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Digital Humanities @ King's College London
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What happens when AI searches the web for you? Our own Janna Joceli Omena
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examines GPT-4o's web search over time — and finds that citation diversity only appears when users know how to push the system. 👉
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Before AI agents act for us, we need to know how AI searches for us - LSE Impact
Generative AI agents are pitched as being a new gateway to engaging with the Internet, but the way AI sees the Internet is both "conservative" and "stubborn”.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/04/15/before-ai-agents-act-for-us-we-need-to-know-how-ai-searches-for-us/
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Peter Suber
9 days ago
One year of strife between
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and the
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admin, March 2025 - March 2026.
www.harvardmagazine.com/harvard-in-t...
#AcademicFreedom
#AcadSky
#AcademicSky
#DefendResearch
#EduSky
#Funding
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Harvard Weathers a Year of Turmoil | Harvard Magazine
The federal government has launched unprecedented actions against the University. Here’s a guide.
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/harvard-in-the-crosshairs/harvard-trump-administration-lawsuits
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AAUP
11 days ago
The inevitable result of attacks on the freedom to teach and learn.
#BrainDrain
We wish you the best, Dr. Peterson.
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Serhii Nazarovets
21 days ago
Why global databases are not enough, and why national scholarly infrastructures matter more than we think. The solution is not to replace global systems, but to connect national ones into a network of interoperable, open infrastructures.
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#OpenScience
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By linking national scholarly infrastructures we can better understand the impact of global research - LSE Impact
Global scholarly information systems provide poor coverage for social science and humanities research taking place outside of the anglophone world and in languages other than English. Paul Donner, Ste...
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/04/01/by-linking-national-scholarly-infrastructures-we-can-better-understand-the-impact-of-global-research/
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Bobby Xinyue
19 days ago
Literally every word of this article. These bastards are largely responsible for the job cuts and all the other atrocities. Management consultancies should have no role in the running of universities, or any public-sector institution for that matter. It’s basically privatisation by stealth.
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Simon Fisher
21 days ago
Sadly, not an April Fool & also not surprising. “An analysis conducted by
@nature.com
in collaboration with Grounded AI suggests that at least tens of thousands of 2025 publications, including journal papers, books, & conference proceedings, probably contain invalid references generated by AI.” 🧪
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Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?
Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00969-z
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Claes de Vreese
23 days ago
New move in academic publishing: The
@ec.europa.eu
is launching Open Research Europe (ORE), an open access publishing platform for research funded by all EU programmes.
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A new era for Open Research Europe
European Commission to co-fund new phase of operation for open access publishing platform.
https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-research-and-innovation-news/new-era-open-research-europe-2026-03-26_en
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
7 months ago
New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames.
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& I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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André "Normal" Alessi
24 days ago
There's no singular "scientific method", but rather a collection of different methods that might or might not share the same underlying assumptions about the world.
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Ehud
26 days ago
Pro tip: regardless of the field you want to major in or do graduate work in, favor universities with good humanities and arts. I can give you the long explanation, but you can think of them as hard to fake signals of many things that are important in unis that are hard to evaluate from the outside.
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David Gunkel
28 days ago
Two good publishing opportunities if you are working on
#AI
and the environment.
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Julia M. Rohrer
about 1 month ago
Psychology has a whole cottage industry in which people come up with some construct that is essentially "attitudes/beliefs/expectations/feelings about X", and then the central claim is that this construct is a super important determinant of future X outcomes.>
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Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN)
about 1 month ago
Do you work in a policy role in local, devolved or national government or in an international policy role ? Stay up to date with the latest evidence-based policy- relevant research from the
@ox.ac.uk
. Sign up to The Oxford Briefing!
#researchtopolicy
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Dani Beck, PhD
about 1 month ago
I wrote a short piece on what funding and hiring committees often overlook when assessing merit.
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What committees miss when they judge merit
Diversity and equity policies are often dismissed as a numbers game: too many white men at the top, so institutions try to balance the…
https://medium.com/@beck_200191/what-committees-miss-when-they-judge-merit-485b2e368bb7
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Alba Lanau
about 2 months ago
Anyone having issues with SageOpen? My article has been waiting for 3 months since proofs because of issues with their payment system and I'm receiving no answers. Wondering if anyone in the same boat?
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#Sage
#SageOpen
#academia
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Mark Rubin
about 1 month ago
"There are signs that the Bayes Factor is increasingly taking on a role analogous to that of the p-value, serving as a device for the automation of decisions rather than as a tool for substantive inference." Excellent new preprint by Carol Ting on the rise of NHST.
