How can we use LLMs to understand science? 🤔 Our new open access volume is out now 🎉 It features almost 30 chapters by more than 50 international scholars, exploring LLMs as research tools for the history, philosophy, and sociology of science. www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Our programmatic article on using LLMs for science studies just got published 🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Remember Ludwig Fleck's socio-intellectual forms of science? In 1935, he described the novelty of findings along different document types in science. Today, we know many of such links, think of #Preprints, #SystematicReviews #MetaAnalysis #Guidelines #Handbooks #SoftwarePaper #DataPaper etc. 1/2

We thought that the Covid-19 pandemic would be a great opportunity to study the dynamics of the different document types. So, we displayed the Dtypes of 5.76 million publications from PubMed and OpenAlex since January 2020 in a dahsboard:

Bsky is being flooded with German speaking AI powered bots. A thread on why this is important, ultimately making all social media is unusable. #deutschland #trolls #AI #election 1/ What happened? All these responses to a @zeit.de post have something in common (spoiler: they are not real):

How does Wikipedia decide whether a scientist should be mentioned in an article that is not about them? 🤷 We call this the problem of "micro-notability", and we've studied how Wikipedia editors deal with it in two articles on CRISPR/Cas9: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Had I read this Kurzweil interview 10 years ago, which I didn't, I would have dismissed most of his predictions as rediculous (especially those concerning language understanding). How foolish I would have been then... 😬 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

OpenAI teams up with Axel Springer "to deepen beneficial use of AI in journalism" 🤣👍 (aka good bye journalism) openai.com/blog/axel-sp...

More than 1000 unmarked graves-discovered along EU migration routes, the Guardian reports: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... In total more than 29,000 people died on European migration routes in the past decade, according to the Missing Migrants Project: missingmigrants.iom.int/data

Google's new Gemini AI could soon disrupt the way we're doing research... Especially how we find AND interpret relevant literature 😳🔎📚📚📚 youtu.be/sPiOP_CB54A?...

New paper out (with @aschniedermann.bsky.social) on the reception of preprints in the German press, before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on distant reading of 390K news articles 🔎📰. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...