Kathryn Weber-Boer
@kowb.bsky.social
Enjoys digging into data about science, a good principled argument, and human dignity. Super annoyed by disinformation and anything that hurts researchers or knowledge. Sometime archaeologist (I like animal bones...)
Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...
Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery
A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.
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le SEUL avantage de cette période apocalyptique, c'est que les climatosceptiques ont disparu des réseaux sociaux. On ne se fait plus harceler, plus de "c'est l'été c'est normal", plus de "la sécheresse en 1976". Ca ne moufte plus.
One researcher, 240 retractions. The misconduct scandal involving hundreds of papers by Joachim Boldt broke to the surface in 2010, but journals continue to retract papers by the disgraced German anesthesiologist – and researchers have continued to cite the work.
Now, 240: More than a decade later, journals are still retracting Joachim Boldt’s papers
Martin Tramèr was editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Anaesthesiology during what he once called in print “The Boldt debacle.” The misconduct scandal involving hundreds of papers by Joachim …
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Watchdog science journalism "has arguably never been more important, but also never more under threat." That's from a just-published paper by @fleerackers.bsky.social, An Nguyen, Alfred Hermida, and our Ivan Oransky.
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⚠️ New webinar coming soon: "The science sleuths: Decoding the findings of the FoSci 2026 Report." Join us for a virtual panel discussion at the forefront of #ResearchIntegrity and #TrustInScience. 🗓️ Thursday 11 June, 3pm BST 10am EDT 🔗 Reserve your spot: https://ow.ly/CjsY50Z27Uv
🔍 New research revealing a surge in fake citations among biomedical science papers is a solid "initial contribution to the problem", says Digital Science's Kathryn Weber-Boer. Our Director Scientometrics spoke with Nature science reporter Miryam Naddaf. 🔗 See the story: https://ow.ly/Fezc50YXuUm
Research attention data is powerful. It can also feel dauntingly complex. The Altmetric Attention Digest uses AI to turn all those signals into one clear, human-readable summary you can actually make sense of. Find out more today 👉 www.altmetric.com/so...
✨ NEW blog post: Being open isn't enough - true "research information citizenship" requires building & maintaining a robust, genuinely #OpenResearch infrastructure, writes our VP of Research Futures, Simon Porter. 💡 Here's what it will take to achieve: https://ow.ly/6U3Y50YcJ3J
Proper citation of research by journalists is necessary for more trustworthy news A piece I wrote for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Proper citation of research by journalists is necessary for more trustworthy news - LSE Impact
Andy Tattersall shows how research is poorly presented in the media & argues better community standards for linking to research could improve trust in media.
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📢 Great news: The 10th Anniversary edition of the State of Open Data Report is here! 🎉 #StateOfOpenData 🌐 The report combines survey data from more than 4,700 responses across 151 countries. 🔗 Download now: https://ow.ly/i5gN50Y3ECi A collaboration of Digital Science, Springer Nature & Figshare.
Politician: Voters won't let me do what I think is right/science says on animal welfare/climate/environment/refugees. Journalist can ask: Are you not experienced in persuasion? Are you not paid to be a leader? Are you giving voters the relevant facts?
AND WOULD THAT BE IN ANY PARTICULAR ANIMAL MODEL BY ANY CHANCE IS THERE SOME IMPORTANT CONTEXT MISSING FROM YOUR HEADLINE PERHAPS SAY IT WITH ME FOLKS
a hamster is standing on its hind legs and asking how ya doin ' .
Alt: IN MICE
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PsyPost@psypost.bsky.social · 8mo agoPrenatal THC exposure linked to lasting brain changes and behavioral issues
That weird feeling when the world is burning, but life is good...
Funders and who's still on X Out of 15 national funding bodies and orgs, 10 have ceased posting on the platform, with pretty much no posts in 2025. An 11th funder, @nuffieldfoundation.org is the only one to have announced they were no longer engaging on X. Four remain active on the platform.
Another helpful reminder that the Altmetric Score is not an indicator of quality, but of attention. Not all attention is good attention!
Philippe Smet@pfsmet.bsky.social · 8mo agoThis paper with this unbelievable #AI generated yet peer-reviewed Figure 1, is still available online (pending editiorial response). It has now a whopping 932 altmetric score, with - quite interestingly - only 18 posts on X (<93k followers), while on Bluesky there are 1453 posts (<3.4M followers).
This paper with this unbelievable #AI generated yet peer-reviewed Figure 1, is still available online (pending editiorial response). It has now a whopping 932 altmetric score, with - quite interestingly - only 18 posts on X (<93k followers), while on Bluesky there are 1453 posts (<3.4M followers).
Erik Angner@erikangner.com · 8mo ago"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
Today we give thanks for non-traditional research outputs (NTROs) & the repositories where they're found. 🙌 Let's celebrate by revisiting the Altmetric Top 25 compiled by our VP of Research Futures, Simon Porter. Why are these #NTROs capturing public attention? 🔗 https://ow.ly/QRnP50XyFL6
How are people establishing and dealing with different attitudes to LLMs with their collaborators and co-authors? Two colleagues have told me they now have an explicit conversation at the beginning of every new project to establish a clear agreement on what is/not acceptable to all partners.
Sarah Wieten@sarahwieten.bsky.social · 8mo agoLook, LLM use in academia isn't just students. You need to be speaking clearly with your collaborators about your writing standards from the beginning. Make people say out loud that they don't write their own articles anymore.
📣 A keynote not to be missed: "Crimeless Whispers: The Forensics of Deceit in Modern Science," by our VP of #ResearchIntegrity & Security, Dr Leslie McIntosh. 🗓️ Wednesday 26 November 2025 📍 Leicester, UK - or attend virtually 🔗 More details: https://ow.ly/mkaQ50Xxqcx
Every time I'm at the airport this month, I'm reminded how much I hate Brexit. Also because it pushes the train into no advantage. Ugh.
We tried to tell y'all to stop calling everything "AI" many years ago and you just wouldn't listen and now the poor machine learners must also suffer alongside the statisticians 😜
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 10mo agoso I can explain this: it's not generative AI: it's usually deep learning models trained on meteorology tasks and it can be quite effective
Warning for North Carolina: Scams are increasing, and the confusion is being made worse by ICE agents failing to properly identify themselves and wearing masks. As a result, residents are becoming targets of immigration fraud.
I have found so many MDPI papers from the same authors that seem to include near carbon copies of data from their other papers that are in other journals, sometimes MDPI!
if anyone remembers anything from the biden experience, it should be that electing blue no matter who isn't going to be enough to cut it in the fight against fascism. you need politicians suited for this moment. primarying them all is the most straightforward way to send that message
Primary Every Democrat
It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.
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MoveOn, Indivisible, Our Revolution, and 6 Democrats have called on Chuck Schumer to step aside as leader. So we asked all 40 Democratic senators who didn’t cave to Republicans if they still think Schumer is the right leader. Here's what they said. @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
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