#Methodology
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The Rise of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST): Institutional Massification and the Emergence of a Procedural Epistemology
It has long been a puzzle why, despite sustained reform efforts, many applied scientific fields remain dominated by Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST), a framework that dichotomizes study res...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14757
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Times Higher Education (THE)
about 1 month ago
“Drastic” cuts to UK humanities departments risk the loss of a new generation of academic talent similar to the brain drain seen in the 1980s, according to the new winner of the Holberg Prize, writes
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#AcademicSky #braindrain #HolbergPrize
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Dr Abeba Birhane
about 1 month ago
fresh off the press from yours truly:
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I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study 1/
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Algorithmic Bias
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Dr Abeba Birhane
about 1 month ago
Nature published another pile of trash i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields 1/
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠
about 1 month ago
US researchers are advising students not to enter academia. "More than two-thirds of the researchers in Massachusetts... who responded to a survey conducted by The Boston Globe recommend their students consider careers outside academia."
#AcademicSky
www.chemistryworld.com/news/us-rese...
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US researchers are advising students not to enter academia
A survey of NIH-grantees in Massachusetts reveals delayed hiring in labs, layoffs, careers being pursued abroad and research scope reductions
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/us-researchers-are-advising-students-not-to-enter-academia/4023112.article
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Aidan Horner
about 1 month ago
Exciting news! The
@yorkpsychology.bsky.social
are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience.
#neuroskyence
#cognition
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Jobs - The University of York
https://jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lecturer-in-psychology-605280.html
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LSE Impact Blog
about 2 months ago
💥New | Do women academics need to work 2.4 times harder to succeed? ✍️Ulf Sandström
#AcademicSky
#GenderBias
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Do women academics need to work 2.4 times harder to succeed? - LSE Impact
What reproducing Wennerås & Wold's classic 1997 study on peer review bias reveals about policymaking and the use of evidence in research policy.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/03/05/do-women-academics-need-to-work-2-4-times-harder-to-succeed/
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LSE Impact Blog
about 2 months ago
👀ICYMI: "It has evolved into a platform-oriented business model that systematically captures students precisely when they are likely to feel uncertain or anxious"
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,
@saraheaton.bsky.social
#AcademicSky
#ResearchMisconduct
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The growing market for student academic misconduct services - LSE Impact
A growing market for student academic misconduct services is increasingly outsourcing research ethics in higher education institutions.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/02/24/the-growing-market-for-student-academic-misconduct-services/
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Robert McNees
about 2 months ago
People refuse to acknowledge how an LLM actually works, and insist on assigning meaning and understanding to its output. There is no meaning, and the system understands neither the user’s question nor its own “response.”
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Sara Georgini
about 2 months ago
📚 🗃️ Super excited for this FREE Wed. 3/4 virtual event, when I’ll be in conversation with Tamela Chambers, Colleen Shogan, and Laura McEnaney on
#libraries
,
#archives
, & freedoms. Join us for “Defending Democracy in the Stacks” Register here:
umass-amherst.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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e spencer 📚🌳
about 2 months ago
US citizen researching in New Zealand (hoping to stay after my studies 🤞🏽).
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One of the things I value about this space is its international reach. If you’re happy to share, where are you posting from? 🌎❤️
about 2 months ago
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One of the things I value about this space is its international reach. If you’re happy to share, where are you posting from? 🌎❤️
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
about 2 months ago
”once misinformation from AI-generated summaries remains uncorrected and seeps into published theses, research papers, and other outputs, it could contribute to a loop of misinformation.”
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Martin Zettersten
about 2 months ago
Our department is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor!! This is a joint-appointed position with Computational Social Sciences (
css.ucsd.edu
). It's 75+ degrees F and sunny today, just thought I'd mention
apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04461
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Assistant Teaching Professor in Computational Social Science and Cognitive Science
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04461
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Peter Tennant
about 2 months ago
This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions. It does not. It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed. 🧵 1/
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LSE Impact Blog
about 2 months ago
👀ICYMI: "Through the oral histories, we capture aspects of the experience of research that might be difficult to access in other ways." ✍️
@angecass.bsky.social
& Paul Merchant
#ResearchMethods
#Sustainability
#AcademicSKy
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What oral histories can teach us about effective environmental research - LSE Impact
What can oral histories tell us about the tacit knowledge required for successful collaborative environmental and sustainability research.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/02/18/what-oral-histories-can-teach-us-about-effective-environmental-research/
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Julia M. Rohrer
about 2 months ago
There seem to be a whole (older) cohort of eminent social psychologists who essentially do not understand the concept of sampling error, and I wonder to what extent that lack of understanding was an adaptive trait for a career.
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Daniel Lakens
about 2 months ago
198 effect sizes in ego depletion resesrch showed an effect size of d=0.62. Preregistered large replications (including some by original authors) yielded an effect size of 0. No one has been able to offer any other explanation for this huge research waste than massive p-hacking.
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Michael Tremmel
about 2 months ago
Higher Ed is not about job training! STEM has long benefitted from this rhetoric but we are all threatened by this concept. The University is meant to be broad and forward thinking, not something that follows the trends of the market which are inherently short-sighted and lacking imagination.
