Can anyone help? I saw a post a while back (maybe 2 months max) about a woman who was being employed to advise organisations and universities how to make the transition to open source tech provision, including social media. It may have been an EU role or national, maybe in Netherlands? I cant remember. Does anyone know what Im talking about?
Do humans fail to cite sources in casual chats? Probably.
But our human colleagues in #academia deviate from the #AI case above in a few ways:
(1) My human peers often admit when they don't remember a source, "I don't recall the citation, but I was recently reading a study which found that...."
(2) When #writing, my human colleagues and I fight like hell to track down citations for every claim. We search online, ask colleagues on #socialMedia, etc.
(3) If we can't find the citation, we revise: the claim becomes a hypothesis, the claim is abandoned, etc.
I don't see #AI do 1-3. It should.
tools for commensality 🧿
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"“Never before in my time across multiple presidential administrations did we send out press releases essentially saying workplaces or colleges were guilty of discrimination before finding out if they really were,” said one attorney"
archive link: https://archive.ph/NIjFG
Julian Fietkau
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I've had it with #Google #Scholar. Currently trying to do a little bit of automated bibliometrics, and there's a ton of Scholar parsers on Github in various states of brokenness, sometimes with fully integrated proxy support and Selenium backend and whatnot so it doesn't get banhammered...
Yeah nah, I'm just going with OpenAlex now which
a) has a proper API,
b) actually knows what a DOI is, and
c) has much higher-quality data than GS.
Christian Meesters
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Hey, academic employers. Thirteen minutes apart, I just received two PDFs. One is the proofs of my own forthcoming paper in Praehistorische Zeitschrift, one of the highest-ranked German journals in my discipline. The other is a manuscript I'm reviewing for the highest-ranked English journal. I think you should hire me.
Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access
#HackerNews #ACMopenaccess #openaccess #publications #2026 #research #news #academia
Hey, academic employers. Thirteen minutes apart, I just received two PDFs. One is the proofs of my own forthcoming paper in Praehistorische Zeitschrift, one of the highest-ranked German journals in my discipline. The other is a manuscript I'm reviewing for the highest-ranked English journal. I think you should hire me.
Chip Butty
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Strathclyde is recruiting internationally a Professor of Analytics: https://strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/6284/0/461311/15019/professor-of-analytics-775650 Quite a wide range of academic backgrounds are applicable here as long as you are doing cool things with data, and the appointee can choose which department they end up in (including our Computer & Information Sciences department). #FediHire #Academia #AcademicJob #Professorship
Bjørn Sætrevik
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I highly recommend that university instructors (of any subject) consider trying it out in their classes:
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review, often against guidance
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04066-5
#HackerNews #AI #in #Research #AI #Peer #Review #Research #Trends #Academic #Integrity #Technology #in #Academia
Michael Bacon
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Johanna Winant on close reading under austerity
'My own attention became attenuated, and I was less and less able to help students bring their ideas into focus. Failing at one of the things I cared most about made me feel I was being hollowed out. I started crying on the drive home. I contemplated going to law school. I read about “moral injury.” I looked up the university’s bylaws. I felt feverish with fury...student after student, professor after professor, alum after alum, community member after community member spoke—the comments ran for hours—asking, begging, and demanding that the Board of Governors not approve the cuts. The next day they were voted through: we lost; we knew we would'
#pedagogy #austerity #academia #lifelongLearning
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-claims-of-close-reading/
Johanna Winant on close reading under austerity
'My own attention became attenuated, and I was less and less able to help students bring their ideas into focus. Failing at one of the things I cared most about made me feel I was being hollowed out. I started crying on the drive home. I contemplated going to law school. I read about “moral injury.” I looked up the university’s bylaws. I felt feverish with fury...student after student, professor after professor, alum after alum, community member after community member spoke—the comments ran for hours—asking, begging, and demanding that the Board of Governors not approve the cuts. The next day they were voted through: we lost; we knew we would'
#pedagogy #austerity #academia #lifelongLearning
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-claims-of-close-reading/
alcinnz
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How do IT and data governance strategies impact the environment?
"The Climate Needs #FAIR and #FOSS: A #Sustainability Perspective on Research Data and Software Management" (Lecture Notes in Informatics)
https://doi.org/10.18420/inf2025_92
"We argue that by implementing policies ensuring the re-use of data and code, research institutions enable digital objects — and, crucially, the hardware they are processed on — to be used more efficiently and for longer."
Ross Gayler
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"Research Groups Oppose Capping #NIH Funding of Publisher Fees."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/12/16/research-groups-oppose-capping-nih-funding
PS: These universities seem to be saying: "We accept the growth of the APC model. We just need help paying APCs." They don't take any responsibility for steering authors toward high-prestige, high-JIF, high-APC journals, and don't acknowledge their ability to change those incentives while upholding their historic standards of quality. They could say instead, "We will revise our research assessment (promotion and tenure) procedures to focus on the quality of research more than where it is published." Insofar as universities succeed at shifting those incentives -- admittedly a long game -- authors could submit work to no-fee or diamond OA journals, bypass APC-based journals, and face no blowback from their P&T committees. All researchers and research institutions would win, including those institutions that now want govt help in paying APCs.
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #APCs #Assessment #DiamondOA #OAintheUSA #OpenAccess #ScholComm #Universities
"Research Groups Oppose Capping #NIH Funding of Publisher Fees."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/12/16/research-groups-oppose-capping-nih-funding
PS: These universities seem to be saying: "We accept the growth of the APC model. We just need help paying APCs." They don't take any responsibility for steering authors toward high-prestige, high-JIF, high-APC journals, and don't acknowledge their ability to change those incentives while upholding their historic standards of quality. They could say instead, "We will revise our research assessment (promotion and tenure) procedures to focus on the quality of research more than where it is published." Insofar as universities succeed at shifting those incentives -- admittedly a long game -- authors could submit work to no-fee or diamond OA journals, bypass APC-based journals, and face no blowback from their P&T committees. All researchers and research institutions would win, including those institutions that now want govt help in paying APCs.
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #APCs #Assessment #DiamondOA #OAintheUSA #OpenAccess #ScholComm #Universities
Luc, artiste en devenir
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Maître de conférences en botanique et mycologie pour les étudiants de la Faculté de Pharmacie de l'Université de Lorraine à Nancy et activité de recherche en physiologie végétale (réponse des plantes aux contraintes environnementales).
Dates de la campagne de candidature pour les postes sur la plateforme Odyssée : du 03 mars (10h) au 03 avril (16h) 2026
Partagez dans vos #AcademicNetworks #Botany
#PlantScience #SciJobs #Vacancy #JobVacancy #JobOpening #JobOpportunity #ResearchJobs #Academia #jerecrute
Jess Mahler
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Associate professor in botany and mycology for the students of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University
of Lorraine in Nancy (teaching has to be in French) and research activity on #PlantPhysiology (plant response to environmental constraints).
Application period for positions on the Odyssée platform: from 3 March (10 a.m.) to 3 April (4 p.m.) 2026
And please #Share widely in your #AcademicNetworks #Forests #PlantScience #SciJobs #Vacancy #JobVacancy #JobOpening #JobOpportunity #ResearchJobs #Academia @academicchatter@a.gup.pe
STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa
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Here's a professorship of Prehistory in Basel. They want someone who focuses on Central Europe and nat-sci methods, so I'm not applying.* Maybe you should?
* I love the natural sciences and often commission analyses for my projects, but I have no academic nat-sci training and my own daily work is not in a lab.