Hundreds of suspicious journals flagged by AI screening tool
Aug 29, 2025 - ystem that searches for signs of bad practice Shelp to weed out questionable titles.
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Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement
Aug 29, 2025 - Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.
multiagent reinforcement learning algorithm for personalized recommendations in bipolar disorder
Aug 28, 2025 - This study introduces a novel multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithm designed for identifying and optimizing personalized recommendations in bipolar disorder.
NSF expanding national AI infrastructure with new data systems and resources
Aug 28, 2025 - The NSF announced two major advancements in America's AI infrastructure: the launch of the Integrated Data Systems and Services (NSF IDSS)
CMU | Arm CEO Rene Haas Talks AI at President's Lecture Series
Aug 25, 2025 - To kick off the academic year, Arm CEO Rene Haas joined Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian in the first event of the 2025-26 President’s Lecture Series.
UC Berkeley DSE Postdoc Maya Zomer Uncovers New Insights into Mediterranean Shrub Resilience
Aug 26, 2025 - Maya Zomer, a postdoctoral researcher on our team, is the lead author of a new paper in Journal of Experimental Botany exploring how Mediterranean shrubs recover after disturbance and their resilience to global change.
New Conference at CSUB to Explore Ripple Effects of AI
Aug 25, 2025 - The inaugural NextTech Kern conference at Cal State Bakersfield in October, intended to be a community event, will explore how AI is set to affect education, businesses and digital safety.
West Virginia College Partners With Industry to Create AI Program
Aug 26, 2025 - Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College will create workforce-aligned AI education pathways with input from IBM and Northrop Grumman on which competencies are most needed by employers.
NCSU | The Strength of Interdisciplinary Ties: Leveraging Social Connections in Data Science and AI Education
Aug 26, 2025 - From classrooms to careers: how human connection is shaping success in data science and AI education at NC State.
R&D Spending at Federally Funded R&D Centers Surpassed $31 Billion in FY 2024
Aug 26, 2025 - The nation’s 42 FFRDCs spent $31.7 billion on R&D in FY 2024, an increase of $2.4 billion from FY 2023.
Teaching and Testing in the AI Era: Rethinking Student Evaluation at the 2025 CRA Summit
Aug 25, 2025 - How can colleges and universities ensure that students are actually learning — and that faculty are equipped to teach — in this new reality?
CCC Releases a New Whitepaper on Envisioning Possible Futures for AI Research
Aug 25, 2025 - The paper emphasizes that exploring high-risk, long-term research areas such as these is crucial for sustained AI progress.
CS vs. AI: Degrees of Debate at the 2025 CRA Summit on AI Undergraduate Education
Aug 25, 2025 - Should artificial intelligence (AI) be taught as a specialization within computer science, or offered as a standalone degree?
Infographic: Computing Bachelor’s Enrollment Continues to Grow Even as the Field Evolves
Aug 25, 2025 - New student enrollment increased by 9.9 percent across Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Information fields among departments reporting data for both this year and last.
CCC at the 2025 CRA Summit: Shaping the Future of AI in Academia and Research
Aug 25. 2025 - CCC members helped chart a course for how the computing research community can prepare educators, students, and researchers for an AI-driven future.
2025 CRA Summit Recap – AI Education and Computing Research at a Defining Moment
Aug 25, 2025 - Over the course of the week, attendees from academia, industry, and government explored how AI is reshaping computing research, undergraduate and graduate education, and workforce development.
University of Oxford | Using AI to reclassify multiple sclerosis progression
Aug 20, 2025 - This model is based on the largest collection of clinical trial data (Novartis-Oxford MS dataset) from people living with MS.
UC Berkeley | A Summer of Collaboration at BIDS
Aug 21, 2025 - "Admiration for the people, for the work, and for the ways those two things intersect at UC Berkeley."
UVA SDS | Ph.D. Student Profile: Yuyang Cheng
Aug 19, 2025 - From Chengdu to Charlottesville, Ph.D. student Yuyang Cheng is advancing human-centered AI and trustworthy machine learning at UVA.
UChicago Data Night: Fostering Chicago’s Data Community
Aug 22, 2025 - The monthly series bridges research and practical applications between industry, community, academia, and the public sector.
Brown CCMB team publishes in Science on the evolutionary history of the MUC19 gene
Aug 22, 2025 - A team of researchers at the Center for Computational Molecular Biology published their recent findings in Science magazine.
Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work
Aug 21, 2025 - Preprint examines how citations can influence the review process.
RDS@Pitt 2024-2025 Annual Report
Aug 21, 2025 - By empowering a positive digital future, RDS@Pitt will enhance success, engagement, safety, accountability, and trust throughout society.
95% of organizations got zero return on AI investment in MIT study
Aug 21, 2025 - Companies are investing tens of billions of dollars in generative AI with little to show for it.
Understanding Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Data Science Instructors
Aug 19, 2025 - Despite the absence of national guidelines, participants demonstrated notable overlap in foundational IDS content, though some instructors felt less confident with advanced or specialized topics.
Notre Dame and Johns Hopkins team up to bring digital privacy and AI literacy education to the Smithsonian
Aug 19, 2025 - The exhibit featured an interactive tool designed for children ages 6+ and was developed by researchers from the University of Notre Dame and Johns Hopkins University, as part of a multi-year NSF–funded project aimed at transforming how users and developers understand and engage with privacy.
Notre Dame | Four faculty teams awarded 2025 Poverty Research Packages
Aug 15, 2025 - The Notre Dame Poverty Initiative has announced a new round of multi-year investments that will support high-impact, poverty-related research projects led by Notre Dame faculty in multiple disciplines.
Dr. Sharad Sharma Named Inaugural Sinha Endowed Professor in Data Science
Aug 15, 2025 - Funded by a generous gift from Dr. Vikas Sinha and Mrs. Anuradha Sinha, this prestigious position supports transformative research and education at the intersection of data science and immersive technologies.
What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks
Aug 20, 2025 - Researchers argue over whether ‘novel’ AI-generated works use others’ ideas without credit.
Government health datasets altered without documentation
Aug 19, 2025 - The study finds that nearly half of the examined federal health datasets were altered. In most, the term "gender" was replaced with "sex."