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"Can Academic Libraries Lead the Quantum Revolution?" https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/can-libraries-lead-the-quantum-revolution
– Herjeh, um was sollen wir uns denn noch alles kümmern…

Say NO to Trump's political control over UCLA's academic freedom.
Rally begins Nov 18, 12–2pm, 445 Charles E Young Dr, LA, CA
☑️ Academic Freedom Rally hosted by the UCLA Faculty Asdoc & UCLA-AFT · NELA Alliance for Democracy
https://www.mobilize.us/nelaalliancefordem

Microstimulation in the primary visual cortex: activity patterns and their relation to visual responses and evoked saccades (2023) https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/33/9/5192/6774655?login=false "ICMS with voltage-sensitive dye imaging in V1" for &q…

CL$^2$GEC: A Multi-Discipline Benchmark for Continual Learning in Chinese Literature Grammatical Error Correction
Shang Qin, Jingheng Ye, Yinghui Li, Hai-Tao Zheng, Qi Li, Jinxiao Shan, Zhixing Li, Hong-Gee Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13672

CL$^2$GEC: A Multi-Discipline Benchmark for Continual Learning in Chinese Literature Grammatical Error Correction
The growing demand for automated writing assistance in diverse academic domains highlights the need for robust Chinese Grammatical Error Correction (CGEC) systems that can adapt across disciplines. However, existing CGEC research largely lacks dedicated benchmarks for multi-disciplinary academic writing, overlooking continual learning (CL) as a promising solution to handle domain-specific linguistic variation and prevent catastrophic forgetting. To fill this crucial gap, we introduce CL$^2$GEC,…

AI and the Future of Academic Peer Review
Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Mateo Aboy, Joel Jiehao Seah, Zhicheng Lin, Xufei Luo, Dan Rodger, Hazem Zohny, Timo Minssen, Julian Savulescu, Brian D. Earp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14189

AI and the Future of Academic Peer Review
Peer review remains the central quality-control mechanism of science, yet its ability to fulfill this role is increasingly strained. Empirical studies document serious shortcomings: long publication delays, escalating reviewer burden concentrated on a small minority of scholars, inconsistent quality and low inter-reviewer agreement, and systematic biases by gender, language, and institutional prestige. Decades of human-centered reforms have yielded only marginal improvements. Meanwhile, artific…

Yikes.
The University of Sydney (USyd) sent students’ results notification emails containing academic results belonging to other students, in what appears to be a widespread data and privacy breach affecting students across multiple faculties.
https://…

Anyone (academic / researcher) had recent experience with submitting to #ScienceAdvances (https://www.science.org/journal/sciadv)? Good or bad?
We submitted there about 3 months ago and hear…

"Assessing the academic and societal impact of Open Access: bibliometric and altmetric analyses" https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-05436-6
"The accessibility of scholarly research plays a crucial role in shaping academic impact and societal engagement. This study examine…

from my link log —
On the security of SSH client signatures.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09331
saved 2025-09-15 https://dotat.at/:/GW6BK.html

On the Security of SSH Client Signatures
Administrators and developers use SSH client keys and signatures for authentication, for example, to access internet backbone servers or to commit new code on platforms like GitHub. However, unlike servers, SSH clients cannot be measured through internet scans. We close this gap in two steps. First, we collect SSH client public keys. Such keys are regularly published by their owners on open development platforms like GitHub and GitLab. We systematize previous non-academic work by subjecting the…

🧂 Cocaine trafficking in Colombia moves as much money as the construction industry
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-19/cocaine-trafficking-in-colombia-moves-as-much-money-as-the-construc…

Cocaine trafficking in Colombia moves as much money as the construction industry
A new academic paper reveals that the drug trade generates annual revenues of $15.3 billion, equivalent to 4.2% of the country’s GDP

WatchAnxiety: A Transfer Learning Approach for State Anxiety Prediction from Smartwatch Data
Md Sabbir Ahmed, Noah French, Mark Rucker, Zhiyuan Wang, Taylor Myers-Brower, Kaitlyn Petz, Mehdi Boukhechba, Bethany A. Teachman, Laura E. Barnes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13725

WatchAnxiety: A Transfer Learning Approach for State Anxiety Prediction from Smartwatch Data
Social anxiety is a common mental health condition linked to significant challenges in academic, social, and occupational functioning. A core feature is elevated momentary (state) anxiety in social situations, yet little prior work has measured or predicted fluctuations in this anxiety throughout the day. Capturing these intra-day dynamics is critical for designing real-time, personalized interventions such as Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs). To address this gap, we conducted a stu…

Believe it or not, I've never actually submitted an academic paper for peer-reviewed publication before, and I'm a lil nail-bitey.
Is there anyone here who's active in ACL (the Association for Computational Linguistics) who wants to swap papers with me for a deep critique of methods/code/conclusions? I have a fun classic ML model that will entertain you, I swear.

