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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 1d

Dear PsyArXiv users!
The OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, has updated the PsyArXiv user interface! Unfortunately, some key moderation functions need repairs after the upgrade. This will delay some moderation decisions this week. 🔧

Thank you for your patience!

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simine vazire @simine.com · 6d

My blog has moved! It’s now at sometimesimwrongblog.wordpress.com If you have links to posts in your syllabus, let me know if you have any trouble finding the corresponding post!

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Benjamin Kunc @benjaminkunc.bsky.social · 14d

Are you an ESM item measuring the quality of social experiences looking for validation? 👀

Because if you are, I've got some bad news for you. Our new preprint is out: osf.io/preprints/ps...

@gudruneisele.bsky.social @ginettelafit.bsky.social @lisapeeters.bsky.social @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 14d

Don't let minor submission errors delay the publication of your research! 📝 🔬

Remember to check the full guidelines when submitting the manuscript to PsyArXiv (buff.ly/M3cRBW2).

Below, we also have a few friendly reminders!

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 15d

Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science
Dates: 20-22 October
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf
ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.

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Lisa Peeters @lisapeeters.bsky.social · 21d

The first preprint of my PhD is out! Our review maps choices that researchers make throughout an ESM study from start to finish, including reporting and open science practices. We compare our findings to previous literature where possible, but also provide novel insights! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 26d

🥳 PsyArXiv is back to normal operations 🥳

Thanks to the fantastic team of moderators (thank you all🙏), PsyArXiv has resumed normal operations. You can expect any newly posted or edited preprint to be moderated within 24-72 hours of submission.

Learn more from our blog post👇
buff.ly/OtpsKhm

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Olivia Kirtley @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social · Sep 1

Congratulations!

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 30

Is your preprint still pending moderation? See our recent post about how to make sure getting it approved is a smooth process:
bsky.app/profile/impr...

(pro tip: you can make edits even while it's in the moderation queue!)

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 27

(1) Only submit to PsyArXiv if your contribution is within scope. Is it scholarly, and is it psychology?

(2) Include a title page with a descriptive title, all authors' names, and a contact email.

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 30

PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work!

Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :)

#PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 24

Just passed 25% of the backlog cleared 🎉🎉🎉

The dedication of our volunteers is impressive!

Mods: Please feel free to come to office hours on Monday if you want to work in community.

Mods-to-be: Hope to see you at Training #3 at 8 pm ET!

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 22

We are in awe of our community's response -- over 300 people have volunteered to moderate PsyArXiv! We’ve already cleared 13% of the backlog and expect to make even faster progress next week. Thank you for your patience as we work through this, and special thanks to our volunteers! 🎉 #PsychSciSky

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Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · Aug 21

New and improved 😆 Those who were at the first training will know we needed to 🤦‍♀️

See you tomorrow, we're so thrilled to see all of the interest in supporting @psyarxivbot.bsky.social

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 21

Want to help moderate preprints on PsyArXiv? We're hosting a training tomorrow morning. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/j/8114764450... More trainings are coming as well! Already registered using the other form? Check your spam folder -- some of our email invitations are going to spam. #PsychSciSky

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: PsyArXiv Moderator Training #2. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · Aug 15

🧠🧠🧠 PsyArXiv needs you! Please sign up to join our moderator team. First cohort is getting trained on next Monday, with more trainings to come. Easy way to give back to this crucial community resource. Students, postdocs, faculty, all welcome - come one and all!

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 15

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

Expression of Interest in Serving as a PsyArXiv Moderator

As you might have heard, PsyArXiv is having some issues with an increase in low-quality submissions, ranging from AI generated manuscripts to inflate citation metrics, incoherent or nonsensical docume...

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Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · Aug 12

My conclusion from this is that preprint servers (and journals!) are entering a new phase of cat and mouse trying to contain AI slop (n.b., not mundane AI use, but nonsense generation). Peer review as a filter scarcely does better to ID this stuff. We need new & better tools to ID trustworthy works.

Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · Aug 12

Preprint servers are strugging with an influx of AI content. "How do you do quality assurance while keeping things relatively light touch so the system doesn’t collapse on itself?"
by Traci Watson | @nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back

Preprint servers are seeing a rise in submissions seemingly produced by paper mills or with help from AI tools.

www.nature.com

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Olivia Kirtley @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social · Aug 14

Indeed! Another of our frequent posters.

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Olivia Kirtley @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social · Aug 13

Another question is why now? Having gone through all PsyArXiv preprints from July, there were only about six from SDI. So they are not frequent posters relative to other users who've posted 50+ preprints. Also, the example @deevybee.bsky.social posted, was published in 2023. Not exactly a preprint.

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Olivia Kirtley @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thoughtful piece about the influx of suspicious #preprints (some involving AI) to PsyArXiv & other preprint servers. Wee mention of me and some of the preprint monitoring I've been doing in collaboration with PsyArXiv. Servers are not going to take this lying down. #OpenScience

Nature @nature.com · Aug 12

Preprint servers are seeing a rise in submissions seemingly produced by paper mills or with help from AI tools

go.nature.com/47sqZxw

AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back

Preprint servers are seeing a rise in submissions seemingly produced by paper mills or with help from AI tools.

go.nature.com

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Olivia Kirtley @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is exactly what the last lot of Sciencedomain International preprints looked like back in July. I don't think they've been bounced from anywhere.

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Olivia Kirtley @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social · Aug 13

Well, I have a feeling that some of these belong to the other investigation I'm conducting into Sciencedomain International, but why is indeed the question, given no citation benefit for authors from preprint as preprint has another author.

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Aug 5

Does anyone know of a direct comparison between EU countries in terms of metrics used to evaluate universities and/or academic researchers? I'm especially interested in whether one can contrast countries that use N publications with those that don't. I suspect it's not so simple though

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Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 4

A new study, based on an analysis of thousands of publications and their authors and editors, shows paper mills are just part of a complex, interconnected system that includes publishers, journals, and brokers. scim.ag/3H9kwwQ

Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds

Sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake papers

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Olivia Kirtley @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thanks! Mostly made it, but with some failures. Try, try again.

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Olivia Kirtley @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social · Jul 28

Watching to see if my code will stall or keep grinding through downloading preprints with the OSF API is *almost* as tense as last night's penalties... 🙃. #OpenScience

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Rory O’Connor @roryoc.bsky.social · Jul 28

🆕 Following requests from authors, we have increased the word limit for all regular papers in Archives of Suicide Research to 5,000 words (Introduction, Methods, Results & Discussion)

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Olivia Kirtley @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social · Jul 26

Since the 1st of these that I spotted, I've been working to download and document them all to try & identify patterns, repeat users, particular metadata, features of the preprint, etc. I've been reporting them to @cos.io support & working with the PsyArXiv moderation team. #OpenScience

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