CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@kunev Brilliant! I have to say I really do think that the real author did an excellent job all round!

I was only made aware of this (frankly awesome) case of LLM poisoning today: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y. A researcher made up a disease and published two evidently fake preprints about it (including sentences such as “this entire paper is made up” and “Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group”), which were almost immediately picked up by LLMs and documented in their output. Worse, actual – supposedly serious – medical papers also started citing the preprints, demonstrating that academics relying on LLMs to do their work is a genuine problem! Not that I had my doubts but, if anyone did, this seems like the perfect demonstration of the problem. Article immediately added to the syllabus of the class I am co-teaching with Iris Ferrazzo on LLMs for Romance Studies/Humanities!

#LLM #GenAI #academia #research #ResearchIntegrity #humanities

At ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas we are ignoring the rainy weather and opening the summer season TODAY 16-17:30 CEST with linguist Anne Rosar (University of Mannheim) with a short input talk entitled "From Lab to Public: Navigating the Challenges of Science Communication" that will lead us to an extended discussion on how to communicate our research beyond the ivory tower over tea and biscuits!

For preparation, Anne recommends watching the following presentation of the German Science and Humanities Council's position paper: "Wie gelingt die Kommunikation wissenschaftlichen Wissens?" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKmbxKA94xI). The video is in German but can be watched with auto-generated English subtitles.

You can join us in person @unibibkoeln in Cologne (room 4.006, access via Kerperner Str.) where we serve a range of teas and biscuits. Regular attendees will be pleased to know that we have stocked up on our signature cardamon tea! Alternatively, you can brew your own tea and join us via Zoom (send me a DM/e-mail for the link).

#ReproducibiliTea #reproducibility #OpenScience #SciComm #linguistics #humanities #DigitalHumanities

We are delighted to announce the summer 2026 edition of ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas @UniKoeln with tea-rrific guest speakers from as close as Cologne and as far as Brazil, bringing us new insights into how to improve the way we do research! ️

Find the full schedule on our homepage (https://ub.uni-koeln.de/en/courses-consultations/specials/reproducibilitea-in-the-humaniteas) with topics spanning the entire research cycle from registered reports, achieving reproducibility (with sensitive data), doing big team science, and open peer review, to sustainable research and education for sustainable development, and science communication.

Join us in person at the University Library @unibibkoeln (room 4.006, access via Kerperner Str.) where we serve a range of teas (including our signature cardamon tea!) and biscuits. Alternatively, brew your own tea and join us via Zoom. The Zoom links are shared via our mailing list (https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/reproducibilitea-humaniteas). Come to network and join the discussions! 🫖

#ReproducibiliTea #humanities #SocialScience #academia #research #OpenScience #reproducibility #DigitalHumanities