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Dear all,

Abstract: Title: Children’s Social Learning from Digital Devices

Digital technologies have transformed childhood within a remarkably short period of time. Compared to previous generations, children now spend increasing amounts of time engaging with smartphones, tablets, televisions, and other digital media. While research has extensively examined the impact of screen time on children’s development, considerably less attention has been given to how different digital devices may shape children’s social learning experiences.

This research investigates how children learn from and through different digital devices. Drawing on theories of social learning and children’s growing engagement with digital media, the project explores whether device characteristics influence the way children respond to social information, acquire social norms, and engage with learning opportunities presented through screens. Across a series of studies involving preschool-aged children, this research examines how social learning from digital devices compares to traditional face-to-face interactions and considers the implications of increasingly digital childhoods.

Best
Sorea

Dear Open Science enthusiasts,

the next OS GOE Meet-up will take place on 23 June 2026, and we would like approaches and guidance related to the use of AI in peer review. Note that the meeting will take place in person at the department of Physics.

Please register via  https://events.gwdg.de/e/37osmu

You are very welcome to forward this information to anyone who might be interested to join!

We very much look forward to see you soon.

With best regards from the orga team,
Daniel, Julika, Astrid, Markus and Birgit

Rethinking Peer Review in the Age of AI

Venue: UGOE, Department of Physics, SR 15
Date: 23 June 2026
Hour: 13.00-15.00 o’clock
Registration: https://events.gwdg.de/e/37osmu
Archive of presentations & materials: https://owncloud.gwdg.de/index.php/s/Z6qmhAv8ypUQCOv
Back to master pad: https://pad.gwdg.de/OpenScienceGOE

Abstract

Peer review remains a corner stone of quality assurance and selection processes in the context of scholarly publishing, academic conferences and research funding. However, in an age of AI, there are multiple challenges for authors and reviewers. Reviewers are faced with a glut of review requests which are often automatically but poorly matched with their expertise areas. Moreover, quality issues can arise from the use of AI by authors, e.g. hallucinated citations and manipulation of images.

AI-assistance is now available at all stages of the research cycle and in particular, in the publication process: for the writing of project proposals or academic works, pre-submission review/feedback, editorial screening of manuscripts, journal and reviewer matching, compliance checks, review of manuscripts, formatting, metadata generation, metrics and dissemination.

Several research funders, institutions and publishers have developed guidance on what use is considered acceptable in the context of writing and peer review, and how this use should be disclosed.

In this session, we would like to explore and discuss questions such as:

• What guidance is available from research funders and publishers on the use of AI tools in peer review?
• What AI use is acceptable in peer review, and how should it be disclosed?
• What AI tools are available to assist peer reviewers?
• What tools might be used by authors to check and improve works or proposals before submission?

Please get in touch if you would like to share your experiences and views via a short presentation.

Agenda

13.00 – 13.15 Welcome & Introduction

13.15 – 14.30 Short presentations

• Funder regulations for AI usage in review processes – Katharina Beier, UGOE
• Journal editor perspective – Simon Blackwell, Georg-Elias-Mueller-Institute of Psychology, UGOE
• The Good, the Bad, and the Bizarre of AI-Generated Reviews – Frederic Kirstein, UGOE
• Reviewer and author perspective – Markus Osterhoff, UGOE
• Publisher perspective – Johannes Wagner, Copernicus Publications

14.30 – 15.00 Discussion