#academicchatter — Public Fediverse posts

From the ethics policy of a journal:

It is not permitted to share manuscripts under review with AI tools in any form, [...] as this compromises the confidentiality and copyright of material provided by the author during the peer review process.

I think the policy is valid but the reason 'compromises confidentiality' is moot because the papers are on the arXiv with names and all that and thus already part of training data and available to agents. Also local models.

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From the ethics policy of a journal:

It is not permitted to share manuscripts under review with AI tools in any form, [...] as this compromises the confidentiality and copyright of material provided by the author during the peer review process.

I think the policy is valid but the reason 'compromises confidentiality' is moot because the papers are on the arXiv with names and all that and thus already part of training data and available to agents. Also local models.

#academicchatter

#academicchatter #spam If an email to you starts with "I hope this email finds you well", you

#academicchatter #spam If an email to you starts with "I hope this email finds you well", you

Instead of taking siloed discipline specific introductory science courses, I think high school and college freshmen should be required to take a nonspecific course in precisely what science is and, more importantly, what it is not, with a heavy emphasis on critical thinking. It would be taught by non-research faculty dedicated to this content, from all STEM departments. Save the discipline specific courses for the majors. #ITeachPhysics #ITeachMath #AcademicChatter

Please, please click me to get...

... a summary of the almost guaranteed incomplete* presentation of the research in this paper**
😅

#AcademicChatter

*Is there such a thing as a complete research report (yet)?

** Sure, it might still be better than the provided abstract, but is that the bar?

Please, please click me to get...

... a summary of the almost guaranteed incomplete* presentation of the research in this paper**
😅

#AcademicChatter

*Is there such a thing as a complete research report (yet)?

** Sure, it might still be better than the provided abstract, but is that the bar?

Academics, what is more painful? A paper that gets a desk-rejection, or getting rejected for a job on the same day you applied? #Academia #Academicchatter #Academictoots

Academics, what is more painful? A paper that gets a desk-rejection, or getting rejected for a job on the same day you applied? #Academia #Academicchatter #Academictoots

Hello fedifolk especially fediscience,
have any of you been working with WfD? I bet some are!
Edit, "#Science for #Democracy" in English.

I have just come across it, looks really interesting especially this prep work ...
https://wissenschaftfuerdemokratie.de/en/working-groups/resilience-in-science/

#AcademicChatter

Hello fedifolk especially fediscience,
have any of you been working with WfD? I bet some are!

I have just come across it, looks really interesting especially this prep work ...
https://wissenschaftfuerdemokratie.de/en/working-groups/resilience-in-science/

#AcademicChatter

Alas I will miss @[email protected]'s talk at Science and cocktails in Copenhagen, but definitely of interest for those who are around, several from my research group will be attending and taking notes..

#science #cocktails #STEM #AcademicChatter

www.scienceandcocktails.org/en/events/co...

scienceandcocktails.org/en/events/cope...

Alas I will miss @[email protected]'s talk at Science and cocktails in Copenhagen, but definitely of interest for those who are around, several from my research group will be attending and taking notes..

#science #cocktails #STEM #AcademicChatter

www.scienceandcocktails.org/en/events/co...

scienceandcocktails.org/en/events/cope...

Alas I have to be at a meeting abroad, so will miss @ct_bergstrom 's talk at Science and cocktails in Copenhagen, but definitely of interest for those who are around, several from my research group will be attending and taking notes..

#science #cocktails #STEM #AcademicChatter

https://www.scienceandcocktails.org/en/events/copenhagen/information-disinformation-and-the-future-of-human-society

Alas I have to be at a meeting abroad, so will miss @ct_bergstrom 's talk at Science and cocktails in Copenhagen, but definitely of interest for those who are around, several from my research group will be attending and taking notes..

#science #cocktails #STEM #AcademicChatter

https://www.scienceandcocktails.org/en/events/copenhagen/information-disinformation-and-the-future-of-human-society

Does anyone know of a site compiling AI policies for academic (especially STEM) publishers?

#AcademicChatter #STEM #Ethics #FuckAI

Does anyone know of a site compiling AI policies for academic (especially STEM) publishers?

