Björn Brembs
@brembs@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

How can you tell science on this planet is fucked? When the Vatikan is the only place where science is defended:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01966-4

"A more vocal “statement of concern” was issued last week by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Vatican City"

Silence from, e.g.:
InterAcademy Partnership
World Academy of Sciences
International Science Council

Shame on these organizations and all others who fail to defend science!

#science #academia #academicchatter #academies
Björn Brembs
@brembs@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Now this comes at just the right time!

"The handbook considers tools for enhancing digital safety and highlights the importance of ongoing documentation, preserving imperiled data, and creating distributed archives as a defense against erasure. It also calls on scholars to tell their stories—publicly or anonymously—to inspire others, maintain accountability and preserve a historical record."

https://zenodo.org/records/15696097

#academicchatter #academia#USpol #politics
Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺
@skyglowberlin@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

My daughter just came up with a great exercise: challenge your students to find the title of your PhD using ONLY LLMs (no Google allowed). If any of them manage, they get gummy bears 😃

I asked five different models, and got five different answers, all five of which were completely wrong 😂

#AI#ChatGPT#AISlop#LLM#LLMFail#Education #HigherEducation#AcademicChatter

Model: Codestral 22B (KISSKI) Verfiigbare Token: 98.88% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. The title of his dissertation is “The Role of the Nucleus Accumbens in the Acquisition and Expression of Conditioned Emotional Responses.”
Model: Codestral 22B (KISSKI) Verfiigbare Token: 98.88% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. The title of his dissertation is “The Role of the Nucleus Accumbens in the Acquisition and Expression of Conditioned Emotional Responses.”
Model: Codestral 22B (KISSKI) Verfiigbare Token: 98.88% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. The title of his dissertation is “The Role of the Nucleus Accumbens in the Acquisition and Expression of Conditioned Emotional Responses.”
Model: GPT 40 Verfiigbare Token: 98.88% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of Washington. The title of his dissertation was “The Role of the Circadian Clock in the Regulation of Cell Division in Neurospora crassa.”
Model: GPT 40 Verfiigbare Token: 98.88% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of Washington. The title of his dissertation was “The Role of the Circadian Clock in the Regulation of Cell Division in Neurospora crassa.”
Model: GPT 40 Verfiigbare Token: 98.88% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of Washington. The title of his dissertation was “The Role of the Circadian Clock in the Regulation of Cell Division in Neurospora crassa.”
Model: GPT 4.1 Verfligbare Token: 98.94% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of British Columbia. The title of his dissertation was “The search for the electric dipole moment of the neutron.”
Model: GPT 4.1 Verfligbare Token: 98.94% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of British Columbia. The title of his dissertation was “The search for the electric dipole moment of the neutron.”
Model: GPT 4.1 Verfligbare Token: 98.94% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of British Columbia. The title of his dissertation was “The search for the electric dipole moment of the neutron.”
Model: Meta LLaMA 3.3 70B Instruct (KISSKI) Verfligbare Token: 98.97% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of Guelph. The title of his PhD thesis is ‘Spectral and spatial characterization of anthropogenic light pollution’.
Model: Meta LLaMA 3.3 70B Instruct (KISSKI) Verfligbare Token: 98.97% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of Guelph. The title of his PhD thesis is ‘Spectral and spatial characterization of anthropogenic light pollution’.
Model: Meta LLaMA 3.3 70B Instruct (KISSKI) Verfligbare Token: 98.97% Where did Christopher Kyba get his PhD, and what was the title? © Christopher Kyba received his PhD from the University of Guelph. The title of his PhD thesis is ‘Spectral and spatial characterization of anthropogenic light pollution’.
Moritz Negwer
@moritz_negwer@mstdn.science  ·  activity timestamp last month

The outright wrecking of the scientific infrastructure in the US under the current administration chilled me to my bone. Kept me doomscrolling. But I finally found a way to do something positive, in a small way: I dedicated some storage space and a bit of my internet connection to a decentralized backup of deleted research data.
I am happy to report that @SafeguardingResearch 's torrent swarm now has ca 14 TB storage and a Gbit connection more.
#sciop #safeguardingresearch #academicchatter

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ASM Researchers
@altsocialmedianet@sciences.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

A member of the Network of Alternative Social Media Researchers, Karen Frost-Arnold, is helping to organize a conference called "Digital Decolonization and Digital Justice," to be held at the U of Johannesburg in August. The CFP is here:

https://www.uj.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2025-08-13_14-aceps-digital-decolonisation-and-digital-justice-cfa-2.pdf

#academicchatter#CFPs#digitalDecolonization#DigitalJustice
Björn Brembs
@brembs@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

If your buddy becomes an editor at a Nature journal, your chances of publishing a Nature paper more than double:

"For each additional original article published in the two years before the editor’s appointment, these authors had 161% more chances to publish another original article in this journal after the editor’s appointment"

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0322012

#academicchatter #publishing #openscience
Thomas Rhys Evans
@ThomasRhysEvans@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

⚠️ Academics and Researchers !! 👋

I'm running a study looking at how academics/researchers get feedback on their research and we need just a few more responses. If you'd like to help, the online survey is here:

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You're compensated with twenty of the finest English pounds (or international equivalent) for a few minutes, and it's all anonymous!

#Research#Researchers#AcademicChatter#Academic#AcademicLife#Science#GlobalResearch#ResearchCulture