What explainer/resource do you direct researchers to when they conclude the null hypothesis is true on the basis of not rejecting it? It ought to mention that possible solutions include equivalence testing (or just interpreting the confidence interval) and Bayes factors. Maybe just "ask AI".

Hundreds of free open access journals to receive significant financial support! @ojcollective.bsky.social, which launched in January, has already raised £1.56 million of its £2.65 million target and will start to financially support 297 journals.

How collective funding supports sustainable publishing

Diamond open access publishing brings benefits for social science scholarship through increased usage, higher citations and global reach. How does funding help?

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This practice is happening on a large scale! :( Confuses me that it's called a mill, though,which sounds like something organised, when it seems to just be individual researchers accepting a lot of review requests and asking to be cited.

Katherine Stiles@katherinestiles.org · 2d ago

· #AcademicSky · #AcademicPublishing · #ReviewMills · Review mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle?

The chocolate with the reassuring certification sticker may not be child labor-free. "Most certification schemes, including Rainforest Alliance, use a system called “mass balance”. It means certified cocoa can be mixed with uncertified beans.

"Alperin alleges he learned insider details about APC pricing as a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association, including “outright unlawful conduct” and “conspiratorial discussions” among the publishers, the complaint states." Go get 'em @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca !

Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges

iStock A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges…

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It’s true. It’s called parliamentary government, where the threat of a no confidence vote triggering new elections incentivizes parties to act responsibly. Presidentialism was a grave mistake.

Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 4d ago

There's an alternate universe in which a cabinet secretary who boldly claims wildly untrue things for weeks and then is caught in the lie realizes that he has embarrassed the administration and resigns rather than let the embarrassment continue.

A journal has "Address 1" as a *required* field. What do you suggest I enter for co-authors whose university doesn't have a street address? Lack of street address can be literally true, e.g. my university, the University of Sydney, has its own postcode. For now, I put the department name twice.

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I have a few cases in mind in the literature I work where I'd like to use this line "A fake theory is worse than admitting that we don’t have a theory.”, from www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reason...

Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine

The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.

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Fascinating. On the controversy of whether current AI models know what they are thinking.

Melanie Mitchell@melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 5d ago

I recommend this article about AI reasoning, where the author lets us in on his struggles w/ AI cognitive dissonance. Plus some priceless quotes from @rao2z.bsky.social. (My recommendation has *nothing* to do with the fact that I'm quoted in it too 😇) www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reason...

"Even a hundred years later, in 1960, Australians still spent more per head on books than any other English-speaking people" open.substack.com/pub/ozhistor...

40 interesting facts about Australian history

Sometimes it’s the details that stick with you.

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Very useful tool! Side effect: the flood of AI-written manuscripts submitted to journals will rise even more rapidly

Lior Pachter@lpachter.bsky.social · 6d ago

One of the major pains of academia is having to click through labyrinths of webpages to submit papers. Now, thanks to Joe Rich (and AI), problem solved! His tool is called PaperPush and is available at github.com/pachterlab/p... It's super easy to use! 1/🧵

but there are models of diamond OA that *do* have sustainable economic models. See: @openlibhums.org supported by 100s of libraries & w/ a staff base. Or the Subscribe2Open model. African Journals Online is part of @ojcollective.bsky.social which has already raised £1.6m openjournalscollective.org

We wrote a letter to a journal pointing out that a paper they published was based on a premise known to be false. The paper was later retracted. An anonymous person has now complained on PubPeer, saying the retraction was distasteful, unscientific, and unethical pubpeer.com/publications... #metasci

Competition: what non-governmental computer software used by hundreds of thousands of people, in billion-dollar-profit industries, is more antiquated than that associated with academic journals?

