Frédérique Bordignon @fredbordignon@qoto.org

@raphavisses

It will be worth maintaining the focus on the fundamental scientific problem, which all this intimidation is intended to distract from:

What is the evidence that the nanoparticles are able to access the cytoplasmic compartment in living cells? None of the claimed applications can work without this implausible and unproven step.

great piece by Frédérique Bordignon @fredbordignon "OpenAlex : révolution ou défi pour la bibliométrie ?" / "OpenAlex: revolution or challenge for bibliometrics?"
https://carnetist.hypotheses.org/2182

I don't agree with much in this blog. I don't think Gay's plagiarism was particularly notable, but the problem was the political circus, which the press can create about almost anything, how one eats a bacon sandwiche included (Ed Miliband). And discouraging critiques of *published* work is just ridiculous.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/01/04/the-weaponisation-of-forensic-research-auditing-will-not-resolve-systemic-research-misconduct/#comment-1276105

"Hyper! Hyper!" – In their special topic introduction Jascha Bareis, Maximilian Roßmann, and Frédérique Bordignon provide an overview of the core characteristics of #technologyhype and present approaches for studying, critiquing, and dealing with it.

📖 https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.32.3.11

#technologyassessment #openaccess #hype #overpromising #expectations #emergingtechnologies

Learned something really cool and mappy today: the Museum of London's logo is made up of LAYERS! Each layer in the logo shows a new phase of London's geographical expansion throughout history!

https://the-dots.com/projects/museum-of-london-logo-design-344878

LeMonde series on data sleuths etc continues, with a portrait of Guillaume Cabanac

https://www.lemonde.fr/series-d-ete/article/2023/08/15/guillaume-cabanac-le-sisyphe-de-la-depollution-de-la-science_6185437_3451060.html
#papermills #fraud #sleuths