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- www.techdirt.com 500,000 Books Have Been Deleted From The Internet Archive’s Lending Library
If you found out that 500,000 books had been removed from your local public library, at the demands of big publishers who refused to let them buy and lend new copies, and were further suing the lib…
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How a College Landed Kendrick Lamar as Its Surprise Commencement Speaker
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/RAvdG
- web.archive.org Stanford’s top disinformation research group collapses under pressure
The Stanford Internet Observatory provided real-time analysis on viral election falsehoods but has struggled amid attacks from conservatives.
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Stanford University Students Accused of Plagiarizing AI Model
www.plagiarismtoday.com Stanford University Students Accused of Plagiarizing AI Model - Plagiarism TodayA team including Stanford undergrads have been accused of plagiarizing a Chinese company when creating their new AI system.
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Light Digital Praxis: GitHub - ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile: A Dockerfile for the ArchiveTeam Warrior, from the Internet Archives
github.com GitHub - ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile: A Dockerfile for the ArchiveTeam WarriorA Dockerfile for the ArchiveTeam Warrior. Contribute to ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile development by creating an account on GitHub.
- link.springer.com Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment - Scientometrics
Scientists and funding agencies invest considerable resources in writing and evaluating grant proposals. But do grant proposal texts noticeably change panel decisions in single blind review? We report on a field experiment conducted by The Dutch Research Council (NWO) in collaboration with the autho...
- www.theguardian.com The affluent can have their souls enriched at university, so why not the poor as well? | Kenan Malik
The latest Tory crusade over ‘rip-off’ degrees continues to stereotype students based on class
- english.elpais.com Internal messages show how the new head of one of the world’s oldest universities organized a citation cartel
For years, Professor Juan Manuel Corchado demanded that his collaborators include up to 20 references to his own work in their papers. On Friday he took office as the new rector of Salamanca University in Spain
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How to Think like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition
levjj.github.io Table of Contents — How to Think like a Computer Scientist: Interactive EditionAn interactive version of the How to Think Like a Computer Scientist book
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The Bypass Paywalls browser extension is back and running.
github.com bpc-clone - Repositoriesbpc-clone has 4 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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The Dark Art of Enrollment Management
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/cskEL
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[Useful Tool for Learning R] randy3k/radian: A 21 century R console
github.com GitHub - randy3k/radian: A 21 century R consoleA 21 century R console. Contribute to randy3k/radian development by creating an account on GitHub.
- gwern.net How Should We Critique Research?
Criticizing studies and statistics is hard in part because so many criticisms are possible, rendering them meaningless. What makes a good criticism is the chance of being a ‘difference which makes a difference’ to our ultimate actions.
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College Presidents Are Getting in Trouble for Cutting Deals With Protesters
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/D7SOU
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Watch out for spam emails from this goofy publisher
> The journal reports an "ISI impact factor".[9] This impact factor is not from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) or its successor Clarivate, but from a company named International Scientific Indexing.[10][11]
> The journal was listed in the updated Beall's List of potential predatory open-access journals.[1] It has been criticized for sending out email spam to scientists, calling out for papers for the journal.[6]
> In March 2020, the journal published the fake research paper "Cyllage City COVID-19 outbreak linked to Zubat consumption". The paper blamed a fictional creature for an outbreak of Covid-19 in a fictional city, cited fictional references (including one from author Bruce Wayne in a made-up journal named "Gotham Forensics Quarterly" on using bats to fight crime), and was cowritten by fictional authors such as Pokémon’s Nurse Joy and House, MD.[14] The author was a scientist from National Taiwan University, who acted under a pseudonym.[2] Four days after submission the paper was accepted for publication. Since the line in the article “a journal publishing this paper does not practice peer review and must therefore be predatory” was not objected to, the submitting author concluded that the paper had not been reviewed at all.[15] The paper was later removed as the author did not pay the publication fees.[2]
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I’m a Professor. I Never Expected to Be Arrested by My Own University.
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/kvyEW
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Some Professors Face Punishments as Colleges Crack Down on Gaza Protests
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/oSsH5
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Opinion | How to fix college finances? Eliminate faculty, then students.
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/FOUFm
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Daniel Dennett, professor emeritus of philosophy at Tufts University, well-known for his work in philosophy of mind and a wide range of other philosophical areas, has died.
dailynous.com Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) - Daily NousDaniel Dennett, professor emeritus of philosophy at Tufts University, well-known for his work in philosophy of mind and a wide range of other philosophical areas, has died. Professor Dennett wrote extensively about issues related to philosophy of mind and cognitive science, especially consciousness....
- www.nature.com Canadian science gets biggest boost to PhD and postdoc pay in 20 years
Government budget includes more money for basic research and notable increases to postgraduate stipends.
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The Bypass Firewalls Repository is Gone -> Go get your archived copy.
Boo hiss. Hopefully it gets moved, but just in case, grab one of the forks.
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One Scientist Neglected His Grant Reports. Now U.S. Agencies Are Withholding Grants for an Entire University.
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/WXtQa
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Ask the Chair: ‘When Did I Become a Bureaucrat?’
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/uFGsq
- www.404media.co Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage
Google said it will continue to evaluate its approach “as the world of book publishing evolves.”
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Anyone else have to watch recorded lectures at 2-3x speed?
Currently studying for an exam tomorrow, and I now realize why I'm always so sleepy in class: the prof. speaks sooo sloowllyy with pauses - in-between - most words. I can't keep focused because of that; thankfully, he has narrated powerpoints that I can download and watch... at 3x normal speed. Which is nice because a 37 minute video is now 12 minutes, but goddamn it makes classes so rough.
- www.nature.com Exclusive: official investigation reveals how superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results
The confidential 124-page report from the University of Rochester, disclosed in a lawsuit, details the extent of Ranga Dias’s scientific misconduct.
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Sabine Hossenfelder - My dream died, and now I'm here
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- www.thedailybeast.com Boston University Suggests Replacing Striking Grad Students With AI
In response to a grad student worker strike, the school recommends that staff utilize generative AI tools “to give feedback or facilitate ‘discussion’ on readings or assignments.”
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ChatGPT "contamination": estimating the prevalence of LLMs in the scholarly literature
The use of ChatGPT and similar Large Language Model (LLM) tools in scholarly communication and academic publishing has been widely discussed since they became easily accessible to a general audience in late 2022. This study uses keywords known to be disproportionately present in LLM-generated text to provide an overall estimate for the prevalence of LLM-assisted writing in the scholarly literature. For the publishing year 2023, it is found that several of those keywords show a distinctive and disproportionate increase in their prevalence, individually and in combination. It is estimated that at least 60,000 papers (slightly over 1% of all articles) were LLM-assisted, though this number could be extended and refined by analysis of other characteristics of the papers or by identification of further indicative keywords.
- buffalonews.com Buffalo State presidential pick is out after SUNY investigation
Chance Glenn, the Buffalo State presidential pick who was due to take office July 1, is out of the job, SUNY announced in a statement Wednesday.
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U. of Florida Investigates Whether Professors ‘Interfered’ With Western-Civ Center
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/a61fM
- www.nature.com How to stop ‘passing the harasser’: universities urged to join information-sharing scheme
The Misconduct Disclosure Scheme would make it harder for perpetrators to hide their past, advocacy group says.
- www.theatlantic.com Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem
The case for teaching coders to speak French
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/Vf47N