Nabil Hathout

Frequently asked questions about Explore 2025 Here you will find frequently asked questions and answers about the call Explore - Formas open call for research projects 2025 .

A Swedish state-funded research funding agency, Formas, has started to approve applications based partially on random draws. Applications are grouped into high quality (gets funding), low quality (doesn't get funding) and a middle group where a lottery takes place 🎰.
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Thank you @nulliusinverba.bsky.social for episode 76. I cannot agree more. We need funding by lottery and we need to incentivize teams, not individuals.

We should cap the number of articles submitted to arXiv at 5 papers per year per (co-)author.

Major Chinese funder to stop paying fees for 30 pricey open-access journals Move comes amid effort to grow the country’s own journals

Are #openaccess fees that some journals charge authors too high? The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the world’s largest research institution, reportedly thinks so and plans to stop funding some, a move that could shake up #scientificpublishing. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Helmholtz Open Science Office CoARA action plan published to implement the ten commitments of the agreement on reforming research assessement

#CoARA action plan published!

🕶️ Overview of the interactions between open science and #ResearchAssessment reform
👁️ Classification of the current status quo
🚀 Measures and planned activities for the period 2026–2030

👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

@coarassessment.bsky.social #OpenScience

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New paper: Do LLMs just predict the next token or can they plan ahead?

Previous work (Anthropic) suggested Claude Haiku plans ahead when writing poetry - but that was one model and a few prompts.

We found quantitative evidence that many models engage in implicit planning 🧵

Living the metascience dream (or nightmare) with AI for science What happens when we go from replication crisis to robustness extremes?

AI makes continuous reproducibility and robustness testing trivial. What happens to science under new levels of scrutiny and stress-testing by default?

Some thoughts on how this could play out, informed by watching open science play out over the last decade.

Il s'agit en l'occurrence de *recommandations*. La seule *obligation légale* est de déposer un document qui parle de ce que l’on a fait au cours des 5 dernières années. Donc arial ou n'importe quelle autre police, c’est tout pareil.

Que dit le "décret" ?

J’ai utilisé New Computer Modern, sans serif, pour avoir la phonétique et le cyrillique

Je conseille la lecture de ce texte à toute personne qui s'intéresse à la recherche scientifique :

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Note: tech companies are happy about these shortages, because their next play is renting hardware out to people for a subscription fee.

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Puisqu'on est dans l'actualité de niche ESR, on m'a informé aujourd'hui qu'Étamines va disparaître. Ne soyez pas trop tristes…

Guy Parmelin exclut les sciences humaines des fonds de recherche nationaux Les sciences sociales et humaines sont absentes des six nouveaux Pôles de recherche. Près de 1000 universitaires dénoncent une décision politique du ministre UDC.

Guy Parmelin exclut les sciences humaines des fonds de recherche nationaux
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📄 New paper:
Pre-Editorial Normalization for Automatically Transcribed Medieval Manuscripts in Old French and Latin

Thibault Clérice, @rachelbawden.bsky.social , Anthony Glaise, Ariane Pinche, @dasmiq.bsky.social (2026) arxiv.org/abs/2602.13905

We introduce Pre-Editorial Normalization (PEN).

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Piratage de données RH CNRS

Des données personnelles d'agents CNRS rémunérés avant 2007 ont été "téléchargées de manière non autorisée"

Plus d'infos ici : www.cnrs.fr/fr/exfiltrat...

Par contre, on ne sait pas de quand date cette "exfiltration" ?

Sécurité des données : le déploiement du chatbot du CNRS par Mistral n’est « pas sérieux » - Next

#IA Sécurité des données : le déploiement du chatbot du CNRS par Mistral n’est « pas sérieux » next.ink/223959/secur... par @mart1oeil.eu #Mistral

Graphs of sensitivity, showing LLMs outperforming humans

We coded our ~100k articles using LLMs. Should you believe them? To answer this, we benchmarked 4 human RAs against 3 LLMs on their ability to recover ground truth article data. Details in the paper and appendices, but the LLMs did well and handily beat the highly trained humans.

Benoît Piédallu, Fournir des Communs Numériques aux agents publics - Soirée ISC-PIF #20Janvier 2026 Benoît Piédallu, Chef de projet national des services numériques partagés à la Direction du Numérique pour l’Éducation…

« Quand @awscloud.bsky.social ou Azur tombera, la communauté éducative peut ne plus du tout s’en apercevoir »

Savez-vous que @education.gouv.fr grâce aux communs numériques, est plus robuste aux aléas géopolitiques que la plupart des grandes entreprises françaises ?

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The only real solution is to significantly increase the number of positions open for competition.

Normalized h index, k index, m index, normalize h index for age/seniority, normalize IF for field, for subfield (nuclear chem ≠ materials chem), … I’m not sure it’s a good road (and all indices you can create will be gamed)

La demande en #IA et IAg en #SHS est telle, que je me retrouve à refuser des demandes de participation à des projets de logiciels, services, ANR, etc. afin de faire attention à ne pas transformer le HN Lab en startup et moi en manager de fiches de temps. Là aussi il y a une bulle !

HAL is great, but it cannot be compared to arXiv. It is not used by non-French scientists. Furthermore, editorial practices in the humanities and social sciences are very different from those in mathematics. The submission of preprints is exceptional in linguistics.

unfortunately, arXiv does not accept preprints of linguistics papers

The other difficulty is that a jury of 18 people, renewed every four or five years, is not able to gain a sufficiently accurate understanding of the candidates' actual contributions. Unfortunately, this also applies to promotions.

In my opinion, DORA is not compatible with competitive recruitment. How can you compare contributions in subfields with completely different practices?

Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus - Nature Artificial intelligence boosts individual scientists’ output, citations and career progression, but collectively narrows research diversity and reduces collaboration, concentrating work in data-rich a...

sigh.......

"Scientists who engage in AI-augmented research publish 3.02 times more papers, receive 4.84 times more citations and become research project leaders 1.37 years earlier than those who do not."

from

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ca va être plus compliqué de dire encore une fois que c'est à cause des SHS, mais on peut toujours essayer. Tous les gagnants ont tenté leur chance.

Concerns About Theorizing, Relevance, Generalizability, and Methodology Across Two Crises in Social Psychology | International Review of Social Psychology During two crises in social psychology, the first from the 1960s to the end of the 1970s, and the second starting in 2010 and still ongoing, researchers discussed the strength of theories in the…

Most researchers are unaware that the concerns about strength of theories, methodology, and lack of generalizability led to a crisis in the 60's and 70's as well. Nothing changed then, and history is a good teacher for why nothing is likely to change this time around doi.org/10.5334/irsp...

Find Diamond #OpenAccess #linguistics journals here: www.openjournalscollective.org/catalogue/?q...