academia

Watch out for spam emails from this goofy publisher (en.wikipedia.org)

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]...

I’m a Professor. I Never Expected to Be Arrested by My Own University. (www.chronicle.com)

Without paywall: archive.ph/kvyEW

Some Professors Face Punishments as Colleges Crack Down on Gaza Protests (www.chronicle.com)

Without paywall: archive.ph/oSsH5

Anonymizing research funding applications could reduce ‘prestige privilege’ (www.science.org)

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)

Canadian science gets biggest boost to PhD and postdoc pay in 20 years (www.nature.com)

The Bypass Firewalls Repository is Gone -> Go get your archived copy. (news.ycombinator.com)

Boo hiss. Hopefully it gets moved, but just in case, grab one of the forks.

The Software Heritage Archive (archive.softwareheritage.org)

One Scientist Neglected His Grant Reports. Now U.S. Agencies Are Withholding Grants for an Entire University. (www.chronicle.com)

Without paywall: archive.ph/WXtQa

Ask the Chair: ‘When Did I Become a Bureaucrat?’ (www.chronicle.com)

Without paywall: archive.ph/uFGsq

Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage (www.404media.co)

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...

Exclusive: official investigation reveals how superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results (www.nature.com)

Sabine Hossenfelder - My dream died, and now I'm here (www.youtube.com)

Playful reading on paper helps understanding more than if it is done through digital media (www.uv.es)

Boston University Suggests Replacing Striking Grad Students With AI (www.thedailybeast.com)

ChatGPT "contamination": estimating the prevalence of LLMs in the scholarly literature (arxiv.org)

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...

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