Alexis Henshaw

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

This is a great line-up! #ISA2026 #polisky

The killing of “El Mencho” triggered nationwide violence across #Mexico. Clashes left at least 30 suspected CJNG members & 28 security personnel dead, while 176 suspected cartel members were arrested. The cartel retaliated with attacks in 23 states. 🔎 acleddata.com/update/latin...

The anti-expertise, anti-intellectual wave shifting into its final form.

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We will continue adding new layers of AI until the science improves.

Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal Gunnar Ridderström/Pexels As a hospital librarian, Jessica Waite is typically successful at tracking down elusive articles for clinicians at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in England. So when a colleag…

In response to the problems created by AI, the publishers plan to deploy... more AI. #academicsky

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How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian – LLRX

"ChatGPT had invented a plausible-sounding citation out of thin air. And it wasn’t alone. Of those 47 citations, 31 were what we call 'hallucinations.'"

H/t to our reference librarian for flagging this piece w/advice for students. #academicsky #polisky

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NYT headline update" President says campaign could last 'four to five weeks' or more

The words "or more" are doing some pretty heavy lifting here.

New candidate for the #dataviz hall of fame just dropped:

Brazil’s Supreme Court Convicts Four Men in a Murder That Shook the Nation

“Marielle was a poor Black woman who was challenging the interests of militias. What stronger message could be sent?”

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The 👏🏼 highest 👏🏼 faculty 👏🏼 distinction.

Gross.

Lot of people dunking on this AI, but I'll just point out that this is a very predictable consequence of colleges & universities sticking by an LMS that has not been significantly updated for 10+ years. #academicsky

Just last week I deleted a fake publication (complete with a non-existent co-author) from my Google Scholar profile. But tell me more about how AI does a bang-up job with lit reviews. 🤨

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Geeking out on the Closing Ceremony vibes and hoping an old-timey plague doctor shows up.

Happy heavenly birthday to the great John Lewis!! A lot of us are down here getting in good trouble, hoping we're making you proud.

An AI Bot Is Making Podcasts With Scholars’ Research. Many of Them Aren’t Impressed. The product by Academia.edu, authors say, deceives listeners, mangles facts, and draws its own conclusions. Many have left the popular platform in protest.

I nuked my account back when they announced this. Seems like that was a good call.
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Yes, I'd love to read it!

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My methods students did the exercise where we look at @retractionwatch.com and discuss what can go wrong in the peer review process. Then I got asked about the professional consequences for unethical conduct.

Research article titled "Gender and the Reelection of Democratic Leaders" by Donna Bahry and Lee Ann Banaszak.

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣

In "Gender and the Reelection of Democratic Leaders", Donna Bahry & Lee Ann Banaszak investigate whether reelection is gendered by looking at data about chief executives in 98 democracies from 1960 to 2023.

#OpenAccess

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They made an AI chatbot and trained it on Mearsheimer? #polisky #academicsky

Delta wants to upsell me on "next-level" travel to #ISA2026 and, respectfully, I'm not sure I need more than one level of Columbus, Ohio. #polisky

Ring, Amazon, & Flock, but also Nest/Google. My eyebrows went way up when Nest suddenly retrieved "deleted" security camera footage in a certain high-profile crime.

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"What are they doing now? This looks absolutely mental." --Me, a non-winter-sports person, every time I turn on the Olympics.

For those paywalled out of the story, this facility in GA is planned to detain up to 10,000 people, and the government bought it w/o completing a study on utilities/water impact in this town of ~5000 people.

Warehousing people, warehousing data. More of an economy being propped up by smoke and mirrors (and cruelty).

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Scientists played Bach to newborns, and found they can anticipate rhythms at two days old Your two-day-old could be secretly judging your sense of timing, as new research finds we develop rhythm earlier than we first thought.

I looked up the paper and I am crushed to report that it is not titled, "Babies Got Bach." #academicsky

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Especially galling to see all the very senior, elite-affiliated, male academics in the Epstein files after being told for the past year and a half that academia's biggest problem was all the DEI. 🙄

Kind of you to offer! I'm trying to get it through ILL though. 😆