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Update, on the #CDC order directing staffers to retract pending journal articles that use now-prohibited terms like #transgender and #immigrant (earlier in this thread) …

Bravo to the #BMJ (@bmj_latest) for calling this order "sinister and ludicrous."
bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r253

"This is not how it works. Medically relevant terminology and inclusive language follow evidence based reporting standards or are matters of individual journal style and policy. They do not follow political orders. Similarly, co-authors cannot simply scrub themselves from articles. Authorship gives credit and accountability for the work, and an article’s list of authors does not ghost contributors. If authors wish to withdraw submissions under review at a journal, this process is feasible should all of their co-authors agree. However, if somebody who merits inclusion in the authorship group of an article requests to be removed, even with the approval of the co-authors, this is a breach of publication ethics."

The BMJ · Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideologyThe news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and science journals is sinister and ludicrous. The instruction, from Sam Posner, the CDC’s associate director for science, said that the order was for publications that included “forbidden terms” such as gender, transgender, LGBT, or transsexual, and applies to submissions that have not been accepted yet and accepted papers that have not yet been published.12 This move is part of the Trump government’s attempt to purge mentions of “gender.” The instruction follows days of vanishing CDC websites and datasets related to a range of vital health topics including immunisation, race or ethnic diversity, contraception, sexually transmitted infections and HIV treatment, and sexual and reproductive healthcare.3 It is unclear if and when these webpages and datasets will be restored, but …

Valuable insights on "Authorship for post/PhDers – author order" by Pat Thomson: patthomson.net/2025/01/19/auth
Long gone seems the time, when it was automatically alphabetically which i at least have experienced quite often. Now more value is given to order to acknowledge effort, which may lead to other problems. And then there are publication and bibliography systems that still default to alphabetical ... what are your thoughts and experiences? #wisskomm #scholarlycommunication #authorship

patter · Authorship for post/PhDers – author orderAuthor order is a pretty self-evident term. It simply describes the order in which authors appear on a publication. Who goes first, second and who is et al. Now author order might also seem like a …

Later today at #CHR2024, we are going to present our work on #Multilingual #Stylometry!

We isolated the influence of #language on #authorship #attribution #accuracy by translating multiple #corpora into each others' languages while keeping #corpus composition stable.

Interactive showcase: showcases.clsinfra.io/stylomet

Full paper: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/paper9.pd

This work was developed within the @CLSinfra project in #Trier, #Krakow and #Prague with Artjoms Šeļa, Evgeniia Fileva and Julia Dudar.

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If it's an act of interesting creation, worth mentioning widely, and especially in a school, I hope permission was sought. Rather than citing an anonymous student, I would hope that person was offered the opportunity to be named.

Perhaps they didn't want to be named, which is fine, but then just saying so would be good. That gives the anonymous person, when they see it spreading around, the ability to disagree about being asked or about that being their answer.

Not mentioning authorship makes it more deniable, like maybe it was an oversight, which is why we as a community should request authorship information even if the answer is "this space intentionally left blank" for any of a variety of reasons.

Too much meme stuff doesn't credit content creators, and that will only get worse with AI, whose stock in trade is uncredited plagiarism. Teachers may not be able to stop the march of AI, but they can still teach and to demonstrate good manners and ethical behavior.

#teachers #teaching #memes #education #citations #plagiarism #authorship #writing #WritingCommunity #ethics

h/t @dabeaz

"But this particular situation seems weird beyond the question of the narrator. Not only did Robin and I spend time trying to identify why so many books by authors with similar names used an AI narrator, but then we spent time trying to figure out if all the authors themselves were human. And in a lot of cases, we aren’t sure if we know the answer."

#AI #authorship #OverDrive #AudioBooks #Libraries #Librarians

smartbitchestrashybooks.com/20

Smart Bitches, Trashy Books · AI Audiobook Narrators in OverDrive and the Issue of Library AI Circulation PolicySmart Bitches, Trashy Books

#AI #Art #GenerativeAI #Authorship #Creativity: "Abstract: As digital media continues to evolve, the concept of what it means to be an artist periodically undergoes significant change. With artificial intelligence (AI) now capable of producing art that can stand alongside human-created works, we are faced again with rethinking our understanding of art, creativity, and authorship. In this chapter, I examine how AI's growing abilities challenge traditional views, suggesting that we might need a new kind of Turing test—one that evaluates creativity.

For example, for many years, all popular digital creation tools like Photoshop or Blender were already incorporating AI-like features. Since 2013, Photoshop had a "contextual fill" tool that automatically generates an area of an image to match patterns around it, while Microsoft Word has had a function to "summarize" documents. The use of these digital tools has already blurred the lines between human and machine authorship.

The developments of multiple types of art, each with its own criteria of quality and success, further complicate the question, "Who is an artist?" Earlier ways of judging art, such as through formal training or critical praise, now coexist with digital-age measures like social media popularity, where artists can achieve recognition without traditional credentials.

The chapter concludes by suggesting that simply simulating the results of the artistic process with computers is not sufficient. A computer needs to learn the creative process as opposed to just simulating the end product. This approach could lead AI to become a more original creative force, changing its role from that of a tool to that of a genuine collaborator."

manovich.net/index.php/project

manovich.netLev ManovichLev Manovich: photos, bio, complete CV.

Between 2019-2023, sixteen universities increased their research output by over fifteen times the global average. This study detected unconventional #authorship practices, such as gift, honorary, and sold authorship, to inflate publication #metrics:

👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.18331

Notable trends:
▪ Reduced First Authorship
▪ Rise in Hyperprolific Authors
▪ Increased Multi-Affiliations
▪ Inflated Authorship
▪ Unusual Collaborative Patterns
▪ Explosive Growth in International Research Collaboration