Last weekend, Yale University had a “viral German-style pudding event” where students gathered to eat pudding with a fork
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10/09/viral-german-style-pudding-event-set-for-saturday-w…

Viral German-style pudding event set for Saturday with academic funds
On Saturday afternoon, Yalies will try out the German trend of eating pudding with a fork, at an event organized with the German department’s support.

"6 universities reject White House funding deal with attached demands. Multiple other schools have yet to respond "
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/16/us/trump-universities-compact-funding
So the Trump admin is trying their "quiproquo" technique with US…

4 universities decline White House offer for expanded access to federal funding in exchange for demands. Here’s what we know
The battle for academic freedom and institutional sovereignty in higher education continues to play out as another university has rejected a White House offer for expanded access to federal funding in return for agreeing to a series of demands.

Union Warns Professors About Posting In the ‘Current Climate’ https://www.404media.co/union-warns-professors-about-posting-in-the-current-climate/

GlobalizeEd: A Multimodal Translation System that Preserves Speaker Identity in Academic Lectures
Hoang-Son Vo, Karina Kolmogortseva, Ngumimi Karen Iyortsuun, Hong-Duyen Vo, Soo-Hyung Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11596

GlobalizeEd: A Multimodal Translation System that Preserves Speaker Identity in Academic Lectures
A large amount of valuable academic content is only available in its original language, creating a significant access barrier for the global student community. This is a challenge for translating in several subjects, such as history, culture, and the arts, where current automated subtitle tools fail to convey the appropriate pedagogical tone and specialized meaning. In addition, reading traditional automated subtitles increases cognitive load and leads to a disconnected learning experience. Thr…

Beyond Test Scores: How Academic Rank Shapes Long-Term Outcomes
Emilia Del Bono, Angus Holford, Tommaso Sartori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11973 https://ar…

Beyond Test Scores: How Academic Rank Shapes Long-Term Outcomes
We study the effects of academic rank using data on the entire population of children enrolled in primary schools in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1962. Exploiting quasi-random variation in peer group composition, we estimate the causal impact of rank on academic performance, noncognitive development, parental investment, and long-term outcomes. Higher rank improves achievement on the high-stakes eleven-plus examination and strengthens internalizing skills (traits related to self-concept and confidenc…

Youth Privacy in Australia: Insights from National Policy Dialogues
https://fpf.org/blog/youth-privacy-in-australia-insights-from-national-policy-dialogues/
@…

found an academic arguing in defense of those liberian county flags imfamous for looking like archetypal mspaint doodles
https://steven-knowlton.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf3746/files/knowltonliberianflags.pdf

ACADATA: Parallel Dataset of Academic Data for Machine Translation
I\~naki Lacunza, Javier Garcia Gilabert, Francesca De Luca Fornaciari, Javier Aula-Blasco, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre, Maite Melero, Marta Villegas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12621

ACADATA: Parallel Dataset of Academic Data for Machine Translation
We present ACADATA, a high-quality parallel dataset for academic translation, that consists of two subsets: ACAD-TRAIN, which contains approximately 1.5 million author-generated paragraph pairs across 96 language directions and ACAD-BENCH, a curated evaluation set of almost 6,000 translations covering 12 directions. To validate its utility, we fine-tune two Large Language Models (LLMs) on ACAD-TRAIN and benchmark them on ACAD-BENCH against specialized machine-translation systems, general-purpos…

Revisiting the X-ray-to-UV relation of quasars in the era of all-sky surveys: #quasar law: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/astronomers-challenge-50-year-old-quasar-law

Every book I checked (>6) that I used in computer networking classes I taught going back 25 years, except for one was found in this list.
https://ecoevo.social/@hydropsyche/115322277085213039

The mad Aussie chemist is back in his shed-lab and doing something inadvisable again.
"When I've used hydroflouric acid in an academic environment it's the only chemical where you have to mandatorily have someone else conduct the activity with you just to stand there and call the ambulance if you spill it."
https://www.

🌐 Microsoft premieres new Academic Research Skilling Hub to the GÉANT community
European Research & Education institutions consuming Microsoft #cloud services via GÉANT’s #OCRE2024 Framework now have a new resource: Microsoft's Academic Research Skilling Hub.
Specifically designed for r…

The Paper Factory: How Academia Turned Research into Production — From publish-or-perish pressure to the erosion of creativity in modern science https://research-reviewer.blogspot.com/2025/10/publish-or-perish-research.html

The Paper Factory: How Academia Turned Research into Production — From publish-or-perish pressure to the erosion of creativity in modern science
An in-depth reflection on how the ‘publish or perish’ culture, precarious work, and academic metrics have turned research into a paper factory — an...