#AcademicChatter #STEM #Ethics #FuckAI

These days, quantum science/technology conferences will have talk contributions from industry (IBM/Google Quantum and many others). They must have an arbitrary number of employees who can talk about their results. So why do they not send someone who is able to deliver a well-structured and interesting talk??
#AcademicChatter #QuantumTech #QSim2026

These days, quantum science/technology conferences will have talk contributions from industry (IBM/Google Quantum and many others). They must have an arbitrary number of employees who can talk about their results. So why do they not send someone who is able to deliver a well-structured and interesting talk??
#AcademicChatter #QuantumTech #QSim2026

Have you noticed how biorxiv has been intermittently down lately? Some sites/features not working?

Or is it just me?

For example, the link for the article shown below is dead. Strange.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.05.742891v1
#academicchatter

Have you noticed how biorxiv has been intermittently down lately? Some sites/features not working?

Or is it just me?

For example, the link for the article shown below is dead. Strange.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.05.742891v1
#academicchatter

'A country’s respect for academic freedom is an important indicator of democratic health. Universities with functional academic freedom and tenure do more than reflect a healthy democracy. They help create and sustain it. Faculty need to be more explicit and purposeful about that role'

#democracy #academicChatter #civicVirtue

https://drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/universities-are-pillars-of-democracy

'A country’s respect for academic freedom is an important indicator of democratic health. Universities with functional academic freedom and tenure do more than reflect a healthy democracy. They help create and sustain it. Faculty need to be more explicit and purposeful about that role'

#democracy #academicChatter #civicVirtue

https://drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/universities-are-pillars-of-democracy

“The cynical questioning of postsecondary education has been amplified by right-wing think tanks, authoritarian politicians, tech billionaires, wealthy donors and corporate lobbyists. The larger objective is to undermine trust not only in universities, but in public and publicly funded institutions more generally.”
#academia #academicchatter #Canada

https://drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/universities-are-pillars-of-democracy

“The cynical questioning of postsecondary education has been amplified by right-wing think tanks, authoritarian politicians, tech billionaires, wealthy donors and corporate lobbyists. The larger objective is to undermine trust not only in universities, but in public and publicly funded institutions more generally.”
#academia #academicchatter #Canada

https://drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/universities-are-pillars-of-democracy

Sometimes in science people discourage you from talking about wild ideas because what if someone "steals" it.

But that misunderstands several points: you are rarely the first or only person to have an idea, we are all swimming in the same water, reading the same literature, attending the same conferences. It would be odd if only one person has a given idea.
Maybe someone already tried it and found it didn't work. Discussing ideas might help to stop you wasting your time and resources in that case.

And there are more than enough scientific questions to go round!

Ideas are the easy part. Doing the work is the difficult bit.

And so what if someone publishes similar ideas to you beforehand? It's science, it's supposed to be replicable (odd incentives like publish or perish culture notwithstanding) and there is always a new angle to explore.
Science is a group pursuit anyway. It's rare you do everything by yourself, discussion with other scientists is as essential as oxygen. And sometimes the more discussion you have the wilder and cooler the ideas get

#AcademicChatter

https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/117078561059020813
[email protected] - So. Share your wildest ideas. Not because you want to be praised for it. But because you might inspire other strangers with specific knowledge to build stuff inspired by your idea without even telling you. Ideas want to travel to find new friends. Set them free. They might come back to you or not. Just share. That's what the Real Internet is for ;)

Sometimes in science people discourage you from talking about wild ideas because what if someone "steals" it.

But that misunderstands several points: you are rarely the first or only person to have an idea, we are all swimming in the same water, reading the same literature, attending the same conferences. It would be odd if only one person has a given idea.
Maybe someone already tried it and found it didn't work. Discussing ideas might help to stop you wasting your time and resources in that case.

And there are more than enough scientific questions to go round!

Ideas are the easy part. Doing the work is the difficult bit.

And so what if someone publishes similar ideas to you beforehand? It's science, it's supposed to be replicable (odd incentives like publish or perish culture notwithstanding) and there is always a new angle to explore.
Science is a group pursuit anyway. It's rare you do everything by yourself, discussion with other scientists is as essential as oxygen. And sometimes the more discussion you have the wilder and cooler the ideas get

#AcademicChatter

https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/117078561059020813
[email protected] - So. Share your wildest ideas. Not because you want to be praised for it. But because you might inspire other strangers with specific knowledge to build stuff inspired by your idea without even telling you. Ideas want to travel to find new friends. Set them free. They might come back to you or not. Just share. That's what the Real Internet is for ;)

Today, I have accomplished almost nothing. Had a nice meeting. Its result is work. That's a worker's life, I presume. Even in academia. 🤷‍♂️

However, one thing annoyed me. I have a workflow, which - among other things - counts genomic reads. I was using a tool called "salmon" for it. Was dealing with so-called "long reads". Only to discover, that an update now causes the tool to tell me: "I am cowardly refusing to work as before. That flag does not do what it did in the past. Use this other tool: <link>".

