👻 🎃 JabRef 6.0-alpha.3 Release 🎃 👻

Trick or treat! Happy Halloween from the JabRef team! We are happy to announce the release of JabRef 6.0 Alpha 3

Release Highlights:

- Arm64 Linux support,
- Improved UI for Citations
- New Fetchers: #OpenAlex and #EuropePMC
- Initial Cite As You Write endpoint
- First CLI version #JabKit with integrity check
- #CSL style fixes for #LibreOffice
- #JavaFX 25

#java #opensource #linux #arm #bibliography #academia #citations #texlatex #JabRef #GSOC #gsoc2025

Lots of my colleagues are really bummed out because their departments don't celebrate their wins. If you're in an academic department (or other workplace!) and your colleague has done something cool, make a big deal of it! It doesn't cost you anything and makes academia a more humane place to be.

#academia #HigherEd

🚨 NEW ARTICLE ALERT 🚨 from me, Victoria Simon & Nathaniel Laywine

"What’s with All the Tapestries?
Intersectionality and the Discursive Vacuum of Generative AI”

We use methods called “kibbitzing” and “futzing” to critique the representation of intersectional identity in ChatGPT & MidJourney.

https://criticalai.org/2025/10/30/sneak-preview-article-victoria-simon-nathaniel-laywine-and-aram-sinnreichs-whats-with-all-the-tapestries-intersectionality-and-the-discursive-vacuum-of-generative-ai/

#academia #commodon #academicChatter #amWriting #Jewish #intersectionality #AI #race #identity #article #openAccess

"Weng, 30, who coauthored more than two dozen academic papers and worked in the lab of Stephen Cronin, a prominent USC engineering professor, was charged on Sept. 2 with rape, sodomy and sexual penetration by use of a controlled substance or anesthesia."

"Jane Doe 3 was a classmate in Weng’s doctoral program whom he considered a close friend, according to the motion. He drugged her three times at her home in 2023 and 2024, the motion said"

https://archive.ph/3cPuL#selection-3185.0-3197.113 #MeToo #Academia

Interesting read on an alternate, less driven approach to #academia

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/lets-build-a-fleet-and-change-the

This is a very helpful article for anyone involved in academia who has to deal with rejections (that's virtually all academics ;)

"This is why rejection must be normalized, not exceptionalized. Much of our unhappiness stems from the gap between reality and expectation. Early in our academic lives, we imagine a steady trajectory: submit, revise, publish. The reality is far less linear: most manuscripts are declined, most grants unfunded, most proposals turned away. When we treat rejection as the exception rather than the rule, that gap widens, and our judgment and our creativity begins to suffer."

In addition, Catherine E. De Vries offers six helpful rules on how to fail better.

https://open.substack.com/pub/catherineeunicedevries/p/fail-better-why-your-rejections-will?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2ci241

#Rejection #Resilience #Academia #Science #Research #Writing #Publication #Grants

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending' / PBS

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO070E_dI

#science #research #academia