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Welcome to the Newsmast Academia & Research Channel. A curated feed of posts from the Fediverse, handmade by @newsmast@newmast.social, and broadcasting to […]

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Unexpected events that break our well-established routines increase mindfulness and social behavior.

This study investigates how the presence of a person dressed as #batman influences the probability of offering a pregnant woman a seat in public transport […]
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mastodon.social
December 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Yes, yes. I’m sure the applications will only be #humanitarian. I’m positive the funding for the #research was provided by humanitarian sources — not military contractors.

Yes, I’m certain won’t be used for nefarious reasons.

Just “search and rescue.” […]
Original post on kolektiva.social
kolektiva.social
December 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Ever had an AI eat its own reply mid-sentence?

I built a dead-simple open-source kit to catch it in the act- log it, timestamp it, and prove whether it’s censorship or just packet loss.

No login. No personal data. Works on every model. Run it. Share logs. Let’s see what the data actually says. […]
Original post on mstdn.social
mstdn.social
December 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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I salute the honesty and courage of these authors, and I am sure we all share a collective shiver from knowing that we all could easily make (and maybe have made) similar analysis mistakes in our own work

#academicchatter
December 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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RE: https://indieweb.social/@bonfire/115650131177527914

Only nine days left to find only 574€ to secure the first stone of a new home for open science: the Open Science Network is built on Bonfire... which is so close to its first goal.

https://openscience.network/

Be the one who crosses the […]
December 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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#openrxiv just added an #ai #PeerReview option for authors of #preprints on #biorxiv and #medRxiv. At the moment, they're using the #qedscience tool.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03909-5

The bioRxiv announcement makes clear that AI review is optional for authors and that authors […]
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fediscience.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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I recently discovered that if you copy marked text from #zotero, it's pasted in quote marks followed with an in-text citation parenthesis (author-year-page format)! #academicchatter
December 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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It must be one of those days, where everything in the news is some kind of rage bait! The article isn't the rage bait but the #government #policy about which the article reports, is. Prof Paul Nurse is dead on. In addition to factors reported in the article, we mustn't omit new salary thresholds […]
Original post on code4lib.social
code4lib.social
December 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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The UK HE financial crisis continues to bite down hard. I can see that Uni of Essex still employed "more than 2,644 academic, research, senior support and general support staff", so they are now experiencing what places like London Met have had to do for at least a decade. Many, many good people […]
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mastodon.social
December 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Reading recommendation! 📖

Earlier this year, Vassiliki Geka published an excellent book on Imperative-Based Dialogic Constructions and Discourse Units: https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027244918

Later this year, Journal of Pragmatics published my review of the book, which you can […]
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fediscience.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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This study found even slightly glitchy (≈ 1s) video calls resulted in statistically significant negative outcomes for callers.

This must be a joke because glitch‑free video calls don't exist. Or is it just me? […]
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mastodon.social
December 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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A new #nih grant provision makes it easier for NIH to terminate a grant without a court overturning the decision. From the Nov 18 announcement: "The recipient agrees that…funding…may…be terminated…if the agency determines that the award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency […]
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fediscience.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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The #imls just announced that it has "reinstated all federal grants."
https://www.imls.gov/news/statement-agencys-reinstatement-terminated-imls-grants

The #ALA welcomes the news with an important caveat. “We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not finished. The administration can […]
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fediscience.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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If you were to get rid of all of your social media platforms except for two or three, which ones would you keep and why?

#research #socialmedia
December 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Wow! Big Science organization leading the way on #openscience !
Well done!

"The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science"
https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cnrs-breaking-free-web-science

h/t @louisvgn
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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There’s still time to register for TODAY’s FREE online #beilsteintalk “The value of data-sharing for reaction discovery and development” with Simon Coles and Sally Bloodworth, University of Southampton.

📅 Dec 4, 2025 🕒 3–4 pm CET
🔗 […]

[Original post on hessen.social]
December 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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What I would like is a citation search tool which divides citing work into a) direct replications b) direct extensions and c) stuff that is just citing for support while they do something completely different. And then I can ignore all of c). Does such a tool exist yet? #academicchatter
December 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Interesting insights into the relationship between #LLMs and #research: "How should the advancement of large language models affect the practice of science?"

Four groups of scholars make their points, and comment on the others' pieces.

PNAS, January 2025 […]

[Original post on fedihum.org]
December 4, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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This is one of the many ways that Donald Trump harms the future of the United States: "The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine":
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/02/upshot/trump-science-funding-cuts.html
#research #trump #greed #waronscience copy […]
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mastodon.social
December 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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🇬🇧 🩺 🖥️ ** How are GPs using AI? Insights from the front line**

"_Of the 2,108 GP survey respondents, 598 (28%) said they currently use AI tools in their clinical practice._"

Kumpunen S, Lobont C, Garrard L, Fisher D, Lau R, Fallica G and Fisher R (2025) How are GPs using AI? Insights from the […]
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qoto.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Just a minute ago, I accidentally discovered Workflowhub (https://about.workflowhub.eu/) when browsing through a few Nanopubs. I was not aware of this repository.

A first thought: "Yet another repository to register #fair materials? Seriously?" Then again, I am all in favour of […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM