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Using and Evaluating LLMs in Academic Work - On-Demand Join our online seminar for PhD students and researchers, "Governing LLMs in Academic Research and Teaching," which presents a researcher- and instructor-controlled framework for integrating large language models into accountable academic workflows while addressing key epistemic and ethical challenges such as factual accuracy, scholarly reliability, fair attribution, and structural hallucination (when weakly grounded concepts are inappropriately elevated). You will learn a computationally lightweight validation pipeline—implementable with familiar Python tools (e.g., NetworkX and common NLP libraries)—that uses knowledge-graph extraction, citation parsing, and network- and bibliometric diagnostics to detect hallucination, citation distortion, thematic incoherence, and prompt instability without retraining models or accessing model internals. The seminar covers high-stakes applications (manuscripts, grants, theses, syllabus design, assessment), and teaches practical skills: distinguishing factual accuracy from deeper scholarly validity, diagnosing structural and bibliographic problems, implementing citation- and network-based validation protocols, benchmarking references, and establishing transparent human–LLM attribution. All sessions are livestreamed on Zoom, with recordings, materials, and a monitored Q&A forum available for 30 days after the seminar (on-demand access and materials are similarly available for 30 days after enrollment); participants receive an Instats certificate of completion and ECTS-equivalent points where indicated. Learn more and enroll to gain a practical, auditable toolkit for responsible LLM use in serious academic work. disciplines #ArtificialIntelligence #BibliometricResearch #ComputerScience #HigherEducation #Management #OrganizationStudies #ResearchMethods #SocialNetworkAnalysis #Education #DataScience #InformationScience #Ethics #Epistemology #PhilosophyofScience #OpenAI #Python #Research #ResearchTraining #Instats https://instats.org/seminar/using-and-evaluating-llms-in-academic-wo?utm_source=bluesky