Jeffrey Epstein didn't just abuse women and girls -- he actively used his power and money to keep women out of the rooms where scientific careers are made. "The women are all weak, and a distraction sorry," he wrote in a 2018 email (...)

The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM

https://19thnews.org/2026/02/epstein-files-academic-research-women-scientists

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles #WomenSTEM #misogyny #STEM #academic #research

Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown

https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/third-editor-fired-in-elseviers-citation

#HackerNews #Elsevier #Citation #Cartel #Third #Editor #Fired #Academic #Publishing #News #Integrity

Exam question idea:

“Using the quantities listed on the label calculate the pH of the buffer solution in this enema bottle.”

Thoughts?

#chemistry #teaching #applications #academic #enema

Hihi! As you may know there has been an #encampment going on at Campus Coupure to pressure the #UGhent to implement a full #academic #boycott. In light of this, we as Ghent Student Encampment are organizing a #protest on Thursday the 30th of April. The plan is to have a collective lunch from 12h onwards at the encampment and a march at 13h30 from Campus Coupure to the Rectorate, where there will be a protest with speeches and chanting! The goal is to get as many people there as possible to put pressure on the University

At 12:30, there is collective lunch; at 13:30 we walk from coupure to the rectorate where we'll arrive and protest/chant/make noise

I've started checking if in-text citations match their references in meaning and strength with this.

Is it error prone? Yes, like any LLM job it is non-deterministic and error prone.

Does it save time and find useful stuff? Also yes!

#AI #AcademicPublishing #Academic

https://github.com/gpowerf/citation-relevance-auditor