Dean of Science at Stellenbosch University writes that although AI generates almost all the words for his articles (including this one): "AI did almost all of the writing. I remain the expert and the thought leader behind the piece." www.nature.com/articles/d44...

When AI writes the words, who is the author?

After an AI detector classified one of my opinion pieces as entirely AI-generated, I found myself questioning where authorship ends, where expertise begins and what readers deserve to know.

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EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

🚨Elsevier forces out Games and Economic Behavior (GEB) Editor, entire editorial board has resigned, current board only handling new submissions until Nov. 14 #econsky

I’ve had this vague datavis idea for a while about how language connects cultural communities across geography. What do you think? The ribbons within the globe connect languages in the same immediate family. Click on any one for details. You can visualize linguistic imperialism.

World Languages

Every language Glottolog documents, placed where it is recorded and joined to its closest relatives — with the chords running through the planet.

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Excellent texte, rien à ajouter, ni au texte, ni à la conclusion ci-dessous :

Emma 🎵 🎭@emmaoperatheatre.eurosky.social · 3d ago

Je suis tombée là-dessus et ça m'a semblé très intéressant comme point de vue. 👇

Parmi les phrases que je n’aurais jamais pensé prononcer de ma vie :« Non mais ça va, aujourd’hui il ne fait que 30° » Le nouveau normal est terrifiant.

Classement de Shanghai : @univlorraine.bsky.social recule et assume (à raison) www.republicain-lorrain.fr/education/20... cc @helene-boulanger.bsky.social @fresseng.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy

Lorraine. Classement de Shanghai : l’université de Lorraine recule et assume

En recul au classement international de Shanghai 2026 (301-400 contre 201-300 l’an passé), l’université de Lorraine reste stable (11-14e) au ...

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Weekend reads: Tragic news on former Cambridge prof; A ‘never AI’ research company was AI after all; OpenAI’s math breakthroughs don’t add up

Weekend reads: Tragic news on former Cambridge prof; A ‘never AI’ research company was AI after all; OpenAI’s math breakthroughs don’t add up

As we were assembling this week’s Weekend Reads, we learned the tragic news that former Cambridge professor Jason Arday had been found dead in his home. Arday has been the subject of several …

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"Research databases are not preserved. There is no system in place in the UK (or anywhere else, so far as I know) to ensure that research outputs are officially preserved in perpetuity, as though they were books, when they are in the form of a database. " lukemckernan.com/2026/06/28/l...

Lost resources

To lose one database is a misfortune; to lose four feels like a conspiracy. Recently three online databases and one audiovisual digital archive with underlying database, on each of which I worked f…

lukemckernan.com

Hundreds of ads by #papermills, offering authorship on scientific articles for a fee, wound up published in conference proceedings. Are these venues a back-door route that’s too easy? #scicomm #retractions #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Hundreds of paper-mill papers peddled in ads were later published

More than one-fifth of some IEEE conferences’ papers appear linked to authorship for sale

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Timelapse de l'éclipse directement du télescope !

Critics attack academic mega-conferences as too big and too cliquish. For Dritjon Gruda, Bex Hewett, Joe Carpini, Kiera Dempsey-Brench, Julian Jonathan Markus, and Jorrit Alkema, the real value of conferences lies in their scope. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Why Mega-conferences work better than their critics think - LSE Impact

Critics attack academic mega-conferences as too big and too cliquish, favouring smaller, curated meetings as the humane alternative.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

It feels like we're moving past the idea of "open" as the sharing of everything by everyone to everyone. It's sad for COS, but I think the shift may allow us to foreground a better understanding of openness defined by practices/communities/relationships rather than whether a resource is open/closed.

OSF Changes | Center for Open Science

We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...

cos.io

COS is announcing important changes to the Open Science Framework (OSF). OSF Projects—used for project collaboration, file mgmt, & storage—is being phased out as an active workspace over the next 6 months. This change does not affect persistence & accessibility of existing public projects. (🧵1/2)

A very insightful post on how #researchmisconduct inquiries happen (and diverge). IMHO, the only oddities in Arday's case are his weird extra-academic claims (charities, sport...) and the fact that he resigned so quickly. #researchintegrity #peerreview

James Smoliga, DVM, PhD@jsmoliga.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Jason Arday case may seem highly unusual. But the reality is it follows a typical pattern found within academic cases of plagiarism and research misconduct. Check out my new piece, which provides further context to Arday’s case. academiclife.substack.com/p/how-do-aca...

