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ingorohlfing , 3 months ago to academicchatter

Elsevier unveils Scopus #AI for research reviews | Times Higher Education (THE)
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elsevier-launches-scopus-ai-bot-literature-reviews I couldn't find information about pricing, but it seems safe to assume it is not for free. Meaning institutions have to pay for a tool that likely has been 1/ @academicchatter

mcp , 3 months ago

@ingorohlfing @academicchatter If scientific authors have given away their copyright to Elsevier for free for decades, and their institutions have bought back their texts at outrageous prices, why shouldn't they accept paying similarly outrageous prices for their brand-new bullshit generator (a.k.a #AI or #SALAMI)? https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elsevier-launches-scopus-ai-bot-literature-reviews

mcp , 3 months ago

@sposadelvento @ingorohlfing @academicchatter The problem is that AI is a function of concentrated technological capacities and capabilities (https://www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications/report-ai-in-the-public-interest-confronting-the-monopoly-threat), and even if the data and texts as data were public, as it should be, the monopolies (unless broken) would still have the upper hand in computational power.

petersuber , 4 months ago to academicchatter

New study: Researcher productivity (measured in articles published) correlates with the collection size of their #library.
https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/26293/34235

Note this aside, apart from the main conclusion:
"There was a statistically significant negative correlation between the number of articles published and references used in the publications. This suggests that the more faculty are likely to publish, the less they tend to use the references in the publications."

#Academia
@academicchatter

mcp , 4 months ago

#publishOrPerish or #publishAndPerish? If you spend your time writing, you will not have enough of it to read 🙂 https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/112241540643321194 via @petersuber @academicchatter

MariuzzoAndrea , 8 months ago to histodons Italian

Il Mulijo raccoglie oggi, in occasione dell'anniversario della nascita, un mio profilo di Guido Calogero incentrato sulla centralità politica e teorico-etics nel suo pensiero della riflessione educativa
@intellectualhistory @histodons @histodon @poliversity @notizie @poliverso @scuola @scuola @scuola https://www.rivistailmulino.it/a/guido-calogero

mcp , 8 months ago

@MariuzzoAndrea @intellectualhistory @histodons @histodon @poliversity @notizie @poliverso @scuola @scuola @scuola Segnalo: "l’incapacità di un’intera classe dirigente di pensare all’istruzione come altro dalla pura e semplice formazione all’esecuzione di un compito socialmente precostituito" (cfr. https://btfp.sp.unipi.it/dida/humboldt/ar01s04.xhtml#scuola). Lo spirito di Calogero non è per tutti, studiosi di professione compresi, e forse non solo nell'apparenza.

petersuber , 8 months ago to academicchatter

I just declined to take part in the @timeshighered
Global Academic #Reputation Survey. Results "will inform the outcome of THE's World #University #Rankings 2025."

If uni rankings are useful at all, it's not on reputation. We could use rankings on (say) % of students on financial aid; % of faculty tenured or tenure-track; % of tenured faculty who are women, minorities; ratio of teachers to administrators; ratio of avg faculty salary to head football coach salary…

#Academia
@academicchatter

mcp , 8 months ago

@petersuber @academicchatter And maybe we could share such data with some public institution or university consortia, rather than giving them away to sellers of "rankings" (or of snake oil?)