Guest Post - Beyond Generative AI: The Indispensable Role of BERT in Scholarly Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen
ChatGPT has popularized generative AI, but interpretive AI has quietly remained in the shadows. Interpretive AI offers profound insights into content and audience engagement, a critical tool for publishers aiming to harness the full potential of AI.
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5 expert tips for behavior change in 2024 - Stanford Report
Looking to eat better? Exercise more? Get unstuck in life or career? Stanford scholars offer research-backed advice for making moves in the new year.
Source: stanford.edu
What (else) happened? A key question for learning programmes.
Good paper from 2013 on the need to go beyond just asking 'did our programme work?' "It is clear that programme evaluations using traditional ‘outcomes-based’ models are inadequate for the health professions context. Consequently, the scholarship in health professions education has begun to incorporate...
Source: wiley.com
Trust in Scholarly Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen
How do we define, track, and measure trust in scholarly publishing?
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Artificial intelligence for healthcare and medical education: a systematic review
"After searching and reading a large amount of literature, we were surprised to find that most of the literature related to “AI+medical/medical education” was of low quality... This suggests us to conduct new research or improve the quality of research related to AI and medical/medical education....
Source: nih.gov
Spem in alium nunquam habui (Hope in any other, never did I have)
This piece of music is probably like nothing you have ever heard. Maybe because it is nearly 500 years old it feels like it is from another world. Maybe because it is written for eight choirs with five voices each the forty parts it's so complex you'd be pressed even to hum some of the tune afterwards....
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IU announces 20 fellowships for Ukrainian scholars
Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute director Dr. Sarah Phillips said the fellowships will provide Ukrainian academics with stable employment and research opportunities.
Source: indianapublicmedia.org
AI unlocks ancient Dead Sea Scrolls mystery
"Cutting edge technology" reveals how scribes foiled modern scholars with one of the Biblical texts.
Source: bbc.com
Essential Technologies: The Tally Stick - The Scholarly Kitchen
From the Upper Paleolithic Era up until the mid 1800s, the tally stick was a remarkably long-lived piece of technology.
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Guest Post - A Model for Peer-to-Peer Workplace Learning - The Scholarly Kitchen
Gabe Harp discusses MIT Press' 'Skill Exchange', a peer to peer program to foster learning and professional development.
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Open Access, Conspiracy Theories and the Democratization of Knowledge
The Scholarly Kitchen "We are in the middle of a new political dynamic here in the US – one that has been building for over a decade. This new dynamic has meant that science and scientists are being viewed with a level of distrust – and even, at times, hostility – that is unprecedented in modern...
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Sustainable Open Access – What’s Next? - The Scholarly Kitchen: How can collective action models to support open access,
Sustainable Open Access – What’s Next? - The Scholarly Kitchen: How can collective action models to support open access, like Subscribe to Open, be applied to academic publishing? An interview with Raym Crow.
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Investing in Libraries is the Right Thing for Administrators To Do, Even if There Are Fewer Resources Overall - The Scholarly
Investing in Libraries is the Right Thing for Administrators To Do, Even if There Are Fewer Resources Overall - The Scholarly Kitchen: Library budgets shrank for 2 decades. They can't shrink any further because of COVID-19. In fact, they should grow despite contracting college budgets
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Our itch to share helps spread Covid-19 misinformation
Our itch to share helps spread Covid-19 misinformation: Study finds social media sharing affects news judgment, but a quick exercise reduces the problem. Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office.
‘The study follows others Rand and Pennycook have conducted about explicitly political news, which similarly...
Source: mit.edu
Are you a populist right wing conservative? Have you been hooked recently?
If I wanted to find those who have a "conservative ideology" - so that I could share my views or influence them - I would do the following: set up a new account and start making contactsshare several of those technology scare hoax stories that you see posted e.g. Dance of the Pope virus video, the Andrea...
Source: historynewsnetwork.org
Open is Eating the World: What Source Code and Science Have in Common.
"Open is Eating the World: What Source Code and Science Have in Common: In 2011, Marc Andreessen said that software is eating the world, predicting that technology companies would continue to significantly disrupt an increasingly broad range of industries. Since then, publishers have embraced technology....
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Better wisdom from crowds: MIT scholars produce new method of harvesting correct answers from groups. “A new technique
Better wisdom from crowds: MIT scholars produce new method of harvesting correct answers from groups. “A new technique [described in 2017] can better extract correct answers from large groups of people. For a given question, people are asked two things: What they think the right answer is, and what...
Source: mit.edu
So What's the DEAL?: An Interview with Springer Nature's Dagmar Laging: An interview with Springer Nature's Dagmar Laging
So What's the DEAL?: An Interview with Springer Nature's Dagmar Laging: An interview with Springer Nature's Dagmar Laging about the emerging transformative open access agreement with Germany's Projekt DEAL.
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How do you define a scenario? Researchers in Futures & Foresight Science suggest an approach based on published literature.
How do you define a scenario? Researchers in Futures & Foresight Science suggest an approach based on published literature. The approach suggests a series of questions (see diagram) to challenge a particular phenomenon to check if it is a scenario that can be used in future planning - or if it is...
Source: wiley.com
Interview: The BMJ's Patient Review Initiative - A Novel Expansion of Peer Review - The Scholarly Kitchen: Kent Anderson
Interview: The BMJ's Patient Review Initiative - A Novel Expansion of Peer Review - The Scholarly Kitchen: Kent Anderson looks at an innovative approach to peer review that has expanded, changed review approaches, and impressed authors.
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