Alaska Natives depend on subsistence hunting for food & to retain cultural practices/knowledge of our land. We are worried a review of the Fed Subsistence Management would affect subsistence hunting. This blog includes how Natives want to contribute, links to submit comments, and a template letter.

TYB Week 21: Protecting Rural Subsistence Rights

Understand the rural subsistence priority as we analyze the recent Federal review and advocate for Alaska Native rights and protections.

respectfulresearch.com

Google Scholar attributes papers automatically to authors, a problem with homonyms when they do not clean up their profiles. It is also generous in matching citations. #RePEc requires authors to claim their papers and has stricter criteria for citation matching, thus does not inflate stats.#EconSky

Google Scholar’s citation errors skew h-index leaderboards

Thousands of mistakenly awarded citations left uncorrected highlight the perils of leaving profile curation to academics, say critics

timeshighereducation.com

Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...

the beggars out of here getter@milesklee.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!” And I hate to say it But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas Quit.

Asking our communities to help us brew some punk asian diaspora futures Image credit, “Tea by sea, Cha by land, the language and spread of tea”: www.worldhistory.org/image/14112/... #tea #cha #speculativefiction #asian #diaspora #futures #illustrator #artist #graphicdesigner #storytelling #auntie