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Update. The Journal of Cardiac Failure switched from single-blind to double-blind peer review to increase the number of its women authors. Three years later it reports the results.
onlinejcf.com/article/S1071-91…
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"The proportion of women first authors increased from 24% in Era 1 to 34% in Era 2 to 39% in Era 3 while the percentage of women authors serving in a senior authorship role remained fairly stable over time around 21-22%."

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Update. In the humanities, in the period 2000-2014, "male academics published 2917 books (averaging 3.41 books) and the 760 female faculty members published 1918 books (averaging 2.52 books), indicating “gender disparity” in scholarly publishing."
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1…
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Major Developments and Events in the Humanities and Scholarly Publishing: 2000–2014

A number of substantive trends in the humanities were evaluated, including undergraduate and graduate student enrollments, the number of college faculty members, humanities degrees and major humanities subjects, the impact of the “serials crisis,” pr…
Albert N. Greco (Springer Nature Switzerland)
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Update. New study: Our findings show "a significant association between female authorship and the choice of #OpenAccess publishing, indicating a female preference for open access."
link.springer.com/article/10.1…
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Women’s strength in science: exploring the influence of female participation on research impact and innovation - Scientometrics

Prevailing attention centers on the plight of female scientists in modern academia. However, female contributions and potential remain insufficiently recognized.
SpringerLink
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Update. "Women publish less than men, but marriage and family obligations do not generally account for the #gender difference. Married women with children publish as much as their single female colleagues do."
doi.org/10.7312/cole21260-017
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CHAPTER 15 MARRIAGE, MOTHERHOOD, AND RESEARCH PERFORMANCE IN SCIENCE (1987)

CHAPTER 15 MARRIAGE, MOTHERHOOD, AND RESEARCH PERFORMANCE IN SCIENCE (1987) was published in Smoother Pebbles on page 329.
De Gruyter
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Update. "Female scientists were much less likely than their male counterparts to be submitted for #assessment in the last Research Excellence Framework (#REF), according to an analysis."
timeshighereducation.com/news/…
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#Gender #UK

REF 2021: female academics ‘much less likely’ to be submitted

Ethnicity and disability status also significant factors influencing likelihood of researchers being submitted, report finds
Jack Grove (Times Higher Education (THE))
#gender #UK #assessment #paywalled #ref

From Terence Tao (@tao): "#AI is very good at converting billions of pieces of data into one good answer. Humans are good at taking 10 observations and making really inspired guesses."
theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
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We’re Entering Uncharted Territory for Math

Terence Tao, the world’s greatest living mathematician, has a vision for AI.
Matteo Wong (The Atlantic)
#ai #paywalled @Terence Tao

#AI is thwarting the study of human #language.
404media.co/project-analyzing-…
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"The creator of an #OpenSource project that scraped the internet to determine the ever-changing popularity of different words in human language usage says that they are sunsetting the project because generative AI spam has poisoned the internet…“Now the web at large is full of #slop generated by #LLMs, written by no one to communicate nothing. Including this slop in the data skews the word frequencies.”


Project Analyzing Human Language Usage Shuts Down Because ‘Generative AI Has Polluted the Data’

Wordfreq shuts down because "I don’t think anyone has reliable information about post-2021 language usage by humans.”
Jason Koebler (404 Media)
#ai #opensource #LLMs #language #paywalled #slop

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