Danny Kingsley
@dannykay68.bsky.social
Scholarly Communication - all of it, Open Research, research assessment, research culture, research integrity. They are parts of the same whole.
LINK to resources from my #FSCI2026 course "Open as Antidote - addressing the big challenges facing science" incl pre-reading, slide decks & lists of links. zenodo.org/records/2176... Overarching message: scholarly communication is a highly interconnected system & we need to consider all aspects.
PROMISES DASHED (again) arxiv.org/abs/2607.17397 "Enticing as it is to imagine that, by saving us time on mundane tasks, LLMs will provide us with more time to think deeply and develop projects completely, our results temper such hopes"
The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science
As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...
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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
INTERESTING: The complaint alleges publishers [Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley & Informa] have “fixed the market” to make it difficult to publish without paying “prestige prices, luxury prices,” both through market concentration and through copyright terms retractionwatch.com/2026/07/31/f...
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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I'm convinced the reason American AI doesn't publish is because their claims do not stand up to scientific rigor. Their claims are not about truth, their claims are to generate "value" and secure investments by shareholders.
Danny Kingsley@dannykay68.bsky.social · last wk.ONE WAY STREET www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... while AI companies scrape research outputs (esp open access ones) with apparent impunity, mostly they don't contribute to the literature. Those that do come primarily from China, not from USA where the epicentre of AI activity is.
In fifteen years, the UK has deleted coal power from their power system, halved fossil gas use, replaced most of that with wind and solar, and the country has not suffered the hellish blackout apocalypse conservatives and media outlets promised would happen. ember-energy.org/data/electri...
Noticed that SANS' upcoming conference will be discussing (semi?) permanent identitifiers for AI agents. Some run for days or weeks. Others, mere minutes or seconds. An extension of ORCiD could handle public agent registration (on first run) and deregistration (at run stop) with agent-based OAuth.
Danny Kingsley@dannykay68.bsky.social · 6d agoCOLLECTIVE ACTION: good article arguing we need to work collectively across the sector to manage the AI onslaught on the infrastructure we (commercial and community) have built or we will just be a customer yet again. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/30/g...
COLLECTIVE ACTION: good article arguing we need to work collectively across the sector to manage the AI onslaught on the infrastructure we (commercial and community) have built or we will just be a customer yet again. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/30/g...
Guest Post — The Third Time is NOT the Charm: Who Will Own How AI Participates in Scholarship? - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest post warns the community that, in the AI era, we cannot keep building the pieces that lay the foundation and letting someone else own what gets built on top of it.
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York is recruiting a new Director of Library, Archives and Learning Services & University Librarian. Details at: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/dire...
Jobs - The University of York
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ONE WAY STREET www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... while AI companies scrape research outputs (esp open access ones) with apparent impunity, mostly they don't contribute to the literature. Those that do come primarily from China, not from USA where the epicentre of AI activity is.
Negligible participation in the scientific literature of AI unicorn startups
Artificial intelligence (AI) development is concentrated within private firms, yet their participation in scientific publishing remains poorly understood. We conducted a bibliometric analysis of all 3...
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FIGHTBACK - isbndb.com/blog/ai-trai... book authors who object to their writing being scraped for training purposes can now easily poison AI models by producing writing designed to manipulate and sabotage the resulting AI models. Lesson? Don't screw with smart people.
How Authors Are Fighting Back Against AI Training, And What It Means for Your Data Strategy - ISBNDB Blog
The courtrooms didn't stop AI companies from buying paper books in bulk, scanning them for training data, and destroying them. So authors moved the battle
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FINAL PREP for my #FSCI2026 course is happening now, with kick off later this week. Meanwhile the FSCI course I have taught for the past couple of years is now in Zenodo. "The Butterfly Effect how understanding the big picture research ecosystem will help open practice" doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
The butterfly effect – how understanding the big picture research ecosystem will help open practice
The concept of the butterfly effect – that the world is deeply interconnected, such that one small occurrence can influence a much larger complex system – can be directly applied to the research ecosy...
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AT SCALE - here's a business producing papers - mostly desk-based 'research' and apparently basing their work on open data and open research materials. Works by soliciting local people to present in person at conferences and 'co-authoring' with them. retractionwatch.com/2026/07/21/e...
Exclusive: Medical student in Nepal behind busy research factory
A second-year medical student in Nepal is at the center of an international research network churning out everything from systematic reviews and meta-analyses to case reports and database studies, …
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GOOD LUCK! arXiv to spin out as its own company news.cornell.edu/stories/2026... I fondly remember visiting Cornell in 2017 and sitting in on one of their weekly meetings - fascinating.
Digital research repository arXiv to start new chapter as nonprofit | Cornell Chronicle
On July 1, the digital research respository arXiv, housed at Cornell Tech, will transition to an independent nonprofit, enabling faster technological development, expanded partnerships and long-term f...
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A remarkable shift since the frosty and sceptical reception that @theblochian.bsky.social and I received, when we spoke to CUP about the need for OA in 2013.
