All of these seem like the sort of mistakes that unskilled, naive, not-quite-smart fabricators of scientific manuscripts would use.That these can go through at all is quite the scandal regarding #ScientificPublishing.
Biology Open has embarked on an initiative to find out if the time from submission to first decision after #PeerReview can be greatly reduced, whilst maintaining our high standards of quality. Watch the full video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QgR1dF-nuSU
@benpatrickwill.bsky.so
Am I the only one who considers that using this tool (LLM that "summarizes" paywalled scientific papers to which you don't have access) basically amounts to scientific fraud?, ignoring basic rules of scientific integrity that you don't cite papers that you haven't read yourself?
#science #academics #scientificintegrity #scientificpublishing
Am I the only one who considers that using this tool (LLM that "summarizes" paywalled scientific papers to which you don't have access) basically amounts to scientific fraud?, ignoring basic rules of scientific integrity that you don't cite papers that you haven't read yourself?
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rl2szulxujlgdcmx4avx7jyn/post/3mfd2i25c2c2g
@benpatrickwill.bsky.social
#science #academics #scientificintegrity #scientificpublishing
The inevitable next stage of academic publishers profiting from academics' work is here - scraping it for AI then charging subscriptions for access to the AI summaries, and then again for the citations. Academic content assetization as we called it in a recent paper. https://www.science.org/content/article/journal-giant-elsevier-unveiled-ai-tool-scans-millions-paywalled-papers-it-worth-it
Claims About Epstein, Gates and ResearchGate’s Funding and Influence on Scientific Publishing
📰 Original title: Epstein y Gates financiaron un portal para controlar las publicaciones científicas
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️
View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/claims-about-epstein-gates-and-researchgates-funding-and-influence-on-scientific-publishing/?redirpost=93d9e213-536c-4c41-b0c8-7544ee415fbd
I don't know why it has taken so long for me to come to this understanding.
The big scientific publishers firmly belong in "Big Data/Tech".
They might even be pioneers in this space, as they have been (obscenely) monetising scholarly data on a large scale for decades.
Their recent farming of our hard-fought text to AI firms is only a logical continuation, as is their expansion into scholarly information systems.
Every submission to a journal owned by a big scientific publisher perpetuates this.
(As a rather large aside, it is shockingly wasteful and inefficient use of the public purse.)
Every submission to Diamond OA and, more generally, non-commercial, community-owned journals promotes digital sovereignty.
Although I fear it is still far away, I hope for a future where it will generally be considered *disreputable* to contribute to commercial scientific journals in favour of a non-commercial, community-owned alternative.
I am thankful to the organisers of the Horizon Diamond meeting for inviting me to their discussions last week, particularly in the panel along with Juliette Schaafsma (a champion of the above, or at least similar, ideas).
#horizondiamond2026 #diamondOA #scientificpublishing #openaccess #bigtech
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Heading later today to Nijmegen for the meeting "Towards New Horizons for Scientific Publishing" (https://www.horizondiamond.nl/). Am excited for some inspiring discussions about Diamond Open Access!
#horizondiamond2026 #diamondOA #scientificpublishing #openaccess
Interesting that #OpenScholar relies on #OpenAccess only. So all literature behind paywalls is ignored.
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