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Try it and LMK how it goes 🤭

This is solvable if publishers would do their jobs and manually verify every reference. Some do--most of my final copyedits on manuscripts tend to be about incomplete references (to genuine articles only, of course).

I mean you *could*, but should you?

I'd never thought about it this way before.

Yes, they show up on Google Scholar because they've been cited in published work (!)

In conclusion, if you're gonna use AI in your research, be very careful and please remain vigilant against this kind of epistemic contaminant. (Or, y'know, just write your articles the old-fashioned way.)

Third, I'm disturbed by how this "technique" has been/could be used to attribute claims to scholars who never made them--possibly maliciously. A highly-cited incident could do a lot of damage if it's not discovered quickly.

Second, what are these publishers doing?! Isn't decent copyediting part of their ostensible value-add? University libraries are shelling out an arm and a leg precisely to *not* have to deal with shit like this.

First, it reflects incredibly poorly on the citing authors. You don't need to read every word of my articles (though I'd recommend you did), but please don't outsource your lit review to ChatGPT.

It's probably as easy for AI to generate a whole fake article as it is to spit out just the reference, so...

These were almost certainly hallucinated by AI, and the whole thing is bad news for several reasons:

Here are two of mine: scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e... scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e... . @chrisbail.bsky.social, did you know we recently coauthored a piece on the Russia-Ukraine war? Neither did I.

Quick PSA for all mid-career academics and above: people may be citing articles with your name on them that don't exist.

Does anyone know any examples of academic books or articles in which the author(s) call out other contemporary scholars as racist by name? I just read one and I'm pretty sure it's the first I've ever seen. It must be quite rare, but I'm curious to see other examples.

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I'm conducting research on TikTok and looking to speak with someone who believes they have been shadowbanned. If this is you or someone you know, please LMK.

Of possible interest: National Academies webinar + consensus report on "Understanding and Addressing Misinformation about Science," Dec 19, 11am ET.

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TikTok’s ban won’t be delayed. Here’s what you should know | CNN Business TikTok will likely ask the Supreme Court to make a final decision on the ban. Stay or not, you won’t need to delete the app.

Quick followup--this article says the ban will “not directly prohibit the continued use of TikTok” but rather remove it from app stores and possibly ISPs (the article mentions "hosting platforms" but that may be a misnomer) www.cnn.com/2024/12/14/b...

The only sort of relevant precedents I can find are government seizures of sites that break existing laws, e.g. by hosting copyright infringement and obscenity involving children. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interne...

Two, the article mentions one enforcement mechanism--penalizing Apple and Google for not removing it from its mobile app stores. But it says nothing about web access. Maybe the gov't would enforce similar penalties against ISPs for failing to block the site?

One, are there any other sites currently subject to such a ban in the US? A quick Google search turned up nothing. Are there any relevant precedents?

TikTok Faces U.S. Ban After Losing Bid to Overturn New Law The law will ban the video app in the United States by Jan. 19 if its owner, ByteDance, does not sell it to a non-Chinese company.

Looks like TikTok may be "banned" in the US if it doesn't sell by Jan 19. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b... I have two questions about this that the article doesn't answer:

Would you believe I don't own a vinyl player? Sadly, I am no longer a hipster in good standing...📼

So my question is: what's going on here? I didn't see Trump speaking directly to or about Black people much during the campaign, but obviously there's a lot I don't see. What facts do you know that bear on these outcomes?

In comparison, 6% of Black women voted for Trump in 2020, while 10% voted for him in 2024. That's a near doubling, but still far below his level of Black male support.

12% of Black men supported Trump in 2020

25% of Black men supported Trump in 2024

A deeper dive shows this dynamic is clearly driven by gender: in 2020, 12% of Black men supported Trump. That number more than doubled to 25% in 2024.

This is a major shift from elections past. In 2016, 89% of Black ppl voted Clinton compared to 91% Biden in 2020. In 2012 and 2008, they went 93% and 95% respectively for Obama.
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8% of Black voters went for Trump in 2020

16% of Black voters went for Trump in 2024

The AP's breakdown has lots of fascinating data, but I was shocked to see that Trump doubled his percentage of the Black vote between 2020 and 2024, from 8% to 16%. apnews.com/article/elec...

Like many of you, I've been trying to make sense of the election's results. Browsing the shifts in demographic support for Trump vs. the Dem candidate in recent election years, one outcome has thoroughly flummoxed me. (thread)

I'll see if I can't get a preprint out before publication!