Accuracy Paradox in Large Language Models: Regulating Hallucination Risks in Generative AI
Zihao Li, Weiwei Yi, Jiahong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13345 https://

Accuracy Paradox in Large Language Models: Regulating Hallucination Risks in Generative AI
As Large Language Models (LLMs) permeate everyday decision-making, their epistemic and societal risks demand urgent scrutiny. Hallucinations, the generation of fabricated, misleading, oversimplified or untrustworthy outputs, has emerged as imperative challenges. While regulatory, academic, and technical discourse position accuracy as the principal benchmark for mitigating such harms, this article contends that overreliance on accuracy misdiagnoses the problem and has counterproductive effect: t…

not that anyone asked, but here's a chart of UM LSA grade inflation over the past 25 years
taken from
https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/academics/lsa-academic-policies-and-procedures/grading-and-transcript-n…

I just read a fascinating and understandable article that gave me a better understanding of LLMs and how they operate.
LLMs Are Randomized Algorithms
A surprising connection between the newest AI models and a 50-year old academic field
by Udayan Kanade
Nov 13, 2025
18 min read
#LLM #AI #algorithms

MTOS: A LLM-Driven Multi-topic Opinion Simulation Framework for Exploring Echo Chamber Dynamics
Dingyi Zuo, Hongjie Zhang, Jie Ou, Chaosheng Feng, Shuwan Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12423

MTOS: A LLM-Driven Multi-topic Opinion Simulation Framework for Exploring Echo Chamber Dynamics
The polarization of opinions, information segregation, and cognitive biases on social media have attracted significant academic attention. In real-world networks, information often spans multiple interrelated topics, posing challenges for opinion evolution and highlighting the need for frameworks that simulate interactions among topics. Existing studies based on large language models (LLMs) focus largely on single topics, limiting the capture of cognitive transfer in multi-topic, cross-domain c…

Research Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2026-2027
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Exploring Artificial Intelligence and Culture: Methodology for a comparative study of AI's impact on norms, trust, and problem-solving across academic and business environments
Matthias Huemmer, Theophile Shyiramunda, Michelle J. Cummings-Koether
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11530

Exploring Artificial Intelligence and Culture: Methodology for a comparative study of AI's impact on norms, trust, and problem-solving across academic and business environments
This paper proposes a rigorous framework to examine the two-way relationship between artificial intelligence (AI), human cognition, problem-solving, and cultural adaptation across academic and business settings. It addresses a key gap by asking how AI reshapes cognitive processes and organizational norms, and how cultural values and institutional contexts shape AI adoption, trust, and use over time. We employ a three-wave longitudinal design that tracks AI knowledge, perceived competence, trust…

Lack of cross modal plasticity potentially linked to ongoing activation of visual cortex and superior colliculus in the rd10 mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article-abstract/35/10/bhaf273/8285020

@… Well, I didn’t really want to get into this discussion ;-) I only mentioned it because that’s the way it’s here: all academic staff has fixed-term contracts, the only difference is how often they can be renewed. In principle, this is a good idea, and the reason why already hints at why academic research/teaching is NOT a job like any other: aca…

@… Well, I didn’t really want to get into this discussion ;-) I only mentioned it because that’s the way it’s here: all academic staff has fixed-term contracts, the only difference is how often they can be renewed. In principle, this is a good idea, and the reason why already hints at why academic research/teaching is NOT a job like any other: aca…

Achieving Meaningful Collaboration: Worker-centered Design of a Physical Human-Robot Collaborative Blending Task
Nicky Mol, Luka Peternel, Alessandro Ianniello, Denis Zatyagov, Auke Nachenius, Stephan Balvert, J. Micah Prendergast, Sara Muscolo, Olger Siebinga, Eva Verhoef, Deborah Forster, David A. Abbink
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12340

Achieving Meaningful Collaboration: Worker-centered Design of a Physical Human-Robot Collaborative Blending Task
The use of robots in industrial settings continues to grow, driven by the need to address complex societal challenges such as labor shortages, aging populations, and ever-increasing production demands. In this abstract, we advocate for (and demonstrate) a transdisciplinary approach when considering robotics in the workplace. Transdisciplinarity emphasizes the integration of academic research with pragmatic expertise and embodied experiential knowledge, that prioritize values such as worker well…

ACADREASON: Exploring the Limits of Reasoning Models with Academic Research Problems
Xin Gui, King Zhu, JinCheng Ren, Qianben Chen, Zekun Moore Wang, Yizhi LI, Xinpeng Liu, Xiaowan Li, Wenli Ren, Linyu Miao, Tianrui Qin, Ziqi Shu, He Zhu, Xiangru Tang, Dingfeng Shi, Jiaheng Liu, Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Minghao Liu, Ge Zhang, Wangchunshu Zhou
https://

