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markdingemanse.net
Evergreen tweet as the AI slop paper in @springernature.com HSSComms keeps doing the rounds

The reputation of @nature.com is suffering death by a thousand cuts thanks to this nature dot com URL branding (justified anyway IMO)
markdingemanse.net Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · Aug 24
I remain amazed at the effectiveness of the "nature․com/journal/" URL branding which invariably leads many to assume that some work is published "in Nature" when in fact it's in one of the other >160 journals owned by Springer Nature...
January 13, 2026 at 10:46 AM
markdingemanse.net
I applaud you for doing the right thing.

Also @wmgbennett.bsky.social this is part of your answer: if they allow AI-generated reviews that's even fewer humans looking at the HSSComms submissions
January 8, 2026 at 7:07 PM
markdingemanse.net
3. Internally, someone from the India-based editorial team will be assigned the blame (screenshot from Chief Editor's LinkedIn).

4. They will NOT say who handled the paper and how many 'reviewers' there were.

5. There will be no consequences for the handling editor or the chief editor.

3/3
Gino D'Oca, chief editor of HSSComms on LinkedIn: It's been highly rewarding spending time this week with the Humanities and Social Sciences Communications editorial team in Pune, India. Their dedication, passion for HSS, and commitment to maintaining high editorial standards is first-rate.
January 8, 2026 at 5:23 PM
markdingemanse.net
Re: the AI slop paper shared by @thomaspellard.bsky.social and @lameensouag.bsky.social, I wrote to the editors — will update when I get a reply, and will be following closely what they do.

Key point is that we should hold the *journal* accountable for this mess

I have a few predictions...

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AI slop published on your watch: very bad look for HSSComms and Springer/Nature  Dear editors, I have failed to locate contact information for most of the academic editors for Humanities and Social Sciences Communications; I trust that you will forward this message to them. I want to note that AI slop is being published on your watch in the journal you edit. This paper, out last week (Al-Jarrah 2026), is full of inaccurate claims and includes countless hallucinated references. Even a cursory look at the bibliography shows that at least 10 and probably many more references are bullshit pure and simple; the simplest explanation is that they are confabulated by generative AI, which sheds doubt on the quality of the manuscript as a whole and on the review and editorial processes at your journal. It is a great lapse of editorial judgement to let this kind of obvious drivel pass and I am warning my colleagues at MPI and Radboud to avoid your journal until clear and unambiguous action is taken. You may also want to take note that many people are finding out about this and the online discussion of this paper and of the journal's failing standards is something I hope that Springer Nature cares about. In my opinion the paper does not pass even the most minimal quality assurance checks and is fully against the COPE guidelines on publication ethics. You may want to hold the author accountable for this; I think the only reasonable course is retraction. But the scholarly community also holds the journal accountable. By letting AI slop through, your journal is polluting the information ecology of scientific publishing. Amidst a rising tide of synthetic text, scholarly publishing, with its tradition of human oversight and strong peer revidew, should be one of the last stalwarts to defend the integrity of our research. I look forward to your response and to find out what decisive action you are taking.
January 8, 2026 at 5:14 PM
sumaro76.bsky.social
Este articulo divulgativo está basado en nuestra investigación publicada en #HSSCOMMS del gurpo @nature.com gracias a la financiación d #FundacionSeneca

doi.org/10.1057/s415...
How did historical trends impact women’s involvement in financial markets? Evidence from women shareholders in Spain (1918-1948) - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - How did historical trends impact women’s involvement in financial markets? Evidence from women shareholders in Spain (1918-1948)
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August 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
sharonyadin.bsky.social
I'm pleased to share my new Nature HSSCOMMS article on the misconception of #regulatory #shaming in all branches of #government. Check it out! I'd love to get your thoughts. The article is available in open access here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @springernature.com #blacklist #publiclaw #
August 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
sumaro76.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨 New paper alert

“How did historical trends impact women’s involvement in financial markets? Evidence from women shareholders in Spain (1918-1948)”
@HSScomms
is #openaccess and available here

doi.org/10.1057/s415...
How did historical trends impact women’s involvement in financial markets? Evidence from women shareholders in Spain (1918-1948) - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - How did historical trends impact women’s involvement in financial markets? Evidence from women shareholders in Spain (1918-1948)
doi.org
May 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
juangelvezf.bsky.social
I'm excited to share that my article "Predicting Police and Military Violence: Evidence from Colombia and Mexico using machine learning models" has been officially accepted for publication at @nature.com HSScomms! 📚

See a draft version here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
<div> <p>Predicting police and military violence: Evidence from Colombia and Mexico using machine learning models <b></b></p> </div>
<div> <p>Armed forces violence has pervasive effects on public trust and population well-being. Such misconduct is not random, making its prevention both cruci
papers.ssrn.com
April 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
vadhis.bsky.social
"Cultural heritage and iconic elements for history education: a study with primary education prospective teachers in Spain", elaborado por Diego Miguel, Esther López, Jorge Ortuño y Sebastián Molina se ha publicado hoy en @HSScomms

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
paschalisag.bsky.social
Curious about how Wikipedia can help us quantitatively map and analyze historical cultural networks, uncovering hidden interactions among art, science, and philosophy of the 17th century?
Check our paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#digitalhumanities #wikipedia #HSScomms #culturaldataanalytics
Wikipedia as a cultural lens: a quantitative approach for exploring cultural networks - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Wikipedia as a cultural lens: a quantitative approach for exploring cultural networks
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April 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
zaqdelinguist.bsky.social
Y'all! In really exciting news, my paper with Rick Dale on the ways Antisemitic and Islamophobic hate speech fundamentally change the dynamics of discourse on social media is out in Nature: HSSComms as of today!

