Nigel Curtis

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

To support open scholarly conversation, Bluesky links should be as ubiquitous as X links on journal websites.

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Academic publishers defeat lawsuit over ‘peer review’ pay, other restrictions A group of major academic publishers convinced a judge in New York to dismiss a lawsuit accusing them of thwarting competition by barring scholars from submitting papers to multiple journals simultane...

“The plaintiffs said the publishing defendants collectively received more than $10 billion in revenue in 2023 from their peer-reviewed journals.”

#AcademicSky #Academics #AcademicChatter #Research #ScholarSky #EduSky #PhDSky #PhDLife #IDSky

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Great science happens in great teams — research assessments must try to capture that Europe must reform the ways in which science is evaluated. To boost innovation, it must improve research culture.

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The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly | PNAS Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some c...

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A must-read.

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AI is transforming peer review — and many scientists are worried Artificial intelligence software is increasingly involved in reviewing papers, provoking interest and unease.

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Scientists hide messages in papers to game AI peer review Some studies containing instructions in white text or small font — visible only to machines — will be withdrawn from preprint servers.

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When AI rejects your grant proposal: algorithms are helping to make funding decisions A Spanish foundation using an artificial-intelligence tool to screen grant applications says it makes the peer-review process more efficient, but other researchers say it’s a breakdown in trust.

When AI rejects your grant proposal

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Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement

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#MedSky #IDSky #PedIDSky #ImmunoSky

Distribution of population between different poverty lines This data is adjusted for inflation and for differences in living costs between countries.

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Podium view at #ESPID2025 🇷🇴

Lies, bloody lies, and those bastard statistics.

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Superb illustration highlighting the effectiveness and safety of measles vaccines

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#IDSky #PedIDSky #PaedIDSky #Vaccine #Measles #MMR

Science, faith and belief in pediatric animal models - Pediatric Research Pediatric Research - Science, faith and belief in pediatric animal models

Science, faith and belief in pediatric animal models

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#IDSky #PedSky #microbiome

The daily scroll of the average social media user visualized From a recent paper on social media extremism and perception titled " Inside the funhouse mirror factory: How social media distorts perceptions of norms" b…

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Zed or Zee? How pervasive are Americanisms in Britons' use of English? | YouGov Younger Britons are the most likely to use Americanisms

Lost in Transatlanticlation 🇬🇧🇺🇸

Recognise the Problem? Or Are You Too Americanised to Care?

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154 million lives and counting: 5 charts reveal the power of vaccines

#IDSky #MedSky #PedSky #Vaccine

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Doctors’ lack of sleep is affecting patient care, defence body warns Patients’ safety is being compromised because a growing number of doctors are feeling severely tired at work, medical defence experts have warned. The Medical Defence Union (MDU) said that longer hou...

My latest rant about reporting survey results.

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#Survey #MedSky #AcademicResearch #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #PeerReview #PeerReview #AcademicIntegrity #BMJ @bmj.com

Off-target beneficial effect of live-attenuated herpes zoster (shingles) vaccine (Zostavax).

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LLMs still hallucinate citations ...

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Fear spreads that NIH will terminate grants involving South Africa Trump has promised to cut off funding, claiming nation discriminates against white citizens

This will be devastating for scientists and research teams, participants of trials, including those who receive TB or HIV care and treatment and will impact gains made world-wide in controlling infections diseases. And all for a completely BS reason. www.science.org/content/arti...

Chart showing lives saved by US foreign aid by sector, lives potentially lost per day during aid freeze, cost per life saved, annual US aid amount.

Estimates by @charlesjkenny.bsky.social @justsand.bsky.social:

US foreign aid likely prevents 2.3 to 5.6 million deaths annually, largely in Africa.

And that a complete disruption would result in over 4000 lives lost per day.