ACADREASON: Exploring the Limits of Reasoning Models with Academic Research Problems
In recent years, the research focus of large language models (LLMs) and agents has shifted increasingly from demonstrating novel capabilities to complex reasoning and tackling challenging tasks. However, existing evaluations focus mainly on math/code contests or general tasks, while existing multi-domain academic benchmarks lack sufficient reasoning depth, leaving the field without a rigorous benchmark for high-level reasoning. To fill this gap, we introduce the Acadreason benchmark, designed t…

Evaluating undergraduate mathematics examinations in the era of generative AI: a curriculum-level case study
Benjamin J. Walker, Beatriz Navarro Lameda, Ruth A. Reynolds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13359

Evaluating undergraduate mathematics examinations in the era of generative AI: a curriculum-level case study
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as OpenAI's ChatGPT are transforming the educational landscape, prompting reconsideration of traditional assessment practices. In parallel, universities are exploring alternatives to in-person, closed-book examinations, raising concerns about academic integrity and pedagogical alignment in uninvigilated settings. This study investigates whether traditional closed-book mathematics examinations retain their pedagogical relevance when hypotheti…

A warm ultraluminous infrared #galaxy just 600 million years after the big bang: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/2/1502/8318242?login=false -> Superheated star factory is discovered in early universe: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/superheated-star-factory-discovered-early-universe

It's good to see an academic journal publishing serious scholarship: "many controversies around this dramatic episode cannot be resolved until a more objective and quantitative analysis is carried out."
Remember kids, numbers are transparent and self-evident in a way that words can never be. Thanks be to economics.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Ester Mägi, Academic Male Choir of Tallinn University of Technology, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Arvo Volmer:
🎵 Ballad 'Tuule Tuba' (House of Wind)
#EsterMägi #AcademicMaleChoirofTallinnUniversityofTechnology

MIARec: Mutual-influence-aware Heterogeneous Network Embedding for Scientific Paper Recommendation
Wenjin Xie, Tao Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12054 https://

MIARec: Mutual-influence-aware Heterogeneous Network Embedding for Scientific Paper Recommendation
With the rapid expansion of scientific literature, scholars increasingly demand precise and high-quality paper recommendations. Among various recommendation methodologies, graph-based approaches have garnered attention by effectively exploiting the structural characteristics inherent in scholarly networks. However, these methods often overlook the asymmetric academic influence that is prevalent in scholarly networks when learning graph representations. To address this limitation, this study pro…

A take I endorse 🙏

Legal Organizations Across the Ideological Spectrum Urge Court to Reinstate Lawsuit Against Trump Administration's Unconstitutional Attack on Academic Freedom (ACLU)
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/legal-organizations-across-the-ideological-spectrum-urge-court-to-reinstate-lawsuit-against-trump-administrations-unconstitutional-attack-on-academic-freedom
http://www.memeorandum.com/250930/p151#a250930p151

The U.S. Department of Education recently sent MIT and eight other institutions
a proposed
“Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,"
along with a letter asking that MIT review the document.
After considerable thought and consultation with leaders from across MIT,
today I sent the following reply to U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth,
MIT president
--
The document also includes princi…

So I've read a lot of both academic and "popular" criticism of AI; spanning decades from the 1940s to now.
I think both things are good and proper and needed.
And further than that I posit that you actually need at least some bombastic and "flashy" writers in order to reach more people
What's kind of funny is that in many of the academic critiques of AI the authors comment on how their colleagues came belligerent and hostile towards them because "they aren't writing seriously"—this is found all over Weizenbaum, Dreyfus, Anders, etc.
Anyway, READ MORE OLD BOOKS :)

'This is the dark side and true meaning of "business optimization." The optimal business pays its suppliers and workers nothing, and charges its customers everything it can. Obviously, businesses need to settle for suboptimal outcomes, because workers won't show up if they don't get paid, and customers won't buy things that cost everything they have⹋.
⹋ Unless, of course, you are an academic publisher, in which case this is just how you do business.'
…

Just to underscore the point, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo leaving MIT for UZH is probably one of the biggest academic news stories of the year.
(Think: Bad-Bunny-level-for-normal-people big.)
Nobel-winning Economists To Leave US For Zurich: University
https://www.

