In particular Aneesh Bhoopathy, from the design coop Forge, who designed the identity. A brilliant reminder to *employ human creatives!*

www.curbed.com/article/zohr...

Oooh. I like this, public list (but only if you have a current academic appointment) and it won't let you submit again until you do two reviews 😂

Before COVID that figure was more like 6-8.

People need to slow down, submit less crap, contribute to peer review. If you don’t there should be stigma and censure. The system is broken but so are the hard-working volunteers who are papering over its cracks.

Ahaha a social credit model for publishing? I can see that going well 😂 but also there's a sense (or used to be?) you had to get a paper accepted first before being allowed to peer review. In my deputy/associate ed roles I am thankfully mostly protected from slop...

So, it's one of those difficult problems to solve. Where do we focus our attentions? How long do we trial various initiatives before we determine if they help? At what scale does mentorship work? How can we succession plan if there are fewer people with work capacity?

But sectoral shifts (demanding more from academics, with less time available; publish or perish mentality; AI supposedly helping us to do more; job cuts; pathways for ECRs drying up) all impact on our interrelated functions...

So I'll have 100+ papers to desk review tmrw 😔 It's not all AI, though publisher says that's a likely contributor. But I don't fully understand what else is driving this crazy increase - or what to do before journals collapse under the strain

The CEO said the following at the ACSD event in Canberra (paraphrasing):
New schemes are with the minister to be progressed to completion hence they cannot promise a timeline. ARC expects a transition period of up to 3 years. Current Schemes will likely be phased out gradually?!.

Note that the success rate above (47.3%) is for the full applications only.

The real success rate for #DP26 is 12.9% because 4063 EOIs were submitted.

Of those, 1127 were shortlisted & invited to submit full apps. 1111 ended up being submitted.

The illusion of reasoning does not need any further empirical investigation. If you are interested in what happens when people are exposed to LLMs positioned as agents, then the study needs to look at what happens when people are exposed to LLMs positioned as agents.

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