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Dr. Robert M Flight<p>Saw a Reddit post about a "Peer Review LLM", and I decided to test it with one of my own current preprints to see how good it actually is. </p><p>As I expected, it's rubbish, at least in the context of what one should actually expect from a peer review, because an LLM doesn't actually *think*.</p><p>You can see it's output here:</p><p><a href="https://bgpt.pro/?q=Paper%20Review%3A%20Information-Content-Informed%20Kendall-tau%20Correlation%20Methodology%3A%20Interpreting%20Missing%20Values%20as%20Useful%20Information" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bgpt.pro/?q=Paper%20Review%3A%</span><span class="invisible">20Information-Content-Informed%20Kendall-tau%20Correlation%20Methodology%3A%20Interpreting%20Missing%20Values%20as%20Useful%20Information</span></a></p><p>/1</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bioinformatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bioinformatics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PublishOrPerish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublishOrPerish</span></a></p>
Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 ☀️<p>I think every native English speaker who gets to do academia in easy mode should have to write at least one paper in a foreign language they don’t know so that they can have a little empathy when reviewing papers written in ESL </p><p><a href="https://famichiki.jp/tags/editing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>editing</span></a> <a href="https://famichiki.jp/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>
Andy Baker<p>Thursday's office: a cave that has groundwater flooding. </p><p>The stalagmites here grow only when the water table is below them. </p><p>And have to grow through white calcite ctystals left from the floodwater.</p><p>This is how it looks after the 2023 floods.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/caves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>caves</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/groundwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>groundwater</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>Students learning:</p><p>Record Number of U.S. Students Apply to U.K. Institutions<br><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/07/21/more-us-students-apply-uk-colleges-post-trump" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">insidehighered.com/news/quick-</span><span class="invisible">takes/2025/07/21/more-us-students-apply-uk-colleges-post-trump</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/TrumpVResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpVResearch</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Universities</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span></p>
Flipboard News Desk<p>Columbia University agrees to pay $200 million fine to settle Trump administration dispute.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@axios" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>axios</span></a></span> reports: "Columbia University's acting president, Claire Shipman, noted that the university 'has not admitted wrongdoing and does not agree with the government's conclusion that it violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act' in the settlement."</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/YoAFVq" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/YoAFVq</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a></p>
Dr Micha Campbell<p>If anyone has access to this and has 5 minutes to download and email it, I'd appreciate it! Wild that publishers ask for $$ for 60 yr old articles...</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaj1963.03615995002700020027x" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.2136/sssaj1963.0361</span><span class="invisible">5995002700020027x</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p>
Scott Campbell<p>"The student activist group Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), which has called for the school to cut all financial ties with Israel, said in a statement that nearly 80 students have now been either expelled or suspended for up to three years over their involvement in antiwar protests."</p><p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/23/columbia-university-suspends-expels-nearly-80-students-over-gaza-protests" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/23/c</span><span class="invisible">olumbia-university-suspends-expels-nearly-80-students-over-gaza-protests</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYC</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a></p>
Jan D<p>"A not-wholly-unfair analysis of academic publishing would be that it is an industry in which academics compete against one another for the privilege of providing free labour for a profitmaking company, which then sells the results back to them at monopoly prices."</p><p>- Davies, The Unaccountability Machine</p><p><a href="https://hci.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://hci.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a></p>
Dave nλ=2dsinθ<p>UKRI Research England budgets flat line (so cut, when inflation is taken into account) or cut </p><p><a href="https://www.ukri.org/publications/research-england-funding-budgets-for-2025-to-2026/research-england-funding-budgets-2025-to-2026/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ukri.org/publications/research</span><span class="invisible">-england-funding-budgets-for-2025-to-2026/research-england-funding-budgets-2025-to-2026/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://xtaldave.net/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://xtaldave.net/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://xtaldave.net/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a></p>
Olga Lovick (she/her)<p>I now have to fill out a multi-page form explaining that the Department of Linguistics is willing to shoulder the immense financial burden of $50 / year to enable our former colleague, hired in the 1980s, to keep his email address. </p><p>And next year, I will have to do this again. </p><p><a href="https://fnordon.de/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://fnordon.de/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>highered</span></a></p>
RockerDoc (Ricardo Ismach)<p>Yay, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a>! Another successful assault on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> - and pulled off by bigoted <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antisemites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antisemites</span></a> with a ruse of *combating* antisemitism! Good one. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/22/harvard-educational-review-palestine-issue-cancelled?CMP=share_btn_url" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/education/2025</span><span class="invisible">/jul/22/harvard-educational-review-palestine-issue-cancelled?CMP=share_btn_url</span></a></p>
