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Scott Macintyre
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Open Scholarship Specialist, Librarian, bush walker, amateur baker, collector of geraniums and daisies, gamer (PS5, boardgames and TTRPGs) and fan of Korean comedy/drama (a re-share is not an endorsement)
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A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target. What happens now?
theconversation.com/a-landmark-u...

#FossilFuels #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ExtremeWeather #ParisAgreement #InternationalCourtOfJustice #ICJ #GreenhouseGasEmissions #GHG #Environment
A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target. What happens now?
It’s no longer possible to hold climate change to 1.5°C. But it’s not game over – it’s game on.
theconversation.com
September 2, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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Detecting Hallucinated and Suspicious Citations: What Current Tools Can and Cannot Do arxiv.org/abs/2607.22693

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Hallucinations #Citations #References #AcademicWriting #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels
Detecting Hallucinated and Suspicious Citations: What Current Tools Can and Cannot Do
Large language models are increasingly used in academic writing, including for reference generation, raising concerns about hallucinated and unreliable citations. Recent research suggests that this pr...
arxiv.org
July 31, 2026 at 4:24 AM
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Just over 400 U.S. patents contain citations to retracted scientific papers retractionwatch.com/2026/07/30/u...

#Patents #Retractions #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter
Just over 400 U.S. patents contain citations to retracted scientific papers
Surendra/Adobe Stock Around 400 U.S. patents contain at least one citation to a retracted scientific paper, a new study has found.  The analysis, posted last month to the preprint server SSRN, anal…
retractionwatch.com
July 31, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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As researchers aim for universal AI disclosure guidelines, the devil is in the details www.science.org/content/arti...

#Research #AcademicResearch #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicResearch
As researchers aim for universal AI disclosure guidelines, the devil is in the details
Integrity conference attendees debated when and how authors should declare AI use in papers
www.science.org
July 30, 2026 at 5:35 AM
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Kaggle removes problematic stroke dataset for copyright infringement  retractionwatch.com/2026/07/29/k...

#Data #AcademicWriting #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #ResearchIntegrity #Retractions #Ethics #DataPrivacy #InformedConsent #IntellectualProperty
Kaggle removes problematic stroke dataset for copyright infringement
Images from the now-deleted dataset on Kaggle purportedly showed people who had a stroke, but the folder included stock images and photos of politicians and celebrities, as seen in this screenshot.…
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July 30, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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Can we stop AI from flooding scientific journals? cen.acs.org/articles/104...

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Ethics #AcademicWriting #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #FalsifyingData #Fraud #FraudDetection #ResearchFraud
Can we stop AI from flooding scientific journals?
AI detectors may never beat fraud. Changing how science rewards its researchers might be the only fix that does
cen.acs.org
July 30, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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Could an AI ever win a Nobel prize? www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/could-...

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Science #Research #NobelPrize #Androids #Robots #AcademicResearch #ScientificResearch #Future #Hypothetical #Data #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels
Could an AI ever win a Nobel prize?
Artificial intelligence is already having a huge impact on research, and the technology is advancing so quickly that some suggest it could soon be capable of directing its own research programmes. But...
www.timeshighereducation.com
July 29, 2026 at 5:26 AM
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Tracking the retracted paper mill articles: a bibliometric study: doi.org/10.1007/s111...

#Retractions #PaperMills #OpenAccess #OA #OpenScholarship #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #Fraud #ResearchFraud #Ethics #Misconduct
doi.org
July 29, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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Chinese university launches probe into girl’s gene-editing death: www.science.org/content/arti...

#Ethics #Science #Bioscience #Biotechnology #GeneTherapy #GeneEditing #Malpractice #Health #China #Misconduct #Genetics #Medical #Medicine #Biomedical #Pediatrics #Paediatrics #AnimalTrials #DNA
Chinese university launches probe into girl’s gene-editing death
More than a year after failed clinical trial, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine promises “serious action”
www.science.org
July 29, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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Elsevier retracts the least and reinstates the most, new analysis finds retractionwatch.com/2026/05/11/e...

#Retractions #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Elsevier #Wiley #Hindawi #SpringerNature #IEEE #ACM #Taylor&Francis #Sage #IOSPress #PLoS
Elsevier retracts the least and reinstates the most, new analysis finds
Frequencies of reasons 10 publishers have given for retracting articles (source). While Elsevier outcompetes other publishers in terms of sheer volume, it also has the lowest retraction rate and hi…
retractionwatch.com
July 28, 2026 at 4:33 AM
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Researchers who use hallucinated references to face arXiv ban www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #Research #ArXiv #ResearchIntegrity #Ban #Fraud #FraudDetection #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter
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.
www.nature.com
July 28, 2026 at 3:41 AM
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A fatal reaction: www.science.org/content/arti...

#Ethics #Science #Nature #Bioscience #Biotechnology #GeneTherapy #GeneEditing #Malpractice #Health #China #Misconduct #Genetics #Medical #Medicine #Biomedical #Experiment #Pediatrics #Paediatrics #AnimalTrials #DNA #Consent #Funding #Retraction
Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public
Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals
www.science.org
July 27, 2026 at 5:26 AM
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Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?: www.science.org/content/arti...

#Springer #Nature #Science #Physics #Physicist #NobelPrize #Planck #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Retractions #RetractionWatch #Naturwissenschaften
Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?
Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame
www.science.org
June 29, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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Open letter: Australia's creators are not a tech subsidy: www.apraamcos.com.au/about-us/new...

