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Emma Wilson 🎃

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PhD student at University of Edinburgh working on evidence synthesis and research FAIR / open research; neurodivergent; she/they; views my own

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Emma Wilson 🎃 @emmawilson.bsky.social · Nov 10

Re-introduction time! I’m currently wrapping up my PhD thesis looking at evidence synthesis and open research in biomedical studies.

I’m also a speculative fiction writer (trying to get some short stories published 🤞), I love knitting, and I will like every cat picture I see.

#AcademicSky #writing

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Cast of Wonders @castofwonders.org · 1h

Did you know that today (second Tuesday in October) is Ada Lovelace Day? It’s an annual event that celebrates the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.

Why not celebrate by listening to one of our faves like www.castofwonders.org/2022/01/cast...

Cast of Wonders 481: Factory Mother (Staff Picks 2021) | Cast of Wonders

The mushroom mycelia sundering in the pale, hot fermentation medium reminded Hanifa of her apartment building melting in Old Delhi: when concrete flowed like lava and spilled her life onto the streets...

www.castofwonders.org

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Emma Wilson 🎃 @emmawilson.bsky.social · 1h

Had a lovely guided nature walk around the park near my office. Spotted a lot of berries (hawthorn, rowan, rosehip) and a few fungi 🍄‍🟫

Emma Wilson 🎃 @emmawilson.bsky.social · 4h

Oh boy did I have some thoughts to share 😭

Email from Clarivate.

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To participate, please click on the following link; the survey should take less than 2 minutes to complete.

Emma Wilson 🎃 @emmawilson.bsky.social · 20h

As if I needed more motivation to write about my PhD findings and the (irreplaceable and highly skilled!) labour involved in curating research 😭

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 22h

you use llms to:
brainstorm an idea
summarise your lit review
analysis your data
evaluate your findings
write your paper…

a reviewer then uses llms to:
summarise your paper
assess the value of it
check for plagiarism
write-up review…

do you see how this destroys academic integrity

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 22h

Reminder about next week's online panel.

www.psu.edu/news/univers...

Three global experts discuss ‘Practical Open Access for Everyone’ Oct. 23 online | Penn State University

Penn State University Libraries will host three of the world’s foremost experts on the subject of open access during a public online panel discussion, “We Are Enough: Practical Open Access for Everyon...

www.psu.edu

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 23h

screenshot 3 is incredible

amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 1d

inspiring 💗💖

LinkedIn post about how a guy got a job interview at Strava by running a route that spelled HIRE ME on the map

HIRE ME written on the map (looking more like HIRE NE tbh)

commenter asks if the guy got the job and OP says “I don't think so. But his effort got him noticed and a foot in the door when so many others didn't”

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 2d

Again and again, Zack Polanski is cutting through by challenging purposefully misleading and derogatory framing.
Morgan's default when challenged has always been to splutter, mock and deny.
He has no defence against those who won't be intimidated or deflected.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Sarah K @dr-know.bsky.social · 2d

“Literature search using ChatGPT”

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“The tapes wouldn’t start”

Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Translate 'yoroshiku onegai shimasu'”.

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michael veale @michae.lv · 2d

Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.

Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · Aug 18

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback.

Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation.
https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 11d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @motiblackart.bsky.social · 3d

If you live near Pittenweem, Pittenweem Library is having a PUMPKIN RAFFLE! The winner gets their very own pumpkin carved by me, with an image of their choice.

Today's pumpkin share is the scene last year's winner chose.

#PumpkinCarving

A photograph of a pumpkin carving with a black cat on the left, creepy trees and bats in the sky, and a church with a a graveyard and a creepy figure in the door.

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Emma Wilson 🎃 @emmawilson.bsky.social · 3d

I did and they were!

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Emma Wilson 🎃 @emmawilson.bsky.social · 3d

Was just thinking about what to make for breakfast so I’m interpreting this as a sign 🥞

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 3d

The reclaiming/reframing of frogs as Antifascist after enduring years of the execrable Pepe is glorious and I am here for every scrap of new heroic frog art

Christopher Doll @blackbirdcd.bsky.social · 3d

This is Space Frog

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4d

There are hundreds of years of history of women’s scientific accomplishments not being recognised or being minimised (“not notable”). It *still* happens. Many female scientists are only acknowledged on Wikipedia thanks to the efforts of, yes, other female scientists, notably physicist Dr Jess Wade.

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 4d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 4d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 4d

"The ban will impact aspiring researchers who are outside the institutional structure. Many are from marginalised communities, working in practice, or on breaks and trying to return to academia. For them, shadow sites are their only resource."

Banning Sci-Hub highlights India’s unequal access to knowledge - Impact of Social Sciences

The decision to block Sci-Hub in India brings inequalities in access to research based knowledge into sharp focus.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Emma Wilson 🎃 @emmawilson.bsky.social · 5d

I love these! 🎃

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 7d

If no human at Claivate is double checking the AI generated metadata, what's to indicate it will increase visibility and relevance in any more meaningful way than not having that metadata at all? Hallucinations aren't helpful.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 6d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Megan All Hallows' Eve 🦇 @meganeve.bsky.social · 6d

📣OA event idea for December! ALN are looking for speakers and presentations focusing on Green OA (such as promoting, challenges, journals vs books and discoverability) Please let me know if you are interested or would like further information.💚

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 6d

As I move further into my working life I discover that every question I want answered is a sociology question.

As ever, politicians would just like it if everyday folks stopped learning to ask questions and just did what the ruling classes told them to do.

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 6d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 7d

#NoOpenAccessWithoutOpenInfrastructure. OBC's @joedeville.bsky.social making the case for open, interoperable digital infrastructures for #OAbooks at the National Open Access Stakeholders
Summit in Nigeria. Presenting on 'Open access books: If not now, when'. Slides at doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Joe Deville at a podium, in front of a slide with a banner reading 'No open access without open infrastructure'

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 7d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 7d

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