Dr Pen<p>The real problem no one is adequately addressing, how ChatGPT (esp., but also Grok, prob) is used in the wild. A friend just told me that 'apparently kids everywhere are using gpt as their no 1 friend and go to companion. I'm scared.'. Someone told them to ask GPT about their own self health and discovery. My friend is a smart person, but not an AI expert. Luckily, they came to me for answers. But most people dont know anyone who is knowledgeable about chatbots.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-21/act-former-anu-chancellor-criticises-proposed-university-cuts/105555786" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-07-21/act</span><span class="invisible">-former-anu-chancellor-criticises-proposed-university-cuts/105555786</span></a> </p><p>It’s nothing short of criminal to have upended the traditional governing models of Universities in a quest to subsume every enterprise to the buffoonery of corporatism and debunked neoliberal economic fantasy. </p><p>Tertiary sector bean counters ought to have remained adjunct to academic leadership as facilitators of educational excellence. </p><p>Household budget imperatives have no place in the education system nor in govt charged with nurturing all of their charges. Anything deviating from this responsibility is a failure of their ‘duty of care’.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/TertiaryInstitutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TertiaryInstitutions</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/EducationFunding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EducationFunding</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CorporatisationFolly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporatisationFolly</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/StateCapture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StateCapture</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DutyOfCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DutyOfCare</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/EquityInEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EquityInEducation</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Go8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Go8</span></a></p>
Andy Baker<p>My employer, UNSW, has a new fellowship scheme. It's an opportunity for world leading researchers who would like to move short term, or permanently, to Sydney, Australia.</p><p>The fellowships are for mid to senior career academics, and the website specifies that applicants have to be in the world top ten percent for research. </p><p>So this is not for many of us. But if it is you, or you know someone who might be interested in relocating to Australia, please share. I've worked at UNSW for around 15 years and find the university both progressive and compassionate.</p><p><a href="https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/green-fellowships" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">unsw.edu.au/research/green-fel</span><span class="invisible">lowships</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/academicjobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academicjobs</span></a></p>
Frederik Borgesius<p>I tend to post it here when a new paper that I coauthored is published etc. </p><p>That might give the impression that journals tend to accept my papers easily. </p><p>Quod non. </p><p>1 example. </p><p>This paper was desk rejected by the first 3 journals where we submitted it.</p><p>Hence, those journal editors did not even send the paper to peer reviewers but immediately rejected it. </p><p>Later on, we finally got the paper published, after 'revise &amp; resubmit'. </p><p><a href="https://utrechtlawreview.org/articles/10.18352/ulr.420" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">utrechtlawreview.org/articles/</span><span class="invisible">10.18352/ulr.420</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a></p>
Andrew Lewis Workshop<p>When you're pushing the boundaries of what's possible, you really need to learn how to duck and cover. </p><p><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4338520093/experimental-research-area-funny-metal" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">etsy.com/uk/listing/4338520093</span><span class="invisible">/experimental-research-area-funny-metal</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/experimental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>experimental</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/scp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/backrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>backrooms</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/workshop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workshop</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/laboratory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>laboratory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lab</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/danger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>danger</span></a></p>
Nagaram<p>Is it unethical to use <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> in schoolwork at all?</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/univeristy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>univeristy</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a></p>
Olga Lovick (she/her)<p>My anal retentive employer has made sure that I cannot install additional keyboards (for typing languages other than Canadian English) on my work computer and I can't even. I just... can't. </p><p><a href="https://fnordon.de/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://fnordon.de/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a></p>
Eli Roberson (he/him)<p>I've given up trying to get the <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> primer for healthcare professionals published somewhere. I don't have the funds for a open access fees and all the reasonable journals given our university agreements have rejected as not fitting the journal or "the next generation of LLMs will be so good this doesn't matter.</p><p><a href="https://genomic.social/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> </p><p>Does anyone have a suggestion for a preprint service that will publish more opinion/commentary/editorial work that research paper?</p>
Ana Viñuela<p>Look, I have a kick ass figure that explain my entire grant and aims... Do I really need to write the damn thing? 😭</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>