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"It feels increasingly like the adoption of persistent identifiers (PIDs) and, critically, the metadata associated with them, are at a tipping point," writes Alice Meadows. As Phill Jones says, "systems like ORCID single sign-on and metadata registries won't remove all...

In the context of David Wiley's post on AI and instructional design, George Veletsianos focuses on the question, "What new knowledge, capacities, and skills do instructional designers need in their role as editors and users of LLMs?" Using the existing state of chatGPT as a guide, he suggests that "a...

This editorial from Nature has been widely circulated, and for good reason. PhD training (so-called) has been in need of reform for decades now. When I was studying for a PhD in the 1980s the issues cited here were already apparent, and as graduate student president for two years I did everything I did to bring to light the inadequacy of funding, supervision, and working conditions...

"Academia's response to ChatGPT is more about academic culture than about the tool itself," says Alexandra Mihai. It's exposing the flaws in the current system, ranging from poor working conditions, non-transparent processes, lack of trust in students, lack of a pedagogical...