | 🔗 https://brennan.day/what-have-note-taking-pkms-accomplished-really/

#PersonalEssay #Writing #Research #Productivity #KnowledgeManagement #AcademicResearch #Criticism

What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really? | 🔗 https://brennan.day/what-have-note-taking-pkms-accomplished-really/

#PersonalEssay #Writing #Research #Productivity #KnowledgeManagement #AcademicResearch #Criticism

What if neurodivergent minds are not simply different ways of processing information, but different ways of knowing the world? 💜

New publication! 🎉 "Neurodivergent Embodiment in Posthuman Media: Towards a Soft Aesthetics of Cognition" in dialog explores neurodivergence, posthumanism, AI, embodied cognition, and proposes the concept of a "soft aesthetics of cognition."

📖 https://www.academia.edu/170297677/Neurodivergent_Embodiment_in_Posthuman_Media_Towards_A_Soft_Aesthetics_of_Cognition

#Neurodiversity #Posthumanism #AcademicResearch #Autism #MediaStudies #SoftAestheticsOfCognition

What if neurodivergent minds are not simply different ways of processing information, but different ways of knowing the world? 💜

New publication! 🎉 "Neurodivergent Embodiment in Posthuman Media: Towards a Soft Aesthetics of Cognition" in dialog explores neurodivergence, posthumanism, AI, embodied cognition, and proposes the concept of a "soft aesthetics of cognition."

📖 https://www.academia.edu/170297677/Neurodivergent_Embodiment_in_Posthuman_Media_Towards_A_Soft_Aesthetics_of_Cognition

#Neurodiversity #Posthumanism #AcademicResearch #Autism #MediaStudies #SoftAestheticsOfCognition

👁️✨ "Behold, a #groundbreaking 2026 revelation: cameras are bad, actually! 😱 Who knew a decade-old meme could become cutting-edge academic research? Next up, an exposé on how 'The Cloud' is just fog, but for your data. 🌫️📸"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09239 #camerasarebad #cloudmyths #academicresearch #2026revelation #HackerNews #ngated

👁️✨ "Behold, a #groundbreaking 2026 revelation: cameras are bad, actually! 😱 Who knew a decade-old meme could become cutting-edge academic research? Next up, an exposé on how 'The Cloud' is just fog, but for your data. 🌫️📸"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09239 #camerasarebad #cloudmyths #academicresearch #2026revelation #HackerNews #ngated

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In a few weeks, I will be coming to California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA for my 2 yr #postdoc . It is my first time in the #USA and I am excited, but anxious.

Any tips on finding affordable #housing , #transport, or just getting started in general would be highly appreciated. If you live there and want to make a new friend, DM me!

#fedifriends #california #research #academicresearch

In a few weeks, I will be coming to California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA for my 2 yr #postdoc . It is my first time in the #USA and I am excited, but anxious.

Any tips on finding affordable #housing , #transport, or just getting started in general would be highly appreciated. If you live there and want to make a new friend, DM me!

#fedifriends #california #research #academicresearch

Cornell Chronicle: Digital research repository arXiv to start new chapter as nonprofit. “When [Professor Paul] Ginsparg returned to Cornell as a professor in 2001, he brought the online research repository arXiv with him. And for 25 years it has remained at Cornell, where it has grown into a global clearinghouse for millions of research papers, accessible to anyone with an internet connection. […]

Cornell Chronicle: Digital research repository arXiv to start new chapter as nonprofit. “When [Professor Paul] Ginsparg returned to Cornell as a professor in 2001, he brought the online research repository arXiv with him. And for 25 years it has remained at Cornell, where it has grown into a global clearinghouse for millions of research papers, accessible to anyone with an internet connection. […]

Kyiv Post: Despite Public Break With Russia, Springer Continues Publishing Russian Journals. “When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Springer Nature joined many Western institutions in condemning the war. The academic publishing giant announced it would halt new sales in Russia and Belarus and expressed support for Ukrainian researchers. Yet more than four years later, […]

