Tools such as ChatGPT and Claude have made everyone’s cover letters and résumés look better—and look the same, @annielowrey.bsky.social writes. She reports on how AI is contorting the labor market:
As it happens, it's my favourite French cheese, which I got to know thanks to my French father-in-law. Shame it's not available in the UK.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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RoRI’s @jameswilsdon.bsky.social joins @andytattersall.bsky.social’s Under Review podcast to discuss how generative AI could transform research funding, challenge traditional grant systems, and force a rethink of how excellence is assessed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWbp...
Results presented at oncology conference in Chicago show Galleri test failed to reduce late-stage cancer diagnoses
The French have a lot of common sense:
“Our students are very lucky when you look at what happens in other countries.”
“It’s not just a question of making life easier for those at university, but also a question of social and public health."
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
It what other profession are highly qualified individuals expected to provide their expertise to for-profit companies for free, getting only the ‘honour’ of having helped and perhaps their name mentioned in a back cover once a year, which no one will read nor care about?
Dr Afrodita Marcu 🇷🇴🇬🇧🇪🇺
Dr Afrodita Marcu 🇷🇴🇬🇧🇪🇺
Open Research, University of Sheffield
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly changing academic research, raising questions
of who is adopting these tools and under what conditions. Th...
Three papers in Nature find that around half of social science studies hold up under replication, reproducibility, and robustness tests. Is this a bad thing
blogs.lse.ac.uk
Paying peer reviewers works.
Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social:
• 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews
• ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript
• no reduction in editor-assessed review quality
• similar acceptance rates
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
