My radical suggestion for peer review: Move from nominal pre-publication review to explicit post-publication review. The original reason for peer review was that journal pages are a limited resource, so we need a filter before publication. That no longer makes sense with digital publishing. 1/
Nabil Hathout
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Morphology, Paradigms, NLP, Language resources CNRS, CLLE, Toulouse
4134 submissions have been submitted to the ARR August cycle, a 14% increase compared to the ARR October 2025 cycle corresponding to EACL🔥. #EACL2027 in Athens is likely to be the biggest EACL ever 👀 #NLProc @aclrollingreview.bsky.social
"Trois ans de recherches de financements", quelques conclusions tirées de mes échecs aux différents appels à projets. dbao.leo-varnet.fr/2026/08/01/t...
ICLR 2027 has authorship quotas: - No more than 20 submissions per author - No more than 1 submission where no author has a paper previously accepted to a major ML conference From iclr.cc/Conferences/...
📢 PhD opening in comp. cog. neuro. in Toulouse: thalamo-frontal model of cognitive control. Modelling/EEG experience is welcome but not required. Application deadline: 8 Sept. 2026 Details: sdrive.cnrs.fr/s/eDrkeXfjdW... #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #EEG #neuroskyence #compneurosky
I'm cross-posting @haspelmath.bsky.social "Gradient in grammatical structure of indigenous languages reflects pathway of human expansion in the Americas" Link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
L'article n'indique pas sous quel statut les chercheurs deviendraient des personnels des universités. Reste un indice fort en faveur de mon hypothèse « Fusionner les chercheurs et les enseignants-chercheurs permet de rendre acceptable l’acte 2 de l’autonomie ».
La guerre des tout petits mondes : bataille autour de l’acte 2 de l’autonomie
Sous pression budgétaire et politique, dépourvus de projet stratégique enthousiasmant, peinant à s’adapter au XXIe siècle, et privés des arbitrages d’un ministère trop occupé par les changement de …
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Bon les collègues CNRS le déclassement c'est un peu vous. Quand vous serez géré comme des EC ça ira mieux. Pendant ce temps nous les EC on deviendra pour 80% d'entre nous juste enseignants le temps de fermer les universités de proximité et après ça ira mieux www.lalettre.fr/fr/politique...
Inserm, CNRS, Inria : la Cour des comptes propose de sabrer les organismes de recherche au profit des universités - LA LETTRE
Dans un rapport confidentiel, les magistrats de la Rue Cambon préconisent un redéploiement des milliers de chercheurs des grandes structures publiques dans les facultés. Un big bang qui vise à
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… journals and preprint servers being drowned in AI slop will probably result in any paper submission needing to come from someone with a verifiable academic position, or vouched by someone who has one, rather than on the paper's merits. This is very bad. •3/7
The government said the move “will align our science and research base directly with commercial application and job creation” "it is increasingly clear that the sector as it has existed for a generation is unsustainable”
‘Quiet research concentration’ underway at English universities. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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"Scientific systems rarely collapse through a single dramatic event. They decline incrementally: one technician dismissed, one laboratory left unrepaired, one instrument taken out of service, one young scientist deciding to build a career elsewhere." physicsworld.com/a/letter-fro... ⚛️🧪
En gros, pour résumer les bruits convergents, on aurait : - INSIS+INP > CNRS Physique & Ingénierie - INSMI+INS2I > CNRS Mathématique & Informatique - INEE+INSU (climat-océan) > CNRS Terre & Biosphère - IN2P3+INSU (espace) > CNRS des 2 infinis
EXCELLENT: The Netherlands new OA policy seems to be well thought through obc.copim.pub/when-scaling... Policy explicitly recommends redirection & reallocation of funds from existing ‘big deal’ budgets towards community-driven alternatives, incl university-led diamond OA & Netherlands Uni Presses
When 'scaling small' becomes national policy
The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing
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Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) annonce l’accélération de sa sortie de certains logiciels extra-européens pour gagner en souveraineté numérique et réduire ses coûts IT. www.zdnet.fr/actualites/l...
Le CNRS sort de Zoom et Microsoft Exchange, et bientôt Sharepoint - ZDNET
Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique annonce l’accélération de sa sortie de certains logiciels extra-européens pour gagner en souveraineté numérique et réduire ses coûts IT.
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One thing I did not understand before starting as a faculty was just how important the NSF is. It's one of the few sources of nearly open-ended research funding that exists in the US. Everything else is significantly more directed
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An explanatory letter on the ARR May 2026 cycle
For the ARR May 2026 cycle, we had to make the difficult decision to increase the reciprocal service assignments for submitting authors. The reason for this decision was the substantial increase in su...
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‘Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities
Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year
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With my ACL PC abilities, I wanted to characterize who these folks are, whether they're actually "outsiders", whether their papers are much less likely to be accepted, is this growth just LLM slop? The whole analsis is here medium.com/@jurgens_245...
Is the ACL Rolling Review actually broken?
ARR is broken! ARR is being overwhelmed with papers from outsiders! LLM-generated slop is ruining our peer review! There are not enough…
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Just published 'Voids in morphology: Exploring “uninflectedness” ' edited by Enrique L. Palancar & Sebastian Fedden #openaccess #eotms langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
Only 17% of May #ARR authors are qualified for reviewing, and almost 40% of papers have no qualified people?!?!
What happens when a linguistics program faces suspension amid enrollment & budget pressures? At Cleveland State University, faculty were facing just that situation. Learn how they did it! Join us on July 15! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... #LSA #Webinar #Linguistics
Tout à fait, pour la petite histoire un mec a compilé des infos sur les recrutements d'Anthropic. C'est assez éclairant : ils ne recrutent principalement que des pros (donc payés très cher), des ingénieurs, pas tellement des docteurs. C'est assez logique: faire un modèle c'est la première étape
Non, on a absolument pas les données instruct et d’alignement qu’il faudrait. Le seul moyen pour s’en approcher serait de distiller massivement et sans pitié les modèles frontières. Ce qu’auraient fait les chinois avec Deepseek par exemple.
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I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
The entire editorial board has resigned from Springer Nature's Natural Language Semantics (NLS) to launch a diamond OA journal, Semantics of Natural Languages www.openlibhums.org/news/943/
New Open Access Journal to Launch Following Resignation of Editorial Team from Natural Language Semantics
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language …
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As Claude and similar tools become serious research accelerators, a new divide is emerging: industrial labs can afford enterprise AI plans for their scientists; many academic labs cannot. The research gap isn't just about compute anymore. Not everyone gets the shot.
www.lesnumeriques.com/informatique... "Le logiciel libre l’emporte : Polytechnique dit non à Microsoft"
Le logiciel libre l’emporte : Polytechnique dit non à Microsoft et déclenche une vague de rébellion dans les universités
C'est un coup de théâtre qui secoue le monde de l'enseignement supérieur et de la tech française. Après des mois d'une guerre de tranchées juridique, la direction de l'École polytechnique a officielle...
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