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John O’Donoghue

@drjohnodonoghue.bsky.social

Educator, Researcher & Author at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) | Do you like movies and TV AND science? Try my book https://books.rsc.org/books/monograph/2272/Onscreen-ChemistryThe-Portrayal-of-Chemical | Views my own

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John O’Donoghue@drjohnodonoghue.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Nail on the head, why would anyone include a citation that wasn’t “checked”? Every citation in every paper I’ve ever published is there for a reason, because it’s relevant and useful for the work. That’s research

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I had 30 pages of citations for my master's thesis. That I did by hand, not using a citation generator. I double-checked every single one. I never even considered including a citation I hadn't confirmed.

John Rogers@johnrogers.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

nature.com

John O’Donoghue@drjohnodonoghue.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Delighted to recieve funding from the @researchireland.ie Discover programme. We have set ourselves a major challenge to see if we can co-create, deliver and evaluate a new inquiry based intervention to help engage everyone in the scientific process #InformalEd #IrishResearch #ChemSky #irishSky

Research Ireland@researchireland.ie · 5mo ago

A total of 32 projects that will bring STEM engagement to communities nationwide have received funding through the Research Ireland Discover Programme, including 6 projects supported by the Department of Education and Youth. Read more: www.researchireland.ie/news/discove...

Left-right: Dr Ruth Freeman, Director, Research for Society at Research Ireland, James Lawless TD, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Ann Butler, Project Lead, Energize / Junior Achievement Ire Ltd (Discover-funded project), Hildegarde Naughton, Minister for Education and Youth, and Dr Diarmuid O’Brien, CEO Research Ireland (Photo: Jason Clarke).
John O’Donoghue@drjohnodonoghue.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I agree, the more AI content I see from someone, the less I want to engage with them… if social media doesn’t adapt to encourage authentic human content, it’s going to lose all relevancy … which will have widespread consequences for digital advertising & promotion

Glendon Mellow@flyingtrilobite.com · 7mo ago

Deleted a repost of a thread. Looking closer, the person is comfortable sharing AI images & video. Was the thread also AI? Was it accurate? I’d rather not take the chance and share it. Journalists, keep this in mind. “Fun” AI videos & images undercut your credibility.

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Don't think I've spoken to a single artist who didn't struggle this Christmas, and I spoke to a lot, so even if it's not my work I'd really encourage people to try to support a local artist that you like instead of big corporations - every single sale makes a real, tangible difference to their life.

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · 7mo ago

If, like me, you did NOT get the ONE thing you wanted from Santy (a 95-year-old bachelor farmer with plenty land and a bad cough), treat yourself to a print from an Irish doodler instead - big discounts across the shop, including on bundles, so go on. Go on go on go ON. www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

Cartoon of myself gesturing at some prints with a description of the type available, a variety of gallery-quality giclée prints of original art on Hahnemühle textured paper and hand-printed lino prints printed locally, shipped to Ireland and beyond in environmentally-friendly packaging, ideal as gifts. The word SALE is in large letters above it in red. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #BuyIrish #TraditionalArt #HandDrawn #HandMade
Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they)@katjathieme.bsky.social · 8mo ago

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

currentaffairs.org

Josh McCrain@joshmccrain.bsky.social · 9mo ago

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

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John O’Donoghue@drjohnodonoghue.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A great round up the issues in academic publishing, particularly the metrics. I feel AI is also highlighting these issues since many AI models have been inadvertently trained on retracted papers. Goodhart's law states: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." #Research

Betty C. Jung@bettycjung.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Citation cartels, ghost writing and fake peer-review: Fraud is causing a crisis in science — here's what we need to do to stop it www.livescience.com/human-behavi... @elisabethbik.bsky.social

Neil Lewis, Jr.@neillewisjr.bsky.social · 2y ago

I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.

At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have … enough.” Enough. I was stunned by the simple eloquence of that word—stunned for two reasons: first, because I have been given so much in my own life and, second, because Joseph Heller couldn’t have been more accurate. For a critical element of our society, including many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2y ago

my armchair psychological diagnosis is that the drive to accumulate as much wealth as possible eats away at the drive for self-improvement or the internal desire to cultivate any skills or tastes. these people build huge mounds of treasure and then essentially just sit around looking at it, empty.