Mastodawn

"If universities were directly responsible for publishing, it would more strongly focus them on their role as the guardians of the scholarship produced by their employees. They would be (and should be) directly responsible for the validity, quality, integrity and the ethics of the published output of their researchers."
#scientificpublishing #scientificliterature #publishorperish
https://warwickanderson.substack.com/p/to-reform-scientific-publishing-universities

TO REFORM SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING, UNIVERSITIES MUST BE PUBLISHERS

Giving universities the benefits of, and responsibility for, their researchers’ published work

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Benedikt Haug Jun 22

We just ended the last of a first series of journal club meetings in my research group. I've started this journal club with hesitation three months ago. Will anybody sign up? Will people read the articles and will there be profound discussions? Will people stay motivated?

My doubts were unfounded: considerable number of sign ups (9 participants in average, that's a lot given the subject is quite niche), mostly well prepared, great discussions and: the participants want to continue!

*edit: added 'of a first series'

#journalclub #scientificliterature #agroecology

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Albert Cardona Feb 4

@SciMag @news-from-science-SciMag

"Although GPT-4o hallucinates citations 78–90% of the time, OpenScholar achieves citation accuracy on par with human experts."

Now if only it wasn't boiling the oceans over.

"Synthesizing scientific literature with retrieval-augmented language models", Asai et al. 2026 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10072-4

#OpenScholar #LLMs #ScientificLiterature #science

Synthesizing scientific literature with retrieval-augmented language models - Nature

A specialized, open-source, retrieval-augmented language model is introduced for answering scientific queries and synthesizing literature, the responses of which are shown to be preferred by human evaluations over expert-written answers.

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STOP DISINFORMATION Desinformación May 31, 2025

The #scientificliterature is at risk of becoming flooded with #papers that make #misleadinghealth claims based on openly available data that are easy to process using artificial intelligence #AItools, researchers have warned

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STOPDISINFORMATION May 31, 2025

The #scientificliterature is at risk of becoming flooded with papers that make #misleading health claims based on openly available data that are easy to process using artificial intelligence (AI) tools, researchers have warned.

In a study published in PLoS Biology on 8 May 1 , scientists analysed more than 300 papers that used data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), an open data set of health records. The papers all seemed to follow a similar template,

Marco A. Lopez-Sanchez Mar 8, 2025

They rejected his manuscript, then he saw it published by other authors. https://retractionwatch.com/2025/03/06/peer-reviewer-publishes-mistake-manuscript-rejected/ #scientificLiterature #retractionwatch

His manuscript was rejected. Then he saw it published by other authors

A chemist at a university in Pakistan found a surprise when he opened an alert from ResearchGate on a newly published paper on a topic related to his own work. When Muhammad Kashif, a chemist…

Retraction Watch

jakalopes Mar 5, 2025

Man we really have to stop using university email addresses as the corresponding email contact in academic papers. almost every single time I try to contact them, the email is defunct because the author has moved on from that university. please use another email service! #academia #science #biology #ScientificLiterature

Gersande La Flèche Nov 23, 2024

Practically, how does this happen?

Practice of neurosurgery on Saturn: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210261224009209?via%3Dihub (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2024.110139)

#Science #ScientificLiterature #Nonsense

Practice of neurosurgery on Saturn

The practice of neurosurgery on Saturn is almost identical to the one practiced on Earth. Because the art of practice of Medicine was transferred by h…

Mauro Maver Sep 24, 2024

Tired of manually checking for new publications and keeping up with the State of the Art in your research? Or do you simply wish to automate this tedious and repetitive process once and for all?

Here’s a possible solution for you! 😉

https://www.mauromaver.eu/posts/rebelot/feed_rss_eng/#some-of-the-main-rss-feeds-i-use

#science #research #journals #rss #scientificliterature #updates #academia