Danny Kingsley@dannykay68.bsky.social · 2w agoKEEP GOING!! www.cambridge.org/news-and-ins... "Cambridge University Press has reached a significant milestone in its transition to open access (OA), with 75 percent of its research articles to be published OA in 2026 and 50 percent of its journals now fully open."
KEEP GOING!! www.cambridge.org/news-and-ins... "Cambridge University Press has reached a significant milestone in its transition to open access (OA), with 75 percent of its research articles to be published OA in 2026 and 50 percent of its journals now fully open."
Cambridge reaches milestone as 75 percent of journal articles become open access
Cambridge University Press has reached a significant milestone in its transition to open access (OA), with 75 percent of its research articles to be published OA in 2026 and 50 percent of its journals...
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Reallocating big deal money is the real test. The structure only holds if the incentives actually shift away from the legacy vendors.
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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NOTHING NEW "Opportunities for alternative quality standards AI didn’t kill academic publishing. It exposed the body" dub.uu.nl/en/opinion/a... Agree, similar argument to my piece from a couple of years ago Generative AI – the latest scapegoat for research assessment blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
AI didn’t kill academic publishing. It exposed the body
Algorithmic writing machines are widening the cracks that have long been evident in the academic publishing system, argue Mirko Tobias Schäfer and Karin van Es of the Utrecht Data School. They call on...
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INSIGHTS: "Establishing a workflow for assessing open monograph business models: a case study from Oxford" insights.uksg.org/articles/10.... including description of their open monograph scheme evaluation form and moving from an open monograph advisory group to an OA publications review group
Establishing a workflow for assessing open monograph business models: a case study from Oxford | Insights
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TREND? Trust Seal www.newswise.com/articles/sci... and TrustMark trustmarc.org both launching with similar intent - to surface the trust signals in scholarly publishing
Scientific Societies Launch “Trust Seal” to Strengthen Confidence in Science | Newswise
Scientific societies and scholarly publishing organizations launch the Trust Seal, a new community-led initiative designed to strengthen confidence in science by supporting trustworthy publishing prac...
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PROTECTIONIST - a fascinating story about the huge backlash against someone attempting to debunk a research concept - The battle for the Blue Zones www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Australian scientist ignites war over the world's longest lives
The Blue Zones grew into a global wellness brand aided by stories of legendary old age. But a bitter feud over the science has shaken their foundations.
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INSIGHTS: blog.growkudos.com/news/ai-disc... 1/3 researchers are starting their information seeking with AI. One in ten researchers turn directly to AI tools as the starting point for their information seeking; a further 25% start in general search engines where AI-generated answers are now embedded
AI has captured a third of research discovery. Study sets out actions required for publishers to make content visible via new channels.
Understanding how AI changes discovery is no longer optional. This report gives scholarly publishers and platforms insights, actionable recommendations and a strategic roadmap.
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Hundreds of people competing for the perfect dunk on the editor of a science journal who is writing about the harms of slop for science. Not for using ChatGPT for research, just checking his references (which it is quite able to do). I can see suggesting a different way, but canceling him seems iffy
Would you trust journalism, research, or data from the company that took this contract? " #ICE to Pay #ThomsonReuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’. " www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-t... #USPol #USPolitics
ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’
A new procurement record says ICE wants access to personal data, including names, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity, to investigate in part what the agency calls “voters fraud.” It also plans to ...
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"The propagation of AI slop [...] is making science less trustworthy. But in parallel, AI enthusiasts are telling the world that the remedies should all be easy to automate, creating the impression that journals can not only catch more errors but also do it more efficiently and cheaply."
AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive
There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
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FINAL PREP for my course "Open as Antidote: Addressing the Big Challenges Facing Science" part of FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute #FSCI2026 Course info: force11.org/fsci/post/fs... AEST Wed 29-Fri 21 July 11-12.30pm Registration closing - register today!! whova.com/portal/regis...
FSCI Scholarly Communication Institute 2026 Registration hosted by Whova
2026-07-27
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The Netherlands' new open access strategy specifically name-checks 'scaling small' & puts community-driven publishing at its core - the very ethos the OBC was built on. Fantastic to see scholar-led values embedded into national policy! #OpenAccess #OAPolicy #ScalingSmall
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
obc.copim.pub
YEP: “AI content is a tax on readers’ time” - and we are all being fed this rubbish. I find unpicking AI crap highly tedious. One telltale sign is the single sentence paragraph. It is used for dramatic effect which is totally lost when overused (AI *loves* them). www.404media.co/linkedin-and...
LinkedIn and X Are Flooded With AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests
An AI detection company found that amount of AI content that users actually see in their day-to-day browsing is shockingly high.
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Though I'm pleased to see open source software being used, it's irritating that the name of the software or the open source community who develop it aren't in the news article or on the EThOS website itself. An example of infrastructure (specifically open source infrastructure) being invisibilised.
