Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Less Academic Freedom Will Mean Fewer Collaborative Breakthroughs
Since President Donald Trump took office for the second time, many researchers across academic disciplines have had their funding cut because of […]
AI Gaming of Some Online Courses Threatens Their Credibility
Distance learning far precedes the digital age. Before online courses, people relied on print materials (and later radio and other technologies) to […]
New Guide Recognizes the Value of Good Curation
Media algorithms and artificial intelligence are pretty good at feeding us content we want (and lots of it), but not necessarily information […]
It’s Silly to Expect AI Will Be Shorn of Human Bias
In July, the United States government made it clear that artificial intelligence (AI) companies wanting to do business with the White House […]
What You Can Do As Data U.S. Taxpayers Paid For and Use Disappears
People rely on data from federal agencies every day – often without realizing it. Rural residents use groundwater level data from the […]
A Psychologist Explains Replication (and Why It’s Not the Same as Reproducibility)
Back in high school chemistry, I remember waiting with my bench partner for crystals to form on our stick in the cup […]
Examining How Open Research Affects Vulnerable Participants
Open research has become a buzzword in university research, but Jo Hemlatha and Thomas Graves argue that when it comes to qualitative research, considerations around replicability, context-dependent methods and the sensitivity of data from marginalized people mean that openness takes many different forms.
When Clarity Isn’t Enough: Rethinking AI’s Role in Cognitive Accessibility for Expert Domains
The promise of artificial intelligence in accessibility work is often framed in hopeful terms. Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 are increasingly […]
