Kathy Bowrey

How to spot fake scientists and stop them from publishing papers Journals are considering doing identity checks to expose fake authors — but there are downsides.

Some real fake news! Paper mills are creating fake authors who can then serve as fake reviewers. The illustration of the fake reviewer sitting at their desk is excellent. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Now it is time for you to contribute to GRIOS ! Research on research specialists interested in Open Science are welcome in our Academic Advisory Board

Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...

Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com

A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social

This is the right take rather than “nationalisation” towards greater public accountability.

Who owns open knowledge? The two types of licence to consider when making books open access When a more restrictive open access licence is applied to a book, who gets to make decisions about usage that falls outside the open licence?

Who owns open knowledge? The two types of licence to consider when making books open access https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/who-owns-open-knowledge/

This is on later today, online. Feel free to join (zoom sign up below).

I thought I was going to talk about the end of the idea of patent republic in year 2025, but now I wonder if there ever has been a patent republic... let's see where we arrive later today.

Knowledge markets of dysfunction. Do libraries have a future? - CREATe

Funded by Knowledge Rights and an Arcadia Grant, CREATe has conducted an extensive study of public and academic library of European and UK e-Lending.

…an evidence base of problematic practices is emerging.
www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/10...

Open AI breaks ranks with Tech Council of Australia over heated copyright issue Chief global affairs officer of company behind ChatGPT tells Sydney audience ‘we are going to be in Australia, one way or the other’

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“When it comes to responsible AI use, there are, at best, many conflicting positions. Equating responsibility with disclosing genAI use conceals, in fact, several fundamental questions concerning the responsibilities that academics have to their disciplines, each other, and society at large.”

We are very pleased to announce the 2025/6 ISHTIP Online Seminar Series, which brings together scholars from around the world who explore intellectual property issues from theoretical and historical angles.

Please find below the programme, dates for your diary, registration links ⬇️

The first in the seminar series is coming up next week.

You can register for a zoom link here👇

We look forward to seeing many of you online!

Low-quality and AI-generated papers ‘could overwhelm publishing’ Survey of more than 3,000 researchers by Cambridge University Press reveals widespread concerns over the rise of ChatGPT-assisted papers

'Drawing on...more than 3,000 researchers globally the Publishing Futures report, released on 16 October by Cambridge University Press, found 53 per cent of respondents believe AI would negatively impact the research publishing system while 18 per cent feel it would improve academic publishing.' 1/2

Finland Now Has a National Roadmap for Open Science and Research Funding

Finland Now Has a National Roadmap for Open Science and Research Funding avointiede.fi/en/news/finl...

How many commodities can you make from one academic article?

The EDUC manual, Training the Algorithm, referred to in this post is excellent

Music labels close to landmark AI licensing deals Universal and Warner seek payment structure similar to streaming as more disruption looms

Music indies sound the alarm bells!! So called "attribution technology" will be nothing like the world of streaming or record sales where a successful artist can track their popularity. It will be a murky tech-metricocracy that will benefit those with the most compute.

www.ft.com/content/1a1a...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: After Patent Republic - Hyo Yoon Kang. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. What comes after ‘Patent Republic’? In his 2006 article, Mario Biagioli showed how the modern U.S. patent law system, with its development of examination, filing, and institutional bureaucracy, was cl...

I'm giving a talk on "After Patent Republic?"
on 22 October, 3pm GMT, online,
in which I'll think about the role of patent law in non-democratic and authoritarian polities.

It's part of @ishtip.bsky.social's 2025-6 Seminar Series.

Everyone welcome.

Abstract and registration:

“when the rhetoric stops short of articulating how and what is different about what we are seeing with the aid of computer vision and why it matters, then all we have are slogans in support of computer vision itself.”

Todays best echidna… it’s a small juvenile that was scuttling about on the side of the road.

Digital textbook deals spark controversy - University Affairs Critics say automatic subscriptions to online course materials are a commercial cash grab that limits students’ choices

“Critics say automatic subscriptions to online course materials are a commercial cash grab that limits students’ choices”. Fun fact: In Australia students who can’t afford to rent, sometimes can’t use the library e-book in exams due to licence restrictions.
universityaffairs.ca/features/dig...

I mean, that quote seems to indicate that Clarivate has no agency in the embedding. These tools are being actively added to products by without the option of turning them off. Here's a thought. Maybe get the products right before releasing them like an untested virus into the scholarly environment?

The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (v1.1, 2023) Final draft POSI 2.0 revisions - A request for public comment on the final draft of revisions to POSI The POSI Adopters are requesting feedback on the final draft of revisions to POSI with a deadline...

REFERENCE to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) by @oapenbooks.bsky.social Niels Stern at #OASPA2025 open book panel - using as a mechanism for structuring the panel discussion around Introductions, Governance, Impact & Quality and Sustainability openscholarlyinfrastructure.org

MISERABLE GHOSTS - bloody university rankings follow everything around like a bad smell

AI Killed My Job: Tech workers Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-...

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Retraction guidelines Essential guidance for editors on when and how to retract articles, including the content of retraction notices, timing, and handling inconclusive evidence. Version 3 released in 2025!

UPDATED: Retracted guidelines from COPE now updated to include what to do with AI issues publicationethics.org/guidance/gui...

www.e-flux.com/architecture...

STATEMENT: Time to stop the undermining of library rights: IFLA statement on contract override www.ifla.org/news/time-to...
The Statement ... calls on governments to protect limitations and exceptions ... & look at how to ensure libraries benefit from effective protections against unfair contracts

Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment Published in Learning, Media and Technology (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2024)

In our last editorial we imagined how bad academic publishing might get, and hopefully how it might come out better www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My publisher let me know and you know what? Hell yeah.