#Australia #Music #Lyrics #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #Data #DataSets #Piracy #InformedConsent #IntellectualProperty #IP #Copyright #Law #DataMining #TextMining #YouTube #APRA
Sign the Open Letter to stop big tech
We are Australia’s songwriters, recording artists, authors, journalists, photographers, producers, visual artists, composers, screenwriters, playwrights…
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June 28, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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Aussie music stars band together over AI concerns: www.indailyqld.com.au/news/just-in...

#Australia #Music #Lyrics #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #Data #DataSets #Piracy #InformedConsent #IntellectualProperty #IP #Copyright #Law #DataMining #TextMining #YouTube #APRA
Aussie music stars band together over AI concerns - News | InDaily, Inside Queensland
Australia's greatest musical hits, including by songs local legends Powderfinger, have been used in AI training datasets.
www.indailyqld.com.au
June 28, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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We published in Nature Medicine in 2025 for free. In 2026, it cost us $12,850 www.statnews.com/2026/06/11/o... via @statnews.com

#OpenAccess #OA #AcademicResearch #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #APC #ArticlePublishingCharge
We published in Nature Medicine in 2025 for free. In 2026, it cost us $12,850
In 2025, Elizabeth Selvin and her colleagues published in Nature Medicine for free. In 2026, it cost them $12,850, she writes.
www.statnews.com
June 14, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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New system for flagging retracted papers finds scores of them in Cochrane reviews retractionwatch.com/2026/06/10/c...

#Cochrane #Health #Medicine #Retraction #Fraud #FraudDetection #AcademicResearch #ResearchIntegrity #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #AcademicWriting
New system for flagging retracted papers finds scores of them in Cochrane reviews
Cochrane has implemented a new system for checking whether any of its thousands of published reviews include retracted studies in their analyses, the organization announced today. The effort alread…
retractionwatch.com
June 12, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

#Diabetes #Censorship #Trump #NIH #HealthCare #AmericanDiabetesAssociation #ADA #Health #Biomedical #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #MedPage #Research #NewOrleans
Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
www.medpagetoday.com
June 10, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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Biology Open paid peer review model cuts times to five working days: www.researchinformation.info/news/biology...

#AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #PeerReview #Biology #Fast&Fair #CompanyOfBiologists #EditorialProcess
Biology Open paid peer review model cuts times to five working days - Research Information
Reviewers were paid £220 per manuscript, conditional on timely completion and editorial assessment of review quality
www.researchinformation.info
June 9, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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Editors of semantics journal resign, launch new journal after publisher ‘ultimatum’ retractionwatch.com/2026/06/05/n...

#OpenAccess #OA #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicSky #LibSky #LPC #AcademicPublishing #Librarian #AcademicChatter #APC #ArticleProcessingCharge #SpringerNature #Semantics #Language
Editors of semantics journal resign, launch new journal after publisher ‘ultimatum’
The new journal, Semantics of Natural Languages, launched in May. The editors of a semantics journal owned by Springer Nature have resigned to launch a new one, citing pressure from the compan…
retractionwatch.com
June 9, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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Academia Is Enshittifying. AI Made It Faster.
open.substack.com/pub/theslowa...

#ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #AcademicWriting #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #ChatGPT #Research #Ethics #ResearchMisconduct #PublishOrPerish #Retractions #Enshittification
Academia Is Enshittifying. AI Made It Faster.
A small retraction notice opens onto a large structural shift. AI did not start the rot in academic publishing. AI is the catalyst that is finishing it.
open.substack.com
June 5, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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To Trust or Not to Trust: Authors' Response to AI-based Reviews: arxiv.org/abs/2605.166...

#ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #AcademicWriting #PeerReview #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #ChatGPT #Research #Ethics #DataPrivacy #InformedConsent #IntellectualProperty
To Trust or Not to Trust: Authors' Response to AI-based Reviews
Large language models are increasingly discussed and used as tools that may assist with scholarly peer review, but empirical evidence regarding how authors use and perceive AI-based feedback remains l...
arxiv.org
June 5, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which we publish www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#Nature #AcademicWriting #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #Science #Research #AcademicResearch #Data #RegisteredReports #PeerReview #NullResults #ConfirmatoryResearch #Transparency
Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which we publish
Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.
www.nature.com
June 3, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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Sleuths say Thermo Fisher doctored data to sell antibodies cen.acs.org/articles/104...

#ThermoFisher #Antibodies #AcademicResearch #Data #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #Retractions #FalsifyingData #Fraud #ImageManipulation #DataManipulation #Ethics
Chemical & Engineering News
Chemical & Engineering News is a weekly news magazine published by the American Chemical Society, providing professional and technical news and analysis in the fields of chemistry and chemical enginee...
cen.acs.org
June 1, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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Lawmakers propose banning all U.S.-Chinese research collaborations: www.science.org/content/arti...

#Science #Scientist #Scientific #Trump #Congress #US #USA #China #Research #Collaborationn #Innovation #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #SIRA #SecuringInnovationAndResearchFromAdversariesAct
Lawmakers propose banning all U.S.-Chinese research collaborations
Critics say bill would weaken U.S. science by cutting flows of ideas and talent
www.science.org
June 1, 2026 at 1:23 AM