This is a great review of Consensus but really the issues it points out applies to pretty much to undermind, elicit, Scispace & all other similar specialised tools (1) www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Why are so many AI-generated drawn images all yellow-beige-y? Is that from a specific tool?

The American Statistical Association just released its 2025 report: The Nation’s Data at Risk. https://www.amstat.org/policy-and-advocacy/the-nations-data-at-risk--2025-report From the executive summary: "Immediate action must be taken to halt the severe decline in the federal statistical […]

Additionally: "The Monday move by the high court lets stand the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that says the First Amendment doesn’t acknowledge a right to receive information." www.texastribune.org/2025/12/08/t...

REF 2029 downgrades research culture, restores five output limit. "Research impact, known as “engagement and impact”, will remain at 25 per cent, according to an update announced on 10 December." www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-202...

An Israel-based geoengineering startup believes that it can solve climate change—for a price. Here’s how it hopes to do it, and why many scientists are freaked out about the first serious for-profit company moving into the solar geoengineering field.

Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change www.unesco.org/sites/defaul...

Y'all wanna warn your friends before you get on the "AI companion" bandwagon and warn your friends, help them get informed.

If you are a Switzerland-based researcher and want to help preserve a sustainable academic publishing landscape, there are things you can do to support your libraries. Read, act, and reach out.

"the fascisized sometimes support women and LGBTQ+ people" This is important to remember

X est un réseau néo-nazi organisé et orienté pour promouvoir des contenus néonazi. En restant actif là-bas, vous ne luttez pas (et surtout pas à armes égales) mais vous contribuez à le légitimer en lui donnant un vernis de pluralisme. C'est comme écrire pour le courrier des lecteurs de Rivarol.

I love zines so much and I'm especially honoured @cgsunit.bsky.social quoted me @marentierra.bsky.social and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social in this one. It's such great work! 🤩 padlet.com/laurenUU/ai-...

Une adaptation de mon intervention au Colloque des bibliothèques de la Ville de Genève. La neutralité est-elle une valeur, et comment doit-elle être interprétée dans nos institutions ?

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

COS has initiated the process of incorporating as an International Non-Profit Organization in Brussels. We are excited to strengthen our partnerships with mission-aligned individuals and organizations in the EU. See the blog post for more information.

⚖️ Who is best in place to regulate the use of research output for training generative AI systems? In our new post, Dmitry Kochetkov explores this question and shows how generative AI is reshaping copyright and the future of scholarly publishing. Read more 👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/cop...

Sounds about right.

Le Point nous annonce son « nouveau guide de la super-intelligence artificielle » avec « les plus grands spécialistes internationaux » comme… Ari Kouts.🤣 Passé de Twitto-debunker-nofakemed-relais de la propagande de Tsahal à sommité mondiale en IA. Ça donne une vague idée du niveau de bullshit.

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

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Un billet d'humeur sur ce qui constitue une source à l'heure de la recherche par IA et sur la place de la source dans le processus d'écriture.

Dumb question: would you categorise "subscribe-to-open" journals as Diamond, Hybrid, or as a different form of Gold ? #openaccess #oa

Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year. english.elpais.com/science-tech...

'Critical washing' is a very useful phrase I've just learned thanks to this paper. And while it relates to AI we can apply it in other areas. Key for me would be safety, wellbeing and mental distress in education settings where there's a huge amount of discussion and little comparative action.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

OpenAlex intégré au Web of Science, ou la capture du travail des “commoners” | carnetist.hypotheses.org/2572

Les zélotes de l'IA : "pour garder le contrôle, il faut enseigner l'art du prompt aux élèves" La réalité des usages, construite et imposée par la Tech :

"...from a legal perspective, the best analogy to robot rights is not human rights but corporate rights..."

What’s crazy is people have been waving a red flag about Substack profiting on health disinformation for years. It was actually the original problem before Substack courted and began profiting from Nazism. I don’t get why anyone who does work on the information ecosystem can justify publishing there

La complaisance des médias mainstream envers quelqu'un qui n'a jamais travaillé, a menti sur son emploi du temps, a servi d'alibi à un parti délinquant fondé par des SS et frôle l'inculture crasse est en train de payer. Merci à tous de vos efforts pour finir de saborder le pays

Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

"Bridge Partners, a firm working for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, sent a series of invoices for its “Influencer Campaign” to Havas Media Group Germany. The invoices detailed a sum of $900,000, starting in June and slated to end in November, for a cohort of 14-18 influencers to create content."

Je voudrais juste revenir là dessus, deux secondes parce que c'est vraiment un truc que ni "la pensée critique", ni le factchecking binaire comprend (et qui génère des externalités négatives). La désinformation, et, plus largement, la propagande à une *fonction*, celle de façonner nos perceptions.

Autre dérive de l'IA. Lors du procès sur les massacres de mars en Syrie, un accusé a affirmé : « Ce n'est pas moi, c'est l'IA. Tout est fabriqué. » Ce à quoi le juge a simplement répondu : « Vous êtes clairement visible sur la vidéo. »

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social please enjoy this woman’s collection of security envelopes HIGHLY RECOMMEND checking out her profile for an incredibly organized taxonomy and in-depth discussion of the finer points of pattern design.

Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them

One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)

Case in point:

Every institution in Canada should be rethinking its relationship with big tech providers, if only for the reason of how quickly they cozied up to Trump. #cdnpoli

Really elucidates the New York Times "style" that we've seen in countless cases (particularly in the case of Mamdani and trans-related issues) where they try to hide their obvious bias behind a screen of both-sides-ism that ignores the fact that only one side really offers quality evidence.

Le collège Données de la recherche publie un guide : « Définir une approche qualité des données de recherche » pour accompagner les chercheurs et les gestionnaires de données dans la mise en œuvre d’une démarche qualité au long du cycle de vie des #données. www.ouvrirlascience.fr/definir-une-...

#RightsRetention is a tool that helps institutions to manage their research outputs, making them immediately #OpenAccess. It's not just policy, it's power. What steps are needed to implement RR at your institution? Share your thoughts! #RetainYourRights #OA100 🧵1/5

sur l'effet Laffer : blog.franceinfo.fr/classe-eco/2... "La réponse à toute question en sciences sociales est "ça dépend". Et toute la difficulté est d'identifier patiemment de quoi cela dépend. C'est un travail qui n'est guère compatible avec le besoin de slogans du débat public."

"Non mais c'est parce que tu as mal formulé le prompt"

Lecture du jour (c'est très bon)

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...