John McNutt

AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers Some AI chatbots rely on flawed research from retracted scientific papers to answer questions, according to recent studies. The findings, confirmed by MIT Technology Review, raise questions about how...

AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #ArtificialIntelligence #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchEthics

"Your students are being watched, measured, and sorted by algorithms you don't understand,
using data you can't see, for purposes you haven't approved," the author warns educational leaders.
#highered #ai #education #professors #privacy #students #bigtech #openai #google #microsoft #book #new

I admit to being somewhat flummoxed by this finding (ie that good learners = poor monitors of their own learning)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... #PsychSciSky

I routinely tell students to engage in metacognitive processing relevant to their learning!

#AcademicSky, what do you make of this?

#Health Knowledge Management Platform: A Requirement-based Evaluation of a Data-centric Approach for #Patient Care and #Research Date Submitted: Sep 5, 2025. Open Peer Review Period: Sep 16, 2025 - Nov 11, 2025.

#Health Knowledge Management Platform: A Requirement-based Evaluation of a Data-centric Approach for #Patient Care and #Research (preprint) #openscience #PeerReviewMe #PlanP

A second version of the Comprehensive Remote Sensing book series

#satellites #academia #books

www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780443...

White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups

With these now explicit threats to use the Kirk killing as the pretext to attack liberal political groups, and given the Ds hold the cards at the end of the month, what are @chuckschumer.com and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social going to do about this? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

Nope

The chilling effect of Title VI investigations: the professors accused of antisemitism Exclusive: Andrea Brower quits Gonzaga University after the Civil Rights Act is used to challenge her pro-Gaza activism

This is how I find out that my good friend Judith Norman was targeted (and cleared, thankfully) for her activism on Gaza! #gaza #academicsky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Feds To End Discretionary Funding For Minority-Serving Institutions The Education Department plans to end grant funding for hundreds of minority-serving institutions that educate large shares of students from underrepresented backgrounds.

Feds to end discretionary funding for hundreds of minority-serving institutions. #HigherEd #AcademicSky www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Norman M. Wereley has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Actuators (ISSN: 2076-0825).

See the full interview: buff.ly/UnpuCwL

#mdpi #openaccess #actuators #research

Happy birthday to Jane Addams...social work’s OG disrupter. Hull House wasn’t charity, it was community power in action. Addams showed us that justice isn’t given, it’s built. We still owe her rent. #SocialWork #Justice #HullHouse #SocialWorkRewind #JaneAddams

The first major decision in the Harvard case is out!

me after the tariffs are struck down as illegal

ENHANCING LIFE SATISFACTION AMONG INDIVIDUALS RECEIVING METHADONE TREATMENT: THE CONTRIBUTION OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, PERSONAL VARIABLES, AND THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE WITH THE SOCIAL WORKER

Ben-Shlomo, S. et al / The British Journal of Social Work

#openaccess #socialwork

doi.org/10.1093/bjsw...

How to tackle environmental issues when the world can't agree The failure to agree a global treaty on plastic pollution highlights how the UN’s requirement for unanimity holds back environmental policy, but there are better ways to make progress

📰 Professor @robertfalkner.bsky.social spoke with @newscientist.com about the challenges of global environmental negotiations.

“The consensus rule in international environmental negotiations has always been the Achilles heel of the UN #environment process,” he said.

🔗 bit.ly/4g2YoRN
#AcademicSky

I have always assumed this was the case. One very good reason to review literature well before submitting a paper - you don't want to miss anyone out and fear a rejection backlash!

#AcademicSky #MedSky #IDSky 🧪

Taking Police Research to the Public The Responsibility of Academia

My latest on Substack: Why academia has a responsibility to make research on police brutality and misconduct available to a public audience #academicsky

open.substack.com/pub/policere...

Not only scientists… #AcademicSky #eXodus

How bad science is becoming big business Fraudulent science is becoming an industry.

🧪 #AcademicSky #SciComm 💯

“The scientific community must reckon with how its own structures; the publication metrics, funding mechanisms and career incentives, have created vulnerabilities that unethical systems can exploit.”

theconversation.com/how-bad-scie...

Black and white text extract reading: "Any further comments? The examiner were in agreement that the project proposed is fascinating and significant, and likely to lead to an important and original contribution to knowledge."

Confirmation review passed.
Doctoral status officially confirmed.

Time to get on with it then!

#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

CDC: Childhood Vaccination Rates Fell Further In 2024-2025 School Year Childhood vaccination rates dropped even further this past school year down to the lower 92% range. Meanwhile, 2025 has already had 1,333 measles cases and 29 outbreaks.

CDC: Childhood Vaccination Rates Fell Further In 2024-2025 School Year
Here's my coverage of this for @forbes.com

🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky #MedSky #episky🩺 #HiSciSky Public Health #science

www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

Time to start offering international students a warm welcome elsewhere. #AcademicSky

Open science scholarly knowledge graphs can advance research assessment reform - Impact of Social Sciences Can new tools like the OpenAIRE scholarly knowledge graph guide reforms to research assessment?

💥 New: Open science scholarly knowledge graphs can advance research assessment reform

✍️ @pmanghi.bsky.social #OpenResearch #OpenScience #AcademicSky

Always impressive to read an educational RCT and I'm immediately interested in anything that frames lecture attendance through a lens of self-regulation rather than punitive attendance policies or removing recordings.

#AcademicSky

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How might “slow teaching” benefit students’ attention and stress in higher education? (via @chronicle.com) buff.ly/piS3AGG #AcademicSky

41 years ago today, Ray Parker Jr. hits #1 with “Ghostbusters” — and holds the top spot for 3 weeks

“The trick is I never say the word ‘Ghostbusters’. I’m just gonna say, ‘Who ya gonna call?’ and then the crowd says, ‘Ghostbusters!’ because that’s who they want to call to solve their problems.”

What will the AI revolution mean for the global south? We must avoid inequalities between the global north and global south being perpetuated in the digital age

What will the AI revolution mean for the global south?

Thrilled to finally get my author copy of Preserving Disability
Disability and the Archival Profession! Delighted that it's so big because it's large text! One more book to my never-ending "To read" list. #DisabilitySky #BookSky #AcademicSky #DisabilityPrideMonth

Screenshot of title page of an article published in Educational Research Review titled "Scaffolding through prompts in digital learning: A systematic review and meta-analysis of effectiveness on learning achievement."

Helpful meta-analysis on what kinds of prompts are associated with improved learning in digital learning environments. Prompts tailored to participants and triggered by user actions, rather than being time-triggered, were most effective. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
doi.org/10.1016/j.ed...

Ooh!! Look at her go!!
🥰❤️🤍💙
#academicSky