"unusually extensive collaboration networks [doing] straightforward analyses of public data...from a template, with formulaic titles and identical methods... Identifying [these] is essential to protect the literature from being flooded with low-quality research" www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Drastic changes in collaboration networks and publication patterns in research using the CDC WONDER dataset

The growth of generative AI and easily available Open Access health datasets has transformed researcher productivity, leading to an explosion in publications that has in part been attributed to paper ...

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Join us for an online talk "How to Be a Scientific Superpower" by Cassidy Sugimoto. Drawing on cutting-edge metascience, she will discuss how countries and institutions can build scientific excellence, shape global influence, and organize research systems on a global scale.

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

Hi DH friends, join us on Nov 10, 10-11 am CT, for “New Book History Research with Internet Data”, a hybrid panel sponsored by SHAR, to explore challenges and opportunities of using Internet data and digital methods for book history research. More info in the poster attached and comments :)

Excited to join the “New Book History Research with Internet Data” panel at Indiana University Bloomington on Nov 10. We’ll discuss how online data (reviews, platforms, metrics) reshape book history & publishing studies. 🔗 events.iu.edu/siceiub/even... #BookHistory #DigitalHumanities

I am beyond thrilled to share that DATA BY DESIGN: AN INTERACTIVE HISTORY OF DATA VISUALIZATION, 1789-1900 is now open for community review at 💚 📊 dataxdesign.io 📊 💙. It's the work of 15+ people across 5 institutions, 2 continents, 2 babies, and a global pandemic. A 🧵 but first:

Applications are open for the Doctoral Consortium at the 2025 Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society rcais.github.io. Taking place October 27, 2025. Applications received by September 15 will receive full consideration.

2025 Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society

2025 Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society

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I'm glad to share the new data paper in the Journal of Open Humanities Data with my wonderful collaborator @nalsi.bsky.social and students!! 😇 Check out our work here: openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

AI & Society faculty opportunity posted just this month with a start date of Fall 2025 and beyond: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734 ‼️🐂 For "interdisciplinary scholars whose research agenda connects the study of AI with humanistic and/or social scientific line(s) of study"

Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, AI & Society

The Department of AI and Society (AIS) at the University at Buffalo (UB) invites candidates to apply for multiple positions as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor. The new AIS ...

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And the paper is published here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....

Gender disparities in the STEM research enterprise in China - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Gender disparities in the STEM research enterprise in China

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Kai Li@nalsi.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Excited to share our latest study (forthcoming in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications) collaborated with Dr. Chaoqun Ni and Xiang Zheng:: Gender disparities in STEM research enterprise in China 👉 ssrn.com/abstract=523...

🚨 Excited to share our latest study (forthcoming in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications) collaborated with Dr. Chaoqun Ni and Xiang Zheng:: Gender disparities in STEM research enterprise in China 👉 ssrn.com/abstract=523...

Really glad that this is out! Fantastic collaboration with @honglin-bao.bsky.social and @innovation.bsky.social! Key insight: Knowledge diffusion is nearly impossible to constrain—where there's a will, there's a way. From the atomic bomb to ChatGPT, determined minds always find a path. 1/3

Where there’s a will there’s a way: ChatGPT is used more for science in countries where it is prohibited

Abstract. Regulating AI is a key societal challenge, but effective methods remain unclear. This study evaluates geographic restrictions on AI services, focusing on ChatGPT, which OpenAI blocks in seve...

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🚀 New article out on @InformationMatters! I had the pleasure of collaborating with Dr. Jaihyun Park from NTU Singapore to rethink data reuse in the age of #LLMs. Check it out 👉 🔗 informationmatters.org/2025/04/reth... #DataLifecycle #OpenScience #AI

Rethinking Reuse in Data Lifecycle in the Age of Large Language Models - Information Matters

In the world we are living in, a digital world, some data slips past our awareness, but very little data ever truly disappears. As we, information scientists, are concerned with reproducibility and re...

