Dogged by retractions, Iraqi researcher and publisher uses a different name retractionwatch.com/2026/01/06/d...

‘I have never been asked to review anything’: Editors resign from materials journal retractionwatch.com/2026/01/07/r...

Nice to get a citation to: Teixeira da Silva, J. A. and Kendall, G. (2023) (Mis-)Classification of 17,721 Journals by an Artificial Intelligence Predatory Journal Detector. Publishing Research Quarterly, 39: 263-279. buff.ly/mr24RDi 🧵

Nice to get a citation to our article on abuses of #LLMs: Kendall, G. and Teixeira da Silva, J. A. (2024) Risks of abuse of large language models, like ChatGPT, in scientific publishing: Authorship, predatory publishing, and paper mills. Learned Publishing, 37 (1): 55-62. buff.ly/pZivB33 🧵

AI Faces Fool Most of Us, But 5 Minutes of Training May Help You Spot Fakes www.sciencealert.com/ai-faces-foo...

Not sure a Professor would be shocked. I suspect they'd be suspicious, if not convinced that it was AI generated. If this was me, I would randomly select 2-3 students, ask them to come to the office and talk through their essay. If they were able to do that, then fine. If not suspicion confirmed.

Nice to get a citation to this article. I was pleased when this article was published, so happy to see it being cited. At the time of writing this 2025 article has been cited 11 times (Google Scholar), my most highly cited paper from 2025 - by some measure. 🧵

Purposefully hidden certain information (as this is not about individuals/disciplines), but I find it incredible that scholars/researchers/scientists (call us what you will) can post things like this (and this is just the tip of a very big iceberg and certainly not the worst I have seen). 🧵

When I am updating my own articles (for which I use #bibtex as the main data source) or writing an articles (when I use #latex and #bibtex) one of the frustrations is taking various citation formats and converting them to bibtex. 🧵

For me, this is where tools like #ChatGPT are very useful. Those boring mundane tasks that are easy to do, but would take more time if you had to copy/paste and then manually edit. 🧵

Finance professor in Ireland loses 12 papers in journals he edited retractionwatch.com/2026/01/08/f...

Purdue becomes the first U.S. university to impose AI graduation requirements www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/ja...

The Rise of AI-Generated Fake Journals in Scholarly Research blog.cabells.com/2026/01/07/l...

Delighted my latest co-authored paper, that is published by DOI/Scopus indexed not happened yet) [it's also 2025, so may not untimately appear as my latest 2025 paper]. 🧵

In Scientific Publishing, Who Should Foot the Bill? Publishers often charge authors to publish their publicly-funded research. Will a federal crackdown make a difference? undark.org/2026/01/07/a...

Mars Timekeeping: Why Microseconds Matter spectrum.ieee.org/time-on-mars...

Resisting AI slop buff.ly/BrYYxCG

Was alerted to this Google Scholar profile. I have hidden the person's details as some people think it is unfair to blatantly name/shame. 🧵

This just published paper spells out just one of the benefits of @orcid.org. I am also a supporter of people using ORCID, as it helps the author disambiguation problem, as I mentioned in my 2017 paper. 🧵

I don't think there will ever be a tool that can consistently, robustly and accurately detect AI generated text. Okay, there might be a for a while, but in this arms race, there will never be an overall winner. Given this, what is the future for scholarly publishing if AI text cannot be detected?

I follow this group on Facebook, but I don't comment as I like to keep my professioanl life largely out of Facebook. If you want to see this post, and the comments, then I refer you to Facebook. 🧵

Paper Mills: a new threat to scientific publishing – Full Fact fullfact.org/technology/p...

UK publishing deals with ‘big five’ hailed as ‘key milestone’ buff.ly/iNOp5jN

Firstly, big fan and user of @waybackmachine.bsky.social and I use it a lot to create a point in time which I know is likely to change in the weeks/months ahead. 🧵

Good to see this paper written by Kyle Siler, Philippe Vincent-Lamarre and Vincent Larivière (buff.ly/7Oi2mwr). In their literature review they provide a good set of references to previous work on predatory publishing. 🧵

HKU professor resigns from associate deanship after AI references scandal hongkongfp.com/2025/12/18/u...

The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now has 400 entries retractionwatch.com/2025/12/26/r...

Exploring the use of AI authors and reviewers at Agents4Science Really interesting experiment looking at AI being a reviewer. The graphic shows part of the discussion. buff.ly/qDwnuN2

Korea University Investigates Research Misconduct in Yoo Dam's Papers www.chosun.com/english/nati...

As I browse around, I keep an eye out for (what I think) are surprising facts. This 2021 paper estimated that the USA, China and the UK spend USD 2.5 billion on peer review, based on the contribution made by researchers. 🧵

AI Takes Over Coding: Top Computing Stories of 2025 spectrum.ieee.org/top-computin...

Sex bias in peer review and citation practices: Implications for research evaluation buff.ly/aWxqPJ1

How AI Is Reshaping Entry-Level Tech Jobs: “AI is not going to take your job. The person who uses AI is going to take your job.” spectrum.ieee.org/ai-effect-en...

I recently ran a survey asking for views on honorary doctorates. There are, of course many caveats with these type of surverys (e.g. sample size, population distribution etc.) so we need to be cautious about drawing too many conclusions from these surveys. 🧵

ORI has released just two misconduct findings this year retractionwatch.com/2025/12/18/o...

Exploring the use of AI authors and reviewers at Agents4Science - Nature Biotechnology buff.ly/qDwnuN2

In 1844, Chess Was Already Online spectrum.ieee.org/telegraph-ch...

‘A serious problem’: peer reviews created using AI can avoid detection buff.ly/73ovrh3

Thanks to Marc Lim who pointed me towards ScholarGPS (which I had never heard of before), via one of his posts 🧵

Scientific Integrity in the Age of Generative AI. The world has not yet been able to establish a common language regarding AI governance. buff.ly/WrGUbbJ

One of my recent posts showed an advert that offered to write entire theses for students. After posting this, I wondered “What should happen when it’s discovered that a thesis was bought?” 🧵

Saw this paper on somebody's Google Scholar account. It does not matter whose profile it is, as it is not about the owner - thus the authors are shaded out. 🧵

I have posted on #Pubpeer about this paper, see buff.ly/aMKwlmF. You can see the original post here: bsky.app/profile/grah... You might also be interested in bsky.app/profile/grah...

Nice to see another citation to our article on "Risks of abuse of large language models ..." Good to see that It is making an impact (it is, by far, my most cited paper from 2024. 🧵

Research evaluation systems are too slow to measure AI accelerated research - Impact of Social Sciences blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

I'm not going to name the journal but I submitted a paper a few days ago. It took a 3-4 days to do the technical checks, which is okay given the time of the year, but why might it take weeks to find an appropriate editor? 🧵

Always nice to be alerted to a citation to one of our articles, but some citations are better than others. This one causes me some concern. 🧵

Foreign student downturn pushes more universities into deficit. The number of UK universities reporting financial shortfalls for the past academic year continues to climb as some pay out millions in redundancy costs www.timeshighereducation.com/news/foreign...

Journal ratings changes: Implications for author diversity and research characteristics buff.ly/pitajow

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals. The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...