BorisBarbour

@BorisBarbour@mastodon.social

Neuroscience (CNRS, ENS); pubpeer.com; peeriodicals.com; referee3.org. Views my own. Inactive https://mastodon.social/@BorisBarbour on Twitter

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BorisBarbour, to random

Will eLife be informing readers of the orignal article about the replication failure? Do they plan to update their rather credulous Editor's evaluation? ("The results are stunning.")

https://pubpeer.com/publications/F2B9E2240EB721B6B131E35A03154F

futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

When these physics people say "and then we just sent out one particle at a time through the slits..."

How do they know that they did that and how did they do it?

BorisBarbour,

@futurebird

Photmultiplier on the other side?

BorisBarbour, to random

That revolutionary new fMRI technique for detecting neuronal activity (DIANA)? Guess what happened next.

https://pubpeer.com/publications/0EF432E4E7D84352E9B582CEC6DF07#1

bioRxiv preprints "contradictory results" are really useful. And whoever is posting them to PubPeer is perfoming a real public service, because it is difficult for readers to discover them.

petersuber, to random

Good move from : "We now consider publications in and equal" for the purpose of applying to be an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow.
https://www.embo.org/features/refereed-preprints-in-applications-for-embo-postdoctoral-fellowships/

BorisBarbour,

@petersuber

Ballsy, if true for all journals...

dermotlynott, to random

Me: Oh that looks really interesting, I'll just look up this researcher's email address

University webpage: No

BorisBarbour,

@elduvelle @WiseWoman @_bydbach_ @dermotlynott

It really ought to be possible for universities to forward email sent to the address of a departed researcher (it's actually important for corresponding authors). They wouldn't even need to allow sending.

polka, to random

Is this press release about AI in peer review real? I can't find any info besides the artistically cropped screenshots... https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/629223310/global-journals-openai-partner-to-transform-peer-review-offering-free-ai-solution-to-research-journal-publishers

BorisBarbour,

@polka

Real or not, it's certainly plausible if not inevitable. I'm not sure research realises what is coming, in terms of fake papers and fake reviews.

BorisBarbour,

@WorldImagining @polka @cshperspectives

Life-bans for authors of fake preprints?

BorisBarbour,

@neuralreckoning @WorldImagining @polka @cshperspectives

The arXiv requires an institutional email address or a sponsor with such for non-academics, and it operates author bans when submissions are judged to be unscientific. Not everybody is happy, but it seems to work OK in practice?

No system is perfect, but a system incorporating a proportionate response more serious than rejecting the preprint (or paper) will certainly be required.

BorisBarbour,

@neuralreckoning @WorldImagining @polka @cshperspectives

Preprint servers are currently spared the flood of fake papers because posting preprints is only rewarding for those wishing to share their science.

MarkRubin, to science

Open Science and Academic Workload

New article by Thomas Hostler in the Journal of Trial and Error:

“There is a high chance that without intervention, increased expectations to engage in open research practices may lead to unacceptable increases in demands on academics.”

Open access: https://doi.org/10.36850/mr5








@stsing
@academicchatter

BorisBarbour,

@mike @MarkRubin @stsing @academicchatter

^ This.

BorisBarbour, to random

Riddle me this. Many (161 and counting) articles with different authors, publishers and subjects contain the same, completely incongruous citation. Why?

https://pubpeer.com/search?q=vickers+animal+communication

BorisBarbour, to random

French-medical-history PubPeer reaches critical mass! (There is a reply.)

https://pubpeer.com/publications/5E594D902B28D4B2ED83171C0ED87D

BorisBarbour, to random

You're only a proper glamour journal when you've cured Parkinson's with the microbiome.

https://pubpeer.com/publications/35DE483AA5119F07FBF04A76CED731#2

BorisBarbour, to random

Install the PubPeer plugins and win $80000000 (well, not lose them).

https://pubpeer.com/publications/70714D8ACB8F13164A2752B4335F38#226

ct_bergstrom, to random

“This state” takes ten characters; “Nevada” takes six.

This is a forward reference headline, which goes out of its way to conceal what the corresponding story says.

It’s a consequence of click-based advertising and of course it makes our information streams less useful. The practice started among clickbait junk websites but has spread to CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and others.

BorisBarbour,

@ct_bergstrom

No unlike the style for titles in glamour journals, aiming to imply exaggerated generality.

BorisBarbour, to random

And so it begins.

https://pubpeer.com/publications/A50285DD4CDA64822B23AA4E86DDC0

BorisBarbour,

@elduvelle @bwyble

Of course.

In addition, no doubt many researchers will use it as a writing aid (probably already are), making it difficult to decide on a policy and to police it effectively.

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