"Whatever nuance is needed for its interception, resisting AI’s further creep into intellectual labor will also require blunt-force militancy. The steps are simple. Don’t publish AI bullshit. Don’t even publish mealymouthed essays about the temptation to produce AI bullshit."

N+1 magazine with good advice (https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/).

Fellow academics, I urge you to avoid using #generativeAI for your #research.

https://organicacademic.online

Anyone (academic / researcher) had recent experience with submitting to #ScienceAdvances (https://www.science.org/journal/sciadv)? Good or bad?

We submitted there about 3 months ago and heard absolutely nothing since then..

#SciRev does not have many reviews of that journal for 2025: https://scirev.org/reviews/science-advances/
(BTW, please try to comment on your submission experience on there when you can!)

#Academia #Research #AcademicChatter

"Whatever nuance is needed for its interception, resisting AI’s further creep into intellectual labor will also require blunt-force militancy. The steps are simple. Don’t publish AI bullshit. Don’t even publish mealymouthed essays about the temptation to produce AI bullshit."

N+1 magazine with good advice (https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/).

Fellow academics, I urge you to avoid using #generativeAI for your #research.

https://organicacademic.online

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No access ⛔

New report documents the difficulty for researchers to get access to social media data.

The access challenge has multiple effects:
1️⃣ Partial access is partial knowledge.
2️⃣ Some platforms are over-studied, some under-studied.
3️⃣ Access limitations lead to redesigned studies.
4️⃣ Barriers lead to fears of violating terms of service.

Better research access is needed. For science and society.

#dataaccess #research#DSA #platforms

https://www.digmin.dk/Media/638923153870518987/9724_DIGMIN_Faktaark_Adgang-ngtet_UK_3_WEB.pdf

No access ⛔

New report documents the difficulty for researchers to get access to social media data.

The access challenge has multiple effects:
1️⃣ Partial access is partial knowledge.
2️⃣ Some platforms are over-studied, some under-studied.
3️⃣ Access limitations lead to redesigned studies.
4️⃣ Barriers lead to fears of violating terms of service.

Better research access is needed. For science and society.

#dataaccess #research#DSA #platforms

https://www.digmin.dk/Media/638923153870518987/9724_DIGMIN_Faktaark_Adgang-ngtet_UK_3_WEB.pdf

I'm going to teach my first undergrad course of 2025-2026 tomorrow, and I am going to share my #generativeAI policy with them, which is basically:

don't use it.

I don't ask students to do things I wouldn't do myself. To that end, along with some other folks, I wrote an "Organic Academic Pledge" -- a pledge to never use generative AI for our research:

https://organicacademic.online/

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#resistGenerativeAI #academics #research #education

Two prominent scientists said in #whistleblower complaints filed late Wednesday that they had been removed from leadership positions at the #NIH after objecting to #Trump admin efforts to undermine #vaccines, flout #CourtOrders, withhold #research money & politicize the #grant-making process.

#RFKJr#PublicHealth #science #medicine #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/health/nih-whistle-blower-complaints-vaccines-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The complaints were filed by Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who until the end of March had directed the National Institute of #Allergy & #InfectiousDiseases [#NIAID], the institute previously run by Dr. Anthony S. #Fauci; & Dr. Kathleen Neuzil, who until mid-April had directed the #NIH Fogarty International Center, which supports global #health #research.

#Trump#RFKJr#PublicHealth #science #medicine #law

The allegations added to a growing chorus of protest from former high-ranking #health officials over what they warned were dangerous & unscientific views about #vaccines gripping the #FederalGovernment & potentially opening the door to preventable infections.

Those policies have not only restricted people’s #access to vaccines, …but also have constrained federally funded #research on future inoculations against #InfectiousDiseases.

#Trump#RFKJr#PublicHealth #science #medicine #law

The complaints shed light on much of the internal strife at the agency earlier this year, as the #Trump admin clamped down on the country’s #medical research #funding apparatus.

The scientists drew particular attention to what they described as an administration-wide “hostility” toward #vaccines that they said had taken hold in the upper echelons of the #NIH, long one of the world’s leading engines of #vaccine #research.

#RFKJr#PublicHealth #science #medicine #law

Two prominent scientists said in #whistleblower complaints filed late Wednesday that they had been removed from leadership positions at the #NIH after objecting to #Trump admin efforts to undermine #vaccines, flout #CourtOrders, withhold #research money & politicize the #grant-making process.

#RFKJr#PublicHealth #science #medicine #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/health/nih-whistle-blower-complaints-vaccines-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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