#academicresearch — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #academicresearch, aggregated by home.social.
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Ars Technica: Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?. “The number of papers indexed in the databases Scopus and Web of Science, for example, has recently been increasing exponentially, at a rate of 5.6 percent per year. By one estimate, researchers around the globe are devoting a collective 15,000 years of work to peer review every year—work that, if paid, would cost $1.5 […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/14/ars-technica-peer-review-is-overwhelmed-can-it-survive-in-the-ai-era/ -
The State Scientific And Technical Library Of Ukraine, and machine-translated from Ukrainian: MES opens interactive dashboard “Specialized publications of Ukraine”. “As part of the work of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine to develop an open and transparent system of scientific professional publications, an interactive dashboard ‘Professional Publications of Ukraine’ was created. […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/12/the-state-scientific-and-technical-library-of-ukraine-mes-opens-interactive-dashboard-specialized-publications-of-ukraine/ -
What if neurodivergent minds are not simply different ways of processing information, but different ways of knowing the world? 💜
New publication! 🎉 "Neurodivergent Embodiment in Posthuman Media: Towards a Soft Aesthetics of Cognition" in dialog explores neurodivergence, posthumanism, AI, embodied cognition, and proposes the concept of a "soft aesthetics of cognition."
#Neurodiversity #Posthumanism #AcademicResearch #Autism #MediaStudies #SoftAestheticsOfCognition
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What happens when AI helps write science?
A Nature commentary suggests one overlooked consequence: uncertainty may become less visible in scientific papers, even though it is central to how knowledge advances.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01605-6
#ArtificialIntelligence #Science #SciComm #ResearchCulture #AcademicResearch
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Kirsten the Librarian: The Big List of Google Scholar Alternatives (and the Big Librarian Existential Crisis). “I started writing this in summer of last year, intending it to be a nice little list of tools that would be handy if Google Scholar disappeared or got substantially worse, as a follow up to my LSE Impact blog post.[1] The more I wrote the more I realised that I needed to caveat all my […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/21/kirsten-the-librarian-the-big-list-of-google-scholar-alternatives-and-the-big-librarian-existential-crisis/ -
Research papers play a crucial role in advancing knowledge by providing evidence-based insights and scientific validation.
Explore how research contributions in Ayurveda and holistic health are documented and shared: https://medium.com/@patanjaliwebsites/importance-of-research-papers-in-advancing-knowledge-and-academic-understanding-597f36fae1ef
#Research #AcademicResearch #Ayurveda #ScientificStudy #HerbalMedicine #Knowledge #EvidenceBased #Education
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Larry Ferlazzo: Google Unveils “Scholar Labs” For Academic Research – Seems “Meh”. “Google has unveiled ‘Scholar Labs,’ an AI tool designed to assist academic research. It’s part of what appears to be an unending search for ways to make their AI useful. They haven’t been that successful in the past, and I’m less-than-impressed with this new tool.”