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Dani Beck, PhD
about 2 months ago
Peer review is not there for you to tell experts in the field how you'd prefer the style of the paper to be, or what method or analysis you have a clear bias for. Your job is to check for correctness, spot errors or gaps, protect the integrity of the scientific method, not piss on others.
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Erik Nook 🏳️🌈
2 months ago
Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations.
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...
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Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology
Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology provide a several-week-long visit to our department for early-career faculty. The program focuses on early-career scholars who would benefit from interactions ...
https://psych.princeton.edu/diversity/microsabbaticals-princeton-psychology
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LSE Impact Blog
2 months ago
👀ICYMI: "despite the emphasis on impact, its meaning remains abstract for non-specialist audiences."
#Impact
#SciComm
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Good impact narratives must connect to our everyday lives - LSE Impact
Research impact is often communicated in abstract and bureaucratic language. To be meaningful it needs to connect to peoples' everyday lives.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/02/12/good-impact-narratives-must-connect-to-our-everyday-lives/
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Dr Abeba Birhane
2 months ago
I appeared as an expert witness before the Joint Committee on AI at the Houses of Oireachtas (parliament of Ireland) to discuss "AI: truth and democracy" this morning. You can read my opening statement here:
www.oireachtas.ie/en/publicati...
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LSE Impact Blog
2 months ago
🗣️"The sector has become a hybrid institution caught between public expectations and market imperatives, governed by leaders rewarded for financial agility, rather than intellectual integrity."
#AcademicSky
#HigherEducation
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Why are UK universities failing? - LSE Impact
The HE sector in the UK faces the prospect of a university going into administration. How have universities fallen so low and is change possible?
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/01/19/why-are-uk-universities-failing/
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Malte Elson
2 months ago
New paper, on a worrying trend in meta-science: the practice of anonymising datasets on, e.g., published articles. We argue that this is at odds with norms established in research synthesis, explore arguments for anonymisation, provide counterpoints, and demonstrate implications and epistemic costs.
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Julia M. Rohrer
2 months ago
A variation: Scientists who claim they’re “not interested in causality” because they assume the term only applies to deterministic, law-like relationships that are unrealistic in their field. Instead, they’re interested in how “X drives Y”, the effects of X, the “extent to which X matters for Y”>
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Marco Bocchio
2 months ago
🧠 We’ve widened the entry criteria for our MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at Durham:
www.durham.ac.uk/study/course...
We now welcome students from a broad range of backgrounds—Psychology, Biology, Engineering, Physics and more as Neuroscience thrives on diverse perspectives
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Dr Cody Porter
2 months ago
Insights from the Perspectives on Scientific Error (#PSE8) conference 🧵 Day 1: what a thought provoking morning. Replication remains one of the cornerstones of scientific progress, yet replication studies are still notoriously difficult to publish. Many never make it into print at all.
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Rebecca Sear
2 months ago
“By demanding that economics education should be more pluralist ethically conscientious, historically aware & oriented towards the real world, Rethinking Economics exposed the staggering deficiency in how economists are educated & induced significant changes in economics teaching around the world”
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Rethinking Economics, the movement changing how the subject is taught
Born of student disquiet after the 2008 crash, the group says it is reshaping economists’ education
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/10/rethinking-economics-student-academic-organisation-changing-education
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Rebecca Brückmann
2 months ago
Dear Blueskies, question: could you recommend a recent-ish, peer reviewed study on implicit/unconscious bias in faculty hiring? I know the classics, but I am wondering what new(ish) research is out there that could be used in a workshop setting. Thank you very much!
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#EduSky
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AI Now Institute
2 months ago
We just dropped the next 4 essays in Reframing Impact: AI Summit 2026, our new series with Aapti Institute and
@themaybe.org
– this time with Nikhil Dey,
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
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@audreyt.org
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@abeba.bsky.social
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Peter Tennant
2 months ago
The UK *is* losing a generation of scientists. I know lots of brilliant people who have left their jobs / the country because of the limited jobs & funding. Once lost, they cannot ever be replaced. The UK government is overseeing the death of UK academic science, and it doesn't seem to care.
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Peter Tennant
2 months ago
I'm on the edge of the "R Statistics Community" in what looks like an
@societyforepi.bsky.social
gathering on causal inference with
@lizstuart.bsky.social
,
@jeremylabrecque.bsky.social
,
@jlrohmann.bsky.social
,
@idiaz.bsky.social
,
@mattpfox.bsky.social
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@miguelhernan.org
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LSE Press
2 months ago
"Studying for an apprenticeship breaks down siloes and widens the perspective to a broader marketplace of ideas and ways of working."
@elinorpotts.bsky.social
writes on the value of apprenticeships in book publishing for
@thebookseller.com
✅ Read more here:
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Apprenticeships in book publishing matter more than ever
Publishing needs to ditch old assumptions and embrace the power of apprenticeships, says writer and communications leader Elinor Potts
https://www.thebookseller.com/comment/apprenticeships-in-book-publishing-matter-more-than-ever
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