this post was submitted on 22 May 2024
1 points (100.0% liked)

Interesting Global News

2455 readers
136 users here now

What is global news?

Something that happened or was uncovered recently anywhere in the world. It doesn't have to have global implications. Just has to be informative in some way.


Post guidelines

Title formatPost title should mirror the news source title.
URL formatPost URL should be the original link to the article (even if paywalled) and archived copies left in the body. It allows avoiding duplicate posts when cross-posting.
[Opinion] prefixOpinion (op-ed) articles must use [Opinion] prefix before the title.


Rules

1. English onlyTitle and associated content has to be in English.
2. No social media postsAvoid all social media posts. Try searching for a source that has a written article or transcription on the subject.
3. Respectful communicationAll communication has to be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.
4. InclusivityEveryone is welcome here regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
5. Ad hominem attacksAny kind of personal attacks are expressly forbidden. If you can't argue your position without attacking a person's character, you already lost the argument.
6. Off-topic tangentsStay on topic. Keep it relevant.
7. Instance rules may applyIf something is not covered by community rules, but are against lemmy.zip instance rules, they will be enforced.


Companion communities

Icon attribution | Banner attribution

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Borrowing the idea of ‘bug bounties’ from the technology industry could provide a systematic way to detect and correct the errors that litter the scientific literature.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/UnQ19

top 6 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is what the publishers (the peer reviewed journals) used to do, right? I thought they got other research teams to comment on papers and even try duplicating some kinds of experiments before publication. Maybe that's just within certain disciplines? Maybe I'm nuts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

They ASK overworked people to do this for FREE. Not the duplicating part though, that would be very expensive in most cases and require its own funding.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ok but first pay researchers to publish. Like WTF why aren't they already?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think this is more about AI spamming the scientific world with literal trash.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3jbz/scientific-journal-frontiers-publishes-ai-generated-rat-with-gigantic-penis-in-worrying-incident

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/fcell-11-1339390-1.pdf

AI is a literal plague and people are gobbling it up. It's so damn broken and shit right now it's not even funny.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Wait was that image published in a journal? That's insane. No reputable journal would ever let that go, so I'm sure it wasn't a reputable one.