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Do you have an idea that you want to patent, wish to sharpen your research application or maybe are just interested in exploring patents in your field? Join our workshop with KTH Innovation tomorrow, to learn more about patent application preparation effective patent database searches.
Patents as information source | KTH
Do you have an idea that you want to patent, wish to sharpen your research application or maybe are just interested in exploring patents in your field?
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On the importance of careful bibliometric evaluations measureshe.com/articles/the...
The Great Citation Heist: How One Academic Hacked the System for 20,000 Fake Citations | measuresHE
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We are also looking forward to the Code Refinery workshop and will host a local exercise room for anyone who wants to join us at the KTH library. Please sign up if you are interested 👇!
Git, GitHub and Collaborative Coding | KTH
Learn more about using git and how to manage the code you work on together with others in this online workshop with CodeRefinery.
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We are looking forward to welcoming you to the next online CodeRefinery workshop March 17-19 & 24-26 on tools and techniques for more reproducible research! More info, possibilities for classroom learning and registration at coderefinery.github.io/2026-03-17-w... #RSEng #OpenScience #FAIR4RS
Good news for architecture lovers; Arkitektur (Swedish journal) is now available online for KTH affiliates. www.kth.se/en/bibliotek... #architecture
We’re currently inventorying our archive and rare book collection and finding… things. Today’s discovery: Asher & Adams Rail Road Atlas and Pictorial Album of American Industry (1876). ✔ railroads ✔ industrial ambition ✔ a distinctly unhappy horse ✔ Doctor Blood (??) More glimpses coming soon.
Are you a researcher at KTH? Don’t miss the opportunity to showcase your work in KTH’s 200th anniversary exhibition "The World of Tomorrow". Read more and submit your application: intra.kth.se/en/styrning/...
KTH's 200th anniversary exhibition | KTH Intranet
Share your solutions for a better, more sustainable world with thousands of viewers at KTH’s 200th anniversary exhibition: “The World of Tomorrow – KTH’s Research for a Sustainable Future”. We invite ...
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Today for International Day of Women and Girls in Science we celebrate the awesome research done by women at KTH and all other places, and also want to highlight the WOP@KTH network to support female PhD students. #WomenInScience2026 www.dr.kth.se/wop/
This week we are celebrating #LoveDataWeek together with friends across the Nordics! Learn about how to manage your data by joining the online events. Full agenda (and links!) at: www.nordiclovedataweek.org/agenda/
AI slop is everywhere in scientific publishing, we’re only catching the easy-to-detect stuff (like when you happen to peer review a manuscript with a AI-hallucinated reference of a paper you apparently wrote) www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
Science Is Drowning in AI Slop
Peer review has met its match.
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In February we celebrate Love Data Week at the KTH Library as a part of the Nordic Love Data Week celebrations. This year’s Love Data Week theme is “Where’s the Data?”, Join us for exiting webinars and discussions about data! Full agenda on: www.nordiclovedataweek.org #LoveData26
KTH ranks as the top Swedish university for engineering and computer science in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) subject ranking, with a 4th position in engineering within the EU. www.kth.se/en/om/nyhete...
KTH maintains top 100 ranking in engineering, computer science | KTH
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It's only a week away to the TCC Africa Webinar "Reframing University Rankings: Visibility, Open Science & Global South Leadership." Our PM Giovanna Lima will share about the interplay between responsible assessment and rankings. You can register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Next year, KTH turns 200! 🎉 KTH researchers are invited to submit proposals for the exhibition "The World of Tomorrow – KTH’s Research for a Sustainable Future", held in the library entrance hall. Share your solutions for a better, more sustainable world! intra.kth.se/styrning/kth...
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
A campus-wide coordinated makerspace environment coming to KTH in 2026, with a central hub located at the KTH Library #makerspace intra.kth.se/en/aktuellt/...
KTH invests in specialised maker environments | KTH
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Does AI research have a slop problem? At least some experts claim so. What do you think? #research #AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
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Hi all, just a quick reminder to folks in #OpenAccess, #OpenInfrastructure, #OpenPublishing, #ScholComm, and #ScholarlyPublishing communities that registration for our new, unique PKP @sfupublishing.bsky.social Open Publishing courses are open until December 12, 2025. Secure your spot soon! ⤵️
Are you a researcher, editor, journal manager, librarian, or scholarly communications professional looking to develop your skills? Are you interested in learning more about the values, influences, technologies, and standards shaping today’s scholarly publishing ecosystem? Our courses are for you! 🧵
Are you interested in Open Science? Join our free course! In this course you can learn more about open science and data management. It is conducted in English, and you can proceed at your own pace. canvas.kth.se/courses/29371
Open Science and Research Data Management
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This week, we’re hosting colleagues from research libraries across Sweden at KTH Library for a network meetup on The Educational Role of Research Libraries. Some parts of the program will be available via Zoom - feel free to join if you’re interested: www.kth.se/biblioteket/... #ResearchSupport
Want to make your research data open and FAIR? Join a webinar on the KTH Data Repository — now with support for larger uploads and DOIs. No registration needed, just join us in Zoom! 🗓 Fri Nov 28, 11:00–12:00 (CET), Zoom www.kth.se/en/bibliotek...
Manage your research – KTH Data Repository for research data | KTH
This webinar introduces the KTH Data Repository and walks you through how you can use it to make your research data accessible and FAIR.
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"Årets resultat är en tydlig signal till svenska politiker om att väljarna efterfrågar beslut förankrade i forskning." Ulrika Björkstén kommenterar Vetenskapsbarometern som släpptes idag. Se resultaten och ladda ner här: vetenskapallmanhet.se/2025/11/vete...
A #booktip for a cold november weekend: "The nuclear-water nexus" edited by @perhogselius.bsky.social and @siegfriedevens.bsky.social In the book 25 authors investigate how access to water has shaped the atomic age in fundamental ways. Published as #Openaccess at @mitpress.bsky.social
The Nuclear-Water Nexus
An edited collection that takes a deep dive into the complex interactions between nuclear energy and water.Splitting atoms is a water-intensive business. T
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Bug in Springer Nature metadata may be causing ‘significant, systemic’ citation inflation
Bug in Springer Nature metadata may be causing ‘significant, systemic’ citation inflation
Millions of researchers could be affected by a “dramatic distortion of citation counts” likely caused by flaws in how the academic publishing giant Springer Nature handles article metadata, accordi…
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Håll koll på nya sidan openscience.se (från KB, SUHF och SND) för samlad bild av övergången mot ett öppet vetenskapssystem i Sverige. #openscience
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Här samlas den viktigaste information om de aktörer, resurser och styrdokument som är centrala för en svensk övergång till ett öppet vetenskapssystem. Portalens mål är att vara en levande webbplats so...
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Would you like to see your data but find it hard to create visualizations of it? Tomorrow we will host a webinar where @mttvst.bsky.social will explain his approach to exploratory datavisualization. www.kth.se/en/bibliotek... #KungligaTekniskaHogskolan #researchdata #dataviz
Right now an article containing a call for reform of scientific publishing is actually making headlines in major Swedish newspaper @dagensnyheter.bsky.social . Paywalled article here www.dn.se/varlden/fors... but the original article is of course open access: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Forskare: ”Den största vetenskapliga krisen någonsin”
Falska, massproducerade och AI-genererade forskningsartiklar skapar en vetenskaplig kris, menar forskare. En ny plan i fyra punkter ska komma åt problemet.
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Publishing research data is becoming common. Research data is an important research output. But finding outputs other than traditional articles is still not easy. We're looking into how we, as a university library, can find different outputs created by KTH researchers. #KungligaTekniskaHogskolan