Alison Hoens
@physioktbroker.bsky.social
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Clinical Professor, Knowledge Broker, Physical Therapist, Knowledge mobilization specialist
“women who submit resumes created with AI assistance are evaluated as less competent and less trustworthy than men who submit identical AI-assisted resumes” 🧪
www.forbes.com/sites/michel...
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Women Who Use AI Seen As Incompetent; Men Who Use AI Seen As Pragmatic
A 2026 study found that when women and men use AI tools to create identical resumes, evaluators view the women as less competent, while crediting the men with initiative.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelletravis/2026/06/25/women-who-use-ai-seen-as-incompetent-men-who-use-ai-seen-as-pragmatic/
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Paying journal articles reviewers results in faster and higher quality reviews 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief
A biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01973-z
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Science behind a paywall 🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Science Behind a Paywall: Restricted Access Limits the Promise of Artificial Intelligence
Click on the article title to read more.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.2059
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Relying on journal impact factor for an article is likely unwise 🧪
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Beyond impact factor: citation skew and article-level influence in sleep medicine journals - Sleep and Breathing
Objective Citation skew refers to the unequal distribution of citations to articles within a journal. The study aimed to assess citation skew in sleep science journals and whether the journal impact f...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11325-026-03735-7
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Is the human brain designed to cope with ongoing bad news? “Problematic News Consumption (PNC) — a pattern of news engagement that results in preoccupation, dysregulation and disruption to daily functioning”🧪
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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Your brain was never designed for this much bad news
Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger, but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world. Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260614012006.htm
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AI bots - dramatic increase in proportion of online traffic 🧪https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2026/06/04/bots-now-outnumber-humans-online-and-the-internet-was-never-built-for-this/
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Bots Now Outnumber Humans Online And The Internet Was Never Built For This
Bot traffic has surpassed humans on the Internet. The winners in the next infrastructure cycle are the companies building trust rails for machines: agent identity, intent verification, API-native cont...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2026/06/04/bots-now-outnumber-humans-online-and-the-internet-was-never-built-for-this/
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Journals providing variable guidance re use of AI 🧪
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42241773/
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Editorial policies for ethical use of artificial intelligence in rheumatology journals - PubMed
Indexed rheumatology journals demonstrate variable editorial policies of enforcing AI guidance. While the adoption of AI-related policies is mostly improving, a marked heterogeneity still exists, part...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42241773/
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Update - proportion of first and last authorship who are women 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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First and last authors more likely to be men in leading science journals
Women’s participation in science has risen sharply, but a Nature Index analysis finds that gender gaps in first and last authorship — markers of key scientific achievements — have barely shifted over ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01495-8
about 1 month ago
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Supporting patient leadership for patient -led conferences: analysis and recommendations 🧪
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/6...
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https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/6/e111771
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Arthritis Consumer Experts & JointHealth™ Programs
about 1 month ago
JointHealth™ express - ACE Research Featured at
#EULAR2026
: Understanding Patient Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Arthritis Care. Visit Ellen Wang, ACE's Programs Coordinator on June 6 at Poster View VIII to learn more or read here:
bit.ly/ACEArtificia...
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ACE Research Featured at EULAR 2026: Understanding Patient Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Arthritis Care - Arthritis News
Research from ACE’s 2025 National Survey on AI and Arthritis Care will be presented at the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) 2026 Congress in London, England.
https://bit.ly/ACEArtificialIntelligenceSurvey_EULAR2026
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Nature-based interventions improve health 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A systematic overview and second-order meta-analysis of nature-based interventions for stress, anxiety and depression - Nature Human Behaviour
This systematic overview and second-order meta-analysis shows that nature-based interventions effectively reduce anxiety and depression while enhancing relaxation and positive affect.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02433-4
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AI best practices for authors - many of these are likely relevant to scientific writing 🧪
authorsguild.org/resource/ai-...
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AI Best Practices for Authors - The Authors Guild
Generative AI has become a ubiquitous technology, and some writers are already using it in various ways to assist in the writing process. Many people have turned to AI to draft things like emails, sli...
https://authorsguild.org/resource/ai-best-practices-for-authors/
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Peer Review 🧪”The global reviewer pool grew 54% between 2018 & 2025. .. but ..the rate at which those reviewers accept invitations has fallen sharply. It now takes editors an average of 4.5 invitations to secure a single review, nearly double the rate from 2018”.
www.silverchair.com/news/the-num...
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The Numbers Behind the Noise: What Our 2026 Peer Review Report Shows - Silverchair
The 2026 Future of Peer Review Report doesn't accept the crisis narrative at face value. Here's what the evidence actually shows.
https://www.silverchair.com/news/the-numbers-behind-the-noise/
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Nature’s health benefits 🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02433-4
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A systematic overview and second-order meta-analysis of nature-based interventions for stress, anxiety and depression - Nature Human Behaviour
This systematic overview and second-order meta-analysis shows that nature-based interventions effectively reduce anxiety and depression while enhancing relaxation and positive affect.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02433-4
about 1 month ago
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Using social media to disseminate science - wht its important and how to do it well 🧪
academic.oup.com/academicmedi...
