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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 :)

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

As an academic editor, there's nothing like receiving a truly well-written, smart, and timely submission. Even if the piece isn't perfect, if the authors have done all the work, rather than expecting me to tell them how to, or worse, to do it for them, are rare, precious, and greatly appreciated.

«When I came on the scene in 2001, I probably seemed pretty unsavory compared to the competitors. But that was when academic research happened in libraries and George W. Bush was considered the stupidest president. […] So, yeah, peer review deez nutz» 🤣
This is brilliant!
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology

Northwestern about to cave???
Writing about Cornell caving to the Trump Administration,
I told Northwestern that if it planned to cave to please do so by December 31
so I can save money.
Unfortunately, I may have gotten my wish.
The supposed pricetag is
$75 million
(more than Cornell, less than Columbia, much more than Virginia).
And it will include the usual surrender of academic freedom tempered by a bullshit assurance
(and press rele…

Northwestern about to cave???
Writing about Cornell caving to the Trump Administration, I told Northwestern that if it planned to cave to please do so by December 31 so I can save money. Unfortunately, I may have gotten my wish…

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

Now that #BlueBird 6 is up (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251222922862/en/AST-SpaceMobile-Announces-Successful-Orbital-Launch-of-BlueBird-6-the-Largest-Commercial-Communications-Array-Ever-Deployed-in-Low-Earth-Orbit) the question is - after deploying the huge antenna: https://x.com/guo_lin99725/status/2003717302190243904 - how bright it will be in the sky: the earlier BlueBirds were obscenely bright as the paper https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/544/1/L15/8251664 has shown.

CFP> Dhammasākacchā: International Level Students’ Conference 2026
https://ift.tt/38h5cuH
H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-12 on Fall, _Dien Bien Phu: Un coin d’Enfer_ H-Diplo Roundtable…
via Input 4 RELCFP

#ICE Is holed up in a #Milwaukee bldg owned by a local Universisty and despite previous 2023 assurances it would soon move on , are now refusing to leave.
The local Milwaukee School of Engineering is now in an awkward position as it's planned expansion site is now engineered to be off limits to them as it is a…

ICE Is Using a University Building as a Deportation Office and the University Says It Can't Do Anything About It
The Milwaukee School of Engineering is largely powerless to kick ICE out of a building it wanted to turn into a new academic center, according to audio of a meeting obtained by 404 Media.

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/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p41#a251024p41

X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not "censorship" of viewpoints (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/24/xs-new<…

X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety te…

In the paper "Agda-ventures with PolyP" Jeremy Gibbons (@…) and I revisit PolyP in a literate Agda setting — combining executable code, theory, and reflection on three decades of generic programming. It is part of a Festschrift gifted to Johan Jeuring at the academic celebration of his 60th birthday.
📖 Blog post:

by accident i stumbled on this review by the #NSA on Bruce Schneiers "Applied Crypto" book from long ago.

aCAdeMiC FrEedOM. 🤡
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/mel-curth-oklahoma-instructor-firing.html

X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not "censorship" of viewpoints (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/24/xs-new<…

X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety te…

I love Cosmology. Nothing is more worthless than last year's textbook. Especially on the basics. It keeps the field humble.
Strong progenitor age bias in supernova cosmology – II. Alignment with DESI BAO and signs of a non-accelerating universe | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Oxford Academic
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/1/975/8281988

The best time to build strong academic unions was a while ago. The second best time is now.
Fellow Floridians - join your local UFF chapter.
If you don’t have a local union (and you should check) then join the AAUP at-large chapter and help them fight for the future of higher education.
https://www.aaup.org/chapters/aaup-large-chapter (join link at the bottom)

Right, #genAI will revolutionize science. As in, there’s nothing going to be left after the zone has been completed flooded with shit. There’s really no point in publishing anything anymore, as it’ll be drowned out by #AIslop.

AI Chatbots Are Poisoning Research Archives With Fake Citations https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don’t Exist — And They’re Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

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

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.

