"This for me is a matter of trust. How can you trust the academic record if it’s polluted with synthetic material that no longer accurately refers to past research?" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

"The research team is particularly concerned about review articles, which they note 'had a fabrication rate that was 57% higher than other paper types.'" #medlibs

This is Blu. He is here for booty scratches. Can also easily be over there for booty scratches. Or there. Just say the word. 13/10 (TT: 24hddsd)

Zero-Click Readership: Are AI Overviews Changing the Way We Discover Research scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/06/z...

"If people are required to question everything they encounter, the cognitive burden becomes unsustainable...what’s needed isn’t more instruction but something closer to a wellness intervention: relief from constant epistemic vigilance." h/t @kvanderboll.bsky.social janefriedman.com/ai-and-libra...

Guest Post – When Thinking Is Outsourced: A Warning from a Scientist Trained Before AI scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/29/g...

This is one very photogenic dog, and another equally photogenic dog with some brutal seasonal allergies. 13/10 for both (TT: lisa.bean123)

🧵 The web is disappearing 🕳️ From Pew: 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are ☠️ A new study in VANISHING CULTURE gives hope: 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine. 56% are preserved before they disappear. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from Internet Archive: archive.org/details/vani... ⬇️

Really happy to have done a very small thing to help make the Supreme Court's historical records and briefs freely available. Thank you to the @archive.org for doing the hard part. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

This is Moose. He has been accused of stealing a carrot. Too bad there's no evidence to back that up. 13/10 (TT: mooooooooooooose13)

I understand the publish-or-perish pressure. But the reputational costs of including a fake citation are just too high. Why use unreliable #GenAI to generate or format ref lists when there are good options out there for easily inserting citations and refs, like Zotero?

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Opinion: Scientific Journals Need Dedicated Fact-Checkers: undark.org/2026/04/09/o... #Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #WHO #EPA #Citations #Data

“We are collateral damage.” - Mark Graham, Wayback Machine When preservation is caught in the crossfire, it’s not just libraries that lose—it’s the public’s access to history, knowledge, and truth. The web shouldn’t disappear behind closed doors. ➡️ www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...

AI Rollout Is a People Problem: A Pulse on All Things AI, Part 2 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/08/a...

"When libraries are blocked from archiving the web, the public loses access to history. Journalists lose tools for accountability. Researchers lose evidence. The web becomes more fragile and more fragmented, and history becomes easier to rewrite."

Health insurance executives have said using AI to make coverage decisions will save them money. But lawsuits have accused insurers of using the technology to wrongfully withhold treatment. @hannahnorman.bsky.social & @dariustahir.bsky.social explain ⤵️

This is Milka. She'll get around to chasing her tail eventually. But for now she is just getting to know it. 12/10 (TT: milka_collie5)

"When we populate [academic databases] with inaccurate data we have 'poisoned the well,' creating a landscape where citations are based on nothing, and papers are composed of gibberish regurgitated from LLMs that themselves possess no expertise of their own." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests. #medlibs www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fake references make Waite’s job as a librarian “so much harder,” she added. “I expect this on the wider internet, but not in reputable scientific journals,” she told us. “…It’s really worrying.” retractionwatch.com/2026/03/06/l... #medlibs