Nobel-winning Economists To Leave US For Zurich: University

Day 5: Robin Wall Kimmerer
I'm taking these liberty of changing my hashtag and expanding the intent of this list to include all non-men, although Kimerer is a woman so I'll get to more gender diversity later... I've also started planning this out more and realized that I may continue a bit beyond 20...
In any case, Robin Wall Kimmerer is an Indigenous academic biologist and excellent non-fiction author whose work touches on Potawotomi philosophy, colonialism (including in academic spaces), and ideas for a better future. Anyone interested in ecology, conservation, or decolonization in North America will probably be impressed by her work and the rich connections she weaves between academic ecology and Indigenous knowledge offer a critical opportunity to expand your understanding of the world if like me you were raised deeply enmeshed in "Western" scientific tradition. I suppose a little background in skepticism helped prepare me to respect her writing, but I don't think that's essential.
I've only read "Braiding Sweetgrass," but "Gathering Moss" and her more recent "The Serviceberry" are high on my to-read list, despite my predilection for fiction. Kimmerer incorporates a backbone of fascinating anecdotes into "Braiding Sweetgrass" that makes it surprisingly easy reading for a work that's philosophical at its core. She also pulls off an impressive braided organization to the whole thing, weaving together disparate knowledges in a way that lets you see both their contradictions and their connections.
The one criticism I've seen of her work is that it's not sufficiently connected to other Indigenous philosophers & writers, and that it's perhaps too comfortable of a read for colonizers, and that seems valid to me, even though (perhaps because I am a colonizer) I still find her book important.
An excellent author in any case, and one doing concrete ideological work towards a better world.
#20AuthorsNoMen

Bi-National Academic Funding and Collaboration Dynamics: The Case of the German-Israeli Foundation
Amit Bengiat, Teddy Lazebnik, Philipp Mayr, Ariel Rosenfeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02743

Bi-National Academic Funding and Collaboration Dynamics: The Case of the German-Israeli Foundation
Academic grant programs are widely used to motivate international research collaboration and boost scientific impact across borders. Among these, bi-national funding schemes -- pairing researchers from just two designated countries - are common yet understudied compared with national and multinational funding. In this study, we explore whether bi-national programs genuinely foster new collaborations, high-quality research, and lasting partnerships. To this end, we conducted a bibliometric case …

If you're advertising (academic) jobs via email/Slack/Zulip/etc and want broad circulation it's really helpful to also have a link to an associated web page to make it easier for folks to share these positions on socials, in other Slacks/Zulips, etc. It doesn't need to be an official job ad, just a page on your website/blog that includes the same information.

Essay trying to explain the rise of populism.
It's about an "appeal to common sense" instead of allowing for elitist analytical thinking and theorizing.
https://josephheath.substack.com/p/populism-fast-and-slow

Populism fast and slow
It is natural that a person who is both concerned by the rise of right-wing populism and possessed of a bookish disposition might turn to the academic political science literature in search of a better understanding of the phenomenon.

LLM-REVal: Can We Trust LLM Reviewers Yet?
Rui Li, Jia-Chen Gu, Po-Nien Kung, Heming Xia, Junfeng liu, Xiangwen Kong, Zhifang Sui, Nanyun Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12367 h…

LLM-REVal: Can We Trust LLM Reviewers Yet?
The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has inspired researchers to integrate them extensively into the academic workflow, potentially reshaping how research is practiced and reviewed. While previous studies highlight the potential of LLMs in supporting research and peer review, their dual roles in the academic workflow and the complex interplay between research and review bring new risks that remain largely underexplored. In this study, we focus on how the deep integration of LLM…

March 15-17, 2026 at Boston College: Mapping the Field of Jewish-Christian Relations (Hybrid Conference)
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Strong progenitor age bias in supernova #cosmology – I. Robust and ubiquitous evidence from a larger sample of host galaxies in a broader redshift range / II. Alignment with DESI BAO and signs of a non-accelerating universe: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/538/4/3340/8098234 / https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/1/975/8281988 -> Universe's expansion 'is now slowing, not speeding up': https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/universes-expansion-now-slowing-not-speeding (this has been claimed by the group since at least 2023 - http://vietnam.in2p3.fr/2023/windows/transparencies/02_tuesday/Astro_5/01_Son.pdf - and is rejected by the SN cosmology community as https://bsky.app/profile/astromarc.bsky.social/post/3m4xmikwfds26 explains).

