Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing.
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Do tou wanna share an office with me and work in an amazing team on farm animal emotions? Here you go! There's usually always chocolate and snacks in my office. Just sayin 😋
Moving a lot is one of the best and hardest part of the academic life. I grew a lot as a researcher within the @lummaalab.bsky.social and I am now ready for the next adventure at the SLU in Alnarp with @drmariarorvang.bsky.social
And yesterday had a last dinner with my close friends and housemates ❤️ pumpkin vege tartiflette is the best!
I made the best out of today, and went to train one last time with the Bio bitches (our super slay volley ball team) before charging the Van.
Today is big day, it's a happy and sad day. I am moving from Finland to Sweden. I spent 7 years in Turku, this is the longest I have ever spent in one place. I'll cherish the memories and friendship I've built here forever. Thank you Turku, hello Lomma.
She was an inspiration to many of us, and she will continue to be. Thank you for all of work ❤️
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New paper out! Validation of the human-horse attachment styles survey.
Glad to be co last author on this piece with @millasalonen.bsky.social. Congrats to our respective students Alisa and Aada for the amazing work they put in this study.
To study emotions in free-ranging #animals, researchers rely on what they see: but inferring #emotions from #behavior is not enough! Our new preprint discusses how #technology could help us better understand animal affect under naturalistic conditions: osf.io/preprints/os...
I reviewed a paper for BMC Veterinary Research. Clear missunderstanding of animal cognition, inappropriate methodology, anthropocentric issues... 5 reviewers, 4 rejections. Still the decision is " Revise". So much waist of my time and energy. Do not submit in this journal. @springernature.com
Data collection is underway!
We're using mobile eye tracking to study action comprehension in dogs. Django is helping us understand how dogs see and interpret our actions — more coming soon! 🐶👁️ #Science #DogResearch #CognitiveScience
Thanks @asab.org for funding this project!
This is a great idea, however, how do you get funding for that? Most grants and funding bodies emphasis on "novelty and boldness" replication seems to be completely out of scopes for them and not sexy at all.
Congratulations!!!
Behind many scientists is a lifetime of invisible, unsustainable costs. From unpaid internships to underpaid postdocs, the economic toll of a STEM career is staggering—and it's pushing talent out. My new perspective explores this crisis. #STEM #AcademicBlueSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
How many PhDs does the world need? Doctoral graduates vastly outnumber jobs in academia. PhD programmes need to better prepare students for careers outside universities, researchers warn. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A ruler on a bowl to measure the diameter.
Sometimes research is spending 20 min at the store to look for the optimal bowl size for the kitty experiment of the amazing student Veera Riihonen i am cosupervising with
@millasalonen.bsky.social
I feel you 😅
It is a bit upsetting that the cover looks AI generated. The style is very typical and the shrimp has an intriguing number of legs. 🫣
Sachant aussi qu'on est payé au 35h mais que la réalité est qu'on est beaucoup a devoir faire 70h/semaine, surtout en debut de carrière. Et qu'on continue de bosser au meme rythme quand on est sans emploi sinon notre CV devient obsolete tres rapidement.
Disons que 4500 c'est confortable pour un français, mais pas oufs si on considère le temps d'etude et les années de galeres qui précédent. Pour des chercheurs expats c'est un peu misérable. Meme en Allemagne ou dans les pays nordics le salaire de fin de carrière approche plus les 10 000.
C'est en fin de carrière si on a la chance d'avoir un post. Le salaires d'un doctorant en France est a peine plus haut que le SMIC. Ensuite c'est 10 a 15 ans de galère avec des financements de miseres sur des contrats de 2 ans max avant de trouver un post fix ou changer de vocation...
Are you looking for more scientists to follow? Of course you are.
Then how about a thread with 50 amazing scientists and/or science writers, along with reasons why you should follow them? (No particular order)
Unfortunately, I forgot to put any dudes on the list again. Silly me.
Affect evo day 2 discussions
We wrap up the second day of #AffectEvo-Lisbon25 meetup with some more great discussions.
#AffectEvo
Fascinating discussions this morning. My brain is fusing with ideas. It is really stimulating to exchange with experts from many fields and that have different approaches to the concept of affective state.
Next up, we had Mike Mendl (Bristol, UK) giving us a brief tour of some emotion concepts and theories and their translatable characteristics.
#AffectEvo
#AffectEvo-Lisbon25
And the last keynote of the day was a tour de force by David Anderson (Caltech, USA) on neural dynamics and the encoding of emotion primitives.
