This is completely wrong. If I can't afford to buy 3 books priced at £80+, is that because the content isn't 'worth it' or because the pricing is unaffordable?
It's also an argument for the 'best' scholarship to be the least affordable and the most inaccessible.
I have been successfully provoked!
AGREED! I discovered this several years ago when wanting to cite the Finch Report in a paper. I put a call out - someone located it on the Wayback machine for me. The Finch Report can be accessed in the APO repository apo.org.au/node/29938
I use this now as an example of the value of repositories.
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
Figure 1 from a paper published in Nature (linked in post). The figure purports to be an infographic depiction of the "Overall working of the framework" for 'explainably' diagnosing autism spectrum disorder. The infographic is plainly nonsense, containing many spelling errors, nonsense words, meaningless images and graphs. Clearly created using generative AI and (crucially) NEVER CHECKED AT ANY STEP OF THE WRITING OR PUBLICATION PROCESS.
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
On of the core principles of information literacy is the information is constructed and contextual. One problem with AI-generated summaries is that they obscure the constructedness and context of information, impeding information literacy development.
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Anyway, let me know if you have questions about it, or (if we’ve worked together) if you’d like a recommendation
It’s a pretty intense 12-week class, so there’s a high time commitment, but it doesn’t cost money. And it’s great! I took it and I learned a lot. They work through specific cases and the philosophy behind them
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AND, by having students do projects ABOUT this narrative and this goal of robbing and reversing middle class power, they then understand and "get it" big time. (We've even seen students reject AI because they think it is a plot to disempower them by cheating them of real learning, esp first gen.)
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
You’re telling me SpringerNature doesn’t need to charge $13,000 a paper for Nature Plants? I’m shocked!
Guide for Authors Complying with U.S. Federal Agency Public Access and Publisher Policies - SPARC sparcopen.org/our-work/guide-for-autho...
"How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing"
https://doi.org/10.1146/katina-102825-1
"Archive of Our Own, a digital fanfiction repository, shows what’s possible when we design our infrastructures around the communities that use them, rather than around extractive logics."
This is why we can’t have nice things
Oooohhh the “Halloween Voter” ones are PRETTY GREAT
Really pleased with the opening keynote of today's SJSU OA Conference that @camitchell.bsky.social & I gave re. #DefendResearch & the Declaration origin story. Lots of great sessions on the program for the rest of the day; check it out! scholarworks.sjsu.edu/oa-un-confer...
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
I think there was a Judge John Hodgman episode about him!
You know what else is being affected by the tariffs on parcels worth less than $800? International interlibrary loan. I'm hearing reports of libraries overseas that won't lend to the US anymore. (That's in addition to the libraries here that have shut down their ILL b/c of lost IMLS funding.)
Peter Suber making some great points about how Green OA can counteract censorship <3 #nisoplus25
Apparently we didn't learn our lesson from working with Google books
These partnerships are extractive and never end well
www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...
It is abhorrent that these functionaries, many of whom have never visited a college classroom, can change the context and content of my job without anyone’s consent, least of all mine.
Historiographies of Game Studies is now published open access with @punctumbooks.bsky.social ! This massive collection examines why game studies is the way it is, and how it might change and grow in the future. Congrats to all contributors, and please share!
punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
"Uncritically adopting AI tools in discovery systems will perpetuate, if not exacerbate, existing biases and suppression of minoritized people. Try this safer topic. Try this approved topic. Try this unobstructed topic"
is your workplace trying to force ai on you? is a family member giving ai too much power in their life? are you sick of billionaires destroying the environment and making life worse for everyone? here's a list of resources 10+ pages long to help you fight back: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Springer Nature makes clear that federally-funded authors who want to publish in SN journals will have to pay #APCs.
www.springernature.com/gp/open-science/us-feder...
Submitting articles to one of SN's non-OA or subscription-based journals, to avoid the APC, is not an […]