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

CFP> Dhammasākacchā: International Level Students’ Conference 2026
https://ift.tt/UkmZCpW
H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-12 on Fall, _Dien Bien Phu: Un coin d’Enfer_ H-Diplo Roundtable…
via Input 4 RELCFP

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

Call for HEI Partners/Academic Supervisors to supervise a PhD with BL European collections curators on 'Yugoslav socialism, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Global South' - includes support from us in @…

Yugoslav socialism, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Global South
Learn how Yugoslavia forged a unique path between East and West.

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…

I don’t use AI for anything in my academic or personal life. I value almost nothing more than my ability to think and to freely express myself. Even when I make mistakes, at least they are my mistakes.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-pro…

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…

Bin ja nun wirklich keine Fachperson, aber mir erscheint das höchst erfreulich. #LongCovid kann sichtbar gemacht werden:
https://academic.oup.com/braincomms/article/7/5/fcaf337/8258475?login=false

Observations of AGN-driven feedback: dynamics and ionization of the filaments in #M87: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/545/2/staf1981/8384220 -> El Gran Telescopio de Canarias captura cómo el agujero negro de la galaxia supergigante M87 moldea sus filamentos: https://efe.com/canarias/2025-12-22/el-gran-telescopio-de-canarias-captura-como-el-agujero-negro-de-la-galaxia-supergigante-m87-moldea-sus-filamentos/

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…

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

new #klutshnik website dropped a few days ago, but it described a few - back then - vaporware things, which are all real now. if you ever wondered wtf this #klutshnik thing is, but were to busy to watch a video, or read an academic paper, here is a website, you'll be to busy to read:

CFP> Dhammasākacchā: International Level Students’ Conference 2026 #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20129915/d…

This job advert is absolutely mindbogglingly batshit crazy from the first line all the way down to the salary.
https://jobs.tutors.international/advert/612

London, England
A family based in north London seeks an extraordinary and experienced Tutor to support their youngest child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman. The Tutor must be an Early Years specialist, committed to fostering a quintessentially English, culturally enriching learning environment that promotes early academic development.

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://…

In our session today, we discussed office buildings together with my long-term collaborator, friend and ex-colleague Rosie Haslem
Another brilliant and engaging session on architectural research in practice, differences between academic and practice-led research as well as various research tools
#ArchitecturalResearch

🌐 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…

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.

"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.

This is interesting—a maturing replacement to LaTeX! It's called Typst.
I've been using LaTeX for all kinds of word processing since I left the academic world behind—I'm writing the manual for my Gnome for seniors in it, at the moment. Might be interesting to switch to Typst, to try it out. (#latex #typst #linux #opensource #oss #typesetting

Roadmap: Emerging Platforms and Applications of Optical Frequency Combs and Dissipative Solitons
Dmitry Skryabin, Arne Kordts, Richard Zeltner, Ronald Holzwarth, Victor Torres-Company, Tobias Herr, Fuchuan Lei, Qi-Fan Yang, Camille-Sophie Br\`es, John F. Donegan, Hai-Zhong Weng, Delphine Marris-Morini, Adel Bousseksou, Markku Vainio, Thomas Bunel, Matteo Conforti, Arnaud Mussot, Erwan Lucas, Julien Fatome, Yuk Shan Cheng, Derryck T. Reid, Alessia Pasquazi, Marco Peccianti, M. Giudici, M. Marconi, A. Bartolo, N. Vigne, B. Chomet, A. Garnache, G. Beaudoin, I. Sagnes, Richard Burguete, Sarah Hammer, Jonathan Silver
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18231 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18231 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18231
arXiv:2511.18231v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The discovery of optical frequency combs (OFCs) has revolutionised science and technology by bridging electronics and photonics, driving major advances in precision measurements, atomic clocks, spectroscopy, telecommunications, and astronomy. However, current OFC systems still require further development to enable broader adoption in fields such as communication, aerospace, defence, and healthcare. There is a growing need for compact, portable OFCs that deliver high output power, robust self-referencing, and application-specific spectral coverage. On the conceptual side, progress toward such systems is hindered by an incomplete understanding of the fundamental principles governing OFC generation in emerging devices and materials, as well as evolving insights into the interplay between soliton and mode-locking effects. This roadmap presents the vision of a diverse group of academic and industry researchers and educators from Europe, along with their collaborators, on the current status and future directions of OFC science. It highlights a multidisciplinary approach that integrates novel physics, engineering innovation, and advanced researcher training. Topics include advances in soliton science as it relates to OFCs, the extension of OFC spectra into the visible and mid-infrared ranges, metrology applications and noise performance of integrated OFC sources, new fibre-based OFC modules, OFC lasers and OFC applications in astronomy.
toXiv_bot_toot

