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Mish Dalton

@mishdalton.bsky.social
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Research and Library stuff @ UCD. Views my own Giraffes! 🦒 Badminton! 🏸 Exclamation marks! Contentedly discontent. #OABooks #ResearchCulture

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The rhetoric of tech in a nutshell: I value convenience, efficiency, ease first and also have no capacity to recognize humanity, my own or others, but feel qualified to run the world. Someone send an army of divorce lawyers; after all this guy already wants to disconnect.
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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 29/08/2026
For my Futures vacancies last year I had this in the FAQ. Seeing slop was still tiring, but it was easy dismiss on (lack of) merits. For a next, I would include it in the vacancy itself as a formal requirement. (INB4 🤡 'but how can you enforce?': Point is not to police but to set high standards)
What’s your stance on GenAI use in applications?

Please don’t. We do not want to read synthetic text. We prefer candidates who can think for themselves and who understand the value of writing as a process.

We think LLMs are fascinating as computational artefacts and interactive interfaces, and we study them as such. To do clear-eyed research on them, we think it is better not to drink the Kool-Aid. We’re looking forward to meet applicants with indepent minds, ready to exercise their skills of critical thinking and informed judgement.
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Christian Algar @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Join the ‘Rare Boots’ Fantasy Football league! A football league for #rarebooks #library #archives #specialcollections and #bibliophile people (but you don’t have to be, because exclusivity isn’t our game) Use the link to join - season starts on Friday! fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto...
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Fantasy Premier League, Official Fantasy Football Game of the Premier League
Official Fantasy Premier League 2026/27. Free to play fantasy football game, set up your fantasy football team at the Official Premier League site.
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Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org · 23/06/2026
Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.
Poster for the conference "Critical Artificial Intelligence Studies?" at the University of California, Santa Barbara, October 9&10, 2026. The subtitle says "An interdisciplinary conference on a field in formation."
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“We have made a technology that creates nothing but will ensure you have no future while we get richer and richer wait why are you boooing?”
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Lawsuit harks back to fights over text-mining. Scientists wanted to use software to mine data from research articles at scale but publishers often insisted they had to buy extra licenses for this. 'The right to read is the right to mine'! was the researcher chant. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Elsevier vs. Meta: first science publisher sues over scraped research papers
Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined a class action lawsuit against Meta that alleges the reproduction of copyrighted works in developing the Llama AI model.
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Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
New RoRI Working Paper: Why generic indicators for research culture don't work The study examines the feasibility of defining & tracking indicators for research culture & environment, exploring the structural data gaps and feedback mismatches in current systems: rori.figshare.com/articles/pre...
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"Much of OA policy is grounded in an ideology that treats everything as a market problem to be fixed through market instruments....neoliberal logic that gave rise to APCs" Whether or not you agree with the main thrust of this article, the above is accurate. 1/2 www.samuelmoore.org/2026/04/14/w...
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Why funders shouldn’t withdraw money from open access publishing
Cancer Research UK’s decision to stop funding article processing charges marks a significant shift in how they approach open access. In its April 1st announcement (not an April Fool), the org…
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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 12/04/2026
“Such attacks on art only reveal the deep anti-humanism of the tech elite. They are a class that shuns human interaction, with its serendipities, annoyances and joys… #GenAI is a tool to discipline, then eliminate, the human worker. This is sold as progress.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
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Is AI the greatest art heist in history?
New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 09/04/2026
this is not surprising to me and the question is will this accumulating body of evidence change anything futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.
