#academic misconduct

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[Image description: a multiple choice question from an online quiz worth 0.25 points, which says "What if you are still not sure whether or not something that you are considering is academic misconduct? What should you do?" The options are: ask the professors, live in fear and uncertainty, and just do it and see what happens. "Just do it and see what happens." Has been selected.]

[headspace-hotel]

Why's research about allergies specifically so systemically infested with the most garbage articles that do sketchy bullshit with citing their sources 😭

This article claims that the development of food allergies is linked to these things, explaining the rapid increase in food allergies:

Industrialization

Urbanization

Widespread sanitation programs

Antibiotics use

Highly processed diets

Physical inactivity

I looked at the citation attached to this list, it's number 13 if you want to look at it, and here's what the source said about each of these things

Industrialization- Supported by implication (air pollution is connected to allergies)

Urbanization - Supported (air pollution, lack of exposure to sources of beneficial microbiome biodiversity)

Widespread sanitation programs - Unsupported, no mention of cleanliness, hygiene, or sanitation standards in source

Antibiotics use - Supported (beneficial bacteria killed by antibiotics)

Highly processed diets - Possibly alluded to through the mention of dietary fiber being important for gut bacteria, but this is a stretch.

Physical inactivity - Unsupported, not mentioned

Then I found another article that does the SAME FUCKING THING (It said that 'progressively cleaner environments' were a likely cause of allergy development. The source it cited—written by the guy that PROPOSED the hygiene hypothesis—said that studies conducted for the 'hygiene hypothesis' showed no correlations, but that it was still 'biologically plausible.')

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[readyfreddy]

band name idea: academic misconduct

[vogelmeister]

oh my god (please read this in full)

[flightyquinn]

How do you have a study retracted twice? Like what happens there? They look at the research, go, "Yo, this is wrong. We better take this down." and then go, "Actually, this is extra wrong. It goes to Super Hell."

"don't go grocery shopping when hungry" doesn't work for me because Not Hungry Me cannot conceive of a universe in which food is needed so she buys like a cup of pomegranate seeds and some fancy cheese and thinks that'll get us through the week.

[nonbinaryphantom]

planning this little take on my brothers keeper bc thats one of the confirmed i will recreate this episodes for roleswap but its like danny works with spectra bc hes a little spiteful and wants revenge against the school in his own way but even he’s like okay. this is a little fucked up ngl so hes unsure about it but he fully betrays spectra when she tells him shes going to kill jazz because he may have complicated relationship with her but shes still his big sister and he doesnt want her dead

[fiercestpurpose]

About to do something that will piss off the chair of my department but he’s NOT my boss, this is NOT his decision to make, and he’s NOT going to be chair next year

[thebearchives]

just got blue balled by redbull

[recombinatrix]

Went to a workshop on how to write the literature rescue for my thesis and now my stress levels are through the roof. I already feel so behind.

We had a useless year phd student who has done, as far as I can tell, absolutely nothing for the last two years while also constantly increasing my workload by skipping out on her own admin commitments and dealing group meetings. As a result I’ve had to spend the last two months (where I should have been at home recording from covid) at work doing including and training for four new masters students and one new PhD student because it turns out she literally does not know anything about our field. She could not show an undergrad first year how to use our software to do an entry level task. She cannot answer questions like “what are you studying and how are you studying it?”

I’m very tired and I feel extremely behind because I’ve been doing this shit instead of my PhD, and I’m only just now starting to figure out exactly how much I should have already been doing.

I hate her and I’m so fucking glad she quit. Enjoy failing your second year milestone because you decided to spend two years fucking around and ignoring every single piece of actionable feedback we gave you.

[summerfevers]

entering my spanish class for people who haven't even learned as much spanish as they teach in dora. i have already taken 9 credits worth of university spanish

[serapiocarrioncrow]

learned my schools ebooks have a limit on how much I can copy from them. This is going to complicate the spreadsheet.

[aiweirdness]

Nobody should be using GPT detectors for anything important.

This is from a recent study that found that GPT detectors were misclassifying writing by non-native English speakers as AI-generated 48-76% of the time (!!!), compared to 0%-12% for native speakers.

It is irresponsible to use AI-generated text detectors as evidence of academic misconduct, and that's putting it mildly.

