What an Academic VA is (and isn’t):
I don’t write results, analyse data, or decide what gets published.
Authorship stays with the researcher.
I work around the science — submissions, visuals, coordination — so research can move forward smoothly. 👇
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Some people do yoga.
I tidy slide decks.
Turning chaos into calm is my version of relaxing.✨
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The Invisible Project Workload in Research Teams
(and How I Help Manage It) ✨
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I never left academia — I shifted toward the part of it where I’m strongest.
Structure, clarity, visuals, and knowledge transfer were always my favourite parts of research.
Now I help ideas move clearly from one mind to another ✨
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In academia, BF usually means Before Friday — the weekly rush of drafts, slides, reports.
Today I’m launching my work as a VA for Academics, supporting editing, submission prep, coordination & visuals. ✨
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Hey academic Fedi,
I'm regularly thinking that it would be useful to have a tool that helps me find articles that cite a paper to contradict (or at least "contrast") its result.
It seems that scite [1] does this but they requires a pretty steep subscription given that I'm not sure how reliable their tool is and that they also advertise a chatbot...
[1]: https://scite.ai
Does anyone know of something similar, or a workaround to achieve something similar using standard scientific search engines?
If you don't know, boosts are also appreciated to help the person who might know see this post 😉
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I was looking for a #DiamondOpenAccess journal to publish a methodology paper on population and food consumption that I've developed with some colleagues.
We stumbled across the Journal of Population and Sustainability [1], that seemed like a good fit.
However, upon closer inspection, I realized that the money enabling the diamond #OA status comes from "Population Matters" [2] 😱
(if you don't know about them, see [3])
So that was a close call and it made me realize what should have been obvious in retrospect: this has the potential to be an absolute nightmare!
How do you make sure that a journal is not heavily biased by the editorial line of a "charity" pushing a very non-scientific agenda without spending hours on it?
Do you only use journals funded by universities? Are there list of "safe" journals in term of funding?
Maybe @PeerCommunityIn ? I imagine you must have some thoughts/tips on the matter...
[1]: https://www.whp-journals.co.uk/JPS
[2]: https://populationmatters.org
[3]: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/why-population-matters-is-wrong/
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🚨 Thrilled to share that my article “ #TrustworthyAI for Whom? #GenAI Detection Techniques of Trust Through Decentralized #Web3 Ecosystems” has been selected as the April 2025 cover of #BDCC journal 🧠📡
As generative AI (GenAI) technologies proliferate, ensuring trust and transparency in digital ecosystems becomes increasingly critical, particularly within democratic frameworks. This article examines decentralized Web3 mechanisms—blockchain, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), and data cooperatives—as foundational tools for enhancing trust in GenAI. These mechanisms are analyzed within the framework of the EU’s AI Act and the Draghi Report, focusing on their potential to support content authenticity, community-driven verification, and data sovereignty. Based on a systematic policy analysis, this article proposes a multi-layered framework to mitigate the risks of AI-generated misinformation. Specifically, as a result of this analysis, it identifies and evaluates seven detection techniques of trust stemming from the action research conducted in the Horizon Europe Lighthouse project called ENFIELD: (i) federated learning for decentralized AI detection, (ii) blockchain-based provenance tracking, (iii) zero-knowledge proofs for content authentication, (iv) DAOs for crowdsourced verification, (v) AI-powered digital watermarking, (vi) explainable AI (XAI) for content detection, and (vii) privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML). By leveraging these approaches, the framework strengthens AI governance through peer-to-peer (P2P) structures while addressing the socio-political challenges of AI-driven misinformation. Ultimately, this research contributes to the development of resilient democratic systems in an era of increasing technopolitical polarization.
Call for papers for a Focus Issue in Environmental Research Food Systems:
Focus Issue on Pathways for Transformation and Stewardship of Land Systems for Sustainability
https://iopscience.iop.org/collections/erfs-231004-379
Please submit your cool, innovative and useful research!
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#FoodSecurity #FoodSystems #LandSystems #Sustainability
#Transformation #Stewardship #Future
#Geography #LandUse
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Discussions are underway to broaden the platform to use by other researchers with support from other funders, and the finalised text encourages the EU member states to support turning it into “a collective, not-for-profit, large-scale open-access research publishing service for the public good”.
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This is good news for scholars and institutions that have capped or limited funding for #OpenAccess publications. Now wait and watch the pushbacks.
Vesna GB · VA for Academics
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