Seriously???

#academicchatter #bioinformatics

Today, I have accomplished almost nothing. Had a nice meeting. Its result is work. That's a worker's life, I presume. Even in academia. 🤷‍♂️

However, one thing annoyed me. I have a workflow, which - among other things - counts genomic reads. I was using a tool called "salmon" for it. Was dealing with so-called "long reads". Only to discover, that an update now causes the tool to tell me: "I am cowardly refusing to work as before. That flag does not do what it did in the past. Use this other tool: <link>".

Seriously???

#academicchatter #bioinformatics

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@CenterforOpenScience/117076822166523045

The OSF is unfortunately losing functionalities. Do check the announcement if you had ongoing research projects, some may need to be moved elsewhere.

#AcademicChatter #OpenScience #OSF

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@CenterforOpenScience/117076822166523045

The OSF is unfortunately losing functionalities. Do check the announcement if you had ongoing research projects, some may need to be moved elsewhere.

#AcademicChatter #OpenScience #OSF

#OSF will not be available anymore for new projects, data or registrations going forward 😭 … and there goes my #OpenScience workflow #academicChatter https://www.cos.io/osf-changes

#OSF will not be available anymore for new projects, data or registrations going forward 😭 … and there goes my #OpenScience workflow #academicChatter https://www.cos.io/osf-changes

Uh-oh: I just got an email saying that @CenterforOpenScience will be phasing out the "project workflow" of the #OpenScienceFramework (it will remain as a site for planning #preregistration). Using this as a repository for files, code, results and tools has been a major part of my research workflow the last >12 years. This means I'll have to find replacement solutions, and make significant changes to my research workflows, collaboration, and teaching.

#OSF #OpenScience #AcademicChatter

Uh-oh: I just got an email saying that @CenterforOpenScience will be phasing out the "project workflow" of the #OpenScienceFramework (it will remain as a site for planning #preregistration). Using this as a repository for files, code, results and tools has been a major part of my research workflow the last >12 years. This means I'll have to find replacement solutions, and make significant changes to my research workflows, collaboration, and teaching.

#OSF #OpenScience #AcademicChatter

I saw this elsewhere and thought I’d repost here. One lab’s policy on AI use in academic writing.

“The only reason you’ll ever need to not write with AI”

https://www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the-only-reason-youll-ever-need-not-to-write-with-ai

#academicchatter

I saw this elsewhere and thought I’d repost here. One lab’s policy on AI use in academic writing.

“The only reason you’ll ever need to not write with AI”

https://www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the-only-reason-youll-ever-need-not-to-write-with-ai

#academicchatter

I'm a university faculty member in Linguistics, and I just got an email from a high school senior who wants to come shadow a linguist for 20 hours before Oct. 15 for a school-required project. We've actually done this before with this school, and I'm delighted by high school students who want to learn about linguistics. However, the students apparently aren't allowed to miss regular class time in order to do their shadowing project. So they're only free to do 20 hours of profession shadowing on weekends or after 4 PM weekdays. How does the school think this will work? If you want to shadow a nurse or a grocery store evening manager, maybe this works. But what if the students want to become K-12 teachers? It also doesn't work for academic jobs--while we do plenty of work at night and on the weekends, watching someone answer email for 20 hours would be boring, not to mention that they're answering email from home. I don't get how the school thinks this would work. Anyone else have experience with high schoolers shadowing jobs? (The previous time we did this, we happened to be running a weekend conference, and took the student along to that. Otherwise, they have to have a day off school while we're in session.) #AcademicChatter

