Alison Hoens

Where should SocArXiv draw the AI line? A case that helps sort out the questions for an AI policy at SocArXiv.

Where do we draw the line in AI use for manuscript writing? 🧪 socopen.org/2026/02/22/w...

Fear of Being Flagged by AI Detectors Drives Student Stress Increased use of new technologies accompanied by rising fear of being accused of cheating, with many universities’ policies on what is acceptable still unclear, has students on edge.

Students stressed by potential AI detection of plagiarism 🧪 www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Journal of Physiotherapy on X: "🚨Editorial: Predatory journals undermine research integrity by publishing unreliable studies. The authors propose 5 strategies to curb their influence and protect evidence-based practice🚨 Read here: https://t.co/WIUGMnquE7 @lucashccs @bsaragiotto @Rafael_Z_Pinto @JoP_Editor" / X 🚨Editorial: Predatory journals undermine research integrity by publishing unreliable studies. The authors propose 5 strategies to curb their influence and protect evidence-based practice🚨 Read here: https://t.co/WIUGMnquE7 @lucashccs @bsaragiotto @Rafael_Z_Pinto @JoP_Editor

Predatory journals “As predatory journals continue to thrive, the burden falls on researchers, institutions and policymakers to safeguard the credibility of scientific literature” 🧪https://x.com/jphysiother/status/2020383699087553019?s=12

“Beginning February 11, 2026*, arXiv will require that all submissions have a full English-language version, either as the original language or as an included translation” 🧪 blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/21/u...

AI output depends on AI input. More open access for science is needed 🧪 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it.

Is Wikipedia needed now more than ever? 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

<em>Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology</em> | Wiley Online Library Language is a major source of systemic inequities in science, particularly among scholars whose first language is not English. Studies have examined scientists' linguistic practices in specific conte....

Publications - what languages are most prevalent? 🧪
asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

When science discourages correction: How publishers profit from mistakes Academic publishing system often allows scientific errors to persist because it prioritises profit and prestige over timely correction.

The delay in publishing corrections to manuscripts 🧪 theconversation.com/when-science...

Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

“analyzing all articles indexed in the PubMed database (>36.5 million articles published in >36,000 biomedical and life sciences journals), we show that the median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles “ 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

What Should I Cite? A RAG Benchmark for Academic Citation Prediction With the rapid growth of Web-based academic publications, more and more papers are being published annually, making it increasingly difficult to find relevant prior work. Citation prediction aims to a...

What should i cite?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.14949

Strategies to Support Ethical, Safe, and Effective Use of Generative AI/Llms in Healthcare Research Activities | Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation

Find out how to support the ethical, safe & effective use of generative AI & large language models in health care research. Join the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation on Feb. 9 for a session with Alison Hoens & Pascal Bolla: https://ow.ly/JXxk50XXpGG UBC Department of Physical Therapy

Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.

Wikipedia data used to train AI 🧪 apnews.com/article/wiki...

Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature - Blog Read about the new ebooks Standard Ebooks is releasing for Public Domain Day 2026!

Public domain ebooks 🧪 standardebooks.org/blog/public-...

Happy to help people living with knee osteoarthritis interpret research about the best exercise for them. Thank you @acejointhealth.bsky.social

Color Engineering The tool that snaps mercurial design into mechanical focus.

Color engineering for science communication 🧪 www.chartography.net/p/color-engi...

Safeguarding Open Science from exploitative practices Open research and data transparency are a bulwark against unethical activities, but can also introduce integrity risks. In this Perspective, Danny Maupin, Matt Spick and Nophar Geifman argue that free...

Are open access datasets the solution to the risks of open access science ? 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

Most researchers would receive more recognition if assessed by article-level metrics than by journal-level metrics Are authors fairly judged by assessment of the prestige of the journals in which their work is published? This study compares article level metrics with journal level metrics, finding that the vast ma...

Article-level metrics preferable for author recognition than journal-level metrics 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Published peer review results are ‘better’ than unpublished reviews 🧪 “… published peer review reports were longer and had more informative content, with the greatest difference found in the number of “suggestion and solution” sentences” www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

JAMA Internal Medicine on X: "Editor's Note: Defining obesity by clinical outcomes, not just body size, may advance care and target those at greatest health risk. https://t.co/hNXbr6BGKz https://t.co/Up4Q0b0XNG" / X Editor's Note: Defining obesity by clinical outcomes, not just body size, may advance care and target those at greatest health risk. https://t.co/hNXbr6BGKz https://t.co/Up4Q0b0XNG

BMI - falling out of favour as an indicator of adiposity 🧪 x.com/jamainternal...

The BMJ on X: "Both doctors and large language models are driven to produce misinformation owing to a shared pressure to provide answers, prioritising the appearance of competence over accuracy. These behaviours stem from shared underlying mechanisms #BMJChristmas https://t.co/ZfVgsQLpRk" / X Both doctors and large language models are driven to produce misinformation owing to a shared pressure to provide answers, prioritising the appearance of competence over accuracy. These behaviours stem from shared underlying mechanisms #BMJChristmas https://t.co/ZfVgsQLpRk

AI and healthcare professionals can both provide misinformation 🧪 x.com/bmj_latest/s...

Recent review on the science of adjusting goal setting 🧪 x.com/sciencnews/s...

Wow, a home for papers entirely generated by AI 🧪
aixiv.science

Social Scientists: Policy Impact Undervalued by Universities Researchers believe their institution values publication in highly cited journals more than any real-world impact their work might have, a new Sage survey finds.

Are citations valued more highly than policy impact? 🧪 www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Google Scholar-based tool gives extra credit to first and last authors Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.

A metric to capture authorship order 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Latest research eLife works to improve research communication through open science and open technology innovation

A home for publishing replication studies 🧪 elifesciences.org

What moves you? - Joint Journeys In her latest blog, Carrie shares what keeps her moving in the rainy and wet season.

JointHealth™ express - New blog post from #JointJourneys, life with arthritis by Carrie: What moves you?

Comment & let us know what moves you!

Read now: bit.ly/JointJourney...

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Timothy Caulfield on X: "What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ https://t.co/lkBwk9nkne "...disconnecting future generations from vast bodies of insight and wisdom that were never encoded yet remain essential, human ways of knowing. What’s at stake, then, isn’t just" / X What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ https://t.co/lkBwk9nkne "...disconnecting future generations from vast bodies of insight and wisdom that were never encoded yet remain essential, human ways of knowing. What’s at stake, then, isn’t just

Will AI lead to a global ‘knowledge collapse’? 🧪 x.com/caulfieldtim...

Handwritten notes are more helpful than typed motes 🧪 x.com/sciencnews/s...

‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent

“We could have asked ChatGPT” Students fight back against instructor use of AI for slide and voiceover generation 🧪 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A potential home for replication studies 🧪 elife-rp.msubmit.net/html/elife-r...