[nessvn]

getting nervous bc my first exam is in less than a week and the prof has yet to a) give us our marks back for the last assignment which was worth 40% of our final grade so i have no idea how im doing in the class, and b) POST the instructions for the final? esp that i lose a day to work on it bc of shabbos like i need to start asap

[rotating-fractals]

Why is it when for other people I can straight up report a fucking professor to the head of the department and write a kick ass email with supporting documentation but if I order a drink and they give me the wrong one I’ll cry asking for the right one

[nonotnolan]

Jock Cock, Part 1

"You wanted to see me, sir?" Adam Johnson, next year's star quarterback and this year's bane of my existence, looked up at me with his baby blue eyes. If he was trying to look small and unintimidating, it would have worked better without carrying 200+ pounds of muscle on a six foot frame.

Well, if he wanted to be melodramatic, two could play that game. "You know full well why I called you here, Adam." I thumped the stack of papers on my desk for emphasis. "You've been failing ECON 105 all semester, but suddenly you can score an 83% on the final exam? It's enough to get you D- in this class. It's not a perfect score, but it's still enough for you to avoid academic probation."

His face flashed with a brief moment of irritation before setting back into his normal, casual stupor. "Well, I wasn't studying before, and now I did. It's not like I scored all that great... sir."

"We both know that you don't know what 'sustainability' means, Adam. You tried to fly under the radar, you didn't cheat your way into a 100%... but it's still cheating. We both know that academic misconduct is a serious crime." I tried my best to sound stern and disappointed, but it was hard to be angry at a face this sexy.

Adam just laughed at me. "And if you could prove it, you wouldn't be calling me into a private meeting, would you?" He leaned back into a shit-eating grin, displaying his dazzling white teeth. This asshole had the upper hand, and he knew it.

"I checked every single essay!" I said, pounding the stack of papers once again. "Every essay, in every single TA's session of this class. You didn't plagiarize... but we both know this isn't your style of writing. And we watched you like a hawk during the exam itself, so you didn't cheat that way, either."

Adam leaned close into my face. "Professor Michaels has no idea that you called me in here, does he? You're just a Teaching Assistant on a power trip, and it's all because you can't stand knowing how I did it." He was right, and I hated him for it. Worse, when he stood this close to me, I could smell the musk of his body.

"Tell you what," he added, pulling off his tank top to reveal a set of firm abs. "You let me get away with this... sign off on my scores, whatever you need to do... and I'll let you live out one of your deepest, darkest fantasies." He struck a pose, showing off both his rippling muscles and his hairy pits. "We both know that you'll never get jock cock any other way. Come on, Teach. You want this."

Was I really that easy to read? "I-- I'm sure I don't know what you mean. Look, if you're going to stick to your lie about studying, then you can just leave. I don't... there's no need to insult my moral character. You're a student, Adam."

He responded by leaning in close to me, and placing his hand on top of my bulge. "Your body betrays you," he whispered, letting his fingers massage my inner thigh. "If it makes you feel better, I'm not your student. Adam and I swapped bodies so that I could take all of his final exams."

"I... yes, well..." That was the last thing I expected him to say, but it would explain a lot if it were true, somehow. It seemed much more likely than a desirable athlete like Adam coming onto me, at the very least.

"Be that as it may," I said, grabbing his hand and moving it away before my cock started leaking though my slacks, "that body still belongs to one of my students. And I still have meetings to attend today, so if we're done here..."

Adam, or the stranger in Adam's body, just laughed at me. "You're the one who wanted to have this meeting, remember? But that's fine, I know when I'm not wanted. But here's the thing-- once you submit grades at end of day, Adam's not your student anymore." He started typing something on his phone. "And honestly, I expected this from you. You're so uptight. Good thing you gave everyone your cell phone number on the syllabus at the start of the year. So if you change your mind... now you can have Adam's number, and a bonus pic from me."

"I know you don't know the real me, but trust me Kevin-- I've wanted to plow that uptight hole of your for months. And in this body, I've actually got a shot at it." The stranger slapped my ass before I could react, and swaggered out of the room. Whoever was inside of Adam's body, they knew my first name.

I looked at the retreating wall of shoulder muscles, and down at the teasing bathroom selfie the stranger sent to me. God help me, I was only human. And he was right-- how else was I going to get jock cock? He wasn't a student, not really, and that's what mattered. "You win. Tonight at 8pm, my place. Bring lube."

Check out Part 2 here. Check out Part 3 here.

[floral-ashes]

This is verging on academic misconduct.

Bogardus & Byrne try to complain about my citational practices by asserting that the paper I cite doesn’t support the view that trans women are women… by omitting the part of the sentence where she makes the claim.

Compare their claim:

To the source: