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Record W4410806102 · doi:10.1177/20438206251345546

Academic hoaxing, decolonial politics, and epistemic pluriversality

2025· article· en· W4410806102 on OpenAlexaff
Ian Reilly

Bibliographic record

VenueDialogues in Human Geography · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAfrican cultural and philosophical studies
Canadian institutionsMount Saint Vincent University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoliticsEpistemologySociologyEpistemic communityPolitical sciencePhilosophyLaw

Abstract

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In this commentary, I engage with Matthew Hannah's call to foster greater humility and trust across disciplinary divides and epistemic cultures. Hannah's thoughtful and generative work on the purpose, function, and value of hoaxing in academia has inspired the following reflections on how such critical interventions could contribute to the expression of decolonial politics and the expansion of epistemic pluriversality. In foregrounding perspectives that centre the importance of unthinking mastery and cultivating pedagogies of relationality, I suggest that fostering humility in higher education is only possible when we begin to shed personal and institutional arrogance, opting instead to cultivate ties and relations with(in) insider, outsider, and liminal epistemic communities.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.018
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.986
Threshold uncertainty score0.044

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.018
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0140.064
Scholarly communication0.0090.009
Open science0.0020.007
Research integrity0.0060.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.330
Teacher spread0.297 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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