Today's nice news:

My article (with a 2nd and 3rd author) "Optimizing AI Integration: A Framework for Evaluating AI Use in Language Education" has been approved for publication in an International Journal of Digital Learning Technology special issue.

#Academics #Publishing #Research #Writing

Sahlins biography: A friend of mine has published a peer reviewed lengthy biography of the famous anthropologist Marshall Sahlins
https://www.berose.fr/article4299.html?lang=fr
#anthropology #biography #academics #sahlins #golub #+
Marshall Sahlins : A Life of Transformations

Bérose, encyclopédie des histoires de l'anthropologie - Marshall Sahlins is, along with Clifford Geertz, one of the most prominent American anthropologists of the post-WWII period. But while Geertz is (…)

Encyclopédie Bérose des histoires de l'anthropologie
Ontario high schoolers are feeling the pressure to get high grades
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-high-school-grades-on-the-rise-9.7072730?cmp=rss

“Whenever I want to understand the latest discoveries in a topic I’m reporting on, I turn to the same place: research papers. So when I first learned about ‘paper mills’ — shadowy businesses that produce and sell fraudulent #research to #academics trying to meet #publishing quotas — I was fascinated. Over the past few weeks I dove into the research, interviewed scientists, and spoke to a real paper mill representative to answer a troubling question: Can we actually trust the research papers we find online?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEwiOykoXXc

I tried to buy a scientific paper

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Talk is precious: in the age of communication collapse, Jürgen Habermas’s message remains vital | Eva von Redecker https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/talk-precious-communication-collapse-jurgen-habermas-philosopher #Philosophy #PhilosophyBooks #Academics #Germany #Europe #WorldNews
Talk is precious: in the age of communication collapse, Jürgen Habermas’s message remains vital

The philosopher, who has died aged 96, was often caricatured as a consensus-seeking liberal. But his belief in the need for shared understanding had a radical underpinning, says German philosopher Eva von Redecker

The Guardian

CHANGE MY MIND:

1. All textbooks, study materials, lecture notes, question papers, etc. prescribed and used in educational institutions must be available under the CC-BY-SA-NC license.

2. All the software that students need to use or be exposed to in educational institutions, during their academic course must be under the GPLv3 license.

#academics #licensing #libresoftware #openaccess #education #righttoeducation

Hi, everyone! I wanted to say thank you for all of the helpful comments and suggestions for my friend's daughter and her research. You were brilliant! I am most grateful.

FYI, I also recalled that the scholarly journal #Mythlore is now open source and fully searchable, and it is a gold mine! I am sharing the link here in case it is useful to anyone else:
https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/all_issues.html

Again, many thanks!

#Arthurian #ArthurianLit #Arthuriana #KingArthur #Research #SirGawainAndTheGreenKnight #GawainAndTheGreenKnight #Lanval #BritishLit #Literature #Academics

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: All Issues

I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

AI bots are now conducting job interview screenings instead of humans. AI reporter Hayden Field tries out three AI-led interviews to see how they work.

The Verge
Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature

The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

WIRED
MicroRNAs unveiled: Nobel recognition of a revolutionary gene regulation mechanism
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlife.2024.11.002
#MicroRNAs #miRNAs #academics #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter