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This is funny: #AI researchers use non-existing references made up by AI in their accepted submissions to an AI conference... It is also a telltale of what is wrong in a world, in which money is the #incentive... #ArtificialIntelligence #academia #capitalism https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct6w08

From IGI Global Scientific Publishing: #Academia #Publishing #Education #Writing #COVID

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science to those who celebrate. Especially to those of us who get up extra-early to have an hour of research time before all the admin and teaching work kicks in. And to those with caregiver responsibilities. And those who are struggling with mental health. To all of us, really. #academia #WomenAndGirlsInScience #science

Would it not be nice if the aim was to make the world a better place and not to game the system? #ScientificPublishing #AcademicPublishing #PeerReview #AcademicSuccess #academia https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2844042

RE: https://social.anoxinon.de/@SNF_ch/116000038278544878 "More demand, but less money available" is hardly ever what you want to hear if you are trying to find funding for research. This is how the Swiss National Science Foundation deals with it in its most popular funding scheme (project funding). Should be interesting news here for researchers in #Switzerland. Essentially, the already announced chances considered to project funding are now formally here: - each researcher can have only one funded project running anymore at a time (plus one Lead/ Weave/ ICIS) - for re-applying to the project funding after rejection, you now need to wait a year - funding for salaries in the project capped at 200k/year (250k/year without salaries) I do think, given the circumstances, these are sensible changes by the @SNF_ch@social.anoxinon.de - putting a bit of a brake on the overheating submission carousel. Some things that I find interesting to see now are: - Will we be seeing more shenanigans with people being designated PIs for projects others basically write for them (already a problem anyhow with the eligibility rules and not being able to fund your own salary)? - Will we be seeing more international collaboration applications within the Weave and Lead Agency schemes in particular? - Will overall project sums for disciplines that are mainly requiring personnel, not equipment, actually go down? For example, I am a social scientist - beyond computing and travel, I mostly need people for projects, not microscopes. #research #swissresearch #academia