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  1. Wynship W. Hillier, M.S.'s avatar

    I first met Professor Hoy when I returned to UC Santa Cruz in Fall of ’92 to finish my undergraduate…

  2. Justin Fisher's avatar

    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

  3. Mark's avatar

    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

  4. Deirdre Anne's avatar
  5. Keith Douglas's avatar

    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

  6. sahpa's avatar

    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

  7. Deirdre Anne's avatar

Outgoing Hypatia Board offers “thanks” to the Associate Editors who destroyed the journal’s reputation in the Tuvel affair

Even more alarmingly, the new incoming Board includes one of the Associate Editors (Linda Alcoff) who led (and even defended after widespread condemnation) the defamation of Rebecca Tuvel, another (Talia Mae Bettcher) who signed the defamatory letter about Tuvel, and a third (Nancy Tuana) who was was involved in the "Climate for Women" scandal back in 2011.   None of that bodes well for the journal's future or reputation.

UPDATE:  A reader points out to me that Kim Hall, another ringleader, like Alcoff, of the defamation of Tuvel and the defense of it, is Chair of the Search Committee to appoint a new editorial team at Hypatia.  Amazing!

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