I'm a university faculty member in Linguistics, and I just got an email from a high school senior who wants to come shadow a linguist for 20 hours before Oct. 15 for a school-required project. We've actually done this before with this school, and I'm delighted by high school students who want to learn about linguistics. However, the students apparently aren't allowed to miss regular class time in order to do their shadowing project. So they're only free to do 20 hours of profession shadowing on weekends or after 4 PM weekdays. How does the school think this will work? If you want to shadow a nurse or a grocery store evening manager, maybe this works. But what if the students want to become K-12 teachers? It also doesn't work for academic jobs--while we do plenty of work at night and on the weekends, watching someone answer email for 20 hours would be boring, not to mention that they're answering email from home. I don't get how the school thinks this would work. Anyone else have experience with high schoolers shadowing jobs? (The previous time we did this, we happened to be running a weekend conference, and took the student along to that. Otherwise, they have to have a day off school while we're in session.) #AcademicChatter

radical softies: art, grief, and the power of care @kollapscamp #Kollapscamp26 #DecolonizeArtTherapy #Workshop #SciComm #AcademicChatter

Now I am reading a paper so I can respond to Reviewer #2, point 5

#AcademicChatter

Now I am reading a paper so I can respond to Reviewer #2, point 5

#AcademicChatter

My conference talk is on the first day, in the first session (tomorrow morning). That means that I spent today (both in the train and hotel) desperately trying to fix and practice the talk, but at least I will be able to enjoy the rest of the conference afterwards!
Do you have preferred timeslots for your talks?
#AcademicChatter

My conference talk is on the first day, in the first session (tomorrow morning). That means that I spent today (both in the train and hotel) desperately trying to fix and practice the talk, but at least I will be able to enjoy the rest of the conference afterwards!
Do you have preferred timeslots for your talks?
#AcademicChatter

As an anthropologist (as a folklorist) I am far more interested in noticing, treasuring, and finding beauty in things than in accomplishing any particular goal. As an anthropologist (as a strategist) I have the skill set for goals. And as an anthropologist (as an analyst) I do love to articulate a deeper meaning, to pull things apart and weave them back together. But from childhood, reading fairy tales (oral tradition, folklore), what nourished me was the inarticulable, the mystery, the don't-try-to-explain-this, the self-evident depth or paradox, the "it is" or "t'was thus."

Long before I was an anthropologist I considered myself an archivist. From childhood I collected material culture embodying meaning, from my life and from those around me: I considered it a contribution, to preserve things of meaning for others. And literally, what is archiving but treasuring?

I long to treasure everything. #folklore #anthropology #oralTradition #academicChatter #fairytales #archiving

As an anthropologist (as a folklorist) I am far more interested in noticing, treasuring, and finding beauty in things than in accomplishing any particular goal. As an anthropologist (as a strategist) I have the skill set for goals. And as an anthropologist (as an analyst) I do love to articulate a deeper meaning, to pull things apart and weave them back together. But from childhood, reading fairy tales (oral tradition, folklore), what nourished me was the inarticulable, the mystery, the don't-try-to-explain-this, the self-evident depth or paradox, the "it is" or "t'was thus."

Long before I was an anthropologist I considered myself an archivist. From childhood I collected material culture embodying meaning, from my life and from those around me: I considered it a contribution, to preserve things of meaning for others. And literally, what is archiving but treasuring?

I long to treasure everything. #folklore #anthropology #oralTradition #academicChatter #fairytales #archiving

I was looking for statistics on the use of @PubPeer but ran into this nice read: https://med.stanford.edu/sudhoflab/integrity---pubpeer.html

This write up of a Stanford University group describes what research rules their lab has, but also an interesting section on PubPeer

Should every research department have this transparency?

#academicChatter

I was looking for statistics on the use of @PubPeer but ran into this nice read: https://med.stanford.edu/sudhoflab/integrity---pubpeer.html

This write up of a Stanford University group describes what research rules their lab has, but also an interesting section on PubPeer

Should every research department have this transparency?

#academicChatter

I'm often baffled by how people like Paul Linebarger (Cordwainer Smith) or Stanley Schmidt managed to balance an academic/research career and be so active in fiction writing. It feels like those two things use the same parts of my brain and compete for bandwidth.
#Writing #AcademicChatter

I'm often baffled by how people like Paul Linebarger (Cordwainer Smith) or Stanley Schmidt managed to balance an academic/research career and be so active in fiction writing. It feels like those two things use the same parts of my brain and compete for bandwidth.
#Writing #AcademicChatter