A fascinating look into the world of Academic Misconduct Services for hire.
The growing market for student academic misconduct services - LSE Impact https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/02/24/the-growing-market-for-student-academic-misconduct-services/
The comments on that video hint at how widespread a problem this is.
(See among my pinned toots for some of my own experience with abuse and lack of accountability.)
And the growth of abuse in governments cannot be unrelated to how abusers keep getting promoted at other places, not just within politics. #AcademicMisconduct #Abuse #Corruption
Cô Trịnh Thị Kim Nga, giáo viên Tiếng Anh Trường Tiểu học Nguyễn Văn Cừ (Gia Lai), bị đề nghị kiểm điểm do chỉnh sửa bài kiểm tra học kỳ I của học sinh. #GiáoDục #VấnĐềGiáoViên #AcademicMisconduct #TeacherDiscipline
On the death of James Watson
So James Watson, a deeply unsavoury individual who co-won a Nobel Prize by stealing Rosalind Franklin’s ground breaking research on DNA, and was an unrepentant racist and misogynist, is dead. Lest it be forgotten, here is a collection of authentic quotes that give an insight into his true character.
https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/james-watson-in-his-own-words/?page_id=13894
A new word popped into my head. A reference where the use of LLMs mean that bits of it are real, but they have been jammed together to make a non-existent reference.
Frankencitation
#LLM #AI #AcademicMisconduct #linguistics_humor #NewWord
Interesting piece on use of version control to "combat" use of genAI
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01814-5
Of course, this is in a class with 12 students and I suspect it's not easily scalable...
#genAI #academia #teaching #essay #versioncontrol #writing #academicmisconduct
Excellent interview by Katrin Schmermund with Anna Abalkina, published in Forschung&Lehre (Open Access, unfortunately only in German language) on Abalkina's research on paper mills. You can follow Abalkina on Bluesky, https://bsky.app/profile/abalkina.bsky.social.
The scale of academic misconduct is amazing, and to a certain degree it is now powered by AI. One almost unchallenged aspect of the problem is fake research data.
#papermills #researchdata #academicmisconduct #publishingreform
https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/wir-brauchen-eine-gemeinsame-kraftanstrengung-7218
#academicMisconduct
Scientific Journal Publishes AI-Generated Rat with Gigantic Penis In Worrying Incident
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