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From publication to Dissemination: Using Social Media to Extend Scholarly Reach and Impact
Abstract. In academic medicine, publication has often been treated as the endpoint of scholarship. In today’s crowded digital environment, however, publica
https://academic.oup.com/academicmedicine/advance-article/doi/10.1093/acamed/wvag144/8687820
about 2 months ago
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Leveraging LLMs for manuscript preparation by scientists for whom English is not their first language 🧪
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Scientific Writing, Generative AI, and the Non–Native English Speaker
This Viewpoint explores whether the utility artificial intelligence (AI) tools for non-native English researchers may compromise the epistemic accuracy of scientific writing.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2848649
about 2 months ago
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Tough peer-review process? Your paper might end up being more highly cited 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Tough peer-review process? Your paper might end up being more highly cited
An AI-led analysis of publicly available peer-review reports links requests for major revisions with papers that end up having high impact.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01615-4
about 2 months ago
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Proposing an “ethically-guided hybrid peer review system that integrates generative artificial intelligence with human expertise while addressing fundamental shortcomings of current review processes” 🧪
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/jpm-2025-0285/html
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How are preprint servers and open science platforms affecting the scientific process? 🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Preprint Problem: Fringe, Genetically Informed Studies of Group Differences in Behavior Housed on Open Science Platforms - Behavior Genetics
Preprint servers and open science platforms have revolutionized the scientific process. A fundamental feature of these platforms is a lack of peer review—virtually anyone with an internet connection c...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10519-026-10260-6
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Are website adaptations for AI being supported more than those for disability? “When the audience is AI, accommodation is offered with a wink. .. But when the audience is a disabled person, it it has historically been treated as an afterthought” 🧪
techpolicy.press/the-web-is-b...
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The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People
Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky critique how AI-driven infrastructure changes obscure accessibility and reveal whose needs society chooses to prioritize.
https://techpolicy.press/the-web-is-being-made-accessible-for-ai-not-people
about 2 months ago
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Sleep deprivation - beneficial health effects of catching up on sleep on the weekend is great news 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Acute sleep rebound following sleep restriction is associated with reduced mortality risk - Nature Communications
Existing research primarily focuses on average sleep duration, overlooking dynamic sleep patterns in real-world settings. Here, the authors show that acute sleep rebound following sleep restriction is...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72461-1
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Hallucinated citations often prescribe authorship to already prominent and male scholars 🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
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LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations
Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
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Exercises attenuates aging 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Exercise attenuates the hallmarks of aging: Novel perspectives
The number and proportion of individuals aged 60 years and older are steadily increasing. However, increased life expectancy is accompanied by a decli…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095254625001164?via%3Dihub
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Want to know what a webpage knows about you when you open it? Try this site
sinceyouarrived.world/taken
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taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken
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Fabricated citations- “The fabrication rate increased more than 12 times” from 2023-2026, 🧪
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Fabricated citations: an audit across 2·5 million biomedical papers
Scientific literature depends on the integrity of its references. Each reference implicitly asserts that a verifiable source exists and supports the claims being made. When references point to non-exi...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00603-3/fulltext
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Paper mills in academia- “Our findings show that paper mills are a large, organized, and often public market that commercializes scientific misconduct, not limited to papers, but infiltrating multiple parts of the research ecosystem” 🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2604.22458
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Opening Pandora's box: Paper mills in conference proceedings
Paper mills are a growing threat to the integrity of science, yet their penetration in conference proceedings remains underexplored despite conferences being more important than journals in some scien...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22458
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“Aerobic exercise, walking, and jogging, as well as strength exercises and yoga, are on par in terms of efficacy with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT),78” 🧪
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Depression
Depression is a common illness that affects people within every society around the world. It afflicts the young and the old and everyone in between, and as such poses an immense global burden. New int...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2826%2900201-1/fulltext
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“AI can streamline workflows, correct language, improve clarity & enable analyses as well as integration of data … Used carelessly or deceptively, AI can undermine scientific credibility & erode trust” 🧪https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00586-026-09870-9
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Artificial intelligence and large language models as a new threat to scientific truth – a call to action - European Spine Journal
European Spine Journal -
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00586-026-09870-9
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Consider using AI to draft posts for social media promotion of your published manuscripts 🧪
jkms.org/DOIx.php?id=...
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Evaluating Large Language Models for Post-Publication Promotion: A Blinded Comparative Study of Social Media Posts in Public Health
Doskaliuk B, et al. J Korean Med Sci. 2026 Jun;41:e168. https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2026.41.e168
https://jkms.org/DOIx.php?id=10.3346/jkms.2026.41.e168
2 months ago
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Should AI review of manuscripts be included in the process of peer-review? 🧪
aaceendocrine.ai/articles/202...
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Stop pretending AI peer review isn’t happening
https://aaceendocrine.ai/articles/2026/04/stop-pretending-ai-peer-review-isn-t-happening/
3 months ago
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Smartphone addiction effects learning 🧪
rex.libraries.wsu.edu/esploro/outp...
