"Information Shock: How AI Demands An Evolution Of Information Science" Essay links to SocArXiv paper:

R. David Lankes@rdlankes.bsky.social · 5d ago

I've been doing a lot of thinking about how generative AI impacts information science and libraries. Also, trying to figure out why AI literacy is not a satisfying approach. I'd love your thoughts. informationmatters.org/2026/07/ai-i...

SocArXiv is accepting 13.1 new papers per day in 2026 -- a 50% increase from 2025. Thank you for sharing (and thank a moderator, today)!

SocArXiv is accepting 13.1 new papers per day in 2026 -- a 50% increase from 2025. Thank you for sharing (and thank a moderator, today)!

"AI slop in the scientific record and generally on the internet is making science less trustworthy ...AI enthusiasts are telling the world that the remedies should all be easy to automate...That’s not the reality for scientific publishing right now or likely in the future." @holdenthorp.bsky.social

AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive

There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...

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Guest editorial to be published in the Journal of Moral Education special issue on AI and Moral Education bit.ly/4ymy5Pg (@socarxiv.bsky.social preprint: bit.ly/4dJrfcX) It discusses implications of AI on moral education and remaining questions to be addressed from now on.

AI and moral education: Opportunities and challenges examined from multidisciplinary perspectives

Published in Journal of Moral Education (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Great guest Scholarly Kitchen post from @marcellaflamme.bsky.social of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) about the harm the #OMB proposed reg changes would have on research #libraries and #knowledge overall! scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/09/g...

Guest Post — Why Research Libraries Oppose the OMB Revisions to the Uniform Guidance - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today's post explains how the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is resisting the proposed rule changes for US federal grants.

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SocArXiv is 10 years old today! On July 7, 2016, PNC said: "We are building the future of social science scholarly communication. It’s past time for social scientists to bring their work out into the open, to make it better, faster, more accountable, and more transparent.” Now we host 21,341 papers.

Announcing the development of SocArXiv, an open social science archive

It’s past time for social scientists to bring their work out into the open, to make it better, faster, more accountable, and more transparent.

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"The role of altmetrics in citation emergence: a temporal approach" is our new preprint available in @socarxiv.bsky.social. Tracking the appearance of altmetric through the time, we have found that social media trigger the appearance of citations and shorten the time it takes for them to occur.

Someone submitted a paper and said in the acknowledgments: "AI made it possible to explore an unfamiliar academic discipline with a level of linguistic precision and scholarly orientation that would previously have required years of immersion." Fun for the writer, not so good for science.

“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…

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In this panel I will discuss some of the ideas developed in the RoRI Future of Peer Review report, to be published early next week! @rorinstitute.bsky.social @cwts.nl

Charleston Hub@chashub.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What if the journal article is no longer the center of scholarly communication? 👉 Join us virtually to hear more and be part of the discussion! bit.ly/4or88JG Panelists: @tobyabgreen.bsky.social @johanrooryck.bsky.social @ludowaltman.bsky.social @stockerm.bsky.social

This is misinformation, straight up. No one is *making* anyone pay APCs. Public access is required, and it can be achieved via self deposit in PubMed. Authors *choose* venues that discourage or attempt to restrict self deposit. They should stop doing so.

Coalition for Life Sciences@c4lifesciences.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Click Here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM... 🔬 🧪

What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities.

Thank you for sharing! SocArXiv is accepting an average of 12.9 papers per day in 2026 -- a 50% increase from 2025. Kudos to our moderation team, who are working very hard to efficiently get your real research up while weeding out the rising tide of AI slop.

I would love to talk with librarians & others worried about the future of their repositories. Is there a potential role for Knowledge Commons/KCWorks in mirroring institutional repositories such that they're protected against uncertain futures?

Martin Paul Eve@eve.gd · 2mo ago

It's a grim question and one that, obviously, pales into insignificance beside the human cost if this happens, but: what happens to a university's institutional repository when the institution fails/goes bankrupt/closes? Has any university taken digital preservation precautions?

Today I set up my OSF profile and posted one of my law review articles (picked my personal favorite) on @socarxiv.bsky.social as a trial run. We'll see how it goes!

📝 New preprint available, of course on @socarxiv.bsky.social: "Convergence and continuity of time use for housework and childcare in German couples, 1991-2022". ➡️ doi.org/10.31235/osf.... #sociology #demography

SocArXiv accepts law papers, as we always have. Some of the bells and whistles he wants we don't have- like ranking and email subscriptions, but those can be built using SocArXiv. We don't have funds or staff to help build that, but law schools do.

