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@PublicKnowledgeProject@mastodon.social · 10 hours ago

🔊 Unique employment opportunity with @PublicKnowledgeProject -- lead an impactful, mission and values driven team that works to advance quality & global reach of scholarly publishing!

This could very well be what you've been seeking in your change-making, management career:

https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/hiring-managing-director/?mtm_cpn=C1

#AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing #OpenAccess #Leadership #FOSS #AcademicLibraries #UniversityLibraries #OpenInfrastructure #PublicKnowledge

Use your leadership experience to support the growth of PKP programs and services dedicated to increasing quality and reach of scholarly publishing around the world.

Public Knowledge Project

@PublicKnowledgeProject@mastodon.social · 10 hours ago

🔊 Unique employment opportunity with @PublicKnowledgeProject -- lead an impactful, mission and values driven team that works to advance quality & global reach of scholarly publishing!

This could very well be what you've been seeking in your change-making, management career:

https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/hiring-managing-director/?mtm_cpn=C1

#AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing #OpenAccess #Leadership #FOSS #AcademicLibraries #UniversityLibraries #OpenInfrastructure #PublicKnowledge

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petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org · last week

Update. AI-assisted peer review shows "a strong and consistent institutional-prestige bias: identical papers attributed to low-prestige affiliations face a significantly higher risk of rejection, despite only modest differences in LLM-assessed quality."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

#AI #Bias #PeerReview #Prestige #ScholComm

arXiv.org

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review

Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human decision-making. We adapt a resume-style audit to scientific publishing, developing a multi-role LLM simulation (editor/reviewer) that evaluates a representative set of high-quality manuscripts across the physical, biological, and social sciences under randomized author identities (institutional prestige, gender, race). The audit reveals a strong and consistent institutional-prestige bias: identical papers attributed to low-prestige affiliations face a significantly higher risk of rejection, despite only modest differences in LLM-assessed quality. To probe mechanisms, we generate synthetic CVs for the same author profiles; these encode large prestige-linked disparities and an inverted prestige-tenure gradient relative to national benchmarks. The results suggest that both domain norms and prestige-linked priors embedded in training data shape paper-level outcomes once identity is visible, converting affiliation into a decisive status cue.

Lambert Heller

@Lambo@openbiblio.social · 2 days ago

"In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs. (...) To understand the dynamics around this fast-developing market, Ithaka S+R has launched a tracker of these licensing deals. In it, we catalog (when the information is available), the publisher, the purchaser, the deal type and size, and the impact of and strategy behind the deal."

#scholcomm #genai

https://sr.ithaka.org/our-work/generative-ai-licensing-agreement-tracker/

Ithaka S+R

Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker - Ithaka S+R

In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs. These deals

Public Knowledge Project

@PublicKnowledgeProject@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

✨ "Honouring Kevin Stranack: Looking back with one of PKP's longest-serving trailblazers who helped make PKP a success story" -- a tribute to a career that inspired, and the journey in Kevin's words!

🤩 Thank you Kevin, for sharing this journey with all of us -- a journey that will continue to inspire for years to come.

Do you have some love you want to share with Kevin? Be sure to comment on the post 💌

https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/22/honouring-kevin-stranack/

#Leadership #ScholarlyPublishing #ScholComm #OpenAccess #FOSS