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SocArXiv accepts law papers, as we always have. Some of the bells and whistles he wants we don't have- like ranking and email subscriptions, but those can be built using SocArXiv. We don't have funds or staff to help build that, but law schools do.
Perceived class positions and opinion-based polarization: A vignette survey experiment on immigration and environmental issues in the UK
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
@socarxiv.bsky.social preprint by Ronja Sczepanski and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Geoffrey Evans
Again, informal norms were keeping institutions manageable and AI is breaking them down. Like with academic papers, these machines make it possible for people whose exclusion used to be taken for granted to produce documents that appear to meet formal qualifications, and demand time and attention.
A new @socarxiv.bsky.social preprint, an intro to the special section on AI and moral education in the Journal of Moral Education posted: bit.ly/4dJrfcX Will be officially published in 2027. You can read six articles from diverse perspectives in the section via doi links in the reference list!
Sorry, but law academia at large deserves this. _Even now_ Bainbridge makes fun of folks like @gowder.io who saw this coming when Elsevier took over.
No one in the social sciences where SSRN originated is gnashing their teeth bc they built alternatives like RePeC, @socarxiv.bsky.social or PsyArXiv
Good piece by Jefferson Pooley on how LLM-powered “research” tools like Google’s “Deep Research” and Elsevier’s “AI Discovery” likely strengthen the “Matthew effect”: highly-cited authors are amplified while undercited (often female) authors are increasingly ignored: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Cohen: "any paper we accept will be scraped up and fed to the next generation of LLMs, and we don’t want to contribute to a death spiral of nonsense and hallucination" @philipncohen.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Philip N. Cohen, director of SocArXiv, the 2025 #InfrastructurePrize #forSociology laureate, takes us behind the scenes of the fight to make social science research open, faster, and more equitable.
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@philipncohen.com @socarxiv.bsky.social
AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?
The preprint server is the latest to impose stiff penalties on authors who contribute to AI ‘slop’ — but not everyone is convinced it’s the right approach.
not sure if everyone can access this, but I just learned about some dramatic changes to SSRN from Steve Bainbridge's Substack. This is really bad; SSRN has been how I keep up with scholarship in my field from a variety of researchers
www.stephenbainbridge.com/p/the-social...
Hyemin Han
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Sebastian Karcher
Maarten Paulusse
Richard Sever
Kohli Foundation for Sociology
Philip N Cohen
not sure if everyone can access this, but I just learned about some dramatic changes to SSRN from Steve Bainbridge's Substack. This is really bad; SSRN has been how I keep up with scholarship in my field from a variety of researchers
www.stephenbainbridge.com/p/the-social...
Judge Schiltz “characterized the overall problem as “an existential threat to the federal courts.”
The arrival of A.I. has caused the number, length and complexity of pro se filings to “increase dramatically,” he said. “There’s just no end in sight, and no satisfactory solution in sight either.”
Significant and unwelcome changes to what had been legal academia's major open source scholarly repository and notice system
The US government's mandate for open access without embargo is great -- for journal publishers cashing in on extra OA fees. We need universal preprints, including for post-review versions, or else this is unsustainable. New report on cost trajectory from GAO today.
www.gao.gov/products/gao...
Ann M. Lipton
Significant and unwelcome changes to what had been legal academia's major open source scholarly repository and notice system
The Kohli Foundation @kohli-sociology.bsky.social, which gave me the Infrastructure Prize for SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social last fall, interviewed me for their podcast and we talked about the service, plus sociology, my research, and public engagement challenges. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
The Kohli Foundation @kohli-sociology.bsky.social, which gave me the Infrastructure Prize for SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social last fall, interviewed me for their podcast and we talked about the service, plus sociology, my research, and public engagement challenges. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
