Author: Comparative Musicology (academic.oup.com/book/62353; open access)
Director: @compmusiclab.bsky.social
Host/PI @manyvoices.bsky.social
Rutherford Discovery Fellow @U Auckland
Assoc. Prof. @Keio U
Music, evolution, diversity
He/him
Tangata tiriti
Pat Savage
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I used to explicitly teach exactly this at university of bath computer science in a course called “research project preparation” How to read science articles was in the same lecture as how to not plagiarise / how to cite; iirc
Good to have a reading for @hertieschool.bsky.social students, thx Pat
Aotearoa, time to vote for your favourite NZ songs (in English and te reo Māori): vote.rnz.co.nz
Need some inspiration for waiata Māori? Check out @danya-pav.bsky.social 's favourites on @manyvoices.bsky.social podcast, from "Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi" to "Kai Tangata": www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWJV...
Why not both? This article is itself a great example of junk research published in a junk journal (charging >US$3,000).
Arguing IN FAVOUR of "Global South exclusion" (lamenting "post-WEIRD bandwagoning"), approvingly quoting racists like Watson and Kanazawa... and just overall little substance.
My hot take: we faculty bear some blame for failing to teach students how to read efficiently. Reading every word was never practical, and LLMs tempt students we haven’t taught otherwise.
Here’s what I wrote to teach this - please use with your own students if helpful!
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Pat Savage
Pat Savage
Pat Savage
Pat Savage
Using macros or software to format citations is also not remotely comparable to letting the chatbot write your paper!
Joanna Bryson
“The damage …will show up in a decade, when New Zealand’s deep-tech sector is thinner, its universities are less competitive for global talent, and the high-value industries … have less to build on. By then, nobody will connect the dots back to the year the seed bank was raided to fund the harvest.”
My hot take: we faculty bear some blame for failing to teach students how to read efficiently. Reading every word was never practical, and LLMs tempt students we haven’t taught otherwise.
Here’s what I wrote to teach this - please use with your own students if helpful!
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
oh cool we’re already at “fully AI-generated videos about how AI steals Indigenous languages”
now with bonus slop images of generically “Indigenous” women, and a “nobody’s talking about it” while referring to but not actually naming the specific Māori people who are VERY MUCH talking about it
Pat Savage
kth
Listening to a @theresthistory.bsky.social episode where the presenters suggest that Belgium and (checks notes) Italy are “made up countries” as opposed to England and (checks notes again) the United States. So it’s time for this:
Julie Blommaert
My Students Can’t Read. “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing, and the academy is responding to it with improvisation and exhaustion rather than the structural overhaul it requires.” [chronicle.com]
My Students Can’t Read. “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing, and the academy is responding to it with improvisation and exhaustion rather than the structural overhaul it requires.” [chronicle.com]
Stay Human
Anthony Zacharzewski
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
www.chronicle.com
Thermo Fisher now has a page up in response to our observations. They flatly deny that images were manipulated or fabricated while repeating that images were "optimized for presentation and clarity on the website", no lie, six times.
www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/l...
🌏🎶 Episode #3 of @manyvoices.bsky.social podcast with
@danya-pav.bsky.social covers traditional Māori waiata, metal fusion (Alien Weaponry), haka for peace as well as war, and how Danya combines Indigenous knowledge and science in her PhD research.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mpb...
Reese Richardson
www.thermofisher.com
Pat Savage
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
Video
kottke.org
kottke.org
Reese Richardson
#marsdenshmarsden I guess 🪦
b2bnews.co.nz
New Zealand's flagship discovery research fund is running its final round before being absorbed into a government-directed system. The 29% funding cut lands on a country that already spends half the O...
🔪"social science fields grounded in strong, integrative theoretical frameworks are comparatively resistant to junkification... evo psych provides a clear example... constrains explanation through a common theoretical framework... high barriers to entry and sharply limits low-value niche occupation"
Nicola Gaston
Rob Sica
Concerns about declining research quality have increasingly been framed as "junkification", whereby academic output expands in volume while declini...
