Profile avatar
polecopub.bsky.social
The bluesky account where publications are treated as social, political, technical and economic objects #STS #Openscience #PoliticalEconomy Blog: https://polecopub.hypotheses.org/ Matilda scientifc director: https://matilda.science/?l=en
218 posts 815 followers 287 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 22 Comments 28

So, let me get this straight - we don't trust students to use AI to produce accurate assignments, but we trust DOGE to use it to decide who stays and who goes?

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Oh man, this is so bad! Unfortunately, the idea that people would sell fake intellectual property registrations/ideas doesn't seem so ridiculous when you know about #PaperMills, but it's still depressing to hear I wonder what screening the UK Patent Office do on submissions?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Who’s gonna tell them that one of the motivations for the US to push for the establishment of the IPCC, back in the 1980s, was so that governments could rein in the scientists who were starting to be a little too loud?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

When you are all out of ideas but still trying to find ways to extract value from your customers.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Very useful explainer.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

If the reviewer is an AI, it's only peer-review if the manuscripts were AI-generated as well.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Let's spend public money so that unpaid academics make bullshit reviews of supposedly AI-free manuscripts to train LLMs, so that soon we can pretend we don't need them anymore. #STS #ResearchIntegrity

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks for listening to the audiobook version of #Burningthebooks. The period we are living in now is a new phase in the deliberate destruction of knowledge.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Again: tech journalism is meeting this moment in a way the mainstream establishment newspapers and cable channels just aren’t. I can’t emphasize enough what a big deal this is.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

submitted 4 days ago • 88 comments

STS Scholars for Remote Access and Financial Fair Play! www.change.org/p/sts-schola... I just signed this petition, asking "STS councils, boards and conference committees ... provide remote access to ensure hybrid participation becomes a standard practice in our research community".

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

"How disruptive would it be if GitHub started deleting repositories, or Google Scholar started hiding certain papers in response to U.S. government demands?" https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/science-must-step-away-from-nationally-managed-infrastructure/ Most people with some interest […]

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

In our 🆕 blog post, Louise Bezuidenhout, Thed van Leeuwen, and Francesca Morselli share insights from a recent workshop where Dutch universities discussed the future of monitoring & evaluating #OpenScience, a crucial step towards its success. 🔍 Read the post 👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/mon...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

What can editors and publishers do to make sure their journals don't disappear? Join WAME for a free webinar featuring @clockssarchive.bsky.social; @pkp.sfu.ca (PKP); and LOCKSS Program When: March 10, 2025, 12:00 - 1:00 PM UTC Registration link: www.shorturl.at/ckbMu #scholcomm #AcademicChatter

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Bittersweet anniversary www.renewablematter.eu/en/merchant-... New Italian edition coming soon. @erikmbaker.bsky.social @volts.wtf @davidho.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Publisher irony: "surveillance capitalism" being defined by Elsevier or, more precisely, an AI-defined page after they swallowed academic work for free. #openscience www.sciencedirect.com/topics/socia...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Everybody knows that efficient and high-quality scholarly publishing is possible. The Global South has been demonstrating this for years, no decades, as have various journals and fields. A nice summary of how the European Geosciences Union shows the world how it's done has just been published […]

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

While I am in a shameless self-promotion mood, here is a link to an interview I did for a feminist theory archive in Bern, Switzerland. #feministsky #STS #philsci #HPBIO #science www.oralhistoriesoffeministtheory.com/about-5-1

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I'm surprised the US publisher of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" hasn't already reprinted the book with one of its original titles.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

"An estimated 50K Kenyans are “shadow scholars” hired online to write theses and dissertations....the young generation of Nairobi is well educated, but there are hardly any suitable jobs for them. Writing essays means they can earn a decent living" Maybe your student hired one...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

It would "work", of course the service given would be sloppy at best, people would be stuck in absurd loopholes and finally private companies would other a paying alternative. And that is even before someone games algorithms for whatever purpose.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments