HeyJaredTom Pepinsky
I teach comparative politics, political economy, and Southeast Asian politics at Cornell.
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False Citations Are Fraud (opens the original)
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Academia and other public-facing research communities are currently facing a number of pressing questions about how the practices of research and publication must change in the age of AI. One question that I find particularly pressing is the rapid rise of false citations. I see false citations all the time these days, in research that is submitted to me in my capacities as a journal editor, as a referee reading submissions to other journals and presses, and as a teacher.I am going to argue that
Technology is not the Solution to the Crisis of Confidence in Higher Education (opens the original)
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A recent report from Gallup shows that Americans’ confidence in institutions continues to be near its all-time low. Examining public opinion data from the past four decades, we see that confidence in all institutions has declined steadily since the mid-2000s.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u9Ax!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89cb8116-6410-40b8-9ce
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