Austerity in Crisis?: A Narrative Review of Its Economic, Social, and Political Effects in Times of Crisis
Ricardo Alonzo Fern\'andez Salguero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10449

Austerity in Crisis?: A Narrative Review of Its Economic, Social, and Political Effects in Times of Crisis
The 2008 global financial crisis marked the beginning of a decade dominated by fiscal austerity policies in much of the developed world. This paper presents a qualitative narrative review of an extensive collection of academic literature to synthesize evidence on the multifaceted effects of austerity. Following a thematic approach inspired by PRISMA guidelines, the economic, social, and political consequences of these measures are examined. The analysis reveals a majority consensus regarding th…

Shout out to all my fellow #academic hedge witches!
#amreading

Have you ever wondered to what extend LLMs are used to support writing of scientific publications? Here is a chart indicating the fraction of LLM-modified sentences in scientific publications over time.
c.f. Liang et al, Mapping the Increasing Use of LLMs in Scientific Papers (2024)
https://arxiv.org/html/2404.01268v1

PowerPlots: An Open Source Power Grid Visualization and Data Analysis Framework for Academic Research
Noah Rhodes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05063 https://…

PowerPlots: An Open Source Power Grid Visualization and Data Analysis Framework for Academic Research
Data visualization is important for developing an understanding of a complex system. PowerPlots.jl is a data visualization tool for power grids, one of the most complex systems in the world. The design of PowerPlots.jl is intended to facilitate exploration of power grid data while performing research and to facilitate communication of research findings to an audience. Several tools created to support this software also facilitate analysis of power grid data by transforming the data into graph t…

Oh you academic nerds.... Hach!

That article about the alleged safety of glyphosate that was retracted 25 years after publication because it was effectively ghostwritten by Monsanto? The whole ghostwriting was already revealed 8 years ago in a court.
Quite telling about the issues with academic publishing culture.
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/glyphosate-safety-article-retracted-elsevier-monsanto-ghostwriting/

Large Scale Diffusion Distillation via Score-Regularized Continuous-Time Consistency
Kaiwen Zheng, Yuji Wang, Qianli Ma, Huayu Chen, Jintao Zhang, Yogesh Balaji, Jianfei Chen, Ming-Yu Liu, Jun Zhu, Qinsheng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08431

Large Scale Diffusion Distillation via Score-Regularized Continuous-Time Consistency
This work represents the first effort to scale up continuous-time consistency distillation to general application-level image and video diffusion models. Although continuous-time consistency model (sCM) is theoretically principled and empirically powerful for accelerating academic-scale diffusion, its applicability to large-scale text-to-image and video tasks remains unclear due to infrastructure challenges in Jacobian-vector product (JVP) computation and the limitations of standard evaluation …

"Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Once Have Been Used For Legislating"

Academic misconduct if you ask me…
https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/technology-uvt65hdqz/-/a-mHdyqxP_QxGuYiPRH3wLbw:a:3199720-/0

Got this one from #springer - they're really want to fill their publications with slop. High quality articles with AI writing. No wonder people don't believe in science anymore.
F**king hate #ai #slop

Als wenn der Zollunsinn nicht hier schon Bibliotheken ausreichend in den Wahnsinn treiben würde.
https://www.404media.co/libraries-cant-get-their-loaned-books-back-because-of-trumps-tariffs/

Happy to have a Mastodon post of mine cited in the academic article "Fediverse’s Evolution from the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory" by José- Manuel Meza-Cano and Edith Gonzšlez-Santiago. In: Fast Capitalism, 2023, 20(1). https://fastcapitalism.journal.library

📄 Academic research published documenting the approach to fighting unilateral surveillance through automated interaction
https://adnauseam.io/

Assessing the metal and rare earth element mining potential of undifferentiated #asteroids through the study of carbonaceous chondrites: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/545/1/staf1902/8317164?login=false -> Mining asteroids for water and metals explored: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/mining-asteroids-water-and-metals-explored

Sex Cells
Eliza, with an academic background of Counselling and Behavioural Science, Sexology, Life Coaching and Relationship Counselling, talks all things sex, dating, relationships and culture...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/sex-cells…

Geolog-IA: Conversational System for Academic Theses
Micaela Fuel Pozo, Andrea Guatumillo Saltos, Yese\~na Tipan Llumiquinga, Kelly Lascano Aguirre, Marilyn Castillo Jara, Christian Mejia-Escobar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02653

Geolog-IA: Conversational System for Academic Theses
This study presents the development of Geolog-IA, a novel conversational system based on artificial intelligence that responds naturally to questions about geology theses from the Central University of Ecuador. Our proposal uses the Llama 3.1 and Gemini 2.5 language models, which are complemented by a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture and an SQLite database. This strategy allows us to overcome problems such as hallucinations and outdated knowledge. The evaluation of Geolog-IA's …

from my link log —
The future of open access academic publication.
https://blog.dshr.org/2019/10/future-of-open-access.html
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Future of Open Access
The Future of OA: A large-scale analysis projecting Open Access publication and readership by Heather Piwowar, Jason Priem and Richard Orr ...

