Thanks Robin! It's a common journey for academic parents, hopefully systems will change.

Thank you! And congrats and all the best for number 2!

Ecology. I always cite most appropriate/relevant source regardless of language. Ecology literature is very English-dominated but lots of examples of region-specific natural history, species distribution and field studies in other languages, eg 👇 ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/academic-mis...

(*) note that most unis have moved away from restricting students from genAI use, and lecturers are often unable to directly penalise a student who has used genAI tools to create their assignment, which means it's really not a great time for education

This is absolutely the opposite of what I (and others) teach in ecology: due to funding and logistical issues, older papers can often be the 'authority' on a particular species or topic. Evaluating research is about relevance and quality in context, not isolated metrics like publication year!

One of my Ecology assignments asks student to evaluate literature on a chosen topic. A common statement from students who appear to(*) have used genAI tools for evaluations is that paper age is a 'key limitation', ie papers published 5-10+ yrs ago lack relevance/integrity (even if directly relevant)