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Preprint moderation avant la lettre?
Moderation is vital on preprint servers like arXiv.org. Today, more than ever, moderators are experiencing immense pressure due to the rising number of AI slop papers. Moderation is usually described as the screening of submitted papers to assess whether they meet formal scholarly criteria and are of at least minimal interest to a specialized community…
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Tuesdays 10 o’clock at the CERN library
Tuesdays 10 o’clock was an important time for physicists working at CERN. Every week at that time, starting in the early 1960s, a ritual would play out that also structured much of the local research community’s habits of acquiring new information of what was happening in particle physics and related fields. As one informant who…
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DESY and the High-Energy Physics Index
From May 21 to 23, 2024, I was a guest at the “Deutsches Elektron-Synchronton” (DESY), Germany’s national accelerator center located in the North-East of Hamburg. It was established in 1959 and has contributed substantially to particle physics research over the decades, including in collaborations on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. What is less known…
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