How much of the scientific literature is generated by AI? www.nature.com/articles/d41... #AcademicSky #Academics #AcademicChatter #Research #ScholarSky #EduSky #PhDSky #PhDLife #IDSky #MedSky #LLM #ChatGPT
Nigel Curtis
@nigelcurtis.bsky.social
Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, The University of Melbourne, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. https://www.mcri.edu.au/researcher-details/nigel-curtis Views my own.
To support open scholarly conversation, Bluesky links should be as ubiquitous as X links on journal websites. academic.oup.com/icb/advance-... #AcademicSky #Academics #AcademicChatter #Research #ScholarSky #EduSky #PhDSky #PhDLife #IDSky
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
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“The plaintiffs said the publishing defendants collectively received more than $10 billion in revenue in 2023 from their peer-reviewed journals.” #AcademicSky #Academics #AcademicChatter #Research #ScholarSky #EduSky #PhDSky #PhDLife #IDSky www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Academic publishers defeat lawsuit over ‘peer review’ pay, other restrictions
A group of major academic publishers convinced a judge in New York to dismiss a lawsuit accusing them of thwarting competition by barring scholars from submitting papers to multiple journals simultane...
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Great science happens in great teams — research assessments must try to capture that www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Great science happens in great teams — research assessments must try to capture that
Europe must reform the ways in which science is evaluated. To boost innovation, it must improve research culture.
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A must-read. #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PhDLife #IDSky #PedSky
Reese Richardson@reeserichardson.bsky.social · last yr.Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
When AI rejects your grant proposal www.nature.com/articles/d41... #academic #IDSky
When AI rejects your grant proposal: algorithms are helping to make funding decisions
A Spanish foundation using an artificial-intelligence tool to screen grant applications says it makes the peer-review process more efficient, but other researchers say it’s a breakdown in trust.
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Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement www.nature.com/articles/d41... #MedSky #IDSky #PedIDSky #ImmunoSky
Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement
Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.
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Superb illustration highlighting the effectiveness and safety of measles vaccines ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc... #IDSky #PedIDSky #PaedIDSky #Vaccine #Measles #MMR
Science, faith and belief in pediatric animal models www.nature.com/articles/s41... #IDSky #PedSky #microbiome
Science, faith and belief in pediatric animal models - Pediatric Research
Pediatric Research - Science, faith and belief in pediatric animal models
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Lost in Transatlanticlation 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Recognise the Problem? Or Are You Too Americanised to Care? yougov.co.uk/society/arti... #Academic #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter
Zed or Zee? How pervasive are Americanisms in Britons' use of English? | YouGov
Younger Britons are the most likely to use Americanisms
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154 million lives and counting: 5 charts reveal the power of vaccines #IDSky #MedSky #PedSky #Vaccine www.nature.com/articles/d41...
My latest rant about reporting survey results. www.bmj.com/content/388/... #Survey #MedSky #AcademicResearch #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #PeerReview #PeerReview #AcademicIntegrity #BMJ @bmj.com
Doctors’ lack of sleep is affecting patient care, defence body warns
Patients’ safety is being compromised because a growing number of doctors are feeling severely tired at work, medical defence experts have warned. The Medical Defence Union (MDU) said that longer hou...
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Off-target beneficial effect of live-attenuated herpes zoster (shingles) vaccine (Zostavax). #IDSky #vaccination
Nature@nature.com · last yr.Nature research paper: A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia https://go.nature.com/3XHRhq5
This will be devastating for scientists and research teams, participants of trials, including those who receive TB or HIV care and treatment and will impact gains made world-wide in controlling infections diseases. And all for a completely BS reason. www.science.org/content/arti...
Fear spreads that NIH will terminate grants involving South Africa
Trump has promised to cut off funding, claiming nation discriminates against white citizens
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Estimates by @charlesjkenny.bsky.social @justsand.bsky.social: US foreign aid likely prevents 2.3 to 5.6 million deaths annually, largely in Africa. And that a complete disruption would result in over 4000 lives lost per day.
www.nature.com/articles/d41... #IDSky #TBSky #HIV #malaria #Infections #PedIDSky #USAID #NIH #Health #Medicine
How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts
Abrupt cuts by the Trump administration to the US National Institutes of Health threaten progress in medical research globally.
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The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Now we have the complete list of all predatory journals on a single page. Share with everyone! 😉 www.predatoryjournals.org/the-list/jou...
Predatory Journals - Journals
The Predatory Journals List
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Our recent systematic review shows that the composition of the intestinal microbiological can impact oral and parenteral vaccine responses.
Nigel Curtis@nigelcurtis.bsky.social · 2y ago"... studies support the concept that the composition of the intestinal microbiota influences vaccine responses." #IDSky #PedSky #Microbiome #Vaccine www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Great to see @pidjournal.bsky.social on this platform. #PedsIDSky #PaedsIDSky #PedsSky #PaedsSky #PedSky #PaedSky #ESPID #IDSky #ImmunoSky #MedSky #Infection #Children
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal® (PIDJ)@pidjournal.bsky.social · last yr.Starting this year with the February 2025 Issue of The pediatric infectious Disease Journal journals.lww.com/pidj/toc/202...
I’m excited to share our new study of the off-target effects of #BCGVaccine on response to #SARSCoV2 & #COVID-19 vaccines. We analysed immune responses before & after COVID-19 vaccination in healthcare workers in the #BRACE RCT. 💉🦠 #Immunology #IDsky #Immunosky doi.org/10.1002/cti2...
<em>Clinical & Translational Immunology</em> | ASI Journal | Wiley Online Library
Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG), the vaccine for tuberculosis, has immunomodulatory effects that may underpin its off-target effects on infectious disease risk and vaccine responses. This study used bl....
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BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!
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I have been at WHO for over 10 years. Like my colleagues, I have worked my butt off day and night to fight Covid and work towards universal access to health care. This place frustrates me every day.
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