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https://rex.libraries.wsu.edu/esploro/outputs/graduate/The-effects-of-smartphone-addiction-on/99900890804401842
3 months ago
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The 7 deadly sins of AI in medicine 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Seven deadly sins in artificial intelligence for digital medicine - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Seven deadly sins in artificial intelligence for digital medicine
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-026-02607-4
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50% of AI generated responses to health questions were ‘problematic’ 🧪
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/4...
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https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/4/e112695
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Intentionally fabricated study gets published and is retrieved in LLM searches - Humans and AI are both deceived and the disinformation is perpetuated
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y
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Intentionally fabricated study gets published and is retrieved in LLM searches - Humans and AI are both deceived and the disinformation is perpetuated
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y
3 months ago
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Don’t feel guilty about napping - it’s good for your brain 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A nap can recalibrate homeostatic and associative synaptic plasticity in the human cortex
Nighttime sleep renormalizes net synaptic strength (homeostatic plasticity) and the inducibility of long-term potentiation (LTP)-like plasticity (asso…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811926000418
3 months ago
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AI errors are Inevitable 🧪
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html
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Errors present in 45% of AI generated reports of news stories 🧪
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content
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Recent review of the literature on AI impacts on health behaviour change 🧪
www.jmir.org/2026/1/e79677/
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The Development and Use of AI Chatbots for Health Behavior Change: Scoping Review
Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are technologies that facilitate human-computer interaction through communication in a natural language format. By increasing cost-effectiveness, inte...
https://www.jmir.org/2026/1/e79677/
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Hallucinated citations are polluting scientific literature 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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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?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nature&linkId=61180560
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People have variable skills in using AI to search for a diagnosis
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study - Nature Medicine
In a randomized controlled study involving 1,298 participants from a general sample, performance of humans when assisted by a large language model (LLM) was sensibly inferior to that of the LLM alone ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-04074-y
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What increases citations? More authors, longer titles (not with more or longer words or question marks but with colons and dashes), avoiding all caps, doing Network MAs and SRs 🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Authorship, titles and open access as drivers of citation performance in orthopaedics: a scientometric analysis - Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Background Bibliometric analyses are increasingly used to explore how scientific knowledge is created, disseminated, and perceived. In orthopaedics, research output has expanded rapidly over the past ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s10195-026-00911-z
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AI crawler use rising at the expense of local media 🧪
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At 25, Wikipedia faces a double threat: the rise of AI and the decline of local media | CBC Radio
It's been 25 years since Wikipedia first launched, but what does its future look like in a world where traditional media is on the decline and AI is on the rise?
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/wikipedia-25-year-ai-effect-9.7117795
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Where do we draw the line in AI use for manuscript writing? 🧪
socopen.org/2026/02/22/w...
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Where should SocArXiv draw the AI line?
A case that helps sort out the questions for an AI policy at SocArXiv.
https://socopen.org/2026/02/22/where-should-socarxiv-draw-the-ai-line/
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Students stressed by potential AI detection of plagiarism 🧪
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Fear of Being Flagged by AI Detectors Drives Student Stress
Increased use of new technologies accompanied by rising fear of being accused of cheating, with many universities’ policies on what is acceptable still unclear, has students on edge.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/learning-assessment/2026/02/25/fear-being-flagged-ai-detectors-drives-student
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Predatory journals “As predatory journals continue to thrive, the burden falls on researchers, institutions and policymakers to safeguard the credibility of scientific literature” 🧪https://x.com/jphysiother/status/2020383699087553019?s=12
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Journal of Physiotherapy on X: "🚨Editorial: Predatory journals undermine research integrity by publishing unreliable studies. The authors propose 5 strategies to curb their influence and protect evidence-based practice🚨 Read here: https://t.co/WIUGMnquE7 @lucashccs @bsaragiotto @Rafael_Z_Pinto @JoP_Editor" / X
🚨Editorial: Predatory journals undermine research integrity by publishing unreliable studies. The authors propose 5 strategies to curb their influence and protect evidence-based practice🚨 Read here: https://t.co/WIUGMnquE7 @lucashccs @bsaragiotto @Rafael_Z_Pinto @JoP_Editor
https://x.com/jphysiother/status/2020383699087553019?s=12
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“Beginning February 11, 2026*, arXiv will require that all submissions have a full English-language version, either as the original language or as an included translation” 🧪
blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/21/u...
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Attention authors: Upcoming policy change to non-English language paper submissions – arXiv blog
https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/21/upcoming-policy-change-to-non-english-language-paper-submissions/
5 months ago
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AI output depends on AI input. More open access for science is needed 🧪
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Artificial Intelligence and the Interpretation of the Past | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core
Artificial Intelligence and the Interpretation of the Past
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/advances-in-archaeological-practice/article/artificial-intelligence-and-the-interpretation-of-the-past/8FE3F2CB6BBFAD49F75FFC3031158A5A
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