Richard Poynder

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Richard Poynder

Richard Poynder

@RickyPo

Independent journalist & blogger commenting on university issues (especially academic freedom), and on AI. Posts/Reposts are not endorsements. @rickypo.bsky.soc

Katılım Şubat 2009
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Academics may find themselves in the unexpected position of cheering on Elsevier in its legal battle with Meta because victory for the Facebook owner would signal “open season” on scholars’ rights to control how their work is represented. timeshighereducation.com/news/open-seas…
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Researchers provide "conservative estimate" of nearly 150,000 hallucinated citations in 2025 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
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China’s top leader has called for efforts to deepen international collaboration in basic science following a major funding boost that signals the government's strategic priorities for the next phase of its innovation drive. universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…
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Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/
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Justice Dept. Accuses Yale Medical School of Discriminating Against White and Asian Applicants | The finding was the second time in eight days that the Trump administration had targeted a major medical school over admissions policies. nytimes.com/2026/05/14/us/…
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The biggest donor in the midterm elections is not Elon Musk, or George Soros, or any of the other billionaires who are often thought to wield the fattest wallets in politics | It is a venture capital firm: Andreessen Horowitz. nytimes.com/2026/05/13/tec…
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