Category: 3. Academia
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Recommendation to the editor?
For a research article that I have been writing, I modeled the review process of the journal I’m aiming at using Gen AI. All highly-critical AI reviewers Reviewer 2a, Reviewer 2b, and Reviewer Z are now satisfied with the article. Upon submission, should I recommend to the editor to skip the formalities and go straight…
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Do submission fees to journals predict better article quality?
The recent surge in language-oriented AIs has created a significant problem for research journals: Increasing numbers of submissions with increasing lower quality. As a response, several journals have announced journal submission fees to dam(n) the flood. I’m a bit at a loss as to how this is going to help. Using money as a gatekeeper…
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Should you get a Doctor (Ph.D.) title?
Yes, if it does for you what you want to get out of it. Reasons for doctoral research So what does doctoral research leading to a dissertation and the title give you? Reason 1: The title itself You want the title to improve your chances of getting a seat even if the restaurant is full…
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Cultural slapstick with students
Student, via email: Could you please approve these study-abroad courses for my degree? (We have a process for this that I expect students to use; direct email is not the way to go.) Me: Who sent you my way to approve these? They: I’m so sorry, I didn’t intend to bother you. I will find…
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Glucose on the web service
As a professor, I’m apparently increasingly communicating not with students, but with bots representing students. The following communication ensued after I failed a student for my research class, because they hadn’t submitted any of the required homework. Student: “I have submitted all the method exercises on time, but my final grade is fail.” Me: “There…
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Why would anyone complain about penalizing research papers that have fake citations?
Arxiv, the popular preprint server, recently decided to penalize submitters of articles that contain non-existing references, presumably hallucinated by an AI. All authors will be sent to the doghouse, not just the first author. They’ll be blocked for a year from submitting new articles and will have their whole history reviewed, among other sanctions. While…