Here's the gist:

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#linguistics #socialscience #research #language
Antisemitic and Islamophobic hate speech precedes a decrease in lexico-semantic diversity in comment threads online - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Antisemitic and Islamophobic hate speech precedes a decrease in lexico-semantic diversity in comment threads online
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April 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
jensnotroff.com
"How #CulturalEvolution can inform the science of of #ScienceCommunication - and vice versa" by @Theiss_Bendixen (@HSScomms 7, 2020🔓):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-00634-4
How cultural evolution can inform the science of science ...
Cultural evolution research is the study of how cultural ...
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December 1, 2024 at 7:02 AM
jensnotroff.com
Original study:

@AlastairKey et al., #Modelling the end of the #Acheulean at global and continental levels suggests widespread #persistence into the Middle #Palaeolithic, @HSScomms 8, 55 (2021). 🔓

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-021-00735-8
Modelling the end of the Acheulean at global and continen...
The Acheulean is the longest cultural tradition ever prac...
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November 29, 2024 at 5:43 PM
wanjawolff.bsky.social
📢 Call for Papers: Special Issue on Boredom! 📢

Boredom signals unsatisfactory interactions with our inner & outer worlds. For HSSComms, @corimartarelli.bsky.social & I are editing a collection exploring it through diverse lenses & methods 🤩

➡️ www.nature.com/collections/...

pls share liberally 🙏
The dynamics of boredom
This Collection aims to advance our theoretical understanding of boredom, improve the methods used to study boredom, and consider practical applications for ...
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November 15, 2024 at 2:51 PM
patrixdqv.bsky.social
Artículo ->"From online hate speech to offline hate crime: the role of inflammatory language in forecasting violence against migrant and LGBT communities" en la revista @HSScomms (JCR-WOS Q1). #HateSpeech

Link: doi.org/10.1057/s415...
From online hate speech to offline hate crime: the role of inflammatory language in forecasting violence against migrant and LGBT communities - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - From online hate speech to offline hate crime: the role of inflammatory language in forecasting violence against migrant and LGBT communities
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November 15, 2024 at 6:56 AM
schichmax.bsky.social
As cultural @ScienceAdvances, @SpringerNature should not "outsource" research &amp; expertise on #culture from @NatureComms to @HSScomms, while accepting naive approaches of evolutionary psychology and cultural evolution on their own as a part of #nature. 4/5
September 26, 2020 at 11:17 AM
jensnotroff.com
Original study:

J. Marzian et al., #Inequality in relational wealth within the upper societal segment: evidence from prehistoric Central Europe, HSScomms 11, 557 (2024). 🔓

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Inequality in relational wealth within the upper societal segment: evidence from prehistoric Central Europe - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Inequality in relational wealth within the upper societal segment: evidence from prehistoric Central Europe
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June 9, 2024 at 11:32 AM
jensnotroff.com
Original study:

@JohannesMarzian et al., #Inequality in relational wealth within the upper societal segment: evidence from prehistoric Central Europe, @HSScomms 11, 557 (2024). 🔓

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03053-x
Inequality in relational wealth within the upper societal...
While our understanding of long-term trends in material w...
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November 22, 2024 at 10:37 PM
fabianmoss.bsky.social
How did composers' use of intervals change over time? In our new study in @HSScomms we employ a #Bayesian model of tonal space to study major trajectories in classical #music. @Uni_WUE @durham_uni @epfldh
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #musicscience #musictheory #culturalevolution
May 29, 2024 at 11:33 AM
andreskarjus.bsky.social
Can societies polarize to the point that ppl literally won't understand each other?
Can partisan divisions lead to language diverging?🤔
Me& @nerdpro.bsky.social explore the 🇺🇸 case using bigdata+ML/AI & tweets of ppl following onesided media.
Now out in Nature HSScomms: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 18, 2024 at 10:04 AM
sascha-wolfer.bsky.social
Excited to share our new research findings for #Lexicography and #LanguageLearning! Our study in HSScomms shows that CEFR levels predict user interest in dictionary entries, even in the presence of previously known predictors. Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
CEFR vocabulary level as a predictor of user interest in English Wiktionary entries - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - CEFR vocabulary level as a predictor of user interest in English Wiktionary entries
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March 1, 2024 at 7:30 AM
seramirezruiz.bsky.social
🚨 OA at @HSScomms 🚨

In this paper, @simonsaysnothin, @calibasak, @lstoetze, @ARGohdes, @conjugateprior, and I employed survey experiments in the early pandemic to assess how the public thought about vaccine prioritization in 🇧🇷, 🇩🇪, 🇮🇹, 🇵🇱, and 🇺🇸.

🔓 https://t.co/dLVA0FNSfQ
Prioritization preferences for COVID-19 vaccination are consistent across five countries - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
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November 24, 2024 at 9:24 AM