Mish Dalton

'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.

How do I get people to understand that high quality data collected with intention and analyzed by experts have even more potential to revolutionize health care?

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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Cost Transparency at AIP Publishing: Why We’re Sharing Our True Costs AIP Publishing is committed to building a more inclusive and vibrant future for the physical sciences. Open science can accelerate global progress by breaking barriers to open and fair research commun...

From @aip-publishing.bsky.social: cost of a peer reviewed article is $2700 (*before* you start giving back to the community). Would like to see a more detailed split, but it does align with estimates from eLife and EMBO #ScientificPublishing

www.stm-publishing.com/cost-transpa...

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OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1’s eight new personalities New controls attempt to please critics on both sides with a balance between bland and habit-forming.

"[T]he root problem is arguably that #ChatGPT still pretends to be a person—a consistent entity that knows you... It assumes the mantle of human emotion and acts like it understands you and sympathizes with what you’re going through" arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/o... #ethics #tech #design #business

After Coalition S disrupted scientific publishing, new plan retreats from strict requirements The group’s latest strategy emphasizes consultation, lacks spending pledges

After Coalition S disrupted scientific publishing, new plan retreats from strict requirements

#ScholarlyPublishing #OpenAccess

science.org/content/article/after-coalition-s-disrupted-scientific-publishing-new-plan-retreats-strict-requirements

The potential and limits of scrutiny in medical research In a recent lecture Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, talked about how setbacks driven by misinformation can be temporary and how evidence and data can rebuild confidence. He was speaking...

“Like misinformation, misconduct is nothing new. But it’s become easier for authors to execute it with the aid of artificial intelligence and “𝙥𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙨,” while being harder for publishers to contend with, given the volume of potential misconduct cases…” @bmj.com

If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:

📺 Tune in tonight!

Professor @niamhmcherry.bsky.social and Dr @deanphelan.bsky.social from UCD School of Geography feature in RTÉ One’s 10 Things to Know About…

Episode 1: “Change”
🗓️ Mon 10 Nov | 8:30 pm | RTÉ One & Player

Learn more about the CONUNDRUM project 👉 bit.ly/3LyCGKc

Read about the resources created by the 'Implementing data evaluation at institutions’ Working Group on the blog: makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

White and grey graphic with abstract design for UCD Library and UCD Research November 12 joint seminar on engagement for research impact.

Attend our joint seminar with @ucdresearch.bsky.social:

Engagement for Research Impact
12th November
2.30pm
Link 3, James Joyce Library

This session will help you understand the complex area of research impact, incl. how to measure your impact within academia & more.

Register👉 bit.ly/engage1211

Letters to scientific journals surge as ‘prolific debutante’ authors likely use AI New study reinforces worries about “mass production of junk” by unscrupulous scholars aiming to pad their CVs

A rapidly growing share of letters to journals may be drafted by machines, undetected by editors. Study quantifies recently ‘prolific debutante authors’ who had published no letters before 2022, when ChatGPT debuted. #academicjournals #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

This week's @nature.com cover highlights a report of A.I.- mediated distortion
When #ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants nature.com/articles/s41...

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Higher Ed Is Sleepwalking Toward Obsolescence — And AI Won’t Be the Cause, Just the Accelerant AI Has Exposed Higher Ed’s Hollow Core — The University Must Reinvent Itself or Fade

"AI has changed the baseline conditions of knowledge itself: the ability to fake competence at scale now exceeds the university’s ability to detect authenticity."
substack.com/home/post/p-...

Artists rejoice as Labor rules out copyright carve-out for AI Labor has ruled out changing copyright laws to give tech giants free rein to train artificial intelligence models on creative works, after the proposition was met with widespread backlash from artists...

“The government has definitively ruled out introducing a copyright exemption for artificial intelligence companies training their models on Australian creative works.”

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.

Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

“Yes” to Transparent Service Fees, “No” to Fees That Charge Authors to Exercise Their Rights The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Chemical Society (ACS) have introduced new fees targeting authors who exercise their right to self-archive accepted manuscripts under a CC BY license. cOAlition S opposes these charges because they penalize authors for complying with open access policies. This blog post by Bodo Stern (Chief […]

“Yes” to Transparent Service Fees, “No” to Fees That Charge Authors to Exercise Their Rights | Plan S https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/yes-to-transparent-service-fees-no-to-fees-that-charge-authors-to-exercise-their-rights/

Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? Millions of students arriving at campuses are now using artificial intelligence. Worries abound.

Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?

You know what platform never crashes?

Diamond Dreams, Unequal Realities: The Promise and Pitfalls of No-APC Open Access - The Scholarly Kitchen Diamond Open Access promises equity, but sustainability challenges remain. Discover the hidden costs, global gaps, and paths toward lasting open publishing.

"The story of diamond #OA is still being written. Its rise reflects a powerful shift toward scholarly communication as a public good.. But... ideals alone cannot sustain journals." Great post on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social by my fellow chef Maryam Sayab scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/15/d...

Libraries pilot expands access to no-cost course materials, saving Huskers millions news.unl.edu/article/libr...

Report on librarians' barriers to participation in collective funding models for open access books Announcing a new report published by the Open Book Collective exploring librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation in collective funding models for open access books across six European con...

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to announce publication of our new report: Collective funding models for open access books: Librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation across six European contexts openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/report-o...

Dublin small press fair on 28 & 29 November at Pearse St library. Free and open to the public.

dublinsmallpressfair.com

Citizen Science support and training Discover tools, training, and guidance to help you plan and deliver impactful citizen science projects.

Are you interested in the practice of Citizen Science but unsure where to begin? 🤔

A good starting point might be the resources on our webpages which can support the planning, development, and delivery of Citizen Science projects 📒

👉 buff.ly/mkGTQ7Z

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

UCD Richview Library - a brick library with clock, leafy hedges and a brick path leading to the library.

Job alert!✨
We are looking for a multimedia designer - a role creating visual content for digital & physical displays, utilising skills in graphic design, video production & editing to enhance UCD Library comms & engagement initiatives.

Apply by 12 noon 7 Oct at www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo... #jobsIE

Irish Health Survey (IHS), 2024

The Irish Health Survey (IHS), 2024 dataset is now available to request on ISSDA Dataverse: doi.org/10.7929/ISSD...
To request please follow the request process in the terms tab.

#IrishData #SocialScience #DataArchive

@ucdlibrary.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

how much did google pay to slip an entire magazine of corporate propaganda into this weekend's @irishtimes.com newspaper disguised as public communication about AI