Kyiv Post: Despite Public Break With Russia, Springer Continues Publishing Russian Journals. “When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Springer Nature joined many Western institutions in condemning the war. The academic publishing giant announced it would halt new sales in Russia and Belarus and expressed support for Ukrainian researchers. Yet more than four years later, […]

University of Washington: UW researchers created PaperTok, an AI system that helps users turn research papers into short, engaging videos. “Those discussions led the team to build PaperTok, an AI tool that helps users turn research papers into 45-second videos. A researcher uploads a paper to the tool, which uses Google Gemini to write a short script explaining the paper. The researcher can […]

University of Washington: UW researchers created PaperTok, an AI system that helps users turn research papers into short, engaging videos. “Those discussions led the team to build PaperTok, an AI tool that helps users turn research papers into 45-second videos. A researcher uploads a paper to the tool, which uses Google Gemini to write a short script explaining the paper. The researcher can […]

Daily Nous: Kant Studies Online: No Longer Online. “What happens to the articles published in an online-only journal when that journal not only ceases to publish, but ceases to exist? That question is raised by the case of Kant Studies Online, an online only, open-access philosophy journal that published articles between 2011 and 2016, the website of which is no longer accessible. The journal […]

Daily Nous: Kant Studies Online: No Longer Online. “What happens to the articles published in an online-only journal when that journal not only ceases to publish, but ceases to exist? That question is raised by the case of Kant Studies Online, an online only, open-access philosophy journal that published articles between 2011 and 2016, the website of which is no longer accessible. The journal […]

The Conversation: Anyone can fake a scientific image with AI, tricking even academic journals – and undermining trust in science. “The proliferation of AI-generated science images in public spaces is not simply a misinformation problem. As a researcher who studies visual science communication and public trust, I believe it also contributes to a crisis of trust in science in the age of AI, and […]

The Conversation: Anyone can fake a scientific image with AI, tricking even academic journals – and undermining trust in science. “The proliferation of AI-generated science images in public spaces is not simply a misinformation problem. As a researcher who studies visual science communication and public trust, I believe it also contributes to a crisis of trust in science in the age of AI, and […]

Carbon Brief: Introducing Project Cosmos: Carbon Brief’s ‘universe’ of climate science. “Carbon Brief’s Project Cosmos is a major collaborative effort to build the world’s largest and most complete database of climate change research. The Cosmos database – which features more than 1.8m individual publications linked by 40m citation relationships – captures the vast body of human […]

Carbon Brief: Introducing Project Cosmos: Carbon Brief’s ‘universe’ of climate science. “Carbon Brief’s Project Cosmos is a major collaborative effort to build the world’s largest and most complete database of climate change research. The Cosmos database – which features more than 1.8m individual publications linked by 40m citation relationships – captures the vast body of human […]

What happens when AI helps write science?

A Nature commentary suggests one overlooked consequence: uncertainty may become less visible in scientific papers, even though it is central to how knowledge advances.

🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01605-6

#ArtificialIntelligence #Science #SciComm #ResearchCulture #AcademicResearch

What happens when AI helps write science?

A Nature commentary suggests one overlooked consequence: uncertainty may become less visible in scientific papers, even though it is central to how knowledge advances.

🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01605-6

#ArtificialIntelligence #Science #SciComm #ResearchCulture #AcademicResearch

Kirsten the Librarian: The Big List of Google Scholar Alternatives (and the Big Librarian Existential Crisis). “I started writing this in summer of last year, intending it to be a nice little list of tools that would be handy if Google Scholar disappeared or got substantially worse, as a follow up to my LSE Impact blog post.[1] The more I wrote the more I realised that I needed to caveat all my […]

Kirsten the Librarian: The Big List of Google Scholar Alternatives (and the Big Librarian Existential Crisis). “I started writing this in summer of last year, intending it to be a nice little list of tools that would be handy if Google Scholar disappeared or got substantially worse, as a follow up to my LSE Impact blog post.[1] The more I wrote the more I realised that I needed to caveat all my […]

Found in my Calishat Snaps: LinXiv. “Discover, manage, and visualize academic papers from arXiv — run your library on hardware you control, with a modern desktop app, optional AI, Obsidian integration, and an interactive network graph.”

