There is a separate circle in Hell for people who email editors with request for updates/info on their papers and include the title/tracking number/any other identifiers as a *screenshot* #OverlyHonestEditor #AcademicSky
Overly.Honest.Editor
@editoratlarge.bsky.social
#Openscience ❤️&👻; incrementalist; Cptn Grumblepants; thought follower; unbelievable little shit; self-serving internet bawbag; occasional Jorts; Grumpytits McGee. I will not just & I can't even. Skeets CC By.
There is a separate circle in Hell for people who email editors with request for updates/info on their papers and include the title/tracking number/any other identifiers as a *screenshot* #OverlyHonestEditor #AcademicSky
Betteridge's law of headlines and all that #ArtificialIntelligence #AcademicSky though in AI's defence... arxiv.org/abs/2607.27191
Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies
Forecasts of explosive AI progress hinge on AI agents automating AI research. But evidence on whether agents can carry out open-ended AI research is thin. Current evaluations either test agents on nar...
arxiv.org
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Editor Cat-ski is a very definition of patience wearing thin today #ScientificPublishing Another email proclaiming respect for work of editors only to proceed with 6 pages of genAI waffle to ask a Q that could've been one sentence... Again, if you wonder why your paper is delayed, ask your friends.
Guest Post — The Third Time is NOT the Charm: Who Will Own How AI Participates in Scholarship? 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.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
Editor Cat-ski's simplified version: One rule to avoid AI image mistakes in science: just don't use it. #ScientificPublishing #ResearchIntegrity Three tips to avoid AI image mistakes in science www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Three tips to avoid AI image mistakes in science
Artificial-intelligence tools can be useful for brainstorming and creating graphics, but they can introduce errors. If you’re going to use them, here’s how to avoid problems.
nature.com
1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
nytimes.com
An unsolicited editorial opinion: if as an author you want to show you "have respect for editors and completely understand demands associated with managing peer review process", don't use ChatGPT to write your emails for you #OverlyHonestEditor #ScientificPublishing
‘Humanizer’ tool can erase signs of AI-written text — alarming scientists OR Omg how will we know that ideas aren't original. We'll have to READ all of that now. #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky #ResearchIntegrity www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Humanizer’ tool can erase signs of AI-written text — alarming scientists
Tool directs text-generation systems to remove constructions associated with artificial intelligence in research papers and grant proposals.
nature.com
If you're dying with anxiety because the status of your paper has not changed from "under review" for weeks, you may want to read the Future of Peer Review report from Silverchair that came out recently and replaced the outdated Publons report from 2018... #ScientificPublishing #PeerReview /
If you're dying with anxiety because the status of your paper has not changed from "under review" for weeks, you may want to read the Future of Peer Review report from Silverchair that came out recently and replaced the outdated Publons report from 2018... #ScientificPublishing #PeerReview /
Wild story of #retractions of Max Planck papers... That being said, "copyright bot is to blame" sounds like nonsense. It's not how retractions anywhere work #OverlyConfusedEditor A bit surprised the question about how was not asked (given the bland comment from SN). www.science.org/content/arti...
Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?
Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame
science.org
“the academic community is enormously heterogeneous and it’s almost impossible to keep everyone happy” Never a truer word said in this analysis of downstream consequences of openness by @jacoates.bsky.social ripplingideas.org/2026/06/26/t...
The 1% club and the rocky road ahead for bioRxiv
The recent launch of qed’s “top 1%” preprint ranking has sparked controversy, with concerns about its arbitrary nature, potential harm to authors, and low-quality inclusions. Whil…
ripplingideas.org
Wild story of #retractions of Max Planck papers... That being said, "copyright bot is to blame" sounds like nonsense. It's not how retractions anywhere work #OverlyConfusedEditor A bit surprised the question about how was not asked (given the bland comment from SN). www.science.org/content/arti...
Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?
Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame
science.org
Editor Cat-ski is increasingly convinced that letters to editor are just an egomaniacal way of saying to your competitors: "Mediocre work, you should've written a different paper" #ScientificPublishing #OverlyHonestEditor To which, I dunno, I'd say: write it yourself?
In other words and in case you didn't know: handling post publication disputes isn't easy #ScientificPublishing #OverlyHonestEditor (but also in some other ways, it actually is)
Hilda Bastian@hildabast.bsky.social · last mo.An argumentation theorist's ethnographic case study about the Cochrane review on ME/CFS raises, I think, structural implications for journals like Cochrane's. My latest post @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/06/24/v...
So, Editor Cat-fuentes is all about putting as much info as possible in the manuscript file, but can we perhaps agree that a Word file (as a main MS file) which is nearly 1Gb in size may be just a little excessive? #OverlyHonestEditor #InternetProviderSaidNo
So much to unpack in this story. But if you think this will change the landscape for the better, think again. Editor Cat-zhang is already told by colleagues in CN that due to these scandals students are asked to sign declarations of sole responsibility for data / www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Student Geng’ ignites research-integrity scandal in China after calling out senior academics
Video blogger’s viral accusations of data manipulation in Nature journals have sparked intense debate and speedy institutional investigations.
nature.com
What do you think is your most under-recognised paper and why should people be paying more attention? Go on, take the chance to toot your own horn 🎺
About time.
Magdalena Skipper@magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 2mo agoI am very happy that we are expanding Registered Reports to all disciplines in which we publish, which is all areas of natural, clinical and social sciences, engineering & public health. We’ve learned a lot since 2023 when we first invited RRs; we are ready to expand 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I am very happy that we are expanding Registered Reports to all disciplines in which we publish, which is all areas of natural, clinical and social sciences, engineering & public health. We’ve learned a lot since 2023 when we first invited RRs; we are ready to expand 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which we publish
Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.
nature.com
Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · 2mo agoExcellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Last week ppl collectively lost their shit bc arxiv promised to ban your ass to hell if you make up stuff in a paper. Meanwhile, retractions based purely on hallucinated references are starting to roll in (as they should) #ScientificPublishing #ResearchIntegrity / www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Researchers who use hallucinated references to face arXiv ban
The preprint server is the latest to impose stiff penalties on authors who contribute to AI ‘slop’ — but not everyone is convinced it’s the right approach.
nature.com
Dear Author, The peer review of your paper is "95% done". The remaining 5% of it is focused on me actually reading the paper. #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky
Ol' Chef Dan@olchefdan.bsky.social · 2mo agoHonestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.
Dear Author, The peer review of your paper is "95% done". The remaining 5% of it is focused on me actually reading the paper. #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky
Ol' Chef Dan@olchefdan.bsky.social · 2mo agoHonestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.
In which AI finds what humans found 15yo already. Oh, #ScientificPublishing and its history... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Tough peer-review process? Your paper might end up being more highly cited
An AI-led analysis of publicly available peer-review reports links requests for major revisions with papers that end up having high impact.
nature.com
Retractions and other publisher responses to problem papers doesn't affect citations. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... Quick thread. 1. There's no sentiment analysis. People might cite flawed papers to say, "This is a flawed paper." 1/4
Publishers’ responses to integrity concerns – does the type of notice influence subsequent citations? A cohort study
Background Journals may respond to integrity concerns by publishing an editorial response (editorial notice, expression of concern (EoC) or retraction). We investigated whether the type of editorial r...
medrxiv.org
It's now 4½ years since I first thought of writing it, and 3½ years since I actually started writing it, but today I finally got around to submitting the preprint. Say hello to SPIV. 🧵
Tired: work hard on your research and if you're lucky, you might find something worth international accolades (but probably not). Wired: make up stuff to get the awards. Inspired: just make up the awards. #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicSky www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize
Authorities investigate Florent Montaclair over award given to himself and others including Noam Chomsky
theguardian.com