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Giada @dreoilinbeag.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
‘A fundamental realisation is that shared values and principles must guide us (e.g., scientific integrity, sustainability, diversity, digital sovereignty, and democracy).’ #GenAI #AIliteracy #speirgorm #spéirgorm #speirghorm
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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"The authors showcase a wealth of knowledge and practical tips to help turn quantitative and qualitative outputs into something truly open and reusable." — Andy Tattersall, Consultant, Open Research Communications Expert Doing Open Social Science will publish May 2026: bit.ly/4bKnowA
Cover of the book Doing Open Social Science
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ORCID @orcid.org · 25/03/2026
ORCID is taking root! 🌍🌱 Join us March 26 for ORCID in the Wild featuring the Health Research Board (HRB) Ireland 🇮🇪 We're diving into: 📊Symplectic Grant Tracker 🤝Affiliation Manager ⏳Real-world resources & internal goals Don't let your integration stay in the shade! 🌿🔍 #ResearchSky
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ORCID in the Wild featuring Health Research Board. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join us for ORCID in the Wild, where we discover the vast array of ORCID adoption within the scholarly community. Like seeds scattered by the wind, ORCID has taken root across the globe, sprouting connections and nurturing collaborations. In this session, we are delighted to feature the Health Research Board (HRB). As a key player in the Irish research landscape, HRB has been cultivating a robust ORCID integration strategy that serves as a masterclass in organizational buy-in and technical execution. What We’ll Explore: - The "Why" Behind the Work: Insights into HRB’s motivations for joining ORCID via the Irish Consortium and how this alignment supports their broader internal goals. - Resource Management: A transparent look at the "behind the scenes" effort—the actual time and resources dedicated to making these integrations thrive. The Tech Stack in Action: - Symplectic Grant Tracker: See how HRB collects authenticated iDs to streamline the grant application process. - ORCID Affiliation Manager: Learn how they use this tool to ensure researchers’ records accurately reflect their professional affiliations. - A Live Demonstration: A walkthrough of the integrations in a real-world environment. - Honest Reflections: The lessons learned, the hurdles jumped, and what HRB has planned for the next season of their digital roadmap. Join the Conversation! Whether you are a funder, a librarian, or a developer, you'll walk away with a better understanding of how to turn ORCID from a simple identifier into a powerful engine for data integrity. Have an ORCID use case to share with the community? Submit it for consideration for a future webinar: https://forms.gle/5LGGoBy6g1vxdh7q8
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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This is why I increasingly believe that librarians should use our limited time and resources to lobby for proper regulation and governance and not on developing 'literacy' or 'ethical use' policies after adoption, when it's far too late. It's like teaching victims of crime to be more 'ethical'.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 23/03/2026
New paper from @aial.ie! @harshp.com, Dick Blankvoort, Adel Shaaban, @sashamtl.bsky.social & me We analysed 6 GenAI ToS--finding missing info, major power imbalances & user obligations that are impossible to meet without violating the terms arxiv.org/abs/2603.18964 & aial.ie/research/ter... 1/
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Terms of (Ab)Use: An Analysis of GenAI Services
Generative AI services like ChatGPT and Gemini are some of the fastest-growing consumer services. Individuals using such services must accept their terms of use before access, and conform to these ter...
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing
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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
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Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) @dri.ie · 03/03/2026
Join us for a webinar on Cultivating #FAIRdata across the disciplines on Mar 5th with colleagues @fairsharing.bsky.social and @researchdataall.bsky.social #RDAambassadors @allysonlister.bsky.social and Daniel Manrique-Castano. #OxFOS26 @ox.ac.uk ➡️ Register at go.glam.ox.ac.uk/OxFOS26_Regi...
A card with details of the OXFOS conference speaker's event.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
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Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The inevitable next stage of academic publishers profiting from academics' work is here - scraping it for AI then charging subscriptions for access to the AI summaries, and then again for the citations. Academic content assetization as we called it in a recent paper. www.science.org/content/arti...
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She and other publishing specialists question whether LeapSpace’s limited reach is worth the cost. Users will need either an institutional subscription (based in part on the institution’s size and amount of research) or an individual one, which costs $32 a month. Many libraries are already struggling to afford existing subscriptions. And if users want to read the cited content, they will need a separate subscription to that content’s publisher—akin to paying for multiple video-streaming services.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 18/02/2026
Microsoft said the bug meant that its Copilot AI chatbot was reading and summarizing paying customers' confidential emails, bypassing data protection policies.
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Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers' confidential emails to Copilot AI | TechCrunch
Microsoft said the bug meant that its Copilot AI chatbot was reading and summarizing paying customers' confidential emails, bypassing data protection policies.
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 13/02/2026
1/ Finally wrote up “The Story of Mendeley”! Most people know the tool, few know about its rise and fall. The Mendeley story provides important clues for how to build self-sustaining AND non-extractive knowledge commons, which is why I think it deserves more attention 🧵
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What happened to Science Goodreads and how do we rebuild it? A 65 million dollar question (at least) - CAIROS Blog
The story of the rise and fall of Mendeley
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Peter Suber @petersuber.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A review of the proceedings from four major computer-science conferences showed that none from 2021, and all from 2025, had fake citations. arxiv.org/abs/2602.058... #AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Misconduct #ScholComm
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The Case of the Mysterious Citations
Mysterious citations are routinely appearing in peer-reviewed publications throughout the scientific community. In this paper, we developed an automated pipeline and examine the proceedings of four ma...
