New (at least for me) term alert!
TORTURED PHRASE: An established scientific concept paraphrased into a nonsensical sequence of words. "Mean square error" becomes "mean square blunder". "Breast cancer" becomes "Bosom peril". Sign of fraudulent research. Can be a product of AI technologies.
Giáo sư Paul Yip từ chức chức Phó Khoa tại Đại học Hong Kong (HKU) sau bê bối sử dụng tài liệu tham khảo giả do AI tạo ra trong một bài báo khoa học. HKU xác nhận thông tin và đang điều tra sự việc. Vụ việc làm dấy lên lo ngại về đạo đức nghiên cứu trong thời đại trí tuệ nhân tạo.
#AI #AcademicEthics #ResearchScandal #HKU #PaulYip #Đại_học_Hong_Kong #Tài_liệu_tham_khảo_giả #Đạo_đức_nghiên_cứu #AI #Thảo_phân
https://vtcnews.vn/giao-su-dai-hoc-tu-chuc-pho-khoa-sau-be-boi-tai-lieu-tham-khao-do-ai
Giáo sư Paul Yip của Đại học Hong Kong (HKU) đã từ chức chức phó khoa sau khi một bài báo khoa học mà ông là tác giả liên hệ bị phát hiện sử dụng tài liệu tham khảo giả, do trí tuệ nhân tạo (AI) tạo ra. Một cuộc điều tra nội bộ của HKU xác nhận các tài liệu tham khảo trong bài báo không tồn tại, vi phạm nghiêm trọng đạo đức nghiên cứu. Vụ việc dấy lên lo ngại về việc lạm dụng AI trong công bố khoa học và trách nhiệm của tác giả chính và đồng tác giả.
If you feel ashamed to disclose how you used genAI in your research, you probably used it the wrong way.
This was the key message from my presentation for PhD students at a Kyiv Polytechnic University:
#GenAI #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicEthics #OpenScience #PhDlife #CriticalThinking #AIinResearch #AIinScience #AIethics #AI
A closer look at the PubPeer discussions involving Esam Agamy (University of Sharjah Chancellor) reveals repeated concerns about duplicated images, reused data, and lack of corrective action.
PubPeer gives scientists and readers a chance to hold the record accountable — and these threads show why institutional response and editorial transparency matter.
Read and judge for yourself 👇
🔗 https://pubpeer.com/search?q=Esam+agamy
#ResearchIntegrity #AcademicEthics #PubPeer #RetractionWatch #OpenScience
A powerful new study (Richardson et al., @PNASNews 2025) reveals the scale of systematic research fraud: fake papers are doubling every 1.5 years - ten times faster than real science. Retractions and deindexing can't keep up. Journals look away. Universities stay silent. Ministries protect their own.
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420092122
The authors call for independent, conflict-free structures with real power to act.
#ResearchFraud #ScientificIntegrity #PaperMills #AcademicEthics
Professors Are Using ChatGPT—While Banning It in Class
Today is tax day. Our taxes are collected and budgeted frivolously by the current and completely inept administration. What do any of its members know about academic ethics and practice after grifting their way through life? Here is yet another example.
#Harvard #resist #intellectualfreedom #academicethics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/harvard-trump-reject-demands.html?unlocked_article_code=1._04.0nnc.ktesNiM8qzBm&smid=url-share
The University of Sydney has financial ties to the world's largest poker machine manufacturer and a global sports betting giant—both of which have funded its research and academic programs. Experts are calling for greater scrutiny of these "disappointing" relationships with the gambling industry.
#universityofsydney #gamblingindustry #pokermachines #sportsbetting #academicethics #researchfunding #accountability
From Retraction Watch - Engineering the world’s highest cited cat, Larry
https://reeserichardson.blog/2024/07/18/engineering-the-worlds-highest-cited-cat-larry/
> A citation manipulation scheme so easy, even a cat can do it.
#academia #AcademicEthics #academicchatter #ResearchGate #GoogleScholar
@ct_bergstrom my colleague answered with - "this is just the beginning" and attached this link: https://openai.com/sora#capabilities 🙃
we're doomed
An article that starts as a critique of an in-house engineering journal and ends up describing an academic family business of dubious ethics
Did small-brained ancient people bury their dead?
The archaeology team say yes, and that is shown in a Netflix documentary.
The peer reviewed science says that the evidence isn't there.
This article covers the story, including how a new peer review process might not work as well as intended.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02415-w
"High-profile researchers say small-brained Homo naledi exhibited advanced behaviours such as burials, but peer reviewers say there’s no evidence."
#science #researchethics #archaeology #caves #academicpublishing #publishing #AcademicEthics #academia #netflix
@dangillmor Dan, as you know, it's possible to publish and to be cited fairly often without violating academic standards and ethics. Ridiculous numbers by cheaters disadvantage ethical scholars and discredit Academia. Faculty members are given time to explore new fields and to share expertise uncalculatingly. Apparently there are perverse incentives for those who are not really cut out for the academic life. Now we have to be concerned about the sources AI draws from as well as human learners and researchers. I get apoplectic about much smaller unethical practices than the El Pais article you cited outlines. Therefore at one point I wrote a series on What is the Academic Life? 1. General Answers to Essential Questions, 2. The Idea of the University, and 3. Upholding Professional Standards and Ethics, updated recently and bundled together at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370403046_The_Academic_Life_series
@academicchatter
#highereducation #Academia #AcademicEthics #publications #citations #faculty #universities #AcademicLife
This is a long read, and a fascinating article exposing Spanish academics that have published an unfeasible number of papers each year. As in, a paper evey couple of days.
A researcher who publishes a study every two days reveals the darker side of science
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-06-04/a-researcher-who-publishes-a-study-every-two-days-reveals-the-darker-side-of-science.html
#AcademicEthics #academia #science #research #publication #academicpublishing #papermills #MDPI
I never knew about this US 'market' where high school students are coached by researchers (who seem to get paid well) to write research papers, which are then hosted as preprints or published in student research journals (for a fee, of course). All to help those prileged enough to afford this to get into university.
The Newest College Admissions Ploy: Paying to Make Your Teen a “Peer-Reviewed” https://www.propublica.org/article/college-high-school-research-peer-review-publications
#AcademicEthics #academia #academicchatter #universitylife #HigherEd #researchethics #ResearchIntegrity #research
Is Frontiers Media a Predatory Publisher?
The authors at the Predatory Reports team say yes, and provide this evidence
https://predatoryreports.org/news/f/is-frontiers-media-a-predatory-publisher
#academia #AcademicEthics #publishing #researchethics #research #predatoryjournals #openaccess
1/2: Global Faculty Development might sound like a slogan or exaggeration of international outreach, but I learned from having such a position at Kansai University in Osaka from 2016-2020 that Global FD can have a specific and practical definition in a suitable context. Basically, Global FD means meeting the needs of non-native English-using faculty members in non-Western countries. Specific guidance could involve preparing teachers for English-medium (or other international language) instruction (particularly to classes with international students), giving presentations at international conferences, publishing journal papers, and other scholarly
tasks. Research findings: "Meeting Global Faculty Development Needs in Japan" at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330778631 or https://www.academia.edu/38264974
#FacultyDevelopment #GlobalFD #Osaka #Japan #EnglishMediumInstruction #AcademicStandards #AcademicEthics #AcademicLife #eLearning #OnlineEducation #AsianStudies #Japan #Bilingualism #ForeignLanguageTeaching