AutoPR: Let's Automate Your Academic Promotion!
Qiguang Chen, Zheng Yan, Mingda Yang, Libo Qin, Yixin Yuan, Hanjing Li, Jinhao Liu, Yiyan Ji, Dengyun Peng, Jiannan Guan, Mengkang Hu, Yantao Du, Wanxiang Che
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09558

AutoPR: Let's Automate Your Academic Promotion!
As the volume of peer-reviewed research surges, scholars increasingly rely on social platforms for discovery, while authors invest considerable effort in promoting their work to ensure visibility and citations. To streamline this process and reduce the reliance on human effort, we introduce Automatic Promotion (AutoPR), a novel task that transforms research papers into accurate, engaging, and timely public content. To enable rigorous evaluation, we release PRBench, a multimodal benchmark that l…

Here's a very interesting read about life as an academic and how you're never "good enough":
Under pressure: Becoming the good enough academic
By Milena Tekeste. Some quotes below (I removed citations for smoother reading):
"I learned publishing in specific journals would lead to tenure. It was the first time that anyone had sat me down and explained “…

March 15-17, 2026 at Boston College: Mapping the Field of Jewish-Christian Relations (Hybrid Conference)
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Day 8 (a bit late): Timnit Gebru
Academic authors are authors too, and there are a bunch of people I deeply respect both in my fields and adjacent.
Gebru is someone I have huge respect for because she stood up for her (mild, completely reasonable) principles to the point of losing her job on Google's AI ethics team (since disbanded entirely), and then went ahead and founded an independent research institute to continue doing AI ethics research.
Why was she fired? Because she insisted on publishing her "Stochastic Parrots" paper after it passed Google internal review only to have extra nonstandard scrutiny applied at the last minute. Why did Google want to suppress her paper (which included an academic co-author)? Because it expressed valid criticisms of the large language models fad, and Google was planning to make money off that fad. Personally, I don't think I'd hire an "AI ethics" team only to then try to suppress their publications, and Google seems to now agree, having scrapped the team (during the initial furor, Timnit's boss also effectively quit to support her).
That "Stochastic Parrots" paper? Indeed, it predicts the core underlying problems with large language models that lead to so many of their user-side harms today. You can read it here: #20AuthorsNoMen

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it,
despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost,
and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise,
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
will be cut.

Network Traffic as a Scalable Ethnographic Lens for Understanding University Students' AI Tool Practices
Donghan Hu, Rameen Mahmood, Annabelle David, Danny Yuxing Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09763

Network Traffic as a Scalable Ethnographic Lens for Understanding University Students' AI Tool Practices
AI-driven applications have become woven into students' academic and creative workflows, influencing how they learn, write, and produce ideas. Gaining a nuanced understanding of these usage patterns is essential, yet conventional survey and interview methods remain limited by recall bias, self-presentation effects, and the underreporting of habitual behaviors. While ethnographic methods offer richer contextual insights, they often face challenges of scale and reproducibility. To bridge this gap…

This time of year is for the pleasant world-building task of (re-)imagining syllabuses for next term. Since I'm now in charge of the program, I'm also currently working on the whole curriculum for the academic year beginning in May - it's like syllabus composition turned up to 11. Living in the time before ideas become reality is both fantastic - no inconvenient truths or anyone causing trouble - and sterile (for basically the same reasons). Can't wait to see how my plans fal…

2026 Midwest AAR Conference
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A million-solar-mass object detected at a cosmological distance using #GravitationalImaging / An extended and extremely thin gravitational arc from a lensed compact symmetric object at redshift of 2.059: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02651-2 / https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/544/1/L24/8262431?login=false -> Astronomers ‘image’ a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe: https://jive.eu/news/new-nature-astronomy-and-mnras-letters-astronomers-image-mysterious-dark-object-distant

Newsom chides USC to 'do the right thing' for academic freedom and resist Trump compact (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-03/newsom-usc-trump-campus-university-compact
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Paper2Video: Automatic Video Generation from Scientific Papers
Zeyu Zhu, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Mike Zheng Shou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05096 https://arxiv…

Paper2Video: Automatic Video Generation from Scientific Papers
Academic presentation videos have become an essential medium for research communication, yet producing them remains highly labor-intensive, often requiring hours of slide design, recording, and editing for a short 2 to 10 minutes video. Unlike natural video, presentation video generation involves distinctive challenges: inputs from research papers, dense multi-modal information (text, figures, tables), and the need to coordinate multiple aligned channels such as slides, subtitles, speech, and h…

Bias-Aware AI Chatbot for Engineering Advising at the University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering
Prarthana P. Kartholy, Thandi M. Labor, Neil N. Panchal, Sean H. Wang, Hillary N. Owusu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09636

Bias-Aware AI Chatbot for Engineering Advising at the University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering
Selecting a college major is a difficult decision for many incoming freshmen. Traditional academic advising is often hindered by long wait times, intimidating environments, and limited personalization. AI Chatbots present an opportunity to address these challenges. However, AI systems also have the potential to generate biased responses, prejudices related to race, gender, socioeconomic status, and disability. These biases risk turning away potential students and undermining reliability of AI s…

