Israel News | Israel Hayom - www.israelhayom.com [Unofficial]AI won: Israel's only translator degree program ends
Matt Hodgkinson"Until now, someone wanting to submit to arXiv for the first time only needed an email address affiliated with a reputable academic or research institution, such as a university. But a rule instituted on 21 January now requires first-time posters to be endorsed by an established arXiv author in their own field. People who have previously posted in the same disciplinary section of arXiv do not need an endorsement.
The move is an attempt to clamp down on a rising tide of fraudulent submissions, says University of Amsterdam astronomer Ralph Wijers, chair of the arXiv editorial council. A large fraction, he says, are generated with artificial intelligence (AI). The new rule is “mostly to try and discourage very junior, unskilled people from trying to get something started by sending some rubbish to arXiv,” he says."
https://www.science.org/content/article/arxiv-preprint-server-clamps-down-ai-slop
"For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop."
- Ross Andersen at The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/
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N-gated Hacker NewsThe AI overlords have officially taken over academia! 🤖 Turns out, the newest trend is letting your AI buddy write peer reviews for AI conferences. Because who better to critique artificial intelligence than... artificial intelligence, right? 🙄
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6 #AIinAcademia #AIReviews #PeerReviewAI #ConferenceTrends #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
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Ohio State launches AI hub, builds off of AI fluency initiative
In addition to Ohio State’s AI fluency initiative for students, the university hopes to advance artificial intelligence research with its AI(X) Hub. The hub is a computing infrastructure that will work with 15 Ohio State colleges to research how AI is used across various fields, according to a university press release. “With the launch of […]
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Headlines AfricaAfrica: Can Academics Use Ai to Write Journal Papers? What the Guidelines Say: [The Conversation Africa] Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to "intelligent machines and algorithms that can reason and adapt based on sets of rules and environments which mimic human intelligence". This field is evolving rapidly and the education sector, for one, is abuzz with discussion on AI use for writing. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TLb28w #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AcademicWriting #JournalPapers #AIInAcademia
The-14Recognising and embracing AI in research
#AIinResearch #AcademicIntegrity #GenerativeAI #ResponsibleAI #FutureOfResearch #AIAndHumans #ScholarlyWork #EthicalAI #AITools #AcademicInnovation #ResearchEthics #HumanCenteredAI #AIInAcademia #DigitalScholarship
https://the-14.com/recognising-and-embracing-ai-in-research/
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https://the-14.com/recognising-and-embracing-ai-in-research/
Hacker NewsGPT-FoxNewsDad: A GPT designed to help tech/academia people with life struggles
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-6814740bd1cc81919d28a7c4b8db055d-gpt-foxnewsdad
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Yana SuchikovaOur short presentation “The Purity Myth: Why Stigmatizing GAI in Academic Writing Is Harmful” at the Newswise Research-To-Practice Webinar: Perils and Promise of Generative AI for Science Communication is available here:
🔗 http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.15680.03841
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