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🚨New online! Part of our upcoming special section on PNG 50th Independence (edition 79-6): Natasha Turia discusses emigration trends among Papua New Guineans emigrating to Australia. ⬇️
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ABSTRACT
A new emigration trend among Papua New Guineans (PNG) has emerged following the introduction of Australia's Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV) in June 2024. Annually, the PEV will welcome up to 1,350 new PNG migrants who are between the ages 18 and 45 years old. Interest for emigration will only increase with the advent of the recent Papua New Guinea-Australia Mutual Defence Treaty, or Pukpuk (crocodile) Treaty. If managed well, up to another 10,000 young Papua New Guineans will enlist in the Australia Defence Force (ADF). For better or for worse, for who's interests, and at what cost remains to be seen.
But without intentional cooperation on migration governance with Australia, any migration pathway aimed to achieve integration will fall short of meeting its overall objectives.
Advancing 50 years more of PNG and Australia's deep and enduring ties, the PEV and other migration pathways signal a new opportunity for meaningful (re)engagement on migration and genuine integration. This paper examines the implications of adopting a brain drain argument as a perceived result of increased emigration trends. Reframing emigration through a new concept; the skills gain plus, as the

🚨 In "Latest articles tab": Jin and Kim discuss South Korea's hedging behaviour, arguing it oscillates depending on shifts in the country's political leadership. ⬇️
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ABSTRACT
Situated at the intersection of great power competition, South Korea faces a unique dilemma. It depends on the United States for security, relies on China for its economy, and must cooperate with two competing powers to address the challenges posed by provocative North Korea. It is within this context that South Korea's hedging strategy has taken shape, as a means of managing competing pressures and safeguarding its national interests. Is South Korea's hedging strategy a response to structural pressures from the U.S.-China competition or a result of political pendulum swings with each administration? This paper challenges the conventional view that hedging is merely an automatic response to great power competition, arguing that South Korea's strategy has instead oscillated with shifts in political leadership. Through key developments, including the deployment of THAAD, the articulation of the Three Nos policy, and participation in the United States-South Korea-Japan trilateral coalition, this paper examines the country's shifting hedging strategy.

🚨 New online! Edition 79-5. Securitisation of trade; religious identity-formation and terrorism; far-right ideology; geoeconomics; Hindu diaspora in Australia; China-U.S economic competition; and more! ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/toc/caji20/c...
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"A single person claims to have authored 113 academic papers on artificial intelligence this year, 89 of which will be presented this week at one of the world’s leading conferences on AI and machine learning, which has raised questions among computer scientists about the state of AI research.

The author, Kevin Zhu, recently finished a bachelor’s degree in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and now runs Algoverse, an AI research and mentoring company for high schoolers – many of whom are his co-authors on the papers. Zhu himself graduated from high school in 2018.

Papers he has put out in the past two years cover subjects such as using AI to locate nomadic pastoralists in sub-Saharan Africa, to evaluate skin lesions and to translate Indonesian dialects. On his LinkedIn, he touts publishing “100+ top conference papers in the past year”, which have been “cited by OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Stanford, MIT, Oxford and more”.

Zhu’s papers are a “disaster”, said Hany Farid, a professor of computer science at Berkeley, in an interview. “I’m fairly convinced that the whole thing, top to bottom, is just vibe coding,” he said, referring to the practice of using AI to create software."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/06/ai-research-papers

#AI #GenerativeAI #Science #ML #AISlop #VibeCoding #AcademicPublishing

"Never heard of the Journal of International Relief or the International Humanitarian Digital Repository? That’s because they don’t exist.

But that’s not stopping some of the world’s most popular artificial intelligence models from sending users looking for records such as these, according to a new International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) statement.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot and other models are befuddling students, researchers and archivists by generating “incorrect or fabricated archival references,” according to the ICRC, which runs some of the world’s most used research archives. (Scientific American has asked the owners of those AI models to comment.)

AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records, says Library of Virginia chief of researcher engagement Sarah Falls."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-slop-is-spurring-record-requests-for-imaginary-journals/

#AI #GenerativeAI #AISlop #Science #AcademicPublishing

Catch up with Dryad at STM Innovation & Integrity Days in London this week! Dan Edwards, our Head of Data Publishing will be in attendance. Be sure to say hello!