SurveyBench: How Well Can LLM(-Agents) Write Academic Surveys?
Zhaojun Sun, Xuzhou Zhu, Xuanhe Zhou, Xin Tong, Shuo Wang, Jie Fu, Guoliang Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Fan Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03120

SurveyBench: How Well Can LLM(-Agents) Write Academic Surveys?
Academic survey writing, which distills vast literature into a coherent and insightful narrative, remains a labor-intensive and intellectually demanding task. While recent approaches, such as general DeepResearch agents and survey-specialized methods, can generate surveys automatically (a.k.a. LLM4Survey), their outputs often fall short of human standards and there lacks a rigorous, reader-aligned benchmark for thoroughly revealing their deficiencies. To fill the gap, we propose a fine-grained,…

RAD@home discovery of extragalactic radio rings and #OddRadioCircles - clues to their origins: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/543/2/1048/8267915?login=false -> Most powerful 'odd radio circle' to date is discovered: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/most-powerful-odd-radio-circle-date-discovered

2026 Midwest AAR Conference
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Here's why Vanderbilt's response to the Trump higher ed 'compact' is not enough (Lisa Fazio/The Tennessean)
https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2025/10/24/nashville-vanderbilt-trump-compact-academic-excellence/86859777007/
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Determining the impact of post-main-sequence stellar evolution on the transiting giant planet population: #planets: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/ageing-stars-may-be-destroying-their-closest-planets

A 15 Mpc rotating #galaxy filament at redshift z = 0.032: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/4/4306/8363602?login=false -> 'Teacup-like' spinning structure one of largest ever seen in universe: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/teacup-spinning-structure-one-largest-ever-seen-universe

2026 Midwest AAR Conference
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Research Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2026-2027
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Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy #Survey (DEVILS) - first data release covering the D10 (COSMOS) region: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/4/3005/8341480?login=false -> A galaxy’s neighbourhood influences how it grows and changes: https://connectsci.au/news/news-parent/7406/A-galaxy-s-neighbourhood-influences-how-it-grows

Tenure Under Pressure: Simulating the Disruptive Effects of AI on Academic Publishing
Shan Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16925 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Tenure Under Pressure: Simulating the Disruptive Effects of AI on Academic Publishing
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to reshape academic publishing by enabling the rapid production of submission-ready manuscripts. While such tools promise to enhance productivity, they also raise concerns about overwhelming journal systems that have fixed acceptance capacities. This paper uses simulation modeling to investigate how AI-driven surges in submissions may affect desk rejection rates, review cycles, and faculty publication portfolios, with a focus on business school …

Analysis of instruction-based LLMs' capabilities to score and judge text-input problems in an academic setting
Valeria Ramirez-Garcia, David de-Fitero-Dominguez, Antonio Garcia-Cabot, Eva Garcia-Lopez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20982

Analysis of instruction-based LLMs' capabilities to score and judge text-input problems in an academic setting
Large language models (LLMs) can act as evaluators, a role studied by methods like LLM-as-a-Judge and fine-tuned judging LLMs. In the field of education, LLMs have been studied as assistant tools for students and teachers. Our research investigates LLM-driven automatic evaluation systems for academic Text-Input Problems using rubrics. We propose five evaluation systems that have been tested on a custom dataset of 110 answers about computer science from higher education students with three model…

Research Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2026-2027 #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/2013…

The 2025 state of the #climate report - a planet on the brink: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf149/8303627 -> Earth’s vital signs worsen, science shows options for livable future: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/state-of-the-climate-2025-earths-vital-signs-worsen-science-shows-options-for-livable-future -> Our Planet’s Vital Signs are Crashing: https://eos.org/research-and-developments/2025-state-of-the-climate-report-our-planets-vital-signs-are-crashing

Discovery of an icy and nitrogen-rich extrasolar planetesimal: #WhiteDwarf Eating Piece of Pluto-Like Object: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-sees-white-dwarf-eating-piece-of-pluto-like-object/

The dawn of discs - unveiling the turbulent ionized gas kinematics of the galaxy population at z ∼ 4–6 with JWST/NIRCam grism spectroscopy: #galaxies in the early universe struggled to settle: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/messy-galaxies-in-the-early-universe-struggled-to-settle

Active landslides on the Moon: #Moon, recognizing endogenic moonquakes rather than new impacts are the primary trigger: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1100110 -> Moonquakes are the primary trigger for lunar landslides, study finds: https://www.astronomy.com/science/moonquakes-are-the-primary-trigger-for-lunar-landslides-study-finds/