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3 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Today: attending (and talking at) this
My slides are here tomstafford.staff.shef.ac.uk/talks/ the highlight is the slide which combines reference to statistical theory, Jorge Luis Borges and a certain classic Jim Henson movie from the 1980s
really interesting reflections from Pamela Abbot and Andrew Cox @SheffMetaNet Launch. Summarised in their paper "Librarians’ perceptions of the challenges for researchers in Rwanda and the potential of open scholarship" eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/164115/
AI-assisted peer review nature.com/articles/s4159… nice proof-of-concept from @alex_checco and @StephenPinfield, showing how black box models can be used to reveal biases.
The point being to show what AI can't do, and maybe what human reviewers *shouldn't do*, as much as what AI can do.

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1 Mar
Academic colleagues, @LivUni are targeting 47 colleagues with redundancy, after an abrupt, non-consultative and opaque review which uses weaponised grant income and citation metrics. Please sign and share this open letter to protest
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19 Feb
1. Bitcoin is destroying the planet
2. Reviewing papers is unrecognised and unrewarded
So (and hear me out here)
3. We invent a new cryptocurrency which you 'mine' by contributing quality reviews of the literature
APCs for journal articles are replaced with KudosCoin fees, which you can either generate by reviewing or buy off people who do
The thought being that escape from both the tyranny of metrics and the prestige economy - whether impact factors or Instagram likes - is impossible, so we should at least ground it on the true basis of scholarly life, the gold standard of peer review
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19 Feb
Today: listening to this
Love this analysis of vulnerabilities to Wikipedia's knowledge integrity from this paper: arxiv.org/abs/1910.12596
.@mad_astronaut using ML to predict when people click on citations (admittedly, mostly they don't but when they do)
- recent info
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9 Dec 20
Interested in the phenomenology of why some students find turning their video on in seminars so aversive. Any thoughts? If this is you, can you describe why to me in a way I'll get?
Is it related to the way some (mostly younger?) people find answering phone calls unbearable?
Many interesting replies to this - for which thanks. I hear lots of *reasons* why students may keep camera off, but I am specifically interested in the *feelings* that someone has when they are motivated by these reasons, whatever they are
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5 Nov 20
Students told to analyse a dataset to test a specific hypothesis tended to miss the gorilla hidden in the data genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
students not given a hypothesis to test, just told to examine the data more likely to find the gorilla. Fiendish.

Pre-print with more details here biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Lead author is on twitter @ItaiYanai

Part of their "night science" project ("exciting and significant parts of scientific research that occur behind the scenes") biomedcentral.com/collections/ni…
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5 Nov 20
Why would you be driven to make baseless claims about election fraud? it seems so norm-eroding, so dangerous a precedent to set - knocking out the epistemic ladder up which we climb to democracy, leaving a future in which legitimacy can't exist.
Presumably (1) you would only do so if you felt that the threat posed by losing the election was as large as the threat of the collapse of legitimate government anyway (i.e. if you were really desperate) but also ...
...(2)Do accusations of electoral fraud betray a lack of faith in the rationality of voters: "Reasonable people couldn't vote for the opposition, so those votes must be fraudulent"? In this way calls of electoral fraud are the right's Cambridge Analytica
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