Ann M. Lipton@annmlipton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

not sure if everyone can access this, but I just learned about some dramatic changes to SSRN from Steve Bainbridge's Substack. This is really bad; SSRN has been how I keep up with scholarship in my field from a variety of researchers www.stephenbainbridge.com/p/the-social...

Sorry, but law academia at large deserves this. _Even now_ Bainbridge makes fun of folks like @gowder.io who saw this coming when Elsevier took over. No one in the social sciences where SSRN originated is gnashing their teeth bc they built alternatives like RePeC, @socarxiv.bsky.social or PsyArXiv

Ann M. Lipton@annmlipton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

not sure if everyone can access this, but I just learned about some dramatic changes to SSRN from Steve Bainbridge's Substack. This is really bad; SSRN has been how I keep up with scholarship in my field from a variety of researchers www.stephenbainbridge.com/p/the-social...

A new @socarxiv.bsky.social preprint, an intro to the special section on AI and moral education in the Journal of Moral Education posted: bit.ly/4dJrfcX Will be officially published in 2027. You can read six articles from diverse perspectives in the section via doi links in the reference list!

Again, informal norms were keeping institutions manageable and AI is breaking them down. Like with academic papers, these machines make it possible for people whose exclusion used to be taken for granted to produce documents that appear to meet formal qualifications, and demand time and attention.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Judge Schiltz “characterized the overall problem as “an existential threat to the federal courts.” The arrival of A.I. has caused the number, length and complexity of pro se filings to “increase dramatically,” he said. “There’s just no end in sight, and no satisfactory solution in sight either.”

🎙️ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲🎙️ Philip N. Cohen, director of SocArXiv, the 2025 #InfrastructurePrize #forSociology laureate, takes us behind the scenes of the fight to make social science research open, faster, and more equitable. pod.link/1786456001/e... @philipncohen.com @socarxiv.bsky.social

Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 3mo ago

The Kohli Foundation @kohli-sociology.bsky.social, which gave me the Infrastructure Prize for SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social last fall, interviewed me for their podcast and we talked about the service, plus sociology, my research, and public engagement challenges. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Perceived class positions and opinion-based polarization: A vignette survey experiment on immigration and environmental issues in the UK doi.org/10.31219/osf... @socarxiv.bsky.social preprint by Ronja Sczepanski and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Geoffrey Evans

The US government's mandate for open access without embargo is great -- for journal publishers cashing in on extra OA fees. We need universal preprints, including for post-review versions, or else this is unsustainable. New report on cost trajectory from GAO today. www.gao.gov/products/gao...

The Kohli Foundation @kohli-sociology.bsky.social, which gave me the Infrastructure Prize for SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social last fall, interviewed me for their podcast and we talked about the service, plus sociology, my research, and public engagement challenges. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

For Sociology: Philip N. Cohen

Podcast Episode · For Sociology · May 21 · 47m

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Cohen: "any paper we accept will be scraped up and fed to the next generation of LLMs, and we don’t want to contribute to a death spiral of nonsense and hallucination" @philipncohen.com 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.

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Good piece by Jefferson Pooley on how LLM-powered “research” tools like Google’s “Deep Research” and Elsevier’s “AI Discovery” likely strengthen the “Matthew effect”: highly-cited authors are amplified while undercited (often female) authors are increasingly ignored: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

The Matthew effect in AI summary - LSE Impact

AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?

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Researchers Who Use Hallucinated References to Face #Arxiv Ban (via @nature.com) www.nature.com/articles/d41... ||| Archived Version archive.ph/wqbIF #scholcomm #AI #GenAI #preprints @socarxiv.bsky.social @philipncohen.com

Did you know the Association of Population Centers working papers series is on SocArXiv? Open to papers from faculty and postdocs at any affiliated pop center. Info: www.popcenters.org/research/ass...

SocArXiv bans people, too. “We are aware that any paper we accept will be scraped up and fed to the next generation of LLMs, and we don’t want to contribute to a death spiral of nonsense and hallucination,” says Philip Cohen, director of SocArXiv.

Dalmeet Singh Chawla@dalmeet.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#arXiv is banning researchers for one year whose manuscripts contain hallucinated references. My latest for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @briannosek.bsky.social, @tdietterich.bsky.social, @richardsever.bsky.social, @dermotlynott.bsky.social, @philipncohen.com, #WCRI2026