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arXiv is becoming an independent nonprofit

This summer, arXiv is taking a big leap. On July 1, 2026, after decades of growth and productive collaboration with Cornell University, arXiv is branching out and becoming an independent nonprofit.…

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ASAPbio is planning a refresh of its Preprint Services Directory! As part of the refresh, we intend to narrow the features we catalog to make the directory more focused and, therefore, more useful. Learn more and let us know your thoughts about the proposed changes! 💬

Proposed Updates To Preprint Services Directory: Request For Comments – ASAPbio

ASAPbio is planning a refresh of its Preprint Services Directory (https://asapbio.org/preprint-servers/). Since 2020, ASAPbio has maintained the directory on

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Our metacheck package now has an online manual! In 29 short chapters we explain how to set up metacheck (running all modules 100% locally if you want), and explain the 18 available modules. www.scienceverse.org/metacheck_bo... We are still in beta, and would love to get feedback!

The Metacheck Manual

A guide to Metacheck, an R package providing a module based tool for checking scientific manuscripts and data repositories for best practices using text search, R code, and optional LLM queries.

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Our last meta-analysis is out ! We focused on sport performances and air pollution in real life context. We performed a detailed analysis of studied concentrations, performances and methodological quality : see our harvest plot ⤵️ journals.plos.org/climate/arti... #AcademicSky

Air pollution and performances in outdoor sports: A systematic review and meta-analysis of short-terms associations in amateur and elite athletes

Laboratory studies suggest that high concentrations of particles matter (diameter<2.5 mm [PM2.5]) and ozone (O3) may reduce sport performances at short term. However, a systematic review of literature...

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Verifying the output requires the exact skills that the tool is eroding. medium.com/data-science...

I’m an AI Researcher. AI Is Making Me Stupid

I’m an AI Researcher. AI Is Making Me Stupid My productivity has never been higher. My understanding has never been lower Last Tuesday, I sat down to write a Python function I’ve written probably …

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You also don't have to do an editor's job of deciding if a paper "fits" or is "impactful enough" for their journal, because you're a scientist and not a marketing agent for the publisher.

Timothy O'Leary@timothyoleary.bsky.social · 4w ago

Dear peer reviewers everywhere: sometimes we feel pressure to find issues with a submission as a demonstration of diligence. But we have to recognise this is a mistake: picking random and sometimes incoherent holes in research add confusion, generates unnecessary work and encourages defensive

If you want fellow #fens2026 attendees interested in your poster to feel your passion and enthusiasm for your research, you can show it by being at your poster all the time and not just your assigned brief slot.

🚀 #CoalitionPublica (PKP et @erudit.org ), @ocul-libraries.bsky.social et @uoftlibraries.bsky.social – fournisseur du @scholarsportal.bsky.social – unissent leurs forces pour promouvoir #InfrastructureOuverte, la #découvrabilité, la #préservation et #AccèsLibreDiamants au Canada! ⤵️

Érudit@erudit.org · 4w ago

→ Un accord pour favoriser la pérennité des infrastructures scientifiques #CoalitionPublica, @ocul-libraries.bsky.social et @uoftlibraries.bsky.social , prestataire du service @scholarsportal.bsky.social, ont signé une nouvelle entente. 📝 Lire l’annonce : www.coalition-publi.ca/fr/coalition...

When editors work with clients and coworkers, it helps to understand that words and language can have different meanings and effects for some people and groups. Our new handbook can help you make thoughtful choices based on current best practices. Download it free here: editors.ca/publications...

Editing with Respect: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion 2026 - Editors Canada

This handbook guides readers through EDI in writing, and includes considerations and practices for editing inclusively and sensitively.

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Updated list of journals avuer.hypotheses.org/5363 #AcademicSky

Diamond journals for psychology, public health, sport, environmental sciences

After reading this excellent position paper 'Rethinking where and how we publish in health sciences', there’s one quote that really stuck with me :  Each published article not only contributes to the ...

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For one of the more recent long-form pieces making the case against the big corporate publishers, see The Stockholm Declaration #scholarlyPublishing royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration

Abstract. Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’

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Last call for you to join us as Associate Director in charge of Publishing Services! If you are questioning yourself, you should apply anyway! Many folks opt out of applying for roles like this because they think they are not good enough. Give yourself a chance!

Public Knowledge Project@pkp.sfu.ca · 2mo ago

Apply by June 5th to join PKP as Associate Director in charge of Publishing Services: Help folks using PKP software for independent, scholar-led #ScholarlyPublishing get hosting and other services so they can increase the reach, quality and diversity of their work for the global public good! ⤵️

Kinarm users in psychology will want to get these new complete editable tasks. Thanks to co-funding from @mitacscanada.bsky.social and Kayne Park from @matthieuboisgontier.com lab. You can find complete details on what's included here: kinarm.com/new-kinarm-t...

