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Neither the paper title nor the abstract leads with “Seaborn.” The decision to start the submission with “Seaborn bug…” is purely an HN artifact, and nothing to do with science communication.

ETA: For those who don’t click through, the paper title is “Dataset Artefacts are the Hidden Drivers of the Declining Disruptiveness in Science.” The first few sentences of the abstract are:

“Park et al. [1] reported a decline in the disruptiveness of scientific and technological knowledge over time. Their main finding is based on the computation of CD indices, a measure of disruption in citation networks [2], across almost 45 million papers and 3.9 million patents. Due to a factual plotting mistake, database entries with zero references were omitted in the CD index distributions, hiding a large number of outliers with a maximum CD index of one, while keeping them in the analysis [1].”