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Gengyan Tang
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PhD Student at @ucalgary.bsky.social | Exploring #ScholarlyPublishing, #ResearchIntegrity, #AcademicIntegrity, and #HigherEducation | Social Media Manager of @accountabilityair.bsky.social | Lover of cats.
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🧠🤖 Just discovered Agents4Science 2025, organized by researchers at Stanford University — a conference where AI is the first author and the reviewer.

From hypothesis to publication, it's AI all the way.

#AI #AIResearch
July 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Join us for a public keynote on academic integrity & law by Prof. Michael Draper, hosted by @saraheaton.bsky.social

📅 July 2, 15:00–16:30

📍Education Tower 314, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary

Open to all — join us to discuss legal and policy challenges in education!
July 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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🚨 Publication Alert 🚨

I’m thrilled to share my correspondence published in Nature:

"Apply the Legal ‘True Malice’ Principle to Protect Research-Misconduct Sleuths"

➡https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-04230-3

#ResearchIntegrity
#ResearchMisconduct
Academia champions openness, freedom and integrity. Yet, as the Nature Index interview with academic-misconduct detective Graham Kendall reveals, many whistle-blowers choose online anonymity for fear of repercussions from publishers, institutions or peers (see Nature https://doi.org/g8nr69; 2024) . With the number of large-scale retractions and various forms of research misconduct apparently on the rise (Nature 624, 479–481; 2023), it is time to consider granting greater protections to whistle-blowers. A feasible approach could draw on the ‘true malice’ principle that exists in libel law in many jurisdictions. In journalism, this principle has created an enduring legacy for press freedom. The 1964 US Supreme Court decision for the case between The New York Times and police commissioner L. B. Sullivan, for instance, established that government officials cannot pursue defamation claims over reporting inaccuracies in the United States unless they can prove that whoever reported them knew them to be false. Academic detectives should be offered a similar degree of immunity for unintentional errors when exposing misconduct. Clear principles and processes to protect whistle-blowers should be laid down by institutions and funders to enable self-regulation in the first instance. If cases should require the intervention of the courts, the true-malice principle should be extended in law to cover investigations of potential academic malfeasance.
December 30, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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An Unforgettable Christmas.
December 27, 2024 at 5:15 AM
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News: Mainland China plans to integrate artificial intelligence education into primary and secondary schools nationwide by 2030.

#AI
#AcademicIntegrity
December 4, 2024 at 4:30 PM