Found in my Calishat Snaps: LinXiv. “Discover, manage, and visualize academic papers from arXiv — run your library on hardware you control, with a modern desktop app, optional AI, Obsidian integration, and an interactive network graph.”

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📖 Important fact: your university library subscribes to journals, databases, and collections worth millions — most students barely scratch the surface.

Open Access Helper points you toward that content (and free alternatives) automatically.

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Dear researchers,
I am sick of #Elsevier and their antics (ridiculous APCs, inaccessible articles, unauthorised data-mininig, etc.) and want to avoid publishing with them as much as possible.

Can you suggest good journals in the following topics / fields (society journals welcome):

1. #microalgae
2. #molecularbiology
3. #crispr
4. #sustainability

#opensource #openaccess #academicresearch #academia

Please #boost so I can reach other academics.

Dear researchers,
I am sick of #Elsevier and their antics (ridiculous APCs, inaccessible articles, unauthorised data-mininig, etc.) and want to avoid publishing with them as much as possible.

Can you suggest good journals in the following topics / fields (society journals welcome):

1. #microalgae
2. #molecularbiology
3. #crispr
4. #sustainability

#opensource #openaccess #academicresearch #academia

Please #boost so I can reach other academics.

The Conversation: Bingles, knuckleballs and ‘Beer Barrel Polka’ – hundreds of forgotten works showcase the eclectic world of baseball scholarship. “I ended up locating more than 850 dissertations and theses written by students between 1908 and 2024 from nearly 300 universities, and compiled the data, which appears in a recent issue of the Baseball Research Journal. I was impressed by how […]

The Conversation: Bingles, knuckleballs and ‘Beer Barrel Polka’ – hundreds of forgotten works showcase the eclectic world of baseball scholarship. “I ended up locating more than 850 dissertations and theses written by students between 1908 and 2024 from nearly 300 universities, and compiled the data, which appears in a recent issue of the Baseball Research Journal. I was impressed by how […]

Just found out that my article “Diving into the Depths: Exploring Interpersonal Relationships in Mermaid Fanfiction” has now been published online in The Journal of Fandom Studies. 🧜‍♀️📚

The article explores friendship, chosen family and interpersonal relationships in mermaid fanfiction, and forms part of my PhD research.

What I value most is the opportunity to research subjects that genuinely fascinate me!

#PhDLife #AcademicResearch #FanStudies #FandomStudies #DigitalCulture #Publishing

Just found out that my article “Diving into the Depths: Exploring Interpersonal Relationships in Mermaid Fanfiction” has now been published online in The Journal of Fandom Studies. 🧜‍♀️📚

The article explores friendship, chosen family and interpersonal relationships in mermaid fanfiction, and forms part of my PhD research.

What I value most is the opportunity to research subjects that genuinely fascinate me!

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Retraction Watch: New system for flagging retracted papers finds scores of them in Cochrane reviews. “Cochrane has implemented a new system for checking whether any of its thousands of published reviews include retracted studies in their analyses, the organization announced today. The effort already has turned up dozens of reviews that do and will now get closer scrutiny to ensure their results […]

Retraction Watch: New system for flagging retracted papers finds scores of them in Cochrane reviews. “Cochrane has implemented a new system for checking whether any of its thousands of published reviews include retracted studies in their analyses, the organization announced today. The effort already has turned up dozens of reviews that do and will now get closer scrutiny to ensure their results […]

SSRN Blog: SSRN’s Ongoing Commitment to Legal Scholarship . “We are aware that Professor Bainbridge raises understandable concerns about changes at SSRN, particularly given how central the platform is to legal scholarship. For many of us, SSRN is not just a repository; it is the backbone of early dissemination, discovery, and intellectual exchange in the legal academy.”