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Itai Yanai on Twitter / X
Is the scientific paper a fraud? Peter Medawar (Nobel Prize winner) suggested that publications are overly structured and formal, giving only a sanitized version of the discovery without revealing the thought process that actually led to it. pic.twitter.com/E3ttRPzcfL— Itai Yanai (@ItaiYanai) October 27, 2024

Fake scientific papers made with AI used names of 3 Japan researchers
TOKYO -- A disreputable scientific journal used generative AI to create bogus papers, using the names of three Japanese researchers without permission

rohit on Twitter / X
One of the most fun papers I've read in recent times. Excellent. Reminiscent of the good old days of science papers. pic.twitter.com/4a7qRTloSG— rohit (@krishnanrohit) December 30, 2024

Connected Papers | Find and explore academic papers
A unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.

Connected Papers | Find and explore academic papers
A unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.

Guest post: If you’re going to critique science, be scientific about it
Loren K. Mell Editor’s note: This post responds to a Feb. 13 article in The Atlantic, “The Scientific Literature Can’t Save Us Now,” written by Retraction Watch cofounders Adam Marcus and Ivan Oran…

Are Scientific Papers Bad?
Paperstars
A better way to evaluate scientific papers. Methodological soundness and transparency, not citation counts.

Decolonising Science Reading List
In the last couple of weeks, a lot of people have been asking me about what I’ve been reading as reference points for my commentary on the…

The Bazaar of Scientific Knowledge | shishyko!
Is the current form of the scientific paper still optimal in 2025? How do we preserve, and efficiently leverage, the uncut gems of the scientific process?
The new way we’ll do science
Papers should become human-readable views over a graph of data, tools, results, and certificates.


Unsimple Truths: Science, Complexity, and Policy
The release of #ClaudeDesign left me wondering what a tool like this could look like for academics (rather than designers) I then used Claud…
What if paper reading and reviewing was interactive and visual? Tools today assume a very passive way of engaging with a paper: you open a…

How can citizen science reduce psychological distance to science? Insights from three projects in contested environmental contexts

Nova Scotia’s Experiment in Research That Solves Real Problems

iNaturalist accelerates biodiversity research
Why Do We Call It Participatory Science? | Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Peer Production in Citizen Science: A Community-Centered Approach on the Example of Personal Science
Practical recommendations from a multi-perspective needs and challenges assessment of citizen science games
Is the scientific paper still a fraud?
I have a friend who replicates every study he wants to follow up on before starting his follow up, just to make sure he's not chasing phanto…
Przemek Chojecki | PC on Twitter / X
Przemek Chojecki | PC on Twitter / X
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The new way we’ll do science

Profit, cost, price, learned societies; further thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market

Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons

Authorship, division of labour, material and digital form; thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
Bioregionalism, Commoning, and Relationalized Finance | David Bollier

Reclaiming the Computing Commons

The Drain of Scientific Publishing