#academic-misconduct — Public Fediverse posts
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A fascinating look into the world of Academic Misconduct Services for hire.
The growing market for student academic misconduct services - LSE Impact https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/02/24/the-growing-market-for-student-academic-misconduct-services/
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The comments on that video hint at how widespread a problem this is.
(See among my pinned toots for some of my own experience with abuse and lack of accountability.)And the growth of abuse in governments cannot be unrelated to how abusers keep getting promoted at other places, not just within politics. #AcademicMisconduct #Abuse #Corruption
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On the death of James Watson
So James Watson, a deeply unsavoury individual who co-won a Nobel Prize by stealing Rosalind Franklin’s ground breaking research on DNA, and was an unrepentant racist and misogynist, is dead. Lest it be forgotten, here is a collection of authentic quotes that give an insight into his true character.
https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/james-watson-in-his-own-words/?page_id=13894
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Interesting piece on use of version control to "combat" use of genAI
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01814-5Of course, this is in a class with 12 students and I suspect it's not easily scalable...
#genAI #academia #teaching #essay #versioncontrol #writing #academicmisconduct
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Excellent interview by Katrin Schmermund with Anna Abalkina, published in Forschung&Lehre (Open Access, unfortunately only in German language) on Abalkina's research on paper mills. You can follow Abalkina on Bluesky, https://bsky.app/profile/abalkina.bsky.social.
The scale of academic misconduct is amazing, and to a certain degree it is now powered by AI. One almost unchallenged aspect of the problem is fake research data.
#papermills #researchdata #academicmisconduct #publishingreform
https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/wir-brauchen-eine-gemeinsame-kraftanstrengung-7218 -
Surprised by this? NOT!
Traditional Plagiarism = Out
AI Powered Misconduct = GrowingSurvey of academic integrity violations i the UK found almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating using AI tools in 2023-24, or 5.1 for every 1,000 students, and increase from 1.6 cases per 1,000 in 2022-23. Indications are it will increase to ~ 7.5 proven cases per 1,000 students. Discovered cases represent only the tip of the iceberg.
In 2019-20, before the widespread availability of generative AI, plagiarism accounted for nearly two-thirds of all academic misconduct.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jun/15/thousands-of-uk-university-students-caught-cheating-using-ai-artificial-intelligence-survey#Plagiarism #AI #AICheating #Universities #CollegeStudents #academicmisconduct #Guardian
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#AcademicMisconduct tend to be very common in some contexts. Actually the norm. Imagine now that you are unfairly accused of #AI #plagiarism.
How the emerging world collapse with old (bad) practices, multiplying the issue and requiring #P2P fair systems rightly mediate by #AI.
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Those of you that haven’t read Dying Inside might be struck by some of the outdated ideas (there’s some sexism and racism) but the blunt portrayal of what it might be like to be a telepath in a University setting is prescient and powerful and so relevant to our thoughts on Gen AI and the academy… #HigherEducation #HigherEd #ScienceFiction #ContractCheating #GenAI #AcademicMisconduct #cheating #telepathy
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What do you know? The contempt STEM as a field has had for artists bites them in the ass.
Stop using AI to generate illustrations for your slides, blogs, presentations. Artists work as hard at what they do as you do. AI corps stole from artists. It is plagiarism.
Maybe it's time for STEM to admit (1) Art matters - you want it, after all, and (2) The ability to create art is a skilled one, which is why you're trying to cheat to fake the skill. https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3jbz/scientific-journal-frontiers-publishes-ai-generated-rat-with-gigantic-penis-in-worrying-incident
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"The decision by the stomach cancer study’s publisher, Elsevier, not to post an explanation for the paper’s removal made it less likely that the episode would draw public attention or affect the duo’s work. That very study continued to be cited in papers by other scientists."
It seems as though "continued to be cited" means citations are ungrounded in "actually read the paper," if the paper is not available?
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5/5: All of this is to say that these institutions only care about plagiarism if someone they care about is making them care.
So when such accusations just happen to come up and are taken seriously in the case of a Black woman who isn't immediately knuckling under to what white supremacist forces in this country desire, it's for a reason. Fascists are adept at weaponizing standards they care nothing about themselves. #AcademicMisconduct #UCAccessNow
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4/5: Absolutely nothing of consequence happened. The first author stonewalled even citing. No real investigation was conducted and I know this because no one contacted me to view the evidence I had, nor did anyone interview the co-author who said they'd argued for citation pre-publication. #AcademicMisconduct #UCAccessNow @academicchatter
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2/5: After I posted about the academic misconduct on Twitter, that PhD candidate was given a mtg with the Executive Director of Strategic Communications so they could get tips on how to "manage" this...despite the fact we are both grad students at UC Davis. So prior to any investigation into the allegations of academic misconduct, UC Davis put its weight behind the more politically connected student. It had no interest in actually investigating. @academicchatter #AcademicMisconduct #UCAccessNow
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Thread 1/5: Since plagiarism's being discussed again, I wanted to give an example of just how much prestige higher ed institutions do not care about academic misconduct unless someone they actually care about is forcing them to pay attention to it.
A UC Davis PhD candidate was lead author on a paper that should have cited the UC Access Now Demandifesto at the very minimum. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N1HCiHed7A6G2_e3-jPVKzYSPAiURVYM-unOfyI8UdQ/edit?usp=sharing '
https://web.archive.org/web/20220610215739/https://twitter.com/may_gun/status/1496201940056915981
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Doing some lit review and found a relevant Nature paper in which authors explicitly claimed no conflicts of interest. Yet I found they had applied for and been granted a patent on the same technology two years prior. Is this a big deal and if so does it merit a comment on #PubPeer or something similar?
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Never thought I would find a Texas legal decision good, but I do:
Texas Supreme Court rules that universities can revoke degrees for academic misconduct -
What are the equity implications Academic Misconduct from use of ChatGPT/AI?
Keep asking myself: Who is likely to be accused of using AI tools for academic misconduct? How will biases/expectations about English or academic language skills play into this?
I"m not seeing this in the discourse much on academic implications of generative AI.
Interesting to see that UBC's Academic Integrity now has a FAQ on ChatGPT/AI.
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@erik_kwakkel Not satisfied with plagiarising, this academic doubled-down by using an invented staff member to field the complaint. Several people say they have made her university's Research Integrity office aware, so hopefully they'll investigate. #PublicationEthics #UniversityOfZurich #CarlaRossi #Plagiarism #AcademicPublishing #AcademicMisconduct #MedievalMastodon
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So, I gave it just 1 element:
Analyse the following statement of guilt from Biljana Plavsic in terms of gender [full statement given]
Even with the full text and a direct prompt, it still falls well short.
So - complex assessment briefs with multiple elements requiring original thinking and the shift from knowledge to application seem safe... for now.
#ChatGPT #Criminology #AI #ICTY #LAWS10218 #Gender #BiH #AcademicMisconduct