New Kinarm Tasks for Psychology Researchers - Kinarm | Interactive Robotics Brain Injury Research

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"Qui, en 2021, aurait pu prédire que ce nouveau-né de la presse scientifique fêterait aussi fièrement son 5e anniversaire?" @lemonde.fr revient sur notre aventure: un magazine papier indépendant (notre modèle repose à 97% sur les abos). Et à l'équilibre. Oui, c'est un bel anniversaire. epsiloon.com

Pour les journalistes d’« Epsiloon », il y avait une vie après « Science & Vie »

Le mensuel fondé par les anciens du magazine scientifique, propriété du groupe Reworld Media, fête son cinquième anniversaire et espère atteindre les 40 000 abonnés à la fin de l’année.

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Will they become PCI-RR friendly?

if any AI bro tries to claim to you (as they very often do generally) that we don't understand these models, remember: they are creating a false narrative even, especially, under scientific meanings of terms like "understanding"

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3mo ago

Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Others have said as much but I can confirm that the reviewer crisis does not apply to well-known/high-status/controversial authors. For normal papers you need to invite tons of reviewers, so you get used it. If it’s a big-fish paper and you didn’t do the link-reviewers things, you end up with this.

Updated my textbook with a cleaner lay-out, better accessibility, and eight new interactive visualizations made completely in html (such as this illustration of the positive predictive value). lakens.github.io/statistical_...

This is the May cover of NN but it has already been debunked on biorxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Such a clear statement about the ridiculous pace of publishing (not just NN).

Nature Neuroscience@natneuro.nature.com · 3mo ago

Check out our May issue! www.nature.com/neuro/volume...

Wimsatt: Perhaps, just perhaps, the best explanation of a phenomenon at a given level is to be found at the same level. Kendler: Noone would seek to explain hypertension at the level of quarks. A few of my favourite papers on this topic of absurd biological reductionism: 🧵

Brent W. Roberts@bwroberts.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This...the fetishizing of unreplicable neuroscience in order to legitimize our work is self-defeating. We don't need to know that depression is in the brain (as opposed to what???) to know it is problematic. How much money have we wasted proving something like depression is "real"?

This one has been 5 years in the making; just because.. well, stuff happens. Anyway, enjoy our newest preprint; The limits of using angular momentum to control center of mass position sportrxiv.org/index.php/se... with @maartenafschrift.bsky.social Koen Lemaire and @jvandieen.bsky.social

Here's my full conversation with Tim Errington: youtu.be/-EDAtxMTxn0

Why So Many Cancer Biology Findings Fail to Replicate | Tim Errington

YouTube video by Metascience Matters

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Best evidence yet that LLMs can match human capabilities in doing science.

Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Researchers looked at two high-profile AI agent tools developed to help computer scientists in the field of machine learning. Both systems engaged in acts that violate research integrity, including making up data & p-hacking: running an experiment multiple times but only reporting best outcome.” 🧪

Short text + slides presenting my workshop 'Open-scientist - a paradigm shifting' for our amazing research team #Rennes #Inserm 🤓 credit to G.Chevance @matthieuboisgontier.com for ideas & slides #AcademicSky cites-irset.fr/en/open-scie...

OPEN-SCIENTIST: a paradigm shifting

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Now that "em" and "en" dashes have become so popular, we ought to know why they’re called that

As the reviewer crisis grows (it is taking longer and longer for editors to find reviewers), who you choose to review for is ever more important! Excited to chat about this.

Lukas Röseler@aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Who do you review for? Should you boycott commercial publishers? Should you boycott specific publishers? Does it matter for your career? We are orgainizing a one-hour session with lightning talks and an open discussion. Join us on May 26th 12-13 CEST online. Registration at t1p.de/wdirf

Out of curiosity, why is it frowned upon to include postdocs on CIHR grants as co-PIs? Or is that just my grants?

Meanwhile: I couldn't reproduce the findings =/ findings are irreproducible

Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Exact replications are rare at best. Different samples, instruments, protocols are common. We call this non-exactness, and using a Betabinomial model, we formalize it in two ways: 1. Benchmark model with shared latent replicability rate, and 2. Operational model where each experiment has its own.

A meta-analysis is not a ‘easy’ publication. Search strategy development, screening, more screening, data extraction, requesting additional data, risk of bias assessments, the actual synthesis, write up—it all takes time. Many people heavily underestimate the resources required to complete one

Dan Quintana@dsquintana.bsky.social · 3mo ago

So we emailed the authors of all 358 unpublished registrations. 80 wrote responded. The reasons they gave were almost entirely logistical: no time (47%), people leaving the project (11%), no funding (7%). Only one person cited non-significant results as a reason for not publishing.