There are three types of library users: the absent-minded dreamer (1), the busy and silent reader (2), and the one looking at the other two types (3). Which one are you?

Hello there at the "Journal of Intercultural Studies". Thank you for the ginormous disrespect you've shown by keeping our piece for over a year without notifying us. Obviously "intercultural" by name but not in practice. Well done Australia!

Received reader’s report whose language/structure show chatbot participation, but not what extent/stage: reviewer could have fed in my draft; or could have read it themselves before feeding their notes into LLM to phrase report; or something somewhere between those poles. Like most reader's reports by humans, this one combines some helpful suggestions with some unhelpful tangents. A. Should I care? B. Should I use the same method to respond to reader’s report? #LLM #academicchatter #Reviewer1

Friends, I have just come across the phrase 'odious tittle-tattle' to describe the intellectual atmosphere of mid 20th century Oxford, and I am transformed and converted.

'Ugh, another department meeting. What a wasted afternoon of odious tittle-tattle.'

Israeli scholars publish a paper featuring at least one apparently #AI-generated citation of a nonexistent article by a Palestinian scholar #israel #palestine #academicchatter

Writing ethical statement for academic papers in 2025 be like:

This study was approved by the institutional review board for the University of North Carolina. All participants completed a modified online consent with the option to exit the study at any time. Data were fully de-identified and anonymous. No type of generative artificial intelligence was used for the writing of this manuscript, nor for the creation of images, graphics, tables, or their corresponding captions.

Aside from all the fuss about AI-generated academic papers, and AI-generated feedback to students, has there been much concern yet about AI-generated peer reviews?

Essential reading on the massive scale commercial con of #Turnitin (and the new #AI detection con). Ive railed about the Turnitin con for years. Somehow, as the saying goes: 'I told you so' doesn't really cover it. Im proud to say I have NEVER used Turnitin in any of my lectures, either the earlier period 2007-2015 or 2017/20 and then in Malta in 2022/23. The last 2 periods Turnitin was meant to be mandatory.

#academia #academicchatter #education

https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/06/ai-detector/

Hi, academics,
I have a question that is somewhat important for understanding the treatment of some untenured folks at a university.

This question is specifically aimed for academics who are working in a country where they are not citizens: How much, if any, assistance did/does your university provide with your necessary visa requirements? (I was going to do a poll but its probably too fine-grained of answers.)

Please share if relevant!

Took a day off work to get ready for holiday tomorrow. Predictably I have spent the whole day working.
Must get on actually packing, cleaning, and other essentials now...
#AcademicChatter

can someone point me to an uptodate "getting started" #fediverse guide aimed at scientists? e.g. with a list of (the main) science mastodon servers, how to introduce yourself, what to put in your profile as a scholar, etc?

Getting a PhD dissertation from a kid you had as an undergrad research assistant, who is now finishing their doctoral degree-- that's a special kind of emotional boost.

I know, international collaboration is not really "in" at the moment (and potentially declining).

So, here a #ShoutOut to #Eduroam!
It made #SPRKrakow2025 just so much easier!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-03/anu-announces-more-job-cuts-as-it-seeks-to-save-millions/105489748

More Aussie academia cuts, this time at the ANU.

I remember when I finished my PhD, talking about 'just need a job to ride out the next couple of years and things will get better' and instead things seem to have gotten much much worse. Awesome.

I am beyond saddened by my university cutting almost 20% of majors. Admittedly some of these were degrees that no one was enrolled in and were left behind in some administrative way, it also is a lot of highly regarded fields, from environmental science, gender studies, art history.

What Indiana is doing is not an isolated event.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/curriculum/2025/07/02/ind-public-universities-voluntarily-ending-19-degrees

New paper out now!

My co-author Meike Levin-Keitel and I have just published our article “Next Level? Civil society’s navigation of multi-level governance in the conflict over cycling conditions in Bavaria” in the European Journal of Spatial Development’s special issue on „Spatial Transformation from a Planning Perspective“.

Read the full article open access here: https://journals.polito.it/index.php/EJSD/article/view/460

#CivilSociety #SpatialPlanning #SustainableMobility #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon

Any chance that someone on here knows someone who uses course hero?

There's a syllabus I want access to. I've asked the professor for a copy but I need it urgently and I bet he won't check his email till the fall.

ALL digital IP licensing of any kind is dead in the water until we have better methods to monitor and regulate AI crawl bots. Cloudflare offer hope in the future, instead of the ridiculous 'fair use' approach currently advocated.

CC licences have zero meaning atm, bots (and their owners) dont care what icons you have on your website. PERHAPS machine readable opt out (eg metadata or htaccess) might make some difference.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/pay-up-or-stop-scraping-cloudflare-program-charges-bots-for-each-crawl