Global Changes in How Science is Done and Shared

Learn how AI and new open access rules change how scientists work. This affects how fast we find cures and solve big world problems like climate change.

#openscience, #researchai, #scientificjournals, #futureofscience, #datasharing

https://newsletter.tf/how-ai-and-open-access-change-scientific-research-2024/

Scientists are moving away from private research. New data shows journals now do 73 different tasks to check facts, which is more than ever before.

#openscience, #researchai, #scientificjournals, #futureofscience, #datasharing

https://newsletter.tf/how-ai-and-open-access-change-scientific-research-2024/

Videos from the first joint conference between the Médici, Mir@bel and Repères networks are now available on Canal-U!

On the theme of ‘Working together: networking, why and how?’, these meetings provided an opportunity to highlight the challenges and complementarity of our three networks, while promoting existing collaborations.
Thanks to Ambre Enault for posting this online.

https://www.canal-u.tv/chaines/medici/1res-journees-inter-reseaux-medici-reperes-mirbel-1-3-juillet-2025

#edition #documentation #scientificjournals

Here’s a wee puzzle: A mature Open Data focused journal (“Journal A”), owned and launched by an company or Institute (“Institute B”), developed into the flagship of an Academic Publisher (“Publisher C”), runs their own properly archived and citable blog with DOIs etc (“Blog D”).

If a briefly published editorial Blog Post (“Editorial E”) disappears from their Blog, could it be an accident, or something else?

https://blastedbio.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-case-of-missing-editorial-blog-post.html #AcademicChatter #ScientificPublishing #ScientificJournals #OpenData

Which journal would you recommend to publish a review on the topic of #CognitiveMaps?
Criteria: non-profit, open access, good reputation

#ScientificJournals #OpenAccess #Neuroscience #Psychology #CognitiveMap

"A growing tide of fake papers is flooding the scientific record and proliferating faster than current checks can rid them from the system, scientists warn.

The source of the trouble is “paper mills,” businesses or individuals that charge fees to publish fake studies in legitimate journals under the names of desperate scientists whose careers depend on their publishing record.

The rate of fake papers generated by these operators roughly doubled every 1.5 years between 2016 and 2020, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“The entire structure of science could collapse if this is left unaddressed,” said study author Luís Amaral, a physicist at Northwestern University.

Paper mills look for weak links, such as lax verification protocols, in the typically rigorous publication machinery, then exploit those to place hundreds of fabricated studies with vulnerable journals or publishers, according to scientist investigators who have been tracking and cataloging their work.

It can be a costly mess to clean up.

Publishers who have become aware of suspected paper mill activity have been forced to retract hundreds of papers at once, and in some cases shut down journals."

https://www.wsj.com/science/scientific-journals-fake-paper-mills-92e42230

#AI #GenerativeAI #AISlop #AcademicPublishing #PaperMills #ScientificJournals #Science #PeerReview

I will never understand why the authors of a manuscript that they post on a preprint server spontaneously decide that it will be better for whoever reads their manuscript to have not only all the figures at the end, but also separated from the legends?

WHY 😭

(Same question for papers sent to review btw. Most journals allow for the format of your choice for the first submission. WHY not make it a nice, easily readable format??)

#ScientificJournals #ResearchPapers #Academia #Preprint #PeerReview