'“Black British academics – like Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, Hazel Carby and Isaac Julien – punch way above their weight globally. The idea that this one incident in some way reflects Black British academia in general is bonkers,” one academic said.'

‘Old racist wine in a new bottle’: Black academics respond to Jason Arday affair

Figures in higher education feel double standards are being used to delegitimise work of minority groups

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Just like the Hwang case did not mean biologists were all fraud, just like the Schön case did not mean physicist were all fraud, Arday's case does not tell anything about his own disciplines, sociology.

Sjoerd de Jong@sjoerdjong.bsky.social · 2w ago

www.spiked-online.com/2026/08/09/i...

An interesting phenomenon. This book, from 1990 (I was 4 years old), lists a "Martin Eve" as a co-author. OK. Someone else shares my name. ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA12931... This OpenAlex record, though, has attributed it to me, as "Martin Paul Eve", and added my ORCID openalex.org/works?page=1...

"Basically, it can come in two forms. Either it forces to correct an erroneous assumption, or it opens a new path to follow."

Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 3y ago

Unknown unknowns in science "We can report our known knowns, and we can be transparent and speculative about our known unknowns, but we can’t say much about our unknown unknowns because we don’t know what they are!" markrubin.substack.com/p/the-prereg... #philsci 🧪

A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications...

Banger of a funding acknowledgment 😂 academic.oup.com/ajeadvances/...

Sixteen years ago today, Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus founded Retraction Watch. Happy birthday to us!

Celebrating Retraction Watch’s 16th birthday, how sweet it is

Suddenly, we’re 16. And what a year it has been.  Our birthday (and annual birthday post) comes on the heels of one of the biggest stories we’ve told this year: The unreported death of a 6-yea…

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OpenAlex Announces a "Major Cleanup of Journal Records" (via #OpenAlex) blog.openalex.org/a-major-clea... #databases #scholcomm #journals

“Datatype is an OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts. No JavaScript, no images, no rendering library — just type the syntax and Datatype’s ligature substitution does the rest.” [franktisellano.github.io]

Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts

An OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts. No JavaScript, no images — just type.

franktisellano.github.io

Solidarité aussi avec les scientifiques du centre @inrae-france.bsky.social Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux, en particulier du site de Cestas-Pierroton dont les infrastructures de recherche ont été détruites par les flammes. www.inrae.fr/actualites/i...

Des infrastructures de la recherche forestière d’INRAE détruites par les incendies en Gironde

COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE - Les incendies en Gironde ont détruit près de 80 ha de dispositifs de recherche forestière d’INRAE dont plusieurs observatoires uniques suivis depuis des décennies. Cette perte a...

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"Dubious research tied to the company...". Once again 😡

The Examination@theexamination.org · 3w ago

For over a decade, @redbull.com funded studies that disputed the risks of consuming energy drinks and alcohol together — and research tied to the company has been used to roll back public health regulations in Canada and elsewhere. Read our latest investigation:

La masse (administrative) sombre de la recherche, à la fois sur- (empilement de règles, procédures etc.) et sous- bureaucratisée (délégation aux individus des tâches, disparition des personnels supports, etc.)

David Monniaux@monniauxd.bsky.social · 3w ago

blogs.mediapart.fr/david-monnia... Depuis vingt ans, les structures de la recherche scientifique française sont réorganisées. Dans le même temps, on a assisté à son décrochage. C’est donc, en toute logique, de nouvelles réformes de structure que l’on suggère pour remédier à ce décrochage.

"He has said he expects AI to soon do everything mathematicians do, only better and faster, and that the discipline he has spent his career in is likely to look unrecognizable within a matter of years." officechai.com/ai/fields-me...

Fields Medal Winner Jacob Tsimerman Joins OpenAI, Says AI Will Soon Do Everything Mathematicians Do "Better And Faster"

Even as more and more people are publishing proofs of decade-old conjectures using AI, this year’s Fields medalist — the highest prize in...

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Categorizing Open Access Business Models - The Scholarly Kitchen

Categorizing Open Access Business Models - The Scholarly Kitchen

Models for funding open access journal article publishing can be sorted into three categories, organized by who pays and what they pay for: transactional, collective action, and subvention.

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Beach holidays in the climate crisis, France. As an old viral quote said: “Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it.”