After a welcoming meeting with the editorial team and the scientific advisory board of @W_u_F and an inspiring discussion on the challenges and self-positioning of peace and conflict studies, I am on may way back home. I very much enjoy and greatly appreciate these @W_u_F events due to their welcoming, inclusive and respectful attitude which is so rare in the academic circus.
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Arrival at my final destination 30 min ahead schedule.
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Still traveling. The second day of my journey starts with breakfast while passing through Salzwedel, a town famous for its Baumkuchen.
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Second and last change of the journey: waiting for the night train.
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Let the journey begin! I am heading to the continent, 1500 km by train for my first meeting with the @W_u_F scientific advisory board.
This also includes leaving at -14 degrees Celsius and arriving at my final destination with spring like temperatures.
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What are your favourite books on teaching, especially in higher ed?
So far, my Monday morning has consisted of writing to the editors of a journal that they published a paper containing a drove of AI slop references, helping my much-appreciated instance admin to reject a signup request from a vibe scientist, and dealing with a breach of confidentiality at a major physics journal that smells a lot like the product of some AI assistant.
This must be these enormous AI -driven gains in productivity everyone is talking about.
I got notified by Google Scholar Alert about a new paper that is on topic for a paper Im writing: http://www.ijapas.ir/index.php/ijapas/article/view/593
Its by Iranian university academics. The journal is not known to me. The language seems 'not right'. I enter various paragraphs into Quillbot detector (in screenshot). Its so depressing. See my longer post on mementomori. https://mementomori.social/@penworks/115801903054812557
Wissenschaft in a nutshell:
"Ich dachte wirklich in der Wissenschaft geht's um Wissen, [...] Thesen, [...] Erkentnisse. Und irgendwann hab ich viel zu spät erst begriffen, [...] es geht doch um Netzwerke, [...] Rücksichtnahme, es geht um Zitierkartelle, und dass Du die Richtigen und nicht die Falschen zitierst."
Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk im Gespräch im Dlf
I recently watched someone taking notes at an event on their laptop. In the bottom left hand corner was a pop-up chatGPT window. I leaned over and looked at the pop-up window. They turned and said to me, anything I hear that I don't know about, I just ask chatGPT. I smiled the smile of the death-wisher and said nothing. How can anyone who regards themselves as a tertiary level academic think this is an acceptable way of behaving?
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