#STMinLondon #ScholarlyCommunication #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicPublishing #Innovation #scholcomm #scholcomms #open #openaccess #openscience

At least 50 hallucinated citations found in ICLR 2026 submissions

https://gptzero.me/news/iclr-2026/

#HackerNews #hallucinatedcitations #ICLR2026 #AIethics #researchintegrity #academicpublishing #machinelearning

#CRAFT-OA developed the FAIR Publishing Toolkit to help #DiamondOA publishers self-assess their data collections against the FAIR principles. Ensuring better💡discoverability of the content.

Check it out: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15783917

#AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess

Diamond #OpenAccess academic publishers want to ensure their journals meet established technical standards & requirements - to be professional and in line with #FAIR principles. CRAFT-OA training materials can help.

Learn more: https://www.craft-oa.eu/trainings-workshops/

#DiamondOA #DiamondOpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing

Book 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 access freely for 50 days (now 49 days!) via this link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1mDE41L-nhbDYW

I'm very passionate about #ConstructionGrammar taking #dialogicity seriously and this book does exactly that! 👍

#AcademicPublishing #Linguistics #Pragmatics #Philosophy

"To conduct their study, the researchers prompted GPT-4o, a recent model from OpenAI, to generate six different literature reviews. These reviews centered on three mental health conditions chosen for their varying levels of public recognition and research coverage: major depressive disorder (a widely known and heavily researched condition), binge eating disorder (moderately known), and body dysmorphic disorder (a less-known condition with a smaller body of research). This selection allowed for a direct comparison of the AI’s performance on topics with different amounts of available information in its training data.
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After generating the reviews, the researchers methodically extracted all 176 citations provided by the AI. Each reference was painstakingly verified using multiple academic databases, including Google Scholar, Scopus, and PubMed. Citations were sorted into one of three categories: fabricated (the source did not exist), real with errors (the source existed but had incorrect details like the wrong year, volume number, or author list), or fully accurate. The team then analyzed the rates of fabrication and accuracy across the different disorders and review types.

The analysis showed that across all six reviews, nearly one-fifth of the citations, 35 out of 176, were entirely fabricated. Of the 141 citations that corresponded to real publications, almost half contained at least one error
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The rate of citation fabrication was strongly linked to the topic. For major depressive disorder, the most well-researched condition, only 6 percent of citations were fabricated. In contrast, the fabrication rate rose sharply to 28 percent for binge eating disorder and 29 percent for body dysmorphic disorder. This suggests the AI is less reliable when generating references for subjects that are less prominent in its training data."

https://www.psypost.org/study-finds-nearly-two-thirds-of-ai-generated-citations-are-fabricated-or-contain-errors/

#AI #GenerativeAI #Hallucinations #LLMs #Chatbots #Science #AcademicPublishing

Researchers often have to navigate cumbersome submission systems when sending their work.

#JPsyExp offers a user-friendly single portal for all submissions, minimising friction and repetition.

Submit today: https://jpsyexp.org/submit

#Psychology
#OpenAccess
#AcademicPublishing

Scientific publishing may be the biggest scam you've never heard of. A billion-dollar industry built on free labor and public money—then sold back to us at a markup. It's not just broken. It's sabotaging progress.
#Science #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/we-need-to-talk-about-the-billion-dollar-industry-holding-science-hostage/

This #AdventCalendar is a fun way to learn how to spot predatory practices in #AcademicPublishing !
https://papermills.tilda.ws/advent2025

Call for Assistant Editor
**Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education**
Internationally peer-reviewed, the *Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education* (JARHE), focuses on the scholarship and practice of teaching and learning and higher education.

Email patrickblessinger - at - gmail.com to submit an application.

#academia #academicchatter #journals #academicpublishing

https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/jarhe/call-assistant-editor

The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of #Science (starting 2026-01-01)

https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cnrs-breaking-free-web-science

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#openaccess
#academicpublishing

Are there examples of successful academic boycotts?

I can think of several unsuccessful examples, like the PLoS petition and the Cost of Knowledge boycott.

Getting academics to make and stick to collective agreements is like herding cats.

https://researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/librarians-versus-the-world/

#Boycotts #AcademicPublishing #AcademicJournals #AcademicLibraries #Librarians #CatHerding #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing

New preprint on arXiv: “Who Owns the Knowledge? Copyright, GenAI, and the Future of Academic Publishing”. I discuss CC Signals, recent court cases, and argue that training GenAI on scholarly outputs should not be treated as a fair use exception.

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.21755

#GenerativeAI #Copyright #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #ScholComm #AIpolicy #LLM #FairUse #CreativeCommons #CCSignals