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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • A conversation about scholarly publishing, AI, enshittification and the future of the university

  • Using LLMs to help you write papers doesn’t help you get them published

  • Why are SpringerNature systematically contacting the friends and relatives of deceased academics?

  • Why you should avoid publishing with MDPI

  • What should you do if your academic publishers asks you to license a monograph for AI training?

  • Predatory journals publishing AI slop in the name of famous academics to confer legitimacy

  • The Ethical Grey Areas of Machine Writing in Higher Education

  • The origin of the phrase publish or perish

  • Call for papers: Peer Review in the Age of Large Language Models

  • Scholarly publishing creaking under the weight of GenAI

  • In the near future academic copy editing will be AI-driven

  • Ten propositions about generative AI and the future of academic writing

  • Here are some examples I can find of academics misusing ChatGPT in published work

  • Science fiction publications are drowning in a sea of GAI-written submissions. Will academic journals be next?

  • The first use of the phrase ‘publish or perish’ was in a 1928 journal article

  • Computational sociology of knowledge as a tool for redesigning the knowledge system

  • Four vague accelerationist hypotheses about scholarly publishing

  • Is AI a threat to academic publishing?

  • How to enjoy reading social theory

  • An accessible introduction to the (post-capitalist) future of scholarly publishing – Thursday afternoon in Cambridge

  • The Sociology of Predatory Publishing

  • Do celebrity academics crowd out other voices?

  • What are ‘recognition triggers’ in scholarly publishing?

  • Using social media to map scholarly literatures

  • The Discursive Preconditions for the Acceleration of Publishing, or, Why Scholasticism and Positivism are Now Everwhere

  • The future of scholarly publishing

  • Perverse Incentives in Scholarly Publishing

  • The Future of Scholarship

  • The lessons of music culture for scholarly communication

  • Open research and ‘self-promotion’

  • Seeing scholarly publishing with fresh eyes

  • ‘Academic spring’ or media hype? The open acccess debate and what it means for researchers

  • What about the authors who can’t pay? Why the government’s embrace of gold open access isn’t something to celebrate

  • Scholarly Publishing and ePresses – Interview with @agatamontoya about the new university presses in Australia

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