Congratulations to the project “ECR Reviewers Platform,” which received🏆2026 SIPS commendation! The ECR Reviewers Platform is an online guide designed to empower early-career researchers to conduct peer review of empirical and quantitative research manuscripts. 🔗https://buff.ly/MJRUWbM

ECR Reviewers Platform

The reproducibility crisis affects published research both in Switzerland and globally. Early career researchers (ECRs) have been among the strongest advocates for transparency, reproducibility, and…

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"the most powerful models regularly try to cheat at coding problems, particularly on the most difficult problems"

Russ Poldrack@russpoldrack.org · 7d ago

Are LLMs bullshit machines? russpoldrack.substack.com/p/are-llms-b... - This is a test post for a possible section for Better Code, Better Science - I'd love to hear your feedback!

Academic journals just got even more absurd. Under what circumstances should I click on "No Response"? #scholarlyPublishing

Illustration has always been fundamental to scientific discovery and record. This is a fascinating discussion with scientist-artists. It's easy to read because the artwork is so beautiful.

Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nature interviewed five artists from a variety of backgrounds about how to create engaging images that accurately convey scientific/medical concepts, & how they see the future, in light of AI developments. Insightful nuanced piece, with beautiful visuals from talented real-life human illustrators. 🧪

Crazy that there's probably still unknown monkey species out there www.nytimes.com/video/scienc...

Video: Orange-Lipped Monkey Photo Helps Scientists Identify New Species

The medium-sized monkey with an orange-colored patch around its nose and mouth, known locally as Likweli, joins a very short list of newly identified African monkey species.

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"Why do we see this accumulation of so many horrible things on one fish?”" www.cnn.com/2018/04/12/h...

Stonefish are already scary, and now scientists have found they have switchblades in their heads | CNN

Scientists call the bony, blade-like protrusion a “lachrymal saber,” because it is located on a bone under the fish’s eyes. Also, “lachrymal saber” is just a really metal-sounding name.

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“Within a few years what one may call a microscopic psychology has arisen in Germany, carried on by experimental methods, asking of course every moment for introspective data, but eliminating their uncertainty by operating on a large scale and taking statistical means." #psychophysics

New CBO paper: every $1 of federal R&D returns ~$3–$4 of GDP in present value over 30 years www.nber.org/papers/w35472

The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter

To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...

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EXCELLENT: The Netherlands new OA policy seems to be well thought through obc.copim.pub/when-scaling... Policy explicitly recommends redirection & reallocation of funds from existing ‘big deal’ budgets towards community-driven alternatives, incl university-led diamond OA & Netherlands Uni Presses

When 'scaling small' becomes national policy

The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing

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While the pool may have have grown, the report says, in surprise to noone, that it takes more effort to secure reviews. Publons 2018 analysis quoted the oft repeated figure that you need to send 2.4 invites to secure one report (up from 1.9 in 2013). Well, this number is now 4.5! /

Only four invitations were required to obtain two reviews for manuscripts submitted in 2007, but this increased to eight invitations to obtain two reviews in 2025. Non-response to review invitations was relatively constant up to 2020 but increased 4-fold by 2025. #metascience #reviewerCrisis

Welcome to the age of AI-generated science slop. Any piece of content that is profitable to produce will be produced. And in 2026 generative AI has brought the cost of producing fake science news to basically 0. So even if a slop video makes barely any $$, it is still profitable and will be made.

Our last major upgrade to tenzing.club was adding support for Acknowledgments; also see our paper improving Acknowledgments sections doi.org/10.1080/0898... Part of our mission is to innovate on best practices in scholarly publication and facilitate their adoption by building them into tenzing.

Improving acknowledgments sections to better credit research contributors

Formal recognition of research contributions is critical for career advancement and the allocation of research funding. However, some contributions are mentioned only in the acknowledgments section...

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I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear, and some gear down your gullet, I mean testosterone cypionate of course

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 3w ago

Taking cues from the Manosphere and MAHA, Pete Hegseth plans to screen US Armed Forces for testosterone and offer hormone therapy for men with a T "deficiency." I spoke to an endocrinologist at Johns Hopkins, and you'll be shocked—shocked!—to hear that she thinks this is incredibly stupid: