Scientific papers: where great ideas go to die a slow death by copy-paste 🧟♂️📝. Wayne claims it's a battle between #innovation and #imitation, but let's be real, it's mostly just a tedious cycle of academic déjà vu 📚🔁. Who knew groundbreaking #research could be so... groundbreaking? 🙄🔬
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/06/05/scientific-papers-innovation-or-imitation/ #scientificpapers #academia #HackerNews #ngated
#ScientificPapers
Scientific Papers: Innovation or Imitation?
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/06/05/scientific-papers-innovation-or-imitation/
#HackerNews #ScientificPapers #Innovation #Imitation #Research #ScienceDiscussion
Here is a good use for AI. It is more or less efficient at detecting bugs. 🐾 Source << https://x.com/XdNom33675/status/1928772749817737517 >> #ai #bugs #scientificpapers #science #bug #nomxd #Chatting🐾
The term "vegetative electron microscopy" keeps showing up in scientific papers
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-strange-phrase-keeps-turning-up-in-scientific-papers-but-why
#HackerNews #vegetativeelectronmicroscopy #scientificpapers #research #trends #sciencealert
Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17192
#HackerNews #Paper2Code #Automating #Code #Generation #ScientificPapers #AIinResearch
#Academic Publication question: say you are writing a review that involves really old papers (i.e. published <1950). Most of the papers you're citing were quite hard to obtain, but you managed to get access to them somehow so you have a scanned version of all of these.
Is there a legal / official way to provide a folder with all the cited papers together with your review once it's published? And by legal I mean a way that the journal that you're publishing in will be happy with?
If these were old enough they would probably fall into the public domain but I don't think they're old enough for that (this says copyright expires from the death of the author +70y: https://copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-duration.html#duration)
The Conversation: Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research. “It is exceedingly difficult to get a handle on exactly how big the problem is. Around 55,000 scholarly papers have been retracted to date, for a variety of reasons, but scientists and companies who screen the scientific literature […]
FDA advisers to weigh first psychedelic therapy in early June—Sorcero genAI conjures plain language from scientific papers —How mRNA vaccines could be personalized cancer cures --http://bit.ly/w28kSd #fda #psychedelics #genAI #ai #scientificpapers #mrna #cancer #oncology #personalizedmedicine #pharma #pharmanews #biotech #biopharma #biotechnology #cafepharma
Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the Impact of ChatGPT on AI Conference Peer Reviews
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16887
1st in a series of 2 articles on the use of generative AI when evaluating scientific papers or studies.
This publication is not intended to give a moral lesson on the use of generative AI in research papers. It's more about raising awareness of how to use them better, or not.
@hkrn In this era of AI there is not enough emphasis on the importance of curating databases. If fake aka milled publications represent 2% of scientific publications today, poorly conducted or barely peer-reviewed research that leads to misleading conclusions certainly represents more than 50% of the scientific literature. Whatever information we gather from AI machines has therefore to be treated with utmost caution if not skepticism. #AI #ScientificPapers
New ways to pay for #research could boost #scientificprogres
"the “disruptiveness” of both #scientificpapers & #patents, as measured by citation patterns, fell by over 90% for papers, & more than 80% for patents, btw 1945 & 2010 (see chart) .. w its mix of short timelines & small grants, the system leaves researchers “constantly thinking” abt where their next cheque is coming fr. But skill at #raisingmoney is not necessarily correlated w the usefulness of one’s research"
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/11/15/new-ways-to-pay-for-research-could-boost-scientific-progress
This “blunt instrument “ hardly further promotes access to information and therefore, supports a public which can make good decisions. Let me know if this link is not a gift article. I’ll try to improve access. https://wapo.st/3ZfzjuD #coronavirus #COVID-19 #socialmedia #Threads #Meta #scientificpapers #longcovid #metafail
Newly added to the Trade-Free Directory:
open access journals and books
Articles published open access are peer-reviewed and made freely available for everyone to read, download and reuse in line with the user license displayed on the article.
#open-access-articles #scientific-papers
More here:
https://www.directory.trade-free.org/goods-services/open-access-journals-and-books/
"Journal editors, researchers and publishers are now debating the place of such AI tools in the published literature, and whether it’s appropriate to cite the bot as an author. Publishers are racing to create policies for the chatbot, which was released as a free-to-use tool in November by tech company OpenAI in San Francisco, California.""
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00107-z
#Science #Research #ChatGPT #Citations #Authors #ScientificPapers
Hey scientists, here's a fun game for your readers: include a scale bar in a figure, but don't say how long it is!
1cm seems sensible? No that would make this thing to small ... 10cm?... no way too big. Okay, it's a bit of a strange number but 5cm? Nope still too big. I think it's 3cm.
The great thing about this game is that you don't know you've got the right answer! Hours of fun!
Absolutely thrilled to find so many interesting #academic accounts here. My timeline is awash with beautiful #infographics, intriguing information, and links to #ScientificPapers.
Appreciation for all the #FBPE accounts too, it’s great to find so many of you on this side of the social sphere!
Plus, hard-returns and full use of punctuation marks! Lovely stuff.
Neat. A service to convert PDF scientific papers to HTML for easier reading on web browsers and mobile devices.
"This is an experimental prototype that aims to render scientific papers in HTML so they can be more easily read by screen readers or on mobile devices."
Via Hacker News [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28542977 ].
Five things they learned about #PeerReviewed #ScientificPapers in 2019 ..
https://blogs.plos.org/absolutely-maybe/2019/12/31/5-things-we-learned-about-peer-review-in-2019/
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