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🎉 Excited to share that Scientific Data is launching a new collection: "Data on Science and Innovation Processes, Outputs and Outcomes." This special issue welcomes data descriptors of datasets that shed light on how science and innovation work—from inputs to outcomes. www.nature.com/collections/...

Just published on the blog, Assistant Professor Kai Li gives new perspectives on challenges and opportunities for large-scale analyses on data use and data citations. makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

INTRODUCTION

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The more I read and think about generative AI and what its creators want us to do with if, the more I'm reminded of this quote from Victor Papanek's 'Design for the Real World'

Every government needs effective science advisers; not every scientist is a born adviser but schooling and practice can help to bridge the gap, as we argue in this week’s Nature’s editorial @natureportfolio.bsky.social 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Advising governments about science is essential but difficult. So train people to do it

A great scientist doesn’t necessarily make an effective science adviser — but schooling and practice can help to bridge the gap.

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Call for submissions: RESSH2025 Conference on research assessment reform in the humanities and social sciences. Held next May in Helsinki. vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/re...

RESSH2025 Conference

RESSH2025 conference of the international association ENRESSH (European Network for Research Evaluation in the SSH) is organized 19-21 May, 2024, in Helsinki, Finland. It brings together specialists o...

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how do researchers use LMs in their work & why? we surveyed 800 researchers across fields of study, race, gender, seniority asking their opinions on: 🐟 which research activities (eg coding, writing) 🐠 benefits vs risks 🦈 willingness to disclose findings in @simonaliao.bsky.social's thread 🧵

Simona Liao@simonaliao.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi everyone, I am excited to share our large-scale survey study with 800+ researchers, which reveals researchers’ usage and perceptions of LLMs as research tools, and how the usage and perceptions differ based on demographics. See results in comments! 🔗 Arxiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2411.05025

A poem about information organization and retrieval written by ChatGPT. Read it in the last session of my class. The students seem to like it.

Science is political in so many ways. One of them is reflected in #citation politics. And we all do it, willingly or not. This paper is a glimpse into how some strategies (e.g. decolonizing or diversifying citations) that aim to undermine existing hierarchies have limitations worth thinking about.

I will assign this in future classes—it nails one common argument I find unconvincing in regards to students, which is the idea of LLMss as interlocutors to help refine thinking—that only really works if you’re an expert who can spot the mistakes—students are typically not in a position to do that

Robin E. Field@robinfield.bsky.social · 2y ago

A Student's Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT. Succinct and savvy: www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...

A very personal thought: I really don't like how #StarterPack is designed in Bluesky. It creates a structure where the creators get all the power to manage the list and the credit for the list. So as useful as it is to share certain information, it is also a barrier to more equal communication.

Podcasts are a popular medium, but data for computational research is limited! We introduce the Structured Podcast Research Corpus (SPoRC - huggingface.co/datasets/bli...), a large, multimodal dataset of English podcasts 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2411.07892

Mapping the Podcast Ecosystem with the Structured Podcast Research Corpus

Podcasts provide highly diverse content to a massive listener base through a unique on-demand modality. However, limited data has prevented large-scale computational analysis of the podcast ecosystem....

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Doing a research on books in the #REF2021 project. One weird finding is that political science has very high share of authored books among all books (vs. edited books and book chapters). #bibliographicdata #scisci #scientometrics

Once again, millennials are the real greatest generation

We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat. Some of those stories may even be true! But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇 

Glad to share our new papers published in Scientometrics, "How do official software citation formats evolve over time? A longitudinal analysis of R programming language packages," which can be viewed here: rdcu.be/dKR10.

ASIS&T SIG MET is hosting a webinar about #Gender in Quantitative Science Studies! It is scheduled for May 1, 2024, from 9:30 to 10:30 AM (EST). Participation is open to all and free of charge via Zoom at tennessee.zoom.us/j/81706140596. The recording of the webinar will be made available.