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
State of Open Data talk Brian Nosek brings up something I've been thinking about. Pre-AI - Benefits of data sharing often exceeded the costs (most people use your data for good) Post-AI - People have real concerns about how their open data will be used for things they don't ethically agree with
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Mish Dalton @mishdalton.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Is the Group Chat coming back soon? Hope it isn't dropped forever :(
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
It's not unheard of to find errors in your data after publishing it. While it's not fun when this happens, this one-pager can help guide you through the process of updating data, code, and publications when errors are found. osf.io/q4jre/files/...
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OASPA - The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association @oaspa.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Have you registered for Thursday's webinar? Huge interest in this one. Still time to register.
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Thomas Gerdes @thomasgerdes.de · 11/01/2026
Confronting the Challenges of Sensitive Open Data #OpenScience #OpenData katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
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Confronting the Challenges of Sensitive Open Data
When governments collect sensitive data about private individuals, personal privacy and governmental transparency come into conflict. How should we resolve this tension?
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 02/01/2026
Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"An academic discovers a paper attributed to him that does not exist has been cited 42 times" is a sentence with an actual referent in 2025.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/12/2025
Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?
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More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
'Critical washing' is a very useful phrase I've just learned thanks to this paper. And while it relates to AI we can apply it in other areas. Key for me would be safety, wellbeing and mental distress in education settings where there's a huge amount of discussion and little comparative action.
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
How do I get people to understand that high quality data collected with intention and analyzed by experts have even more potential to revolutionize health care?
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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1
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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
From @aip-publishing.bsky.social: cost of a peer reviewed article is $2700 (*before* you start giving back to the community). Would like to see a more detailed split, but it does align with estimates from eLife and EMBO #ScientificPublishing www.stm-publishing.com/cost-transpa...
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Cost Transparency at AIP Publishing: Why We’re Sharing Our True Costs
AIP Publishing is committed to building a more inclusive and vibrant future for the physical sciences. Open science can accelerate global progress by breaking barriers to open and fair research commun...
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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
take me seriously
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The Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics @iethics.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
"[T]he root problem is arguably that #ChatGPT still pretends to be a person—a consistent entity that knows you... It assumes the mantle of human emotion and acts like it understands you and sympathizes with what you’re going through" arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/o... #ethics #tech #design #business
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OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1’s eight new personalities
New controls attempt to please critics on both sides with a balance between bland and habit-forming.
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Thomas Gerdes @thomasgerdes.de · 15/11/2025
After Coalition S disrupted scientific publishing, new plan retreats from strict requirements #ScholarlyPublishing #OpenAccess science.org/content/article/after-coalition-s-disrupted-scientific-publishing-new-plan-retreats-strict-requirements
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After Coalition S disrupted scientific publishing, new plan retreats from strict requirements
The group’s latest strategy emphasizes consultation, lacks spending pledges
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Lorenzo Lolli @lorenzololli.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
“Like misinformation, misconduct is nothing new. But it’s become easier for authors to execute it with the aid of artificial intelligence and “𝙥𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙨,” while being harder for publishers to contend with, given the volume of potential misconduct cases…” @bmj.com
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The potential and limits of scrutiny in medical research
In a recent lecture Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, talked about how setbacks driven by misinformation can be temporary and how evidence and data can rebuild confidence. He was speaking...
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Cully Hamner @cullyhamner.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:
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UCD College of Social Sciences and Law @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
📺 Tune in tonight! Professor @niamhmcherry.bsky.social and Dr @deanphelan.bsky.social from UCD School of Geography feature in RTÉ One’s 10 Things to Know About… Episode 1: “Change” 🗓️ Mon 10 Nov | 8:30 pm | RTÉ One & Player Learn more about the CONUNDRUM project 👉 bit.ly/3LyCGKc
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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Read about the resources created by the 'Implementing data evaluation at institutions’ Working Group on the blog: makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...
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UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Attend our joint seminar with @ucdresearch.bsky.social: Engagement for Research Impact 12th November 2.30pm Link 3, James Joyce Library This session will help you understand the complex area of research impact, incl. how to measure your impact within academia & more. Register👉 bit.ly/engage1211
White and grey graphic with abstract design for UCD Library and UCD Research November 12 joint seminar on engagement for research impact.
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Jeffrey Brainard @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
A rapidly growing share of letters to journals may be drafted by machines, undetected by editors. Study quantifies recently ‘prolific debutante authors’ who had published no letters before 2022, when ChatGPT debuted. #academicjournals #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
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Letters to scientific journals surge as ‘prolific debutante’ authors likely use AI
New study reinforces worries about “mass production of junk” by unscrupulous scholars aiming to pad their CVs
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