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“A new Israeli report warns that the academic boycott of the country’s universities has become so extensive that the damage could be ‘irreversible.’ — It’s as if the world has closed itself off to me, says researcher Moran Zaga.”
Yes, Moran, it’s what happens when you’re committing genocide. There’s an easy fix: stop committing genocide.
#boycott #israel #academia #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism
Thor A. Hopland (@hopland@snabelen.no)
Under andre verdenskrig var det ingen vesentlig motstandsbevegelse innad Tyskland - med unntak av hvisking og tisking i Tyske universitet. Den hviskingen ble eventuelt om til baksnakking, og eventuelt om til skrik.Thor A. Hopland (snabelen.no)
"Penn State faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor of unionizing, in a closely watched decision that could have sweeping implications across the university"
radio.wpsu.org/2026-05-14/penn…
#PennState #HIgherEd #HigherEdWorkersUnite #academia #SEIU
Penn State faculty vote 'yes' on unionizing
Penn State faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor of unionizing, in a closely watched decision that could have sweeping implications across the university.Anne Danahy (WPSU)
I was only made aware of this (frankly awesome) case of LLM poisoning today: nature.com/articles/d41586-026…. A researcher made up a disease and published two evidently fake preprints about it (including sentences such as “this entire paper is made up” and “Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group”), which were almost immediately picked up by LLMs and documented in their output. Worse, actual – supposedly serious – medical papers also started citing the preprints, demonstrating that academics relying on LLMs to do their work is a genuine problem! Not that I had my doubts but, if anyone did, this seems like the perfect demonstration of the problem. Article immediately added to the syllabus of the class I am co-teaching with Iris Ferrazzo on LLMs for Romance Studies/Humanities!
#LLM #GenAI #academia #research #ResearchIntegrity #humanities
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?Stokel-Walker, Chris
Do fellow US scientists have advice on what I'm supposed to do here. Am I just not going to have a job after spending years getting a PhD, do I move to another country, what options are we actually considering here.
How do I just not spend the next year(s) in despair.
