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  When scientific citations go rogue: Uncovering ‘sneaked references’

  https://theconversation.com/when-scientific-citations-go-rogue-uncovering-sneaked-references-233858

  A recent study has exposed a method of artificially inflating citation counts through "sneaked references," which are extra citations included in metadata but not in the actual text of articles. This manipulation, uncovered in journals by Technoscience Academy, distorts citation metrics that are critical for research funding and academic promotions. The Conversation reports: ... read full post

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  wannabebarista in academia

  An Utterly Incomplete Look at Research from 1924

  https://bcmullins.github.io/research-from-1924/
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  fossilesque in academia

  One index, two publishers and the global research economy

  https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2024.2348448
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  fossilesque in academia

  500,000 Books Have Been Deleted From The Internet Archive’s Lending Library

  https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/20/500000-books-have-been-deleted-from-the-internet-archives-lending-library/
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  ylai in academia

  How a College Landed Kendrick Lamar as Its Surprise Commencement Speaker

  https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-a-college-landed-kendrick-lamar-as-its-surprise-commencement-speaker

  Without paywall: https://archive.ph/RAvdG

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  fossilesque in academia

  Exhaustive Survey of Rickrolling in Academic Literature

  https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06826
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  Stanford’s top disinformation research group collapses under pressure

  https://web.archive.org/web/20240615022929/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/14/stanford-internet-observatory-disinformation-research-lawsuits-politics/
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  ylai in academia

  Stanford University Students Accused of Plagiarizing AI Model

  https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2024/06/04/stanford-university-students-accused-of-plagiarizing-ai-model/
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  fossilesque in academia

  Light Digital Praxis: GitHub - ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile: A Dockerfile for the ArchiveTeam Warrior, from the Internet Archives

  https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile
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  fossilesque in academia

  Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment - Scientometrics

  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-024-04968-7
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  The affluent can have their souls enriched at university, so why not the poor as well? | Kenan Malik

  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/02/the-affluent-can-have-their-souls-enriched-at-university-so-why-not-the-poor-as-well
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  fossilesque in academia

  Internal messages show how the new head of one of the world’s oldest universities organized a citation cartel

  https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-05-31/internal-messages-show-how-the-new-head-of-one-of-the-worlds-oldest-universities-organized-a-citation-cartel.html
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  How to Think like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition

  https://levjj.github.io/thinkcspy/
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  My dream died, and now I'm here

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=LKiBlGDfRU8
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  The Bypass Paywalls browser extension is back and running.

  https://github.com/bpc-clone?tab=repositories
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  ylai in academia

  The Dark Art of Enrollment Management

  https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-dark-art-of-enrollment-management

  Without paywall: https://archive.ph/cskEL

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  [Useful Tool for Learning R] randy3k/radian: A 21 century R console

  https://github.com/randy3k/radian
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  I Also Accuse The “Liberal University of Terror and Violence”— What Are We Going To Do About This Violence?

  https://www.grassrootsjpe.org/view/resource.php?resource=26
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  How Should We Critique Research?

  https://gwern.net/research-criticism
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  ylai in academia

  College Presidents Are Getting in Trouble for Cutting Deals With Protesters

  https://www.chronicle.com/article/college-presidents-are-getting-in-trouble-for-cutting-deals-with-protesters

  Without paywall: https://archive.ph/D7SOU

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  ylai in academia

  I’m a Professor. I Never Expected to Be Arrested by My Own University.

  https://www.chronicle.com/article/im-a-professor-i-never-expected-to-be-arrested-by-my-own-university

  Without paywall: https://archive.ph/kvyEW

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  Some Professors Face Punishments as Colleges Crack Down on Gaza Protests

  https://www.chronicle.com/article/some-professors-face-punishments-as-colleges-crack-down-on-gaza-protests

  Without paywall: https://archive.ph/oSsH5

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  ylai in academia

  Opinion | How to fix college finances? Eliminate faculty, then students.

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/23/save-colleges-chatbots-administrators-satire/

  Without paywall: https://archive.ph/FOUFm

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  jyunwai in academia

  Anonymizing research funding applications could reduce ‘prestige privilege’

  https://www.science.org/content/article/anonymizing-research-funding-applications-could-reduce-prestige-privilege
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  Daniel Dennett, professor emeritus of philosophy at Tufts University, well-known for his work in philosophy of mind and a wide range of other philosophical areas, has died.

  https://dailynous.com/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-death-1942-2024/

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