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…

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…

Rand Paul, the Senate homeland security committee's chair has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism
hand over years worth of documentation on
federal watch list programs,
the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol,
vaccine mandates,
the 2020 election,
and Trump supporters,
according to information obtained by WIRED.

Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.

@… 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…

Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
Great interview with #Mamdani on his new book #Uganda , #nationalism and everything else in

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

AI academic research hub alphaXiv, which lets users comment on, annotate, and discuss arXiv papers, raised a $7M seed co-led by Menlo Ventures and Haystack (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/19/alphaxiv-raises-7m-funding-be…

AlphaXiv raises $7M in funding to become the GitHub of AI research - SiliconANGLE
AlphaXiv raises $7M in funding to become the GitHub of AI research - SiliconANGLE

🧂 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

In situ ionospheric observations near lunar south pole by the Langmuir Probe on #Chandrayaan-3 lander: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/542/4/2647/8223395?login=false -> Chandrayaan-3's RAMBHA-LP Instrument Delivers Critical 'Ground Truth' on the Moon’s Plasma Environment: https://www.isro.gov.in/Chandrayaan3RAMBHALP_GroundTruth.html

Cool, cool. Eine ganze Sammlung eBooks aus dem Bereich Geschichte fällt aus der Lizenzierung des Fachinformationsdienstes raus, weil das Angebot von Oxford Academic geschluckt wurde.
Die reiben sich wahrscheinlich schon die Hände, um neue Lizenzen zu deutlich höheren Preisen zu verhandeln.
Oder wahrscheinlicher: Das sprengt den Finanzrahmen und eBooks fallen dann halt raus.

Study: a "drip" season release strategy leads to a 48% greater short-term retention of subscriptions vs. binge drops (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/weekly-releases-vs-bin…

The (Academic) Case Against the Netflix Episode-Release Strategy
"Drip” releases have the serious drip.

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…

A take I endorse 🙏

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 …

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.

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

My role as academic program director includes making me the mandatory institutional statements of policy on syllabi police. I could really do without this part of the job.

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 …

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

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

from my link log —
The future of open access academic publication.
https://blog.dshr.org/2019/10/future-of-open-access.html
saved 2019-10-25 …

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 ...

Inside NeurIPS 2025, and how it has transformed from a small academic conference into a massive industry event with 24,000 attendees, yacht parties, and more (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-conference-neurips-ff6398df?st=CPQ9Zc

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

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/

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

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 “…

What kind of deranged academic thinks that 800-word conference paper proposals are a good idea? Especially for a large international conference where the committee will need to go through at least several hundred of them. Who has this much time and why aren't they teaching my classes?

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

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…

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...

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).

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.

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…

Academic Labor: Research and Artistry (ALRA) Special Issue on art and engagement as critical response
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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…

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,…

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

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.

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

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.

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

March 15-17, 2026 at Boston College: Mapping the Field of Jewish-Christian Relations (Hybrid 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

March 15-17, 2026 at Boston College: Mapping the Field of Jewish-Christian Relations (Hybrid Conference)
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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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Seeking Book Reviewers for Women and Social Movements in the United States Erica Hayden 10/06/2025 -…
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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

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

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